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Satan prefers that people not believe that Christ died on the cross and rose from the dead. However, at some point Satan realized that he was not going to get many Christians to deny that these events took place as believing in these events is central to the Christian faith. Consequently, Satan sought to devise an approach that he and his minions can use to exploit Christians’ beliefs in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ during the end times. I believe Satan has already come up with an approach which is to acknowledge that Jesus was crucified on the cross and rose from the dead but lie about its significance, lie about how it was achieved, and revise the history surrounding this period of time. This approach can be seen in the statements of the highest-level New Age sources.
The highest-level New Age sources admit that Jesus was crucified on the cross! However, there is a big caveat to their acknowledgement of Christ’s crucifixion. While Christians believe Christ died on the cross for our sins so that mankind could be redeemed from death, the highest-level New Age sources portray Christ’s crucifixion as simply Him passing through an initiatory process to achieve the fourth level of New Age initiation (Maitreya, the leader of a group of beings known as Ascended Masters or the “spiritual wickedness in high places” in Ephesians 6:12, is at the seventh level in this convoluted initiatory system). For instance, Benjamin Creme, the official spokesmen of Maitreya, claims the following about Jesus’s crucifixion:
“He did have to take the Fourth Initiation, which is called in the West the "Crucifixion". In the East it is known as "The Great Renunciation", and He went through it in full, physical fact... He underwent this Initiation physically, being crucified in the flesh, to dramatise for us this Great Renunciation…”[1]
The highest-level New Age sources also admit that Jesus’s resurrection actually happened! However, there are a couple of caveats in the way that they acknowledge the event. For instance, Benjamin Creme claims that Maitreya (the New Age Christ) was the power that enabled Jesus to rise from the dead instead of the Holy Spirit.[2]
The Christ resurrected the body of the Disciple Jesus. When the body was laid in the tomb, the Christ, Maitreya, entered on the third morning. His consciousness once again entered into the body of the Disciple Jesus and brought it back to life—as He had done before with Lazarus—only that wasn’t resurrection. Lazarus was simply brought back to life. This happens—I don’t say frequently—but it has happened quite often since, and before. But Resurrection is a very special thing technically. It is a great occult happening.[3]
New Age author Alice Bailey (under the direction of an Ascended Master named Djwhal Khul) apparently also acknowledged Jesus’s resurrection. However, Bailey greatly diminished the importance of Jesus’s resurrection as simply the achievement of the fifth level of New Age initiation, which she claimed had been done by many others before Him.[4] Similarly, Creme claims that Jesus’s resurrection symbolized His achieving of the fifth level of New Age initiation:
“Then follows, and this is the core of the Christian Gospel Story, the fifth Initiation, the Resurrection, symbolised by the resurrection of the body of Jesus after the Crucifixion. Each Initiation attracts to the bodies of the Initiate matter of sub-atomic particles - literally light”.[5]
Finally, to illustrate how little regard New Age theology has for Jesus, high-level New Age sources like Alice Bailey wrote that Jesus was the only one who ever was demoted back to the fourth level of New Age initiation after His resurrection.[6]
If you were looking for additional assurance that Christ was crucified on the cross and later rose from the dead you can find confirmation from the forces of evil albeit with several caveats. While the highest-level New Age sources try to alter the meaning of events and revise history, they nevertheless acknowledge that Jesus was crucified on the cross and was resurrected from the dead. This is particularly important because the forces of evil, who work to get people to not believe in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, are acknowledging in these explanations in a subtle way that they have been misleading people for centuries when they’ve tried to convince people that Christ’s crucifixion and/or resurrection never took place.
References
[1] Creme, Benjamin. “FAQ-Initiation”. 15 Oct. 2005. Last Accessed 1 Apr. 2010. http://www.share-international.org/archives/agelesswisdom/faq_initiation.htm
[2] Creme also (blasphemously) claims that Maitreya utilized Jesus’s body during His ministry through an occult process called “overshadowing”.
[3] Creme. Benjamin. The Reappearance of the Christ and the Masters of Wisdom Los Angeles: Tara Press, 1980. Pg. 95
[4] The New Age Religion: Brought to us by the Ascended Masters”. 24 Sept. 2005. Last Accessed: 1 Apr. 2010. http://www.redmoonrising.com/maitreya.htm
[5] Creme, Benjamin. “The Gospel Story and the Path of Initiation”. 15 Oct. 2005. Last Accessed 1 Apr. 2010. http://www.share-international.org/archives/agelesswisdom/aw_bcgospel.htm
[6] “The New Age Religion: Brought to us by the Ascended Masters”. 24 Sept. 2005. Last Accessed: 1 Apr. 2010. http://www.redmoonrising.com/maitreya.htm
