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Conscience Press, Ravenna, OhioCopyright 2002 by Warren Smith. All rights reserved.No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission inwriting from the author, except in the case of brief quotations embodied incritical articles or reviews.ISBN 0-9667071-1-7

All Scripture quotations are taken from the King James Version of the Bible.

Cover illustration by Vernon Rousseau. Graphic design by Colin A. Leslie.Published 2002Second printing February 2003Printed in the United States of America.

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ContentsPreface ..................................................................................................... 5Introduction ........................................................................................... 7

1. Helen Schucman and A Course in Miracles .............................. 92. Barbara Marx Hubbard and The Revelation ........................... 14

3. Neale Donald Walsch and Conversations with God ............. 204. Wayne Peterson and Maitreya................................................... 265. The Light that was Dark ............................................................. 336. The Global Renaissance Alliance .............................................. 407. The New Gospel Campaign for Peace .................................. 458. The Armageddon Alternative .................................................... 549. The New Gospel Doctrine of Separation .............................. 60

10. The Silent Church ........................................................................ 6611. The Final Word............................................................................. 7112. Epilogue ........................................................................................ 79

Endnotes ............................................................................................... 82Bibliography......................................................................................... 85


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Beloved, when I gave all diligence to writeunto you of the common salvation, it was

needful for me to write unto you, andexhort you that ye should earnestly con-

tend for the faith which was oncedelivered unto the saints.

Jude 3

In 1992 I wrote a book about my experiencesin the metaphysical new age movement.The book was entitled The Light That WasDark. I wrote the book because I wanted towarn people about the incredibly deceptive

teachings of the new age. From my ownexperience I knew just how powerfully se-ductive the spirit world is and how appeal-ing its false teachings can be.

At the end of my book I warned thatChristian believers were becoming in-volved in some of these same teachings anddeceptions. Spiritual deception is not justsomething that happens to unbelievers. Theapostle Paul went to great lengths to warnthe Corinthians not to be deceived by aJesus that wasnt Jesus Christ the Son ofGod, a spirit that wasnt the Holy Spirit anda gospel that was not the true biblical Gos-pel (2 Corinthians 11:4). Throughout theNew Testament, believers are continuallywarned not to be deceived by spiritualteachings and experiences that are not fromGod. Jesus Christ specifically warned hisdisciples that spiritual deception would bea sign of the end (Matthew 24:34).

Today it is very sad to see so manybelievers falling under the influence of the

same spirit that influenced me when I wasin the new age. This spirit says that it is atime for breakthroughs and for the ful-fillment of our destiny; that there is some-thing new and exciting in the wind. Thisteaching claims that we are in the midst ofa great transition that will result in aparadigm shift, and that through newrevelation and personal experience God

is in the process of taking the church to anew dimension and to a whole new

level. Many Christian leaders these daysare so sure that what they are hearing andexperiencing is from God, they are rarelytesting the spirits, or even considering thepossibility that they are being deceived.

The first century Bereans tested theirleaders and tested their teachings as theysearched the scriptures daily to seewhether those things were so (Acts 17:11).Apostles, prophets, pastors, and teacherswere always subject to Gods holy Word.New revelation never nullified nor super-

seded scripture. The Bereans were not im-pressed by supernatural power and spiri-tual experiences that had not been testedby the Word of God. They did not dependon signs and wonders and miracles. Theydepended on the authority and reliabilityand trustworthiness of Scripture:

All scripture is given by inspiration ofGod, and is profitable for doctrine, forreproof, for correction, for instruction inrighteousness. (2 Timothy 3:16)

Paul taught that if he or anyone elsepreached any other gospel new revela-tion or otherwise that person should becompletely disregarded (Galatians 1:8). TheBible warns over and over again that weshould not allow ourselves to be influencedor intimidated by teachings that originatenot from God but from the spirit world andfrom the hearts of men. Now the Spiritspeaketh expressly, that in the latter timessome shall depart from the faith, giving

heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines ofdevils (1 Timothy 4:1). Howbeit in vaindo they worship me, teaching for doctrinesthe commandments of men (Mark 7:7).

What had been called new age isnow being presented as new gospel.These new gospel teachings are not newand have actually been around for centu-ries in one form or another. Whether it was

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ancient gnosticism, the occultic teachings ofHelena Blavatsky (18311891) and Alice A.Bailey (18801949), or the present day newgospel channelings, the bottom line hasalways been the same everyone is a partof God.

Reinventing Jesus Christ

According to the new gospel, Christis not a person. It is an office. The newgospel teaches that while Jesus of Nazarethoccupied the office during His active min-istry, He no longer holds that same posi-tion. Today the office of Christ is occu-pied by someone else. And this someoneelse is presently in the process of establish-ing contact with humanity. This Christ

intimates that he is already in the worldawaiting mankinds call.

Concerned that humanity is in periland facing possible extinction, this Christexplains that his new gospel will unifythe worlds major religions and bring peaceto the world. He has communicated thesenew gospel teachings to his designatedteachers, who in turn are now conveyingthese same teachings to the rest of theworld.

This reinvented Christ of the newgospel teaches that all of humanity is thebody of Christ. He, as the Christ, is thehead. This Christ states humanitys di-lemma is that we have forgotten who weare. We are not sinners separate fromGod. We are all part of the one body ofChrist and the one body of God. Salvationdoes not come by grace from accepting JesusChrist as the Son of God. Rather it is achieved when we accept ourselves as Christ andwhen we accept ourselves as God.

The new gospel teaches that whenhumanity collectively accepts and experi-ences itself as being a part of Christ and apart of God, we not only save ourselves, wesave our world. The Christ of the newgospel warns that the hour is late. Peacemust come. He will help. He has a plan. Buteveryone must play their part.

With new revelation, often accom-panied by direct personal spiritual experi-ence, people are being taught that becausethey are a part of God they are actually at-one with God and all creation. This newgospel teaches when people have what is

described as their God potential orChrist within supernaturally activated,they actually experience themselves as apart of the one body of God which is allmankind. As these same people unite and join together in remembering and experi-encing their oneness with God and witheach other, they feel they are doing thework that is necessary to prepare the wayfor Christs return.

The need for discernmentUnfortunately, undiscerning Christian

leaders have not adequately exposed thesenew gospel teachings and, as a result, thespirit behind the new gospel has enteredthe Church.

The Bible warns us not to be ignorantof our adversarys schemes and devices sothat we will not fall prey to his deceptivetraps (Lest Satan should get an advantageof us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.

2 Corinthians 2:11). Scripture also tells usthat while it is a shame we even have totalk about these things, it is important thatwe expose them and bring them to the light(Ephesians 5:1113).

Because of my own involvement withnew age/new gospel teachings, and inlight of the many Scriptures warning us notto be deceived and urging us to expose de-ception, I will attempt to update believerson the accelerated spiritual deception thathas been taking place. Hopefully, by pro-

viding a general survey of this new gos-pel deception, believers will be more dis-cerning when in the form of propheticnew revelations these same teachingstry to move into their lives and into theirchurches.

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Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the lattertimes some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to

seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils.

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1Helen Schucman andA Course in MiraclesIn 1965 Columbia University Professor ofMedical Psychology, Helen Schucman,heard an inner voice saying, This is acourse in miracles. Please take notes.1

Schucmans initial resistance was overcomewhen the inner voice, identifying itselfas Jesus, told her the purpose of theCourse [i.e., A Course in Miracles, ed.]:

The world situation is worsening to analarming degree. People all over theworld are being called on to help, andare making their individual contribu-tions as part of an overall prearranged

plan. Part of the plan is taking down ACourse in Miracles, and I am fulfilling mypart in the agreement, as you will fulfillyours. You will be using abilities youdeveloped long ago, and which you arenot really ready to use again. Becauseof the acute emergency, however, theusual slow, evolutionary process is be-ing by-passed in what might best bedescribed as a celestial speed-up.2

And Jesus answered and said unto them,

Take heed that no man deceive you. Formany shall come in my name, saying, I amChrist; and shall deceive many.

Matthew 24:45

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Baffled by her assignment, but never-theless obliging, the skeptical Schucmandiligently took dictation from this innervoice. In the seven and a half years of cu-mulative dictation that became A Course inMiracles , Schucmans Jesus presents a

whole new way of looking at the world.Using Christian terminology, sophisticatedpsychology, and convincing authority,Schucmans Jesus teaches a completelydifferent gospel than the one found in theBible. His new gospel wholly contradictsthe Bibles Gospel of Jesus Christ.Schucmans inner voice, while claimingto be Jesus, actually opposes everything forwhich the Bibles Jesus stands.

In brief, A Course in Miracles teaches

that all is love. And while the Courseteaches that the opposite of love is fear, itexplains that fear is just an illusion basedon wrong thinking. It states that the worldwe see is merely the projected manifesta-tion of our own illusive, fearful thoughts.As each one of us learns to correct our fear-ful, wrong thinking, it will change not onlyhow we see the world, but also change theworld we see. The purpose of the Course isto facilitate this change in perception.

According to the Course, love is all

there is. And because God is love, God istherefore in everyone and everything. Be-cause God is sinless, perfect, and at onewith all creation, then we, as a part of God,are also sinless and perfect in our onenesswith Him. Mans only sin is in not re-membering his own perfect, sinless, divinenature. The only devil is our illusion thatwe are separate from, and not a part of, God.The Course tells its readers that a sense ofseparation from God is the only lack you

really need correct.

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The Course teaches that while Christis in Jesus, so Christ is in everyone andthat the Christ in everyone is their divineconnection with God and with each other.The Course teaches that a slain Christ hasno meaning.4 It states that wrong thinkinghas produced the misperception that man

is a sinner and that he needs an externalChrist to save him from his sins. TheCourse teaches that correcting ourmisperceptions has nothing to do withJesus death on the cross. Correction comesfrom what the Course calls the Atone-

ment (at-one-ment).This Atonement, or atoning, is

when each person remembers and affirmsand experiences their oneness (at-one-ment) with God and creation. The Atone-ment is the Courses key to undoing fearand dispelling the illusion that man isseparate from God. The Course stressesthat the healing of the world is dependentupon each persons fulfilling their atone-ment function to teach this oneness to

the world. When everyone comes to under-stand that all is love and all is God theninner peace and world peace will finallyhappen. Only fear and the illusion ofseparation stand in the way of mans at-taining this peace for himself and his world.

A Course in Miracles was published in1975. In 1979 psychiatrist GeraldJampolskys book, Love Is Letting Go of Fear,became a powerful testimonial and catalystfor Course sales as it helped introduceCourse principles to the popular self-help

market. During the 1980s, the Course gaineda grassroots following of dedicated believ-ers who were often mysteriously led to theCourse through unusual meant to be co-incidences and circumstances. It was alwaysassumed that these meant to be experi-ences were divinely inspired. Over time,curiosity and interest in the Course grewand it became a cult classic for those in thespiritual know. Believed to be modernday revelation, this apparent gift from

God presented new and seemingly plau-sible reinterpretations to the teachings of theBible. Because of the Course, spiritualitysuddenly seemed to make much more senseto many people. Yet, even as word spread,the Course still remained relatively un-known to the general public.



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Mainstreaming Christ

That all changed in 1992 when a littleknown author named MarianneWilliamson and her new book, A Return toLove: Reflections on the Principles of A Course

in Miracles , were featured on The OprahWinfrey Show. Praising Williamsons bookabout the Course, Oprah told her viewersthat she had already purchased a thousandcopies of Williamsons book.5

After Oprahs enthusiastic endorse-ment, A Return to Love shot to the top ofTheNew York Times bestseller list and stayedthere for months. The Christ ofA Coursein Miracles was suddenly out of the closet.He and his new gospel had just beenmainstreamed into millions of American

homes. Thanks to Oprah, MarianneWilliamson and the Christ ofA Course inMiracles now had celebrity status. But dur-ing the interview that day, Williamson andOprah failed to mention that the Jesus ofthe Course is not the same Jesus Christ de-scribed in the Bible and that the teach-ings ofA Course in Miracles actually contra-dict and oppose the teachings of the Bible.

Over the past decade, Williamson hascontinued to champion A Course in Miracles

in the media and in her public appearancesaround the country. A more recent book,Healing the Soul of America , has enabledWilliamson and the Course to make a subtletransition into the political arena. Hopingto inspire a new gospel approach to na-tional and world problems, Williamson,along with bestselling Conversations withGod author Neale Donald Walsch, co-founded The Global Renaissance Alliance.Many well-known new gospel advocatesand Course proponents have been recruited

to serve in the Alliance. In fact, one of theAlliance board members, in much the samemanner as Helen Schucman, says she tooreceived new revelation from an innervoice claiming to be Christ. That boardmembers name is Barbara Marx Hubbard.

ACourse In

Miracles

Direct quotes from the Jesus

of The Course

God

There is no separation of God and His cre-ation. (Text, p. 147)

God is All in all in a very literal sense. All beingis in Him Who is all Being. You are therefore inHim since your being is His. (Text, p. 119)

Man

The recognition of God is the recognition ofyourself. (Text, p. 147)

When God created you He made you part ofHim. (Text, p. 100)

Everyone God created is part of you andshares His Glory with you. (Text, p. 174)

Jesus

Is he [Jesus] the Christ? O yes, along withyou. His little life on earth was not enough toteach the mighty lesson that he learned for allof you. (Manual, p. 87)

Name of Jesus

The Name of Jesus Christ as such is but asymbol. It is a symbol that is safely used asa replacement for the many names of all thegods to which you pray. (Manual, p. 58)

Christ

Christ is Gods Son as He created Him. He isthe Self we share, uniting us with one another,and with God as well. (Workbook, p. 431)

For Christ takes many forms with differentnames until their oneness can be recognized.(Manual, p. 88)

Christ is the link that keeps you one withGod. (Workbook, p. 431)



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Crucifixion

Do not make the patheticerror of clinging to the oldrugged cross. The onlymessage of the crucifixion isthat you can overcome the

cross. Until then you are freeto crucify yourself as often asyou choose. This is not theGospel I intended to offeryou. (Text, p. 52)

The journey to the crossshould be the last useless

journey. If you can acceptit as your own last useless

journey, you are also free tojoin my resurrection. Untilyou do so your life is indeed

wasted. (Text, p. 52)

The crucifixion did notestablish the Atonement; theresurrection did. Manysincere Christians havemisunderstood this.(Text, p. 36)

For the undoing of thecrucifixion of Gods Son is thework of the redemption, inwhich everyone has a part ofequal value. (Text, p. 209)

The song of Easter is the gladrefrain the Son of God wasnever crucified. (Text, p. 428)

Oneness

If all His creations are HisSons, every one must be anintegral part of the wholeSonship. The Sonship in itsoneness transcends the sumof its parts. (Text, p. 33)

We cannot be separated.Whom God has joined cannotbe separated, and God has

joined all His Sons withHimself. (Text, p. 150)

The oneness of the Creatorand the creation is your

wholeness, your sanity andyour limitless power.(Text, p. 125)

Separation

The mind can make the belief

in separation very real andvery fearful, and this beliefisthe devil. (Text, p. 50)

Atonement(at-one-ment)

This is not a course inphilosophical speculation, noris it concerned with preciseterminology. It is concernedonly with Atonement, or thecorrection of perception.

(Manual, p. 77)

By accepting the Atonementfor yourself, you are decidingagainst the belief that youcan be alone, thus dispellingthe idea of separation andaffirming your true identifica-tion with the whole Kingdomas literally part of you.(Text, p. 131)

The full awareness of theAtonement, then, is therecognition that the separa-tion never occurred.(Text, p. 98)

Yet you cannot abide inpeace unless you accept the

Atonement, because theAtonement isthe way topeace. (Text, p. 175)

The Atonement is the finallesson he [man] need learn,for it teaches him that, never

having sinned, he has noneed of salvation.(Text, p. 237)

Atoning means undoing.The undoing of fear is anessential part of the Atone-ment value of miracles.(Text, p. 5)

Revelation

Revelation unites you directlywith God. (Text, p. 7)

Revelation induces onlyexperience. (Text, p. 7)

When revelation of youroneness comes, it will beknown and fully understood.(Workbook, p. 324)

Persecution

You are not persecuted, norwas I. (Text, p. 94)

Sin

There is no sin; it has no

consequence.(Workbook, p. 183)

Evil

Innocence is wisdom becauseit is unaware of evil, and evildoes not exist. (Text, p. 38)

Antichrist

All forms of anti-Christoppose the Christ.(Text, p. 620)

Devil

The devil is a frighteningconcept because he seems tobe extremely powerful andextremely active. He isperceived as a force incombat with God, battlingHim for possession of Hiscreations. The devil deceivesby lies, and builds kingdomsin which everything is in

direct opposition to God. Yethe attracts men rather thanrepels them, and they arewilling to sell him theirsouls in return for gifts of noreal worth. This makesabsolutely no sense.(Text, p. 4950)



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Marianne Williamson

Direct quotes from

A Return to Love

On popularityof her book

For that, my deepest thanksto Oprah Winfrey. Herenthusiasm and generosity

have given the book, and me,an audience we would neverotherwise have had. (p. ix)

Man

To remember that you arepart of God, that you areloved and lovable, is notarrogant. Its humble. Tothink you are anything else isarrogant, because it impliesyoure something other than

a creation of God. (p. 30)We are holy beings, individualcells in the body of Christ.(p. 32)

We are who God created usto be. We are all one, we arelove itself. Accepting theChrist is merely a shift inself-perception. (p. 32)

Jesus

Even if he takes anothername, even if he takesanother face, He is in essencethe truth of who we are. Our

joined lives form the mysticalbody of Christ. (p. 296)

Jesus and other enlightened

masters are our evolutionaryelder brothers. (p. 42)

Christ-mind

The concept of a divine, orChrist mind, is the ideathat, at our core, we are not

just identical, but actually thesame being. There is onlyone begotten Son doesntmean that someone else wasit, and were not. It means

were all it. Theres only oneof us here. (p. 3031)

You and I have the Christ-mind in us as much as Jesusdoes. (p. 42)

Armageddon

But we can bypass thescenario of a nuclear Arma-geddon if we so desire. Mostof us have already sufferedour own personal Armaged-dons. Theres no need to gothrough the whole thingagain collectively. (p. 82)

Meditation

Meditation is time spent withGod in silence and quietlistening. It is the time duringwhich the Holy Spirit has achance to enter into ourminds and perform His divinealchemy. (p. 281)

Miracle worker

To become a miracle workermeans to take part in aspiritual underground thatsrevitalizing the world, partici-pating in a revolution of theworlds values at the deepestpossible level. That doesntmean you announce this toanyone. (p. 68)



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Self-described futurist and conscious evo-lutionist Barbara Marx Hubbard writesthat in 1966 she heard an inner voice thatcame in response to a question she hadasked aloud and directed to God Whatis our story? What in our age is comparableto the birth of Christ? After asking thequestion she said she fell into a dreamlikestate and was given an intense vision of thefuture.1

In the vision Hubbard saw the earthfrom a distance. She was made to under-stand that the earth was a living body and

that she was a cell in its body. Feeling heroneness with the earth, she experiencedits pain and confusion. When her visionabruptly fast-forwarded into the future, shecould see the earth and its people were nowsurrounded by a radiant light. She watchedas the whole planet was aligned in amagnetic field of love and lifted up by thebrilliant light. Widespread healings took

2Barbara Marx Hubbardand The RevelationFor we have not followed cunningly

devised fables, when we made known untoyou the power and coming of our LordJesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses

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place as individuals experienced the merg-ing of their own inner light with thebright light that was surrounding them. Atremendous force emanating from the lightsent powerful currents of joyful energy rip-pling through the body of humanity. The

world celebrated as all the Earth was bornagain. The pain and confusion were gone.Love had prevailed. The inner voice toldher to spread the message of the vision. Itsaid:

Our story is a birth. It is the birth of hu-mankind as one body. What Christ andall great beings came to Earth to revealis true. We are one body, born into thisuniverse. GO TELL THE STORY OFOUR BIRTH Barbara!2

In 1977 Hubbard began to hear thisinner voice regularly. At one point shewas told:

Have utter faith in my design. Achievedeep peace. Be prepared for a great forceto enter your life to do this work. It can-not enter till you have achieved deeppeace. Your reward for peace, which canonly be achieved by faith, is contact withthe great force and the other forces wait-ing in the wings.3

On Christmas Day in 1979, she had arevelation that the presence in her 1966 vi-sion had been Christ.4 Then in Februaryof 1980, at an Episcopalian monastery inSanta Barbara, California, she describes howin the midst of an electrifying presence oflight her higher self voice transformedinto the Christ voice.5 Over the comingmonths the Christ voice gave her moreinformation and insight about the vision shehad in 1966 and more first-hand detail aboutwhat would one day be taking place in the

world. Hubbard understood that it was hermission to continue telling the story ofhumanitys birth.

Since 1966 Hubbard has fulfilled hercommission from Christ to tell his newgospel story. From NASA to the formerUSSR, from the Georgia State Legislatureto the United Nations, she has spoken to

thousands of people and hundreds ofgroups and organizations about the plan-etary birth experience she had been shownin her vision. In the process she has becomea respected world citizen, known andloved by many for her insights about God

and Christ and the future of humanity.Hubbard is a co-founding board mem-

ber of the World Future Society.6 In 1976 sheseriously contemplated a run for the U.S.presidency.7 In 1984 her name was placedin nomination for Vice-President at theDemocratic National Convention in SanFrancisco.8 Her speech, based on her Cam-paign for a Positive Future, was carriedlive on C-Span.9 Today she is on a first namebasis with many world leaders and proudly

describes herself as part of the New Orderof the Future.10 Her last three books werefunded by her benefactor, Laurance S.Rockefeller, through his Fund for the En-hancement of the Human Spirit. She thanksRockefeller in her books for his generoussupport over the years. And she specificallythanks him for his intuition about theChrist of the 21st Century.11

The Alternative to Armageddon

Through the years Hubbard has re-ceived voluminous information from herChrist. In her 1993 book, The Revelation:Our Crisis Is a Birth (later renamed The Rev-elation: A Message of Hope for the New Mil-lennium), Hubbard and Christ rewritethe Bibles Book of Revelation. In The Rev-elation Hubbards Christ provides specificinstructions on how a united humanity,purposefully partnering with God, can lit-erally re-create the future. Hubbards Christteaches that the violent Armageddon

script described in the Bible does not haveto happen, that it is only a possible fu-ture, emphasizing that a more positive fu-ture can and will manifest when humanity without exception openly declares itsoneness with him and all creation. Thispositive scenario and the means to attain-ing it is called the alternative to Armaged-don.12

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to her own description becomes Presidentof the United States after a successful cam-paign for a positive future. Hercharacters campaign embraces the sloganResolve to Evolve The Only Solution isOur Evolution. This president is unique in

that she is the lead person in a first timeever team presidency.20

Hubbard, through her writings andlifelong spiritual and political lobbying,continues to implement the teachings andprinciples she received from her Christ.She is presently dedicated to the process ofincorporating these new gospel teachingsinto her own local community of Santa Bar-bara, California. With high hopes that herSanta Barbara seed group21 will become

a working model for other communitiesaround the world, Hubbard will no doubt be looking for opportunities to showcaseher project.

The fact that Oprah Winfrey recentlybought a home in the Santa Barbara areashould definitely increase Hubbardschances of getting some exposure. In a newage world that says there are no coinci-dences it is interesting to note thatMarianne Williamson, Oprah Winfrey andBarbara Marx Hubbard now all have houses

just minutes from each other in the SantaBarbara area. If Oprah does for Hubbardwhat she did for Williamson, we will all behearing a lot more about Barbara MarxHubbard, her Santa Barbara seed groupand the new gospel plans her Christhas for this world.

The new

revelation

Direct quotes from Hubbards

Christ* in The Revelation

Purpose of new revelation

Behold, I am writing anew, through scribes onEarth who are willing to listen to me againwith new ears, in the light of the presentcrises on planet Earth. (p. 265)

You must demonstrate the psychological stateof universal consciousness as a new norm.That is the first purpose of your writings.(p. 74)

The second purpose of these writings is to callfor the completion of the good news concern-ing 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)

Resurrection

The resurrection was a future forecast of anapproaching new norm. The transformation ofHomo sapiensto Homo universalisis theacting out of that forecast by the humanspecies. What I did alone, now all can do whochoose to love God above all else and theirneighbor as themselves. (p. 65)

I did not suffer on the cross and rise again onthe third day to show you what I could do, but

what you can do. Yoursis the power. Yoursisthe glory. That is my message to you! (p. 100)

Christ

You were born to be me. You were born to bepartners with God. (p. 148)

The church is the body of believers who areconscious of being me. (p. 102)

Sin

My beloved church misunderstood me. Itpreached the corruptibility of humanitywhen I came to demonstrate its potentialfor incorruptibility. It propounded thesinfulness of humanity when I suffered toreveal your godliness and to overcome yourguilt by demonstrating that you can totallyrise above the death of the body. (p. 231)



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Direct quotes from

Hubbards Christ

in The Revelation

Dearly beloved, I approachedthe crucifixion far more easilythan I approach the selection.The crucifixion was done untomy body. The selection willbe done unto yours. (p. 197)

The decisive moment ofselection has almost come.The judgment of the quickand the dead is about to bemade. The end of this phaseof evolution is nearly com-plete. (p. 189)

By your acts you shall bejudged as to whether you canevolve, or must be cast into

the lake of fire, which is thesecond death. (p. 254)

The second death is forthose of you who cannotevolve by choice, due tosome deeply seated error inyour understanding of thenature of reality. (p. 267)

It is to open your mind thatyou will undergo the seconddeath. (p. 267)

[T]he fundamental regres-sion is self-centeredness, orthe illusion that you areseparate from God. I makewar on self-centeredness. Itshall surely be overcome. Thechild must become the adult.Human must become Divine.That is the law. (p. 233)

At the co-creative stageof evolution, one self-centered soul is like a

lethal cancer cell in a body:deadly to itself and to thewhole. (p. 255)

The surgeon dare leave nocancer in the body when hecloses up the wound after adelicate operation. We dareleave no self-centeredness onEarth after the selectionprocess. For when we com-plete the process of the

transformation, all who liveon will be empowered to begodlike. (p. 240)

The selection process willexclude all who are exclusive.The selection process assuresthat only the loving willevolve to the stage of co-creator. (p. 303)

After the selection process,you will be born to the nextstage of evolution. There willbe a New Heaven, a NewEarth, a new body and a newconsciousness for all whosurvive. (p. 261)

Your triumph over Satan, thatis, over the illusion of separa-tion, will be a victory for theuniversal community. (p. 193)

If you do not choose to havea new body to co-create withme, you will not have one.

You may choose an imper-sonal future rather than thetranspersonal future. Theimpersonal future is bodiless.

You divest yourself of yourpersonal memory and yourDNA, and become an undif-ferentiated aspect of God.(p. 196)

Cynics, disbelievers, thosewho fear and cannot love:know that the mercy of Godalmighty is with you now. Thesecond death, for you, is apurification, an erasing of the

memory of fear, through theshock of a fire. It will burnout the imprint upon yoursoul that is blocking you fromseeing the glory which shallbe revealed in you. (p. 267)

Those who are not suffi-ciently educated to align withthe design, experience Godspurification process as longas necessary, until they learnhow to know God or theIntention of Creation experi-entially. They cannot returnto the new Earth or the newHeaven, in a self-centeredstate. (p. 255)

Remember, Satan is eitherconsumed by fire or by love.In the New Jerusalem, thereis no illusion of separation.(p. 297)

The end is near. The old playis almost over. Suffice it to

say, that if you do not chooseto evolve into a wholesome,co-creative human, then youshall not. (p. 195)

The only punishment is yourself-exclusion from the joy ofnew life. The only pity is thatyou are missing the mark andchoosing to die unfulfilled.(p. 195)

There need be no greaterpunishment. There need be

no threats. There is onlychoice. That is the purpose offreedom. Only those whochoose to evolve, do. Hence-forth, the choice is yours.(p. 195)

The stakes are high, dearlybeloved. Choose well.(p. 290)

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3Neale Donald Walsch andConversations with GodIn 1992 Neale Donald Walsch, a disillu-sioned and distraught former radio talkshow host, public relations professional,and longtime metaphysical seeker, satdown one night and wrote God an angryletter.1 He was amazed when God imme-diately answered his letter by speaking tohim through an inner voice. That night, andin subsequent conversations, Walsch wrotedown all of the dictated answers to his ques-tions. The dictation continued for severalyears.2 Walschs Conversations with God: Book1 was published in 1995 and became the first

in a series of bestselling Conversations withGod books. It seemed that in Walsch Godhad found yet another willing channel forhis new gospel teachings.

In a style reminiscent of John Denverand George Burns in the movie Oh, God!,Walsch and God present a more downhome version of the same new gospel

For the time will come when they will not

endure sound doctrine; but after their ownlusts shall they heap to themselvesteachers, having itching ears; And they

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bringing spirituality into politics and gov-ernment. He tells Walsch:

When you agree to spread the word, tocarry the message that can change thehuman heart, you play an importantrole in changing the human condition.This is why all spirituality is ultimatelypolitical.18

You cannot avoid politicizing your spiri-tuality. Your political viewpoint is yourspirituality, demonstrated. Yet perhaps itis not a matter of politicizing your spiri-tuality, but of spiritualizing your poli-tics.19

God is very specific about how thisspiritualization of politics should ultimatelymanifest itself.

God: Something will have to be newif you wish your world to change. Youmust begin to see someone elses inter-ests as your own. This will happen onlywhen you reconstruct your global real-ity and govern yourselves accordingly.

Walsch: Are you talking about a one-world government?

God: I am.20

God exhorts Walsch to carry out hismission to change the world and to bringin a spiritually-based new world order byissuing this charge:

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 do-ing his part. Responding to Gods chargeto spread the new gospel and to help es-tablish sympathy for a one-world govern-

ment, Walsch co-founded The Global Re-naissance Alliance with MarianneWilliamson. He also continues to write books, conduct workshops and speak tolarge groups around the country.

Direct quotes from

Walschs God

Purpose

And so I have chosen you to be My messen-ger. You, and many others. For now, duringthese times immediately ahead, the world willneed many trumpets to sound the clarion call.(CWG Book 1, p. 144)

The purpose of this book, and of all the booksin the trilogy we are creating, is to createreadiness readiness for a new paradigm, anew understanding; a larger view, a granderidea. (CWG Book 2, p. 36)

New gospel

There is only one message that can changethe course of human history forever, end thetorture, and bring you back to God. Thatmessage is The New Gospel: WE ARE ALLONE. (FWG, p. 373)

God

There is only One of Us. You and I are One.(FWG, p. 23)

God iscreation. (CWG Book 1, p. 198)

There are a thousand paths to God, and everyone gets you there. (FWG, p. 357)

Christ

Many have been Christed, not just Jesus ofNazareth. Youcan be Christed, too.

(CWG Book 2, p. 22)

Man

You are alreadya God. You simply do notknow it.(CWG Book 1, p. 202)

You are the Creator and the Created.(CWG Book 3, p. 350)

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You are, quite literally, theWord of God, made flesh.(FWG, p. 395)

My purpose in creating you,My spiritual offspring, was forMe to know Myself as God. I

have no way to do that savethrough you. Thus it can besaid that My purpose foryou is that youshould knowyourself as Me.(CWG Book 1, p. 26)

Atonement/oneness

You must realize that atone-ment isjust that it is at-one-ment. It is the aware-ness that you and all others

are One. It is the understand-ing that you are One witheverything including Me.(FWG, p. 92)

The onlysolution is theUltimate Truth: nothing existsin the universe that is sepa-rate from anything else.(CWG Book 2, p. 173)

Evolution

And do not stay so stuck inyour present beliefs andcustoms that you halt theprocess of evolution itself.(CWG Book 3, p. 89)

Its important now, its timenow, to change your mindabout some things. This iswhat evolution is all about.(CWG Book 1, p. 168)

This truly isan evolutionrevolution, for now larger and

larger numbers of you arecreating consciouslythequality of your experience,the direct expression of Who

You Really Are, and the rapidmanifestation of Who YouChoose to Be.(CWG Book 3, p. 279)

Sin

In truth, there is no suchthing as a sinner, for no onecan be sinned against leastof all Me.(CWG Book 3, p. 87)

Quite an interesting concept.How did anyone get you tobelieve that?(CWG Book 2, p. 43)

The act of Adam and Eve wasnot original sin, but, in truth,first blessing.(CWG Book 1, p. 56)

Evil

Evil is that which you callevil.

(CWG Book 1, p. 61)

Aliens

Walsch: And Youre tellingme that beings from outerspace are helping us withthat?

God: Indeed. They areamong you now, many ofthem. They have beenhelping for years.(CWG Book 2, p. 239)

The time will come whenyour consciousness will riseand your fear will subside,and then they will revealthemselves to you. Some ofthem have already done so with a handful of people.(CWG Book 2, p. 239)

Creating your ownfuture

So if you think it would beinteresting for the doomsdaypredictions of the psychics tocome true, focus all yourattention on that, and youcan draw that to yourself.

And if you think you wouldlike to experience a differentreality, focus on that, andthat is the outcome you candraw to you.(CWG Book 3, p. 109)

New world order

There have been thoseleaders among you who havebeen insightful enough andbrave enough to propose thebeginnings of such a newworld order. Your GeorgeBush, whom history will judgeto be a man of far greaterwisdom, vision, compassion,and courage than contempo-rary society was willing orable to acknowledge, wassuch a leader. So was SovietPresident MikhailGorbachev.(CWG Book 2, p. 199)

Peace

You can similarly end all wartomorrow. Simply. Easily. All ittakes all it has evertaken

is for all of you to agree.(CWG Book 1, p. 50)

Choice/decision

This is the eternal moment,the time of your new decid-ing. (FWG, p. 230)

Yet today is a new day. Nowis a new time. And yours is anew choice. It is a choice tocreate anew your personalrelationship with Me.(FWG, p. 243)

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Walsch: Well, Im going tohave to ask the questionshere that I know so manypeople are thinking andwanting to ask. How could aman like Hitler have gone toheaven? Every religion in

the world I would thinkeveryone, has declared himcondemned and sentstraight to hell.

God: First, he could nothave gone to hell becausehell does not exist. There-fore, there is only one placeleft to which he couldhavegone. But that begs thequestion. The real issue iswhether Hitlers actionswere wrong. Yet I havesaid over and over againthat there is no right or

wrong in the universe. Athing is not intrinsically rightor wrong. A thing simply is.

Now your thought thatHitler was a monster isbased on the fact that heordered the killing ofmillions of people, correct?

Walsch: Obviously, yes.

God: Yet what if I told youthat what you call death isthe greatest thing that couldhappen to anyone whatthen? (CWG Book 2, p. 36)

I do not love good morethan I love bad.Hitler wentto heaven.(CWG Book 1, p. 61)

The mistakes Hitler made didno harm or damage to thosewhose deaths he caused.

Those souls were releasedfrom their earthly bondage,like butterflies emerging froma cocoon.(CWG Book 2, p. 42)

So the first thing you have tounderstand as Ive alreadyexplained to you is thatHitler didnt hurtanyone. In asense, he didnt inflictsuffering, he endedit.(CWG Book 2, p. 56)

There is no death. Life goeson forever and ever. Life is.

You simply change form.(CWG Book 2, p. 40)

I tell you this, at the momentof your death you will realizethe greatest freedom, thegreatest peace, the greatest

joy, and the greatest love youhave ever known. Shall wetherefore punish Brer Fox forthrowing Brer Rabbit into the

briar patch?(CWG Book 2, p. 36)

If you are a being whochooses to cut out a cancerwithin you in order to pre-serve your larger life form,then you will demonstratethat. (FWG, p. 369)

Every aspect of divinity has

co-creative control over itsdestiny. Therefore, youcannot kill a mosquito againstits will. At some level, themosquito has chosen that. Allof the change in the universeoccurs with the consent ofthe universe itself, in itsvarious forms. The universecannot disagree with itself.That is impossible.(FWG, p. 371)

And so, to your question. Is itokay to swat a mosquito?Trap a mouse? Pull a weed?Slaughter a lamb and eat it?That is for you to decide.Allis for you to decide.(FWG, p. 388)

For while you will understandthat you cannot endanotherslife in any event (all life iseternal), you will not chooseto terminate any particular

incarnation, nor change anylife energy from one form toanother, without the mostsacred justification.(CWG Book 1, p. 9697)

Hitler and death

Direct quotes from Walschs God

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4Wayne Petersonand MaitreyaIn February 1982 Wayne Peterson, a direc-tor of the U.S. Governments FulbrightScholarship Program,1 was relaxing in hisWashington D.C. home looking for some-thing to watch on TV. His interest waspiqued when he noticed popular talk showhost Merv Griffin holding up a book en-titled The Reappearance of the Christ and theMasters of Wisdom . Peterson, a former PeaceCorps volunteer and veteran American dip-lomat, writes that his first thought was thatthe book had some fundamentalist Chris-tian message, but he questioned why Grif-

fin would be promoting this religiousgroup on his show. Fascinated, he stayedtuned as Griffin interviewed the books au-thor, British artist and esotericist BenjaminCreme. Peterson recalls what transpired inthe interview:

During this discussion, Creme said thatthe one Christians call the Christ had re-

I am come in my Fathers name, and ye

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appeared and was living in a major in-dustrial city in the Western world. Thistime his name was Maitreya and he wasbringing with him a large group of hisdisciples, highly advanced, spiritualmen called the Masters of Wisdom. He

said we could expect to hear more aboutMaitreya on local and internationalnews programs very soon.

Maitreyas purpose, Creme indicated,was to help us realize our innate divin-ity through learning to live in right re-lationship as brothers and sisters of onegreat family. The first step was to estab-lish sharing as the way to eliminate thepoverty and starvation that caused mil-lions around the world to die daily inthe midst of plenty. Maitreya was

emerging in time to help us save our-selves and the planet, and would makehimself known to all in a televised Dayof Declaration soon to come.2

As Peterson listened to Creme andheard about Maitreya, he recalled an inci-dent from childhood. As a little boy in themidst of a life-threatening illness, he be-lieved that he had been visited by Mary,the mother of Jesus. So powerful was herhelp and presence that he expressed hisdesire to depart with her rather than stayin the world. In her successful effort to con-vince him to stay in the world with his fam-ily, Peterson states that she told him the fol-lowing:

I am going to tell you a secret that fewnow know. If you stay with your fam-ily, you will see the Christ because hewill come to live with the people of theworld.3

Convinced that Maitreya was theChrist that Mary had promised wouldcome, Peterson ordered Cremes book.From his reading, he learned more aboutthe Christ and his highly evolved dis-ciples, the Masters of Wisdom. Petersonread how these Masters of Wisdom are su-pernaturally assisting in the evolution ofhumanity. From his reading, Peterson cameto the conclusion that what we commonly

refer to as angels are really Christ andthese Masters of Wisdom. He read that inthe future, as humanity transitions from theold order to a new age, there will bemore and more open collaboration betweenthese Masters of Wisdom and world lead-

ers in all fields and disciplines. ReadingCremes book, Peterson felt he was begin-ning to get the big picture.

As I read Cremes book, I learned moreabout the Christ, or World Teacher,whose personal name is Maitreya. Heis the one awaited by all the major reli-gions albeit unknown to them. TheChristians wait for the return of theChrist, Buddhists for the next Buddha,Muslims for the Imam Mahdi, Hindusfor a reincarnation of Krishna, and theJews for the Messiah. These are all dif-ferent names for one individual,Maitreya, who is here not as a religiousleader but as a teacher for all human-ity.4

Benjamin Creme, in The Reappearanceof the Christ and the Masters of Wisdom, said:

In the esoteric tradition, the Christ is notthe name of an individual but of an Of-fice in the Hierarchy. The present holderof that Office, the Lord Maitreya, has

held it for 2,600 years, and manifestedin Palestine through His Disciple, Jesus,by the occult method of overshadowing,the most frequent form used for themanifestation of Avatars. He has neverleft the world, but for 2,000 years haswaited and planned for this immediatefuture time, training His Disciples, andpreparing Himself for the awesome taskwhich awaits Him. He has made itknown that this time, He Himself willcome.5

Wayne Petersons book, ExtraordinaryTimes, Extraordinary Beings, is his first per-son account of his personal involvementwith Creme and Maitreya what he expe-rienced and what he was told. He writesthat, amazingly, within weeks of seeingCreme on Merv Griffin and reading hisbook, Creme actually came to Washington,D.C. Peterson was able to meet with him

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and other followers of Maitreya and par-ticipate in a special Transmission Medita-tion. Peterson said that this new form ofmeditation had been sent to humanitythrough Creme by one of the Masters ofWisdom. Peterson describes the meditation:

Called Transmission Meditation, it wasa service activity in which energy fromthe Masters was stepped down by themeditators and made available to theworld. In the process the meditatorsown spiritual development was en-hanced manifold. I understood that itwas another way to help Maitreya andthe Masters emerge as soon as possible.6

Peterson reports that he has had sev-eral dramatic personal encounters with

Maitreya and that he directly experiencedMaitreyas extremely powerful spiritualenergy. In describing one of those encoun-ters Peterson writes:

As we stood there with spiritual energyflowing freely, I told Maitreya that, ifpeople could experience this energy,they would discard all their earthly no-tions of paradise.7

Peterson quotes Maitreya in regards to ex-periencing living truth.

The Master is within you. If you followthe disciplines of life the Teacher teachesyou, the Master reveals himself withinyou. Do not be attached to the humanform. The living truth is a matter of ex-perience.8

In his over thirty-two years of workwith the Peace Corps, the U.S. DiplomaticService, and as a director of the FulbrightScholarship Program, Peterson writes thathe was able to uniquely observe many ofthe changes going on in the world. For awhile he was unaware of others who hadalso met with Maitreya. Gradually overtime he was able to meet others in positionsof responsibility who had met privatelywith Maitreya and the Masters of Wisdomand were now actively working with them.

What I did not initially know was thatmany of my colleagues in government

and diplomatic circles had had similarexperiences and had also been contactedby members of a group of extraordinarybeings, who might be called the elderbrothers of humanity, custodians of theDivine Plan for our evolution. World

leaders who are household names haveprivately confirmed their knowledge ofand cooperation with this unfoldingplan.9

Maitreya & Gorbachev

Perhaps one of Petersons chief revela-tions is that one of the political figures whoopenly acknowledges that he is workingwith Maitreya to bring peace to the worldis former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

There was one individual, however,who made it clear he had no problemwith the public knowing he had metwith the Christ. His name was MikhailGorbachev. Since he was now out of po-litical power in his country, I assume hefelt he had nothing to fear or lose fromsuch a disclosure.

I was not surprised to learn this aboutMr. Gorbachev, since I had heard muchearlier of his involvement with Maitreyafrom a Pentagon official. I had alsoheard, from people I place much confi-dence in, that Mrs. Gorbachev had beento India several times to see the AvatarSai Baba. I find it interesting that the in-ternational press never questioned Mr.Gorbachev more about his spiritual be-liefs, since both he and his wife becameChristians during his term in office.From the freedom and openness he in-troduced to the Soviet Union, it ap-peared obvious to me that he was beinginfluenced by the Christ. Eventually, we

will hear more of this story and how theSoviet empire collapsed.

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disciples of the Masters, will be work-ing to promote the goals of the SpiritualHierarchy.10

During a November 9, 2001 televisioninterview in Santa Barbara, California,Peterson mentioned that South African po-litical leader Nelson Mandela is anotherworld figure who is actively working withMaitreya. Again, in the metaphysical worldwhere there are no coincidences, theSanta Barbara television program BridgingHeaven & Earth , on which Peterson ap-peared, is overseen by a board of directorsthat includes Barbara Marx Hubbard.11

Peterson writes that many years ago,under some very unique circumstances, hewas personally recruited into the Peace

Corps by Chase Manhattan Bank PresidentDavid Rockefeller12 who talked him intojoining and actually pulled some strings inregards to his first assignment. That DavidRockefeller helped one of Maitreyas chiefspokespersons get his start in governmen-tal service, while brother Laurance S.Rockefeller has been encouraging and fi-nancially supporting Barbara MarxHubbard, is yet another interesting coin-cidence. Especially in light of Petersonsrecent interview on the Hubbard-relatedtelevision program.

Peterson also writes that there are anumber of interesting areas of commonground between Maitreya and the BlessedMother Mary.

Therefore, what I am hearing in themessages from both Maitreya and theBlessed Mother is that, if we are to placeour trust in God completely and becomeSelf-realized souls, we must abandonfear. No half way attempt is useful. One

must be completely free of fear to expe-rience God, by whatever name we callHim.13

Many interesting parallels exist betweendescriptions of Maitreyas Day of Dec-laration and the messages from theBlessed Mother. Both tell us we can ex-pect a major spiritual event that will

shake the world. This event, accordingto the apparitions of the Blessed Mother,will change humanity. Both say it can be easy or difficult depending uponhumanity itself. If we decide to changethe way we live, we will enter a great

and glorious age with relative ease. Ifwe refuse to change our ways, the tran-sition will be difficult and many willsuffer.14

Peterson continues to travel aroundthe country and the world as a special ad-vocate for Maitreya. He anticipates beingemployed as an ambassador for Maitreyaafter the World Teachers Day of Declara-tion when Maitreya finally appears andmakes himself known to mankind.15

Direct quotes from Maitreya

and Benjamin Creme

New revelation

He comes now to release that energy of Willand an entirely new aspect of Divinity will bepresented to mankind. This is the New Revela-tion. We have shown that we are readybecause we are beginning to sense ourselvesas One. (Creme, Reappearance, p. 48)

Men must desire these changes for them-

selves; and begin implementing them of theirown free will thus showing they are readyfor the new Revelation and Teaching which Hebrings. (Creme, Reappearance, p. 36)

New dispensation

They stand ready today to receive the meansof change, the outlines of the New Dispensa-

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tion for this world. Theystand ready to greet thedawn of that New Age whichbeckons all into divinity.(Maitreya, Messages, p. 238)

GodEvery manifested phenom-enon is part of God. And thespace between these mani-fested phenomena is God. So,in a very real sense, thereisnt anything else. You areGod. I am God. This micro-phone is God. This table isGod. All is God. And becauseall is God, there is no God.(Creme, Reappearance,p. 110)

God also sits in majesty onthe Golden Throne, and whenyou are ready, we shall kneeltogether at His divine feet.(Maitreya, Messages, p. 88)

Jesus

He was, and still is, a Discipleof the Christ and made thegreat sacrifice of giving upHis body for the use of the

Christ. By the occult processof overshadowing, the Christ,Maitreya, took over andworked through the body ofJesus from the Baptismonwards. (Creme,Reappearance, p. 46)

He is one of the Masters Whowill very shortly return toouter work in the world,taking over the Throne of St.Peter, in Rome. He will seek

to transform the ChristianChurches, in so far as theyare flexible enough to re-spond correctly to the newreality which the return of theChrist and the Masters willcreate. (Creme,Reappearance, p. 46)

The Master Jesus is going toreform the Christianchurches. (Creme,Reappearance, p. 85)

The Christ Maitreya

The Christ is the Embodimentof the energy we call theChrist Consciousness orPrinciple, the energy of theCosmic Christ. It is releasedinto the world for us byMaitreya, the Christ, and tothe degree that it manifestsin us, we will recognize Him.(Creme, Reappearance,p. 4849)

My plan and My duty is to

reveal to you a new way, away forward which will permitthe divine in man to shineforth. (Maitreya, Messages,p. 164)

Share with Me, My friends, ina Great Work nothing lessthan the transformation ofthis world. (Maitreya,Messages, p. 142)

I am the River. Through Meflows the new stream of God-

given Life, and this shall Ibestow on you.(Maitreya, Messages, p. 86)

My Teaching is, as ever,simple indeed. Men mustshare or die.(Maitreya, Messages, p. 272)

Man

Within all men sits a God.That God is your true Self.

(Maitreya, Messages, p. 110)The process of becomingdivine is a simple one, anatural one, open freely to allmen. It is the process ofreleasing that God Who, from

the beginning, has dweltwithin you. My Promise isthis: if you will follow Me intothe New Time, I shall releasefor you your divine nature.(Maitreya, Messages, p. 58)

My friends, God is nearer toyou than you can imagine.God is yourself. God is withinyou and all around you.(Maitreya, Messages, p. 88)

Reappearance orreturn of the Christ

My plan is to reveal Myselfstage by stage, and to drawtogether around Me thoseenlightened souls through

whom I may work.(Maitreya, Messages, p. 54)

One day, very soon now,when enough people areresponding to His Presenceand His energy, the Christ willallow Himself to be discov-ered. (Creme, Reappearance,p. 49)

One day soon, men andwomen all over the world willgather round their radio andtelevision sets to hear andsee the Christ: to see Hisface, and to hear His wordsdropping silently into theirminds in their own lan-guage. In this way they willknow that He is truly theChrist, the World Teacher;and in this way too, we willsee repeated, only now on aworld scale, the happeningsof Pentecost; and in celebra-

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He comes, not as the Head ofthe Christian, or any otherchurch, for that matter. Itmay be that the orthodoxChristian leaders will beamong the last to recognize

the Christ. He is not the oneand only Son of God, but thefriend and Elder Brother ofHumanity. (Creme,Reappearance, p. 49)

Evolution/oneness

I make all men One.(Maitreya, Messages, p. 142)

The reason is the creation ofthe onehumanity, the idea ofthe one humanity. This,

above all, is the Plan of theChrist. Mankind itself isbeginning to sense itself asOne; in this coming time itwill be One. It is our nextstep forward in evolution.(Creme, Reappearance,p. 151)

When I make Myself known, Ishall express the hope of allmankind for a new life, a newstart, a readiness to change

direction; to see the con-struction of a New World inwhich men can live in peace;can live free from fear ofthemselves or their broth-ers. (Maitreya, Messages,p. 18)

One world religion

But eventually a new worldreligion will be inauguratedwhich will be a fusion andsynthesis of the approach ofthe East and the approach of

the West. The Christ willbring together, not simplyChristianity and Buddhism,but the concept of Godtranscendent outside ofHis creation and also theconcept of God immanent inall creation in man and allcreation. (Creme,Reappearance, p. 88)

Aliens

I am pledged to silence oncertain work for and with theSpace Brothers.(Creme, Reappearance,p. 11)

I predict that you will seeover the coming months andthe next couple of years, atremendous increase in U.F.O.activity all over the world itis already beginning to takeplace preparatory to the

reappearance of the Christand the externalization of theHierarchy, which is going onat the same time.(Creme, Reappearance,p. 206)

Choice/survival

A crisis of decision awaitsmankind... Take care whereyou place your feet: on thesteps which lead to tomorrowor oblivion.

(Maitreya, Messages,p. 130131)

My plan is to reveal to menthat there exists for them buttwo paths. One will leadthem inexorably to devasta-tion and death. The other, Myfriends, My dear ones, willlead mankind straight toGod.... (Maitreya, Messages,p. 34)

We are here together, youand I, to ensure that manchooses the correct path, theonly Way which can lead himto God. (Maitreya, Messages,p. 40)

[Maitreya quotes excerptedfrom Messages from Maitreyathe Christ. Creme quotesexcerpted from The Reap-pearance of the Christ and

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The god of this world

In whom the god of thisworld hath blinded the mindsof them which believe not,lest the light of the gloriousgospel of Christ, who is theimage of God, should shineunto them. For we preach notourselves, but Christ Jesus

the Lord; and ourselves yourservants for Jesus sake.(2 Corinthians 4:45)

Alice Bailey

(direct quotes from

her spirit guide)

All the qualities, the love andthe purpose of a supremeEntity, referred to in The NewTestament as the UnknownGod, are focussed in Sanat

Kumara. (Rays, p. 367)[B]ut each ray quality willserve to implement theexpression of pure love,which is the essential and at this time the primaryquality of the Lord of theWorld, Sanat Kumara.(Rays, p. 387)

Benjamin Creme

(direct quote from

his spirit guide)

He is our Father. God isboth within us and can beknown you can see God.

In this coming age many,many people will see God, asSanat Kumara. They willcome before Sanat Kumaraand take the third Initiation.(Even more will come beforethe Christ and take the firstand second Initiations.) Whenyou take the third Initiation

you see God, as SanatKumara, the Lord of theWorld. (Reappearance,p. 135)

Direct quotes from

Maitreya the

Christ

My task is to bring you, Myfriends, before the Father,before the Gilded Throne ofthe Shining One, there topresent you to Him and

establish you within OurRanks. My Prophecy holds: Ishall take before the Fatherall who are ready in thiscoming time. That is the Taskgiven to Me by Him Whomwe together serve.(Maitreya, Messages, p. 126)

I am with you as GodsRepresentative, as theSpokesman for that DivineBeing Whose dreams we are.

I shall take you to Him whenyou are ready, when youhave passed through theGates twice, and stoodshining before Me.(Maitreya, Messages, p. 42)

God of this world:

Sanat* Kumara

[Ed. note: Maitreya, theChrist, appears to have atleast a four-fold function: (1)Help humanity to rememberand experience their onenesswith God and with each other.(2) Bring peace to the worldthrough his reappearance or

return. (3) Introduce and

oversee radically progressiveeconomic, environmental,political, spiritual and hu-manitarian projects aroundthe world. (4) Lead mankindto the feet of the Father,Sanat Kumara, who isdescribed as being the Lordof the World.]

*Sanat happens to be ananagram for Satan.

[Excerpted from: Messagesfrom Maitreya the Christ; TheRays and the Initiations, A.A.Bailey; and The Reappear-ance of the Christ and theMasters of Wisdom, B.Creme.]



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5The Lightthat was DarkHelen Schucman heard an inner voicethat claimed to be Jesus. Barbara MarxHubbard heard an inner voice thatclaimed to be Christ. Benjamin Cremeand Wayne Peterson claim to have met theChrist and both report that he is alreadyhere on planet Earth. Neale Donald Walschheard an inner voice that claimed to beGod. All of these individuals have writ-ten down what they experienced and whatthey were told in their personal encounters.This information has been published andthese new revelations are now regarded

by many as the new word of God. As thenew word of God, these recent revela-tions directly challenge the authority andreliability of the Holy Bible, questioning andcontradicting almost every major teachingof the old Gospel and presenting a newgospel to take its place. As this new gos-pel reinterprets the teachings of the BiblesJesus Christ, it actually opposes Him and

Take heed therefore that the light which is

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presents another Christ to take His place.This new gospel is very powerful andvery believable to those with no under-standing of the true teachings of the Bible.

As new age believers years ago, mywife and I had no reason to doubt any of

the new revelation that was coming ourway. When we were students ofA Coursein Miracles in the early 1980s it neverocurred to us that Helen Schucman had re-ceived her spiritual dictation from anyoneother than the real Jesus Christ. As mem-bers of a Course study group, we studiedwhat the Jesus of the Course said andapplied his teachings to our lives. Havingnever read the whole Bible for ourselves,we were grateful that the Course was help-

ing us to understand what the Bible wasreally saying. We accepted the Coursesinterpretation of the Bible completely. It hada certain logic and seemed to make sense.We believed we were on the right path.Meaningful coincidence that had led usto the Course, and the supernatural signsthat often accompanied our study appearedto confirm that we were where we weresupposed to be.

But at the height of our involvementwith the Course, the Lord intervened. He

exposed the darkness that was actually be-hind the deceptive peace, love, andlight of our new age/new gospel teach-ings. By the time it was all over it was clearto us that all of our new age beliefs had been founded on half-truths and lies.Shocked and amazed by this discovery, wecame to the conclusion that A Course inMiracles was not from God and that theChrist ofA Course in Miracles was not thetrue Christ. Because we had not previously

been aware of the Bibles real teachings, wehad not been aware of Jesus many warn-ings about spiritual deception. He said inthe last days false prophets and false teach-ers, accompanied by deceptive signs andwonders, would deceive most of the worldinto following a counterfeit Christ thatwould pretend to be Him.

Amazing grace

But by far the most important lessonwe learned in the midst of what turned outto be our crash course on spiritual decep-tion was that Jesus really did die on the cross

for all mankind. On that cross He defeatedsin, death, and a real spiritual being namedSatan and called the devil. We learned fromour trying, and at times harrowing experi-ences, that we actually do need a Saviour,and that it was only through belief in theatoning death of the true Jesus Christ thatwe are truly saved.

We learned the hard way that the oldGospel really works, while the new gos-pel definitely does not. When we learnedto call on the name of Jesus Christ and all

that His name stands for we experiencedHis victory over an evil presence that hadnot responded to any of our other meta-physical new age teachings most es-pecially the Course. Calling on Jesus liter-ally saved our lives.

How we were deceived

The more we studied the Bible for our-selves and reflected on our own particularsituation, the more we came to understand

the extraordinary deception of which wehad been a part a deception that was hid-ing behind new age/new gospel teach-ings like A Course in Miracles. In the follow-ing lengthy passages excerpted directlyfrom my book, The Light That Was Dark: ASpiritual Journey , I describe my initial un-derstanding of just how badly we had beendeceived:

For some time now my spiritualteachings had convinced me that I was a

sinless, guiltless, perfect son of God and thatI was every bit as much a part of the uni-versal Christ as Jesus or Buddha or anyoneelse. I had been taught that I was a holy partof God, inherently equal to Christ and thatI didnt need to be saved, redeemed, or bornagain. Because evil was only illusion, therewas no evil to be saved from. I had believed



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that I was responsible for myself and myworld and that I was the creator of my ownreality.

But as I looked at those truths now,I could see that they were not truths at all.What was being taught no matter how

cleverly expressed stood in stark oppo-sition to the actual teachings of the Bible.Couched in spiritual platitudes, the Courseand the new age, although pretending tobe friends of Jesus and the Bible, were re-ally no friends at all. Like Judas, they be-trayed Christ in the name of love and witha deceptive kiss.

Jesus warned about false prophetswho would come in sheeps clothing even in His name. His words were concise

and clear: Beware of false prophets, whichcome to you in sheeps clothing, but in-wardly they are ravening wolves (Mathew7:15). They would look not like an enemybut like someone you could trust, and I wasnow thoroughly convinced that the Coursewas a channeled wolf in sheeps clothingthat came not to praise the Bibles Jesus butto bury His teachings forever if that werepossible.

In the midst of my study I started tounderstand that for a number of years I had

been letting my spiritual teachers mostespecially the Course tell me who Jesusreally was and what His teachings reallymeant. I could see that through my own la-ziness in never reading or studying theBible for myself I had swallowed a falsegospel, hook, line, and sinker.

I realized now that, although I wasmade in the image of God, I was not God ora part of God in any way. God was God,and I was me. I wasnt Christ or a part of

Christ, and neither was Buddha or anyoneelse. Jesus was the Christ, and there was noother. And, in spite of what anyone elsetried to say, He had won an amazing vic-tory on the cross of Calvary one that Joyand I had learned to call on time after time.It was a victory that was fully described inthe Scriptures and that so many of the oldhymns proclaimed.

Something very mysterious had hap-pened on that old rugged cross that awhole new age was doing hand-over-headflips to completely avoid. It was the vic-tory in Jesus that A Course in Miracles wasdesperately trying to redefine and explain

away. It was the amazing grace that hadsaved the likes of Joy and me.

Finally, after all we had been through,I was starting to see that the heart of thegospel is not so much that God helps thosewho help themselves but rather that Godhelps those who cant help themselves. Itwas not in affirming our strength but in rec-ognizing our weakness that we had finallylearned to ask the Lord for help. It was Hisgrace, not our own self-sufficiency that had

saved the day.Yet even though we had recognizedour need to be saved from the evil that wascoming at us, we had stubbornly refused toacknowledge Jesus as our personal Lordand Savior. Clinging tenaciously to ourmetaphysical identities, we hadnt under-stood that our faith ultimately had to be inJesus, not in ourselves and that He meantit when He said, I am the way, the truth,and the life: no man cometh unto the Fa-ther, but by me (John 14:6).

We had put our faith in ourselves asGod and not in God as God; by going withinwe had gone without. We had grossly un-derestimated our ability not to be deceived,and we had grossly overestimated the wis-dom of our metaphysical teachers.1

Bible warns of spiritual deception

Later, I reflect on how the reality of adeceptive spirit world was never mentionedin the Course or any of our other new age

teachings. I continue the story in my book:

When we could finally see throughthe spiritual deception, most of the Scrip-tures that we had been reading clicked intoplace. It was as if scales had fallen from oureyes, and suddenly the New Testament wasflooded with light. Though we had a lot to



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learn about other aspects of the faith, it wasapparent that we were, by virtue of our hav-ing been so thoroughly deceived, alreadywell-versed in the Bibles description ofdeception.

Several weeks later, after much study,

reflection, prayer, and many more talkswith Joy, I sat down by the creek one morn-ing, determined to go through the Scrip-tures laying out in even more detail whatthey said about A Course in Miracles and theother false teachings that had been woveninto our lives. I went back and forth throughthe Scriptures trying to piece together ourspiritual story.

One of the first passages I looked attalked about another gospel and how sus-

ceptible we can be to false teachings thattry to change the gospel of Christ: I marvelthat ye are so soon removed from him thatcalled you into the grace of Christ unto an-other gospel: Which is not another; but therebe some that trouble you, and would per-vert the gospel of Christ (Galatians 1:67).

I also reread the Scripture thattalked about another Jesus how eventhose who have already accepted the trueJesus and His Holy Spirit could be deceived by a false Christ. For if he that cometh

preacheth another Jesus, whom we have notpreached, or if ye receive another spirit,which ye have not received, or another gos-pel, which ye have not accepted, ye mightwell bear with him (2 Corinthian 11:4).

Helen Schucman heard an innervoice that said, This is a course in miracles.Please take notes. The voice, which lateridentified itself as Jesus, proceeded to dic-tate a body of material that completely con-tradicted the real gospel of Christ and

whose oppositional teachings could only becharacterized as another gospel, anotherspirit, and another Jesus. Most of us whohad read, studied, and believed in A Coursein Miracles never knew or took seriously theBibles explicit warnings about the deceiv-ers who would come in Christs name andpretend to be He.

And most of us never knew the

Bibles explicit warnings that false Christsand false prophets would arise in our midstand seduce us with supernatural signs andwonders to make us think that their teach-ings came from God. Those signs and won-ders would be so convincing that if it were

possible they would fool even the mostfaithful believers in the real gospel and thereal Christ. For there shall arise falseChrists, and false prophets, and shall shewgreat signs and wonders; insomuch that, ifit were possible, they shall deceive the veryelect (Matthew 24:24).

But even if we had been aware of thewarnings, who would have ever suspectedthat these false Christs and prophets wouldarise within our very selves and within our

spiritual friends and teachers? Certainly theJesus that arose within Helen Schucmanand manifested as an audible inner voicewas proof to us all that false Christs andfalse prophets were not always flesh andblood but could also come in the form oflying spirits that pretended to be a spiritguide, the Holy Spirit, our higher self,or in Helens case, Jesus. The lying spiritsdelivered not only false counsel but alsofalse teachings, such as A Course in Miracles.Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in

the latter times some shall depart from thefaith, giving heed to seducing spirits, anddoctrines of devils (1 Timothy 4:1).

Just so there would be no mistakeabout where the lying spirits came from andhow they operated, the Bible spelled it outin even more detail. I looked at the Scrip-ture... For such are false apostles, deceitfulworkers, transforming themselves into theapostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Sa-tan himself is transformed into an angel of

light. Therefore it is no great thing if hisministers also be transformed as the minis-ters of righteousness; whose end shall beaccording to their works (2 Corinthians11:1315).

An angel of darkness could cleverlydisguise himself as an angel of light. Hisservants could disguise themselves asteachers of Christ or even as Christ Him-



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self. They were deceivers of darkness fromthe other side, another gospel, anotherspirit, another Christ the ultimate decep-tion. We certainly hadnt gone out lookingfor deception, but in our spiritual ignorancewe had walked right into their clever trap.

The Scriptures had been prophetic asthey described in detail the signs and won-ders and false prophets and false Christsand lying spirits. Many of us had been soconvinced we were on the right path thatwe never stopped to question any ofthe voices that seemed to be divinely in-spired, and just as Helen Schucmans in-ner voice went unchallenged, so did ourown inner voices and those of our spiritualteachers.

In fact, the Bible had not only pre-dicted spiritual deception but actuallywarned us to test the spirits before we lis-tened to them. Beloved, believe not everyspirit, but try the spirits whether they areof God: because many false prophets aregone out in the world (1 John 4:1). The testis a godly Halt, who goes there? to makesure that the spirits are really from God.Deceptive spirits cannot say that Jesus is theChrist and that He came to this earth in aphysical body. When challenged, a decep-

tive spirit will deny that Jesus is the Christand that He came in the flesh to earth.

In some mysterious, God-appointedway, deceptive spirits cannot withstand theBibles test any more than they could remainin our presence when we commanded themto leave in the name of Jesus Christ. Godmercifully provided us with this way ofdiscerning what is really happening. In fact,the Courses Jesus himself answered thequestion of whether or not he was the

Christ. His answer, Oh yes, along withyou, clearly failed the Bibles test.Those of us who had believed the

Courses Jesus that he was the Christ andthat we were toowere deceived intothinking that the Christ was somethingbigger than Jesus or us or anyone else. Butin believing the Course and my other spiri-tual teachers, I had unwittingly become the

very person that the real Jesus warned meto watch out for. Take heed that no mandeceive you. For many shall come in myname, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceivemany (Matthew 24:45).

From that first psychic reading, I had

been deceived. Led down a yellow brickroad by pied piper spirits, I had, with the best intentions, landed in a metaphysicalnew age where the Christ proclaimed wasnot the real Christ at all. A well-orchestratedand exquisitely timed series of supernatu-ral synchronistic experiences had convincedme that my involvement in alternative spiri-tuality was meant to be. Following thesigns and wonders of deceptive spirits, Ihad jumped through my spiritual hoops

with almost flawless precision. With expertstrings being pulled by the other side, I hadbeen seduced by a ball of light, an Indianguru on a Big Sur mountaintop, a formerNapa Valley farmer who was now channel-ing the Source, and A Course in Miraclesthat had been sent by Jesus. As Joy and Iboth had unknowingly plugged into the de-ceptive spirit world, we never realized thatmost of the voices we were listening to werepart of the deception that the real Jesus hadwarned about.2

What we had thought to be spiri-tual truth had turned out to be nothing morethan fiction. What we had believed to bethe fiction of the Bible had ironically turnedout to be the gospel truth. The age of de-ception that had been predicted was alreadywell on its way.

In listening to our spiritual teacherswe had missed the many warnings thatwere being shouted to us from the pages ofthe Bible. We were in reality fallen human

beings, prone to temptation, and easilyovercome by evil. And although there wasno way we could ever save ourselves, wecould be saved by the One whom God sentto set us free.

I knew now that if being a sinnermeant falling short and being in need ofsalvation and redemption, then I was a sin-ner.



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And if repenting meant turningaway from my sins and my ungodly ways,then I was ready to repent.

And if being born again meant be-ing born again from God on high, then Iwanted to be born again.

I knew I had a lot to learn about Jesusand all of His teachings and that being adisciple of His would be the test of my life.But I was grateful that Joy and I had beengiven a window into the spirit world inwhat had turned out to be our crash courseon the truth of the Bible.

In some strange and wonderful wayJoy and I had backed into the gospel andinto our faith. It was only after our wholeworld had been turned upside down and

inside out that we had found ourselves rightside up at the foot of the cross.3

Since our conversion in 1984, my wifeand I have watched as a somewhat under-ground new age movement has evolvedinto the popularly accepted, worldwidespiritual phenomenon that it is today. It hasgrown at an exponential rate and is nowstarting to organize itself spiritually andpolitically. As previously mentioned, manywell-known new gospel advocates have

joined together to form The Global Renais-sance Alliance. A new age movement,that for so long seemed to be lacking a cen-tral core, has now reinvented itself. Sud-denly, many of its leaders have formed asingle organization that has a board of di-rectors and even a mission statement.

Selected teachings

from the Bible

Gospel of Jesus Christ

For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ:for it is the power of God unto salvation toevery one that believeth. (Romans 1:16)

But though we, or an angel from heaven,preach any other gospel unto you than thatwhich we have preached unto you, let him beaccursed. (Galatians 1:8)

Salvation

For God so loved the world, that he gave hisonly begotten Son, that whosoever believethin him should not perish, but have everlastinglife. (John 3:16)

This is a faithful saying, and worthy of allacceptation, that Christ Jesus came into theworld to save sinners. (1 Timothy 1:15)

For all have sinned, and come short of theglory of God. (Romans 3:23)

But God commendeth his love toward us, inthat, while we were yet sinners, Christ died forus. (Romans 5:8)

That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth theLord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heartthat God hath raised him from the dead, thou

shalt be saved. (Romans 10:9)

For whosoever shall call upon the name of theLord shall be saved. (Romans 10:13)

[Name of Jesus] Neither is there salvation inany other: for there is none other name underheaven given among men, whereby we mustbe saved. (Acts 4:12)

The Gospel

of JesusChrist

Name of Jesus

Wherefore God also hath highly exaltedhim, and given him a name which is aboveevery name: That at the name of Jesusevery knee should bow, of things inheaven, and things in earth, and thingsunder the earth; And that every tongueshould confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, tothe glory of God the Father.(Philippians 2:911)



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Bible

All scripture is given byinspiration of God, and isprofitable for doctrine, forreproof, for correction, forinstruction in righteousness:

That the man of God may beperfect, thoroughly furnishedunto all good works.(2 Timothy 3:1617)

If ye continue in my word,then are ye my disciplesindeed; And ye shall knowthe truth, and the t

reinventing jesus christ_the new gospel._warren smith

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