Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt00239)

Dear and friends

Yes, Therie.
This criticism is not new coming from christian sources...
Lucifer for example has got , as may you know, additional sense, Christians and also the other Protestant sects think Lucifer is as the same as Satan, or the Devil, the Demon.
In Brazil there is a big church called Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus ( something like " Universal Church of the Godīs Kingdom" ) that has spread out to many countries ( last time I counted it was 40 countries! )
High hierarchy bishops gain a lot of money as much as the churches collect and they read and follow the Bible under dead letters...radical at extreme.
Pre-fab miracles, healing difficult diseases, and a lot of exorcism, " pulling out luciferīs or satan " from peoplesīs bodies!!!
Little churches...great busine$$.
They are entreprises that do not pay taxes and make miracles without any invoice!

Krishtar



----- Original Message ----- 
From: thalprin 
To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 4:02 PM
Subject: Theos-World Fascinating:




"Godless companions


In Arthur's case it seems he was influenced by young people who had 
no such background as his own. In later memories of this time he 
refers to `the godless companions of our youth', and says that 
during energetic and thoughtless days among them there were `a 
number of occasions when he was in imminent peril, brought face to 
face with death'.

Whatever these escapades were, they were probably unknown to his 
parents. But to their grief there was another development in his 
life that they could not miss. Not only did their eldest son turn 
from their faith, he turned to Theosophy.

Theosophy is a cult which, although only formed into a Society in 
1875, claims a special knowledge (theosophia - divine wisdom) which 
is supposedly preserved from generation to generation by a 
brotherhood of initiates. 

At the beginning of the twentieth century its best-known British 
publication, the monthly magazine Lucifer, indicated clearly enough 
its anti-Christian nature. Its leading journal The Theosophist, at 
that time published monthly at the Society's headquarters in Madras, 
India, promoted in esoteric form the `wisdom' of eastern religions, 
including belief in reincarnation. 

While denying the personality of God (and the supernatural in 
Christianity), Theosophy claimed to be able to unify all religions 
and to establish a universal brotherhood. Its main `messenger' in 
the nineteenth century was the Russian, Helena Blavatsky (1831-
1891), and she was followed by Annie Besant (1847-1933), who left 
her clergyman husband in 1873 for a life in politics, mysticism and 
eastern religions. From 1907 to her death she was President of the 
Theosophical Society."


Excerpt from:

http://www.evangelical-times.org/articles/oct04/oct04a03.htm







   
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