The New Age Movement

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"New Age" is a term seen frequently in personality-development books and magazines these days. They claim that we are in an age when humans can take total control of their bodies and minds. Contrary to what the name suggests, the New Age Movement is a very ancient Cult, and they claim it to be "New" only to deceive people. Plenty of Christians have become spokesmen and agents of this movement without realizing it for what it is. The New Age Movement has its origin in Satan who promised to Eve that by eating the forbidden fruit, she would become "like God". Realizing this promise is the basic promise and quest of this movement.

The pursuit to become like God became an organized movement with Nimrod and the Tower of Babel. There one observes the seeds of the first one-world religion and government, both contrary to the course of human history as decreed by God. Consequently, God dispersed this movement. Yet Satan, the architect of this movement, continued in his struggle to raise up another all-world religious and political union. The story that unfolded in the millennia that followed is quite complex, but what one needs ...
... to know took place only in about one century.

Since time of the dispersal at Babel, there was no convenient communication-medium available to Satan to influence all the people at the same time. However, mass-media took a massive leap towards the close of the last century. The beginning of the twentieth century brought cheap newspapers, books, radio, TV, Telephones, CDs, INTERNET, and other mass-media tools. Such means to contact a large population effectively, economically and trans-linguistically became available for the first time after Babel. Thus the millennia old Satanic efforts started having effect.

It was during this period that the Theosophical Society was founded by Helena P. Blavatsky and her companions. This Occult-based organization immediately became popular among the educated, the rich, and the rulers of masses. The movement even tried to present one of its trainees as the Christ of the Second Advent, but this attempt did not work. Yet they did not lose courage and continued to influence people in the highest circles with one-world Occult philosophies.

Unsatisfied with the depth of Occult activities in Theosophy, Alice Bailey moved out and established the Lucipher Trust. Since this name was too obviously that of the Devil's, she soon modified it to Lucis Trust, Lucis being the Latin synonym for Lucipher. Soon a demon by the name of Dhwaj Khul started dictating books to her, and she produced a massive amount of writings. The essential message in all these books was the same: the Christian faith must be destroyed and a New World Order should be ushered in. Her books are very popular with Occult groups all over, including the widespread Pranic Healing people who have put her books into "essential study" category.

Numerous people received inspiration and went on to establish thousands of organizations worldwide to spread the message of the erstwhile Lucipher Trust. From these organizations was born the New Age Movement in the Nineteen Sixties. At the dawn of the twenty-first century it has already become one of the largest international movements. Marxism, Humanism, Atheism, Pantheism, and almost all aberrant streams have directly or indirectly joined hands with this movement making it very powerful. The version of Christian theology that is popular in the radical churches, the ecumenical movement, and the "dialogue" crowd is Christian only in name, but is New Age in outlook and essence.

Doctrines Of The Movement

New Age doctrines are a vast collection of flexible and fuzzy philosophies based primarily upon Eastern Philosophy and Mysticism. Consequently, every religion and philosophy in the world is welcome here except the historic Christian faith. The following are some of the major tenets of the New Age.

1-The world and God are one and the same in essence, but appear as different to humans. Actually every person is a part of God, and the very God himself.

2-As a consequence of the above, no one is a sinner in the absolute sense. Sin is only ignorance and illusion. Even the perceived world is an illusion. Escape from this illusion and recognizing that one is part of God is the key to salvation.

3-Christ is not the name of a historical person. Rather it is the name of a Cosmic Spirit called the Cosmic Christ. We can also rise to the same level of this Cosmic Christ (who is actually Lucipher).

4-Salvation can be attained through any religion (except perhaps the Evangelical Christian faith). All religions, faiths, and even Occult practices lead people to the same blessed salvation.

5-The Universe is controlled by a hierarchy of invisible spirits. Humans can also join this hierarchy, and rise to higher levels. The highest hierarchy is called "Masters Of The Universe", and these ten or so many Masters reside in a secret place in Tibbet. Above them is the Occultic spirit being called "Cosmic Christ".

6-Bible is NOT to be read an understood in its plain (direct) meaning, but only though its hidden and mystical meaning. Only Occultists know this mystical meaning and the mystical use of the Bible.
7-Bible is not the only inspired word of God. All holy books of all religions are equally inspired and equally holy. Perhaps some of them are at a higher plane than the Bible.
Any discerning Christian can see that each one of the above doctrines and their implications are totally contrary to the Bible. There is no meeting-place between the New Age Movement and the Biblical Christianity.

Strategies And Expansion

The New Age strategy is to control seven key areas: Philosophy, Theology, Sociology, Psychology, Education, Science/Technology, and Medicine. Once this is done, the world is ready for the domination of Anti Christ, the emissary of Satan who is the mastermind behind the New Age movement. The movement has been amazingly successful in contaminating all the seven fields mentioned above. For example, in theology there are many who now propagate the idea that ultimately everyone would be saved, irrespective of whether he accepted or rejected Christ during his earthly life. There are others who claim that information leading to salvation is available in all religions.

Even a field like Physics has been successfully contaminated by these people. Almost everyone has heard about books like The Tao Of Physics, The Dancing Wu Li Masters, etc. These books are not pure physics at all. Rather, their aim is to expound physics in terms of Eastern Mysticism ! A special area of conquest for them is Medicine. What is called "holistic medicine" today is a New Age offshoot. There are an estimated four hundred systems of medicines that call them alternative medical systems or holistic medicines. Almost eighty to ninety percent of them are ultimately rooted in the Occult or Paranormal philosophy.

The best examples are Pranic Healing and Reiki. Claiming to be totally science-derived, actually these systems receive their healing power through demonic sources. Yet even many Christians practice them because the New Age Movement has convinced them that these "spirit guides" (demons) that help them are agents of the Holy Spirit. Any discerning believer should realize that these are "angels of light" who are here only to deceive.

New Age movement is a powerful movement. Eventually it will unite the whole world under a single religio-political leader. That would be the time of the Anti-Christ. Workings of this movement are so subtle that the anti Christian element is often difficult to discern. The best strategy is to compare the ultimate philosophy of every group with the seven cardinal points of the New Age Movement given above.
Dr. Johnson C. Philip is a scientist and an acknowledged blogging guru having a worldwide following.