Commentary on the New Age Movement, one of many Paths.
There are many paths, but to those who seek the Truth they are but one and the same. Let us consider the New Age Movement. This movement is but the faintest whisper, yet it is a precursor to higher and still higher forms of education. It is in reference to these soul-seeking individuals that the majority of our (and their) children will look back and ask, “Who came before us?” These are the pioneers that one day we ourselves will contemplate reflectively, “These were they that swam before us, though they knew not always where the water was deepest, yet still they swam.”
The New Age Movement has come under much criticism, from those who outrightly oppose it to those who have even out-grown it, and from those who criticize simply for the sake of being critical, not knowing what they are talking about yet talking all the same. As we progress towards our own personal realization, as we strive to make a conscious leap towards recognizing the God-within, we are ever putting forth to the world those vibrations which correspond to this ideal. And by natural cosmic laws, we are attracting vibrations (to greater or lesser degree) of a similar nature, in the case of the new spiritual movements, people whose forms (astral, physical mental, causal etc.) have affinity with that which is being projected. But just as not everyone is at the same level of evolution, so too must these laws of attraction and correspondence be applied; as to each one's needs may their cups be filled accordingly. Hence (and obviously) the many diverse forms of spiritual education (thrown mostly together under the New Age banner) available.
Let us consider the Movement's detractors. If we take now the law of analogy as our guide (as above so below) we may grasp more fully what is occurring on the whole as it is in part. When an individual first sets his or her feet firmly on the Path, there will result some good t from this journey of divine development and some potential and possibility for latent evil to become manifest which must be dealt with.This is partly to do with those dark brothers who ceaselessly try to turn the seeker away from the Path, and partly to do with the fact that the soul is now attempting to allow greater Light and Power to become manifest through the personality (still somewhat governed by the aspects of the lower-self) which in turn can rebel. Now if you think of this occurring on a much larger scale you can draw inferences as to the reasoning behind the negative aspects of some of these movements. This is why there often seems to be, to the more discerning observers and/or participants, a lot of commercialism, superficial repetition, self-aggrandizing and many darker traits that under the banner of the so-called Golden Age find some of the highest lodgings.
The New Age Movement, in an attempt to bring (through the facets of Love and Benignity, and Knowledge) higher teachings, and in as much as these teachings are being given out to help purify the world, is also purifying itself , and in order to do this it must transmute any negativity which as said before may, and probably will, rebel and often win. Hence why many reasonably- thinking people are opposed to what they otherwise see as hypocrisy and nonsense but at the same time failing to see the struggle and the battle being waged within. In this respect the negativity is being brought through in the hopes of being healed and perhaps more importantly, healing the cause of it. As always it is a case of vibrations, for that which does not harmonize with the positive must, by default, be negative, and just as the individual has to work and often fight his or her way up to more refined states of vibration, which includes the ‘out-sing' of any negative material (to a point of consciousness where one can sin no more), so too does the group, the religion, the world.