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What is an Age? The astrological ages are based on the precession of the
equinoxes. Time, as such, does not exist.
Human consciousness organizes the perceived movement of
things and calls it time The rotation of the earth is
called a day. The movement of the Moon around the Earth
is called a month. The movement of the Earth around the
Sun is called a year.
The spinning Earth slowly wobbles over a period slightly
less than 26,000 years.
From our perspective on
Earth, the stars are ever so slightly 'moving' from west
to east at the rate of one degree approximately every 72
years.
The
easiest way to notice this slow movement of the stars is
to note which constellation the sun appears at the
vernal equinox around 21 March each year. Since each sign of the zodiac is
composed of 30 degrees, each astrological age can be
said to last about 2160 years.he complete cycle of ages
lasts slightly less than 26,000 years.
New Age
is not a religion as such. It is movement of recent origins (since 1920s) and
a developing belief system encompassing a variety of sometime
contradictory beliefs. Its roots derive from a variety of sources,
Christianity, Eastern religions, transcendentalism, new
revelations and the occult. It has no official leader,
headquarters, nor membership list, but instead is a network
of groups with a number of common world views.
Nevertheless, it is estimated that worldwide there are over
ten million followers of various New Age groups that share
one or more of their major beliefs.
The New Age Movement has a broad-minded openness to all
religions, for its basic underlying philosophy may be said
to be derived from a variety of Judeo-Christian beliefs.
While some New Age organizations are concerned with the
establishment of some sort of semi-theocratic government,
many others are focused on individual spiritual development.
Origins:
In the late 19th century
Madam
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky,
cofounder of the Theosophical Society, announced a
coming New Age. She believed that theosophists (who
embraced a number of Buddhist and Hindu ideas) should
assist the evolution of the human race and prepare to
cooperate with one of the Ascended
Masters of the Great White Brother-hood whose
arrival was imminent.
Mme. Blavatsky believed
that, as the world’s hidden leaders, members of this
mystical brotherhood guided the destiny of the planet. Her ideas contributed to expectation of a New Age among
practitioners of Spiritualism and
believers in astrology for
whom the coming of the new Aquarian Age promised
a period of brotherhood and
enlightenment.
Mme. Blavatsky’s successor, Annie
Besant, predicted
the coming of a messiah, or world saviour.
In the 1920s, Alice A. Bailey, founder of
the Arcane School, coined the term "New age". She also suggested that
the new messiah was the Master Maitreya, who would
appear in the last quarter of the 20th century.
The Piscean
economic and political polarity which has threatened
to destroy the planet is ending. The
-use
of
electronics, atomic energy and space travel - all
things assiated
with Aquarius, are coming into prominence.
Throughout the King James translation of the New
Testament we find refences to the "end of the world ids
at hand." This is a mistranslation. The Greek word
rendered "world" is aeou which describes a
period or age of human history, not the physical globe
of the Earth. The
world did not come to an end 2000 years ago, but an age
did. The age known as the Age of Aries, also called B.C.
and its entire
civilization came to an end at that time.
Many of the
seers and prophets knew what
was coming and
tried to teach the people that the Age of Jupiter (or
Pisces) was coming and that it would replace the
previous Age of Aries.
For behold I will create a new heavens and a new Earth. And
the old shall not be remembered nor come to mind -Isaiah
65:17
And the Age of Aries did come to an end. It
disappeared. Even today, with all our
archaeological science, we know very little about that
age. Of their sciences, their wisdom,
their literature, remain only a few scraps of parchment
and the
ruins of some buildings.
You can read
through the New Testament, and see
that the writers believed
that one age was coming to an end and that a new and
better age was to soon come.
The Piscean economic and
political polarity which has threatened
to destroy the planet is
ending. The use of electronics,
atomic energy and space travel - all associated with
Aquarius, are coming into prominence.
Spiritually, the New Age will expand human consciousness
as is illustrated by our growing interest in outer space
and the inner man. The New Age will further promote
individual freedom.
Today, right now, we
are experiencing a
similar exciting
event—the
end of one age and the beginning of another. This
time it is the Age of Pisceswhich
is ending and the Age of Aquarius that is beginning.
This time the complete
destruction of the artifacts of the old age is
not prophesied. This
time much of what we have created - our history, our
knowledge, and our sciences—will
be retained.
But our system of civilization, our way of life, and the
very manner in which we view reality, will be changed
and replaced by a system appropriate to the New Age.
The old Piscean religions are fighting the changes the
New Age is bringing. They are trying to
combat the teachings of the New Age by claiming "they
are not Christian. "
In an article printed nationally, a religion columnist
said of the New Age religious movement, “A1though many
observers describe the movement as the religion of the
1980s, New Age has no church or denomination, no pope or
high priest unless you count Shirley MacLaine .... The
term denotes an eclectic melange of beliefs and
practices.”
The author reveals his
ignorance. The Hindu faith has no pope nor high priest
and its doctrines cover a range of beliefs and
practices, but it is certainly recognized as a religion.
The reason that many find it difficult to define New Age
is that, 1), they
are viewing the New Age movement from a chauvinist,
orthodox Christian perspective, and, 2), the
New Age movement is
not a particular religion
and spiritual practice. It
is the expression of a new consciousness.
2000 years ago, at the beginning of the Age of Pisces, a
new religious consciousness came into being. It
was unifying and comprehensive, embracing all recognized
religions. Eventually, it took the name
Catholic, and it served humanity for centuries before
it began to degenerate.
The New
Age movement
is not a particular denomination
or faith.
It is a movement, an
intermingling of all previous religions,
faiths, races and cultures. Only excluded
are the teachings of intolerance and ignor-ance. All
creeds are coming together in a mighty pageant of
enlightenment. The
one event that can be said to register the beginning of
the New Age is the Harm-
onic Convergence
Harmonic Convergence is
the name given to one of the world's first globally
synchronized meditation events, which occurred on August
16–17, 1987. This event also closely coincided with an
exceptional alignment of planets in the Solar System.
The timing of the Harmonic Convergence was allegedly
significant in the Maya calendar with some consideration
also given to European and Asian astrological
traditions. The chosen dates have the distinction of
allegedly marking a planetary alignment with the Sun,
Moon and six out of eight planets being "part of the
trine. According to Arguelles, the Harmonic Convergence
also began the final 25-year countdown to the end of the
Long Countwhich would be the so-called end of history
and the beginning of a new 5125-year cycle. The evils of
the modern world, e.g. war, materialism, violence,
abuses, injustice, oppression, etc. would end with the
birth of the 6th Sun and the 5th Earth on December 21,
2012
An important part of the Harmonic Convergence
observances was the idea of congregating at "power
centers. Power centers were places, such as Mount Shasta
in California,Mount Fuji in Japan, the Vortexes in
Sedona, Arizona, and Ayer's Rock in Australia, where the
spiritual energy was held to be particularly strong. The
belief was that if 144,000 people assembled at these
power centers and meditated for peace, that the arrival
of the new era would be facilitated. And, in fact,
perhaps several million people did get together at these
points, and in hundreds of meditations groups around the
world.
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