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Christianity and New Age Spirituality (8)
So all that remains for this, the eighth installment of my Advanced Workshop essay comparing New Age spirituality and Christianity, is to offer you the conclusion.
The word limit for the essay was 3000 words ± 10%, and so, as with almost all my essays, I went flying past the 3000 words and had to try really hard to end up with the final work count of 3,299 words!
The result is that my conclusion is more functional than I would have liked - nothing more than a summary of the argument. I would liked to have given some conluding thoughts more than just summarise the essays, but that's the limits of word counts! Maybe I'll offer some concluding thoughts here on the site somewhere in my next few posts. Maybe you have some concluding thoughts yourself - if so, leave a comment.
If you're just entering at this point, you may like to read for your yourself the previous posts of the essay, which you can do by selecting the links on the right of this page.
So, without further ado, here's the conclusion.
Conclusion
It is eminently clear that there are important parallels between the Age of Aquarius and the Kingdom of God. Both begin with unease over the state of the world and so ask the same question – what’s wrong? Whilst both positions answer that we have been deceived, the resolution offered is distinctly different.
The Aquarian answer is the dissolution of the mechanistic dualisms of the old age, including notions of a personal God, in order to (re)capture a more organic spiritual holism that frees the true inner self to participate fully in the cosmic divine essence. By perceiving the fullness of the divine in everything we are released to appropriate that ‘Christ energy’ for our self and step forward into a world that is more just, peaceful and harmonious, encapsulated in the vision of the Age of Aquarius.
Jesus’ answer is that the true God has been abused and misused in the pursuit of power, piety and destructive nationalism. The true God is in fact concerned with the suffering of the poor and demands a socio-political-religious transformation such that those in need, those marginalised by the pious and powerful, are brought to the centre of a liberated and integrated life in God, encapsulated in the Kingdom of God.
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