The New Age Religious Synthesis

The New Age Movement is a rapidly growing religious movement.  Followers of the movement promote the synthesis of Eastern and Western religious practices as they claim that all paths lead to God.  However, in the process of merging East with West the concepts of Christianity become heavily diluted to the point that it is hardly recognizable anymore in the New Age Religion.  The New Age Movement’s ability to incorporate concepts of many religions is helping it to rise in prominence and to attract believers from all faiths.  

 

The New Age Movement represents an attempt by Satan to reassemble the ancient Babylonian mystery religion from all the parts that have been scattered and preserved through history.  The religious practices followers of the New Age Movement adhere to are simply the same practices that followers of the ancient Babylon religion followed: “The polytheistic religious of the East and those in ‘new age/new spirituality’ beliefs and witchcraft all have a common root source in ancient Babylon and they share the common polytheist and/or pantheist beliefs of the mystery religion that began at Babylon”.[1]  In addition, while I do not agree with a lot of what Texe Marrs teaches, even he found “nearly 30 rituals and beliefs found in ancient Babylon that are practiced today in the New Age Movement! Everything from reincarnation to occult meditation...” [2] 

Restoring the Mystery Religion

Under the direction of an Ascended Master (a spiritual being mentioned by Paul in Ephesians 6:12 as the “spiritual wickedness in high places”) named Djwhal Khul, New Age author Alice Bailey wrote that Freemasonry currently upholds many elements of the mystery religion, including its symbols and its rituals. [3] While Bailey viewed Masonry in its current state as being corrupt, she noted that Masonry will later aid the restoration of the mystery religion:

 

 “Masonry - inadequate and corrupt as it has been and guilty of over-emphasizing certain forms of symbols - is nevertheless a germ or seed of the future hierarchical effort when that effort is - at some later date - externalized on Earth ------- Masonry is governed by the 7th ray, and when certain important changes have been made and the spirit of Masonry is grasped instead of the letter, then we shall see a new kind of hierarchical endeavor appear to aid in the restoration of the ancient and sacred Mysteries among men”.[4]

 

The link between the Freemasonry and ancient Babylon is further demonstrated by Freemason’s high regard for Nimrod and the Tower of Babel.  For instance, “in ‘The Masonic Quiz Book’, the question is asked, ‘Who was Nimrod’, the answer is, ‘He was the son of Cush.  In the old Constitutions referred to as one of the Founders of Freemasonry, and in the Scriptures as the architect of many cities’”.[5] Similarly “in the Masonic York Rite Manuscript we find: ‘at the making of the Tower of Babel there was Masonry first much esteemed of, and Nimrod was a Mason himself and loved well Masons’”.[6]  Another Masonic author named John Yarker says: "it is well known that the Tower of Babel was one of the most ancient traditions of Masonry...” [7]

 

Bailey wrote that the New Age Christ Maitreya (the leader of the Ascended Masters and a spiritual being that meets John’s description of the spirit of Antichrist[8]) will restore the Mysteries soon after he reveals himself to the world:  "...Mysteries will be restored to outer expression through the medium of the Church and the Masonic Fraternity...When the Great One [Maitreya] comes with His disciples and initiates, we shall have the restoration of the Mysteries..." [9]  The restoration of the Mysteries by the Antichrist will simultaneously lead the unification of all faiths, which is the objective of the New Age Movement:  “He will move to restore the ancient spiritual landmarks, to eliminate that which is non-essential, and to reorganize the entire religious field - again in preparation for the restoration of the Mysteries. These Mysteries, when restored, will unify all faiths”.[10] 

 

Teachings of the New Age Religion

The teachings of the New Age Religion are likely going to center on these issues:

1. There is a God
2. A Person is Divine
3. There is Reincarnation
4. Evolution of the Soul
5. The Restoration of the Mysteries
6. Continual Revelation and Appearance of Messengers
7. De-Emphasize Glamour

 

Self Divinity

The New Age Religion is likely going to promote the existence of divinity.  However, the New Age concept of God is not the same as the Christian concept.  The New Age Religion is more aligned with the Eastern conception of divinity, that is, there is an element of divinity in everyone.[11]   The New Age Religion is likely going to emphasize that the spirit in each person is immortal and individuals will tap into this divinity as time goes on.[12]  The following passage summarizes these combined teachings:

 

“His work when He reappears will be to prove the fact of these possibilities and to reveal the true nature and potency of man. The proclamation He made that we were all sons of God and own one universal Father will, in the near future, no longer be regarded as a beautiful, mystical and symbolic statement, but will be regarded as a proved scientific pronouncement. Our universal brotherhood and our essential immortality will be proven to be facts in nature”.[13]

 

These three teachings about divinity basically retell the same lie that Satan told Eve in the Garden of Eden.  “You shall not die-you are a god”: 

• Gen 3:4  And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
• Gen 3:5  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.

The Restoration of Mysteries

Recall that Bailey predicted that Maitreya will restore the Mysteries soon after he reveals himself to the world.  What exactly are the hidden secrets associated with the Mysteries?  Bailey hinted at some of the Mysteries that are likely going to be restored and revealed: 

 

"These ancient Mysteries were originally given to humanity by the Hierarchy and contain the entire clue to the evolutionary process, hidden in numbers, in ritual, in words and in symbology; these veil the secret of man’s origin and destiny, picturing to him in rite and ritual, the long, long path which he must tread, back into the light." [14] 

 

The Mysteries that likely are going to be restored are indeed religious practices that originated in the ancient Babylonian religion.  They consist of using numerology, esoteric astrology (which “partakes of principles that were once secret and taught only in the ancient mystery schools” and not the same type of astrology that is practiced today), occult ritual, occult symbols, and other esoteric practices.[15]  

 

Reincarnation

Bailey wrote that “The Law of Rebirth”, also known as reincarnation, will be taught in the New Age Religion.  However, this is not the same form of reincarnation that Eastern Religions have taught.[16]  The Law of Rebirth teaches that souls move up the evolutionary ladder through time.[17]

 

New Revelations through Time

The New Age Religion is likely going to preach that there are continual revelations from messengers that are sent by God:  “The great theme of the new world religion will be the recognition of the many divine approaches and the continuity of revelation which each of them conveyed”.[18]  For example, it is likely going to be taught that Jesus is one of many messengers sent by God in the past and that Maitreya is the messenger (World Teacher) sent for the New Age.

    

The Dispelling of Glamour

The New Age Religion is likely going to encourage people to worry less about material possessions: "… initiates must and will inevitably shatter illusion and dispel glamour—the one by the intuitive recognition of reality by minds attuned to it, and the other by the pouring in of the light of the reason”.[19]

 

Worship in the New Age

Bailey wrote that the traditional practices of prayer and worship will be replaced by a new form of worship in the New Age Religion.  One characteristic of New Age worship is likely going to involve a new type of gathering: “A gathering to invoke light, love and divine will (power), thus evoking or calling forth from the divinity within and beyond us all the enlightenment, love-wisdom, and power-for-good that this world desperately needs, and for which we all hunger”.[20]  According to Bailey, another characteristic of New Age worship is likely going to involve the replacement of prayer with a new type of devotion:

 

“The science of invocation and evocation will take the place of what we now call prayer and worship. Be not disturbed by the use of the word "science." It is not the cold and heartless intellectual thing so oft depicted. It is in reality the intelligent Organization of spiritual energy and of the forces of love, and when effective, will evoke the response of spiritual Beings Who can again walk openly among men and thus establish a close relation and a constant communication between humanity and the spiritual Hierarchy”.[21]

 

Essentially, New Age worship is likely going to involve people calling upon spiritual entities (fallen angels and demons) so these entities can communicate with people and to relay instructions to people.  I suspect this type of openness and communication is likely going to improve New Age followers and spiritual beings’ ability to hunt down non-initiates.

 

The New World Calendar

The Bible predicts that the Antichrist will change the laws and times (i.e. introduce a new calendar system):

• Dan 7:25  And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

 

This is exactly what those who have knowledge of the New Age Religion say is going to happen.  Holidays like Good Friday and Christmas are likely going to be completely banned while monthly New Age festivals are likely going to begin being celebrated worldwide.[22]  In addition, followers of the New Age Religion are likely going to celebrate a festival every month with three major spiritual festivals each year.  Each festival would occur during the time of a full moon, and each full moon celebration would correspond with a specific phase of the zodiac.  The three major spiritual festivals of the New Age religion are likely going to be Easter, Wesak, and World Invocation Day:   

• Easter: This is considered to be one of the holiest holidays in Christianity commemorating Jesus Christ’s resurrection from the dead.  However, Easter’s origins are pagan rather than Christian.  In fact, the name “Easter” is derived directly from the name “Ishtar”, a Babylonian goddess.  The holiday originally commemorated “the resurrection of one of their (Babylonians) gods that they called ‘Tammuz’, who was believed to be the only begotten son of the moon-goddess and the sun-god”.[23]   In addition, the customs that most people practice for this holiday also have roots in the original pagan version of this holiday.[24]  In the New Age Religion Easter is likely going to commemorate “resurrection out of matter into Spirit, which makes one a liberated Master”.[25]

• Wesak: This is top holiday of Buddhism because followers consider this to be the birthday of Buddha.  For New Agers this is a festival where spiritual energy is sent from the Shamballa (the new age spiritual center) throughout the earth.   

• Festival of Goodwill: This is a festival dedicated to the reappearance of Maiterya.  On this day the New Age followers from around the world get together to meditate and to recite the Great Invocation which is a prayer created by Djwhal Khul to call on Maitreya to come.  According to Bailey, this day will be “a day whereon the spiritual and divine nature of mankind will be recognized”.[26]

 

Although the festivals outside the major three festivals are considered lesser ones, they are still likely going to have a place in the New Age Religion: “The remaining full moons will constitute lesser festivals but will be recognized to be also of vital importance. They will establish the divine attributes in the consciousness of man, just as the major festivals establish the three divine aspects”.[27]

 

Idol Worship

Revelation 13:14-15 tells us that the False Prophet will require people to make images of the Antichrist to worship.

• Rev 13:14  And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
• Rev 13:15  And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

 

Benjamin Creme, the official spokesmen for Maitreya, falsely claims that Maitreya will not be a religious figure who will be the object of worship.  Instead, Creme and other New Age writers present Maitreya as a benevolent teacher who will shun the worship of the masses.  In fact, Creme quotes Maitreya claiming that he does not want to be worshipped and wants to be regarded as being on the same level as the people of Earth: “He has said: Do not worship Me. If you worship Me you are putting yourself below Me, whereas you are on the same level”.[28]  This is simply a lie given by Maitreya and the forces of darkness.  The Book of Revelation and 2 Thessalonians make it clear that Antichrist will demand the world to worship him.

• Rev 13:4  And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?

•  2Th 2:3  Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
• 2Th 2:4  Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

 

Initiation and the Mark of the Beast

The False Prophet will force followers of the New Age Religion to get a special mark on their right hand or forehead.  Although the mark will enable a person to conduct transactions, a person could get by with having beast’s number or the name of the beast.

• Rev 13:16  And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
• Rev 13:17  And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. 
• Rev 13:18  Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

 

The fact that a person can also buy or sell by using the name of the beast or the number of the beast shows that people do not obtain the Mark of the Beast so that they buy or sell.  The Mark of the Beast’s main purpose is to serve as a way for people to prove that their allegiances lie with Antichrist.  In other words, accepting the Mark of the Beast means that you have declared yourself a follower of the Antichrist and thereby an opponent of God.

 

New Age sources also provide us with clues about what process people likely need to undergo in order to receive the Mark of the Beast.  These sources indicate that people will need to participate in a special initiation process which will stealthily link their loyalty to Satan before they can receive the mark. 

·         According to Creme, the initiation process will be based on the process used by secret societies like the Freemasons: "Through the MASONIC tradition and certain esoteric groups will come the process of INITIATION.  In this coming age millions of people will take the first and second initiation through these transformed and purified institutions." [29]

o    The initiation ceremonies will take place at Masonic buildings and churches buildings.[30] 

·         Barbara Marx Hubbard, one of the leading New Age writers, suggests that each initiate will receive an easily visible mark at this ceremony: “Each shall be “sealed” with the seal of the living God. This means that they shall be marked, visibly identified, first to themselves, then to others”. This means that their inner eye in the forehead will be fully opened by this touch, henceforth awakening them from the womb of self-centeredness”.[31]

 

The New Age Religion initiation process is likely an evil process since the Mark of the Beast is likely going to be given at it.  This conclusion is further supported by the highest level New Age writers.  New Age author David Spangler suggested that this initiation can be called the “Luciferic Initiation”: “(He is) the great initiator.... Lucifer works within each of us to bring us to wholeness, and as we move into a New Age ... each of us in some way is brought to that point which I term the Luciferic Initiation ... for it is an initiation into the New Age”.[32]  Bailey claimed that the initiation process will make people esoterically “born again” in the human heart.[33]  Finally, Bailey provided further support to this conclusion when she wrote that the initiation process causes initiates to experience and express 666:  “In an ancient book on numbers the INITIATE is defined as 'the one who has experienced and expressed 666 and found it naught; who has dropped the 6 and become the 66, and thus found himself on the Way; later, again, he drops the 6 and becomes the PERFECTED 6-FORM, the instrument and expression of spirit”.[34]

• You can read more about the Mark of the Beast at the following link.

 

The possession of the Mark of the Beast is most likely is going be the factor that distinguishes between those who belong in the New Age and who does not belong.  People who refuse to accept the mark will are likely going to be demonized as those who “embody the spirit of exclusiveness and separateness”. [35]

 

Those who refuse to take Mark of the Beast will be killed by a variety of ways.  These people will be systematically eliminated by governments, die from inability to buy food, from natural death, and by the “wild beasts of the earth”.[36]

• Rev 6:7  And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
• Rev 6:8  And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

 

One major reason there may be so many people willing to help the Antichrist and the False Prophet kill non-initiates is that people may become demon possessed after taking the initiation ceremony.  Share International, the official website of Creme, describes the completion of obtaining a higher level of initiation as taking another step towards greater ability to do work to fulfill the plan, or in other words, an increase in the degree of demonic possession: “Each stage confers on the initiate a deeper understanding of the meaning and purpose of God's Plan, a fuller awareness of his/her part in that Plan, and an increasing ability to work consciously and intelligently towards its fulfillment”.[37]

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