Reinventing Jesus christ
The New Gospel
by
Warren Smith
http://www.lighthousetrails.com/
Author: Warren Smith
Warren Smith
was a spiritual seeker.
That journey led him down a yellow-brick road of pied-piper spirits, landing
him in a metaphysical New Age where the Christ proclaimed wasn’t the real
Christ at all.
Following signs and wonders, he jumped through spiritual hoops with almost
flawless
precision, until one day he realized
that the light he was following was not light at all but
rather darkness. Concerned that today’s church is being seduced by the same
false teachings and the same false Christ that drew him into the New Age,
Smith shares his story in a most compelling way.
Reinventing Jesus Christ
©2006 by Warren Smith
©2009, Online Edition
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Contents
v
Preface
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The Bible Warns About
Deception
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1 Helen Schucman and A Course
in Miracles 15
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God
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Man
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Jesus
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Christ.
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Oneness
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Sin
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Evil
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Devil
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2 Barbara Marx Hubbard and
the Revelation 25
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The
Alternative to Armageddon
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The
Global Renaissance Alliance
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Sin
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The
Purpose of “New Revelation
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Direct
quotes from Hubbard’s “Christ”
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3 Neale Donald Walsch and
Conversations with God. 35
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Direct
quotes from Walsch’s “God”
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4 Wayne Peterson and Maitreya
46
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God
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Jesus
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Man
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Reappearance or “return” of “the Christ”
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Aliens
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5 The Light That Was Dark 59
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Bible warns of spiritual deception
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Selected teachings from the Bible
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6 The Global Renaissance
Alliance 71
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Direct quotes from author Marianne Williamson
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Alice Bailey (1880-1949) channeled teaching
from her “spirit guide”
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New Age
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God, Christ, Man, New World Religion
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Peace, Experience, Separation, Evolution,
Purification
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7 The “New Gospel”, Campaign for Peace 78
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Marianne Williamson on Larry King
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Marianne Williamson on Oprah
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The Significance of the Campaign
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The meaning of fear in the “new gospel”
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The meaning of fear in the Bible
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Two meanings of Atonement contrasted
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8 The Armageddon
Alternative 93
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The
“Christ” of the “new gospel” has a plan
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False
Assumptions of the “New Gospel” Peace Plan
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False
Elements of the “New Gospel” Peace Plan
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Direct
quotes from Hubbard’s “Christ” in The Revelation
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The
Bible’s Prophetic warnings
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”New
Gospel” Quotes undermining marriage
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Doctrine of Separation 105
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The
meaning of “separation” in the “new gospel
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The
meaning of separation in the Bible
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11 The Final
Word 124
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The coming of Christ and the coming of the
antichrist
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False teachings regarding Jesus’ return
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True teachings regarding Jesus’ return
Ø -- Epilogue 138
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Direct quotes from Neale Donald
Walsch and Brad Blanton
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-- Endnotes 148
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-- Bibliography
Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common
salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye
should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the
saints.—Jude 3
In 1992 I wrote a book about my experiences in the metaphysical
“new age” movement. The book was titled The Light That Was Dark. I wrote the
book because I wanted to warn people about the incredibly deceptive teachings
of the “new age.” From my own experience I knew just how powerfully seductive
the spirit world is and how appealing its false teachings can be.
At the end of my book I warned that Christian believers were
becoming involved in some of these same teachings and deceptions. Spiritual
deception is not just something that happens to unbelievers. The apostle Paul
went to great lengths to warn the Corinthians not to be deceived by a “Jesus”
that wasn’t Jesus Christ the Son of God, a spirit that wasn’t the Holy Spirit
and a gospel that was not the true biblical Gospel (2 Corinthians 11:4).
Throughout the New Testament, believers are continually warned not to be
deceived by spiritual teachings and experiences that are not from God. Jesus
Christ specifically warned his disciples that spiritual deception would be a
sign of the end (Matthew 24:3–4).
Today it is very sad to see so many believers falling under the
influence of the same spirit that influenced me when I was in the “new age.”
This spirit says that it is a time for “breakthroughs” and for the fulfillment
of our “destiny”; that there is something “new” and exciting in the wind. This
teaching claims that we are in the midst of a great “transition” that will
result in a “paradigm shift,” and that through “new revelation” and “personal
experience” God is in the process of taking the church to a “new dimension” and
to a whole “new level.” Many Christian leaders these days are so sure that what
they are hearing and experiencing is from God, they are rarely testing the
spirits, or even considering the possibility that they are being deceived.
The first century Bereans tested their leaders and tested their
teachings as they “searched the scriptures daily” to see “whether those things
were so” (Acts 17:11). Apostles, prophets, pastors, and teachers were always
subject to God’s holy Word. “New revelation” never nullified nor superseded scripture.
The Bereans were not impressed by supernatural power and spiritual experiences
that had not been tested by the Word of God. They did not depend on signs and
wonders and miracles. They depended on the authority and reliability and
trustworthiness of Scripture:
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable
for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness. (2
Timothy 3:16)
Paul taught that if he or anyone else preached any other gospel—“new
revelation” or otherwise—that person should be completely disregarded
(Galatians 1:8). The Bible warns over and over again that we should not allow
ourselves to be influenced or intimidated by teachings that originate not from
God but from the spirit world and from the hearts of men. “Now the Spirit
speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith,
giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils” (1 Timothy 4:1).
“Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of
men” (Mark 7:7).
What had been called “new age”
is now being presented as “New Gospel”.
Warren Smith
These “new gospel” teachings are not new and have actually
been around for centuries in one form or another. Whether it was ancient
Gnosticism, the occultism teachings of Helena Blavatsky (1831–1891) and Alice
A. Bailey (1880–1949),
or the present day “new gospel” channeling, the bottom line
has always been the same—everyone is a part of God.
v
Reinventing
Jesus Christ
According to the “new gospel,” Christ is not a person. It
is an office. The “new gospel” teaches that while Jesus of Nazareth occupied
the office during His active ministry, He no longer holds that same position.
Today the office of “Christ” is occupied by
someone else. And this “someone else” is presently in the
process of establishing contact with humanity. This “Christ” intimates
that he is already in the world awaiting mankind’s call.
“Concerned” that humanity is in peril and facing possible
extinction, this “Christ” explains that his “new gospel” will unify the world’s
major religions and bring peace to the world. He has communicated these “new
gospel” teachings to his designated teachers, who in turn are now conveying
these same teachings to the rest of the world.
This “reinvented” Christ of the “new gospel” teaches that
all of humanity is the body of Christ. He, as the “Christ,” is the head. This
“Christ” states humanity’s dilemma is that we have forgotten who we are. We are
not “sinners” separate from God. We are all part of the one body of Christ and
the one body of God. Salvation does not come by grace from accepting Jesus
Christ as the Son of God. Rather it is achieved—when we accept ourselves as
Christ and when we accept ourselves as God.
The “new gospel” teaches that when humanity collectively
accepts and experiences itself as being a part of Christ and a part of
God, we not only save ourselves, we save our world. The
“Christ” of the “new gospel” warns that the hour is late. Peace must come.
He will help. He has a plan. But everyone must play their
part.
With “new revelation,” often accompanied by direct personal
spiritual experience, people are being taught that because they are a part of
God they are actually “at-one” with God and all creation. This “new gospel”
teaches when people have what is described as their “God potential” or “Christ
within” supernaturally “activated,” they actually experience themselves as a
part of the “one body” of God which is all mankind. As these same people unite
and join together in remembering and experiencing their “oneness” with God and
with each other, they feel they are doing the “work” that is necessary to
prepare the way for Christ’s return.
v The need for
discernment
Unfortunately, undiscerning Christian leaders have not
adequately exposed these “new gospel” teachings and, as a result, the spirit
behind the “new gospel” has entered the Church.
The Bible warns us not to be ignorant of our adversary’s
schemes and devices so that we will not fall prey to his deceptive traps (“Lest
Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.” 2
Corinthians 2:11). Scripture also tells us that while “it is a shame” we even
have to talk about these things, it is important that we expose them and bring
them to the light (Ephesians 5:11–13).
Because of my own involvement with “new age/new gospel”
teachings, and in light of the many Scriptures warning us not to be deceived
and urging us to expose deception, I will attempt to update believers on the
accelerated spiritual deception that has been taking place. Hopefully, by
providing a general survey of this “new gospel” deception, believers will be
more discerning when—in the form of prophetic “new revelations”—these same
teachings try to move into their lives and into their churches.
I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called
you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Which is not another; but
there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of
Christ.—Galatians 1:6-7
There is an amazing thing happening in the land. Jesus
Christ is being “reinvented” in front of our own eyes and hardly anyone seems
to notice or care. “Reinvented” is a term now being popularly used to describe
the transformation of something from one form into a thing uniquely different.
Bestselling authors David Osborne and Ted Gaebler, in the preface of their book
Reinventing
Government, state:
We have chosen an audacious title for this book.... The
idea of reinventing government may seem audacious to those who see government
as something fixed, something that does not change. But in fact governments
constantly change.1
The authors then proceed to introduce a plan for
“reinventing government” which ignores and circumvents the constitutional form
of government in America. In like manner, the architects and promoters of a
“new gospel” and new “Christ” are audaciously ignoring God’s Word. They are
inventing a “Christ” of antichrist
Over the last twenty-five years, while traditional
Christian believers were sleeping, a vastly underrated adversary has made
significant gains in the spiritual marketplace. In a gradual series of
well-conceived and perfectly timed moves, this ingenious spiritual being has
already introduced himself to the world as “Christ.” And his “new gospel” is
now accepted by millions of well-intentioned people around the world. Through
his extraordinary use of the mass media, this “Christ” has presented his “new
gospel” through a small but powerful network of key people who enthusiastically
proclaim his teachings. Convinced their “Christ” is the true Christ; most of
those in the network seem to be unaware of his real identity. While the network
front line is eagerly mainstreaming his “new gospel,” this “Christ” has been
able to remain in the background, overseeing his plan to birth a new humanity—a
new humanity that will be empowered by his spirit, committed to his teachings,
and from which he will one day emerge.
v
The Bible Warns
About Deception
In the Bible Jesus teaches that in the latter days a
spiritual imposter will emerge from the world (Matthew 24:15; Revelation 13:1–
8). Jesus warns his followers not to be deceived by the
many false prophets and false Christs that will precede and prepare the way for
this ultimate deceiver (Matthew 24:24). The Bible warns its readers to test the
spirits because there are many false prophets in the world and the spirits
behind them are not from God (1 John 4:1). Scripture warns that these very
real, deceptive, evil spirits tempt men to forsake the true Gospel of Jesus
Christ to follow the false teachings of His adversary (Ephesians 6:10–12; 1
Timothy
4:1). And Scripture describes how an extremely charismatic
spiritual leader will one day deceive most of the world into thinking that he
is Christ. But while pretending to be Christ, this antichrist figure will
actually oppose Jesus Christ (2 Thessalonians 2: 1–9).
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times
some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and
doctrines of devils.—1 Timothy 4:1
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o
Helen Schucman and A Course in Miracles
And Jesus answered and said
unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name,
saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. —Matthew 24:4–5
In 1965 Columbia University
Professor of Medical Psychology, Helen Schucman, heard an “inner voice” saying,
“This is a course in miracles. Please take notes.”1 Schucman’s initial
resistance was overcome when the “inner voice,” identifying itself as “Jesus,”
told her the purpose of the Course [i.e., A Course in Miracles, ed.]:
The world situation is
worsening to an alarming degree. People all over the world are being called on
to help, and are making their individual contributions as part of an overall
prearranged plan. Part of the plan is taking down A Course in Miracles, and I
am fulfilling my part in the agreement, as you will fulfill yours. You will be
using abilities you developed long ago, and which you are not really ready to
use again. Because of the acute emergency, however, the usual slow,
evolutionary process is being by-passed in what might best be described as a
“celestial speed-up.”2
Baffled by her assignment, but
nevertheless obliging, the skeptical Schucman diligently took dictation from this
“inner voice.” In the seven and a half years of cumulative dictation that
became A Course in Miracles, Schucman’s “Jesus” presents a whole new way of
looking at the world. Using Christian terminology, sophisticated psychology,
and convincing authority, Schucman’s “Jesus” teaches a completely different
gospel than the one found in the Bible. His “new gospel” wholly contradicts the
Bible’s Gospel
of Jesus Christ. Schucman’s
“inner voice,” while claiming to be Jesus, actually opposes everything for
which the Bible’s Jesus stands.
In brief, A Course in Miracles
teaches that all is love. And while the Course teaches that the opposite of
love is fear, it explains that fear is just an illusion based on wrong
thinking. It states that the world we see is merely the projected manifestation
of our own illusive, fearful thoughts. As each one of us learns to correct our
fearful, wrong thinking, it will change not only how we see the world, but also
change the world we see. The purpose of the Course is to facilitate this change
in perception.
According to the Course, love
is all there is. And because God is love, God is therefore in everyone and
everything. Because
God is sinless, perfect, and
“at one” with all creation, then we, as a part of God, are also sinless and
perfect in our “oneness” with Him. Man’s only “sin” is in not remembering his
own perfect, sinless, divine nature. The only “devil” is our illusion that we
are separate from, and not a part of, God. The Course tells its readers that a
“sense of separation from God is the only lack you really need correct.”3
The Course teaches that while
“Christ” is in Jesus, so “Christ” is in everyone—and that the “Christ” in
everyone is their divine connection with God and with each other. The Course teaches
that a “slain Christ has no meaning.”4 It states that wrong thinking has
produced the “misperception” that man is a “sinner” and that he needs an
external Christ to save him from his “sins.” The
Course teaches that correcting
our “misperceptions” has nothing to do with Jesus’ death on the cross.
Correction comes from what the Course calls the “Atonement” (“at-one-ment”).
This “Atonement,” or “atoning,”
is when each person remembers and affirms and experiences their “oneness”
(at-one-ment) with God and creation. The “Atonement” is the Course’s key to
undoing “fear” and dispelling the illusion that man is “separate” from God. The
Course stresses that the healing of the world is dependent upon each person’s
fulfilling their atonement “function” to teach this “oneness” to the world.
When everyone comes to understand that “all is love and all is God” then “inner
peace” and world peace will finally happen. Only “fear” and the illusion of
“separation” stand in the way of man’s attaining this peace for himself and his
world.
A Course in Miracles was
published in 1975. In 1979 psychiatrist Gerald Jampolski’s book, Love Is
Letting Go of Fear, became
a powerful testimonial and
catalyst for Course sales as it helped introduce Course principles to the
popular self-help market.
During the 1980s, the Course
gained a grassroots following of dedicated believers who were often
mysteriously led to the Course through unusual “meant to be” coincidences and
circumstances. It was always assumed that these “meant to be” experiences were
divinely inspired. Over time, curiosity and interest in the Course grew and it
became a cult classic for those in the spiritual “know.”
Believed to be modern day
revelation, this apparent “gift from God” presented new and seemingly plausible
reinterpretations to the teachings of the Bible. Because of the Course,
spirituality suddenly seemed to make much more sense to many people. Yet, even
as word spread, the Course still remained relatively unknown to the general
public.
v
Mainstreaming “Christ”
That all changed in 1992 when a
little known author named Marianne Williamson and her new book, A Return to
Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles, were featured on
The Oprah Winfrey Show. Praising Williamson’s book about the Course, Oprah told
her viewers that she had already purchased a thousand copies of Williamson’s
book.5
After Oprah’s enthusiastic
endorsement, A Return to Love shot to the top of The New York Times bestseller
list and stayed there for months. The “Christ” of A Course in Miracles was
suddenly out of the closet. He and his “new gospel” had just been mainstreamed
into millions of American homes. Thanks to Oprah, Marianne Williamson and the
“Christ” of A Course in Miracles now had celebrity status. But during the
interview that day, Williamson and Oprah failed to mention that the “Jesus” of
the Course is not the same Jesus Christ described in the Bible—and that the
teachings of A Course in Miracles actually contradict and oppose the teachings
of the Bible.
Over the past decade,
Williamson has continued to champion A Course in Miracles in the media and in
her public appearances around the country. A more recent book, ‘Healing the
Soul of America’, has enabled Williamson and the Course to make a subtle
transition into the political arena. Hoping to inspire a “new gospel” approach
to national and world problems, Williamson, along with bestselling
Conversations with God author Neale Donald Walsch, co-founded The Global
Renaissance Alliance. Many well-known “new gospel” advocates and Course
proponents have been recruited to serve in the Alliance. In fact, one of the
Alliance board members, in much the same manner as Helen Schucman, says she too
received “new revelation” from an “inner voice” claiming to be Christ. That
board member’s name is Barbara Marx
Hubbard.
New revelations,” from an “inner voice” include the following;
o
God
There is no separation of God and His creation. (Text, p. 147)
God is All in all in a very
literal sense. All being is in Him Who is all Being. You are therefore in Him
since your being is His. (Text, p. 119)
o
Man
The recognition of God is the
recognition of yourself. (Text, p. 147)
When God created you He made
you part of Him. (Text, p. 100)
Everyone God created is part of
you and shares His Glory with you. (Text, p. 174)
o
Jesus
Is he [Jesus] the Christ? O yes, along with you. His little life
on earth was not enough to teach the mighty lesson that he learned for all of
you. (Manual, p. 87)
o
Name of Jesus
The Name of Jesus Christ as such is but a symbol…. It is a
symbol that is safely used as a replacement for the many names of all the gods
to which you pray. (Manual, p. 58)
o
Christ
Christ is God’s Son as He created Him. He is the Self we share,
uniting us with one another and with God as well. (Workbook, p. 431)
For Christ takes many forms,
with different names, until, their oneness can be recognized. (Manual, p. 88)
Christ is the link that keeps
you one with God…. (Workbook, p. 431)
o
Crucifixion
Do not make the pathetic error of “clinging to the old rugged
cross.” The only message of the crucifixion is that you can overcome the cross.
Until then you are free to crucify yourself as often as you choose. This is not
the Gospel I intended to offer you. (Text, p. 52)
o
The journey to the cross
Direct quotes from the “Jesus” of The Course
The journey to the cross should
be the last “useless journey.” …If you can accept it as your own last useless
journey, you are also free to join my resurrection. Until you do so your life
is indeed wasted. (Text, p. 52)
The crucifixion did not
establish the Atonement; the resurrection did. Many sincere Christians have
misunderstood this.(Text, p. 36)
For the undoing of the
crucifixion of God’s Son, is the work of the redemption, in which everyone has
a part of equal value. (Text, p. 209)
The song of Easter is the glad
refrain the Son of God was never crucified. (Text, p. 428)
o
Oneness
If all His creations are His Sons, everyone must be an integral
part of the whole Sonship. the Sonship in its oneness transcends the sum of its
parts. (Text, p. 33)
We cannot be separated. Whom
God has joined cannot be separated, and God has joined all His Sons with
Himself. (Text, p. 150)
The oneness of the Creator and
the creation is your wholeness, your sanity and your limitless power.(Text, p.
125)
o
Separation
The mind can make the belief in separation very real and very
fearful, and this belief is the “devil.” (Text, p. 50)
o
Atonement (“at-one-ment”)
This is not a course in philosophical speculation, nor is it
concerned with precise terminology. It is concerned only with Atonement, or the
correction of perception. (Manual, p. 77)
By accepting the Atonement for
yourself, you are deciding against the belief that you can be alone, thus dispelling
the idea of separation and affirming your true identification with the whole
Kingdom as literally part of you. (Text, p. 131)
The full awareness of the
Atonement, then, is the recognition that the separation never occurred. (Text,
p. 98)
Yet you cannot abide in peace
unless you accept the Atonement, because the Atonement is the way to peace.
(Text, p. 175)
The Atonement is the final
lesson he [man] need learn, for it teaches him that, never having sinned, he has
no need of salvation. (Text, p. 237)
“Atoning” means “undoing.” The undoing of fear
is an essential part of the Atonement value of miracles. (Text, p. 5)
o
Revelation
Revelation unites you directly with God. (Text, p. 7)
Revelation induces only experience.
(Text, p. 7)
When revelation of your oneness
comes, it will be known and fully understood. (Workbook, p. 324)
o
Persecution
You are not persecuted, nor was I. (Text, p. 94)
o
Sin
There is no sin; it has no consequence. (Workbook, p. 183)
o
Evil
Innocence is wisdom because it is unaware of evil, and evil does
not exist. (Text, p. 38)
o
Antichrist
All forms of anti-Christ oppose the Christ. (Text, p. 620)
o
Devil
The “devil” is a frightening concept because he seems to be
extremely powerful and extremely active. He is perceived as a force in combat
with God, battling Him for possession of His creations. The devil deceives by
lies, and builds kingdoms in which everything is in direct opposition to God.
Yet he attracts men rather than repels them, and they are willing to “sell” him
their souls in return for gifts of no real worth. This makes absolutely no
sense. (Text, p. 49–50)
Honest to God
Direct quotes from ‘A Return to Love’
On popularity of her book;
For that, my deepest thanks to
Oprah Winfrey. Her enthusiasm and generosity have given the book, and me, an
audience we would never otherwise have had. (p. ix)
o
Man
To remember that you are part of God, that you are loved and lovable,
is not arrogant. It’s humble. To think you are anything else is arrogant,
because it implies you’re something other than a creation of God. (p. 30)
We are holy beings, individual
cells in the body of Christ. (p. 32)
We are who God created us to be.
We are all one, we are love itself. “Accepting the Christ” is merely a shift in
self-perception. (p. 32)
o
Jesus
Even if he takes another name, even if he takes another face, He
is in essence the truth of who we are. Our joined lives form the mystical body
of Christ. (p. 296)
Jesus and other enlightened
masters are our evolutionary elder brothers. (p. 42)
o
Christ-mind
The concept of a divine, or, “Christ-mind”, is the idea that, at
our core, we are not just identical, but actually the same being. There is only
one begotten Son” doesn’t mean that someone else was it, and we’re not. It
means we’re all it. There’s only one of us here. (p. 30–31)
You and I have the Christ-mind
in us as much as Jesus does. (p. 42)
o
Armageddon
But we can bypass the scenario of a nuclear Armageddon if we so
desire. Most of us have already suffered our own personal Armageddon. There’s
no need to go through the whole thing again collectively. (p. 82)
o
Meditation
Meditation is time spent with God in silence and quiet listening.
It is the time during which the Holy Spirit has a chance to enter into our
minds and perform His divine alchemy. (p. 281)
o
Miracle worker
To become a miracle worker means to take part in a spiritual
underground that’s revitalizing the world, participating in a revolution of the
world’s values at the deepest possible level. That doesn’t mean you announce
this to anyone. (p. 68)
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Barbara Marx Hubbard and the Revelation
For we have not followed
cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of
our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. 2 Peter 1:16
Self-described futurist and
“conscious evolutionist” Barbara Marx Hubbard writes that in 1966 she heard an
“inner voice” that came in response to a question she had asked aloud and
directed to God—“What is our story? What in our age is comparable to the birth
of Christ?” After asking the question she said she fell into a dreamlike state
and was given an intense vision of the future.1
In the vision Hubbard saw the
earth from a distance. She was made to understand that the earth was a living
body and that she was a cell in its body. Feeling her “oneness” with the earth,
she experienced its pain and confusion. When her vision abruptly fast-forwarded
into the future, she could see the earth and its people were now surrounded by
a radiant light. She watched as the whole planet was “aligned” in “a magnetic
field of love” and lifted up by the brilliant light. Widespread healings took
place as individuals experienced the merging of their own “inner light” with
the bright light that was surrounding them. A tremendous force emanating from
the light sent powerful currents of joyful energy “rippling” through the body
of humanity. The world celebrated as all the Earth was born again. The pain and
confusion were gone. Love had prevailed. The “inner voice” told her to spread
the message of the vision. It said:
Our story is a birth. It is the
birth of humankind as one body. What Christ and all great beings came to Earth
to reveal is true. We are one body, born into this universe. GO TELL THE STORY
OF OUR BIRTH… Barbara!2
In 1977 Hubbard began to hear
this “inner voice” regularly.
At one point she was told:
Have utter faith in my design.
Achieve deep peace. Be prepared for a great force to enter your life to do this
work. It cannot enter till you have achieved deep peace. Your reward for peace,
which can only be achieved by faith, is contact with the great force and the
other forces waiting in the wings.3
On Christmas Day in 1979, she
had a revelation that the presence in her 1966 vision had been “Christ.”4 Then
in February of 1980, at an Episcopalian monastery in Santa Barbara, California,
she describes how in the midst of “an electrifying presence of light” her
higher self “voice” transformed into the “Christ voice.”5 Over the coming
months the “Christ voice” gave her more information and insight about the
vision she had in 1966 and more first-hand detail about what would one day be
taking place in the world. Hubbard understood that it was her mission to
continue telling the story of humanity’s “birth.”
Since 1966 Hubbard has
fulfilled her commission from “Christ” to tell his “new gospel” story. From
NASA to the former USSR, from the Georgia State Legislature to the United
Nations, she has spoken to thousands of people and hundreds of groups and
organizations about the “planetary birth experience” she had been shown in her
vision. In the process she has become
a respected “world citizen,”
known and loved by many for her insights about “God” and “Christ” and the
future of humanity.
Hubbard is a co-founding board
member of the World Future Society.6 In 1976 she seriously contemplated a run
for the U.S. presidency.7 In 1984 her name was placed in nomination for
Vice-President at the Democratic National Convention in San
Francisco.8 Her speech, based
on her “Campaign for a Positive Future,” was carried live on C-Span.9 Today she
is on a first name basis with many world leaders and proudly describes herself
as part of “the New Order of the Future.”10 Her last three books were funded by
her “benefactor,” Laurance S. Rockefeller, through his Fund for the Enhancement
of the Human Spirit. She thanks Rockefeller in her books for his generous
support over the years. And she specifically thanks him for his “intuition
about the
‘Christ of the 21st
Century’.”11
o
The Alternative to Armageddon
Through the years Hubbard has
received voluminous information from her “Christ.” In her 1993 book, The
Revelation: Our
Crisis Is a Birth (later
renamed The Revelation: A Message of Hope for the New Millennium), Hubbard and
“Christ” “rewrite” the
Bible’s Book of Revelation. In
The Revelation Hubbard’s “Christ” provides specific instructions on how a
united humanity, purposefully partnering with God, can literally re-create the
future. Hubbard’s Christ teaches that the “violent” Armageddon script described
in the Bible does not have to happen, that it is only a “possible” future,
emphasizing that a more “positive” future can and will manifest when
humanity—without exception—openly declares its “oneness” with him and all
creation. This positive scenario and the means to attaining it is called “the
alternative to Armageddon.”12
Hubbard’s “Christ” describes
how planet Earth is at an evolutionary crossroads. He states that the world is
about to make an evolutionary leap that will take all creation to a new level. Those
who awaken to their own divinity, by aligning themselves as one with God and
one with each other, will evolve. Those who continue to believe in “fear” and
“separation,” rather than in “love”
and “oneness,” will not evolve.
Hubbard’s “Christ” claims that with his help most of mankind will choose to
evolve, calling this evolutionary leap “the Planetary Birth Experience.”13 He
refers to it as the coming time of “Planetary Pentecost.”14 The “birth
experience” is a shared event in the future, an “Instant of Co-operation,”15
when everyone on the planet will be mysteriously changed in “the twinkling of
an eye,” as humanity is collectively born again into a new creation. Those who
evolve will actually become a new species as Homo sapiens is collectively transformed
into Homo universalis, or the “Universal Humanity.”16 The “Universal Humanity”
will live together as a community of “natural Christs” in the “New Heaven” on
the “New Earth” that is the “New Jerusalem.”17
o
The “Selection Process”
But Hubbard’s “Christ,” while
describing the “birth experience” and affirming his love for all mankind,
nevertheless warns that there will be no place in the “New Jerusalem” for those
who refuse to see themselves and others as a part of God. He describes,
therefore, the necessity of a “selection process” that will select out
resistant individuals who “choose” not to evolve. This “selection process” is a
“purification” that will be accomplished through “the shock of a fire.”18
“Christ” states that those who
see themselves as “separate” and not divine hinder humanity’s ability to
spiritually evolve. Those who deny their own “divinity” are “cancer cells” in
the body of God.19 “Christ” warns that a healthy body must have no cancer
cells. Cancer cells must be healed or completely removed from the body. He
describes the means of removal as the “selection process.” The “selection
process” results in the deaths of those who refuse to see themselves as a part
of God.
After the “selection process”
the spirit bodies of the departed individuals will continue to be “purified” in
the spirit realm. Hubbard’s
“Christ” emphasizes that they
will not be given another physical body and they will not be able to rejoin
humanity until they rid themselves of all “self-centeredness.” He defines “self-centeredness”
as “the illusion” that one is “separate” from God. The self-centered temptation
to see oneself as “separate,” and not as a part of God, is “evil” and must be
“overcome.” He also refers to self-centeredness, or this illusion of separateness,
as “Satan.” In the future, described by Hubbard’s “Christ”, anyone who refuses
to see themselves and others as “God” and “Christ” will be removed by the
“selection process.” Those professing Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour
would be subject to this process, as would traditional Jews, Muslims and all
others who refuse to see themselves as a part of God.
o
The
Global Renaissance Alliance
Barbara Marx Hubbard,
politically well-connected and extremely influential, is a major figure in the
emerging field of “new gospel” politics. Her “Campaign for a Positive Future” is still going strong. And her formal
involvement with Marianne Williamson,
Neale Donald Walsch and other “new
gospel” leaders in The Global Renaissance
Alliance represents a new kind of spiritual activism that is rapidly developing
into a social and political movement.
Hubbard’s continued political
ambitions are possibly evidenced in an article she wrote in a recently
published book entitled Imagine: What America Could Be in the 21st Century. In
the article, a woman very close to her own description becomes President of the
United States after a successful campaign for a “positive future.” Her
character’s campaign embraces the slogan “Resolve to Evolve—The Only Solution
is Our Evolution.” This president is unique in that she is the lead person in a
first time ever team presidency.20
Hubbard, through her writings
and lifelong spiritual and political lobbying, continues to implement the
teachings and principles she received from her “Christ.” She is presently
dedicated to the process of incorporating these “new gospel” teachings into her
own local community of Santa Barbara, California. With high hopes that her
Santa Barbara “seed group”21 will become a working model for other communities
around the world, Hubbard will no doubt be looking for opportunities to
showcase her project.
The fact that Oprah Winfrey
recently bought a home in the Santa Barbara area should definitely increase
Hubbard’s chances of getting some exposure. In a “new age” world that says
“there are no coincidences” it is interesting to note that Marianne Williamson,
Oprah Winfrey and Barbara Marx
Hubbard now all have houses just minutes from each other in the Santa Barbara area.
If Oprah does for Hubbard what she did for Williamson, we will all be hearing a
lot more about Barbara Marx Hubbard, her Santa Barbara “seed group” and the
“new gospel” plans her “Christ” has for this world.
My beloved church misunderstood
me. It preached the corruptibility of humanity when I came to demonstrate its
potential for incorruptibility. It propounded the sinfulness of humanity when I
suffered to reveal your godliness and to overcome your guilt by demonstrating
that you can totally rise above the death of the body. (p. 231)
o
Purpose
of “new revelation”
Behold, I am writing anew,
through scribes on Earth who are willing to listen to me again with new ears,
in the light of the present crises on planet Earth. (p. 265)
You must demonstrate the
psychological state of universal consciousness as a new norm. That is the first
purpose of your writings. (p. 74)
The second purpose of these
writings is to call for the completion of the good news concerning the
transformation of the world. (p. 74)
The alternative to Armageddon is open to you. This is
why we are writing this text. (p. 264)
Direct quotes from Hubbard’s “Christ”* in
The Revelation
o
Resurrection
The resurrection was a future
forecast of an approaching new norm. The transformation of Homo sapiens to Homo
universalis is the acting out of that forecast by the human species. What I did
alone, now all can do who choose to love God above all else and their neighbor
as themselves. (p. 65)
I did not suffer on the cross and
rise again on the third day to show you what I could do, but what you can do.
Yours is the power. Yours is the glory. That is my message to you! (p. 100)
o
Christ
You were born to be me. You
were born to be partners with God. (p. 148)
The church is the body of
believers who are conscious of being me. (p. 102)
o
Return of Christ
I cannot “return” until enough
of you are attracted and linked. (p. 66)
I cannot come to you unless you
grow up to be my equal. (p. 75)
o
Man
I did not intend for you to
deify me, but to deify yourselves as being at the same stage of evolution as I
am. (p. 231)
You all have the same master
from within. That master is me, your higher self, the Christ within each of you
who is, right now, hearing the same voice, seeing the same vision of the
future, despite all differences of language and culture. (p. 243)
The “living fountains of
waters,” the source of ever-evolving life in each of you, is waiting to be
turned on. It is the mechanism for rejuvenation and renewal. (p. 151)
o
Satan
The fallen angel is that
impulse in your being that urges you to believe only what your creature senses
tell you: that you are separate from God and you will surely die. (p.188)
Your triumph over Satan, that
is, over the illusion of separation, will be a victory for the universal
community.
o
Aliens
Do not fear “aliens.” You have learned on Earth, after much suffering, that
there are no “foreign” nations because there are no foreigners…. You are living
within one body. You are all members of one body. (p. 275)
You should know now that there
are no aliens in the universe. They are Sons and Daughters of God at various
stages of evolution. Yes, they are different—diverse beyond your present
capacity to imagine—but they are not alien. (p. 275)
o
Evolution
Your unfinished species is ready to evolve. The time has come on
Earth for this quantum change to occur in many of you. (p. 65)
You shall be enabled by the
process of evolution to transcend your own limits. You cannot do it by human
will and desire alone. You are to be empowered by the force that creates the
universe. (p. 94)
o
Israel
Israel is the idea of humanity
and God as One. It is the idea of the transformation of this world to a New
Earth. It is the idea of the transformation of this body to a new body. It is
the idea of the selection of the God-centered from the self-centered. It is the
idea of the evolution of humanity from Adam of the living soul to Adam of the
life-giving Spirit, from Homo sapiens to Homo universalis. (p. 192)
o
New Jerusalem
The New Jerusalem is the new
city which emerges naturally from a New Heaven and a New Earth. It is the human
community as a collectivity of natural Christs. (p. 258)
In the New Jerusalem, humanity
and God are one. (p. 286)
! According to Hubbard, these transmissions come from “Christ”
and “higher voices.”
o
Dearly beloved, I approached the crucifixion far more easily
than I approach the selection. The crucifixion was done unto my body. The
selection will be done unto yours. (p. 197)
o
The decisive moment of selection has almost come. The judgment
of the quick and the dead is about to be made. The end of this phase of
evolution is nearly complete. (p. 189)
o
By your acts you shall be judged as to whether you can evolve,
or must be “cast into the lake of fire,” which is the second death. (p. 254)
o
The “second death” is for those of you who cannot evolve by
choice, due to some deeply seated error in your understanding of the nature of
reality. (p. 267)
o
It is to open your mind that you will undergo the second death.
(p. 267)
o
…[T]he fundamental regression is self-centeredness, or the
illusion that you are separate from God. I “make war” on self-centeredness. It
shall surely be overcome. The child must become the adult. Human must become Divine.
That is the law. (p. 233)
o
At the co-creative stage of evolution, one self-centered soul is
like a lethal cancer cell in a body: deadly to itself and to the whole. (p.
255)
o
The surgeon dare leave no cancer in the body when he closes up
the wound after a delicate operation. We dare leave no self-centeredness on
Earth after the selection process. For when we complete the process of the
transformation, all who live on will be empowered to be godlike. (p. 240)
o
The selection process will exclude all who are exclusive. The
selection process assures that only the loving will evolve to the stage of
co-creator. (p. 303)
o
After the selection process, you will be born to the next stage
of evolution. There will be a New Heaven, a New
o
The Selection Processing
Direct quotes from Hubbard’s “Christ” in The Revelation
o
Earth, a new body and a new consciousness for all who survive.
(p. 261)
o
Your triumph over Satan, that is, over the illusion of
separation, will be a victory for the universal community. (p. 193)
o
If you do not choose to have a new body to co-create with me,
you will not have one. You may choose an impersonal future rather than the
transpersonal future. The impersonal future is bodiless. You divest yourself of
your personal memory and your DNA, and become an undifferentiated aspect of
God. (p. 196)
o
Cynics, disbelievers, those who fear and cannot love: know that
the mercy of God almighty is with you now. The second death, for you, is
purification, the erasing of the memory of fear, through the shock of a fire.
It will burn out the imprint upon your soul that is blocking you from seeing
the glory which shall be revealed in you. (p. 267)
o
Those who are not sufficiently educated to align with the
design, experience God’s purification process as long as necessary, until they
learn how to know God or the Intention of Creation experientially. They cannot
return to the new Earth or the new Heaven, in a self-centered state. (p. 255)
o
Remember, Satan is either consumed by fire or by love. In the
New Jerusalem, there is no illusion of separation. (p. 297)
o
The end is near. The old play is almost over. Suffice it to say,
that if you do not choose to evolve into a wholesome, co-creative human, then
you shall not. (p. 195)
o
The only punishment is your self-exclusion from the joy of new
life. The only pity is that you are missing the mark and choosing to die
unfulfilled. (p. 195)
o
There need be no greater punishment. There need be no threats.
There is only choice. That is the purpose of freedom. Only those who choose to
evolve, do. Henceforth, the choice is yours. (p. 195)
o
The stakes are high, dearly beloved. Choose well. (p. 290)
Chapter Three Page 35
o
Neale Donald Walsch and Conversations with God
For the time will come when
they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap
to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears
from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
—2 Timothy 4:3-4
In 1992 Neale Donald Walsch, a
disillusioned and distraught former radio talk show host, public relations
professional, and longtime metaphysical seeker, sat down one night and wrote
God an angry letter.1 He was amazed when “God” immediately answered his letter
by speaking to him through an inner voice. That night, and in subsequent
conversations, Walsch wrote down all of the dictated answers to his questions.
The dictation continued for several years.2 Walsch’s Conversations with God:
Book 1 was published in 1995 and became the first in a series of bestselling
Conversations with God books. It seemed that in Walsch “God” had found yet
another willing channel for his “new gospel” teachings.
In a style reminiscent of John
Denver and George Burns in the movie Oh, God!, Walsch and “God” present a more
“down home” version of the same “new gospel” teachings that were conveyed
through previous “inner voice” dictation to Schucman and Hubbard. With Walsch
playing the role of devil’s advocate, “God” cleverly plays off of Walsch’s
leading questions and comments.
Walsch and “God” come across
during these conversations as a couple of “everyday Joe’s”, who, systematically
dismantle traditional Christianity with their,” straight- from-the-source”,
“spiritually correct”, teachings. With the assurance of two foxes now in
control of the henhouse, they emphatically assert that the “new gospel” is from
God and that the “old gospel” is not.
Delighted by the fact that they
are being taken seriously by millions of readers, “God” and Walsch appear to
thoroughly enjoy their process of bringing the public up to spiritual speed.
Continuing to build upon the foundation of “new gospel” teachings already
introduced through Schucman,
Hubbard, and others, “God” and Walsch add some special twists of their own to
the “new gospel”
story. Using Walsch as the
straight man, “God” introduces many of his more extreme teachings with smug,
authoritative statements
such as: “There are no such
things as the Ten Commandments.”3 “So who said Jesus was perfect?”4 and “Hitler
went to heaven.”5
v
Glorification of Death
Walsch’s “God” makes a number
of other provocative statements about Hitler. The net effect is a minimization
of Hitler’s actions and an obvious glorification of death. The following are
two of “God’s” comments about Hitler and death:
So the first thing you have to
understand—as I’ve already explained to you—is that Hitler didn’t hurt anyone.
In a sense, he didn’t inflict suffering, he ended it.
I tell you this, at the moment
of your death you will realize the greatest freedom, the greatest peace, the
greatest joy, and the greatest love you have ever known. Shall we therefore
punish Bre’r Fox for throwing Bre’r Rabbit into the briar patch?7
Walsch, always the public
relations man, anticipates reader incredulity at statements like these by
expressing apparent surprise and then asking “God” questions that the skeptical
reader would probably ask. But in his process of seeming to challenge
“God”—which he does with considerable skill—Walsch actually enables “God” to
further expound upon and reinforce the thoughts and ideas of his teachings. Not
surprisingly, Walsch always seems to come around to “God’s” point of view. Even
to some of his more extreme views about death and Adolph Hitler.
In a book entitled Questions and Answers on Conversations with
God, Walsch addresses reader concerns about the comments that “God” makes
about Hitler and death. One of Walsch’s statements of justification is:
Yet while the books do state
that life is eternal, that death is nothing to fear, and that returning to God
is joyful, I do not believe that any reasonable interpretation of the material could
fairly portray God as condoning the killing of human beings—or brushing it off
as if it were of no importance or consequence.
But Walsch does not address the fact that he and other Global
Renaissance Alliance board members recommend Barbara Marx Hubbard’s book, The
Revelation, in which “Christ” clearly describes a “selection process” that will
result in the “second death” of all those who refuse to subscribe to his “new
gospel.”
v
Humanity is “God”
At one point in their
“conversation,” “God” develops the idea that man is not subject to God because
man is God. “God” explains that there are no rules and there is no right or
wrong because man, as God, is his own “rule-maker.” Walsch’s “God” contends
that because God and humanity are one, it is therefore up to humanity to
determine what God wants to do. If humanity wants to make up a new set of rules
this late in the game, humanity can do that because it was humanity, as God,
that devised the original rules in the first place. Everything is relative. Everything
is up to the prevailing majority. Therefore, because humanity is God, humanity
can create whatever rules and whatever future it wants.
For example, “God” tells Walsch:
o
All of your life you have been told that God created you. I come
now to tell you this: You are creating God.
o
…You are your own rule-maker.
o
Think, speak, and act as the God You Are.
o
…Your future is creatable. Create it as you want it.Create the
grandest version of the greatest vision you ever had about yourselves as a
human race.
“Conscious evolution,” or the process of mankind
consciously exercising its authority as “God” to create its own future, is the
title of a recent Barbara Marx Hubbard book.
“God” tells Walsch he gave
Hubbard the title of the book. “God” also takes credit for inspiring A Course in Miracles.
o
“God:” This
is called conscious evolution, and your species has just arrived there.
o
Walsch: Wow,
that’s an incredible insight. That’s why you gave Barbara Marx Hubbard that
book! As I said, she actually called it Conscious Evolution.
o
“God:” Of
course she did. I told her to.
o
“God:” All attack is
a call for help.
o
Walsch: I read
that in A Course in Miracles.
o
“God:” I put
it there.
“God” makes it clear to Walsch that
his modern-day “revelation” is for all those who have never really understood
his teachings about man being God. As he was with Schucman and Hubbard, “God”
is indirectly critical of Bible-believing Christians who insist that sin is
real and that man is not God. “God” contends that the only real “sin” is for
man to see himself as sinful and “separate” from God. “God” says that the only
“devil” or “Satan” is the separatist thinking that differentiates between man
and God. Echoing A Course in Miracles, “God” states that only as humanity sees
through the illusion of “separation” and “sin” and affirms its own godliness
and oneness with all creation will the planet be saved from ultimate ruin.
v
“New
Gospel” Politics
Walsch’s “God” warns that in
the near future people will have to make a choice between the “old” and “new”
gospels. The choice they make will have great bearing on the future of mankind.
“God” declares that humanity, by collectively imagining and envisioning its
highest hopes and dreams, can consciously create a positive future. “God” expresses great optimism that the
“new gospel” will prevail and tells Walsch that humanity is standing on the
threshold of a “golden” new age.
The twenty-first century will
be the time of awakening, of meeting The Creator Within. Many beings will
experience Oneness with God and with all of life. This will be the beginning of
the golden age of the New Human, of which it has been written; the time of the
universal human, which has been eloquently described by those with deep insight
among you.
There are many such people in
the world now—teachers and messengers, Masters and visionaries—who are placing
this vision before humankind and offering tools with which to create it. These
messengers and visionaries are the heralds of a New Age.17
Regarding how the “New Age”
will be achieved and ultimately overseen, “God” impresses Walsch with the
importance of bringing spirituality into politics and government.
v
He (god) tells Walsch:
o
When you agree to spread the word, to carry the message that can
change the human heart, you play an important role in hanging the human
condition. This is why all spirituality is ultimately political.18
o
You cannot avoid politicizing your spirituality. Your political
viewpoint is your spirituality, demonstrated. Yet perhaps it is not a matter of
politicizing your spirituality, but of spiritualizing your politics.19
“God” is very specific about how this spiritualization of
politics should ultimately manifest itself.
o
“God:”
Something will have to be new if you wish your world to change. You must begin
to see someone else’s interests as your own. This will happen only when you
reconstruct your global reality and govern yourselves accordingly.
o
Walsch: Are
you talking about a one-world government?
o
“God:” I
am.20
“God” exhorts Walsch to carry out his mission to change the
world and to bring in a spiritually-based new world order by issuing this
charge:
o
Go, therefore, and teach ye all nations, spreading far and wide The
New Gospel: WE ARE ALL ONE.21
And certainly Walsch seems to
be doing his part. Responding to “God’s” charge to spread the “new gospel” and
to help establish sympathy for “a one-world government,” Walsch co-founded The
Global Renaissance Alliance with Marianne Williamson. He also continues to
write books, conduct workshops and speak to large groups around the country.
o
And so I have chosen you to be My messenger. You, and many
others.
o
For now, during these times immediately ahead, the world will
need many trumpets to sound the clarion call. (CWG Book 1, p. 144)
The purpose of this book, and
of all the books in the trilogy we are creating, is to create
readiness—readiness for a new paradigm, a new understanding; a larger view, a
grander idea. (CWG Book 2, p. 36)
New gospel
o
There is only one message that can change the course of human
history forever, end the torture, and bring you back to God. That message is The New Gospel: WE ARE ALL ONE. (FWG, p.
373)
God
o
There is only One of Us. You and I are One. (FWG, p. 23)
o
God is creation. (CWG Book 1, p. 198)
o
There are a thousand paths to God, and every one gets you there.
(FWG, p. 357)
Christ
o
Many have been Christed, not just Jesus of Nazareth. You can be
Christed, too. (CWG Book 2, p. 22)
Man
o
You are already a God. You simply do not know it. (CWG Book 1,
p. 202)
o
You are the Creator and the Created. (CWG Book 3, p. 350)
o
You are, quite literally, the Word of God, made flesh.(FWG, p.
395)
o
My purpose in creating you, My spiritual offspring, was for Me
to know Myself as God. I have no way to do that save through you. Thus it can
be said… that My purpose for you is that you should know yourself as Me. (CWG
Book 1, p. 26)
Atonement/oneness
o
You must realize that “atonement” is just that—it is
“at-one-ment.” It is the awareness that you and all others are One. It is the
understanding that you are One with everything—including Me.
Direct quotes from Walsch’s “God” Purpose (FWG,
p. 92)
o
The only solution is the Ultimate Truth: nothing exists in the
universe that is separate from anything else. (CWG Book 2, p. 173)
v
Evolution
o
And do not stay so “stuck” in your present beliefs and customs
that you halt the process of evolution itself. (p. 89, CWG Book 3)
o
It’s important now, it’s time now, to change your mind about
some things. This is what evolution is all about. (CWG Book 1, p. 168)
o
This truly is an evolution revolution, for now larger and larger
numbers of you are creating consciously the quality of your experience, the
direct expression of Who You Really Are, and the rapid manifestation of Who You
Choose to Be. (CWG Book 3, p. 279)
v
Sin
o
In truth, there is no such thing as a “sinner,” for no one can
be sinned against—least of all Me. (CWG Book 3, p. 87)
o
Quite an interesting concept; How did anyone get you to believe
that?(CWG Book 2, p. 43)
o
The act of Adam and Eve was not original sin, but, in truth,
first blessing. (CWG Book 1, p. 56)
v
Evil
o
Evil is that which you call evil. (CWG Book 1, p. 61)
v
Aliens
o
Walsch: And You’re telling me that beings from outer space are
helping us with that?
o
“God”: Indeed. They are among you now, many of them. They have
been helping for years. (CWG Book 2, p. 239)
o
The time will come when your consciousness will rise and your
fear will subside, and then they will reveal themselves to you. Some of them
have already done so—with a handful of people.(CWG Book 2, p. 239)
v
Creating your own future
o
So if you think it would be interesting for the doomsday
predictions of the psychics to come true, focus all your attention on that, and
you can draw that to yourself. And if you think you would like to experience a
different reality, focus on that, and that is the outcome you can draw to
you.(CWG Book 3, p. 109)
v
New world order
o
There have been those leaders among you who have been insightful
enough and brave enough to propose the beginnings of such a new world order.
Your George Bush, whom history will judge to be a man of far greater wisdom,
vision, compassion, and courage than contemporary society was willing or able
to acknowledge, was such a leader. So was Soviet President Mikhail
Gorbachev….(CWG Book 2, p. 199)
v
Peace
o
You can similarly end all war tomorrow. Simply. Easily. All it
takes—all it has ever taken—is for all of you to agree. (CWG Book 1, p. 50)
v
Choice/decision
o
This is the eternal moment, the time of your new deciding. (FWG,
p. 230)
o
Yet today is a new day. Now is a new time. And yours is a new
choice. It is a choice to create anew your personal relationship with e. (FWG,
p. 243)
[Pages 23, 24 and 25 excerpted
from: Conversations with God (Books 1, 2, and 3) and Friendship with God, N.D.
Walsch.]
o
Walsch: Well,
I’m going to have to ask the questions here that I know so many people are
thinking and wanting to ask. How could a man like Hitler have gone to heaven?
Every religion in the world… I would think everyone, has declared him condemned and sent straight to
hell.
o
“God”: First,
he could not have gone to hell because hell does not exist. Therefore, there is
only one place left to which he could have gone. But that begs the question.
The real issue is whether Hitler’s actions were “wrong.” Yet I have said over
and over again that there is no “right” or “wrong” in the universe. A thing is
not intrinsically right or wrong. A thing simply is.
o
“God”: Now,
your thought that Hitler was a monster is based on the fact that he ordered the
killing of millions of people, correct?
o
Walsch: Obviously,
yes.
o
“God”: Yet what if I
told you that what you call “death” is the greatest thing that could happen to
anyone—what then? (CWG Book 2, p. 36)
o
“God”: I do
not love “good” more than I love “bad.” Hitler went to heaven.(CWG Book 1, p.
61)
o
“God”: The
mistakes Hitler made did no harm or damage to those whose deaths he caused.
Those souls were released from their earthly bondage, like butterflies emerging
from a cocoon. (CWG Book 2, p. 42)
o
“God”: So the
first thing you have to understand—as I’ve already explained to you—is that
Hitler didn’t hurt anyone. In a sense, he didn’t inflict suffering, he ended
it. (CWG Book 2, p. 56)
o
“God”: There
is no “death.” Life goes on forever and ever. Life is. You simply change form.
(CWG Book 2, p. 40)
o
“God”: I tell
you this, at the moment of your death you will realize the greatest freedom,
the greatest peace, the greatest joy, and the greatest love you have ever
known. Shall we therefore punish Bre’r Fox for throwing Bre’r Rabbit into the
briar patch? (CWG Book 2, p. 36)
v
Hitler and death
Direct
quotes from Walsch’s “God”
o
If you are a being who chooses to cut out a cancer within you in
order to preserve your larger life form, then you will demonstrate that. (FWG,
p. 369)
o
Every aspect of divinity has co-creative control over its
destiny. Therefore, you cannot kill a mosquito against its will. At some level,
the mosquito has chosen that. All of the change in the universe occurs with the
consent of the universe itself, in its various forms. The universe cannot
disagree with itself. That is impossible.(FWG, p. 371)
o
And so, answer to your question. Is it okay to swat a mosquito?
Trap a mouse? Pull a weed? Slaughter a lamb and eat it? That is for you to
decide. All is for you to decide. (FWG, p. 388)
o
For while you will understand that you cannot end another’s life
in any event, (all life is eternal), you will not choose to terminate any
particular incarnation, nor change any life energy from one form to another,
without the most sacred justification. (CWG Book 1, p. 96–97)
Chapter Four Page 46
o
Wayne
Peterson and Maitreya 46
I am come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not: if another shall
come in his own name, him ye will receive. —John 5:43
In February 1982 Wayne Peterson, a director of the U.S. Government’s
Fulbright Scholarship Program,1 was relaxing in his Washington D.C. home
looking for something to watch on TV. His interest was piqued when he noticed
popular talk show host Merv Griffin holding up a book entitled The Reappearance
of the Christ and the Masters of Wisdom. Peterson, a former Peace
Corps volunteer and veteran American diplomat writes that his first
thought was that the book had some “fundamentalist
Christian message,” but he questioned why Griffin would be “promoting”
this religious group on his show. Fascinated, he stayed tuned as Griffin
interviewed the book’s author, British artist and esotericist Benjamin Creme.
Peterson recalls what transpired in the interview:
During this discussion, Creme said that the one Christians call the Christ
had reappeared and was living in a major industrial city in the Western world.
This time his name was Maitreya and he was bringing with him a large group of
his disciples, highly advanced, spiritual men called the Masters of Wisdom. He
said we could expect to hear more about Maitreya Wayne Peterson and Maitreya on
local and international news programs very soon.
Maitreya’s purpose, Creme indicated, was to help us realize our innate
divinity through learning to live in right relationship as brothers and sisters
of one great family. The first step was to establish sharing as the way to eliminate
the poverty and starvation that caused millions around the world to die daily
in the midst of plenty. Maitreya was emerging in time to help us save ourselves
and the planet, and would make himself known, to all in a televised ‘Day of
Declaration’ soon to come.
As Peterson listened to Creme and heard about Maitreya, he recalled an
incident from childhood. As a little boy in the midst of a life-threatening
illness, he believed that he had been visited by “Mary,” the mother of Jesus.
So powerful was her help and presence that he expressed his desire to depart
with her rather than stay in the world. In her successful effort to convince
him to stay in the world with his family, Peterson states that she told him the
following:
I am going to tell you a secret that few now know. If you stay with your
family, you will see the Christ because he will come to live with the people of
the world.
Convinced that Maitreya was the “Christ” that “Mary” had promised would come,
Peterson ordered Creme’s book. From his reading, he learned more about the
“Christ” and his highly evolved disciples, the “Masters of Wisdom.” Peterson
read how these Masters of Wisdom are supernaturally assisting in the evolution
of humanity. From his reading, Peterson came to the conclusion that what we
commonly refer to as angels are really “Christ” and these Masters of Wisdom. He
read that in the future, as humanity transitions from the “old order” to a “new
age,” there will be more and more open collaboration between these Masters of
Wisdom and world leaders in all fields and disciplines. Reading Creme’s book,
Peterson felt he was beginning to get the big picture.
As I read Creme’s book, I learned more about the Christ, or World Teacher,
whose personal name is Maitreya. He is the one waited by all the major
religions albeit unknown to them. The Christians wait for the return of the
Christ, Buddhists for the next Buddha, Muslims for the Imam Mahdi, Hindus for a
reincarnation of Krishna, and the Jews for the Messiah. These are all different
names for one individual, Maitreya, who is here not as a religious leader but
as a teacher for all humanity.
Benjamin Creme, in The
Reappearance of the Christ and the Masters of Wisdom, said:
In the esoteric tradition, the Christ is not the name of an individual but
of an Office in the Hierarchy. The present holder of that Office, the Lord
Maitreya, has held it for 2,600 years, and manifested in Palestine through His
Disciple, Jesus, by the occult method of overshadowing, the most frequent form
used for the manifestation of Avatars. He has never left the world, but for
2,000 years has waited and planned for this immediate future time, training His
Disciples, and preparing Himself for the awesome task which awaits Him. He has
made it known that this time, He Himself will come.
Wayne Peterson’s book, Extraordinary Times, Extraordinary Beings, is his
first person account of his personal involvement with Creme and Maitreya—what
he experienced and what he was told. He writes that, amazingly, within weeks of
seeing Creme on Merv Griffin and reading his book, Creme actually came to
Washington, D.C. Peterson was able to meet with him and other followers of
Maitreya and participate in a special “Transmission Meditation.” Peterson said
that this new form of meditation had been sent to humanity through Creme by one
of the Masters of Wisdom. Peterson describes the meditation: Called
Transmission Meditation, it was a service activity in which energy from the
Masters was ‘stepped down’ by the meditators and made available to the world.
In the process the meditators’ own spiritual development was enhanced manifold.
I understood that it was another way to help Maitreya and the Masters emerge as
soon as possible.
Peterson reports that he has had several dramatic personal encounters with
Maitreya and that he directly experienced Maitreya’s extremely powerful
spiritual energy. In describing one of those encounters Peterson writes: As we
stood there with spiritual energy flowing freely, I told Maitreya that, if
people could experience this energy, they would discard all their earthly
notions of ‘paradise.’
v Peterson quotes Maitreya in regards to experiencing “living
truth.”
The Master is within you. If you follow the disciplines of life the
Teacher teaches you, the Master reveals himself within you. Do not be attached
to the human form. The living truth is a matter of experience.
In his over thirty-two years of wo