Aug 11 2009
Bridging the Gap Between Christianity and the New Age
So often these days, we pick up newspapers or tune in to radio or television programs which highlight yet another attack by one religious group against the beliefs of another. One of the primary targets is a group of spiritual and philosophical concepts described as “New Age.”
For many people exploring New Age philosophies, these attacks can seem personal, particularly for those of us raised in traditional Christian homes. In many cases, we turn our backs on the dogma and judgment, and seek guidance from other venues.
However, as we turn away we often discard everything, without regard for that which might hold some truth for us.
Many of the tenets of Christianity, in its purest form, are not only compatible with New Age philosophy, but are the basis of it. The time has come to examine the core of Christian beliefs which, unfortunately, have been obscured by centuries of human agenda and dogma.
In my personal quest to realign myself with this information, which had become so distasteful to me, I began to seek guidance from many sources. One of the most extraordinary and surprising of these sources has been the amazing presence of Simon Peter.
On August 2, 1996, I was booked to do an evening of trance channeling in New Orleans. On that hot, summer evening we were visited for the first time by the powerful presence of Simon Peter.
Since that time, Simon has appeared dozens of times, always full of information and insights to help bridge New Age thought with the traditions of Christianity.
According to Simon, too many people have thrown away the teachings of Jesus, based on what some have done to those teachings from places of fear and hatred.
Here, I offer you a segment of that first appearance of the empowering channeled messages of Simon Peter.
“I am the one you would know by the name of Simon, also known as Simon Peter. I have come here to speak to you of the ways in which you may embrace your own glory to the kingdom. I have come here to speak to you as I did in life, I shall do in death, but to serve the one Master, the one God of creation.
“I have come to speak to you and help you find that God who is within your hearts, your souls, who is in every cell of your body and being.
“I am a fisher of men. Disciples, we were called disciples. We are disciples of the God. It is the God that you call God, that you call Jehovah. It is the God that you call Christ. I am the son of the father and am here to tell you that you are the sons and the daughters of the same father that I am the son of the father. You must but embrace the father to go on.
“I am here to speak to you about my friend. My friend Jesus. Do you know my friend Jesus? Or, do you know of him? For if you know of him, you still have him on the cross. But if you know my friend Jesus, you took him off that cross long ago.
“It was poorly written about, this life, the life of the man that you call Jesus. It was not written about well at all. He was a gentle and kind man. He was made hard and unforgiving by those who are hard and unforgiving. I have come here to speak to you about the gentleness. If you can but put aside the hard and unforgiving natures within your own selves, you will find the gentleness of the father.
“You may light one candle. I taught one man to fish. Is there a difference? Each of you here must be a disciple to the God that you find that lies within the center essence of who you are. It was the addiction to those things which gave pleasure on a sensual level that created the building of the temples. It was my brother, my friend, Jesus who destroyed the temples, for that was not where God was housed. The God is housed within you.
“When one is imperfect and tries to report on perfection, one does it imperfectly. When one communicates with the energy, the God energy, the energy that is within and without, that is pervasive like the air, and part of each part of you, that you can know the perfection of that energy from within. But put words to it, and you have imperfected it. Be it and you shall be the shining beacon. He was a gentle man. A loving man.
“Who remembers the story of the fig tree? It makes me sad. As you shall read it as it was written in its imperfection, you read of Jesus going to the fig tree and it had not a fig on it. And because it had not a fig to offer Jesus, he touched it and made it wither. And the lesson was supposed to be that if you had faith, you could make the fig tree wither or the mountains move. And it was not so.
“God went to the fig tree, through Jesus, and said to the fig tree, ‘Will you blossom for me and give me your essence so I may continue? Will you willingly do this for me?’ And the fig tree said, ‘Nay, I will not. I will not do this for you. It is my time of rest. And you in the form of man have not been kind to me. So why should I do this for you?’
“And Jesus said to the tree, ‘But do you not recognize me? I come in the servitude of God.’ And the fig tree said, ‘That is your servitude. Mine is to Mother Earth.’ And with that, he withered the fig tree. And he withered it for it would not open itself up to recognize its own God nature, and sent it back to Mother so that it may be born again, and grow again.
“Can you see the difference between the story I have told you and the story you were told?”
By re-examining our Christian beliefs and their foundations, we may see a clear and simple bridge between Christianity and the New Age. Thankfully, messages like this one and historical discoveries are revealing the core of Christianity and its broad, dogma-free applications to our lives.
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Dr. Kevin Ross Emery is a spiritual counselor and teacher with offices in Portland, Maine and Haverhill, Massachusetts. His advice is available in workshops, podcasts, books, CDs and DVDs. He is also available for private sessions in person or on Skype or phone. Find out more at Dr. Kevin’s website www.weboflight.com
