New Age is a spiritual movement of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries that grew out of Theosophical ideas and, in part, the New Thought spiritual movement. It emphasizes decentralized, personal spiritual exploration and is critical of traditional religious systems. It advocates integrating ancient systems (yoga, Kabbalah, qigong, tarot, magic, healing practices, and spirit channeling) on a new foundation. From Theosophy, it adopts the idea of Ascended Masters, while in recent decades it has also emphasized the spiritual presence of extraterrestrial civilizations such as the Pleiadians, Arcturians, Andromedans, the Ashtar Command, and similar entities.
It often draws on astrological ideas and sometimes on numerological ones as well. It proclaims the advent of the Age of Aquarius and the elevation of dimensions on our planet to 5D or higher. It frequently offers alternative healing and seeks a pseudoscientific connection between science and spirituality, in recent decades often through quantum physics.
Reading ancient religious texts reveals that their authors put hostile and destructive statements into God‘s mouth and associated Him/Her with evil deeds. One example is the deranged Old Testament Quasi-God, who advocated and demanded the genocide of the Canaanites and had earlier carried out a kind of “zoocide” by exterminating almost all life on Earth in the Great Flood. Zeus and various other ancient gods behave in similarly bizarre ways. New Age distances itself from these ancient religions.
At the same time, however, New Age becomes a trial and a trap for spiritual seekers. Through Theosophy, it contains numerous hidden agendas.
One of these is the idea that the worship of the biblical God must be curtailed and that Ascended Masters should take his place, such as the Theosophical (no longer Indian!) Sanat Kumara, or Satan, as we might call him, Paulus Venetianus, or Baal ben Satan, as we might call him, and others. Thus, instead of turning toward the highest and true God (aspects of whom are also present in the Bible, and other old texts!), a dark agenda operates within New Age, strengthening the role of forces even more sinister than the Old Testament Advocate of Genocide.
Another well-known agenda involves introducing the approach of the point as a limited Pythagorean number 1 (monad). Within this approach, Alice Bailey introduced the so-called Great Invocation prayer. The idea of the I AM Decree spread in a similar way. If the number 1 is not understood as the All, it becomes the number of the point and the ego, through which only a diminished flow of love and the divine can pass. Alongside energy vampirism, this is one of the fundamental approaches of black magic. Of course, much depends on the individuals involved and their level of awareness. When used in this better way, I AM can also serve as a tool for spiritual growth.
I maintain a cautious attitude toward calling upon extraterrestrials, Ascended Masters, and other entities. The invisible world is highly cunning and contains not only benevolent and openly destructive energies but also forms of action that are insincere or deceptive. In many respects, New Age is a dualistic detour in spiritual development, one that calls for renewed contemplation of the spiritual path and True God. Without this awareness and the ability to separate the wheat from the chaff, we will not be able to plant the paradise garden of the future.
