The above topics are introduced below via an excerpt from one of Dr. John MacArthur’s sermons from his series on Matthew 7: 13–27.
Therein, while he was discussing the subtopic of self-deception, he quoted the following book: Changing of the Gods: feminism and the end of traditional religions by Naomi R. Goldenberg, published in 1979. As you consider a brief excerpt from one of his sermons from that series, you will learn about tenets of the women’s movement. Below the sermon excerpts, those tenets are listed and compared with Crowley’s satanist goals.
The first sermon excerpt is 6 minutes and states only the quotation; the second excerpt, 26 minutes, provides context. The full sermon is an hour long.
Women’s movement demands:
- Female deities and that nature be sacred (as seen in Gotthard tunnel ceremony, post 2 on paganism)
- Human will supreme; no laws of discipline (such as the ten commandments); sex to have free course (as began during the 1960s; and as seen in A. Crowley’s goals, below)
- No original sin; no good or evil; no sacred text (as will be apparent in a future post concerning Carl G. Jung)
Aleister Crowley’s goals aimed at changing culture and religion:
- To usher in the New Age of the AntiChrist via:
- The drug revolution
- The sexual revolution
- The synthesis of western occultism with eastern mysticism
- The rebellion against all authority, especially Christianity
- The establishment of a new world order.
Both the women’s movement and Crowley’s movement are paganistic. Paganism includes satan worship, worship of the creation instead of the Creator.
Not much is said in the two following videos about a crucial element that is necessary in the transformations that the above movements seek; although we will get into that on a later post on Jung, I want to specifically identify it presently, Hindu meditation.
Hindu meditation is also known by other names including, TM (transcendental meditation), eastern meditation, entering the silence…. It is by this meditation that one encounters his personal spirit guide, which becomes the source of his power and guidance thereafter.
In the following 39 minute video, Dr. Peter Jones summarizes his book about major changes in western culture that have occurred since 1964, his first visit to America; his topics include all that Dr. MacArthur introduced and more. Jones cites psychologist Carl G. Jung as the major contributor in this shift from a Christian worldview to an eastern one.
He describes Christianity as Twoism, meaning that God is separate from His creation; whereas the eastern worldview, Oneism, claims that all things, including God, are made up of the same stuff, and that man has within himself a divine spark giving him the potential to become deity.
This oneism concept is foundational to the Oneness Pagan movement; wicca; New Spirituality; the emergent church, mysticism … all forms of nature worship (“Green” included) and eastern religion.
Jung’s reconciliation of opposites and androgenism will be discussed in a latter post.
The following, very brief video, is an overview of witchcraft and goddess worship. There are other more hard core videos about these topics on YouTube, but they were much longer and I wasn’t sure how to choose the most accurate presentation since I have very limited knowledge on this topic. Although I chose a video that presents these topics in kind of a generic manner, involvement in these activities in no little thing — God considers it worship of the creation, idolatry, sin!
In closing, I want to say that I hope theses posts on Paganism enable readers to more easily see these forces we are amid, that are currently transforming the western world. Dr. Jones emphasized that millennials are at greater risk because they have been conditioned by this culture; however, we who were born before the 1970s, for example, know what it was like living under the umbrella of the Christian worldview: we see much more clearly, the crumbling pillars of the western world because we may compare this current moral chaos to the stability of biblical truth / worldview (even though we grew up under the godless 19th century influence of modernism, wherein science replaced God for many).
Despite the apparent daunting nature of these pagan forces, we need to continue to testify the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, as it is now and has always been our only hope of salvation from God’s wrath against sin. And despite what feminist leaders believe, God cannot be displaced from His throne, He is still in control! Students of the Bible know that He has foretold such events as are occurring presently; and that He mocks those who rebel against Him (see psalm 2 for one of 100s of such examples in the Bible).
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To examine Changing of the Gods content pages click the following link:
Doc1.docx Feminism Content pages
Dr. MacArthur’s sermon series on the narrow gate (at gty.org search number 2252 for the first sermon; you will find that it is available in several formats, two of which are free; you may listen to it there or download it to your computer; you may also download the pdf transcript of each sermon of the series: 2252 — 2256; smartphone users need to get the free Grace To You app at the app store and search his 30k sermons by title or biblical topic, and download any free).
Dr. Peter Jones book: The Other Worldview; or the video / audible series of the book, Only Two Religions. (Both at Amazon)
If you’re a feminist and haven’t read Changing of the Gods: Feminism and the end of traditional religions by Naomi R. Goldenberg, then you might want to read it to better understand the nature of the movement to which you subscribe (available at Amazon). The posts on paganism in this blog, should enable you to understand that the movement is pagan / satanic; the opposite of Christianity. God does not accept syncretistic worship, we must choose Him or Ba’al, as Elijah called worshipers to do (see post 3 Paganism). Syncretism is the blending of biblical worship with any other type.
My post on Yoga (see categories), explains Hindu meditation which is used by wicca, the emergent church (mysticism), and all who practice the eastern oneness religions (discussed in posts on paganism). If you study any of the movements written about in these posts on paganism, then you will find that they have obtained their visions from some form of this meditation wherein they have been given knowledge by a spirit being. Crowley, Jung, and others knew that the spirit was Satan. Many do not know the evil nature of the spirits with whom they are becoming intimate through this meditation. It seems to me that all who have followed those spirits have done so for the power they have been offered: see Matthew 4, Christ’s temptations also, for a glimpse of that kind of enticement from the satanic realm.