The System of Antichrist: Truth and Falsehood in Postmodernism and the New Age
Investigates the present religious and cultural scene from the standpoint of traditional metaphysics and critiques the New Age spiritualities. Presents lore relating to the 'latter days' and the Antichrist from various religious traditions. Drawing on the writings of the leading perennialist thinkers René Guénon and Frithjof Schuon, sketches the particular quality of spirituality proper to apocalyptic times-both its dangers and the opportunities open to it.
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The System of Antichrist: Truth and Falsehood in Postmodernism and the New Age
Investigates the present religious and cultural scene from the standpoint of traditional metaphysics and critiques the New Age spiritualities. Presents lore relating to the 'latter days' and the Antichrist from various religious traditions. Drawing on the writings of the leading perennialist thinkers René Guénon and Frithjof Schuon, sketches the particular quality of spirituality proper to apocalyptic times-both its dangers and the opportunities open to it.
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The System of Antichrist: Truth and Falsehood in Postmodernism and the New Age

The System of Antichrist: Truth and Falsehood in Postmodernism and the New Age

by Charles Upton
The System of Antichrist: Truth and Falsehood in Postmodernism and the New Age

The System of Antichrist: Truth and Falsehood in Postmodernism and the New Age

by Charles Upton

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Investigates the present religious and cultural scene from the standpoint of traditional metaphysics and critiques the New Age spiritualities. Presents lore relating to the 'latter days' and the Antichrist from various religious traditions. Drawing on the writings of the leading perennialist thinkers René Guénon and Frithjof Schuon, sketches the particular quality of spirituality proper to apocalyptic times-both its dangers and the opportunities open to it.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780900588303
Publisher: Sophia Perennis
Publication date: 07/01/2001
Pages: 576
Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.12(h) x 1.44(d)

Table of Contents

Preface1
Introduction3
Part 1Tradition vs. the New Age
Foreword29
1Postmodernism, Globalism, & the New Age32
2Who are the Traditionalists?64
3What is the New Age?121
(I)A Short History of the 'Spiritual Revolution' and the New Age Movement122
(II)The Dangers of the Occult134
(III)New Age Doctrines Refuted149
4New Age Authorities: A Divided House168
(I)The Fallacy of the Psychic Absolute: Truth and Deception in The Seth Material168
(II)The Postmodern Traveler: Don Carlos Castaneda201
(III)Transcendence without Immanence: The Neo-Gnosticism of A Course in Miracles221
(IV)The Celestine Prophecy: a Pre-Columbian Singles Culture250
(v)Having It vs. Eating It: The Entrepreneurial Hinduism of Deepak Chopra267
Part 2Spiritual Warfare
5The Shadows of God287
6The War Against Love309
7UFOs & Traditional Metaphysics: A Postmodern Demonology325
8Vigilance at the Eleventh Hour: A Refutation of The Only Tradition387
9Comparative Eschatology424
10Facing Apocalypse480
Index521
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