Religious Fundamentalism, Nazism, and the New Age Movement!

In my research on the "New Age Movement", I came across the following--very timely--words!

Religious Fundamentalism, Nazism, and the New Age Movement

From Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow: The New Age Movement and our Coming Age of Barbarism

By Constance Cumby, 1983, p. 91-92, 98.

Although religious fundamentalism has been paralleled with Nazism, nothing could be further from the truth. Nazism was an elaborate synthesis of neo-paganism, gnosticism, consciousness-expansion techniques and the occult. The same things may be said of the New Age Movement. As Dr. Lewis Sumberg once noted:

The ability of neo-Paganism to reaffirm itself militantly and contest with Christianity for men’s minds and bodies tells us that the Nazi nightmare is the most recent but not the final act in a larger human tragedy that is still being played out.

The rise of occultism and the practice of the black arts by the myriad secret societies—particularly the kind represented by Satanism—was noted everywhere in the Germany of the 1920s. That we are witnessing much the same phenomenon in the United States today...should cause civilized men the gravest concern. (1)

Near horror gripped me as I read the sourcebook for this quote—The Occult and the Third Reich. I could have easily whited out every reference to Nazism, the Third Reich, and Germany and replaced it with The New Age Movement. … There was absolutely no question about it. The cosmology and the cosmogony of the New Age Movement and Nazism [are] identical. (2)

It is time we Christians stopped apologizing for our fundamentalism and orthodoxy. Fundamentalism was not the cause of Nazism—occultism was!

FOOTNOTES:

1. Quote from The Occult and the Third Reich, by Jean-Michael Angebert

2. Cosmology = “current structure”. Cosmogony = “origins”. Source: Google A.I.