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such as the age of Aquarius, the New Thought Religion, the New Church, the Third Wave, the New Consciousness, the Transcendental movement, the Human Potential movement, and the New Spirituality. The foundation for much of New Age doctrine is based on the writings of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1836-1891), Alice Bailey (1880-1949), Nicholas Roerich (1874- 1947), H. G. Wells (1866-1946), as well as those of Marilyn Fergeson and Robert Mueller (former assistant secretary general of the UN). The New Age movement is a religion by any definition of that term. It has its own bibles, which include the Oahspe: The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ; My Truth, the Lord Himself; and My Peace, the Lord Himself. Although the New Age movement is a loose network of independent organizations, they share a number of common doctrines including: The belief in a central spirit being known as "the Source" or "the God of Force." The belief in the god within, the divinity of man, the law of rebirth (reincarnation), the belief that Jesus and the Christ consciousness are two separate entities and that the Christ is an office rather than a man. They share a belief in evolution, the perfectibility of man, the belief in the law of Avatars, which teaches that at the start of every new age the supreme being known as "the Solar Logos" sends the Christ consciousness who overshadows a human being. This Avatar then imparts to the world "new revelation" to help mankind through the coming new age. New Age groups share the belief that salvation is by works rather than by atonement and grace. They share the belief in the interconnectedness of all things, and many groups share a deep hatred of Judaism, Catholicism, and fundamental Christianity. Finally, they share the belief that Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, and the great religious teachers of Earth are part of a hierarchy of "Capital Masters" originating from an extraterrestrial environment. The goals of the New Age movement can be summarized as follows. They share the goal of creating world peace through unification in a one-world spiritual system and a one-world government through a one-world leader of their choosing. Their covert goals are to abolish all systems based on the Bible by the year 2000, which is the beginning of the age of Aquarius. They endeavor to convert Western religious and philosophical belief systems into those of Eastern thought. The beliefs and goals of the New Age movement are summarized in the writings of Helena P. Blavatsky, the founder of the Theosophical Society in 1875. Helena Blavatsky believed in the notion of ascended masters and gained her information through telepathic communication. According to a brochure published by the Theosophical Society, the goals and beliefs of the Theosophical Society and the New Age movement are ... "To oppose the materialism of science and every form of dogmatic theology, especially the Christian, which the chiefs of the society regard as particularly pernicious; to make known among Western nations the long- suppressed facts about Oriental religious philosophies, their ethics, chronology, esoterism, symbolism; to counteract, as far as possible, the efforts of missionaries to delude the so-called ‘Heathens' and ‘Pagans' as to the real origins and dogmas of Christianity and the practical effects of the 86