Brief History:

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       Religious scholars and historians from the early sixties warned of the New Age ("I am not religious, I am spiritual") Movement and correctly predicted the growth of this group. Spearheads of the past "New Age Movement" teachings were based on some form of Theosophy, Unity school of Christianity, Hinduism, Christian Science, Spiritism, Bahaism and Rosicrucianism. Currently the hot spots for breading such converts of this movement comes from our nations colleges and universities. Many of these "New Age" followers of the past made their way into the classrooms of our children as teachers and philosophers. Perhaps too many parents became lax in their responsibility to lay a suitable spiritual foundation at home so when students went off to college (or simply left their home) they join the ranks of this "mindset". Today over 60 million Americans dabble in some form of New "I am not religious, I am Spiritual" Age thinking.

    Time magazine has covered stories (as well as other national magazines, newspapers, radio and television) proclaiming the New Age and even the world of the occult. In one episode there was even showing of of Shirley MacLaine and another , a masked high priest of the church of Satan. Time magazine also noted that there were 2,500 New Age or occultic bookstores in the United  States in 1989 alone! We only saw the "tip of the iceberg" during the early 1950's, in the 60's and 70's it built momentum and by the 80's it was in place to set nation on a path to destruction. 

           C. S. Lewis saw the battle lines clearly drawn and wrote of the final conflict between religions: Hinduism and Christianity as practiced (according to the Word of God) only. Why? Because they would offer the only options ultimately left since Hinduism would include all beliefs (religious systems) and true Christianity would exclude all others by holding faithfully to the supremacy of Jesus as the only begotten Son of God, risen from the dead and claiming "all authority." 

               Ron Carlson in his book unpublished book on the movement asserts, "The New Age Movement" is too new, too old, too fluid, too broad, too strange, to assign concrete definition, but it does possess certain symbols and characteristics that allow us to enter the metaphysical world of New (I am only spiritual) Age thought. it is a journey fraught with paradox, inconsistencies, conflicting doctrines, ancient and emerging beliefs, and quite frankly, practices and philosophies that are often alien and bizarre to the traditional western mind...moving with almost dizzying speed, but it has no name and eludes description." The New Age (I am only spiritual) is self-centered in nature, a combination of eastern mystic thought and practice coupled with western secularism and psychotechnologies. by it, you can discover spiritual fulfillment without ethic or moral requirements; spiritualism without commitment. 

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Here are some signs today of those who have been "tampered with" or influenced by this "New Age" thought. They....

-want sex partners without any concern for the circumstances (of marital/ relationship status/ gender/health issues) or even knowing your whole name

-want marriage without love and commitment

-want children without nurturing or even child support

-talk about the concept of "good" and "evil" without any law or God to attach to it because they are the ultimate determination of such, "good" and "evil". 

-want a church without doctrine, Jesus without the church or simply God without Jesus. 

-ultimately want God without spirituality or simple to be called spiritual without God

        Ancient roots of New Ageism trace to the occult. The word occult comes from the Latin word for secret and mysterious. The Bible forbids occultic practices on the basis that they come from satanic power (cf. Eph.  6:11-12) and Deut. 18:9-14).  When this origin is understood, New Age is anything but new age! The occult could be called a substitute faith that can be found throughout the history of world religions. In the Bible there were warnings hundreds of years before Christ came to earth concerning occult practices, in such passages as Isaiah 47 where special attention is given to astrologers. "Sorcerers" and "Magicians" are spoken of in the book of Daniel. In 2 Kings 21 the Hebrews received judgement for her failure to obey God concerning the occult. One is quickly reminded of the pathetic situation described in the Book of Judges where "every man did what was right in his own eyes." The New Age "I am spiritual" craze is but a revival of the ancient practices of Sumerian, Indian, Egyptian, Chaldean, Babylonian and Persian religious traditions of men. 

          Alice Bailey is an important figure in the movement, having become deeply involved with Madame Blavatsky in the Theosophical Society by writing more than 20 books. Even though her writings are important, however, obviously  they cannot be held as an official guide for the New Age movement...nor can any other single writer or philosophy represent the movement. By its very definition it is all-inclusive, nebulous, big, variable and fluid.  Unlike the Methodists, for example, they have no accepted creed book or discipline. 

   Because there is no one authority or accepted tradition common to all the philosophies of the New Age, we shall quote from only a few to give contrasts with the Word of God , the Holy Bible. 

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