And many false prophets will rise and deceive many ... For false
christs and false prophets will arise and show great signs and wonders
so as to deceive, if possible, even the elect. See, I have told you
beforehand.
Matthew 24:11, 25.
Anti-Life Philosophy.
Every person should be free to pursue his or her version of
spirituality. After all, every person IS God.
Contrary to what far-Right religious control freaks say, the various
tools of the "New Age" movement are useful and necessary for
self-empowerment and spiritual development. The only reason that
conservative Christians oppose the use of such empowering techniques is
that they want to control everyone's lives.
The Deadliness of the "New
Age."
Whom the mad would destroy, they first make gods.
British journalist Bernard Levin.[1]
A Nationwide Loss of Faith.
The United States is now one of the most unchurched countries in the
world. In fact, almost all "Westernized" nations seem to have lost their
faith in Jesus Christ.
Our nation's commitment to God is shallower now that it has been at any
time since its founding more than two centuries ago. Through Modernism, we
have rejected God and set ourselves up in His place.
However, man is essentially a spiritual being. He needs to
believe in a supernatural force. As St. Augustine once remarked, "There is
a God-shaped hole in every person."
As Christians know, Satan is powerful, but lacks imagination. All of
his evil works consist of warping and perverting what God originally
created to be entirely good.
So Satan has eagerly stepped into our nation's painful spiritual vacuum
with a bewildering plethora of "New Age" beliefs and practices: A
"counterfeit Christianity."
The "New Age" Fills the Gap.
The "New Age" movement is an enduring facet of American culture. We
spend billions of dollars every year on fortune telling, Tarot
cards, astrology, channeling, cryptozoology, and hundreds of other dubious
and ineffective methods and trinkets.
Even if all this is a waste of good money, it all seems so
harmless like a hobby, perhaps. At least it keeps people busy and content.
At least it provides some semblance of spirituality.
Or is it so harmless?
The "New Age" movement is unquestionably the 'glue' that holds the core
of the anti-life movement and its many components together. It is perhaps
Satan's most devastatingly effective weapon, because it is the antithesis
of Christianity. Christians allow themselves to be controlled and led by
the supernatural in their case, Jesus Christ. "New Age" devotees, on the
other hand, seek the opposite: To control the supernatural.
What "New Age" practitioners do not know, of course, is that it is
Satan who is doing the controlling. And the reward he has in store for his
slavish followers is too hideous to contemplate.
Who Is Behind the "New Age?"
Satan, also known as Lucifer, or "Light-Bearer," was the most beautiful
and intelligent Angel of all before he was cast out of Heaven for trying
to take God's place. He is still trying to take God's place by
adopting his most seductive mask in the form of the "New Age"
Movement.
This fact is actually acknowledged by leading "New Age"
practitioners.
Many New Age religions envision the coming of a last and greatest
"Christ" (an 'Avatar'), named the Lord Maitreya, who will fulfill all of
the prophecies of all religions for a savior, teacher, and prophet, and
who will solve every environmental, social, religious, racial, and
economic problem in the world, thereby leading us from the shortsighted,
unfulfilled "age of Pisces" into the enlightened and divine "age of
Aquarius." Amazingly, most 'major' New Age religions fully recognize that
Lord Maitreya will be completely under the control of a being called
Lucifer.
However, New Agers simply do not recognize that Lucifer is in reality
Satan. Alice A. Bailey of the Theosophical Society describes Lucifer as
"... the oversoul of the great collective consciousness of mankind." David
Spangler, in his book Reflections on the Christ, says that "Lucifer
works with each one of us, to bring us to wholeness, as we move into the
New Age," and that "It is necessary to take a Luciferian Initiation if one
is to enter the New Age alive."
This could not be a better description of the activities of the
Antichrist.
Discerning the Source.
Christians must remember that, despite his great power, Satan is only a
created creature, and thus cannot create an original entity on his own. He
operates by perverting the work of God. As just one example, Satan took
God's beautiful creation of sex and has twisted it into a thousand cruel
and ugly perversions: Pedophilia, fetishes, homosexuality, pornography,
artificial contraception, abortion, and bestiality. He is doing the same
thing to the Christian religion with his New Age perversions.
The central objection Christians have to the "New Age" movement is the
result of a simple and logical three-step exercise in the process of
elimination. There is no "New Age" practitioner who has ever been able to
refute this classically simple logic. Instead, they employ torrents of
verbiage and Newspeak to try and confuse the issue.
WHY THE "NEW AGE" MOVEMENT IS SATANIC: THE SIMPLE THREE-STEP
PROCESS OF ELIMINATION
(1) There are only two ultimate sources of supernatural power:
GOD and SATAN.
(2) The "New Age" movement involves supernatural phenomenon which
are, quite obviously, not of God.
(3) Therefore, by simple elimination, all "New Age" supernatural
phenomena must be Satanic.
Conclusion.
There can be no doubt whatever that the Devil is the motivating force
behind the "New Age" movement. This seductive philosophy has lured
millions of one-time Evangelicals and Catholics into its sticky trap, from
which there seems to be no escape. Once a person has tasted total freedom
and has gained 'permission' to construct his own reality at will, the idea
of organized religion and the concept of any type of moral or ethical
limitation is repugnant.
In short, the "New Age" movement is nothing more or less than ancient
Paganism repackaged in a much more attractive and seductive format.
The True Nature of the "New
Age" Movement.
You too shall be as God; you surely shall never die.
Satan speaking to Eve in Genesis 3:4-5.
The Bottom Line.
The true essence of the "New Age" movement can be summarized quite
simply;
EVERYONE CAN CREATE THEIR OWN REALITY, BECAUSE EVERYONE IS THEIR OWN
GOD.
Jay Rosen, media critic and Professor of Journalism at New York
University, summed up the essential essence of the "New Age" when he said
that "The New Age is just another name by which the hollowness of
modernity has been known. People want instant and total change, and New
Age scams from psychics to astrologers flourish by letting people believe
they can change themselves without effort or discipline. They tell people
what they want to hear and give them vague advice they're already
predisposed to follow."
According to Harvard theologian Harvey Cox, "The New Age Movement is a
kind of yuppie religious expression in which you can have everything
without any discomfort or pain or inconvenience."
In summary, if everyone is God, moral standards of any kind have
been totally eliminated, and nothing at all can be called 'wrong.'
Therefore, the person who immerses him/herself in the New Age movement is
making an attempt at eradicating a deep-seated guilt.
For a detailed description of the manner in which guilt tortures and
drives the Neoliberal, see Chapter 2 in Volume I, "The Anti-Life
Mentality."
'Theology' On the Loose.
Much of the "New Age" theological mishmash is rooted in Hinduism, which
teaches that God is not a person, but a principle, an idea, or an emotion.
People are simply points in a circle, because there is really no Creation,
and we are all striving for nothingness. There is no reality outside of
us, and so all reality exists inside us. Hindu ethics will tolerate
no absolutes; everything depends on the situation.[2] There is no such
thing as personal or individual sin, but only collective sin that is
causing hunger or pollution or racism. This, of course, frees the
individual from any responsibility for cleaning up his own life.
Hinduism and Buddhism teach reincarnation, by which a soul is reborn
again and again as it tries to 'work off' bad karma so that it may
eventually cease to exist and join the 'cosmic nothingness' of
Nirvana.
Christianity, of course, is antithetical to the New Age, because its
commandments and tenets are 'restrictive' and 'hold people back' from
'attaining their full potential' in the spiritual evolutionary
process.
Of course, some parts of the "New Age" movement borrow heavily from
Christianity in particular the Old Testament but not in order to build on
the Bible's teachings, but to warp them. The results can be spectacularly
silly.
Many "New Age" practitioners assert that Jesus earned His divinity (or
"Christship") as a guru who attained near-perfection though Transcendental
Meditation but that He is nowhere near as 'perfect' as Buddha or
Mohammed.
As one example, the Spring 1989 issue of The World Peace
Agenda postulated that Jehovah, or "commander," had a brother
Jehovah. In fact, an entire tribe having this name had Mars as a
residence for some time during this period of the Old Testament. The
entity known as Jesus was essentially from the Intergalactic Space
Command, or the Max Pax the Galactic Man. These entities basically
being high vibration creations, entered into the realm of Terrestia from
the area of Celestria. Jesus moved through the various vibratory planes
until he was born as a physical being upon this earth ... Essentially,
Jehovah was a renegade from the outer space connections
...
Objections from the Skeptics.
Christians aren't the only persons who object to the "New Age"
philosophy.
Since its inception in 1976, the 600-member Committee for the
Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSI-COP), meeting
periodically at the University of Chicago and other campuses, has
described the entire body of "New Age" beliefs as "bunk," "rubbish,"
"idiocy," and "nonsensical drivel."[3] The CSI-COP publishes the
Skeptical Inquirer, which relentlessly pans not only the "New Age"
beliefs, but most Christian tenets as well in other words, anything that
cannot be proven by science.
There's One Born Every
Minute.
When the need is strong, there are those who will believe
anything.
American writer Arnold Lobel.[1]
Diversity of the Movement.
The "New Age" movement is definitely a business, and a very lucrative
one at that for those who have the right words, attitude and appearance.
Curiously, many of the same people who ridicule those who contribute to
televangelists will turn right around and spend hundreds or even thousands
of dollars on various pieces of useless "New Age" junk.
People in this country spend $100 million annually on chunks of plain
quartz whose geometry they believe has healing and prophetic power.
Americans also annually spend $300 million on "New Age" videos and tapes.
Shirley MacLaine cleared $1,500,000 on her 1986 15-city tour an average of
about $8,000 per 'working' hour.
The "New Age" movement is not restricted to a small bunch of unwashed
hairies living in the Oregon hills it is far more pervasive than most
people think. Most individuals have heard of many of the terms listed in
Figure 130-1, all of which are part of the "New Age" language and
culture.
FIGURE 130-1 A PARTIAL LIST OF NEW AGE PRACTICES, PRACTITIONERS,
AND ORGANIZATIONS
Alpha brain wave training Lifespring Astral (out-of-body)
experiences Luciferian initiations B'ahai Faith Shirley
MacLain Alice A. Bailey (Theosophical Society) Meditations
(certain programs) Biofeedback Edgar Mitchell (Institute of Noetic
Sciences) Biorhythms Myers-Brigg Type Indicator
Workshops Helena Petrovna Blavatsky Native American sweat lodges
(reconstructions) (founder of the Theosophical
Society) Neuro-Linguistic Programming (Enneagram) Breathing
regimens (certain programs) "New Age" diets, real estate, and
travel Channeling "New Age" management training courses Church
Universal and Triumphant (CUT) Ouija boards Color
healing Out-of body experiences, Cryptozoology including
near-death experiences (NDEs) Crystals and other shapes used for
"empowering" "Past life regression analysis" Dream
Workshops Positive thinking (certain programs) Dungeons and
Dragons game Elizabeth Clare Prophet Erhardt Sensitivity Training
(est) Forum Seminars (Church Universal and Triumphant) Marilyn
Ferguson (biofeedback) Psychics and 'psychic surgeons' Flotation
tanks Pyramidology Focusing Reflexology Fortune
telling Rolfing Hare Krishna Rosicrucianism Holistic health
therapy Ruth Banks' Quest Schools
(Superlearning) Homeopathy Scientology Horoscopes Silva Mind
Control Barbara Marx Hubbard David Spangler ('Luciferian
Initiations') (New Testament evolutionary) Spirit guides Human
Potential Seminars Tarot card reading Hypnosis and subliminal
training tapes UFOlogy Institute of Noetic Sciences Unitarian
Universalist Church "Journey to the Self" Seminars
Ancient 'Wisdom?'
The "New Age" movement is a vast and nebulous conglomeration of Eastern
religion, magic, warped Christianity, and, rarely, good old-fashioned
horse sense brightly packaged and given a jawbreaker name. It is
inevitable, therefore, that some of the antics of the "New Age" gurus and
their followers would be hilarious and highly entertaining.
J.Z. Knight, a Yelm, Washington housewife who breeds Arabian horses,
has an interesting and very lucrative sideline; she "channels" the
thoughts, ideas and philosophy of 'Ramtha,' a 35,000 year old warrior who
lived in the lost city of Atlantis. Ramtha has even dictated a book
through Knight entitled I Am Ramtha, appropriately printed by
Beyond Words Publishing. Knight has made an estimated $5,000,000 from
people who pay $150 per session to hear the 'wisdom' of Ramtha, who
instructs them to pray for mink coats, BMWs, summer homes in the Hamptons,
and cabs during the rush hour.[4]
Gerry Bowman of Los Angeles channels John the Evangelist on radio KIEV
promptly at midnight every Sunday night. Another channeler, Jo Ann Karl,
speaks for the Archangel Gabriel. Karl also claims that she was married to
St. Peter. Her views on life with the Apostles are as follows: "We
traveled widely with Jesus, teaching with Him. After He was crucified, we
continued to teach and travel for several more years, until we were caught
by the Romans. Peter was crucified, and I was raped, pilloried, and thrown
to the lions. Now I understand why I've always been afraid of large
animals."[4]
Jimmy Hoffa, being channeled by an Austin resident, described his
untimely demise: "They cold-cocked me with something and then dumped me
into a junk car compactor. I finally landed in a smelter, and that is one
hell of a way to be cremated."[4]
In June of 1988, tens of thousands of "New Age" devotees gathered at
eleven "critical points" on the earth's surface and chanted and sang for
the purpose of propelling the earth and all of its people "to the next
step in evolution." Many people, including ultraliberal Garry Trudeau of
"Doonesbury" fame, satirically referred to the event as the "Moronic
Convergence."
Unfortunately, despite the Convergence, we are apparently still mired
in our current lowly stage of evolution. However, the "New Agers" will
certainly try again at another auspicious time.
Waiting for Better Times.
Some of the concrete manifestations of the "New Age" movement are
physically bizarre and not always innocuous.
Take the American Cryonics Society as a case in point. This group
believes that death is only a temporary inconvenience, and that the body
(or parts of it) may be quick-frozen like chicken drumsticks, to be
revived in some far and better future, where it may be defrosted,
repaired, and cured of whatever killed it in the first place.
Sometimes the "cryophiles" get carried away in their eagerness to wake
up in the year 3000. In one instance, six members of the Alcor Life
Extension Foundation in Riverside, California were questioned in 1988
after they cut off and froze one client's head before she had legally been
declared dead![5]
Leaders of the Cryonics Society envision finding large structures (say,
abandoned Titan missile silos) that could be filled with liquid nitrogen
and "suspension members" (i.e., frozen heads) that would be revived at
some future date. Says Jerry White, founder of the Cryonics Society, "I
was envisioning these big silos just full of liquid nitrogen, the liquid
nitrogen generators busy 24 hours a day just spewing stuff in there, and
you could see thousands of patients in there, see them bobbing
around."[5]
What a perfectly charming scene!
Future Schlock.
Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an
appeal to the unintelligible.
H.L. Mencken.[1]
Futurology is a legitimate science, now employed by sociologists,
demographers, economists, and many others to forecast probabilities that
certain events involving society will or will not happen at some time in
the future.
All of us make forecasts about the future every day as we go about our
lives. For example, we forecast that all of the members of our family will
live another week when we fill up a shopping cart at the local
Safeway.
There is a difference between forecasting, which implies a specific
probability, and prediction, which is an absolute statement about the
future. The difference between the two is illustrated below;
Prediction: "Alleged sex offender Senator Bob Packwood will be
recalled by 62 percent of Oregon voters in a special election."
Forecast: "There is a 60 to 65 percent probability that alleged sex
offender Bob Packwood will avoid a special election entirely by using
his considerable influence, by laying low, and by waiting out the
opposition."
There is currently a large body of 'seers,' astrologists, and
self-proclaimed 'experts' who predict with absolute confidence that a
certain event will or will not happen on or by a certain specific date.
While we can generally discount these predictions, they are very valuable
in one sense.
We know that most of the people making these predictions are extremely
liberal. We also know that people tend to dream about and project into the
future their own ideal world. Therefore, we might reasonably assume that
the body of predictions that these people produce accurately reflect the
Neoliberal's idea of an "ideal world."
In order to give an idea of what this "ideal world" will look like,
Figure 130-2 lists some predictions, all made in the years 1970 to 1980.
This list is valuable in two respects; it lets us take a peek at the
Neoliberal's ideal world, and, for those predictions which have already
been proven wrong, it shows us just how undependable (and amusing) such
predictions are.[6]
FIGURE 130-2 SOME "NEW AGE" PREDICTIONS MADE DURING THE PERIOD
1970 TO 1980
1973: Paul Ehrlich predicts that 65 million Americans will die
of hunger by 1985.
1977: Billy Carter wins acclaim for his sensitive portrayal of
a priest in a motion picture.
1977: General Motors introduces a car ("The Thoughtmobile")
that is directed by the driver's thoughts.
1977: Red Foxx becomes an evangelist.
1979: Muhammad Ali is elected to the United States Congress
(note that 1979 is not even an election year)!
1979: Glenda Jackson wins an Oscar for her portrayal of
transsexual Renee Richards.
1979: President Carter is seriously injured in a hang-gliding
accident.
1979: Pope John Paul II visits Disney World.
1983: Wardell Pomeroy, author of the pornographic sex
education texts Boys and Sex and Girls and Sex, predicts
that the abortion fight is decisively won by the "pro-choice" side.
1988: A United States first nuclear strike against the Soviet
Union kills or injures 100 million persons.
1988: Terrorist nuclear threat against a large city becomes a
reality.
1988: The first human clone is produced by nuclear
transplantation, fertilization outside the uterus, and surrogate
motherhood by a human, monkey, or artificial uterus.
1990: Due to the increasing severity of the food shortage, the
following will be a typical menu;
Slug Soup Wasp Grubs Fried in the Comb Termites
Bantu Moths Sauteed in Butter New Carrots with Wireworm
Sauce Fricasseed Chicken with Chrysalides Cauliflower Garnished
with Caterpillars Slag Beetle Larvae on Toast Chocolate Chirpies
1992: 3-1 odds the Federal Equal Rights Amendment will become
law [fat chance]!
1992: LSD guru Timothy Leary predicts that the entire world
will be Communist, except for the United States, Canada, and Australia
[even fatter chance]!
1992: Albert Ellis, author of Sex Without Guilt,
predicts that conservative churches will collapse unless they liberalize
their attitudes toward sex [c'mon, guys]!
1995: Widespread compulsory birth control in many nations.
2000: The PLANNED PLANETHOOD (!) movement will triumph over
all other systems of thought.
2000: Gene mapping will allow parents to deliberately conceive
a child to their own specifications.
2000: The abortion battle is finally resolved by embryo
transfer to artificial uteruses for full-term gestation.
2000: The control of conception will be removed from personal
choice. Males are sterilized at age 14 after depositing a semen sample
in the frozen gamete bank. Conception requires approval of a state or
federal committee, which first investigates the genetic health of the
two proposed genetic parents and licenses conception.
2000: Henry Kissinger is elected to the United States Senate
from Michigan.
2000: Johnny Carson becomes NBC's chairman of the board.
2005: Human parthenogenesis (cloning), or reproduction from an
unfertilized egg, is widespread.
2010: The 'disease' of aging is cured.
2010: Artificial insemination is widely used to produce
genetically superior offspring Margaret Sanger's dream of a "race of
thoroughbreds" finally becomes a reality.
2020: Women finally achieve full equality with men through
ectogenesis (gestation in artificial wombs), and the elimination of
menstruation. If this happens, of course, women will become men
by shedding their unique characteristics!
2030: A ONE-WORLD GOVERNMENT IS ESTABLISHED.
Reference: David Wallechinsky and Amy and
Irving Wallace. The Book of Predictions. New York: William Morrow
and Company, 1980, 513 pages.
Notice that this is more a "wish list" by various Neoliberal activists
than serious predicting.
If Men Could Get Pregnant
...
IF YOU ARE A BIGOT: RACIALLY, RELIGIOUSLY, ETHNICALLY, SEXUALLY, OR
OTHERWISE FUCK OFF!
Sign on the door of Manhattan's Magickal Childe "New Age" store.[7]
Abortion As Sacrament.
All longtime pro-life activists have seen the tired old Neofeminist
bumper sticker that snivels:
IF MEN COULD GET PREGNANT ABORTION WOULD BE A
SACRAMENT
Perhaps this is true, because women can get pregnant, and, to
some of them, abortion is literally a sacrament!
Abortion is one of the many areas where the anti-life movement and the
"New Age" practically movement coincide. One prime example (but by no
means unusual) was a detailed description of an abortion 'liturgy' by
Rebecca Altafut in the February 26, 1986 issue of the New Haven
Advocate.
This essay, entitled "Abortion With Dignity," relates that Altafut gets
pregnant, but she and her lover are not ready to raise a child. Therefore,
she details a five-step process for procuring an abortion with religious
dignity.
The first step is to ask the unborn baby if he or she doesn't mind
being aborted (no, I am not making this up)! This must be done with
the utmost seriousness. Curiously, unborn babies seem to be remarkably
easy to get along with, because they never seem to forego the intensely
religious experience of being disemboweled, burned, and decapitated.
Altafut's preborn was no exception. She says that "I realized: Unborn
Children are very forgiving. I was amazed."
She goes on to describe the "many gifts of abortion," including the
fact that it is sort of a fertility self-test. Another advantage for
Altafut is that "we had no need for birth control" (so much for the
pro-abort theory that absolutely no one uses abortion for birth
control).
The only flaw in the entire sensuous and fulfilling abortion experience
was that they had not been allowed to complete the fifth step of the
abortion liturgy, i.e., " ... to take the fetal tissue home with us to
ritually return it to the water, to a stream we both love well."[8]
Spirit Attractiveness.
It goes without saying that some of the more manipulative anti-life
activists seize on "New Age" concepts to "justify" abortion. After all,
they have no logical arguments to back them up, so they must retreat into
silly "New Age" psychobabble for their last refuge.
For example, Tony Brown, a Black television host, uses the absurd
'logic' spewed forth by Linda Goodman in her book The Secret Codes of
the Universe to support his pro-abortion views; "When a man and a
woman mate, a powerful auric light is sent out into the ethers. If this
mating is a product of pure lust, the color of the aura is rust-red, and
it "attracts" a less-evolved spirit. If a man and woman who love each
other mate (whether married or unmarried), they produce a "love child,"
whose brilliant aura attracts a more developed spirit. Goodman contradicts
herself later on in her book when she says that the fetus is a robot, able
to move but lacking a spirit, so it is not human. It is guided by
"automatic controls," and is not alive until "the instant of the first
breath of life."[9]
Satan's Overt
Troops.
Introduction.
Satan's greatest triumph is unquestionably that we don't believe in him
anymore. Any Catholic or fundamentalist Christian who professes a belief
in Satan or his evil works is, quite simply, laughed at. And so, Lucifer
can continue to destroy souls almost without opposition.
In fact, there are some who believe that a true Christian is defined
not by a profession of belief in Christ but by whether or not the person
also believes in Satan!
There are non-Christians who believe in Satan, however and worship him.
There exist essentially three overlapping "tiers" of Satanists, as
described in the following paragraphs; the 'dabblers,' the 'showmen,' and
the 'heavies,' as described in this section.
The 'Dabblers.'
'Dabblers' are usually young people who seek to rebel against society.
These are the kids who are heavily 'into' Motley Crue, Ozzy Ozborne,
Twisted Sister, and other bands that produce songs with Satanic overtones.
These self-styled Satanic "dabblers" spray-paint slogans everywhere (i.e.,
WASP, "We Are Satan's People"), have drug and sex orgies, and may
sacrifice small animals in crude ceremonies.[10] Many times, their
activities end in suicide. Generally, they are harmless to others as they
slowly destroy themselves.
But some of the "dabblers" reveal the true nature of Satanism as they
slaughter dozens of people;
• Charles Manson, whose Satanic cult ritually killed seven people in
1969;
• David Berkowitz, the self-styled "Son of Sam," who randomly shot
New Yorkers in the head;
• "Night Stalker" Richard Ramirez, killer of 13 in Los Angeles, who
repeatedly shouted "Hail Satan!" during his trial;
• Oklahoman Sean Sellars, who ritually murdered his mother,
stepfather, and a store clerk as sacrifices to Satan in 1985. He wrote
that "Satanism made me a better person. I can kill without remorse, and
I feel no regret or sorrow."
• 17-year old Richard Kasso of Long Island, a member of a Satanic
cult called the Knights of the Black Circle, stabbed another 17-year old
and cut out his eyes in a ritualistic killing.
• Adolfo de Jesus Constanzo, leader of a group of Satan-worshipping
drug traffickers who killed 15 people in hideous rituals in Matamoros,
Mexico.
The 'Showmen.'
The 'showmen' attend organized and publicity-seeking Satanic "churches"
like Anton LaVey's Church of Satan, Michael Aquino's Temple of Set (an
offshoot of the Church of Satan), Our Lady of Endor Coven, the Olphite
Cultus Satanis, the Brotherhood of the Ram, the Satanic Orthodox Church of
Nethilum Rite, and the Process Church of the Final Judgement.[11]
Almost all of these 'churches' are tax-exempt.
Interestingly, they are all pro-abortion.
These "churches" are overtly anti-Christian, and seek to live a
lifestyle opposite that of their perceived "good Christian:" This life
includes Black Masses, blasphemy of every type, and unlimited sexual
indulgence. Father Joseph Brennan, an expert on Satanism, estimates in his
book The Kingdoms of Darkness that there are about 8,000 organized
Satanic covens with approximately 100,000 members in the United
States.
The relationship of these Satanists to the "New Age" Movement is quite
clear; they seek a magical relationship with pre-Christian Pagan gods, as
do many "New Age" practitioners, including Wicca (the so-called 'white
witches'). Like the "New Age" people, they seek personal spiritual power
separate from God.
These "showmen" claim to be law-abiding. If this is true, they are also
relatively harmless, except to themselves and those who are drawn into
their overtly glamorous lifestyle. They also tend to divert attention away
from the "heavy" Satanists, which is the most dangerous group of all.
The 'Heavies.'
The true Satanists are probably derived from a group of wealthy and
powerful international families that have been practicing their 'religion'
for generations. These families breed their own children for sacrifice,
and can conceal their crimes quite adeptly. They deal in extreme hard-core
pornography, particularly "snuff films," where victims are tortured and
murdered on film.
Babies are bred for sacrifice because they are considered to be as
sinless as a person can get, and therefore precious to God. There have
been accounts of witnesses describing such acts of sacrifice. Babies are
sometimes roasted slowly in fires or slowly dismembered and disemboweled.
However, the Satanists take good care to heavily anesthetize the babies
first.
This is certainly more than can be said for the ghoulish fetal organ
harvesters, who avoid anesthetic for the babies because it might 'taint'
the organs or impede the procedure.
The Two General Satanic Philosophies.
Within each of the above three general categories of Satanists are two
philosophies;
(1) The "anti-Christian Satanists," who believe that they may receive
power by appeasing an evil supernatural being through blasphemous
ceremonies and sacrifices that may involve illegal activities, and
(2) Those who believe that Satan is merely a powerful symbol
representing independence from, as one Satanist put it, "... the
stifling dogma, moral codes and injunctions that would serve to inhibit
mankind's personal freedom or evolution."[12]
The latter certainly sounds similar to the philosophy of the Humanists,
doesn't it?
References: The "New Age" Movement.
[1] Quotes are from Jonathon Green. The Cynic's Lexicon. New
York: St. Martin's Press. 1984, 220 pages.
[2] George A. Kendall. "Conference Explains Harms of New Age Movement."
The Wanderer, July 27, 1989, page 1.
[3] Bob Sipchen, Los Angeles Times. "Debunking Those 'New Age'
Notions." The Vancouver [Washington] Columbian, November 20, 1988,
page B1.
[4] Todd Ackerman. "Channeling the Dead for Fun and Profit."
National Catholic Register, January 15, 1989.
[5] Katherine Bishop, New York Times News Service. "Miss the Cryonics
Society Dinner? Try Again in a Few More Centuries." The Oregonian,
January 22, 1989, page E1.
[6] David Wallechinsky and Amy and Irving Wallace. The Book of
Predictions. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1980, 513 pages.
The predictions shown in Figure 130-2 are by Frederick Davies, Shawn
Robbins, and Micki Dahne (1977); Olof Jonsson, Florence Vaty, Jack Gillen,
and Micki Dahne (1979); Paul Ehrlich, founder of Zero Population Growth
and author of The Population Bomb, and Paul Segall of the Bay Area
Cryonics Society (1988); Ronald L. Taylor, author of Butterflies in My
Stomach (1990). Should we anticipate the impending introduction by
McDonalds of the McLocust and the McSlug?; Jimmy the Greek, LSD guru
Timothy Leary, and Albert Ellis, author of Sex Without Guilt
(1992). Notice how ultraliberals make their wish lists into predictions of
the future, especially with regards to sexual morals. Judith Wurtman
(1995); Dan Lundberg, G. Harry Stein, Robert Francoeur, author of
Learning to Become a Sexual Person and Hot and Cool Sex,
John Catchings, and Frederick Davies (2000); Jerrold S. Maxmen (2005);
Robert Truax and Jerrold S. Maxmen (2010); and Amory and Hunter Lovins
(2020).
[7] Described in John Wauck. "Paganism, American Style." National
Review, March 19, 1990, pages 43 and 44.
[8] Rebecca Altafut's "abortion ceremony" is described in David H.
Andrusko. "The Indignity of Abortion." National Right to Life News,
April 10, 1986, pages 2 and 9.
[9] Written in the Portland [Oregon] Skanner, August 30, 1989.
From Linda Goodman. The Secret Codes of the Universe. New York: St.
Martins Press, 1986.
[10] Thomas Case. "Lucifer Rising." Fidelity Magazine, May 1989,
pages 16 and 17.
[11] Robert J. Hutchinson. "Satanism in America: Reality or Hype?"
Catholic Twin Circle, September 10, 1989 pages 10 to 12.
[12] Rex Diablos Church, a member of Anton LaVey's Church of Satan,
quoted in Carmel Finley. "Adherent Says Too Many 'Satanists' Have it
Wrong." The Oregonian, August 13, 1989. Page C7. Also see Dana
Tims. "Satanism in Oregon: Officials Measure the Threat it Poses." The
Oregonian, August 13, 1989. Pages C1 and C7.
References: The "New Age" Movement.
Russell Chandler. Understanding the New Age. 360
pages, hardcover. Order from Ignatius Press, 15 Oakland Avenue, Harrison,
New York 10528. The religion editor for the Los Angeles Times summarizes
the various truth, health, success, and future-oriented aspects of the
"New Age" movement. A balanced study based on interviews with leading "New
Age" proponents and Christian thinkers.
Christopher Dawson. Christianity and the New Age.
Order from Keep the Faith, 810 Belmont Avenue, Post Office Box
8261, North Haledon, New Jersey 07508, telephone: (201) 423-5395. One of
Europe's foremost theologians describes how the "New Age" is leading us to
destruction, and proves that our only salvation lies in Jesus Christ.
Father Anthony Delaporte. The Devil Does He Exist and What Does
He Do?. Order from Keep the Faith, 810 Belmont Avenue, Post
Office Box 8261, North Haledon, New Jersey 07508, telephone: (201)
423-5395. The truth about Satan, his goals, his methods, and his many
great (evil) achievements in today's world. This book provides many
answers to the questions that involve our society's steady
disintegration.
Dave Hunt and T.A. McMahon. The Seduction of Christianity:
Spiritual Discernment in the Last Days. Order from Harvest
House, 1075 Arrowsmith, Eugene, Oregon 97402, telephone: 1-800-547-8979.
Reviewed on page 5 of the May/June 1986 issue of the National Federation
for Decency Journal. The New Age is just the old paganism
repackaged, and now it is invading the churches! It has gotten so bad that
some people don't know what Christianity even is anymore. Read about the
subtle compromises made by Church leaders and their practice of New Age
beliefs in the place of real Christianity. The book describes some of
these practices, including holistic healing, inner healing, positive
thinking exercises, and many other. A very controversial book, but highly
recommended by many true Christian leaders.
Father James J. LeBar. Cults, Sects, and the New Age.
Our Sunday Visitor, 1989. 288 pages. Order from Catholic
Treasures, 626 Montana Street, Monrovia, California 91016, telephone:
(818) 359-4893. Reviewed by Marlene Maloney in the July-August 1989 issue
of Fidelity Magazine. Describes how cults and "New Age" religions
incorporate some of the trappings of Christianity in order to deceive the
public, the unchurched, and believing Christians. Special attention is
given to The Way International, Scientology, ECKANKAR, the Hare Krishnas,
Transcendental Meditation, and others. Also addresses Satanism in
detail.
Christopher Nugent. The Masks of Satan: The Demonic in
History. Westminster, Maryland: Christian Classics, 1989. The
author traces the history of demon worship and shows how Satan hides
behind many attractive guises in order to accomplish his goals. He also
documents how evil has crawled out of the fetid swamp it inhabits to
become official state policy even today, particularly with regards to
abortion and the other central 'life issues.'
Rosemary Radford Reuther. Womanguides: Readings Toward a Feminist
Theology. Beacon Press, 1985. This tract, by one of the
leading 'thinkers' of the Neofeminist movement, competently ties together
the New Age religion, Neofeminism, and Neoliberalism to demonstrate how a
featureless moral landscape may be produced by combining all of these
evils.
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. The Liberal Crack-Up. New York
City: Simon & Schuster, 1984. 256 pages. Reviewed by Victor Gold on
page 35 of the March 1985 Conservative Digest. Tyrrell's thesis:
"New Age Liberalism is no longer the sensible, tolerant, highly principled
body of thought that liberalism was in decades past. Sometime in the 1960s
or early 1970s, it cracked up into a riot of enthusiasms, usually
contradictory, always extremist, often non compos mentis."
Paul C. Vitz, Ph.D. Psychology As Religion. William
B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 255 Jefferson Avenue SE, Grand Rapids,
Michigan 49503. 1977, reprint 1982. 150 pages. Order from Trinity
Communications, Post Office Box 3610, Manassas, Virginia 22110, telephone:
(703) 369-2429. Reviewed by Naomi King in an article entitled "With the
Self at the Center, Psychology Replaces Religion," on pages 20 and 21 of
the February 1984 ALL About Issues. The author analyzes the
psychology and methods of the "New Age" gurus who encourage people to make
themselves into God.
Dietrich von Hildebrand. The Devastated Vineyard.
Order from Keep the Faith, 810 Belmont Avenue, Post Office Box
8261, North Haledon, New Jersey 07508, telephone: (201) 423-5395. The
author describes in harrowing detail the destruction of the Roman Catholic
Church in America and in Europe, and the methods of infiltration and
subversion now being used to confuse and paralyze all conservative
Christian churches in our country today.
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