(Bishop of Ebolo wa-Kribi, Cameroon)
It is patent that esoteric Sects, above all the ones of Oriental origin, are flowing into the world. But poor Africa receives greater repercussions than any other continent, be it because the countries of other continents have a prompt answer to give to them, due to well-formed intelligentsia, be it for the reason of solidarity of faith in the faithful, framed by the intelligentsia. Africa seems to be more exposed due to the lack of this framework.
In reality, in Cameroon, the country's intelligentsia, of which a great part has come from schools of Catholic or Protestant confession (not excluding the seminary) is such a victim of the anti-Christian doctrines that a good number of them, not to say all of them, are part of Rosicrucians or the Free Masons.
One must confess that the Sects are all the rage in our country, and certain African priests are vulnerable, due to the imitation of the charlatans, they fabricate ceremonial of exorcism and healing prayers unknown to the hierarchy.
And as concerns the Sects and other religions of the world in general, we have encountered several times in the newspapers and other magazines a name which comes back many time in French (Nouvel Age) and in English (New Age). What is this? It would seem to be a religion invented by an American, Alice Anne Balley, born in 1880 in the United States, and which greatly influenced the American milieu as to religious independence.
There is talk of a Christ, but it is not the one in the known history of Jesus of Nazareth. This last is only considered as one of the known sages of history, such as Buddha, Gandhi, Zarathoustra?. This Christ, who is not Jesus of Nazareth, would be the last reincarnation of Buddha, concentration of the cosmic forces. The original name of worldliness was primitively "Lucifer Trust Association", a name which indicated by itself the goal to be followed. But so as not to shock opinion, Lucifer was truncated to Lucis, which brought to "Lucis Trust Association".
In Cameroon, this religion of worldliness is already represented by three of the initiated, who are known as Shambala, of which one is in Yaoundé, a second is in Kribi, and a third is around Ebolowa.
Before such an unfurlment of Sects and false religions, we personally think that we must broadcast on a large scale, the New Catechism of the Catholic Church as published by Rome at the end of 1992, to reinforce in our Christians the faith in the only Church founded by Jesus of Nazareth, and in whose victory we are certain, despite the false forces of Hell.
The knowledge of the name of Jesus Christ, the only one through whom we may and must be saved (Acts 4,12), must not be obscured or counterbalanced by the astrological lucubrations of a so-called New Age!
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