THE LAW OF ATTRACTION - NEW AGE BULL PUCKEY

One thing I have developed toxic shock to is the sea of new age rhetoric that is out there (thanks Oprah!).

The sad part is that a large portion of the women in the church buy into this bull puckey. Here is an article that sums up how I feel. This woman has the gift of discernment in spades:

LOA Changing LDS Members’ and other Christians’ Beliefs

October 15, 2009 by Rosabella Knightley
Filed under Apostasy, Risks to Believers

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Teachers of the Secret and the Law of Attraction may not always fully know what they are really teaching.

Lisa Nichols is a motivational speaker from the DVD “The Secret”. She may have started out believing in “God” but she now has a new definition of God. She uses all the typical occult terms. She even talks about putting things out into the universe and having them come back. She says she believes in God but what is the definition of God that she believes now? If we believe there are two powers, Father’s and Lucifer’s, that influence the world for Good or Evil; we see things from a different perspective than the world does. Lisa talks of God and seems very sweet and kind, but is she following a God or a mere power of the Universe that we can tap into.

If we look at it from this paradigm, did she plan to join the opposite side of God? No, she was seduced. She seems to innocently be caught in this great web of the adversary’s. She is sadly now a false teacher, an anti-Christ, for she does not call for the repentance of sinners, only the acceptance of godhood and the powers within. If we do not preach of Christ as our redeemer but preach that we redeem ourselves we are anti-Christs. She is a very good example of the elect being fooled. Though we don’t know where her faith was originally, we know she says she believes in God. But the definition of God is the whole issue. Oprah believes in God too. They do not worship the same God we do. They worship His opposite. Maybe when you hear them say the word “God” just replace it with the name Lucifer and see if it fits, because that is exactly who they are talking about. The occult teaches he is the “god” of the planet, the “god” of forces.

If they do not teach of repentance and sin, they are on the wrong side. If they do not testify of Christ as the redeemer of sin, they are on the wrong side. If they teach self-empowerment they are on the wrong side. I hate to sound so simplistic but it really comes down to these kinds of basic doctrinal truths. The new age teaches peace, love, sacrifice – wonderful good things. This is how Lucifer is appearing as an Angel of Light. He is teaching truths, but leaves out Father, sin and repentance. He claims to be the Christ bringing the world peace.

Leslie Householder teaches the law of attraction. She is an LDS author. Here is a quote from her:

“I felt no other choice than to escape “reality”. “I was a wreck. I finally just went to bed and decided that I didn’t care if I ever got up. The kids would just have to find their own food and look after themselves, because I couldn’t go on any longer. If I couldn’t find the freedom from stress that I needed, I’d just close my eyes and pretend I already had it. That’s the only place I could feel relief, and if that’s where I’d have to do it, so be it. I remember thinking, “Oh, you are so pathetic, Leslie!”

“If you accidentally stumble onto ONE of the rules, like I did, without knowing what you’ve done, the success or perceived prosperity is temporary. Little did I know that what I did that day was actually the beginning of my deliverance… it actually started us on a new self-help path to prosperity. I had applied ONE of the laws without even knowing it.”

Where are the focus on God? She teaches self and manifesting what she wants. She stumbled, as she says, onto one of the laws without knowing it……(self-help path of deliverance?). She is not teaching of God and repentance and submission to His will, she teaches how to manifest YOUR will, not Fathers will. It is so easy to confuse positive thinking and Faith but there is a great difference.

She goes on to say:

“God and the Universe operate in a lawful manner. It is good news to know that the Universe operates in an orderly way, because that means that once you learn the laws, you can know that as you follow them, the good fortune MUST come, by law. Just knowing this gives you the mental stamina to endure the “test period” of your faith.”

All Quotes and paraphrases from Leslie Householder come from her website http://www.thoughtsalive.com/

This is not what is meant by the Law of Restoration or the Law of Harvest or even Faith. Where are we taught this in the scriptures? Where does the Lord promise blessings in this life? He promises eternal ones, treasures in heaven not treasures on earth. The Occult teaches men to will material success into their lives. Ironically they teach this at first, then they teach you not to want material things but to want to attract world peace instead. These principles are to catch people by their selfish desires for wealth and abundance. Then once they have caught them, they teach them the higher laws and to use the Law of Attraction for the good of all, not just themselves. So it is a great way to entice people by their temporal desires to turn into helpers of Lucifer by showing them it is best for them too. They then teach that if you live the higher laws of using the power of attraction, sending goodwill out into the world, you are invoking Lucifer to come forth with his Plan.

I checked to see if Leslie Householder’s books were sold at Deseret Books they were not.

Carol Tuttle, also a member of the LDS Church, teaches Energy Healing and the law of attraction. Her books are not carried by any LDS bookstore either. The reason I was told when I inquired about Carol Tuttle’s book Remembering Wholeness: A Personal Handbook for Thriving in the 21st Century is this. This book I was told was pulled from the shelves and that Deseret would not be carrying it due to content. The only content that it had was occult in nature.

“Sales of Remembering Wholeness continue to climb through its word of mouth popularity. It is the only self-help book that bridges the gap between energy healing, metaphysics, and Christianity. Carol was recently chosen as the Barnes and Noble author of the Month.”

The quote is from Tuttle’s website www.caroltuttle.com. Her book is a mix of Marianne Williamson, Louise Hay and Neale Donald Walsh’s quotes and occult doctrines with a tiny bit of Mormon doctrine tossed in that is twisted to help prove that the occult doctrines are good. She teaches that the Angels of God are our servants.

Some quotes from Tuttle:

“One Sunday in church the speaker suggested that we are not perfect, nor could we attain remembering our perfection in this lifetime. But, if we worked hard enough, we could get a pretty good start at it. Her message implied that it was our doings that brought us to this not-yet-perfect-but-still-trying status. I had to chuckle inside because I once believed this too.”

“,…you are already perfect, you just forgot that you were.”

““What is the point then? Is this earth experience just a big To Do List? I believe that we can come to a remembrance of our god-self, our I-am-perfect-just-as-God-created-me self, in this lifetime. I believe I am getting to know that part of me now. You are loved. You are already whole.”

““We come into this world with the soul intent on remembering who we are—our gifts, our glory, our power, and our God-self.”

“I was led to Louise Hay’s book as my bible of positive talk. I learned the language, and I am very good at it now. I can honestly say it is my natural state.”

” At any given time you are emitting to the world a vibration that is being received by the Universe. It is your free agency to think any thought and feel any feeling that you choose. This agency is the most powerful tool that you have to change your life right now.

You are like a radio signal telling the world and the Universe who you believe you are and what you perceive your life to be. That signal goes out and that is what shows up in return to always make you right.

There is no exclusion in the Law of Attraction. If you think and worry about what you do not want, believing that is the way to fix it or safeguard yourself, you are fooling yourself The best way to get what you don’t want is to think about it a lot, talk about it a lot, and feel worried. It will show up and keep showing up. The best way to give yourself what you do want is to imagine it, get excited about it, allow it to happen, and express gratitude to God when it does.

We too often blame God or Satan for our challenging circumstances. When life is difficult we say that it is our test: it is God proving us. Or we say it is Satan tempting us or trying to control us.”

” I used to believe that my adversities in life were being dealt out by God. That was how I proved myself to him. That was contradictory to my knowledge that God was all loving and 1 knowing. Why would he have to try me and test me if he knew me, loved me, and essentially knew the outcome of my life? I now believe that I created my own struggles, with God’s support, so I could come to know myself and master my spirit by coming through the energy of pain, darkness and spiritual hardship.”

” Many people are intimidated and think it is silly to talk to angels. Most people do not know how to access these resources in their day-to-day life experiences. We seem to believe that we can only ask for spiritual intervention and assistance with the big, important, or challenging aspects of o our lives. But God wants us to invoke our spiritual resources to help us accomplish mundane as well as inspired tasks. When we ask for the intervention of the Heavens in all aspects of our lives, we will experience more and more of our lives unfolding to a higher will and not just our will alone.

” Angels walk before us and by our side daily. They prepare the way for our day to go smoothly. They assist us in orchestrating the details of our lives so we don’t have to. They assist us by creating in spirit that for which we have asked, so that we can manifest it in the physical realm effortlessly.”

” We have been taught to pray to God and to ask him to help us. If we start asking angels for help, where does that put God in our lives? It is my belief and practice that I pray to my Father in Heaven in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe that God has an entire universe full of spirit beings directed by the Holy Spirit to use for our benefit. They assist and serve God by helping us. We each have spiritual agreements and callings; angels have accepted the calling to serve humanity. It is up to us to ask them to help us.

Everyone has legions of spirit assistance at their disposal, yet most people doubt that it can be as simple as asking for it and allowing it to show up in their lives. Instead of asking for what they want and believing they can have it. Most people instead respond to the conditions of their life. Most people spend much of their time observing their life and what they don’t like about it, and observing others’ lives, making judgments about them. Most people are not being deliberate about what they want, and setting an intention that it will come forth.”

“Do you need to know who the angels are and call them by name? No, that is not necessary. Some people do; I don’t. Their identity to me is a vibration rather than an earthly name.” (Carol Tuttle, Remembering Wholeness, Chapter 26 “Angels are Among Us”, pp.134-135)

“When you start playing this game of asking your angels to assist you, all kinds of things will open up to you. As 1 look back on my experience of asking my angels, in the beginning I asked for very few things. Now I ask for their help with everything. I realized that the Universe has enormous resources to help me. I started noticing many of the things I was asking for were happening without my needing to take any action at all. My job is to identify what 1 want, to ask for it, allow it, and to say thank-you when it comes.”

‘Thank you for flowing to me the ideas of what to buy at the grocery store today to make easy, delicious, healthy meals this week. Please find me a rental car at a low rate in Hawaii tor our July trip. Orchestrate a tennis match for me tomorrow, early morning or afternoon. When we go to Palm Springs over spring break, I want fabulous weather and a safe and fun car ride down there. I want to play tennis three to four times and to play golf with our entire family. Thank you for finding us tickets to Disneyland at a discount.”

‘In my mind, I think of my angel fiends, chuckle, and tell them thanks. I notice myself thinking a lot, You guys crack me up! Thanks for making it so fun! “(Carol Tuttle, Remembering Wholeness, Chapter 27 “How to Petition Your Angels”, pp.134-135)

“We have been given creative powers and are meant to participate in an active relationship with the Universe and its processes. It requires conscious intention and skill to start partnering with God to co-create the life you want. If you desire this way of being, you need to take responsibility for being the creator of your life. It won’t just happen by itself.”

“We live on a planet of free choice. God has endowed each of us with the agency to create and govern our own lives. We have each been born with the light of Christ in us. Everyone has been blessed with a guidance system that is directly connected to the Holy Spirit and Christ energy. We each have the capacity of knowing, truly knowing what is right for us.’

‘The next time you make a decision that is right for you and ask for what you want, believe you can have it. Let go of justifying, explaining and defending your choice, and know that God wants you to use your creative powers to bless your life.”

“This planet of free choice is continuing to move to her heavenly celestial glory and to become a heaven on earth. As the earth vibrates at a higher rate, we may find our bodies, emotions and mental states reacting in strange and different ways. The exciting news is that as our creative powers are increasing, our intentions, beliefs, and thoughts are manifesting almost immediately.”

“Whether you believe it or not, you are the creator of your reality. Start partnering with God to create a reality that brings you joy. You’ll find it easier and more fun than the painful one you used to create.”

” There are more people choosing to live Christ-like lives than people choosing to create evil lives. At times it may not seem like it because the media bombards us with stories of violence, carnage, and every inhumane act possible. The media takes the experiences of the minority and sends the message that it is happening to the majority. This is not true. There is a dominance of love and brotherly kindness on the planet. Don’t buy into the doom and gloom. Keep your sights set on the light that radiates from so many of God’s children.

God wants us to know that he loves us and is very pleased with what we have created here on earth. We have a way to go, but the good news is we are moving in an accelerated fashion into higher states of consciousness and more and more levels of light and intelligence. This we have chosen for ourselves. The other option, which we did not choose, was to move into greater levels of darkness until we mass-destructed. This will not happen. If we were to say there has been a war here on earth between the forces of good and evil, we could say at this time that good is winning and will ultimately prevail.”

(Chapter 56, “The Test is Ending”, pp.287-289)

“As we align our will with God’s will, which is for us to be happy, and then ask for what we want, the Universe goes to great effort to flow what we want to us effortlessly and easily. Due to our r conditioning that we believe that we have to earn what we get, too often we move past the doors that have already opened for us. ‘Ask, and ye shall receive; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. “16 All we have to do is ask, then knock. Knocking is acknowledging the desire. As we desire what we have asked for. We are in a high vibration that draws what we have asked for into our lives synchronistically.”

I think the points made by Tuttle are very telling indeed. She does not see her life as in need of submitting to Fathers will but that He wants to give her all she wills. She confuses His great love for her with the desires of mortality. She believes that angels are our servants we send out on material errands. She even says they can do the mundane things in life for us. The only angels I have heard of that we can evoke using the law of attraction has been in magic where the which calls angels forth to do their bidding. This is the danger that lies in the ideas of the Law of Attraction. It takes Father’s will completely out and only focuses on our will. This is exactly what Lucifer want and teaches. He wants us to do our own will not Father’s then once we have broken the tie with Father he has great influence over us till the point that we surrender our agency to him and he become our God.

These self-empowerment books, tell everything with that title (self). Being self focused is pride. The occult teaches how to empower yourself with powers and how to use these powers for gain. Where your heart is, that is what you worship. Whatever you focus on the most is your God. I have nothing against a general lesson on how to be productive in life. That is valuable and needed. But that is not what the law of attraction is.

Let’s look at the scriptures and the words of Lucifer to see what Pride is like in its fullness:

Understanding Isaiah by DONALD W. PARRY • JAY A. PARRY • TINA M. PETERSON

Fall of Lucifer (14:12-23)

Lucifer’s statement (14:13-14) about his goals demonstrates his s extreme self-centeredness. He begins all five lines with the personal pronoun I, which shows that he is interested in his own goals and in glorifying himself. Lucifer had a fivefold plan: He wanted to enter heaven (without following God’s laws), to be greater than other souls, to become part of the assembly of gods, to be exalted above other authorities and powers, and to become like God himself (14:13-14). In contrast, God’s & Saints are taught to lose themselves in the service of others (Matt. 16:25; Luke 9: :24) not by looking after self but by seeking out the widows, the poor, the fatherless, and those with spiritual and temporal needs.

Isaiah’s treatment of the archdevil and enemy of all humanity, Lucifer, sets forth terms and phrases that on one hand demonstrate Lucifer’s attempt to imitate God’s exalted state, and on the other present Lucifer’s true degradation. Note the language connected with Lucifer’s attempts at exaltation: ascend, heaven, exalt, above, stars, mount, and north (14:13); and ascend, above, heights, clouds, and Most High (14:14). Contrast that with the language that deals with Lucifer’s actual lowliness: Fallen, cut down, to the ground (14:12); brought down to hell, pit (14:15); and cast out of thy grave, go down, pit, and trodden under (14:19).

The section has two applications: Lucifer’s fall from heaven during the pre-mortal existence, and the time when Lucifer will be cast down to hell, after the Millennium. The end, Babylon will herd Lucifer and his followers (14:21-23).

Isaiah 14:12-23

How art thou fallen from heaven. O Lucifer, son of the morning!

Art thou cut down to the ground, which did weaken the nations! (14:12)

For thou hast said in thy heart:

I will ascend into heaven.

I will exalt my throne above the stars of God:

I will sit also upon the [mountain of the assembly of the gods1” in the [farthest!’* north; (14:13)

I will ascend above the heights of the clouds:

I will be like the Most High. (14:14)

Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the [depth] of the pit. (14:15)

They that see thee shall [stare]” at thee, and [shall] consider thee, [and shall say:]’*

Is this the man that made the earth to tremble that did shake the nations?

As we can see Lucifer was obsessed with the pronoun I, or self. He claimed to be as God. This is the exact patter we see in the whole New Spirituality. I am God, I want, I will, Self-realization. It is the religion of Self the same religion of Pride Lucifer had that was his fall. Christ has taught us to say Father Thy will be done and the glory be Thine forever. Does the Law of Attraction and its focus of willing our will into manifestation fit “Thy will not Mine”?

There are many today that are Wolves in sheep’s clothing teaching these ideas. Witches use the Law of Attraction. It is part of their teachings and they know that the power comes from Satan and his demons. These books on the law of attraction become a huge stepping stone or bridge into the occult. The law of attraction is a Core occult doctrine. Why do you need God if you can will things on your own? We are clearly told all blessings come from God, all that we have comes from Him. Lucifer promised Moses and Christ all the powers of the world. He can offer this to anyone that will follow him. As soon as you start to think you do not need Father you are now in Lucifer’s camp. For that is what he believes and teaches. He teaches the principle of the divine within and that you are “god”. He wants to be God and believes he is God and he then teaches us the same, so we rebel and become as miserable (liberated from Father) as his is.

Not all promoters of the new age know what they are doing. Many think it is goodness that they promote. The inner circles know it is Lucifer’s plan, but others do not. But this does not make them any less dangerous, just naive. The teachings are very dangerous and deadly. It is like a little child with a gun, they may not know and really understand the consequence of pulling the trigger but the outcome is the same. If they were taught right they would have the correct respect for the power which they yield, but if not they are left to their own devises.

We can see this in examples throughout the scriptures. Yes, some were blessed with riches and it did not make them evil, but the love of riches does. Many great spirits were not given riches for that was not the will of the Lord. If it was a true law that God gives you riches if you put forth faith, then we would have been shown that in Christ. Christ showed us the very opposite. His example was to put Father first in all things, then your fellow man and he did not seek riches of the world. This is the opposite that the new age teaches. They teach yourself first, then the fellow man, and leave out Father completely. Sometimes they will teach you to put your fellow man first, then yourself, but still leave out Father and His will.

I know of LDS people that have read The Secret and watched the movie and even bought it for others saying this is truth. As LDS we fall easily victim to these lies for we know we “Can be come as Father and be Gods…,” but that is only by submitting our will to Him, not by learning how to use “powers”. To live by the example of Christ and become one with Him is the only way to perfection, if we can be totally humble and submit our will. People who follow The Secret start even to say…

Why go to the temple?

What good does that do anyway, freemasons have temples too, so what is the big deal with going to the temple?

Truth is out there in the world and not just in the church.

They believe in the law of attraction and use it instead of faith in God and waiting for His will.

They want what they want now and are no longer willing to wait for God to grant them certain things.

They say the church is true but there are more truths out there that they are finding that clarify the doctrines of the church (redefining them).

These members are getting very proud and can no longer be taught. They think truth is inside them. They are starting to believe that they do not need to follow a living prophet or Apostles for they can know just as much or even more than them through these “new laws”.

Who needs God when you have the powers of God?

I have talked to many LDS that are seeing the falling away of loved ones into these ideas, for they do not lead to Father but away. What I have found in my research is that many of the older teachers of the laws of positive thinking and such were occultists and associated with other occultists that were even more blatant in their writings. Some logical points about having a good attitude is fine, the scriptures should be our source of uplifting information. Principles of using good judgments on money matters are fine, but using powers or laws of the universe to make you rich is another story completely. Again I emphasizes Thy will not mine or My will not Thine. Humility and Pride. God’s power or Lucifer’s Power.

The new age occultist leaders preach that Aids is a disease that is caused by guilt and the condemnation of others via the law of attraction. The idea that homosexuality is a sin is incorrect and is causing this disease. Once the person and the world accept that this is not a sin for there is no sin, the world would be freed of Aids. So it is the (Christians fault Aids exists.) If we show love and send love out into the universe the universe must send love back. Christians do not send love for they believe in a God that judges. Therefore they are the cause of the misery of man. Once you free yourself from the idea of sin, love reigns and the world is at peace. You Will only good things for yourself and others via the law of attraction. We attract Aids to our lives because of this wrong teaching of sin. What we put out into the universe comes back, we put out judgments then judgments come back, we put out love then love comes back. Those that put out these negative “religious ideas’ of judgments of God cause the world to not have love.

This is how dangerous this principle of the law of attraction really is. It will be the reason why Christians will be killed. So anyone that teaches it is fueling the flames and will be part of the cause of the persecution of the saints and their deaths. The Law of Attraction is Lucifer’s false doctrine that mirrors Faith…but faith is not the Law of Attraction. Faith is submitting to the will of the Father and believing in Him. It is not believing in the Law of Attraction taught by Lucifer. Does the law of attraction work? Yes, Lucifer will bless those that he chooses, did he not offer the same thing to Christ and Moses? He offered them the world with its riches and power….. you could say he offered them the Law of Attraction. What was their answer? No. That should be ours too. The law of attraction is the law that becomes the excuse to kill Christians, Jews and some Muslims. They have already written this. If you do not accept that you are “god” and there is not sin you are evil. Evil must be taken off the planet for the planet to go through the next transformation to its higher level, where the world will be full of love and peace under Lucifer. No separatists can be on the planet when it evolves into its next level…(they define separatists as those that believe in a God separate from themselves.) So that is us. We must be removed like a cancer is from the body of Christ. Barbara Marx Hubbard teaches this. She is very very close with Marianne Williamson, Neal Donald Walsh and Deepak Chopra and others. They all say she is wonderful and a visionary and the leading futurist. (Some great future for us is all I can say.)

I for one will stand by the Lord’s word and the true doctrines and follow what the prophet says. I will not follow the doctrines of devils that are being taught today.

It always amazes me that safety, salvation and protection is in the basic simple doctrines we have been taught. I am in awe of the beauty and simplicity of the Gospel. Each day I realize more and more how it is everything we need. As I research these things the clearer it is to me that all the truth we need comes from the many layers in the scriptures, words of the Prophets and going to the temple. We need nothing else. The extra things in the world are very dangerous and are designed to guide us off track. It becomes a complicated mess when you read doctrines of the adversary, for he twists things in a way that intermingles lies with truth. This is Lucifer’s strategy. We need to make sure we focus on the basic core doctrines that the prophets and scriptures have taught and we will be safe.

If members would just follow the Prophet and the doctrines of the Church and not try to add things they would have the pure truth. But they want more, they want to add upon their knowledge from out in the world. Well if you search out in the world that is where you find Lucifer’s 99.9% truth. When you add that now you have changed the pure doctrines into Lucifer’s. The path is simple – hold on to the iron rod, do not wander off into the mist of darkness. The iron rod (the word of God) will step by step get you to the tree of life. There are no short cuts or quick paths or powers you can tap into on your own. We get confused with the fact that we can become Gods and confuse it with the false teaching that we are already Gods and able to utilize divine powers. The only way to Godhood is through the atonement, mercy and submitting our Will to the Lord to be taught all things and to submit to all things and endure to the end. Then after all we can do, through mercy we are saved. But our Godhood is dependent on being humble and teachable, not proud. Pride was Lucifer’s Fall and will be the fall of many good wonderful people that are not willing fully to purge themselves of selfishness and pride, submitting to all things the Lord deems for us (all things). THY WILL NOT MINE. This must be what we think at all times. Pray for His will. Be His students, His children and not a student of the world and the children of the devil. Lucifer has played his same tune to the members of the church throughout all time. The examples in the book of Mormon are very clear.

I fear so much for many members being lead astray, even those that know about secret combinations. These occult doctrines are becoming a force that is bringing to pass the great separation of the wheat and tares. The separation process at its core will be the separation of the prideful and the humble. Humility, selflessness and submitting to Father in all things was the example of Christ. Pride and selfishness, claiming godhood, and wanting one’s own will over Father’s was the example of Lucifer.

I highly suggest reading President Benson’s talk “Beware of Pride” again and again.

http://tinyurl.com/2jkuom “Beware of Pride

Copyright 2009 by Rosabella Knightley