Remember when Michael Flynn took some well-deserved flak for saying: "If we want to have a nation under God, as we must, we need to have one religion. A nation under God and a religion under God, right? All of us working together."
So - I just assumed he was referring to some generalist evangelical creed - with a heaping scoop of Christian Nationalism to go with it.
Nope.
"During another stop on the ReAwaken America tour, Mike Flynn led thousands of unsuspecting men and women in a prayer led by Elizabeth Clare Prophet, a Theosophical, Gnostic, Hermetic Priestess."
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General Mike Flynn prayed: "We are your instruments of those sevenfold rays and all your archangels, every single one of them. We will not back down, we will stand our ground. We will not be afraid to speak. We will serve as your instruments, no matter your will. In your name and the name of your legions, we are born free and will remain free. We will not be enslaved by any enemy, both within and outside, with God's help."
The prayer, first mentioned in Elizabeth Clare Prophet's 1984 conference book, claims to channel Archangel Michael. It references "those sevenfold rays," a concept from Alice Bailey, who was a significant influence on EC Prophet. According to Bailey, each Ray represents a type of energy reflective of the Hindu Trinity or the Gnostic/Hermetic Seven Sephiroth of Kabbalah, focusing on the energy's quality rather than its form.