End-Time Events Part IV

The Message: Ancient Egyptian Occultic Formula in the Heart of the Lord’s Prayer

As warren Smith read on, he discovered that Rick Warren loved The Message Bible. Out of the 15 versions in his book, this clearly is Rick’s favorite. In the heart of the Lord’s Prayer, as translated in The Message, he found an astonishing phrase, used by the occult from the time of the Egyptians onward. There, in the heart of the Lord’s Prayer, had been planted the ancient occultic formula:

As above, so below

“This phrase comes from the beginning of The Emerald Tablet and embraces the entire system of traditional and modern magic which was inscribed upon the tablet in cryptic wording by Hermes Trismegistus. The significance of this phrase is that it is believed to hold the key to all the mysteries. All systems of magic are claimed to function by this formula. ‘That which is above is the same as that which is below’… The universe is the same as God. God is the same as man…’ (http://www.themysica.com/mystica/articles/a/below_above.html). Quoted in Warren Smith, 33. (Emphasis mine)

The Book: “As Above, So Below”

About the time, Warren Smith was researching this phrase, he came across a book written and published by editors of the New Age Journal, entitled, As Above, So Below. In the introduction, the chief editor of the book, Ronald S. Miller wrote:

“Thousands of years ago in ancient Egypt, the great master alchemist Hermes Trismegistus, believed to be a contemporary of the Hebrew prophet Abraham, proclaimed this fundamental truth about the universe: ‘As above, so below; as below, so above.’ This maxim implies that the Transcendent God beyond the physical universe and the immanent God within ourselves are one. Heaven and earth, spirit and matter, the invisible and the visible worlds form a unity to which we are intimately linked.” – Ronald S. Miller and the Editors of the New Age Journal, As Above, So Below: Paths to Spiritual Renewal in Daily Life (Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc., 1992), p. xi.

Fundamental, Radical Pantheism in the Heart of the Lord’s Prayer

Miller then quotes the Sufi scholar Reshad Field:

‘”As above, so below’ means that the two worlds are instantaneously seen to be one when we realize our essential unity with God…. The one and the many, time and eternity, are all One.” (Ellipsis in original) – Field quoted in Miller, p.xi, quoted in Smith, 32.

This World is Not At One With the World of Heaven; The Kingdom of Heaven is At War With the Kingdom of Satan

Not only does the Bible utterly reject pantheism, but also the Bible teaches that “There was war in heaven. Michael and His angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels.

“And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.” Revelation 12: 7-9.

That great controversy between Christ and Satan is still going on. Everywhere that Jesus went, the demons cried out in fear. Jesus’ very presence is mortal threat to Satan’s kingdom of evil, darkness, and rebellion.

The believer is not one with the world: “Because ye are not of this world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.” John 15:19.

Carl Jung, the Aryan Christ, Paul Tillich, Pastor Rick Warren, and the Purpose-Driven Life

“Jung was convinced that he had been chosen by God for a prophetic mission to herald the dawning Age of Aquarius – D. Sclar, The Nazis and the Occult, 132.

“It’s the dawning of the Age of Aquarius…” – One of the Hippie songs of the sixties.

Carl Jung, the psychologist, laid the foundation for pantheism in religion by implementing pantheism in psychology. In the aftermath of the pantheistic Hippie Movement, pantheistic psychology became a virtual religion, and now, as people immersed in pantheistic culture and pantheistic psychology recognize a pantheistically oriented religion emerging, they are flocking to it in droves.

Jung created an Aryan Christ. The effort to create an Aryan Christ in the field of psychoanalysis by Jung is staggering.  The influence of Jung upon the world is enormous. “Carl Gustav Jung, along with Sigmund Freud, stands as one of the two most famous and influential figures of the modern age. His ideas have shaped our perception of the world; his theories of myths and archetypes and his notion of the collective unconscious have become part of popular culture.” Richard Noll, The Aryan Christ: The Secret Life of Carl Jung. New York: Random House, 1997, from the cover.

Noll has written an entire book about this – The Aryan Christ: The Secret Life of Carl Jung, by Richard Noll. Noll writes, “Earnest Jones complained to Freud in December 1912 that ‘Jung is going to save the world, another Christ (with certainly anti-Semitism combined).’ Freud concurred, ‘I thank you for very just remarks about Jung. In fact, he behaves like a perfect fool, he seems to be Christ himself….’” – Jones and Freud quoted in The Aryan Christ, p. 112.

In June 8, 1913, Freud wrote to Ferenczi, “You had heard that Jung had declared in America that [psychoanalysis] was not a science but a religion.” Ibid., 113. “For many decades before Jung became conscience that he was the Aryan Christ for a new age, there had been a wide-ranging debate in German culture not only about the historical reality of Jesus of Nazareth, but whether he was 100 percent Jewish.” Aryan Christ, 144. “As the historian George Mosse notes in his magisterial analysis of the Volkish movement [which was foundational to Nazism’s hold on the German people], ‘another tendency of Volkish thought’ was ‘to substitute the image of the Volk for the person and function of Christ.’” – Aryan Christ, 146.

Jung Taught the God Within

Carl Jung received his deepest insights from a familiar spirit [evil spirit] appearing as an old man with a beard, named Philemon. ‘”Compelled from within to formulate and express what might have been said by Philemon,’ Jung wrote his famous ‘Seven Sermons to the Dead.’…

“… By the end of the seventh [sermon to the dead], he had converted these disaffected Christians to his own pagan philosophy and to Abraxas, a god both good and evil…a terrible, hidden god…the operation of all the gods and devils…There is no deity more powerful…the lion-headed variant of the Gnostic god.” – Aryan Christ, pp. 161, 162. This is just a terrible snippet of Jung’s world, which became the world of the religion of psychology and psychoanalysis in the twentieth century, concepts which shaped powerfully the thinking of the global culture of the Twentieth Century. Jung taught “the god within,” a form of pantheism, a concept that has been broadly accepted by today’s New Age culture, including the New Age Christ promoted by the churches.

It would be hard to imagine a greater conflict than would exist between the True Christ of the Bible and the Aryan Christ of Jungian psychology direct from evil spirits. Yet, pastor Rick Warren of Saddleback writes in The Purpose-Driven Life. “ The Bible says, “He rules everything and is everywhere and is in everything.” (p. 88). (Emphasis mine)


New Century Version’s Pantheism Used by Rick Warren and Schuller

Rick Warren is quoting Ephesians 4:6 from the New Century Version, which is prominently displayed on Robert Schuller’s website. Schuller ran the Crystal Cathedral and the Schuller Institute, where Rick Warren attended and taught. Schuller, in an Hour of Power sermon proclaimed: “Yes, God is alive and He is in every single human being!” (Schuller quoted in Warren Smith, p. 80) (Emphasis mine). This New Age version of the Bible is teaching pantheism in Ephesians 4:6.

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