Seven Major Teachings of the New Age
New Age is not new … it is a modern revival of ancient religious traditions, along with a potpourri of influences: Eastern mysticism, modern philosophy and psychology, science and science fiction, and the counterculture of the 50s and 60s. “… So here we are in the New Age, a combination of spirituality and superstition, fad and farce, about which the only thing certain is that it is not new. Nobody seems to know exactly where the term came from, but it has been around for several decades or more, and many elements of the New Age, like faith healing, fortune-telling and transmigration of souls, go back for centuries.” [Otto Friedrich, “New Age Harmonies,” TIME, Dec. 7, 1987.]
See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ. [Colossians 2:8]
Despite its popularity, the New Age is hard to define.
It includes a variety of beliefs, fads, and rituals. It seems to be a marriage of Science & Easternism Cult-religious organizations and can be a mixture of Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Spiritualism such as, Church Universal & Triumphant (Elizabeth Clare Prophet). Some New Agers subscribe to some parts, some to others.
It is a religious movement that is centered in SELF- all you need is within – with no defined order of sin, repentance or salvation! You become your own god! The people worship the god of forces and promote The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Jesus was not and is not the only Christ, nor is he God.
Some may think that everyone means the same thing when they say “Christ.” Christians see the one and only begotten Son of God, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Many New Age writers on the other hand refer to a Christ spirit. They believe there have been many Christ, Jesus being only one of many.
The New Ager understands Christ as a reincarnated avatar, Messiah, or messenger sent from the ‘hierarchy’ to give the living on earth spiritually advanced revelation. The New Age accepts that Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius, Jesus, and many others were ‘Christ’.
The Baha’i World Faith claims to be in perfect harmony with the Christian Faith yet see the historical Jesus as only one of several manifestations of Christ on equal ground as Abraham, Moses, Krishna, Zoroastrian, Budda, Mohammed, the Bab, and their founder: Baha’u’llah.
New Age prophetess Alice Bailey and author of many occult books, including The Reappearance of The Christ, describes the “Avatar of Synthesis,” who she says is a “close Associate” of “the Christ.” She says: “He works under the great natural Law of Synthesis, producing at-one-ment, unification and fusion. His function (in unison with the energy of Christ) is to generate spiritual will in humanity, the will-to good.
“This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.” – 1 John 4:2-3
“God” is impersonal, cosmic, a God of energy forces.
All things, including man, constitute, the ONE – called Universal Mind, The Source, Universal Self, Cosmic Consciousness, Universal Presence, or The Force” – your Inner Voice, Higher Self, or Intuition. ” God is an impersonal energy; force, immanent in all things (including man). God can be referred to either as she or he, mother or father, god or goddess.
Do not be deceived! New Agers do not mean God or Jesus Christ of the Bible. Most New Age teachers hold that Mother Earth, the sun, the moon, and the stars, indeed all of Nature can be worshiped as God.
For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. – Romans 1:25
Man is himself God, for he consists of and is the creator of “the forces.” Man already exercises the powers inherent in his divinity and needs only to awaken to this fact.
New Ageism embraces super-naturalism, but ascribes it to the creature, not the Creator (as in Romans 1:22-24). They flaunt the “I am God” concept as it naturally appeals to man’s ego and thirst for power, an appeal as old as the Garden of Eden. Satan promised Eve: “Ye shall be as gods.”
For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. – Genesis 3:5
It is of of the goals of the New Age Movement to cause people to rebel against the true God of the Bible and to believe that they are deities. Once Satan has the person in this heretical frame of mind, then the battle is won. The individual will then be called for greater service to the Prince of Darkness. And with a mind clouded and confused, he or she will comply. The individual will have become a member, knowingly or unknowingly, of the Satanic conspiracy. [Texe Marrs, Millennium, pp. 224-25]
Man should seek and accept spiritual instruction and direction directly from the spirit world.
The lure of the occult is almost always on the basis of acquiring knowledge or power. [Neil T. Anderson, The Bondage Breaker, pg. 114] We crave a knowledge that is esoteric, not normally available to the ordinary person. We want to experience a power that is spiritual and supernatural in origin.
People don’t seem to want to hear what God has to say, they want information and direction from someone else who “knows”; a psychic, a channeler, a palm-reader, a card-reader, Ouija boards, astrology, magic charming, automatic writing, or the spirit of a dead friend of relative. In a sense these are God-given desire, but they are intended to be fulfilled by the knowledge and power which comes from God. However, Satan is busy trying to pass off his counterfeits for God’s knowledge and power as the real thing. If he can get us to accept his versions of knowledge and power, he has a foothold in our life.
Let no one be found among you who sacrifices their son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead. Anyone who does these things is detestable to the Lord; because of these same detestable practices the Lord your God will drive out those nations before you. – Deuteronomy 18:10-12
All religions and religious teachings lead to the same goal. All are equally of merit.
Satan’s primary tactic in opposing God is not to foster atheism but religion; not to prove there is no God but to be worshiped as God. “I have not come to found a new religion,” Lord Maitreya says. “I have come to teach the art of Self-realization,” something which is neither an ideology nor a religion, but benefits people of all religions and those who have none. “I come to you ‘like a thief in the night'”, He tells us, “so that you will not become too excited. Slowly, as you become aware, you can ‘digest’ what is ‘eaten’. In awareness you will know Me. In ‘isms’ you will fight against me”.
The New Age does express a cloudy sort of religion, claiming vague connections with both Christianity and the major faiths of the East (New Agers like to say the Jesus spent 18 years in India absorbing Hinduism and the teachings of Buddha), plus an occasional dab of pantheism and sorcery. The underlying faith is a lack of faith in the orthodoxies of rationalism, high technology, routine living, spiritual law-and-order. Somehow, the New Agers believe, there must be some secret and mysterious shortcut or alternative path to happiness and health.
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. – John 14:6
“Ecumenism is essential in creating a “Christianity” which embraces all religions. Psychology plays a major ecumenical role by providing common faith, language and ritual for everyone from atheists, cultists and occultists to Roman Catholics and evangelicals.” [Dave Hunt, “Mystery Babylon Part II,” The Berean Call, August 1993]
The “ancient wisdom” of Babylon, Egypt and Greece – not the Bible – is the basis of all truth.
Vice President Albert Gore in his book Earth in the Balance; Ecology and the Human Spirit, reveals himself as a person who believes we should have a “mother goddess” that we can worship. He points back to ancient religions and Hinduism and says that they have something good in their worship of “mother earth,” and claims that our modern slogan should be the worship of “mother earth”; that man and nature are one, and that God is part of nature, and nature is part of God. On pages 258 through 259 of his book, he shows where he departed from the Baptist faith and entered in to the New Age Religion. He says “The richness and diversity of our religious tradition through out history is a spiritual resource long ignored by people of faith, who are often afraid to open their minds to teachings first offered outside their own system of belief.” “This Pan-religious perspective may prove especially important where our global civilizations responsibility for the earth is concerned.” “Native American Religions for instance offer a rich tapestry of ideas about our relationship to the earth.”[Al Gore, Earth In the Balance; Ecology and the Human Spirit, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992.]
For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding. – Proverbs 2:6
Sin and evil do not exist. Peace and love are the ultimate realities.
New Agers deny the existence of a hell (gehenna fire) and a judgment. They also deny that sin and evil exist. God (The universe) is alleged to be beyond good and evil.
“For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;” – Romans 3:23
The New Age gospel is not a system of revolutionary principles – it sounds good and promotes an easy believe-ism.
It does not promote strife and war, but aims at peace and unity. It seeks not to set the mother against her daughter nor the father against his son, but fosters the fraternal spirit whereby the human race is regarded as one great “brotherhood.” It does not seek to drag down the natural man, but to improve and uplift him. It advocates education and cultivation and appeals to “the best that is within us.” It aims to make this world such a comfortable and congenial habitat that Christ’s absence from it will not be felt and God will not be needed.
Depending on which branch of the New Age movement you encounter, there may or may not be a great world leader who will emerge to lead us all to enlightenment. Some New Agers await the advent of the Lord Maitreya while others believe we will all become so godlike that we will not need any leaders. The Bible tells of an age when God is going to permit Satan to actually rule in person on this earth! If a New Age leader emerges, he could well be the Antichrist, an enemy of mankind who will be intent on leading the world into terrible rebellion against God and who will be destroyed along with his followers. Although God’s prophets foretold many explicit signs of Christ’s first coming most people missed Him. Likewise, God has given many definite signs that point to the second coming of Jesus. False Christ’s and false prophets are high on the list.
The question is, do you KNOW God in Christ Jesus … as He has revealed Himself in the Scriptures? Have you read His Book? Have you studied it? How can you be sure you know the real God in Christ Jesus if you have not studied what He has said about Himself?
So than, how do we define love? How do we define fear? If all our defines are man made realities than who speaks truth? You see the world. Take all the religions or non religions and all the gods or God and stand them next to one another. Which one is truth? What writing’s stand up to the test of time. Which pages were written thousands of years ago, before we even exist, or did we always exist, according to some, that are happening before our very eyes today for all to see? If we in all our different views and beliefs in what we believe is god or God or the Christ or Jesus Christ. If we stood them up against eachother, which would fall and which would still be standing? For with our measure of faith, we all believe in something or someone. Again, I ask what god or God would still be standing? Who said that there would be evil in the world? Is there? If we can’t see it than we are truly blind. Who is that God who has given man power over all evil? Is it what best fits our conscience? Would we all want to see what we as individuals believe is love? If the word “love” itself was defined by man than what makes us believe it exist? We are living in a time of truth. What is so interesting is that every book of whatever religion or faith we seem to inherit, has been taken in some form from one book. The book we call the bible. We change a word or sentence to fit our faith, our conscience and make it fit or that works for us and our mindset.Again, I ask. Which of these books or gods have shown themselves true to the happenings of today?
The definition of “universe” seems to be fluid. If one defines it as all inclusive, meaning that it includes whatever the “expanding stuff” is expanding into, then it has no measurable dimensions. Everything we see or experience can only be measured with respect to other things we see or experience.
The entire religion of multiple universes likewise suffers from definitional flaws. Suppose there are three “parallel” universes. If the existence of anything within one universe is even “confidently believed in”, let alone seen or experienced, in one of the other two universes, then isn’t that thing also part of the first universe? Hence, all things of any other “parallel” universe – even merely CONCEIVED universes – are all contained within a bigger box, the TRUE universe.
My definition of universe is bigger than the definition of most of you, I suppose. You all ought to come up with new terms. Just as a planet exists within a solar system, and a solar system exists within a galaxy, which in turn exists within a supercluster, etc, WHATEVER structure y’all discuss which exists separate from some “parallel” universe is but a smaller part of some larger structure. That structure which contains it all is “my” universe.
There is space out there we will never and can never see. At the limit of what we can conceivably see is a new viewing point, out beyond which is a whole new arena of visible space, space not visible from one’s original starting point. How far away is the horizon of that arena relative to the original starting point? And when you make this imaginary trek infinite times, do you come to a wall?
The true universe has no overall dimension.
Treks such as the imaginary one I described can be facilitated with imaginary relativity games, going near or at the speed of light, but that in turn distorts the dimension of time involved.
The relationships between space, time and our consciousness create illusions of things you can measure on a grand scale. Gonads. It’s but another description of the elephant by but another blind person. We can but imagine what the true whole thing, the complete elephant, the true universe, looks like.
After reading the comments from New Agers, Romans 8:24-30 is all the more convincingly True; and Matthew 15:24
But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel”; New Agers just hijacked the ‘parts they want to hear , and decide to ignore what they don’t like” (not far removed from ‘liberalism’…so called – there is a parallel between liberalism, New Age ‘teachings’, and much in Catholicisms, that being ‘gnosticism’. It’s all of ‘The Tree of The Knowledge of Good and Evil’.. ‘You will be as gods, or ‘You will be as God is”…in the end it’s all the same things: “behold, I am my own savior!” ..’You have eaten the fruit of deception (lies” !”…(Hosea).
Everything here posted by Christians is fear-based. “You were warned.” Especially you. Mr. Greene. I grew up in Christianity. People had no open minds, never a thought that the bible is not the word of our Creator. It is a book written by man and today’s versions don’t resemble the originals at all. Yet you proclaim them truth. Do as you will, but don’t tell others they are wrong. You have not looked within to find the truths you were born with. You have been indoctrinated–brainwashed. Nothing to be proud of. I left the Christian cult. I see today so many people who claim to love Jesus are the most hateful, disingenuous people alive. They boast and have huge egos because they think they alone have the Truth. But you don’t. I left that hypocritical mess and have never been happier. No one brainwashed me. I was open to ideas from my Creator. Satan and hell were invented to scare people like you. And it worked. I know better, but can respect that you believe all that. You need to respect other people. You are being a super hypocrite, not a voice of love. And that is where Christianity has gone down a very dark path. It’s all about love. Not punishment. We reap what we sow. I hope you become more enlightened as you grow older, hopefully wiser. And one more thing. People often ask me to their churches. I tell them I left the religion. They can’t believe it because they say, “But you are like Jesus, kind and loving. How can you not be Christian?” If you choose Christianity, I hope you choose love and not fear.
I’ll say you are wrong because you ARE WRONG. And The LORD Jesus Christ is The TRUTH unless you want to Call God a liar. Because a person is stating a FACT does not make them wrong. Talk about being hypocritical ..what makes you any different? “It’s all about Love”..and who said so? Where did you make that up from? Where did the concept come from? Everything is ‘fear based’? Since when? The only person that has to be in Fear is That which is Evil, unholy, and unrighteous, which is everyone in the entire world, which is why Jesus The Crhist is the Savior well foretold all the way back to the book of Genesis and foreshadowed all through the entire Old Testament writings of the Jews and Hebrews. Even Abraham, just as Jesus who is GOD stated: “Abraham waited to See My Day, he saw it and was glad”…. you left the religion but you never left ‘god’ because you never knew him. You state you ‘left the religion:?
1 John 2:19 18 Children, it is the last hour; and just as you have heard that the antichrist is coming,
so now many antichrists have appeared.
This is how we know it is the last hour. hey went out from us,
but they did not really belong to us.
For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us;
but their going showed that none of them belonged to us.
2 John 1:7
For many deceivers have gone out into the world
, refusing to confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh.
Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist.
Acts 20:30
Even from your own number,
men will rise up and distort the truth
to draw away disciples after them.
Psalm 37:28
For the LORD loved judgment, and forsaked not his saints;
they are preserved for ever:
but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
Very well said Steve! God said it and it’s recorded in scriptures. People will miss God because of this lie that God is a gentle God of love who will not punish sin. Psalm 37:28
For the LORD loved judgment, and forsaked not his saints;
they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
It’s either you’re for God or you’re against Him, there’s no in between. If you’re for God you call sin what it is- sin because that’s exactly what God is doing. Our sins are being judged daily.
I (Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer) correspond with Constance Cumbey and often post on her blog. A recent article of mine is posted on, both, my website and on Hippyland’s New Age forum. The article is titled “Exposing Christian Propaganda Against the New Age Movement.” It is located at: http://www.towahkon.org/Neo-Gnostics.html. My New Age website is located at:
New Agers do not want to have or believe in a conscience of Sin. This is the biggest Lie served on a platter. Sin is the Transgression of the Law and Jesus Christ was the Sacrificial Lamb who was slain before the foundations of the Earth for the sins of mankind.
What is the lifestyle of many of these New Age people. Drugs/Scorcery, unhibited sexual relations with whom they desire and so forth. Most Newage Sewagers have a Guru and drink their cool aide which leads to their destruction.
If the doctrine of Jesus according to the bible didn’t instill fear and force a culture that contravenes our own culture in the name of going to hell.
If it wasn’t dogmatic and promotes growth I’d actually believe that its worth the title of true doctrine.
The bible promotes slavery, and wrong doing by authorities, homophobia, violence. And teaches people that by rejecting Jesus there will be eternal punishment by the Christian God who is holly.
God has no religion that’s why we have to forget religious dogma and focus on salvation which never comes by accepting some fictitious figure but by realizing our true nature and connectedness in God.
Love and compassion will make this world a better place than what religion does to humanity.
The Time is Near when Evil shall Fear the wrath of the Lord who’s Word is a 2 Edged Soward. The Hearts of many shall was Colder than ice but the Wicked to God shall be like Dead Mice!!!!!!!!!
You can’t fight what you can’t see, you can’t defeat what you don’t know, but the Time will come when the Wicked reaps what they S O W E D!!!! !!!
Humans came into this world with Nothing, and they will go out of this World with Nothing, but whosoever had not God or Christ before they died was Nothing as well as their once lived life’s.
Jesus said that “he is the way, the truth and the life and NO MAN comes to the Father except through Him” People like New Age followers invent belief systems that are persuasive and easy to follow, like the hippies of the 60’s.. love.. love and more love. Why ?, because mankind will always look for an easy way out. The Bible isn’t a book of rules and regulations, it’s a book filled with Grace of Christ and people don’t get it and so the next best thing is to object and fight against it by creating other forms of beliefs. Example, if the Atheist doesn’t believe in God why spend your every breath denying the existence of God???… Spiritualism , it’s easier to believe and pour millions of dollars into someone else’s discovery of science, self existence mutating into an objective which will ultimately will never be achieved.
Change is the only constant. Grow up my brother. We have been fooled enough by the church fathers and many of them have decided for once to say the truth. No religion owns God. If is all about deceit that was why it was forced down our psych through bloody wars crusade and jihads. Nonsense.
I totally agree with you we all know the origin of Christianity and the division our creates and how strips us off all our spiritual nature form traditional knowledge. The bible doesn’t reveal the advancement of our souls towards growing beyond the lies forced through generations. The holly bible doesn’t allow for question or addition or even proof because its not factual in more ways Tha one.
The basic concept of life Has not changed time is a mysterious phenomena God is not new or old
New age is rubbish Philosophy
My experience of life, I’m deaf that can’t hear another world of people talk. I do myself. See the world what I believe as many gods everywhere. Not Christ or other God Leaders and Bible. I grew up when I worshiped to SUN, MOON, STARS and much more. I do believe Sun of God, Moon of Goddess and much more. The spirit inside of me. I do believe everyone is GOD. I try to write a book about myself. I’m afraid that world of people will angry and kill me cause they don’t want the world to changed.
Thats what “they” want you to do.go on.But you were warned.