We are all constantly in danger of moving away from the real and true source of life. We are permanently tempted to attach our hearts to other values which we value more highly than our communion with Jesus Christ. Again and again, we lack the courage to say a very concrete yes to absolute discipleship.

Here is the path of the former New Age teacher Gabriel Dominik Müller through the deceptive, glittering world of esotericism until he was able to find deliverance in Jesus Christ. He writes, among other things:

I resorted to esoteric meditation techniques offered by, among others, the Arkan School in Switzerland, which stem from the ideas and inspirations of Bailey and Blavatsky, the co-pioneers of New Age. The founder of the Arkan School is the psychoanalyst and esotericist C.G. Jung. In my search for truth and meaning, I also became interested in astrology, then I learned more about Reiki, then techniques on how to look into past lives (reincarnation therapy). Finally, I founded a branch of the Arcane School myself, the Mercury School, in order to be able to pass on my latest discoveries to as many people as possible.

Who is worshipped in esotericism varies. In the meditation techniques of the Arcane School, it was three masters. Behind everything there is a somehow elemental deity and under this deity there is also an incarnate master called Christ. Not Jesus Christ of the Bible, but Christ as Lord Maytreia. So it was no problem at all for me when someone told me about Jesus Christ. I thought, that's who we also have. Now I know that there is a big difference.

During esoteric meditations I saw dead people who were actually spirits of the dead. I came into situations where I saw illnesses of people immediately, where I was outside the body and was with others. I had seen that there was another world and I found it fascinating. The really mean thing about it is that you don't realise that this world is dominated by darkness, which opposes God in everything. I was only allowed and able to experience this when I received the spirit of truth and light. I also saw light before. Now it is clear to me that it was the angel of light, as Satan is described in the Bible. Contact with the otherworld reinforced my ego, reinforced my sexuality, reinforced my desire for power, my knowledge that I was going up the spiritual performance curve and was powerful. Esotericism repeatedly has to do with power, that I can "heal", so to speak, that I can exchange life energy. With this I tried to help to the best of my knowledge, through astrology, through stone therapy, through various practices of esotericism, through metamorphosis, even through the antroposophical practices beings from the invisible world had been given a claim on my life.

When I accepted Jesus Christ as my personal Saviour and Redeemer, I received new life, an eternal life given by God. Not a life that I have to acquire in reincarnations, where I always have to move upwards in a spiritual performance curve to finally stand in front of nothing. When I grasped the truth, a world collapsed for me, I had to say goodbye to the cosmos and the idea of being divine myself. I lost my psychic gifts after the deliverance prayer in the name of Jesus Christ! At the same time, I also felt impure forces that held me captive leave my body.

All glory belongs to God, not to any Guru, not to any human being, not to any master of the spiritual hierarchy. Hallelujah!