Earth Worship

By Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer

The two pontifical councils that produced an on-line joint document on the New Age mistakenly claim in the document that a form of panentheism that is almost identical to a form of pantheism is New Age panentheism. In the document the pontifical councils also mistakenly claim that the New Age replaces God the Father with Mother Earth.

There is a form of panentheism that replaces God the Father with Mother Earth, but not absolutely. And it is not New Age panentheism, as the pontifical councils have mistakenly claimed in their joint document on the New Age.

New Age panentheists believe that God is Spirit and that Its Spirit permeates the entire universe and that It also transcends the universe and is infinite or boundless. They also believe that Spirit immanent in the cosmos is God the Father/Mother and that Spirit transcendent and beyond the cosmos is the impersonal "unqualified Absolute, the transcendent Father beyond the creation." They also believe that Spirit emanated a deific Being who then sinned and became less-that-divine and then created the universe, and that the universe is the physical manifestation of its corrupted spiritual Self. They also believe that the spirit or soul of this less-than-divine entity (which consists of, both, the soul of the universe and Satan/maya) permeates the whole universe - including, in a special way, the whole earth and physically manifests as the less-than-divine and Satan/maya corrupted earth.

Adherents of the form of panentheism that the pontifical councils mistakenly claim is New Age panentheism believe that God is Spirit and that Its Spirit permeates the entire universe and that It also transcends the universe and is infinite or boundless. However, they do not believe that Spirit emanated a deific Being who then sinned and became less-than-divine and then created the universe, and that the universe is the physical manifestation of its corrupted spiritual Self. They believe that Spirit directly created the universe and that It permeates the entire cosmos and physically manifests as the Divine Universe - and that, in a special way, It (Spirit) permeates the entire earth and physically manifests as the Divine Earth, who is referred to as Mother Earth.

They also believe that Spirit immanent in the creation is the personal God the Father, however, they believe that Spirit transcendent and beyond the creation is essentially irrelevant and that Spirit in creation, except for Spirit in the Earth, is also essentially irrelevant. Therefore, these panentheists believe that God the Father is essentially Mother Earth. They have in effect replaced God the Father with Mother Earth.