The New Age and losing your Soul Part I

Alexander Markus is a New Age writer that is speaking about developing a multidimensional consciousness or even a “cosmic” consciousness. This is achived by meditation on the light and sound of the soul and this is supposed to make us in union with God. He make claims that he was in his previous reincarnations Marcion (gnosticism) during 100s AD, Pharaoh Akhenaton 1300 BC), Miguel Servetos (1500s) and Saint Germain (1700s). He calls himself a cosmic master and that it is only through a cosmic master that we can free ouselves from the wheel of karma and the cycle of rebirth. It is through his mantra that he gives out in his book that we are supposed to meet our inner master that will guide us on our soul journey. Our Soul is the drop and the ocean is our father that we become one with. In his world view he calls the Source (God) Sach Kand and the lower creation Kal Purush (mind world). In his teaching he says that he himself has two masters that are his teachers. They are Johnny Lovewisdom and Maharaj Charan Singh Ji.

Johnny Lovewidom initiated him in Gnosticism and Maheyana Buddhism. He says that Gnosticism came from extraterrestials from Sirius and the Pleiades. Through Maharaj Charan Singh Ji he was thaught Sant Mat and Surat Shabd Yoga. This is Yoga teachings that is the supposed to be the “science of the Soul”. Alexander also talks about life having 10 dimensions and that our soul that is our consciousness is located in the Pineal gland (the third eye) and that is through meditating on this spot that we reach our soul and quantum consciousness. He says that God is not a person but a universal power consisting of light and sound.

Alexander makes lots of claims to be an ascended master that is more spiritually developed then the rest of us and he claims to know how life is working and what the soul is and that the teachings he is making he claims again is the truth. This is something that we see in lots of teachings with the theosphists, kabbalists, rosicrucians and various religions. They claim that they have the inner real knowledge of all the religions and that their teachings are the real truths that have been hidden for us all. Since they have the real truth, especially about the soul and what the soul is and where it comes from then everything else that teaches something else must be false, right?

The main teachings of Alexander Markus is about the soul. Everything about his books revolves around the soul. The soul is the consciousness and the soul is then also who we really are and it is the soul that really survives after death. Since Alexander really knows these things about the soul and the rest of us dont then he must be correct, right? Most of the teachings in his books comes from the Indian Sat Mat tradition which is called the “Science of the Soul”.

Who can we trust when it comes to talking about the soul? Alexander also talks about aliens from Sirus and the Pleides, draconians, ascended masters, the “great white brotherhood” and how to reach God. Alexander Markus is also a Gnostic. He makes claims that the Bible and Jesus Christ were also teaching the inner gnostic teachings that the soul is immortal and the soul is the consciousness.

Is this really what the Bible is teaching?

“The belief that the soul continues in existence after the dissolution of the body is … speculation … nowhere expressly taught in Holy Scriptures…

The belief in the immortality of the soul came to the Jews from contact with Greek thought and chiefly through the philosophy of Plato, its principal exponent… through Orphic and Eleusinian mysteries in which Babylonian and Egyptian views were strangely blended.

~The Jewish Encyclopedia (1941), Vol. VI, “Immortality of the Soul,” pp. 564, 566

“…We are influenced always more or less by the Greek, Platonic idea that the body dies, yet the soul is immortal. Such an idea is utterly contrary to the Israelite consciousness and is nowhere found in the Old Testament.

~International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia (1960), Vol. 2, p. 812, “Death”)

Speculation about the soul… was heavily influenced by Greek philosophy. This is seen in Origen’s acceptance of Plato’s doctrine of the preexistence of the soul…”

~The Evangelical Dictionary of Theology (1992), p. 1037, “Soul”

Not all teachings about the Soul is the same. Aristotle who was a student of Plato had another idee about the Soul.

In book II, Aristotle states that, the soul is the part of the human that allows its entire being, that one can’t exist without the other and they complement each other. … Because the heart is the location of the human soul and life force, it is the organ of utmost importance in Aristotelian physiology.

In 1981 in India Alexander Markus was initiated by Hazur Maharaj Charan Singh Ji in the Sat Mat (science of the soul) and in Surat Shabd Yoga. Hazur Maharaj Charan Singh Ji came from a spiritual organization called Radha Soami Satsang Beas that was founded the year 1891 in India.

Radha Soami is a Hindi expression meaning “Lord of the Soul” in English. Radha as The Soul = “Radha as the power of energy of God” (wiki)

This orgainisation is all about experiencing the “divinity of God” and finding a guru that will initiate you in the inner teachings of the Soul. This is also what Alexander Markus does through his books. Most of his teachings are in fact directly from this Indian orginisation. This organisation is also very similar to Theosophy and some websites describes it as following:

“The guru imparts in secret to individuals and small groups the religious exercises, sadhanani, which are occult, Theosophical, and Hindu Tantric in origin.”

“The Sant Mat path has been compared variously to spiritual traditions followed by the Pythagoreans, Hermeticists, the Sethians, Theraputae, Essenes (and other mystics within Judaism), the original Jewish Christians, the Gnostic religions, Manichaeans, some Catholic monasteries, monasteries of the Orthodox Church — including the great mystery school atop Mount Athos in Greece, and the Sufi mystics of Islam who practice Zikar of the Spirit, Light, and Sound.”

There is one member of this group called Babu Purna Chundar Mukherji that was also a Theosophist and a member of the Radha Soami Society of Agra. Radha Soami is also a spiritual organization from a offshoot of Sikhism. Sikhism started with Guru Nanak 1469-1539), a philosopher that lived by “Sant” tradition. Santism appears to be a blend of Bhakti, Nath, and Sufism. Sikhism as simply an extension of the Bhakti movement

“The Adi Granth and successive Sikh Gurus repeatedly emphasised, that Sikhism is “not about hearing voices from God, but it is about changing the nature of the human mind, and anyone can achieve direct experience and spiritual perfection at any time. Guru Nanak emphasised that all human beings can have direct access to God without rituals or priests.” (wiki)

In Sikhism there is a ritual of “holy water” where you drink something called Amrita. Amrita is supposed to be the drink of the devas, which grants them immortality.

“They knew that they can obtain Amrit by churning the ocean of milk in Vaikunta.” In Vaikunta is also the serpent Adisesha. Adisesha is the The Thousand Headed Serpent.”

Alexander Markus is not the only one that have a connection to this Radha Soami Satsang Beas organisation. There are several more “cults” that have developed out of the different masters from this organisation. We have Eckankar, Divine Light Mission, Ching Hai, Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness, Science of Spirituality and others. One master from this organisation even became a Knights of Malta and that was Kirpal Singh. In 1962, he became the first non-Christian to receive the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem.

Masters of Radha Soami Satsang Beas:

Shiv Dayal Singh – Master, 1818-1878

Jaimal Singh – Master, 1884-1903

Sawan Singh – Master, 1903-1948—–> Kirpal Singh —–> Eckankar

—–> Kirpal Singh —–> Thakar Singh—–>Ching Hai

Jagat Singh – Master, 1948-1951

Charan Singh – Master, 1951-1990—–> Alexander Markus

Gurinder Singh – Master, 1990 – present

Paul Twitchell, who founded Eckankar, was an initiate of Sant Kirpal Singh He was also a staff member of Ron Hubbard’s Church of Scientology. The cult of Eckankar is very similar in its teachings as Alexander Markus and puts meditation on the light and sound of the Soul in its centre. Eckankar is a cult that the members have accused the leaders of mind control, abuse, voices in the head, attacks on Christianity and demonic attacks.

Another cult that cames from the Sant Mat tradition was an organization founded in 1960 called Divine Light Mission. This is also a cult that has been accused of brainwashing and mind control.

Another cult leader connected to Radha Soami Satsang Beas is the Vietnamese leader Ching Hai. She was a disciple of Thakar Singh who has been linked to sadistic sex scandals. Ching Hai is a cult with strong accusations against it.

“Keeping up a charade of decency and respectability is vital to abusers. Working under the guise of promoting veganism and animal rights, and funding child orphanages and schools in third world countries, former sect members say Ching Hai has proven to be a disturbing and dangerous sect for those who are lured into it. Allegations include child rape, child pornography, child trafficking, prostitution, mind control, ritual torture and murder involving children and animals.” (from a now defunct vietnamese website)

John-Roger Hinkins was an autor that founded the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness after being a disciple of Sawan Singh. This is another organisation connected to Satsang Beas that have accusations of abuse connected to it.

“In the 1980s and early 1990s, several former members of MSIA accused Hinkins of various crimes and abuses, including high-tech charlatanism, the sexual coercion of young male staffers, brainwashing and intimidation, and plagiarism.” (wiki)

When examining the connections to Radha Soami Satsang Beas you come across alot of intresting links to fascism and cults with aliens. One connection is through Kirpal Singh (1894-1974) and his World Fellowship of Religions organisation he founded in 1957. Baron William T. Frary von Blomberg was elected Vice-president of this organisation and he was once adopted into the famous german Blomberg family through German baroness Adelheid Maria von Blomberg (1863-1949). The baronesses cousin was Hitlers Reichswehr Minister and Frary met personally with Hitler at one point.

Baron William T. Frary von Blomberg was a Pentecostalist and at one point also sponsoring William Branham (1909-1965) “faith healing” tours. According to Branham’s close associate Frary von Blomberg was a homosexual and named “Faery Von Blomberg”. William Branham was a Pentecostal minister who claimed to heal by “miracles”and was also a domsday Prophet predicting the end of days. Williams mentor was Roy E. Davis and he was at one point a high ranking member of the Ku Klux Klan and another group called “Knights of the Flaming Sword”. When William at one time was in a hospital for a gun shot wound the Klan came to his rescue.

“William Branham was directly responsible for igniting the ministry of Jim Jones in Indianapolis. From 1956 through 1957, Branham and his campaign team held meetings with Jones at Peoples Temple and the Cadle Tabernacle, and Branham held private consultations with members of Peoples Temple.”

https://william-branham.org/site/people/william_branham

Jim Jones (1931-1978) was a cult leader and faith healer who led the Peoples Temple into a mass murder-suicide of himself and his followers in his remote jungle commune at Jonestown, Guyana, on November 18, 1978. (wiki)

Jim Jones was a preacher about fears of nuclear war and was trying to find a place that was to be safe in the event of an atomic exchange.

So Baron William T. Frary von Blomberg was a pentecoustal christian who was also fighting against communism and at the same time had connections to fascists.

Johnny Lovewisdom (1919-2000) is another spiritual master of Alexander Markus. He lived in Ecuador and was called the Saint and Hermit of the Andes. Johnny was a member of several spiritual orders like Discalced Carmelites, “Divine Life Society”, “Yoga Vedanta University” and “Bodha Society of America”.

Johnny was also called the father of the New Age and was part of The Great White Brotherhood. This order was a creation of the theosophists and Helena Petrovna Blavatsky was one of the first to speak about them. The theosphists channeled these ascended masters that was the head of this order or brotherhood.

Johnny Lovewisdom was to be the new head of this order that was previously in Tibet and India. One connection that Johnny had with the theosophists was with a woman called Violet Blossom Reed and he was also connected with two writers that wrote books about aliens and UFOs. This was Walter Siegmeister and Robert Ernst Dickhoff. Violet Reed and Robert Dickhoff was also buddhists and was in charge of two separate orders called “Bodha Society of America” and “American Buddhist Society and Fellowship, Inc”. In their own buddhist organisations Violet called herself Anagarika Nirgidma King and Dickhoff called himself Sungma Red Lama.

“The Bodha Society of America was incorporated in 1936 by its president, Ms. Violet B. Reed. She described it as a movement fostering spiritual consciousness through self-realization and world service. Spiritual virility can be attained only through a better outlook on life and a deeper realization of the spiritual realm. According to the Society, the Bodha movement was begun in 1907 under the direction of the Sanctuaries of Tibet and Sikkim and assumed “the full responsibility which once rested in the Theosophical Society, this organization being no longer patronized by its founders, inspirers and real leaders: the masters.” The Bodha Society was seen as the vehicle of the Great Brotherhood, the ascended masters who were once humans and who now as spirits teach people about spiritual realities.”

In Johnnys own writings he says that Violet “mothered” him in the Maitreyana Initiations and that Sungma Red Lama helped him to transfer the Great White Brotherhood to South America and that this would start the beginning of the New Aquarian Age. Johnny also says that letters from the Pr. Chenrezi and Violet Reed refered to him as their Spiritual Son and their Dear Disciple as well as a Cosmic Brother.

“The Great White Brotherhood, Lodge and Order was transferred from Tibet to the High Andes, where we speak of it as the Higher Heavenly Hierarchy”

The theosphists and the great white brotherhood were also doomsday believers in that they believed that the earth was going to undergo large earth changes. This is some extracts from Johnny Lovewisdoms book “The healing God spell of saint john”.

SHAMBHALA”

First will begin an unprecedented war of all nations (World War I, II). Afterwards brother shall rise against brother, oceans of blood shall flow (as witnessed in present civil terrorism). Only a few years shall lapse before everyone shall hear the mighty stamps of the Lord of the New Era, Maitreya. The Banner of Shamballa (Camp of the Saints) shall encircle the Central Lands (Ecuador) of the Blessed One, “wrote Guru Avananda. Mdme.

Blavatsky added that after North America is destroyed by earthquakes and “volcanic” (nuclear blast) fire, the New Race, the 7th Race will appear on the 7th Continent, South America, characterized by a complete clairvoyant development.

In the Era of Maitreya, the World Teacher, – Now, – flowers shall bloom in profusion and out of season and women shall wear them. Music and dance of South America shall become predominant. The country named Ecuador S.A. will become the SPIRITUAL CENTER, the Tibet of the West, after Maitreya the World Teacher has established himself over all the Earth under the Banner of Maitreya, – which is Truth and Justice for all Earthlings. OM MANI PADME HUM.”

The Red Lama (Sungma Oracle) copyrighted this in his ETERNAL FOUNTAIN in 1947, (Robert Ernst Dickhoff also known as Sungma Tenzing (Red) Lama)

Johnny was also part of the early UFO movement with his connection to both Dickhoff and someone called Walter Siegmeister that used the name Raymond W. Bernard to write about the hollow earth and flying saucers. Siegmeister also wrote a book called “Escape from Destruction: How to Survive in an Atomic Age”. Siegmeister met Lovewisdom in Ecuador in 1941. Robert Ernst Dickhoff was not only a Lama buddhist but also a writer about the hollow earth and flying saucers. Some of his books were called, “Homecoming of the Martians”, “Agharta: The Subterranean World” and “Behold.. the Venus Garuda”.

Johnny Lovewisdom was connected to the Windish family and Walter Siegmeister. Siegmeister wanted to create a super-race who worshiped the sun. He was a proponent of the hollow earth concept and UFOs. Lovewisdom was also into creating a domesday cult in that they wanted to build a safe place from radioactive fallout.” (wiki)

Dickhoff is most well-known for his book Agharta: The Subterranean World (1951), in which he details the story of a Venusian-reptilian occupation of the ancient underground city of Agharta (beneath the Yarlung Tsangpo Valley of Tibet), and how the city was liberated in 1948 by a Martian human alliance. (wiki)

Johnny also had other connections to old gnostic teachings and catholic orders like Discalced Carmelites order. He also claimed that he was the reincarnation of John the Baptist.

Order of Carmelites was a religious order founded in the 12th century. The origins of the order was a community of hermits. Later the order reformed during the 1560s and the order was called Discalced Carmelites. The two founders were Saint Teresa of Ávila (foundress) and Saint John of the Cross (co-founder). Teresa was a mystic and was living a life of prayers to achive union with God. Teresa was also into inflicting mortifications of the flesh upon herself and her friends suggested that the knowledge she had was diabolic and not of divine origin. Her confessor the Jesuit Francis Borga reassured her that she was doing divine work. Teresa had four stages to reach the ascent of the soul to God.

The first, Devotion of the Heart, (the withdrawal of the soul from without)

The second, Devotion of Peace, (where human will is surrendered to God)

The third, Devotion of Union, (absorption-in-God, reason is also surrendered to God)

The fourth, Devotion of Ecstasy, (consciousness of being in the body disappears)

John of the Cross (1542-1591) was another mystic and a converso and a major figure of the Counter-Reformation in Spain. John is considered one of the foremost poets in spanish. His poems were about the soul. In Dark Night of the Soul he narrates the journey of the soul from its bodily home to union with God. John of the Cross appears to have been influenced by neo-platonic philosophy and other mystics like the so-called “Rhineland mystics” such as Meister Eckhart, Johannes Tauler, Henry Suso and John of Ruysbroeck. Some of these “Rhineland mystics” were not liked by the Inquisition and were accused of heresy. Other mystics were also burned at the stake.

We can now also see that this also resembles the teachings of Alexander Markus who is also a gnostic and teaches the immortality of the soul. When you read the Bible you can see that you can interpret it in different ways and if you do a letter interpretation you can see that texts about the soul can be seen in a different way. The soul can be viewed in a way that teaches that it is not immortal and that we can actually deliever our soul away from the body and that the soul is not the consciousness. This also brings us to the old tales that speak of selling our soul to the devil for worldly wealth.

“A deal with the devil (also called a Faustian bargain or Mephistophelian bargain) is a cultural motif in European folklore, best exemplified by the legend of Faust and the figure of Mephistopheles, as well as being elemental to many Christian traditions. According to traditional Christian belief about witchcraft, the pact is between a person and Satan or a lesser demon. The person offers their soul in exchange for diabolical favours. Those favours vary by the tale, but tend to include youth, knowledge, wealth, fame, or power.” (wiki)

This also leaves us with excerpts from the Bible:

Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

Matthew 10:28

Bring my soul out of prison, So that I may give thanks to Your name; The righteous will surround me, For You will deal bountifully with me.”

Psalm 142:7

But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, For He will receive me. Selah.

Psalm 49:15

If you go further back in history of Christianity you will see that people that thaught that the soul was in the head were called “mystics” and did not teach the same as other Christians. The teaching about the soul being in the head were more connected to kabbalists, gnostics, hermeticists, neo platonists and alchymists. These kinds of people were also into ritual magic. The Inqusition called these mystics heretics and some of them were accused of practising black magic and were burned at the stake.

Alexander Markus makes lots of claims in his books that I think are completely false and misleading. Alexander has written several books about the soul, aliens and one book that is called “Satan är dagens man” (swedish) which translates as “Satan is the man of the day”. I would like to make the claim that it is actually Alexander Markus that is todays satan and that he is also a soul stealer.

The Lord will protect you from all evil; He will keep your soul.

Psalm 121:7

Link to Alexander Markus website

worlddoctrine.org

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