Been There, Done That!
Many people I have personally met and many of the religious philosophy books I have read literally state, or imply that Bible believing Christians are ignorant and/or naive.
I was deep into spiritual involvement before I was saved and I tell you true Christianity is NOT "a step backwards". It is the link to the creator of all things, and a move from darkness to true light..
Some claim they were a Christian and did not find their answers. These people were involved in "religion" and did not have a relationship with Jesus Christ
But for those stubborn souls who "claim" they were once really a Christian and departed from the faith for "higher spiritual truth" I leave you with the words of an apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ. You still have a chance to change.
"And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.." II Thessalonians 2:11, 12
New Age Movement - Conspiracy Theory ??
"The War" was good? Death and Destruction was necessary? Adolph Hitler was a good man?
The great energy of purification [Shamballa forces] is regenerating humanity, and of this the wide spread fires which have been such an outstanding characteristic of this war are the outward and visible sign. Much evil is being burnt out through the revelation of the appalling character of that evil, and through this, unity is being produced… The energy of destruction has its side of beauty when the spiritual values are grasped.
(The Rays and the Initiations [April 1943], p. 86, ref. P. 76)This world crisis, with all its horror and suffering, is--in the last analysis--the result of successful evolutionary processes…
Today we are watching the death of a civilization or cycle of incarnation of humanity….worn out religious dogmas and the grip of theology and the orthodox churches have no longer sufficed to hold the allegiance of the potent, inner, spiritual life…. There is everywhere a cry for change and for those new forms in the religious, political, educational and economic life of the race which will allow…better spiritual expression. Such a change is rapidly coming and is regarded by some as death--terrible and to be avoided if possible. It is indeed death but it is beneficent and needed….
That humanity is bringing about this needed change in unnecessary, cruel and painful ways is indeed true… Nevertheless, for the progress of the soul…death is inevitable, good and necessary…But we need to remember that the worst death of all…would be if a form of civilization or a body form became static and eternal; if the old order never altered and the old values were never transmuted into higher and better ones, that would indeed be a disaster….
This stage of death and of birth…can be easily grasped by the esotericist as he studies the world war in its two distinctive periods: 1914 to 1918, and 1939 until 1942. The first stage…was most definitely the death stage; the second stage, in which we now find ourselves, is literally the stage of birth--the birth pangs of the new order and of the new civilization…
Such a dying is never a painful process. Pain has always been the purifying agent, employed by the Lords of Destiny, to bring about liberation. The accumulated pain of the present war and the inherited pain of the earlier stage (begun in 1914) is bringing about a salutary and changing world consciousness. The Lord of Pain has descended from His throne and is treading the ways of earth today, bringing distress, agony and terror to those who cannot interpret His ends.
(The Externalisation of the Hierarchy [September 1939], pp. 113-116)Others again may have faint glimmerings of this new approach to God and service, which again I say--can and must remake, rebuild, and rehabilitate the world…. Those who seek to evoke the Shamballa force, are approaching close to the energy of fire…. Fire was an outstanding aspect of the war…. This was the great menacing and chosen means of destruction in this war. This is a fulfillment of the ancient prophecy, that the attempt to destroy the Aryan race will be by means of fire, just as ancient Atlantis was destroyed by water. But, fiery good will and the conscious focused use of the Shamballa force, can counter fire by fire, and this must be done.
(Esoteric Astrology, 1st ed. [1951], pp. 586-587)To many of you…the World War was a supreme disaster, an agony to be averted in the future at any cost, a dire and dreadful happening indicative of the wickedness of man and the incredible blind indifference of God. To us, on the inner side, the World War was in the nature of a major surgical operation made in an effort to save the patient's life. A violent streptococcic germ and infection had menaced the life of humanity (speaking in symbols) and an operation was made in order to prolong opportunity and save life, not to save the form. This operation was largely successful. The germ, to be sure, is not eradicated and makes its presence felt in infected areas in the body of humanity.
Another surgical operation may be necessary, not in order to destroy and end the present civilization, but in order to dissipate the infection and get rid of the fever. It may not, however, be needed, for a process of dissipation, distribution and absorption has been going on and may prove effective. Let us work towards that end. But at the same time, let us never forget that it is the Life, its purpose and its directed intentional destiny that is of importance; and also that when a form proves inadequate, or too diseased, or too crippled for the expression of that purpose, it is--from the point of view of the Hierarchy--no disaster when that form has to go. Death is not a disaster to be feared; the work of the Destroyer is not really cruel or undesirable.
(Education in the New Age, 1st ed. [1954], pp. 111-112)The Planned Destruction of Western Civilization (Judeo-Christian Culture)
The Hierarchy is deeply concerned over world events… The New Age is upon us and we are witnessing the birth pangs of the new culture and the new civilization. This is now in progress. That which is old and undesirable must go and of these undesirable things hatred and the spirit of separation must be the first to go.
(The Externalisation of the Hierarchy [25 September 1938], pp.61-62)The Hierarchy is struggling hard with the so-called "forces of evil," and the new Group of World Servers is the instrument…
The forces of evil are…the entrenched ancient ideals…which must now disappear if the New Age is to be ushered in as desired. The old established rhythms, inherent in the old forms of religion, of politics and of the social order, must give place to newer ideals, to the synthetic understanding, and to the new order. The laws and modes of procedure which are characteristic of the new Age must supersede the old, and these will, in time, institute the new social order and the more inclusive regime
. (Esoteric Psychology II, 1st ed. [1942] pp. 630-631)The [France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Portugal] have…reacted to that force [Shamballa Force] through the medium of certain great and outstanding personalities who were peculiarly sensitive to the will-to-power and the will-to-change and who…have altered the character of their national life, and emphasized increasingly the wider human values. The men who inspired the initiating of the French Revolution; the great conqueror, Napoleon; Bismarck, the creator of a nation; Mussolini, the regenerator of his people; Hitler who lifted a distressed people upon his shoulders; Lenin, the idealist; Stalin and Franco are all expressions of the Shamballa force and of certain little understood energies. These have wrought significant changes in their day and generation….
We call these people dictators, demagogues, inspired leaders, or just and wise men, according to our peculiar ideology, tradition, attitudes to our fellow men and our particular political, economic and religious training. But all these leaders are…in the last analysis, highly developed personalities. They are being used to engineer great and needed changes and to alter the face of civilization.…
Blame not the personalities involved or the men who produce these events before which we stand today bewildered and appalled. They are only the product of the past and the victims of the present. At the same time, they are the agents of destiny, the creators of the new order and the initiators of the new civilization; they are the destroyers of what must be destroyed before humanity can go forward along the Lighted Way.
(The Externalisation of the Hierarchy [1939], pp. 133-135)I write for the generation which will come…at the end of this century; they will inaugurate the framework, structure and fabric of the new Age…which will develop the civilization of the Aquarian Age. This coming age will be as predominantly the age of group interplay, group idealism and group consciousness as the Piscean Age has been one of personality unfoldment…for the will of the individual will voluntarily be blended into group will.
It will be for humanity then to precipitate and stabilize the appearing good, and this they will learn to do through the utilization of the third Shamballa energy--the energy of organization. The new world will be built upon the ruins of the old. The new structure will rise. (The Rays and the Initiations [1943-1947], p. 88)
Christianity to Be Conquered or Redefined
I refer to that period which will surely come in which an Enlightened People will rule; these people will not tolerate authoritarianism in any church … they will not accept or permit the rule of any body of men who undertake to tell them what they must believe in order to be saved…
(The Reappearance of the Christ 1st ed. -1948], pp. 164-165)World unity will be a fact when the children of the world are taught that religious differences are largely a matter of birth; that if a man is born in Italy, the probability is that he will be a Roman Catholic; if he is born a Jew, he will follow the Jewish teaching; if born in Asia, he may be a Mohammedan, a Buddhist, or belong to one of the Hindu sects; if born in other countries, he may be a Protestant and so on. He will learn that the religious differences are largely the result of man made quarrels over human interpretations of truth. Thus gradually, our quarrels and differences will be offset and the idea of the one Humanity will take their place.
(Education in the new Age 1st ed. [1954], p. 88)Recognition of the successful work of the New Group of World Servers will be accorded by the Hierarchy, and the testimony of the recognition will be the appearing of a symbol in the aura of…the entire group. This will be a symbol projected by the Hierarchy, specifically by the Christ… It is "the mark of a Saviour" and it will embody the mark or indication (the signature as medieval occultists used to call it) of a new type of salvation or salvage. Up till now the mark of the Saviour has been the Cross, and the quality of the salvation offered has been freedom from substance or the lure of matter and from its hold--a freedom only to be achieved at a great cost. The future holds within its silence other modes of saving humanity. The cup of sorrows and the agony of the Cross are well-nigh finished. Joy and strength will take their place. Instead of sorrow we shall have a joy which will work out in happiness and lead eventually to bliss
. (The Rays and the Initiations, 1st ed. [1957], pp. 233-234)There is, as you well know, no angry God, no hell, and no vicarious atonement…and the only hell is the earth itself, where we learn to work out our own salvation…This teaching of a permanent hell is a remainder of the sadistic turn which was given to the thinking of the Christian Church in the Middle Ages and to the erroneous teaching to be found in the Old Testament about Jehovah, the tribal God of the Jews. Jehovah is not God…As these erroneous ideas die out, the concept of hell will fade from man's recollection and its place will be taken by an understanding of the law which makes each man work out his own salvation…which leads him to right the wrongs which he may have perpetuated in his lives on Earth, and which enables him eventually to "clean his own slate."
(Esoteric Healing, 1st ed. [1953], p. 393)The failure of Christianity can be traced to its Jewish background (emphasized by St. Paul), which made it full of propaganda instead of loving action, which taught the blood sacrifice instead of loving service, and which emphasized the existence of a wrathful God, needing to be placated by death, and which embodied the threats of the Old Testament Jehovah in the Christian teaching of hell fire.
This situation is one which the Christ is seeking to alter; it has been in preparation for His instituting a new and more correct presentation of divine truth that I have sought--with love and understanding--to point out the faults of the world religions, with their obsolete theologies and their lack of love, and to indicate the evils of Judaism. The present world faiths must return to their early simplicity, and orthodox Judaism, with its deep-seated hate, must slowly disappear; all must be changed in preparation for the revelation which Christ will bring.
(The Externalization of the Hierarchy, 1st ed. [1957], pp. 542-543)It can be expected that the orthodox Christian will at first reject the theories about the Christ which occultism presents; at the same time, this same orthodox Christian will find it increasingly difficult to induce the intelligent masses of people to accept the impossible Deity and the feeble Christ, which historical Christianity has endorsed. A Christ Who is present and living, Who is known to those who follow Him, Who is a strong and able executive and not a sweet and sentimental sufferer, Who has never left us but Who has worked for two thousand years through the medium of His disciples, the inspired men and women of all faiths… Who has no use for fanaticism or hysterical devotion but Who loves all men persistently, intelligently and optimistically, Who sees divinity in them all and Who comprehends the techniques of the evolutionary development of the human consciousness…these ideas the intelligent public can and will accept.
(The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, 1st ed. [1957], pp. 589-590)From Nimrod to Carl Gustav Jung to Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to Barbara Marx Hubbard to the latest "New Age" hero comes the message of a man-centered, anti-Christian philosophy to bring peace to the world. This is the teaching of anti (another) christ. John warned about this almost 2,000 years ago -- and the average American has fallen for it. New age books are sneaking into Christian bookstores and into the 'Christian conscience'. Be careful about most "near death experience" books, many "angel" books, and other "spiritual feel-good" books. Study your Bible. Judge the truth of books by the Bible. A word to the wise is sufficient. (We have books exposing the "New Age" philosophy. Contact us for a current list).
More Satanic Verses
"Reverend Moon is Messiah, Lord of the Second Advent." Reverend Moon's Unification Church.
"A black skin is a mark of the curse of heaven placed upon some portions of mankind." The Mormon Juvenile Instructor, volume 3, page 157.
"Promises of immortal salvation or fear of eternal damnation are both illusory and harmful." The Humanist Manifesto II.
"Neither Lord Buddha nor Jesus Christ were operating Thetans. They were just a shade above clear." L. Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology.
"Jesus Christ himself was a parable, and his life an allegory of the experiences that man passes through in development from natural to spiritual conscience." Charles Fillmore, founder of Unity School of Christianity.
"Response to our displaying a female Christ (with shapely hips and full breasts) on the cross in our cathedral has been very positive" The "very Reverend" James Park Morton dean of St. John the Divine Cathedral, Manhattan, New York
(Demonic Roots of Globalism, Huntington House Pub., p. 128)"The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it." Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood. (Abortions R Us)
"If by Christian you mean that we are saved by the blood of Jesus Christ on the cross, then we are not." Ernest Holmes, founder of the Church of Religious Science.
"You are perfect…gods who have created your own worlds. How do I know I am not the reincarnation of Jesus Christ?" Jack Rosenburg, aka Werner Erhard, founder of E.S.T.
"Kal (an Eck word denoting the devil) is the father of the Christian faith and Jesus is a son of Kal." John Paul Twitchell, founder of Eckankar.
"Jesus Christ of Nazareth appeared in his thirteenth incarnation having been on earth first as Adam, Enoch, and Melchizedek and became a Christ-soul." Edgar Cayce, founder of Association for Research and Enlightenment.
"God's spirit resides in every person." Richard Alpert, aka Baba Ram Dass.
"Kneel to your own self. Honor and worship your own being. God dwells within you as you." Swami Muktananda Paramahansa.
"In dropping God, man recovers himself. It is time that god be put in his place, that is, in man, and no nonsense about it." New Age philosopher, L.L. White.
"At this moment of our planetary birth, each person is called upon to recognize that the 'Messiah is within.'". New Age writer Barbara Marx Hubbard.
"Say unto thyself "I am my own redeemer." Book of Satan, chapter 4.
"Say unto yourself, 'I am god'." Shirley McLaine, Dancing In the Light.
One of the biggest advantages we have as new Agers is, once the occult, metaphysical and new Age terminology is removed, we have concepts and techniques that are very acceptable to the general public. So we can change the names and demonstrate the power. In so doing, we open the new Age door to millions who normally would not be receptive. On the other hand, the Born-Again Christians, our most vocal antagonists, relate everything back to the blood of Christ and to the Bible. But our momentum will become so great that the combined efforts of all antagonists can't stop us unless they do so politically. Laws are the only way to block the New Age movement from growing within the consciousness of our population…New Age Activists encourage you as an individual to network with your family, friends, and associates, and to infuse New Age concepts and awareness into every area of your personal world, from the office to the bridge club, from the schoolroom to the Little League. By Dick Sutphen in What Is-New Age Activists, vol.1, no. 1 newsletter, Summer 1986).
Why do the nations rage, and the people plot a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against His Anointed, saying "Let us break Their bonds in pieces and cast away Their cords from us." He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; The Lord shall hold them in derision. Then He shall speak to them in His wrath, And distress them in His deep displeasure. (Psalm 2:1-5)
I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. (II Timothy 4:1-4)
It is not "love" to avoid warning people that they are on the wrong road and in danger of judgment. Satan ruthlessly deceives--we really are in a war!
And of some have compassion, making a difference; and others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. (Jude 1:22-23)
To be a balanced Christian does not mean to compromise the true faith. Cowardice and/or apathy are sins themselves and should have no place in a Christian's life. Read all that Jesus said and did to make sure "your Jesus" has not been created in your own image. Don't let your epitaph be: