Balder Ex-Libris

Author : Upton Charles
Title : _The system of antichrist Truth and falsehood in postmodernism and the new age
Year : 2001

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Preface. In this book I will essay ten things : To take soundings in the present religious and cultural scene from the standpoint of traditional metaphysics. To introduce to a wider reading public the doctrines of the ‘Traditionalist School’: René Guénon, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Frithjof Schuon, Martin Lings, Titus Burckhardt, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Huston Smith et. al., and in the process give the reader a glimpse into the city of Traditionalism, and the field of spiritual battle presently surrounding it. On the basis of traditional metaphysics, to critique the doctrines of the New Age spiritualities within the context of postmodernism, of which they are one expression. To demonstrate, in the course of this critique, that metaphysics, mysticism and esoterism are fundamentally different from, and often radically opposed to, magical practices, the pursuit of psychic powers, and the channeling of ‘spirit entities’. To demonstrate to my Christian friends that they are not the only ones who see in Neo-Paganism and the New Age a decline in our culture’s understanding of both God and man. To present lore and prophecy relating to the ‘latter days’ of the present cycle from the standpoint of comparative religion, drawing upon relevant doctrines from Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Zoroastrianism and the Native Americans. To publish the signs and speculate upon the social, psychic and spiritual nature of that being known to Christianity, Judaism and Islam as the Antichrist; to present him as both an individual and a system; to warn those willing to be warned against the spiritual seduction and terror he represents, and against the regime which will be-and is-the social expression of that seduction and that terror. ...