Vatican Summit: The time for a decisive battle is clearly fast approaching.

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> " A new major religion, on a scale to rival any of the great world

> religions from Islam to Christianity, is beginning to take shape

> even before the new millennium turns. Like those religions before

> it, the yet unnamed new millennium religion will configure the

> minds of individuals, form new institutions, and help direct the

> course of history.

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> The signs of the new religion can be seen in society's quest for

> what is now being loosely called " spirituality. " "

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Vatican Summit to Combat Threat of 'Alternative' Religions

20 June 2004, 7:25 AM ET

 

ROME - Catholics from more than 25 countries are in Rome this week to

hammer out a strategy for combating the threat posed to Christianity

by " New Age " religions and fads.

 

" Astrologers believe that the Age of Pisces - known as the Christian

age - is drawing to a close, " explained an exhaustive report on the

New Age produced by the Catholic church last year. And as priests

around the world watch their congregations dwindle through boredom or

plain disbelief, the Church believes that the moment has come to

fight back.

 

Monsignor Peter Fleetwood, one of the authors of the report, said

that those at the closed-door conference including priests and lay

people from around the world are " worried that they can be pushed out

by something that has come from abroad " , and from Asia where " a lot

of traditional religions are reviving " .

 

But for Fleetwood the greatest challenge may be in England and North

America, " where the New Age began ... and where it has become such a

part of everyday life that we don't notice it " . That makes it harder

to attack, he says: " Where one sees a threat, it's easier to battle

it. "

 

This is an enemy with dozens of heads: the version of the Jewish

kabbalah espoused by Madonna, the Enneagram personality-reading cult,

ancient Egyptian occult practices, Sufism, the Essenes, Gnostics, the

lore of the Druids, Celtic Christianity, medieval alchemy,

Renaissance hermeticism, Yoga, Zen Buddhism, and many more.

 

The report acknowledges the strength of the Enemy Within: " In Western

culture in particular, the appeal of 'alternative' approaches to

spirituality is very strong .... New forms of psychological

affirmation of the individual have become very popular among

Catholics. "

 

Under the liberal dispensation of Pope John XXIII and the Second

Vatican Council, Catholic missionaries explored the religious

traditions of lands where in the past their task would have been

restricted to converting the " heathen. "

 

In Japan, one Jesuit missionary became a Zen Buddhist roshi

( " master " ). He in fact became a reverse missionary, implanting Zen

Buddhist ideas and practice in Catholic groups in Germany and

elsewhere, where they continue to thrive.

 

But Pope John Paul II's church is far less tolerant about practices

that the Pope's " enforcer of the faith " , Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger,

dismissed as " spiritual auto-eroticism " .

 

New Age is getting a grip on Christians because many are failing to

find authentic spirituality in the Church. They are failing to find,

as the report put it, " the importance of man's spiritual dimension

and its integration with the whole of life, the search for life's

meaning, the link between human beings and the rest of creation, the

desire for personal and social transformation, and the rejection of a

rationalistic and materialistic view of humanity. "

 

While one of the two " pontifical councils " involved in taking up the

challenge is that for " inter-religious dialogue " , suggesting that the

New Agers be dealt with on a similar footing to Muslims, Jews, and

indeed Anglicans, the Pope himself appears to see the issue as a

simple matter of right and wrong.

 

" We cannot delude ourselves, " he says, that " this return of ancient

Gnostic ideas " " will lead toward a renewal of religion. " It is, he

said, " a way of distorting His Word ... in distinct, if not declared,

conflict with all that is essentially Christian " .

 

The time for a decisive battle is clearly fast approaching.

 

Vatican Summit to Combat Threat of 'Alternative' Religions

 

 

Yes, it is true that eschatology and the Sure Signs witnessed has

begun to remind humanity that the time for a decisive battle is

clearly fast approaching. " A new major religion, on a scale to rival

any of the great world religions from Islam to Christianity, is

beginning to take shape even before the new millennium turns. " We

SYs are the first to witness the faintest early rays of this new

religion at the dawn of this new millennium. The heart and soul of

this new religion is the Divine Message to humanity that synthesizes

the great religions of Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism and

others. All the holy scriptures and prophets promised that a time

will come when the Divine will intervene in human affairs prior to

the Second Coming of Christ, which Hindus believe to be Shri Kalki.

 

According to the Catholic Church " Few truths are more often or more

clearly proclaimed in Scripture than that of the general judgment.

To it the prophets of the Old Testament refer when they speak of

the " Day of the Lord " (Joel 2:31; Ezekiel 13:5; Isaiah 2:12), in

which the nations will be summoned to judgment. In the New Testament

the second Parusia, or coming of Christ as Judge of the world, is an

oft-repeated doctrine. The Saviour Himself not only foretells the

event but graphically portrays its circumstances (Matthew 24:27

sqq.; 25:31 sqq.). The Apostles give a most prominent place to this

doctrine in their preaching (Acts 10:42; 17:31) and writings (Romans

2:5-16; 14:10; 1 Corinthians 4:5; 2 Corinthians 5:10; 2 Timothy 4:1;

2 Thessalonians 1:5; James 5:7). Besides the name Parusia

(parousia), or Advent (1 Corinthians 15:23; 2 Thessalonians 2:19),

the Second Coming is also called Epiphany, epiphaneia, or Appearance

(2 Thessalonians 2:8; 1 Timothy 6:14; 2 Timothy 4:1; Titus 2:13),

and Apocalypse (apokalypsis), or Revelation (2 Thessalonians 2:7; 1

Peter 4:13). The time of the Second Coming is spoken of as " that

Day " (2 Timothy 4:8), " the day of the Lord " (1 Thessalonians

5:2), " the day of Christ " (Philemon 1:6), " the day of the Son of

Man " (Luke 17:30), " the last day " (John 6:39-40). "

 

The physical incarnation of the Shakti, Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi,

has announced and summoned the nations to the promised general

judgment that is in complete agreement with all that is essentially

Christian ............. and in harmony with other religions as

well. As promised by Lord Jesus the Comforter has for more than

three decades brought to remembrance all that Christ could not

preach. Now since that has been accomplished all nations and peoples

of many tongues are summoned to judgment. That is the new major

religion, on a scale to rival any of the great world religions from

Islam to Christianity, that began taking shape even before the new

millennium turned. The heart and soul of this new religion is His

Divine Call to participate in the Last Judgment and Resurrection.

 

Jai Shri Mataji,

 

 

jagbir

[Guest guest]

Dear Jagbir,

 

Thank you for this very clear description of the heart and soul of

the new major religion that began taking shape even before the new

millennium turned.

 

Violet

 

 

" The physical incarnation of the Shakti, Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi,

has announced and summoned the nations to the promised general

judgment that is in complete agreement with all that is essentially

Christian ............. and in harmony with other religions as

well. As promised by Lord Jesus, the Comforter has for more than

three decades brought to remembrance all that Christ could not

preach. Now since that has been accomplished, all nations and peoples

of many tongues are summoned to judgment. That is the new major

religion, on a scale to rival any of the great world religions from

Islam to Christianity, that began taking shape even before the new

millennium turned. The heart and soul of this new religion is His

Divine Call to participate in the Last Judgment and Resurrection " .