The Age of Aquarius & More!
The Age of Aquarius & More!
There is a confusing pseudo-religion all around us, and many people are unaware of it.
We live in a confusing world. The vast majority of people are perplexed as the concept of right and wrong is a blurred image. Known as moral relativism or situational ethics, it has infested most religious denominations. This confusion is a symptom of a much larger problem, and many mainline religions embrace it. There is one belief system that is the quintessential example.
There is a confusing pseudo-religion all around us, and many people are unaware of it. Known as the New Age movement, this worldview claims that all religions lead to “God.” Even people who generally know better will say that this concept is good — until they know the whole story. The New Age movement incorporates a selective assortment of precepts from many religions. However, as tolerant as the New Age followers claim to be, they disdain God’s inspired word (the Bible). Orthodox Christianity is not welcome into the New Age fold (thank you). Nevertheless, sad to say, several Protestant and Roman Catholic congregations have been infested with New Age thinking.
While the New Age movement is not an official religion, followers do indeed practice many “spiritual” rituals. It is a polytheist (many gods) or monotheistic (one God) scheme under the guise of a mystic system. Most New Age followers believe that “all is one” (e.g., the earth is part of God to worship) concerning the monotheistic worldview. There is one big “I” and people can only think that they are individuals. While there may be no central body directing the New Age movement today, it has a core belief consisting of a philosophy (or theology) that states that everything is an illusion. Every substance is equal, and what we experience is only a thought. That is the opposite of Judeo-Christian theology.
While touted as “new,” nothing is updated or modern about this “religion.” The New Age philosophy is a modern reincarnation of many old practices such as enlightenment, “spiritual growth,” Gnostics,1 Witchcraft, palm reading, card reading, numerology, etc. Some New Age followers also communicate with the dead, a practice known as necromancy. The Bible demands we stay away from New Age as all associated practices are forbidden (Leviticus 20:6; Deuteronomy 18:9-11; and Acts 19:19). Nevertheless, the New Age gurus have successfully injected their pseudo-religion into many aspects of society. For example:
It is acceptable for students and teachers to openly proclaim their New Age beliefs. There are even classes that instruct students about the wonders of astrology.
Corporations subscribe to weird pseudo-religious concepts to build their business.
Television shows and movies often inject New Age concepts into the script, while some are all about spiritual mysticism.
The Public Broadcasting System, which is dependent on taxpayer funds, often sponsors feel-good self-healing New Age gurus on its programming.
There are several well-known New Age advocates, with Shirley MacLaine being one of the more well-known among this group. We all have heard the song “Age of Aquarius,” and it is worth mentioning the 1980 book by Marilyn Ferguson called “The Aquarian Conspiracy.” This book is not a creed reporting on a plot of individuals; it is a treatise proudly declaring the infiltration of the New Age worldview into society:
A leaderless but powerful network is working to bring about a radical change in the United States. Its members have broken with certain key elements of Western thought, and they may even have broken continuity with history.
This network is the Aquarian Conspiracy. It is a conspiracy without a political doctrine. With conspirators who seek power only to disperse it, and whose strategies are pragmatic, even scientific, but whose perspective sounds so mystical that they hesitate to discuss it. Activists ask different kinds of questions, challenging the establishment from within.
Broader than reform, deeper than revolution, this benign conspiracy for a new human agenda has triggered the most rapid cultural realignment in history. The great shuddering, irrevocable shift overtaking us is not a new political, religious, or philosophical system. It is a new mind — the ascendance of a startling worldview that gathers into its framework breakthrough science and insights from earliest recorded thought.2
While many groups or organizations have adopted the New Age movement, there are a few that stand out:
The Theosophical Society was founded in 1875 by occultist Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. The Theosophical Society exists to this day, and it continues to promote the works of Blavatsky. While not known to have been involved in illegal activities, the Theosophical teachings are of the “dark side.”
Alice Bailey, a disciple of Blavatsky, started the Arcane School and Lucis Trust circa 1922.3 It is in her 24 books, Beacon magazine, Triangles, and the Arcane School, where students and followers face inculcation in what Bailey describes as the “Ageless Wisdom.” The Arcane School graduated 20,000 graduates by 1954, and it continues to be the principal organ for New Age disciples. Lucis Trust teaches the work of an “Ascended Master” that worked “through” Alice Bailey for some 30 years. As odd as the Lucis Trust Publishing Company may be, it is indeed a very influential organization. It is a powerful institution that enjoys “Consultative Status” with the United Nations (UN). It also maintains the “mediation room” at the UN, a weird chapel-like area void of traditional religious symbols but chock full of occult symbols. When (not if) the UN becomes the world government, its established religion will be the New Age.
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Share International is the organization that proclaims the teachings of the “Maitreya,” supposedly one of the “Ascended Masters.” Benjamin Crème is the leader of this organization, and he lectures all over the world. Each month Share International publishes a newsletter with articles about globalist politics to occult phenomena such as UFO sightings.
In addition to the above, hundreds of smaller organizations aspire to the New Age belief system. For those who do not believe that there are such organizations, behold:
It is a well-known fact that the mainstream goes ballistic whenever there is a breach in their worshiped wall of separation between church and state. What is particularly disturbing is that the new gurus never go out of their way to place the same “wall of separation” between the government and the New Age. How duplicitous indeed.
Some writings suggest that much of the New Age is demonic. Log onto any of the above links to look at the source material, and you can judge for yourself.
Back to the future… Circa 2016, the WikiLeaks release of stolen emails belonging to Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta reveals occult depravity. We learned that he got an email invitation from his brother to a “Spirit Cooking dinner” at the home of artist Marina Abramovic. Here’s a “dinner” video of Marina from 1997 and it is a meal fit for Julia Child.
The apologists say this about Maria: “Spirit Cooking actually just involved learning to make soup.” Perhaps this is where Biden and his minions learned alchemy to say the creation of more money will reduce the budget deficit. Here is an interesting comment under the YouTube Video by Kathleen Barrett.
“Spirit Cooking”4 is a term first invented by English writer and ceremonial magician Aleister Crowley. Crowley created spirit cooking as a “sacrament in the religion of Thelema.” Thelema is a religion founded by Crowley that involves the worship of ancient Egyptian deities. Crowley founded it after he was allegedly contacted by a “praeterhuman” or non-corporeal being calling itself Aiwass who dictated to Crowley a text outlining the basis of the Thelema religion. This “religion” is extremely popular with the global elite as well as well-connected celebrities and is easily recognized by the use of the phrase that embodies the philsophical law of Thelema: “do what thou wilt.” Within this context, spirit cooking is an occult performance during which menstrual blood, breast milk, urine, and sperm are used to create a “painting.” In the video, the words written by Abramovic offers the “recipe” for the painting, which is said ritually symbolize the union of man with the microcosm, and macrocosm. It is also used during sex cult rituals and is used as an aphrodisiac recipe by the elite. One of these “recipes” calls for the practitioner to do the following: “with a sharp knife cut deeply into the middle finger of your left hand. Eat the pain.” Is it a coincidence that Podesta emailed his doctor a few days later worried about an infected finger?
The “Q” could not make this stuff up!
For additional reading about the New Age and other cults, the excellent book The Kingdom of The Cults by Walter Martin is highly recommended. It is essential to note that not all use of the term New Age is wrong. For example, Your Author likes some New Age music, and some good organizations use this term in their publications.
In closing, people who desire to worship under the New Age banner are free to do so under the First Amendment. The beauty of the Constitution: the same amendment empowers Your Author to speak his mind about the topic at hand.
Cogent author and publisher, Frederick R. Smith
Gnosticism is an ancient heresy denounced by the early church. This type of religious belief has been dormant but has recently seen some revival and it influences the New Age movement. Gnosticism’s principal feature is the theology that divinity is within all living creatures. The Gnostic Institute of Anthropology advertises: “Man know thyself, and thou wilt know the Gods of the Universe.”
The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s. J.P. Tarcher, Inc. 1980, page 23.
Some writings suggest that Lucis Trust was originally called Lucifer Publishing but later changed its name for obvious reasons.
There is this rebuttal by Art1cM0k3yz: Wrong, and this is why you should proofread everything you read, Aleister Crowley never once mentioned the term “spirit cooking” ever. You guys are all misinterpreting his “Cakes of light.” This “spirit cooking” is just some performance art name it’s nothing serious, you guys need to start thinking about what you read and start checking over it. | Then there is this: Spirit Cooking dinners have been associated with Aleister Crowley’s ceremony for creating Cakes of Light… Dear reader, you decide if it is “nothing serious.”
Anything goes. It’s a world of anti intellectual idiocy—and the intellectuals have gone rogue.