Ebook: A Brief Guide to Secret Religions

'New' religions are as old as time. Every period of history has produced a crop of cults with their messiahs, faith healers, charlatans, gurus, preachers and prophets. The human religious impulse almost demands that such characters be thrown up from the teeming mass of searching souls. The book combines all the current religions that derive from Christianity - from mainstream faiths such as Mormons, Seventh Day Adventists, Christian Science and Opus Dei to, the Family, The Jesus Army and Alpha Course - as well as a full survey of the occult and pagan groups - Satanism, Choas Magic, Shamanism.;Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; What I Believe ... ; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; Part One: New Age Movements; THEOSOPHY; ANTHROPOSOPHY; ALICE BAILEY; BENJAMIN CREME, MAITREYA AND SHARE INTERNATIONAL; G.I. GURDJIEFF; SUBUD; INDEPENDENT EPISCOPAL CHURCHES AND THE APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION; I AM MOVEMENT; CHURCH UNIVERSAL AND TRIUMPHANT; EMISSARIES/EMISSARIES OF DIVINE LIGHT; FINDHORN; SIR GEORGE TREVELYAN AND THE WREKIN TRUST; TEMPLATE NETWORK (FORMERLY EMIN); UFO GROUPS AND MILLENNIAL EXPECTATIONS; AETHERIUS SOCIETY; RAELIAN MOVEMENT; ALTERNATIVE HISTORY.