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Tonight I am going to be speaking
about Norman Vincent Peale, Masonic
Witch. Norman Vincent Peale, Masonic
Witch. I can remember when I was very
young seeing Norman Vincent Peale as a young man. I thought, wow,
what an optimistic, uplifting, positive individual. full of
vim, vigor, and vitality. What we're going to see tonight
is that Norman Vincent Peale was merely a Masonic witch. Now just a little background
on Norman Vincent Peale. He was born in Bowersville, Ohio
in 1898. He delivered newspapers, worked
in a grocery store, selling pots and pans door to door. was to
become one of the most influential clergymen in the United States
during the 20th century. And guess where he was educated
at? Ohio Wesleyan University. And he was also educated at the
University of Boston. But he went on to author 40 different
books And he was ordained in the Methodist Episcopal Church
in 1922. And he served as a pastor of
several churches and then finally he changed his affiliation to
the Dutch Reformed Church so that he could become pastor of
the Marble College Church in New York City. Of course he became
famous for his positive Christianity. and he was on the radio and he
had over 5,000 members in that church. When he was out there in this
church in New York, do you know that he established a clinic
right in the basement of his church with a Freudian psychiatrist? Yeah, he actually had a Freudian
psychiatrist in the basement of his church Dr. Smiley Blanton
and this guy had actually undergone psychoanalysis by Freud himself
in Vienna in 1929, 35, 36, and 37. Well, subsequently this clinic
or this positive confession philosophy which established this clinic
in the basement of the church there grew to an operation with 20 psychiatric
doctors and psychologically trained ministers. And in 1951 became
known as the Academy Foundation for Religion and Psychiatry. What a mix, bringing psychiatry
and religion together. Well, in 1972 it merged with
the Academy of Religion and Mental Health to form the Institutes
of Religion and Health, IHR, IRH. And to his death, Peale
remained affiliated with the IRH as president of the board
and chief fundraiser. Now, he wrote, quote, your unconscious
mind has a power that turns wishes into realities when the wishes
are strong enough." That sounds like a New Age philosophy
doesn't it? Doesn't that sound like a New
Age thing? Now 1945, Peale started Guidepost
Magazine. Now if you're reading Guidepost
Magazine, you're reading a witch's magazine. That's all I've got
to say. The guidepost is full of new
age, unity, and I'm going to prove that before the end of
this broadcast. He also published several best-selling
books we know, The Art of Living, Confident Living, The Power of
Positive Thinking, Incredible Century, The Power of Positive
Thinking. He sold more than 20 million
copies in 41 languages. You can believe that. It was
on the bestseller list, New York Times bestseller list. 186 weeks. I mean, think about
it. His wife, Ruth, founded the Foundation
for Christian Living. Now, it's interesting. If you go to his website, that
was all taken, by the way, off of his own website that I just
read to you. So if you want to go to it and
validate what I said, All you have to do is go to www.http://normandvincentpeel.www.hubs.com and you can find what I just
told you there. Well, who does he link artists
to? In other words, who does he recommend? On his own website, he's got
this little thing and it says the following audio books and
it may be ordered or available for immediate download. And the
following books may be ordered using a credit card. And then
the next page it says, here are the links to many similar authors. So they're actually recommending
these authors. I'm going to just read some of
these authors that Norman Vincent Peale recommends and links to. Emmett Fox. Emmet Fox is a unity minister.
I've heard Emmet Fox preach, if you want to call it preaching,
his New Age philosophy. James Allen, another New Ager. Ralph Waldo Emerson, humanistic
psychologist. James Dillett Freeman, another
unity person. Eric Betterworth, probably one
of the most renowned unity ministers out there. In fact, Eric Betterworth
is Oprah Winfrey's guru. W. Clement Stone. Well, we know
that W. Clement Stone funded Norman Vincent
Peale's ministry. Ernest Holmes. Ernest Holmes
founded the Church of Religious Science. Dale Carnegie winning
through winning friends and influencing people right? Mayor Baker Eddy
well that's the Christian Scientist originator of the Christian Science
Church Charles Fillmore Charles Fillmore is the ringleader who
started the unity movement and here we have Norman Vincent Peale
endorsing all of this Napoleon Hill, we know who he is, Deepak
Chopra, a new ager, and on and on and on. Norman Vincent Peale
was very involved in the Masonic Lodge. His whole teaching centered around
this new thought. Holmes was an occultist and believed
in spirit guides. Peale said, quote, only those
who knew me as a boy can fully appreciate what Ernest Holmes
did for me while he made me a positive thinker, end quote. Here Norman
Vincent Peale is quoting Ernest Holmes, the United Church of
Religious Science, an occultist. New thought was rejected by the
churches about a hundred years ago out of the mind-science cults
were born. And so these new writings of
Norman M. Peale that came into play brought
the psycho-garbage into the Christian Church. People like Dr. James Dobson, and Dr. Bill Meyer, and Dr. Jerry Adams, and Dr. Dr. Dr. like we said Peale was a 33rd
degree Mason was even on the front cover of the two Masonic
publications the New Age May 1986 and the Scottish Rite Journal
in March of 1991 and Peale has won not only won many awards but
he's written many forwards to occultic books including Helen
Keller's My Religion and John Mark Templeton's Discovering
the Laws of Life. He was a guest on the Phil Bonahue
Show and Peale was asked of the need to be born again and he
replied, oh no, you've got your way to God, I've got mine. And
he said, I found eternal peace in a Shinto's temple in Japan.
So we see that this Norman Vincent Peale was nothing more than a
Shinto witch. He says that's where he found
his peace. You know, although Peale teaches
about God, it's clear from his writings and testimonies that
Christ is only a principle. Peale's influence by the occult
is detected by the understanding of faith. Well, now we're going
to look a little bit deeper into the life of Norman Vincent Peale,
and we're going to discover some things. Norman Vincent Peale
has won many humanistic awards. He taught New Age psychology
and shamanism. Like we said, he offered the
power of positive thinking in 1952. He was a Methodist minister's son, folks. And he's written 46 books and
his whole thrust is change your own mental habits. Mixture of
psychology, New Age shamanism, and unity well thrown in there. And of course Holmes' religious
science best. Eric Butterworth, who is one
of the chief leaders and writers for the Unity School of Christianity was really respected by Norman
Benzapil. In fact, Norman Benzapil said
about Butterworth, thought motivating and spiritually rewarding in
terms of what Butterworth wrote. And he says, by studying and
practicing the practices laid down in Butterworth's book, The
Game of Life, by metaphysician Florence Shin, helps us solve problems, have
better health, achieve good personal relations, and a world with the
game of life. I've long used them myself, he
says. Well, we see where this is all
going. Peale endorsed many people who
were involved in the occult. We already see that in the books
that's linked on his own home page. Peale endorsed the book The Jesus
Letters by Jane Powser and Anna Brown. What a wonderful gift
to all of us from you is your book. You will bless many by
this truly inspired book, he says. Well, what does that book say? Well,
the book says God does not see evil. It goes on and on. If we look at Peale and we look
at his life, we find that he was very involved in many, many
metaphysical movements, religious science movements. Although his father was a Methodist
minister, he was encouraged to by his father
to pursue his journey into metaphysics. Here is what his father told
him. You have evolved a new Christian
emphasis out of a composite of science of mind, metaphysics,
Christian science, medical and psychological practice, Baptist
evangelism, Methodist witnessing, and solid Dutch Reformed Calvinism. His father was certainly correct
about the New Age identification, but apparently he did not understand
Reformed theology or Orthodoxy very well. When one reads Norman
Vincent Peale, it's obvious that he never tells anyone that they
must come to repentance and faith in Lord Jesus Christ before they
can become a child of God, born again and dwelt by his Spirit. Peale consistently operates within
the framework of the New Age doctrine. and practices. Emphasizing you can become anything
you desire. He brought in the concept of
visualization and meditation. This is where Schuller got. Schuller
says that Peale was his main mentor. He tries to lump this all together
this foundation for Christian living that him and his wife
Ruth brought into the fore was one of the things that heralded
bringing in Guidepost Magazine. That Guidepost Magazine circulates
about 4.5 million and each week they get about
5,000 prayer requests In 1998 they got 283,000 requests
were received via their website. Now we know that Peale was admired
by men in high positions like a lot of Masonic people that
are 33rd degree Masons. Norman Vincent Peale received
the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian
award in 1984. and in 1991 he received the Eleanor
Roosevelt Vowkill Medal and awarded to individuals who made a significant
contribution to society. Norman Vincent Peale fraternized
with the Mormons. He is a universalist. He believes
that everyone is going to heaven. He was featured in 1980 as the
featured speaker at the 85th birthday honoring Mormon prophet
speaker Spencer W. Kimball. And you know, Norman Vincent Peale
basically chagrined at the idea or the thought of a virgin birth.
He said, he called the virgin birth some theological idea of
no importance in salvation. He denied the necessity of being
born again on the Philadelphia show in 1984. And when he was asked, you know, about being born again, he says,
I have my own personal relationship with God, you've got yours. I
know of a Shinto temple in Japan where I found eternal peace one
day in my soul. Give me a break." Well, what else do we know about
Norman Vincent Peale? He says that prayer, you know
what he said his definition of prayer was? A powerful manifestation
of energy. A powerful manifestation of energy. Well, we can go on and on, folks.
But the point is, occultism in the United States
has gained a whole new respectability, both in the world and the church
through acceptance and promotion by numerous business and civic
leaders, especially people who are linked to the Hour of Power,
Billy Graham, Robert Shuler, Dr. Bill Bright, who received
the Templeton Award, by the way. If you want to do some research
on that you might want to check that out and see who funds that. Again, Norman Vincent Peale being
a 33rd degree Mason, Peale was pictured on the cover of the
Masonic magazine New Age. He was inducted into the Scottish
Rite Hall of Honor on September 30, 1991. And did you know that
Norman Vincent Peale's portrait now hangs in the Washington DC
Masonic Temple? He was often held up by Masons
as an example of Masonic character. Now often he tried to deceive
people about that. He says, I have never seen the
slightest word of expression in Masonic rituals that is anything
a Christian could not endorse. Now that is a lie. That is a
lie. you all heard my earlier sermon,
you can read it, the message that I did on morals and dogma
by Albert Pike and that is absolutely contrary to that book what Peale
is saying there so this obvious false statement sheds further
light upon Peale's perversion of Christianity okay We're not going to go into
all of the ins and outs of the Masonic Order, but the fact is
that the Masonic Order is Luciferian in doctrine and Christians should not be involved
in that organization. He was a 33rd degree Mason and
he knew all about the organization and he ran with those in that
organization and he knew exactly what he was involved in. For many years the magazine of
Scottish Rite Masonry in the United States was called the
New Age. And that title accurately describes Masonic beliefs and
rites. In order to hide the fact, because
the truth about the New Age is becoming readily apparent, They
now have changed their name to the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry. Real interesting, isn't it? Now, we see the amount of influence
that Norman Vincent Peale has had on the churches, if you want
to call it evangelical community, in ushering in this new age.
His influence carried far beyond Saddleback and was now being
exported globally. Even though Rick Warren endorses
Norman Vincent Peale and Robert Shuler, we see a lot of other
interesting connections too. Warren first wrote about the
New Age leaders like Neal, Donald Walsh, Marianne Williamson, and
Oprah Winfrey and their striking similarities and interconnections
with evangelical leaders. What I want to point out here
is that Norman Vincent Peale sometime in March 2005 before
all of Ken Blanchard's New Age endorsements came to light I
received two articles from pastors from Indianapolis, Indiana. One
of the articles was a clipping from August 3, 1995, Indianapolis
Star. It had a big picture of Norman
Vincent Peale and the headline ran, Norman Vincent Peale accused
of plagiarism. Power of positive thinking author
works similar to that of the little-known teacher of occult
science. The article published by Knight Rider Newspaper asked
the question, was the Reverend Norman Vincent Peale the father
of the Believe and Succeed theology sweeping American Protestantism,
a plagiarist inspired by the occult? In attempting to answer
that question, the newspaper referred to an article from the
Lutheran Quarterly that contended that Norman Vincent Peale drew
much of his inspiration from the writings and teachings of
the occult New Age author, Florence Scovel Shinn. Well, he was very
involved in a lot of occult connections and articles. We see, if you
go to his own website, by his own admission, similar authors. It says here are links to many
similar authors. James Allen, Raymond Charles
Barker, Henry Drummond, Emmett Fox, Frederick Bayles, Christina
D. Larson, James Dillard Freeman, Eric Meadoworth,
Earl Nightingale, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcus Bach, Mary Baker Eddy,
Charles Pilmore, Dale Carnegie, Ernest Holmes,
W. Clement Stone, Napoleon Hill,
Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, all of those are New Agers. I
mean, there's no secrets here folks. And so if you're reading
Guidepost Magazine, throw it in the trash. And if somebody
hands you a Guidepost Magazine, realize that you're reading New
Age garbage is what you're reading. And a lot of these Christians
say, oh, it's really uplifting to read Guidepost Magazine. And Norman Vincent Peale was
very proud of the fact that he was a Freemason. And very proud of the fact that
he was a 33rd degree Freemason. Now, you know, I got a letter here
from Norman Vincent Peale to the Sovereign Grand Commander
of the Scottish Rite Freemasonry that he wrote in February 10,
1975. And he says, Dear Grand Commander,
I am profoundly suppressed by your great book, Colossians, something of morals and books
which I have carefully read, both as a descriptive factor
in your commentaries you have done. With rare gifts and so
on and so on. Without your book we'll live
as a classic in masonry. Blah blah blah blah blah. With
admiration and best wishes and with appreciation for your book
I am fraternally yours, Norman Vincent Peale, 33rd Degree Mason.
Should we be surprised that who all is involved with Norman Vincent Peale. We can see that Norman Vincent
Peale was very close to Billy Graham. He was an apostle of
self-esteem. He is proud to be a Freemason. We see here that Paul wrote it
many, many years ago to Colossae and says that we should make
sure that no one comes in amongst us to deceive us. I refer you
to Colossians 2.8. We should be careful about deceptive
teaching and these motivational authors like Zig Ziglar and these
other proponents that come into the church and try to lead us
astray. Zig Ziglar loved Norman Vincent
Peale. He wrote a book over the top. He described the character of
the late Dr. Norman Vincent Peale. I know
this to be true because as I mentioned earlier I studied and applied
his philosophies to my life with great success. Of course. Satan will definitely bless the
philosophies of his own deception. Dr. Peel and I shared the platform.
I knew the public and the private man. He truly was what he appeared
to be. And then some. His enormous success
and popularity never turned his head or caused him to lose his
sense of awe and gratitude and on and on and on. Well, so Ziegler is clearly a
disciple of the late Norman Vincent Peel. And, you know, Ziegler
has been promoted on the Vought Radio Network and a lot of other
places. Folks, I just wanted to point
out that if you're a Norman Vincent Peale fan, or if you like to
read Clement Stone, or you like to read Napoleon Hill, or any
of these New Age self-promoting philosophies like Rick Warren,
Saddleback Church, or Robert Shuler, or William James, or
Edison, or Freud, or Carl Jung, or Mayer, Baker, Eddy, or Emmett
Fox, or Freemans, or Charles Fillmore, or Dale Carnegie, or
Ernest Holmes, James Allen, any of these people, just realize
you're reading absolute occultic literature. That's what you're
reading. And I can hear some people say, oh, you're just over
emphasizing things. No, there's a direct linkage
to it. In fact, Norman Vincent Peale
confessed his indebtedness to Science Mind founder Ernest Holmes. He wrote on the back cover of
Ernest Holmes, his Life and Times, Only those who knew me as a boy
can fully appreciate what Ernest Holmes did for me. That's what he says about the
occultist. We know the linkage between Norman
Vincent Peale and Robert Schuller. We are told, Beloved, believe
not every spirit, but prove the spirits, that they are of God,
because many false prophets are gone out into the world. But then he did add this encouraging
word, you are God's children and have overcome them because
greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.
1 John 4.1. But we are to be clear about these people
that are promoting these kind of things. And we are to come
against it. We are to take a stand against
it. And I am here to say tonight that I don't want to have anything
to do with Norman Vincent Peale or any of his connections. I
do not want to be associated with them in any way or form. And people that are trying to
promote Norman Vincent Peale and Robert Shuler and all those
other Freemasons out there, I don't have any interest in having an
association with them. Let's just look at some of the
other people that held the status of 33rd degree Mason along with
Norman Vincent Peale. You don't get to the 33rd degree
real easily. It requires a lot of mind control
over you. You're told how to think. You're
told exactly what you should think. Saddam Hussein was a 33rd
degree Mason. Robert Schuller is a 33rd degree
Mason, Oral Roberts, Jesse Jackson, King Hussein, Tony Blair, Yasser
Arafat, Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev. Well, what do we think about
that? What do we think about that? Harry Truman was a 33rd
degree Mason. And we could go on and on. J
Edgar Hoover, Alistair Crowley was a Grand Master, Walt Disney
was a 33rd degree Mason. So, Billy Graham by the way,
and you know Hearst is the one that promoted Billy Graham. It
was Hearst who promoted both books on Satanism and Billy Graham.
First made Billy Graham who is today by financially backing
him and publicizing him. And Rockefeller was supportive
of Billy Graham's New York crusade and Manhattan Chase Bank helped
Billy Graham out. This is what we are talking about
here. The alliances that people have with other people. in deception,
in absolute deception. Well, I think we've made our
point, folks. I don't want to over make our
point, but you know, Norman Vincent Peale ran with the humanists.
He was into humanism. He was denied the fundamental
doctrines of the Bible, and he created a new Bible. And just
like Robert Shuler being a 33rd degree Mason. And Robert Shuler
is good friends with Billy Graham, and Norman Vincent Peale, and
John Wayne, and W. Clement Stone, and Rich DeVos,
and John Wimber, and all of those people. And Robert Shuler is
very much involved in the Illuminati and the underground. People don't
want to hear this. They don't want to hear it. They
just want to stick their heads under the sand and say, oh, this
could never be. This could never be. Well, I'm
here to tell you that it is. And if you want to do a look
at some of the things that has been perpetrated by Robert Schur
and Norman Vincent Peale and their linkage with all these
other people, it's real easy to authenticate that because
you can do it by going to their own websites and see who they
endorse and then check out the authors of the books that they
endorse we're told by your fruits you shall know them and there's
rotten fruit in both Norman Vincent Peale and Robert Shuler You see now the linkage between
Robert Schuller and Rick Warren. So the influence of Norman Vincent
Peale on Robert Schuller and Robert Schuller's man-centered,
people-pleasing, censor-sensitive so-called gospel of positive
thinking has absolutely been felt within the Christian church,
if you want to call it Christian. evangelical church. And Bill
Heimels is the same linkage there. And we can see that. And we wonder
why our society is in this. And we know that God is sovereign
over all these things. We know that God is the one that
is sovereign over evil. He is sovereign over Robert Schuller's
Institute for Church Growth. He's sovereign over the evangelism
explosion by D. James Kennedy. And he's also
sovereign over all of these New Age Bible versions too. But you
know, the second Psalm tells us that he will hold them in
derision. He will laugh at them and hold them in derision. So anyway, I just wanted to bring
you up to date on Norman Vincent Peale and his guideposts and
his linkage to all of these occultic behaviors with Ernest Holmes,
the first religious scientist of the church, and his involvement
with the Optimist Clubs and the power of positive thinking groups
out there, and the denial of the Bible. When we look at some of
these things, we have to kind of pinch ourselves and say, We asked ourselves the question,
why was this so hit? I remember when I was involved
in Unity, Shuler didn't want it out of the bag that he was
over at Unity Village in Lee's Summit. It was kind of on the
quietus. He had the Hour of Power national
television show and it brought a lot of money and he had deceived
a lot of Christian people. Well, I think that's a pretty
good place to stop for now. And I would highly recommend
that if you want to validate any of this information, I would
suggest a couple of places that you may want to go to validate
this. You can go to www, www.lulu.com www.lulu.com there's
a lot of information on that website and you can also go to
Norman Vincent Peale's homepage which is www.normanvincentpeale.hubs.com
www.normanvincentpeale.hubs.com and see who he links all these
authors he links himself to and says they are similar in their
authorship. Father, we pray that you would
take this message, open people's eyes to what is going on right
in front of them. We ask that you would help them to throw
their guideposts in the trash and not be aligned with this
fraud that came out of the Wesleyan University and took on and became
a part of the Synagogue of Satan, the Masonic Order. We ask these
things in your name and for your glory alone. Amen.
Norman Vincent Peale & C.S. Lewis - Same Religion
Norman Vincent Peale:
- Was a 33rd Degree Mason
- Admired the leaders of Unity Village and Christian Science
- Denied the virgin birth
- Denied the necessity of being born again
- Promoted Simund Freud and Carl Jung
- Went to a Weslyan University
7 Followed Emet Fox, Butterworth, Henry James and many other metaphysical teachers - Published the Guide Post Magazine
- Was Robert Shuller's mentor
| Sermon ID | 51908220370 |
| Duration | 39:13 |
| Date | |
| Category | Teaching |
| Bible Text | 2 Timothy 4:3-4 |
| Language | English |
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