This New Age Business: The Story of the Ancient and Continuing Quest to Bring Down Heaven on Earth - Softcover

Lemesurier, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0905249720 ISBN 13: 9780905249728

Publisher: Thoth Publications, 1990

Synopsis

What is this `New Age' business really about? Is it a passing cult phenomenon, or are we all involved whether we like it or not? Either way, if we really want to bring about a new age of peace, harmony and light on Earth, argues the author, then the following are definitely among the things not to do:- place it in the future; think of it as a period of time; saddle God, the Messiah or higher beings from `out there' with responsibility for it; try to reform the Old Age; attempt to create new forms of society; assume that spiritual truth is the key to it; try to convert others to the idea; make it conditional upon the acceptance of any word-based belief whatever; imagine that Heaven and Earth were ever separate in the first place; assume that there is anything to transform, or anybody to transform it. These conclusions are some of those which the author reaches in the course of his survey of world-millenarianism ranging from earliest times to the present. His view of the quest to create heaven on Earth challenges the sometimes too easily accepted notions that are held in today's New Age movement. His final conclusion, however, about the nature of reality and the state of the world is as simple as it is full of hope.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thoth Publications
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0905249720
• ISBN 13: 9780905249728
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240