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Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow: The New Age Movement and Our Coming Age of Barbarism

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Constance Cumbey's book, Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow, has been translated into several foreign languages and remained in print until Huntington House recently declared bankrupty. It has been in print for over 20 years. Those who work behind the scenes at changing the culture keep a very low profile. Particularly valuable is that in the book Cumbey names organizations that one would not encounter reading the papers. For instance, she goes into much detail regarding Lucis Trust, an organization based on the occult writings of Alice Bailey. This organization has been around since the '20s and is an offshoot of the Theosophical Society, also an occultic organization. Lucis Trust and the Theosophical Society were key players in the Parliament of World Religions in the early '90s. Another organization outed in the book is New Group of World Servers. NGWS is a branch of Lucis Trust. ngws.org is still very active and powerful. Lucis Trust still holds hands with the United Nation, again documented in her book. That the New Age religion has spread its cloak over many other countries is documented in many places. The academic community has taken a growing interest in this movement. New Age Religion and Globalization is based on a conference that was held in Denmark in 1999. The book is copyrighted 2001. I would also recommend Prof. Gene Veith's book, Modern Fascism. Twenty plus years ago Cumbey brought information on New Age to the general public, people who may not have access to the writings in the academic community. She cannot be thanked enough for providing this valuable service.

Those who hope to find information about cults when purchasing this book need to look to other sources. As Hanagraaff points out in New Age Religion and Globalization, New Age religion is not cultic, but is based in cultural change.

Interesting reading all the one star reviews and the five star reviews. My conclusion is that truth is REVEALED by the Holy Spirit, not just mentally learned! Therefore, it is not surprising that we have such extremes of reviews, because God reveals to those whose hearts are humbled and seek Him earnestly (Jer 29:11), and of course, "none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand" (Dan 12:10) and "seeing, they may see but not perceive, and hearing, they may hear but not understand. (Mark 4:12) Hence, the one star comments are to be expected.

As an ex-new ager, I find the book very informative, contrary to what some reviewers say. Her research is very thorough and she is quite knowledgeable about the new age.

Eternity beckons. Check your heart. Are you ready?

Constance Cumbey has done an excellent job trying to open Christians' eyes to the evil situation that is escalating about them. She portrays well documented evidence of the workings of Satan as God opened her eyes to his schemes. Her shock is genuine and sincere. She isn't an end of time alarmist and she doesn't even proclaim herself to be an author. She is merely a shocked Christian, trying to reveal a hideous situation that God has made clear to her. I have read this book a number of times over the years. The first time I read it was perhaps in 1988. It has been over ten years and I have continued to watch this movement she identified as satanic ten years ago. Everything she said about them 10 years ago has proven to be true and this group of people isn't as secretive in 1999 as they were in 1988. It's much easier to keep an eye on them now than before, but I wouldn't have ever been alerted had God not stirred her up to write those two books. Thank you Constance Cumbey.

I just purchased my second copy of this book. I find a wealth of usable information in it and had lost my previous copy. It isn't easy to find any more. I think Cumbey did an excellent job of sharing valuable information about this troublesome movement that has slowly but surely gained a lot of followers under various covers including mainstream Christianity and various other pseudo Christian religious organizations and groups.

This review is primarily directed at the detractors from this author and this book. I too am a former devotee of the New Age. In fact, for almost 10 years I was an 'initiate' of a mystical order which was the very epitome of the New Age. We studied the works of Helena Blavatsky, Annie Besant, Alice Bailey, and many other New Age authors. We studied the tarot, crystals, astrology, the Cabala, etc., etc. We were linked with The Great White Brotherhood and their associated orders throughout the world. However, I became disallusioned with the New Age, came to realize it's heresy, and subsequently became a Christian. Here is the problem in a nutshell (and I realize that I am wasting my breath) spiritual things can only be spiritually discerned. That is, it requires an unction from the Holy Spirit before you can discern spiritual truth from error. I know that this is hard for you to swallow, because I was once as you are. I felt that fundamental Christianity was narrow, bigoted, and wrong, and that New Age teachings contained the deep truths underlying Christianity and all other religions. This book is a good expose of the heart of the New Age movement which is indeed Satanic, and the goals that it has in store for humanity which is enslavement through a one world government and a heretical, Satanic one world religion. Don't wait too long before you find this out for yourself. You will regret it for a long, long, long time.

I read Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow when it first came out. I learned much from it and passed on the knowledge to others. The book was outstanding. Every sentence was filled with important, verifiable information, unlike many books which tend to give some good information and alot of unnecessary filler. Where has Constance Cumbey been? I read her second book as well and I'd love to read more from her. Her writings are stimulating, informative, and more importantly, necessary for every Christian in understanding the ploys of the enemy of our souls.

Open any book on the New Age Movement up, and if it's one that attempts to expose the dark side of the NAM, chances are that the author will site Mrs. Cumbey. That's because she was the first one to research the subject and make her findings available to the general public. Trying to understand NAM research without reference to Constance Cumbey is like trying to understand Egyptology without mentioning the Rosetta Stone. Cumbey connects all the dots. She links each major segment of the New Age Movement, along with allied groups, into a systematic whole. The story is alarming and unsettling. Cumbey's well-researched thesis(she took several years off from a busy law practice after stumbling upon the initial information) is that there is a systematic, organized movement, with many fronts, that seeks to reform the Earth and humanity along the lines of their utopian beliefs. Secular readers may wish to equate this with lower-order manifestations of power, such as world government ("The New World Order"), but Cumbey lays the responsibility where she, as a Christian, clearly saw that it belongs: with Satan. You will have a difficult time disbelieving this book, and events since it's publication in 1985 serve to confirm it's message and warning. -Lloyd A. Conway

As someone who has studied 'occult science' in a quiet way for several years i was curious about exctly why fundamnetalist Christians have such a hatred of the 'new age'. This book certainly helped me answer that question and I see more clearly now how tempting it is to connect the cocnepts of illuminati, world government & new agers into one looming presence. What i've also understood from reading this is that its more comforting to imagine a satanist cult, powerful collective of occult sects, the new world order, or satan himself as running the world than to consider that a fundamnetalist interpretation of Christian scripture might be inapropriate for our times and to be failing a great many peoples' needs.

What this book also showed me was how vague are the hard-line Christians view of what the 'new age' is. Essentially the definition is so all encompassing that almost all practices which are not strictly Christian (in its narrowest sense) get sucked into it. Despite not being a 'new ager' and having had very little to do with any of the new age figures Crumbey mentions I find myself lumped in there too (and my mother also for once having had holistic treatment for a bad foot). There's plenty to criticise about the sillier aspects of the so called 'new age' but much of this results from fumblings of people trying to create spirirtuality in a vacum having been cut off from their religious tradition. I myself remember my first tentative, clumsy steps outside of the materialist secularism that I had been conditioned with since childhood.

Before coming to occult science I was a typical european agnostic prey to all the usual vices and addictions of such a mindset. Through 'occultism' i've come to understand the esoteric apsect of Christianity better and to have a deeper respect for the core of its message, been more loving to those close around me and had more energy and doen more purposefull work which is something that 8 years of having the bible read at me in dry sermons during my teenage years never managed. So through 'occultism' i've come back to Christiantity which I appreciate might be enough to give certain fundamnetalists nightmares but its really not so strange at all if you can step out of the fundamentalist mind set for a second.

Sometimes I idealistically hope that it really is possible for people to accept that religious/spiritual pratices of all sorts are just different inflections of the same impulse to express God: but then books such as Crumbey's serve as a usefull but dis-heartening reality check that some people will happily shred themselves to bits before aknowledging this.

Cumbey's book was unbelievable at first reading! Further investigation and review of New Age founders, philosophies, strategies and agendas prove her incredible and shocking findings.

I read this book in 1985, a few years after the first edition came out (I remember that she was promoting it in 1982, right after I got married). I feel it is one of the best books on the subject to this day, even though the book was first published seventeen years ago. Sadly, Cumbey was entirely correct in her assessment of how the New Agers have infected the Christian Church. She has been villified by those who claim the name of Christ as a result of her bold assertions, which she does a superb job of backing up.