My New Age Posts On Constance Cumbey's Blog

by Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer



In her 1983 #1 best-selling book "The Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow" Constance Cumbey offered the first major criticism of the New Age Movement from a Christian perspective. She has also discussed the contents of this book of hers on the EWTN global Catholic TV network. She believes that the New Age Movement is the end-time movement-ushering in the New World Order of the Antichrist. I occasionally correspond with her and often post on her blog. Several of my September 2018 posts and a couple of Cumbey's response posts are presented below.

In Cumbey's blog post about me she wrote: Lee Penn and I have both wondered out loud if Mr. Dahlheimer had read our respective books and took everything we warned against as something positive and wonderful for the world. She later wrote: Lee Penn and I were correct: Dahlheimer has inverted everything! The revelations on Dahlheimer just keep coming! Lee Penn will be on air with me tomorrow night. We will be talking about Thomas Dahlheimer.

First post:

Dahlheimer said:

Oprah Winfrey is considered by many to be the most powerful woman in the world. She is revered around the world by millions as an excellent source of inspiration for spiritual guidance and wisdom. One of her favorite spiritual teachers is Marianne Williamson, an internationally acclaimed New Age spiritual teacher who is also a politician-who plans to enter the 2020 race to be our next president.

Williamson teaches that we are Spirit. Eckhart Tolle is another one of Winfrey's favorite spiritual teachers. He is one of the most influential spiritual teachers in the world. In a youtube video Tolle says he is Spirit. He said: "I am Spirit." He did not say: "I am the Universe," as do (1.) pantheists of a particular form of pantheism, and (2.) panentheists of a particular form of panentheism.

Panentheists believe in an immanent and transcendent God. The panentheists who say "I am the Universe" believe they are suppose to [only] become "One" with the immanent aspect of God and that when they do, they will experience the Earth and the whole Universe as their Cosmic Body. They believe that the Spirit of God in Its transcendent, beyond the cosmos existence has no personality and that the immanent aspect of God has a personality and that It, the "Spirit of the Universe," and the material universe, together, as "One Entity" is who "We" are. In other words, they believe "We are the Divine Universe."

New Age panentheists, including me, believe that on our way to becoming One with Spirit we will first experience an exalted state of consciousness wherein we will [feel] like we are the universe. We believe we must go through that state of consciousness before we can enter into the most exalted state of consciousness wherein we will experience ourselves as Spirit, in creation and beyond it-in infinity.

One of the founding figures of the modern New Age Movement is David Spangler. He wrote: "The world soul is usually conceived as a 'formative force,' an active, intelligent, purposeful spiritual presence at work in the material world to guide and guard the course of planetary evolution. It is generally not accorded the status of being the ultimate source, or Creator, but might be looked upon as a great angelic or archangelic being presiding over the well being of the world, or as the gestalt, the wholeness of all the lives and patterns that manifest upon, and as, the earth."

New Agers do not worship the earth, as leading Christian opponents of the New Age wrongly believe and teach.

Paramahansa Yogananda (1893–1952) is widely regarded as the Father of yoga in the West. He wrote: "The word 'God' means the manifested, transcendental Being beyond creation, but existing in relation to creation. Spirit existed before God. God is the Creator of the universe, but Spirit is the Creator of God." Spirit is "the ultimate source, or Creator," and is so, because It "created"/emanated the Creator of the universe. Spirit is the ultimate source of everything.

Hindus and New Agers, including me, believe and teach that the emanated God sinned and that it caused Him to fall to a less-than-divine status, and that when He fell he created the material and psychic cosmos, which is a manifestation of his less-than-divine self. One aspect of this entity is now known as the soul of the universe-who [essentially or virtually] manifests as the universe. We also believe that the soul of the universe manifests, in a special way, as the earth's soul, whose status is equivalent to "a great angelic or archangelic being, and that it [virtually] manifests as the earth.

We also believe that the soul of the universe and the soul of the earth as one less-than-divine entity is totally pure. However, its physical and psychic manifestations do not consists of the whole universe and the whole earth. Unlike the soul of the universe and soul of the earth they are not totally pure. This is because Satan, known as maya in the Hindu scriptures, is also an aspect of the corrupted and now less-than-divine emanated "God", and it (Satan/maya) is also inherent in the structure of creation.

Summary: There is a form of panentheism whose adherents believe that the universe and the earth are DIVINE and they WORSHIP THEM. Hindu and New Age panentheists are of a different form of panentheism. Hindus and New Agers believe that the universe is a less-than-divine entity (we do not worship it). We also believe that an aspect of its spirit is the soul of the universe and that its earthly spiritual presence is the soul of the earth-that virtually manifests as the earth. It is also less-than-divine, therefore, neither do we worship it. Its status is equivalent to a "great angelic or archangelic being." The leading Christian opponents of the New Age movement wrongly believe and teach that New Agers worship the universe and the earth.

Second post:

Dahlheimer said:

The New Age Movement at the United Nations:

Robert Muller (1923 – 2010) was an international civil servant with the United Nations. Serving with the UN for 40 years and rising to the rank of Assistant Secretary-General, his ideas about world government, world peace and spirituality led to the increased representation of religions in the UN, especially of New Age Movement. He was known by some as "the philosopher of the United Nations." Muller was a disciple of New Age prophetess Alice Bailey and she was a disciple of Helena Blavatsky, the Mother of the New Age Movement.

Mr. Muller wrote: "Hindus call our earth Brahma, or God, for they rightly see no difference between our earth and the divine." This is one reason why leading Christian opponents of the New Age Movement wrongly believe and teach that the New Age religion is an Earth worshiping religion.

Helena Blavatsky said that "the One Infinite Divine Principle is undefinable and indescribable but that the ancient Hindu teaching about Brahman comes closest to the reality."

Brahman is composed of three principle gods, Shiva, Vishnu and Brahma. Shiva and Vishnu are Divine and they are One, they are Spirit. Spirit created Brahma, or God.

Paramahansa Yogananda (1893–1952) is widely regarded as the Father of yoga in the West. He wrote: "The word 'God' means the manifested, transcendental Being beyond creation, but existing in relation to creation. Spirit [Shiva and Vishnu who are One] existed before God [Brahma]. God [Brahma] is the Creator of the universe, but Spirit [Shiva and Vishnu who are One] is the Creator of God [Brahma]."

The Hindu scriptures teach that after Spirit created God Brahma He sinned. A Hindu scripture says that after Brahma sinned Spirit (Shiva) told him that he would "NEVER BE WORSHIPED." The less-than divine Brahma then created the universe. Or, in other words, he manifest himself as the universe. Hindus and New Agers do not worship Brahma, who is the universe. And neither do Hindus and New Agers worship Brahma's earthly manifestation, the Earth.

Third post:

Dahlheimer said:

Craig said in his 3:19 post: Mr Dahlheimer, has gone to lengths to claim Jehovah is Satan and the serpent was a benevolent angel."

I [Thomas Dahlheimer] have never claimed that "Jehovah is Satan and the serpent was a benevolent angle." I believe that Jehovah is a different entity than Jesus' Father in Heaven. I believe that Divine Spirit emanated a Divine God who then sinned and consequently became less-than-divine and that this less-than-divine god is Jehovah. Jehovah was originally an emanated Divine Spiritual Universe but after He sinned he became less-than-divine and "created" this corrupt from its origins material universe.

I also believe that this material universe is a manifestation of Jehovah. And that after he became less-than-divine he has manifested as two different characters, the less-than-divine world soul (a good character) and Satan (an evil character). And I believe that in the Garden of Eden he manifested as Satan when he said "if you eat the forbidden fruit you will die." And that when he later [agreed with the serpent] he was manifesting as the world soul. I believe that the serpent was Jesus and Lucifer, they are the same entity.

Spirit/God emanated a subordinate God (Jehovah) who was a Divine Spiritual Universe and this Spiritual Universe then sinned, which caused this Pure Spiritual Universe to become corrupted, which caused it to be physically manifested as all creation.

This explains why this creation has so much death and corruption in it. "Original sin" occurred before the world began, and it is the cause of it coming into existence. We were the Divine Spiritual Universe. We were experiencing our Divine Oneness and we were also conscious of our traces of individual separate entities. Then We sinned causing the physical and psychic cosmos to come into existence. After a long time of evolutionary life on earth we began coming into the world as human beings, unaware of our true Divine Identity. We were delusional, thinking we were only separate individual human beings.

When we were the emanated Divine Spiritual Universe we could have, and should have, remained loyal to God. If we had done so, for a designated period of time, we would had gone back to where we were emanated from and then had a better relationship with God. But because we chose to sin and go our own disobedient way we now have to find our way back to God through this long evolutionary process.

When we have all become enlightened this physical and psychic cosmos will come to an end. When it all comes to an end, we will have been delivered from our bondage to corruption and will once again be the emanated Divine Spiritual Universe. From there we will go back to where we were with God before we were emanated. We will then have a better relationship with God than we originally had. This is what the New Age is all about. It is about humanity waking up to reality and finding, with God's assistance, our way home, where we will all be eternally happy.

[We should individually return and become One with the God that we as a group were emanated from. When we are all finally enlighted, we will then return as a group to our Source. More information on this topic can be found here.]

Fourth post:

Cumbey To Thomas Dahlheimer:

Your theory is interesting, but also an example of what I call "HIDDEN DANGERS". Whether you realize it or not, your concept of a "flawed consciousness" named JEHOVAH is a mirror image of the New Age doctrine that Lucifer was the pure spirit of light and Jehovah was the evil spirit.

Jehovah is a time respected, Old Testament recognized name of God the Father -- the Father and Creator of us all.

In the Bishop's Bible (1568), the word Jehovah occurs in Exodus 6:3 and Psalm 83:18. The Authorized King James Version (1611) renders Jehovah in Exodus 6:3, Psalm 83:18, Isaiah 12:2, Isaiah 26:4, and three times in compound place names at Genesis 22:14, Exodus 17:15 and Judges 6:24.
Jehovah - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah

That "Jehovah is evil" came from Madame Blavatsky and her Gnostic/Occult predecessors -- not from Scripture. I'll locate and put up Douay references as I find them. Had the KJV handy on line.

Fifth post:

Dahlheimer said:

Helena Blavatsky wrote in [Vol. 2, Page] 508 THE SECRET DOCTRINE:

"The author of 'New Aspects of Life' describes the Jewish God very correctly from the Kabalistic stand-point as 'the Spirit of the Earth,' which had revealed itself to the Jew as Jehovah" (p. 209).

One of the founding figures of the modern New Age Movement is David Spangler. He wrote: "...the idea of a world soul, an anima mundi, a planetary Logos, is an ancient one found in both Eastern and Western culture. This world soul is usually conceived as a "formative force," an active, intelligent, purposeful spiritual presence at work in the material world to guide and guard the course of planetary evolution. It is generally not accorded the status of being the ultimate source or Creator but might be looked upon as a great angelic or archangelic being presiding over the well being of the world, or as the gestalt, the wholeness of all the lives and patterns that manifest upon, and as, the earth."

A New Age belief is that one aspect or character of Jehovah is "the Spirit of the Earth," the "world soul," the "planetary Logos," an "anima mundi," whose status is equivalent to "a great angelic or archangelic being," a being who presides over the well being of the world and who virtually manifests as "the wholeness of all the lives and patterns that manifest upon, and as, the earth." New Agers also believe that Jehovah is the soul of the universe-who essentially manifests as the whole universe, and that this is another aspect or character of this less-than-divine entity. In addition, New Agers also believe that another aspect or character of Jehovah is Satan.

Helena Blavasky wrote in the THE SECRET DOCTRINE that Jehovah "has two faces" one of his faces is the world soul and the other face is Satan.

Christians who worship "God the Father"/Jehovah serve his Satanic character and are led astray. New Agers who worship God the Father and honor the character of Jehovah that is the less-than-divine world soul (meaning, the soul of universe and the soul of the earth), receive holy spiritual guidance from his/her good "world soul" character.

Sixth post:

Dahlheimer said:

Craig said in his 8:58 post: "So, then you're not a Blavatsky/Theosophy disciple, but an adherent to a religion--all your own?"

My "religion" or spiritual philosophy is New Age. I have my own expression of it. My expression of the New Age is a blending together of teachings found in the Hindu and Gnostic religions.

One of the most common forms of ancient Gnosticism was Valentinianism. The renowned Christian Gnostic Valentinus (100-160) was once a candidate for the Bishop of Rome, but lost and then started a movement -- which, after his death, became one of the most popular Gnostic churches.

The Roman Catholic Church claims to be the one true church of Jesus Christ. Modern-day scientific discovery has proven that the Roman Catholic Church is fundamentally deceptive. Jesus did not come to "restore creation to the purity of its origins," which is the central dogma of the Roman church. The scientific discovery of evolution has proven that the creation was corrupt from its origins. Valentinus and other early Gnostics taught that the creation was corrupt from its origins and that, therefore, it can not be "restored to the purity of its origins." If Valentinus had become the Bishop of Rome, the Roman Catholic Church would be the true church of Jesus Christ today! The Roman Catholic Church became an apostate church when it rejected Valentinus' theology and went its own way, the way of Satan.

Valentinus wrote: "... the world is the total mountain of evil, a deserted dwelling place of beasts, to which all who lived before the law and all Gentiles render worship. But Jerusalem represents the creation or the Creator whom the Jews worship.... You then who are spiritual should worship neither the creation nor the Craftsman, but the Father of Truth."

Gnostics believe that because the "ultimate and absolute God," who is Spirit, emanated a deific being named Sophia, who in turn emanated a flawed consciousness, a being who became the creator of this corrupt [from its origins] material and psychic cosmos (who is referred to as "half-maker") that, therefore, the "ultimate source, or Creator" (also known as the "authentic half") is the ultimate and absolute God, and that It (Spirit) is the ultimate source of everything.

The above paragraph is not New Age theology, but it is right when it says a flawed consciousness created the universe (who Gnostics rightly believe is Jehovah) and that the "ultimate source or Creator" is a different entity or Jesus' Father in Heaven.

Seventh post:

Dahlheimer said:

Craig said in his 2:20 PM post: Have scientists gone all the way back to the "big bang" and traced "evolution" all the way through the millennia to today?

The universe is 13.8 billion years old. Life on earth began 3.5 billion years ago.

Craig, scientists do not have to go all the way back to the "big bang" to prove that Bible scriptures and Christian doctrines based on them are wrong/false. There was no life on earth until 3.5 million years ago. So, whether the universe was corrupt or not before life began on earth is irrelevant. Corruption was in the world when life began. Death was a part of life on earth from its origins. That's what is relevant. Did death begin 3.5 billion years ago or did it begin when the first human "sinned," which would have had to occurred around [according to science] 200,000 years ago?

St. Symeon wrote: "Neither Eve nor Paradise were yet created, but the whole world had been brought into being by God as one thing, as a kind of paradise, at once incorruptible yet material and perceptible."

St. John of Damascus wrote: "The creation of all things is due to God, but corruption came in afterwards due to our wickedness. For God did not make death, neither does He take delight in the destruction of living things" (Wisdom 1:13). But death is the work rather of man, that is, its origin is in Adam's transgression."

St. Basil the Great wrote: "...it is customary for vultures to feed on corpses, but since there were not yet [before Adam's transgression] corpses, nor yet their stench, so there was not yet such food for vultures. But [before Adam's transgression] all [animals] followed the diet of swans and all grazed the meadows."

Genesis 1:30 reads: "...and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to every thing that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food"; and it was so..." The Catechism of the Roman Catholic Church says: "Jesus came to restore creation to the purity of its origins" (CCC, n. 2336). A Bible scripture states that "the creation itself," will be "delivered from its bondage to corruption" (Romans 8:21). Isaiah 65:25 says: The wolf and the lamb shall graze together; the lion shall eat straw like the ox,..."

According to the scriptures, "Adam" ("the first human") sinned and the creation consequently "fell into a state of corruption," causing many animals to become carnivorous. However, the truth is, the first human beings from which we are all descendants came into existence around 200,000 years ago and violent complex carnivorous animals came into existence hundreds of millions of years before the first humans came forth on earth. The creation cannot be "restored to the purity of its origins," because it was never pure, or "very good."

More on this topic can be found here and here. And also here.

Eighth post:

Cumbey To Thomas Dahlheimer:

Regarding "animus mundi" and the rest -- Ponder carefully this passage from Revelation:

6 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.

This is a major HIDDEN DANGER of the New Age Rainbow of David Spangler, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Lucis Trust devotees -- be forewarned. There is not a doubt in my mind that the prophesied Image of the Beast is the image of the "Whole Earth" itself.

Constance
11:35 PM

Ninth post:

Dahlheimer To Constance Cumbey:

Regarding your 11:35 PM post: You can not be serious! David Spangler and Lusic Trust devotees do not worship anima mundi, whose status is equivalent to "a great angelic or archangelic being." They worship the "ultimate source or Creator." This truth has been clearly presented to you right in Spanglers above quote, which reads:

"...the idea of a world soul, an anima mundi, a planetary Logos, is an ancient one found in both Eastern and Western culture. This world soul is usually conceived as a "formative force," an active, intelligent, purposeful spiritual presence at work in the material world to guide and guard the course of planetary evolution. It is generally not accorded the status of being the ultimate source or Creator but might be looked upon as a great angelic or archangelic being presiding over the well being of the world, or as the gestalt, the wholeness of all the lives and patterns that manifest upon, and as, the earth."

Evidently, you get a particular belief in your head and then when you see evidence that that particular belief is false you go into denial mode and continue to believe in it. I think most Christians have the same mental health problem. They get physiologically addicted to their beliefs and can not let them go when they are proven to be false. When Galileo and other scientists discovered evidence that the earth was moving very fast around the sun and presented it to Christian leaders they went into denial mode.

In New Age theology there is a big difference between the "ultimate source or Creator" and the creator.

New Agers and Gnostics believe that a flaw consciousness created the universe. Gnostics believe that because the "ultimate and absolute God," who is Spirit, emanated a deific being named Sophia, who in turn "emanated a flawed consciousness, a being who became the creator of the material and psychic cosmos" (who is referred to as "half-maker")" that, therefore, the "ultimate source, or Creator" (also known as the "authentic half") is the ultimate and absolute God, and that It (Spirit) is the "ultimate source" of everything.

There is also a Hindu version of this “flawed consciousness creator" that New Agers, including me, believe in. In the Hindu version, Spirit directly emanated a perfect and divine consciousness, but it later sinned and became a less-than-divine flawed consciousness, a being who then became the creator of the material and psychic cosmos, which is a material and psychic manifestation of its corrupted original Divine Spiritual Self.

The emanated Divine Spiritual Universe sinned against Spirit, its Emanator. Its sin transformed it into a corrupted and less-than-divine entity. It then created this corrupt from its origins universe. Now, one of its characters is the soul of the universe or an anima mundi-who virtually manifests as the universe. This anima mundi also has an earthly character-who is the less-than-divine "spirit of the earth," who virtually manifests as "the wholeness of all the lives and patterns that manifest upon, and as, the earth."

The Christians who worship the emanated and corrupted creator Jehovah-who they wrongly believe is the same entity as God the Father, are worshiping, both, (1.) the less-than-divine unima mundi and the evil Satan character of Jehovah, and (2.) Jehovah's image, which is the Universe and the "Whole Earth" itself.

This Jehovah creator and the creation are identical. One aspect of this creator's spiritual existence is an anima mundi, or the soul of the creation-who essentially/virtually manifests as the creation -- and it also has an earthly world soul existence that virtually manifests as the earth.

This anima mundi physically manifests as virtually (1.) the earth, and (2.) all creation. And when the evil Jehovah character, or Satan (known as maya in the Hindu scriptures) is combined with the soul of the universe and the soul of the earth, It (the spiritual Brahma/Jehovah), physically and psychically manifests as (3.) the Whole Creation. The evil Satan/maya character of Jehovah is inherent in nature. "Its sole function is to attempt to divert man from Spirit to matter, from Reality to unreality" - Yogananda. Or, in other words, it tries to influence people to believe that our bodies are a part of who we are, when in reality we are Spirit.

The "ultimate source or Creator," Jehovah's Emanator, is a different Entity. It is Jesus' Father in Heaven. The Christians who mistakenly believe that Jehovah is the same entity as Jesus' Father in Heaven, and worship this entity, are not worshiping the Father but Jehovah. And they are worshiping, both, Jehovah's spiritual existence and its image, the Whole Universe and the "Whole Earth" itself.

Tenth post:

Dahlheimer said:

Reverend Matthew Fox's Panentheism:

Father Mitch Pacwa is a world renowned lecturer, author, and spiritual director. He is the spiritual director for televised Holy Land pilgrimages. He is also the host of shows on Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN), a Global Catholic Network, available in over 150 million television households in more than 140 countries and territories. Pacwa is the author of an article entitled "Catholicism for the New Age: Matthew Fox and Creation-Centered Spirituality."

Matthew Fox (b. 1940) is an internationally acclaimed spiritual theologian, Episcopal priest, and activist.

A section of the article reads:

Neo-Platonism (a mystical philosophy which combined ideas from Plato with Oriental, Jewish, and Christian beliefs) of the Middle Ages, especially as represented by John Erigena, Nicholas of Cusa, and Meister Eckhart. Because Fox does not like Platonism, he dubs these Neo-Platonists “creation-centered theologians.”

[The Divine Universe] All three philosophers came under church scrutiny and condemnation because their explicit claims of panentheism (which is bad enough, since it holds that the creation is inherently divine masked an implicit pantheism). Fox has the same problem. His quotation of Nicholas of Cusa sounds like pantheism, though he calls it panentheism:

"The absolute, Divine Mind, is all that is in everything that is.... Divinity is the enfolding and unfolding of everything that is. Divinity is in all things in such a way that all things are in divinity...."

[We Are The Divine Universe] "We are, as it were, a human deity. Humans are also the universe, but not absolutely since we are human. Humanity is therefore a microcosm, or in truth, a human universe. Thus humanity itself encloses both God and the universe in its human power."

Fox frequently quotes his version of Meister Eckhart: "The seed of God is in us.... Now the seed of a pear tree grows into a pear tree, a hazel seed into a hazel tree, the seed of God into God. I discover that God and I are one. There I am what I was, and I grow neither smaller nor bigger, for there I am an immovable cause that moves all things."

These and similar passages throughout Fox’s books manifest an understanding of Christ and divinity rooted in Fox’s translations and imagination rather than Scripture or church teaching. ... Fox wants people to “birth” their own “ I am,” which is the experience of the divine “I am.” The reason for our existence, Fox tells us, is to “birth the Cosmic Christ in our being and doing.” Fox believes that everyone can and should give birth to the Cosmic Christ, which he believes will awaken the maternal within us.

My comment:

Matthew Fox wrote: The Cosmic Christ is the incarnation of God in the universe and especially in Mother Earth.

Rev. Fox's Cosmic Christ is [to him] the Spirit of God immanent in the Cosmos. It is the Spirit of the Universe, and It manifests as the material Divine Universe. To become One with the Divine Universe is to become One with the immanent and personal aspect of God. This "immanent and personal God" is the Cosmic Christ. This becoming "One with God" is "the final recognition of the All in All, the unity of the Self with the Cosmos - the cognition of the DIVINITY OF THE SELF!" The Spirit's impersonal transcendence beyond the Cosmos is essentially irrelevant. This is Fox's panentheistic creation-centered spiritual philosophy.

New Age Theology: Yogananda's Guru wrote: “Jesus meant, never that he was the sole Son of God, but that no man can obtain the unqualified Absolute, the transcendent Father beyond creation, until he has first manifested the ‘Son’ or activating Christ Consciousness [the Cosmic Christ] within creation.” - Swami Sri Yukteswar

Eleventh post:

Dahlheimer said:

The two pontifical councils that produced an on-line joint document on the New Age mistakenly claim in the document that a form of panentheism that is almost identical to a form of pantheism is New Age panentheism. In the document the pontifical councils also mistakenly claim that the New Age replaces God the Father with Mother Earth.

There is a form of panentheism that replaces God the Father with Mother Earth, but not absolutely. And it is not New Age panentheism, as the pontifical councils have mistakenly claimed in their joint document on the New Age.

New Age panentheists believe that God is Spirit and that Its Spirit permeates the entire universe and that It also transcends the universe and is infinite or boundless. They also believe that Spirit immanent in the cosmos is God the Father and that Spirit transcendent and beyond the cosmos is the impersonal "unqualified Absolute, the transcendent Father beyond the creation." They also believe that Spirit emanated a deific Being who then sinned and became less-that-divine and then created the universe, and that the universe is the physical manifestation of its corrupted spiritual Self. They also believe that the spirit or soul of this less-than-divine entity (which consists of, both, the soul of the universe and Satan/maya) permeates the whole universe - including, in a special way, the whole earth and physically manifests as the less-than-divine and Satan/maya corrupted earth.

Adherents of the form of panentheism that the pontifical councils mistakenly claim is New Age panentheism believe that God is Spirit and that Its Spirit permeates the entire universe and that It also transcends the universe and is infinite or boundless. However, they do not believe that Spirit emanated a deific Being who then sinned and became less-that-divine and then created the universe, and that the universe is the physical manifestation of its corrupted spiritual Self. They believe that Spirit directly created the universe and that It permeates the entire cosmos and physically manifests as the Divine Universe - and that, in a special way, It (Spirit) permeates the entire earth and physically manifests as the Divine Earth, who is referred to as Mother Earth.

They also believe that Spirit immanent in the creation is the personal God the Father, however, they believe that Spirit transcendent and beyond the creation is essentially irrelevant and that Spirit in creation, except for Spirit in the Earth, is also essentially irrelevant. Therefore, these panentheists believe that God the Father is essentially Mother Earth. They have in effect replaced God the Father with Mother Earth.

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