Environmental circumstances and the naivety of many Christians remain incomprehensible:

• Hardly anyone knows that much is inverted in New Age — e.g., the New Age rainbow.
• The "feminism," "unity," and "meditation track" is a trap for many, including priests and theologians.
• Exhibitions such as "World Religions - World Peace - Global Ethic" are even promoted in churches, even though the underlying "Global Ethic" Foundation (Weltethos) spreads New Age ideas.
• Many developments are completely overlooked, such as the ban or restriction on reading the Holy Scriptures in Sweden.
• Harry Potter, witches, Halloween, magic, mantras ... are already conquering the hearts of small children.
• The list can be expanded at will.

Knowledge of the dangers associated with New Age is important for every Christian, but especially for families. Parents should discuss these dangers with their children at an early stage in a pedagogically wise manner and help them to withstand the New Age flood. As the most effective and safest protective measures, I recommend communal prayer — especially the Rosary — and Early Communion.

Introduction

Today, there is no one who is not confronted with New Age ideas on an almost daily basis. New Age encounters us in various shades and under many names. Nevertheless, we remain uninformed, and hardly anyone knows about the dangers associated with New Age.

"New Age — what is New Age?", one of our acquaintances asked me recently in astonishment.

For me, New Age is a "spiritual plague" of our time, spreading like an epidemic, and one that cannot be warned against enough.

"It is high time," writes Constance Cumbey (The Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow: The New Age Movement and Our Coming Age of Barbarism), "that someone rings the alarm bell and alerts Christians to this movement, calling on those who are ignorantly entangled in it to leave it." This is precisely the goal of this presentation.

1. What is New Age? - Definition of Terms

1.1 Etymologically (By the Word)

"New Age" = "New Era" = Age of Aquarius

Borrowed from astrology — an astrological age = 2,100 years. The allegedly Christian "Pisces" age is coming to an end.

According to this teaching, the Waterman (Aquarius) pours water over the world. The water = a symbol for a new spirit.

Concepts and ideas are spread through songs by pop groups and musicals, for example, Hair.

The beginning of the Age of Aquarius is dated to February 5, 1962. Fundamental changes are predicted.

1.2 By Content

New Age is a mixture of religions. New Age aims for syncretism (the unity of all religions and ideologies). Flowing together within it are:

• Buddhist and Hindu ideas
• Hermetic-Gnostic concepts
• Borrowings from modern psychology, alternative cultures, esotericism, and occultism

Not a centrally controlled movement: New Age is not uniform but highly elusive, because the spiritual content and focus of each movement are shaped by the respective group supporting it.

New Age includes a wealth of individuals and more than 10,000 organizations of the most diverse worldviews (sects, pseudo-scientific groups, fellowships, circles, etc.).

This true flood of movements, which appear under their own names and whose followers often know nothing about New Age, includes among others:

• Bhagwan, Zen, Yoga
• Sufism
• Theosophy, Anthroposophy
• Alchemy, Astrology, Mother Earth cults, witch cults
• Mythologies, e.g., by C.G. Jung (who wrote his doctoral thesis on the background of spiritualist séances)
• What happens after death? (Kübler-Ross)
• Scientology
• Various methods for the expansion of consciousness, etc.

2. Common Grounds

2.1 A Fundamental Change Must Be Brought About

The New Age movement exploits the paralyzing fear of the future. We cannot answer the emerging questions. A way out must be shown. A new era is being ushered in. New salvation, a coming redemption is promised. Therefore, people speak of a turning point (Wendezeit), paradigm shift, etc.

Paradigm = "framework of thought" or "category of thought"

The turning point comes through an expansion of consciousness. The new spirit poured out by Aquarius leads people to the expansion of consciousness, to "enlightenment." The "enlightened human" will be able to solve all problems.

Means of change = Expansion of consciousness: The expansion of consciousness therefore plays a dominant role. The search for a "mystical," wonderful experience is common to all. Some followers of New Age proudly confess that they have experienced a "vision of light." These shared mystical experiences forge the followers together.

Many of them possess psychic powers that enable them to perform "great signs and wonders" — from "astral travel" to clairvoyance.

Marilyn Ferguson (The Aquarian Conspiracy), the "mother of New Age," speaks of a transformation. The doctrine of the all-saving transformation is typical! It is pursued with a breathtaking combination of the most diverse views (Zen, Yoga, Transcendental Meditation...).

In the eyes of New Age masterminds, it is completely irrelevant by what means and through which syncretistic views one arrives at transformation. The main thing is that one gets there. Transformation is a process that brings about change and is therefore very dangerous!

The moment a person opens themselves up to an expansion of consciousness, they are inside this process and can only distance themselves from it again with great difficulty. They easily fall into a state of dependency! This process takes place in four stages:

• Stage - Entry: Someone has a problem and receives the advice: Why don't you try Yoga, Transcendental Meditation (TM), cards, or pendulums... Many paths — one goal (= being one with the new spirit).
• Stage - Exploration: The person concerned obtains books, attends courses, participates in relevant seminars... In a word: they engage with the matter.
• Stage - Integration: They become identified with the matter; they live consciously with it. They allow themselves to be guided (by masters, gurus, cards, pendulums, stars, etc.). This leads to dependency, even to enslavement!!! New Age enslaves people through the spirits that are summoned. One can no longer control them and becomes manipulated. (Anyone who does Yoga or Transcendental Meditation... is at risk of absorbing the conceptual framework of these ideas).
• Stage - Conspiracy: One is ready to missionize others. Ferguson implements her program through various psychotechniques.

2.2 One Can Be Like God Oneself

• Christian view of humanity: Man is a sinner. He cannot redeem himself.
• New Age: Man can redeem himself by finding his way to himself through an expanded consciousness, thereby bringing about his own salvation.

Redemption is possible through various techniques and rituals as an experience of divine enlightenment; these lead to unification with the "Spirit of the Universe."

According to this, Jesus Christ is a human being who succeeded in doing this in a special way.

Dr. Romney: "People who consciously identified themselves with God seemed to possess an abundance of energy that had a healing effect. This was certainly true of Jesus. However, he was not God and never claimed to be."

New Age teaches that the "Christ consciousness" is a "higher state" of the spirit that anyone can attain.

Romney: "It is your task to discover the Christ within you. Teach yourself! Be your own master! Heal yourself! Find the Christ in you!"

God is an impersonal force. According to Capra, the "father" of New Age, God is the "self-organizing dynamic of the entire cosmos."

New Age teaches belief in man himself and the forces he can find in the cosmos (concentration on cosmic forces, devices to capture "cosmic rays"...).

2.3 Not Death Awaits Us, But a New Birth = REINCARNATION

The seriousness of death is hereby denied. According to New Age, it does not bring the decision about eternal salvation or damnation, but a new birth instead.

40% of West German citizens believe in reincarnation!

Christian, linear, historical, and eschatological thinking is replaced by cosmic, cyclical thinking.

2.4 Demonic Beings are Venerated

According to New Age, there are: "Masters of Wisdom," "Teachers from the Beyond," "Hierarchy"...

A look into the history of New Age illuminates its demonic origin and orientation:

Alice Bailey, a significant forerunner of New Age, received messages from a Tibetan (a demonic being), which she wrote down via automatic writing. She was a medium for a spirit and, as such, wrote dozens of books. In 1922, she founded the "Lucifer Publishing Company" (now Lucis Trust). This company distributed her writings with the goal of creating a new world unity religion.

David Spangler, a board member of one of the New Age groups, writes (Excerpt from I'TOPIC No. 6/1984): "The true light of Lucifer cannot be seen through worry, darkness, or rejection. The true light of this great being can only be seen with one's own eyes. Lucifer works within each of us to bring us to wholeness. As we move toward a new age, which is the age of human wholeness, everyone somehow comes to the point that I call the Luciferic initiation. It is a point that many people will face, for it signifies the initiation of the New Age."

Benjamin Creme in a radio interview (Cumbey p. 107): Lucifer supposedly made the highest sacrificial offering for our planet. He is the prodigal son and the sacrificial lamb in one person. He is responsible for the development on our planet. It is the task of Maitreya (= the coming "World Teacher") to guide the "initiates" to his feet.

David Spangler, who possesses political clout and exerts a very large influence on some prominent American clergymen, preached at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Manhattan:

"Lucifer works in each of us to introduce us to a state of perfection. Lucifer comes to bring us the ultimate gift of perfection."

A New Age staff member from Findhorn (Robert Ogilvie Crombie, called ROC for short; Cumbey p. 162 ff.) confirms:

"For the future of humanity, it is important that belief in nature spirits and their god Pan be restored."

2.5 Everything is One

New Age is the era of human wholeness. It believes in the world as a unity of all things. In the unity of soul and body; of man and nature, etc.

Dualism (man - woman, heaven - hell, matter - spirit, this world - the next world, good - evil, etc.) is to be overcome.

Ferguson: Man's ego-consciousness is "an illusion." Man should overcome his "everyday ego" and unite with his higher cosmic self. This is, for example, the goal of "transpersonal psychology" (psychiatrist Stanislav Grof).

New Age seeks liberation from the mechanistic, technical environment through a cosmic religiosity. We feel "warmly and snugly enveloped by the cosmos."

3. Birth of New Age and Its Forerunners

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky founded the Theosophical Society in 1875, which serves as the springboard for New Age. The successor to Blavatsky is Alice Bailey.

Theosophical Worldview: A fundamental doctrine states that world religions contain "shared truths" that bridge all differences.

Because Theosophy established the connection between Western occult and Eastern religious traditions, as well as between modern science and ancient religious traditions, it is the most important forerunner of New Age.

Theosophy brings the teachings of all founders of religions and great historical figures into a common framework (e.g., Jesus = reincarnation of Krishna).

Rudolf Steiner founded the Anthroposophical Society based on Theosophy and his own insights.

However, the spiritual roots of New Age are much, much older. They go back to:

• GNOSIS
• ESOTERICISM

"Esotericism" refers to a "hidden" or "secret" knowledge that was spread only within small circles and passed down through gradual initiation. This "knowledge" originates from priests of pagan religions and medicine men. This knowledge is supposed to bring full realization and salvation and "enlighten" the student.

The handling of astrology, magic, parapsychology... is "esoteric."

This knowledge was formulated and passed down in the teachings of alchemists, Freemasons, Rosicrucians, witches, wizards, shamans, etc., and outside the Christian cultural sphere through Buddhism and Hinduism.

A. Bailey's ideas found their way into American youth culture. Hair spread the concept of the "Age of Aquarius." Elvis Presley dealt with the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones openly confessed his allegiance to the witches' Sabbath and the Voodoo cult.

In California, from where the hippie and drug movement originated, the final milestone for New Age was set, and it was announced that there was a safer means of expanding consciousness than drugs.

The gurus appeared and brought their Far Eastern meditations with them. Parallel to this was — and is — an unprecedented boom in esotericism and the occult.

4. Foundations of New Age

4.1 The Systems View of the World = Scientific-Theoretical Approach

In contrast to the dissecting, analytical principle of the "Age of Pisces," the world is thought of in terms of interconnections. The synthetic spirit of the New Age consciousness absorbs all previous knowledge, evaluates it, and integrates it into a higher-order system. This rethinking is referred to as a "new Copernican revolution."

The American physicist CAPRA presents this systems view in his book The Turning Point. He mentions it as something revolutionary and new. In doing so, however, he arrogantly ignores the preceding philosophical efforts of the 20th century. The necessity of a paradigm shift was recognized long before him.

What is new about New Age is its coupling with occultism and its pseudo-scientific justification. The consequence is the guidance toward a synthetic pseudo-religion.

4.2 Esotericism and Occultism = Esoteric-Astrological Approach

After a phase of demythologizing the Christian faith by "enlightened" theologians and after an epoch of a materialistic worldview, the pendulum is swinging overwhelmingly in the other direction.

"The sixth sense," the sense for the transcendent that is inherent in human nature, was not satisfied. New Age exploits this. New Age shows paths to transcendence that are predominantly shaped by Eastern concepts and philosophies, and offers corresponding spiritual exercises (Yoga, TM...).

The goal is unification with the "Spirit of the Universe"!

5. Goal of New Age

Specifically, there are numerous goals of a political, social, and economic nature:

"May Light and Love and Power restore the Plan on Earth" — So it says in the "Great Invocation," which calls upon Maitreya.

This plan includes, among other things:

• A universal credit card system
• A global center for food distribution, controlling the entire food supply of humanity
• A uniformly controlled transportation system, among other things

The ultimate goal of the New Age leaders is a world unity religion that is binding for all of humanity.

The shift in consciousness is intended to prepare humanity for the coming of a so-called "World Teacher." This "World Teacher" will then turn all things to the good in the spirit of the New Age. Through the shift in consciousness, people are to be enabled to follow the instructions of the coming "World Teacher," who is also called "Christ."

Planetary mass initiations, so-called "Luciferic initiations," are planned. Everyone who wants to reach the New Age alive must undergo it (Cumbey p. 14).

In the course of spreading this religion, existing world religions are to be increasingly infiltrated with New Age spirituality, so that nothing stands in the way of the final synthesis into the New Age religion.

The goals are clearly laid down in the writings of the New Age leaders. There are precise instructions for the strategies. The individual program steps are set forth primarily in the writings of Alice Bailey. Her instructions are followed down to the smallest detail.

6. Fascination of New Age Ideas (Opportunities of New Age)

6.1 Yearning for a "Re-Enchantment of the World"

Man is oversaturated with rational thinking; he has had enough of materialism. Technology stifled emotion. There is a need for compensation: the "sixth sense" stormily demands satisfaction.

Man is open to his first self-experience seminar featuring psychotechnics.

6.2 Skepticism Toward Technological Progress

Progress cannot solve the problems. New Age, however, spreads an almost euphoric optimism.

6.3 There Is No Death

The fear of death is to be overcome. Therapies are offered with the help of which "transpersonal rebirth experiences" can be induced. Death researchers (Kübler-Ross, Moody) promise the most wonderful, happiest experiences of light.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross does not spare criticism of Christianity, since Christianity attributes special weight to death.

"It is a very primitive and oversimplified view to think that the good or evil one has done in one's life determines all of eternity."

Research results from Christian doctors, who also report negative death experiences, are viewed as falsified by New Age followers and are not accepted.

6.4 A Worldview "From a Single Cast"

In the face of increasing disorientation among people, New Age offers a worldview "from a single cast" and promises hope.

The times when science and faith were opposites are supposedly over. Rather, science is said to be a suitable instrument for understanding the essential kinship between spirit and matter.

6.5 Three Supporting Ideas

Three current aspects of New Age make its ideas very attractive. They are found in the ecology movement, "holistic medicine," and feminism.

• Ecology movement: The highest value is the integrity of eternal nature. The New Age masterminds hope for the inherent forces of evolution. Because of its inherent spirituality, nature is the highest authority for human action. Man is only a part of nature and must subordinate himself to it and treat it gently ("gently"!).
• The Greens: The Greens have set themselves the political goal of implementing New Age ideas. (Their anti-Christian character was revealed, for example, in the organization of the "Anti-Clerical Days" in Linz during Lent in 1987).
• "Holistic medicine": The holistic approach assumes that man, with his illnesses, is a body-soul unity and must be treated as such. While this is a fact, the primary goal of New Age is to bring about transformation. Combined with methods that may genuinely be conducive to health is the intention to offer people a practical training in the thinking of the Age of Aquarius.
• Feminism: Now the GENTLE, female era is dawning. The goal of societal "transformation" is to establish the "gentle, feminine principle."

7. Methods of Spreading New Age Spirituality

New Age religion is spreading more and more in the public sphere without there always being a direct connection to organized New Age groups.

In Canada and the US, there are already more than 10,000 groups organized in "networks." Centers are located primarily in California, Switzerland, West Germany, and India.

"The conspiracy under the sign of Aquarius is actually a network of many networks aiming at a social transformation. Its center is everywhere."

Although many social movements and mutually supportive groups participate in their alliances, their existence does not depend on any single grouping.

"Every part of a SPIN is self-sufficient. You cannot destroy the network by destroying a single leader or any vital piece... a network is much larger than the sum of its parts... This is a source of power." (M. Ferguson in The Aquarian Conspiracy)

Some supranational New Age networks are:

• Lucis Trust (formerly Lucifer Trust)
• Teilhard Foundation
• Institute for Planetary Synthesis
• "New Group of World Servers"
• "Planetary Initiative for the World We Choose"

The individual centers coordinate their activities. They are directed by the "Spiritual Hierarchy" (Members = "Masters" or "Enlightened Ones").

Every New Age organization trains its followers to connect in some meditative form with the "masters of the spiritual hierarchy" (e.g., an invitation to a "cosmic trip"). From them, they receive instructions to prepare for the New Age.

They pray the "Great Invocation" (Gehirnwäsche p. 32). Millions of people recite it daily:

There is a dedicated manual for spreading the "Great Invocation" with "suggestions for action." "The Great Invocation gradually changes the mental atmosphere on our planet" (Quote from the manual).

New Age exerts a strong influence on the mass media. People are sensitized to the topics that New Age addresses.

Even religious magazines show the handwriting of New Age. For example, clergymen in a youth magazine lecture the parish youth entrusted to them with the following assertions:

• We must not believe that religion alone can save us.
• There is a relationship between monotheism and violence.
• The opposite of a profound truth can be another profound truth.
• No one can claim with 100 percent certainty to know the truth...

Waldorf and Montessori schools, as well as some apparent or temporary social projects, are also counted towards New Age. (Hunger projects: "Bread for the World"; UNICEF).

Laypeople and clergymen attend New Age courses, and New Age leaders speak before politicians:

• M. Ferguson, for example, was the keynote speaker at the annual dinner of the US Department of Defense in 1982.
• Courses in "New Age thinking" are offered for middle and senior management. In large part, there is a compulsion to attend these courses (General Motors).

Bookstores are also overflowing with New Age literature. For your information, here are some book titles from the bookstore near me, which is close to the Catholic Students' Association. I copied them down while standing in front of the display window:

• Death and What Comes After. Survival from the Perspective of Parapsychology
• Man and Earth on the Path of Unity. A Manifesto (Theodore Roszak)
• The Re-Enchantment of the World
• The Medicine of Space and Time
• Alan Watts: Psychotherapy East and West
• The Immortal Soul. Spirit and Reincarnation
• Harold Sherman: Extra-Sensory Powers and How to Benefit From Them
• Secret Knowledge. The Naturalness of the Supernatural
• The Spiritual Evolution (Björkman)
• The Great Book of Magic (Palmistry, Biorhythms, Clairvoyance, Card Reading...)
• Self-Realization. The Art of Being. An Exercise Book
• Toward New Dimensions of Being. We Are Free, Responsible, Part of Creation
• Telepathy and Clairvoyance
• The Power of the Sacred Sound. The Secret Tradition of the Mantra
• The Experience of Rebirth. Healing Through Reincarnation
• The Great Prophecies of Nostradamus
• Living in Harmony (Murphy). The Cosmos: The Universal Source of Your Power
• Murphy: The Infinite Source of Your Power. A Key Book of Positive Thinking

8. New Age and Christianity

In general, members of the New Age movement do not publicly reject Christianity. At least not yet!

They clothe their ideas in Christian terms and undermine Christianity by posing as its friends. They attempt to fill Christianity with new content—for example, by placing pagan gods on the same level as Jesus Christ.

They retain the language of Christianity while, in truth, turning the Gospel upside down. The following two quotes are meant to illustrate this:

The esotericist P. Wenzel claims, in an esoteric interpretation of the "Lord's Prayer," among other things, that heaven is our "own spiritual horizon of perception."

Diarmuid Murchu writes in Transcendental Meditation – A Method for Christians (Ed. A.B. Smith, p. 48):

"There is good reason to believe that the Hindu belief that 'man becomes Brahman' is not different from the Pauline idea that the Christian is 'in Christ,' or the more popular Christian concept that our bodies are the temples of the Holy Spirit."

New Age followers refer to their method as "creative borrowing." Through this, they dilute Christianity until nothing is left of it (e.g., John Cobb suggests that Christians should emulate Buddhism in order to "reconceptualize Christ").

In the defining New Age literature for initiates, it is stated in no uncertain terms that Christianity and Judaism are the worst enemies of the New Age. They leave no doubt that a "fundamentalist" Christianity will not be tolerated in the New Age.

For instance, one of the pamphlets of the Theosophical Society states:

"…to oppose every form of dogmatic theology, especially the Christian, which the leaders of the Society consider particularly harmful."

The Christian faith is completely unacceptable to New Age followers "who have become partakers of the expanded vision."

While Christianity is completely rejected in substance, Christian terms are used for tactical reasons but are filled with different meanings.

Christian ideas are copied to bring about a deliberate deception. The radical, anti-Christian character of this movement is meant to be concealed, at least during its expansion phase. This is what makes New Age ideology so dangerous for many Christians.

The blending of Christian doctrine with human doctrines of salvation (such as Gnosticism) has always been a means to decisively weaken the power of Christianity.

Pius X clearly recognized these dangers and laid them down in his encyclical against Modernism.

(Pius X: "We must now break the silence in order to expose before the whole Church the true character of those who have assumed this evil disguise as a cover." — This refers to the methods of New Age members). Cumbey p. 195.

Based on the encyclical, a catechism was published in the USA providing information about New Age methods.

The religious scholar Leisegang writes regarding Christian-tinged heresies (Reinhard König, New Age, Secret Brainwashing, p. 75):

"We learn… that Simon himself was baptized and transitioned to Christianity with his followers. But then the apostles discover that his mindset is different from theirs. Yet Simon still insists on being and remaining a Christian. Thus, this account mirrors on a small scale the history of heretical Gnosticism. It exists earlier than Christianity; it became Christian; Christians rejected it; yet it still wanted to remain Christian and be considered Christian."

Christianity's claim to absolute truth is the stumbling block. Dr. Romney says:

"There is good in every religion. But every religion lacks complete truth... including Christianity… You must learn… to set aside religious systems and rise above them into an all-encompassing religion."

The theosophical movement believes in the unity of all religions, with the exception of monotheistic ones (Cumbey p. 47):

"Esoteric philosophy reconciles all states with one another, strips them of their outward human garments, and shows that all great religions trace back to the same roots. It proves the necessity of a divine, absolute principle in nature. It no more denies the Godhead than it denies the sun. Esoteric philosophy has never rejected God in nature, nor the Godhead as absolute and abstract being. It merely refuses to recognize any of the deities of the so-called monotheistic religions—deities that man has created in his own image; a blasphemous and deplorable caricature of the Ever Unknown."

Therefore, Christianity is to be uprooted with all its roots. Since 1975, the New Age movement has openly spoken about the goal of conducting a "cleansing action" against those who refuse to accept the "Christ" proclaimed by the New Age. (They will be "freed from their physical embodiment" = liquidated).

In their writings, New Age pioneers have freely declared that they intend to outlaw and ban all traditional religious practices and symbols of Jews and Christians.

The groundwork is already being laid: New Age followers are striving to convince humanity that Christianity has "negative effects on spiritual adaptation." They claim it is bad because it is designed for division. Among other things, it is argued that Christianity promotes cruelty toward animals; that it delivers its teachings in code instead of clearly like New Age; and that "conservative Christians" are rigid and unwilling to learn.

Many wars have been fought because of monotheistic religions. In today's situation, the examples cited are: Ireland, Israel, Iraq—meaning Christians, Jews, and Muslims.

9. Danger of the New Age

Behind the appealing outward appearance of the New Age hides a neo-pagan religion. It aims to GENTLY draw many into its esoteric-occult spell.

The "New Age" (or "turning point") could turn into a nightmarish future. Collective survival may be secured, but personal freedom will not be.

Cumbey reports how she witnessed B. Creme explaining in a lecture, to applause:

"Democracy will disappear" (namely, when Maitreya reveals his identity).

In a deliberately designed maneuver of deception, it is often claimed that the systemic view of life is the sole authoritative foundation of the New Age. This theory does indeed promise good approaches to solving many problems. All too willingly, this positive, fascinating side is showcased, while the esoteric-astrological ideology is deliberately concealed, yet passed on subliminally.

Even today, an intolerance toward those who think differently—the "non-enlightened"—is recognizable.

To recognize the danger of the New Age, one must keep the goal of New Age ideology in mind: to establish a new WORLD RELIGION, to announce a CHRIST or WORLD TEACHER, and to set up a political NEW WORLD ORDER.

According to Cumbey, the program for this is as follows (Cumbey 19):

"The plan includes the installation of a 'Messiah' as well as the establishment of a world government and a new world religion under Maitreya. In detail, there are numerous political, social, and economic goals, including:

• A universal credit card system.
• A world headquarters for food distribution, controlling humanity's entire food supply.
• A globally uniform tax system.
• A worldwide military conscription duty."

10. New Age Symbols

According to Cumbey, New Age symbols include, among others (Cumbey p. 230):

• Rainbow: This symbol is used for hypnosis. Members of the movement also refer to it as the "International Sign of Peace." They claim that they are building a rainbow bridge between the personality (oneself) and the oversoul or the "Great Universal Spirit."
• Light Rays
• Cross with Added Diagonals
• Center Point Symbol: A center enclosed by a larger circle and a series of increasingly smaller circles.
• Swastika: The use of the swastika is also widespread within the Theosophical Society.
• The Number 666: On page 79 of the book The Rays and the Initiations, A. Bailey describes the meaning and the "sacred attributes" of the number 666. The Book of Knowledge urges initiates to use this sequence of numbers as often as possible to accelerate the arrival of the "New Age." Many common means of payment are already marked with the number 666, especially in the USA.
• ...and further symbols.

11. Example of an Advertisement for New Age

The following sentences are taken from a quarterly newsletter of the "Lucis Trust-World Goodwill Newsletter" (July/August/September 1982 issue — taken from Cumbey p. 245 ff):

Below is the text of an invitation to a lecture by Benjamin Creme (Cumbey p. 269):

12. What We Can Do – and What It Is Too Late For

The time has passed to actively oppose the workings of the New Age movement. It has successfully infiltrated Christianity. It holds great power in public life (mass media, penetration of leading newspapers, including church newspapers, Catholic educational centers, public opinion forming, etc.).

However, our task is still great enough: We must WARN.

Let us inform our friends who are innocently entangled in this web. Let us tell them where they have ended up. But the goals of the New Age also rest in God's hands. Only what He allows happens, and only when He allows it.

The following words from Holy Scripture offer us guidance: