Richard Kirby, of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, wrote "The Mission of Mysticism" in 1979 in order to introduce the Gnostic concept of Christhood to the Church:

"The biggest change which Christianity needs to make is toward the teaching that all men msut be like Christ, must become Christs in due season, and that the faith must be bulit on a personal relationship with the risen Christ."

The "Suitable Helpers" newsletter for women participating in Promise Keepers echoes Annie Besant and Richard Kirby:

"Our Lord is calling forth a great host of men ready and willing to become 'Christs' in their own homes: Promise Keeepers. In grand bold sweeps, God is mustering an army."

Spirtually aligned with the secret societies, Promise Keeepers is even now preparing men through mass initiations to join the army of saviors of mankind, the Guardians of a NEW CHRISTIANITY in a coming NEW AGE.

Like Promise Keepers, Annie Besant Cloaks the devouring wolf in sheepskin, by appealing to the "man Jesus" as the model of literal self-sacrifice:

"An over-mastering conviction, an imperious voice, calls upon him YO SURRENDER HIS VERY LIFE. If he shrinks back, he must go on in the life of sensation, the life of the intellect, [*GASP* Oh, Heaven forfend!!-F4] the life of the world...

"We have seen how the man Jesus, the Hebrew disciple, laid down his body in glad surrender that a higher life mught descend and become embodied in the form. He thus willingly sacrificed and how by that act he became a Christ of full stature, to be the Guardian of Christianity, and to pour out his life into the great religion founded by the Mighty One with whom the sacrifice had identified him...None can become full a Saviour of men nor sympathize perfectly with all human suffering, unless he has faced and coquered fear and pain and death unaided... Into that darkness every Son of Man goes down, ere he rises triumphant; that bitterest experience is tasted by every Christ, ere he is 'abble to save them to the uttermost' who seek the Divine through him.

"Such a one has become truly Divine, a Saviour of men, and he takes up the world work for which all this has been a preparation...Thus he becomese one of the Peace-centres of the world, which transmuthe the forces of combat theat would other wise crush man. For the Christs of the world are these Peace-centres, into which pour all warring forces, to be changed within them and then poured out as forces that work for harmony. Part of the sufferings of the Christ not-yet-perfect lies in this harmonizing of the discord making forces of the world... those who would prepare tor ise to such a life in the future must begin even now to tread in the lower life the path of the Shadow of the Cross. Nor should they doubt their pwer to rise for to do so is to doubt the power of the God within them."

The mass suicides of the Heafen's Gate and Jim Jones cults wee but miniatures of the outcome of a global Luciferic initiation. Current testimonies abound of near death esperiences which invariably describe an encounter with a Being of Light who sends reluctant souls back to earth to assure othters that there is ino judgement after death. New views of death are formed through the corroboration of stories of a benign Judge and afterlife. Alice Bailey even called "Death: The Great Adventure" and comforts future victims of this strong delusion with these words:

"Our ideas about death have been erroneous; we have looked upon it as the great and ultimate terror, whereas in reality it is the great escape..it marks a definite transition form one state of consciouness into another.. This, our present cycle, is the end of the age, and the next two hundred years will se the abolition of death, as we now understand that great transition, and the establishing of the fact of the soul's existence..."

[Now you know hwat is meant by the "beast" figure's reception of a deadly wound, it's healing, and his subsequent worship--as a prototype for man's individual spirtual evolution into a God: he "exalts himself above all gods"; the head of the Hierarcy, having achieved the full stature of a "Christ" by his "sacrificial" death and the descent of the divine (Lucifer aspect), to embody itself in his form. Myself, I'll follow the original teahcing of the NT and become a member of the Godhead by grace through faith and the reception of the GIFT of the Spirit of God, which I know I do NOT posess by inherent nature---after I live this life to the fullest.-F4]