But now… its…not. With mainly the younger tiktok crowd of Christians. They have somehow worked this into their idea of Christianity.
I think this kind of thing comes in waves. You had lots of little xtian denominations that had offshoots in the 60s and 70s (as I understand it) that incorporated things that originated in the “occult”. This stuff was hardly new then, either, as you point out, with people like Blavatsky (and the Golden Dawn and Crowley and Steiner, etc). Prior to that bunch, you had spiritualists and Mormons. Before that, you had things like Rosicrucians and Freemasons and John Dee/Edward Kelly…
But it definitely had a revival (again) in the 60s and started to spread in the 70s and you had the inevitable reaction from the militant fundamentalist types, and it manifested in ways like the 80s Satanic Panic…I think when these people start talking a certain way about certain things/groups, using terms like “new age” (and more laughingly, misused terms like “pagan”, or pronouncing other xtians members of a “cult”), I think it’s partly out of a frustration that not enough people are leaping up to join them to fight against this incursion of what they think is spoiling their “pure” religion…
I think this kind of thing comes in waves. You had lots of little xtian denominations that had offshoots in the 60s and 70s (as I understand it) that incorporated things that originated in the “occult”. This stuff was hardly new then, either, as you point out, with people like Blavatsky (and the Golden Dawn and Crowley and Steiner, etc). Prior to that bunch, you had spiritualists and Mormons. Before that, you had things like Rosicrucians and Freemasons and John Dee/Edward Kelly…
But it definitely had a revival (again) in the 60s and started to spread in the 70s and you had the inevitable reaction from the militant fundamentalist types, and it manifested in ways like the 80s Satanic Panic…I think when these people start talking a certain way about certain things/groups, using terms like “new age” (and more laughingly, misused terms like “pagan”, or pronouncing other xtians members of a “cult”), I think it’s partly out of a frustration that not enough people are leaping up to join them to fight against this incursion of what they think is spoiling their “pure” religion…
Yep, totally agree with all of that, no notes!