Category: Religions/Faiths/Movements

Religion is a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs. 2. a specific fundamental set of beliefs and practices generally agreed upon by a number of persons or sects: the Christian religion; the Buddhist religion. 3. the body of persons adhering to a particular set of beliefs and practices: a world council of religions.
A religious movement, or new religious movements (NRM), also known as a new religion or an alternative spirituality, is a religious or spiritual group that has modern origins and which occupies a peripheral place within its society’s dominant religious culture. NRMs can be novel in origin or part of a wider religion, in which case they are distinct from pre-existing denominations. Some NRMs deal with the challenges posed by the modernizing world by embracing individualism whereas others seek tightly knit collective means.Scholars have estimated that NRMs now number in the tens of thousands worldwide, with most of their members living in Asia and Africa. Most have only a few members, some have thousands, and only very few have more than one million members. Keywords: religious movements, cults, sects, secret societies.

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NARRATIVE THERAPY – THE BEAUTIFUL DECEPTION OF STORYTELLING (PART 2)

Narrative therapy part 2 – “Carl Jung’s theory of the “collective unconscious” reminds one of ancient Rome’s Pantheon of gods, a magnificent architectural construction of balance and beauty that housed a collection of Rome’s twelve main deities during Caesar Augustus’...

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NARRATIVE THERAPY – THE BEAUTIFUL DECEPTION OF STORYTELLING (Part 1)

Narrative Therapy – Besides the various mystical practices churches in general have latched onto in the past few decades, several psychological techniques and procedures have taken the church by storm, claiming that it can help us find meaning and purpose...

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ANDREW MURRAY: THE MYSTIC (PART 11)

The End – Accompanied by Magnificent Masonic Funeral Music Andrew Murray died on 18 January 1917, four months before his 89th birthday. He was so deeply influenced by Johann Christoph Blumhardt’s “Möttlingen” revival that he included a portion of Friedrich Zündel’s...

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ANDREW MURRAY: THE MYSTIC (PART 8)

Why is Biblical doctrine important? The Bible is very clear on the punishment for the desecration of God’s doctrines. Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ,...

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ANDREW MURRAY: THE MYSTIC (PART 5)

Andrew Murray’s imitation of Thomas à Kempis who imitated Mother Mary “The Imitation of Christ,” the best seller ever written after the Bible, is not the only devotion Thomas à Kempis’ wrote on the experience of imitation. One of his...

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ANDREW MURRAY: THE MYSTIC (PART 4)

Andrew Murray’s Secrets Jesus Christ said, “I spake openly to the world; I ever taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, whither the Jews always resort; and in secret have I said nothing.” (John 18:20). Albert Pike states, “Masonry,...

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ANDREW MURRAY’S MYSTICISM (PART 2)

Andrew Murray’s mysticism Perhaps the following facts about Andrew Murray’s mysticism are not so widely known as the many books he had written. Nonetheless, as you may see, it mirrors universal mysticism to its core. Murray’s books resonated so well...

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ANDREW MURRAY: THE MYSTIC (PART 1)

Introduction: Andrew Murray, The Mystic – The article is a response to a comment by Robert on the DTW Website (Discerning the World – 21 Nov. 2022). Hello, Tom Sorry for two comments in one day, but I have gone...

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A MESSAGE TO DOWN-HEARTED MOTHERS

Introduction Stephan Joubert is not the only person who loves to disparage the truth, and, as I have already pointed out in one of my previous FB posts and DTW articles, he cannot seem to shake off the idea that...