Spiritists, Occultists, and Esotericists, Oh My!

Much of what people think is new and better spirituality is neither new nor better. "What exists now is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; there is nothing truly new on earth." (Eccl. 1:9 NET) The purpose of this study is to reinforce the necessity of God's Word as the anchor of truth and light that exposes all falsehood, and to expose all other spiritualist philosophies has having one thing in common: hatred of that true Light by the false light. "For such are fake apostles, fraudulent workers who try to pass themselves off as apostles of Christ. And this should come as no surprise; Satan presents himself as an angel of light. So it is to be expected that his servants also present themselves as servants of righteousness. But in the end they will get what they deserve." (2 Cor. 11:13-15 TGNT)

Resources:
-- my links https://yrtree.me/@BibleAnalysis
-- primary scripture: Colossians 2
-- occultism https://www.britannica.com/topic/occultism
-- theosophy https://www.theosophical.org/about/theosophy
-- freemasonry http://anglicanhistory.org/misc/freemasonry/vandewater_truth1911.html and https://www.history.com/news/freemason-secrets-revealed and https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/05/freemasons-masons
-- Helena Blavatsky https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/madame-blavatsky-a-seeker-of-truth-and-a-fraud-1.6478885 and https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Helena_Blavatsky
-- Manly P. Hall https://theosophy.wiki/en/Manly_Palmer_Hall and https://freemasoninformation.com/masonictraveler/manly-p-hall-freemason-and-philosopher/
-- Emanuel Swedenborg https://swedenborg.com/emanuel-swedenborg/ (but see Colossians 2:18)
-- Rudolf Steiner https://www.rudolfsteiner.org/about/

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