Countdown to the Second Coming—Creating Antichrist’s False Church (Part 4)

In the 1960s, a young Hindu yogi of Indian ancestry, but born in Trinidad of “highly evolved” parents, accepted Christ. The young man’s father, also an extremely well-respected yogi, had already withdrawn so completely from the “world of the flesh” that he never looked at, smiled at, or spoke a single word to his son. Needless to say, the young man’s life changed completely when he turned his back on Hinduism. Eventually, he helped establish a Christian outreach organization in Switzerland, where he wrote the following words, already appallingly true by the late 1970s:

“I [have] observed with deep concern the rapid acceleration of a powerful but largely unrecognized Eastern influence upon the “average Western mind. This invasion by Eastern religions has subtly but heavily influenced almost every area of Western society. Through the deliberate efforts of Hindu and Buddhist gurus such as Vivekananda, Aurobindo, Shri Chinmoy (who leads meditations at the United Nations in New York), and the very influential Dalai Lama, significant changes in Western thinking, beliefs, and lifestyles have been effected.

“Literally millions of people have accepted Eastern presuppositions, including karma, reincarnation, and vegetarianism for religious reasons; and…millions more…have become personally involved in countless Hindu-Buddhist sects such as the Hare Krishna movement, the Self-Realization Fellowship of Yogananda, Divine Light Mission, Nichiren Shoshu, and numerous related Mind Dynamics groups, such as Silva Method….

“As a former Hindu who began to travel widely throughout the West, I was astonished to observe that not only Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry have Hindu/Buddhist roots, but that almost every one of the established and respected Western sects, such as Christian Science, Science of Mind, Religious Science, and Unity is a syncretistic blend of Hinduism and Christian heresy. Even the American-born Mormon Church…is founded upon basic Hindu concepts, such as the belief in the pre-existence of the soul, a multiplicity of gods, and the teaching that godhood is the ultimate goal for humanity.”