Lucis Trust > Temple of Understanding > Council on Foreign Relations/Bilderberg Group/Trilateral Commission

The Temple of Understanding was the brainchild of a wealthy American woman, Alice
Bailey, who had studied comparative religion at Union Theological Seminary in New York. By
1963, it had been sponsored by six thousand politicians, occultists, celebrities, oneworld religion advocates and multinational companies, including

Robert McNamara (Major individual sponsor of the Lucis Trust) (then U.S. Secretary of
Defence; later head of the World Bank),
John D. Rockefeller IV (major sponsor of the Lucis Trust),
Dr. Henry A. Smith (President, Theosophical Society of America),
Walter N. Thayer (President, New York Herald Tribune),
James Linen (President, Time-Life Inc.),
Milton Mumford (President, Lever Bros.),
Barney Balaban (President, Paramount Pictures),
Thomas B. Watson Jnr. (President, IBM),
Richard Salant (President, CBS News),
Cary Grant (Hollywood actor),