The New Age movement was largely created by the Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin who shaped the Jesuits, Roman Catholicism, and the entire world with his pantheistic spiritualism.
(Pantheism is defined as the doctrine that God is not a personality, but that all laws, forces, manifestations, etc. of the self-existing universe are God.)
It was Jesuit Teilhard de Chardin who wrote incessantly about Omega, and the future of man. He had a spiritualistic pantheistic vision of “the final stages and final state of the earth of man. Teilhard saw all of creation, especially man, converging into the Omega Point, at which “mankind as a whole will leave behind the limitations of time, space and matter. . .” A Path Through Teilhard’s Phenomenon, p. 161 It is this age-old concept of pantheistic spiritualism that has been subtly packaged and developed into a New Age religion. Everything converges into one—good and evil, truth and error, right and wrong.
The term ‘new age’ is derived from astrology. The zodiac which originated in ancient Babylon consists of twelve signs and it takes about 25,000 years for our solar system to move through these star signs.
The new age movement essentially teaches that mankind is moving into an age of enlightenment. The Age of Pisces the fish with its emphasis on formal religion is to be replaced by the Age of Aquarius, or the Age of Enlightenment. Each age covers a period of supposedly two thousand years, and has its own zodiacal sign and planetary force.
Essentially the doctrines of the new age imply that man is inherently divine in a pantheistic sense. Moreover it is implied that the material human element has evolved over successive lives, and that the spiritual element is immortal and coexists with God since time began.
According to new age philosophy, the change from one phase to another occurs under the mediation of enlightened ones who have accumulated the wisdom of the ages. World affairs have ever been run by Ascended Masters who periodically intervene in the earth’s affairs. The new age is awaiting the Maitreya, or the Christ, who will assist mankind in its rebirth. To the Christians, he is to appear as Christ, to Hindus as the Krishna, to Islam as the Iman Madhi, and to the Orient as the Bodhi-sattva. His office is that of World Teacher, and he presides over the destiny of great religions.
The teachings of the New Age are steeped in eastern mysticism and in the occult. It forms part of the revival of the ancient Babylonian hierarchy where enchanters, astrologers and mystics would work alongside Chaldean priests in religious and state matters. When Nebuchadnezzer had his dream he consulted these “wise men” to seek an interpretation:
Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to shew the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king. Daniel 2:
This system of pagan hierarchy was not only confined to Babylon, but was the all pervading system of most pagan cultures. It is appealing to man to have a religion steeped in mysticism and to have diviners and fortune tellers revealing the unknown. This deceptive system even crept into the ranks of the Israelites and this thinking contaminated their own religion. This prompted the prophet Jeremiah to warn his people:
Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon. Jeremiah 27:9
(Pantheism is defined as the doctrine that God is not a personality, but that all laws, forces, manifestations, etc. of the self-existing universe are God.)
It was Jesuit Teilhard de Chardin who wrote incessantly about Omega, and the future of man. He had a spiritualistic pantheistic vision of “the final stages and final state of the earth of man. Teilhard saw all of creation, especially man, converging into the Omega Point, at which “mankind as a whole will leave behind the limitations of time, space and matter. . .” A Path Through Teilhard’s Phenomenon, p. 161 It is this age-old concept of pantheistic spiritualism that has been subtly packaged and developed into a New Age religion. Everything converges into one—good and evil, truth and error, right and wrong.
The term ‘new age’ is derived from astrology. The zodiac which originated in ancient Babylon consists of twelve signs and it takes about 25,000 years for our solar system to move through these star signs.
The new age movement essentially teaches that mankind is moving into an age of enlightenment. The Age of Pisces the fish with its emphasis on formal religion is to be replaced by the Age of Aquarius, or the Age of Enlightenment. Each age covers a period of supposedly two thousand years, and has its own zodiacal sign and planetary force.
Essentially the doctrines of the new age imply that man is inherently divine in a pantheistic sense. Moreover it is implied that the material human element has evolved over successive lives, and that the spiritual element is immortal and coexists with God since time began.
According to new age philosophy, the change from one phase to another occurs under the mediation of enlightened ones who have accumulated the wisdom of the ages. World affairs have ever been run by Ascended Masters who periodically intervene in the earth’s affairs. The new age is awaiting the Maitreya, or the Christ, who will assist mankind in its rebirth. To the Christians, he is to appear as Christ, to Hindus as the Krishna, to Islam as the Iman Madhi, and to the Orient as the Bodhi-sattva. His office is that of World Teacher, and he presides over the destiny of great religions.
The teachings of the New Age are steeped in eastern mysticism and in the occult. It forms part of the revival of the ancient Babylonian hierarchy where enchanters, astrologers and mystics would work alongside Chaldean priests in religious and state matters. When Nebuchadnezzer had his dream he consulted these “wise men” to seek an interpretation:
Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to shew the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king. Daniel 2:
This system of pagan hierarchy was not only confined to Babylon, but was the all pervading system of most pagan cultures. It is appealing to man to have a religion steeped in mysticism and to have diviners and fortune tellers revealing the unknown. This deceptive system even crept into the ranks of the Israelites and this thinking contaminated their own religion. This prompted the prophet Jeremiah to warn his people:
Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon. Jeremiah 27:9