The
radical incompatibility of Christianism
with the teachings of "New Age"
PURPOSE
In the first part (1)
of this series of two documents we exposed the contradictions of the
theories that portray Jesus as a sort of magician taught by other men
in hidden knowledge - an approach entirely inconsistent with Jesus
deeds and words. In this second part we will expose the connection
between these attempts to overthrow the Faith and the establishment of
the
New Age philosophy (2) as a favorable
frame for the entry of the False Christ (3).
DETAILS
The
attempt to portray Jesus as an "ascended master", in the sense of being
taught by other men and civilizations and achieving spiritual
enlightenment without the help of God the Father, thus totally
deprived of its Divine origin,
is part of a wider picture that might be described as the establishment
of a False Trinity - precisely matching with the schemes of New Age
philosophy.
In this document, we will consider one by one the illusory pillars of
this false trinity (actually, the skeleton of the New Age philosophy),
contrasting them with the teachings that Jesus (to whom they call, on
their own way, "teacher") gave us. The result, as we shall see, is that
the fundamentals of Christian Faith and New Age philosophy are not only
irreconcilable but opponents like water to fire. (4)
A False Spirit of God
Instead
of the True Holy Spirit of God, they give us: hidden powers of the
mind, forces from beyond, occult powers of nature, communication with
beings from another dimension, wisdom transmitted by other higher
civilizations, interior light, systemic relations of universe, magic,
fortune-telling, parapsychology, occultism of all kinds...
(5)
They admit, correctly, that there are events that can not be
explained under the current parameters of human science. But the
fundamental problem is that they pretend to explain supernatural
phenomena without God. If in some cases the explanation is too
embarrassing without the recourse to God, then they make a false "God"
on their own way.
To say that Jesus and the apostles were
recipients of hidden magical wisdom which should be reveled only to the
initiated (a kind of esoteric heritage of ancient civilizations or any
other similar concept) is the same thing as calling them practitioners
of a big lie and a great hypocrisy. This topic was already discussed in
the first part of the present document (1). We
will simply add here, as another illustration of the concept, the
instructions that Jesus addressed to the Twelve:
"Therefore
fear them not. For nothing is covered that shall not be revealed: nor
hid, that shall not be known. That which I tell you in the dark, speak
ye in the light: and that which you hear in the ear, preach ye upon the
housetops." [Matthew
10:26-27]
Therefore,
the issue is to reveal, not to conceal. In contrast, to persist in
looking for
magical explanations hidden by Jesus and the Twelve, is the same as
saying that they came to make fun of everyone as unscrupulous frauds.
However, we know that all the keys have been exposed to light (6)
and propagated to all corners of the world (7).
And as for the works of the Holy Spirit of God (8),
can they be conjured with magic, scientifically achieved by
parapsychology or found in the "inner self"?
A False God the Father
Instead of the True God, they say to everyone that "You
will integrate into a Universal Consciousness full of infinite wisdom
and love. There is no substantial difference between God and world,
spirit and matter, heaven and earth. Any difference between these
entities is only apparent, not real. All is one and everything is God.
The man is part of the divine, and this divinity you will found by
searching inside you." (9)
Of
course, declaring that any person can become God himself is clearly a
great blasphemy. Although the proposal is not new. In fact, we know
that the first "idea registered in the patent office yet to be
established" was the man's
claim of wanting to be like God [Genesis
3:1-15].
Any way we look at it, these ideas clash directly with the - correct
and accurate - monotheistic notion of Divinity.
The reality of God as Creator not Created - i.e. prior to and
independent of
Creation itself - was so well accepted by the Jewish society in which
Jesus lived, that at no time was necessary that He took it as central
theme of His teachings. (10) Still, the
idea breathes through His words, as when He speak about Divine
Providence: "Now
if God clothe in this manner the grass that is today in the field, and
tomorrow is cast into the oven; how much more you, O ye of little
faith?" [Luke
12:28, Matthew
6:30] Poetically expressed,
there we find, as separate entities:
God, who created the Universe and sustains it; the man as a being
created by Him is His own image, but different from Him in
substance;
and finally the rest of Creation.
What credibility would
Jesus had when he said that he came to fulfill the Law and the
Prophets, if he would had refused the Living God in whom all Jews
believed
from the beginning of their history? If Jesus would have thought that
God was not
a Supreme Being but a kind of universal conscience of mankind, then he
would not have said "And call none
your father upon earth; for one is your father, who is in heaven."
[Matthew 23:9],
but,
everyone being gods and participants in the support of the Universal
Consciousness, instead he would have said "You are like stones. You have no father.
You have not been created by a deed of Love."
And
the attributes of God: Justice, Mercy, infinite Love... How would be
all
these things possible? If everything is relative to the conscience -
changeable - of mankind rather than to an Eternal and Immutable God,
then what is Right today might not be so tomorrow, simply because
humanity "has changed its mind an now it seems to be otherwise". What
would be the guarantee of an infinite and unfailing love? Humanity
policing itself? (11) If humanity
participates in that Universal Consciousness, how would humanity avoid
of being contaminated by its corruptible part, which it has proven to
have century after century? Can a hand wash itself? (4)
Do not it need, rather, the purity of the water that comes from outside
the body? And Mercy, why? Everyone would forgive himself without
further ado...
A False Messiah
Instead of the True Christ - Jesus - they intend to convince us that "With
your will and through a process guided by privileged enlightened
spiritual
directors, one can overcome the human condition and re-encounter the
divinity of which we form part. Christ is something more than an
individual, is a type of power or position attainable by all humans.
The leaders of each religion - Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, Mohammed... -
are people who have already reached this state of "christic
consciousness" and who can help us to do the same. Everyone is a
potential Christ."
In contrast, Jesus speak
thus:
"For
God so loved the world, as to give his only begotten Son;
that whosoever believeth in him, may not perish, but may have life
everlasting." [John 3:16]
And, what does it mean to be the "Son of God" whom Jesus claims himself
to be? Also he gives us the answer:
"I
am the living bread which came down from heaven.";
"I and the Father are one."
[John 6:51; John 10:30]
It means that his Divinity proceeds from the Father and that he is one
substance with the Father. So, when Jesus says that the Son of God is
unique, he is saying that nobody else can be in his position - the
Anointed, the Christ, the Messiah. We must also consider that, if
the Divinity of Jesus were the result of an "ascension through
an enlightening path", he would not say "came down from
heaven". And more, if the disciples were equal to him, there
would not be necessary to send them in His Name because every
one of them would have the same authority as God Himself.
However, he tells us:
"Going
therefore, teach ye all nations; baptizing them in the name of
the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." [Matthew 28:19]
On the way to the encounter with God there is only one true guide, and
that guide is Jesus Christ:
"...
neither doth any one know the Father, but the Son, and he to whom it
shall please the Son to reveal him."; "I am the light of
the world"; "But be not you called Rabbi. For one
is your master; and all you are brethren."; "Neither be ye called
masters; for one is your master, Christ." [Matthew 11:27; John 8:12;
Matthew
23:8; Matthew 23:10]
And last, but still the most important of all, there it is the role of
Jesus as the Redeemer. When the divine attributes of Justice and Mercy
are so "lightened" (by means of making them dependent on the conscience
of mankind, instead of an inmutable God) as proposed by New Age
thought, the salvation of mankind through Christ no longer makes sense.
Suddenly, the original sin (the fallen nature of man) has no
such serious consequences (not demanding Justice in capital letters)
and therefore it does not need a supreme act of Mercy - the sacrifice
of His only Son. In other words, they say that it is not necessary for
Christ to come as the Saviour of mankind, and that idea is
their message when they limit the role of Jesus to merely Master/Teacher
- calling him, one more time, a liar:
"For
God sent not his Son into the world, to judge the world, but that the
world may be saved by him." [John
3:17]
CONCLUSION
New
Age philosophy is directly and radically opposed to the Holy Trinity of
God; there could not be more incompatibility with the Christian Faith.
They dare to say that the Holy Spirit of God is not what Jesus said it
was, and that God the Father is not what Jesus said it was, and that
the Son of God, Christ, is not what Jesus preached, but another thing -
all the while presuming that Jesus was aware of such "esoteric (hidden)
truths".
Expressing it in plain language, they are insulting Jesus
by calling him the biggest cheat in history, an unparalleled hypocrite,
the absolute forger of Divinity. And, simultaneously, they
proclaim
with pride that they are followers of Christ, saying that Jesus is part
of his
circle of teachers, and they make use of the fame of Jesus to give fame
to themselves. Is it possible any greater contradiction?
EPILOGUE
The
most serious problem is the confusion created in the already
disoriented faithful as to the theme of the False Christ. The point is
that there are two versions of the False Christ, as there are two
manifestations of the True Christ: first, the falsification of
the
original representation of Christ, the son of Mary and the Holy
Spirit;
and second, the falsification of the Second Coming of Christ (3).
That
is, there has been a true First Coming of Christ and with it there
exists its falsification by adherents of New Age philosophy. Now, in
the End of These Times, there will be a forgery of the Second Coming of
Christ. And finally, after all this, there will be the real Second
Coming of Christ to restore the Creation of man to its original point -
back to the paradisiacal state after Step No. 17. (12)
(13)
Part 2
(this document): The radical
incompatibility of Christianism with the teachings of 'New Age
NOTES
(1) "Jesus did
extraordinary miracles beyond natural explanation but... That does not
make him a magician" (in Spanish)
(2) New Age -
An index
(3) The False Christ, understood as the Impostor in the
forgery of the Second Coming of Christ, is the subject of this other
document (and Part II)
- someone who will pretend to pose as the True Christ by a misleading
staging of His Second Coming. We should not be confused with the Antichrist
in the Second Coming (more than
confirmed),
who opposes Christ and paves the way for the emergence of the False
Christ in the End of These Times.
(4) The pure water, that cleans and is source of life,
will help us into understanding the
underlying
concept of the Holy Trinity
(5) For related topics, the reader may consult these
documents: The
spiritual world - How it influences our behaviour
, Divination
and healings ...and, what about God? and Miracles, myth or
reality? - What is the truth?
(6) In short, "Thou
shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole
soul, and with thy whole mind. This is the greatest and the first
commandment. And the second is like to this: Thou shalt love thy
neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments dependeth the whole law
and the prophets." [Matthew
22:36-40], commandments fully
exemplified by the life and commitment of Jesus, "A new commandment
I give unto you: That you love one another, as I have loved you, that
you also love one another." [John
13:34]. Putting those commandments first and foremost "... and
all these things shall be added unto you." [Luke 12:31]
(7) As was foretold by Him, "And
this gospel of the kingdom, shall be preached in the whole world, for a
testimony to all nations, and then shall the consummation come." [Matthew
24:14]
(8) Among many other gifts, "But the fruit of the
Spirit is, charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity, goodness,
longanimity," [Galatians 5:22]
(9) In the words of the author of best-seller "The
lady in blue", "Your
destiny, like that of all mortals, is to become God. You will integrate
in a consciousness as great as the universe, full of wisdom and love"
[Translated from spanish literal quote from "El
Secreto Egipcio de Napoleón", Ch.27, by Javier Sierra,
ISBN 978-84-9793-849-5, editorial DeBolsillo, february 2008]
(10) Today, however, minds are so confused that it is
necessary to state clearly that Creation
and Evolution are compatible (and part
II)
(11) For example, how do the watchers of Faith defend
the weakest men? It brings to our mind the Vatican
statement
defining pedophilia as "sin against customs"
(12) The
sequence of
events that will indicate to us the progression toward the End of These
Times - Not of the World
(13) The sequence
of the History of Creation
En Español: La incompatibilidad radical del
Cristianismo con las enseñanzas de la "Nueva Era"
Originally Published in Spanish
on July 4th, 2009 - European Union
Published in English on September
12th, 2009 - The Holy Name of Mary - European Union
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