Helen Schucman
For intellectuals, the New Age theology finds its modern realization in the writings of Helen Schucman, a psychologist from the psychiatry department at Columbia University.
After first resisting the inaudible voice of an Ascended Master, she finally consented to writing the New Age book for the modern mystic—a teacher’s manual on how to achieve godhood, and to become like Christ—able to do all things that He could. The work is known as A Course in Miracles.
In her own words, she describes the experience:
When I was first approached for this task, I had a constant questioning that demanded, “But why me? Why me, when there are so many other good people available?” And the answer came, in gentle support, “Because you wish to know the true me, are willing to serve, and have given me permission to enter your life.” Over and over again I was told that because this is a free will planet, all of us must ask to receive the spiritual ones “must agree to cooperate by our personal choice.”i
The evil hidden in this text is beyond description. Playing to the ego of humanity, Satan uses subtle lies to coerce us into cooperation with his schemes. It is gratifying however, that even Satan knows that we were created with the freedom of choice, and that if we choose the right side in the great conflict, he would have no right to control our minds.
In this book, which is channeled work, humankind is initiated into the cultic mindset through a series of lessons. Each lesson commences with a chant, reiterating the separateness of body and soul. "I am not a body. I am free." The twin lies of there being no death and our innate divinity are constantly repeated:
There is no death, because the Son of God is like his Father. Nothing you can do can change Eternal Love. Forget your dreams of sin and guilt, and come with me instead to share the resurrection of God’s Son. And bring with you all those whom He has sent to you to care for as I care for you.ii
A further statement is, "I call upon God’s Name and on my own," thus making yourself equal with God:
The Name of God is my deliverance
From every thought of evil and of sin.
Because it is my own as well as His.iii
Marianne Williamson
Spiritual teacher Marianne Williamson of Oprah Radio and Oprah.com uses A Course in Miracles as the foundation for her teachings. Here are some excerpts from A Course in Miracles found in Williamson's articles:
You are one Self, in perfect harmony with all there is, and all that there will be. You are one Self, the holy Son of God, united with your brothers in that Self; united with your Father in His Will.iv
Joy is just, and pain is but the sign you have misunderstood yourself. Fear not the Will of God. But turn to it in confidence that it will set you free from all the consequences sin has wrought in feverish imagination. Say: God's Will for me is perfect happiness. There is no sin; it has no consequence.v
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It is Satan’s strategy to divert the mind from sin and repentance, so that salvation will become obsolete. The same lies, as concealed in the New Age theology, are being woven into the theology of today's so-called Christian churches. Read more about the theology of Dr. Schuller, who said this:
What we need is to positivise the words that have only had a negative connotation. There is no greater damage that can be done than to refer to the lost sinful condition of man.vi
i. Helen Shucman, A Course in Miracles (Mill Valley, CA: Foundation for Inner Peace, 1975).
ii. Ibid.
iii. Ibid.
iv. Marianne Williamson, "A Course in Miracles, Lesson 95," Oprah.com.
v. Marianne Williamson, "A Course in Miracles, Lesson 101," Oprah.com.
vi. Christianity Today (October 5, 1984), as quoted in David Cloud, "Billy Graham's Sad Disobedience to the Word of God," Fundamental Baptist Publishing Ministry (September 8, 2008).
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