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The Powers Behind Alpha, Vineyard & the ‘TE’
- Link Data -
This page is the repository for all information regarding
the chart entitled
The Dragnet Behind
Alpha, Vineyard, ‘Purpose-Driven’, ‘
(Click to view the chart here but please note: you will need to use your “back arrow” to return to this page.)
This page currently comprises the following three sections:
Introduction
1) Extra Links Omitted From Chart
2) How To Use The Table of Links
3) Table of Links Between Names
Introduction
Some of the links in the table are included
because someone has quoted another person favourably. The 'acceptability' of quoting idolaters is
invariably based on the solitary occasion when the apostle Paul, speaking at
the Areopagus, quoted a pagan poet (Acts
It is bad enough to cite idolaters as sources of
wisdom for Christians. (Can
people really not find any Christian sources for the points they want to
make?) It is even worse to fail to give
a warning and disclaimer about that person’s idolatry.
1) Extra Links Omitted From Chart
The following are known links that had to be omitted from the chart for topological or readability reasons. Data for each of these links is included in the table below.
|
Boehme, Jakob /Leade, Jane |
==>> |
Freemasons |
|
Freemasons |
==>> |
Alpha |
|
Freemasons |
==>> |
Assagioli, R. |
|
Jesuits/Romanists |
==>> |
Assagioli, R. |
|
Jesuits/Romanists |
==>> |
Boehme, J. / Leade, J. |
|
Jesuits/Romanists |
==>> |
Freemasons |
|
Jesuits/Romanists |
==>> |
Hall, F. |
|
Jesuits/Romanists |
==>> |
Jung, C. |
|
Jesuits/Romanists |
==>> |
Kenyon, E.W. |
|
Jesuits/Romanists
|
==>> |
Semple
McPherson, A. |
|
Jesuits/Romanists |
==>> |
Teilhard deChardin, P. |
There are many further instances of influence/co-operation that have only occurred after 1992 (so far as we can determine). Please see the full table below for details.
Notes:
*Any links in the following
table which do not appear on the chart itself, nor in the above table, are
given in black and/or italics (see below for more). Any lack of strong connections can therefore
be ignored for these entries.
*
*
* Black, non-italic = no pre-1992 connections of any type, but at
least one direct POST-1992 connection.
* Black italic = only INDIRECT, POST-1992 connections found so
far.
* We do know of probable
additional links, but the evidence we have collected for them is not yet
conclusive enough. Although the data for
these probable links is included in the table below, we will not add the relevant
arrow to the chart (or the above table) until sufficient further evidence is
found.
* We have included some solid indirect
connection data in the table in support of direct connections, and this
subsidiary data is clearly marked ‘INDIRECT’.
* Connections that are known to
have taken place after 1992 are also included (clearly marked
‘POST-1992’) to show that this ungodly alliance is still very much in place.
* We are in the process of
adding data for the various connections between each name (especially extant
ones) and HTB/Alpha. See the entries
‘[Name] ==>> Alpha’ for the data we have added thus far.
2) How To Use The Table of Links
From the chart, pick a link in which you are interested. Identify which bubble includes the start of the relevant arrow. Read the text in the bubble and simply find that name on the far left hand side in the following, alphabetically arranged list. You will be presented with the topmost entries of all the links that start from that name. Simply scroll through the list of links until you find the particular one you are interested in. There you will find all connections we currently know of between the two names.
(Please Note: The names in the table are always listed alphabetically. Please also beware of the accent on the end of Renovaré when searching this page electronically. Please also note that INDIRECT links can be found through looking at the data linking intermediate bubbles between two names.)
3) Table of Links Between Names
As far as we are aware, NONE of these connections came with caveats. For example, we have yet to note a single name on the chart who repudiates any aspect of the ministry of another name when quoting that other name. We define the difference between cooperation and association as follows: Attending a conference as an observer, where one of the speakers is apostate is one thing. Sharing the platform with him/her and failing to expose them for what they are, is quite another! Quoting them is one thing. Giving their NAME, but no disclaimer about their other beliefs is another.
Notes: (a) These are just the overt or undeniable links - how many extra, hidden ones are there? (b) In many cases the primary source reference is available from the cited source. (c) Critics of this table may be able to find a handful of links they believe to be arguable, but, even if they do so, that will still leave over 95% for them to explain away. (d) All emphases are our own unless otherwise stated. (e) Where you see “linked to HTB”, please see the extra table at the end of this page for details.
We hope shortly to provide some biographies - to show just how amazingly unchristian the names in this list are. In the meantime, you can find out about these people from websites like: www.deceptioninthechurch.com/page3.html or www.banner.org.uk or www.gospelcom.net/aplogeticsindex. And, for certain people in the chart, www.letusreason.org/Popteach.htm (for Schuller and Copeland), www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/exposes (for Copeland, Hagin and Wimber), www.cultlink.com/archives.htm (for the Sandfords), http://www.blessedquietness.com/journal/housechu/branham.htm (for Branham), and
http://www.geocities.com/endtimedeception/robert.htm (for Schuller). Please note, however, that we do not necessarily endorse everything on these sites or even on the pages listed here.
Assagioli, Roberto [Click here for details of this name]
Assagioli ==>> Alpha
■
INDIRECT: HTB cooperates with Willow Creek, yet the former
associate director of spiritual formation at Willow Creek trained at Shalem
Prayer Institute and has Tilden Edwards on the back cover of her most recent
book - both of these have Assagioli’s strong influence [Data from Lighthouse
Trails].
■ INDIRECT, POSSIBLY
POST-1992: HTB stocks the book Ruthless
Trust by Brennan Manning. This is a
book which positively cites Gerald May - who promotes Assagioli’s teachings.
Assagioli
==>> Foster,
R./Renovaré
■
“[Tilden] Edwards leads the prestigious Shalem Prayer Institute [where
Renovare’s William Vaswig studied]... In his book, Spiritual Friend, he [Edwards]
suggests those who practice contemplative prayer ... should turn to a book
entitled, Psychosynthesis, ... [by] world famous
occultist, Roberto Assagioli” [Ray Yungen, A Time of Departing, {p}].
■
INDIRECT: Madeleine L’Engle
was influenced by Assagioli, but Renovare quotes L’Engle very positively
[Renovare’s Perspective magazine, April 1997 - Vol. 7, No. 2 - page
4]. Madeleine L’Engle is also quoted favourably on Page
205 of the 25th Anniversary Edition of Foster’s book Celebration
of Discipline [J. Sundquist].
■
INDIRECT:
Gerald
May, who influenced Renovare’s Vaswig, wrote a book called A Pilgrimage of
Healing which was full of Assagioli’s transpersonal psychology [Ray Yungen,
phone conversation with Dusty, 2004].
May was “one of Rev. Vaswig’s professors”
[http://withchrist.org/MJS/renovare.htm].
It is MOST likely that May will have taught Vaswig about Assagioli.
■
“[A]n
Esalen team visited Europe ... and discovered Roberto Assagioli’s
psychosynthesis, ... This group then introduced Assagioli’s work to America.
... [At Esalen’s] second conference on “The Body and Spirituality” ...
[participated] Sister Rose Mary Dougherty [a leader at the Shalem Institute
where Renovare’s Vaswig studied] { }
■
INDIRECT: Assagioli strongly influenced Michael Murphy
and others at Esalen (Murphy was a co-founder), and Esalen has strongly influenced
Renovare (hence the latter’s endorsement of the Enneagram system devised by
Esalen) { }
■
Gerald May is “number 2” at the Shalem Institute where Renovaré’s Vaswig
studied, yet May makes extremely positive reference to Assagioli’s
psychosynthesis movement [Ray Yungen, private phone conversation with Dusty].
Assagioli ==>> Fox, G./Quakers
■ The Friends website
http://fcrp.quaker.org/ contains pro-Assagioli material. See for instance the ‘Views and Reviews’ in
its magazine Inward Light, Vol XLVII, Nos. 101 and 102, Spring 1986 (as
at http://fcrp.quaker.org/InwardLight101/101Reviews.html).
Assagioli
==>> Kelsey,
M.
■ “Morton … tells us himself that one of his
major influences was ‘the writings of … Roberto Assagioli’” [Morrison, op.
cit., p433].
Assagioli ==>> Schuller, R.
■ INDIRECT:
Gerald Jampolsky wrote “one of the groundbreaking classics in the
transpersonal movement … Based on concepts from A Course in Miracles”.
Schuller has run A Course in
Miracles and was endorsing Jampolsky as recently as 2004.
Bertolucci, John [Click here for details of this name]
Bertolucci
==>> Alpha
■ INDIRECT: Bertolucci has cooperated with
Yonggi-Cho – who has influenced HTB [{}].
■ INDIRECT: Bill Bright has influenced Alpha, yet “Speakers from Catholicism,
mainline Protestant denominations and independent churches broke down the walls
… at the Washington For Jesus Rally in
Bertolucci ==>> Kuhlman, K.
■
Bertolucci appeared on K's TV
program. The details are: video “V480
457 4/17/75” was of “Father J. Bertolucci. Same as V1074”.
Audio tape “T1734 1975” is of “Father J. Bartolucci, [sic] TV 457. 883” {}
Bertolucci ==>> Scanlan, M.
■ “[Jerry] Falwell was also one of the
speakers at the 4/80 ‘
■
Bertolucci “is the author of several
books, including Prayers and Blessings for Daily Life in
Christ
(with Fr. Michael Scanlan, TOR)”
[http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/707010/posts?page=22#22].
Bertolucci ==>> Wimber, J.
(/Vineyard)
■ “I studied leaders like … Father John
Bertolucci” [Wimber, Power Evangelism, p124,
quoted in Dager, The Vineyard, p14].
■ POST-1992: “I
had the pleasure off [sic] attending the Charismatic Conference in
■ Bertolucci is listed in the
‘Acknowledgments’ for Wimber’s book Power
Healing.
Boehme, Jakob /Leade, Jane [Click here for details of these names]
Boehme/Leade
==>> Alpha
■ INDIRECT: Gumbel quotes
■ INDIRECT: Gumbel quotes Paul Tillich
approvingly in Questions of Life [p21],
but Tillich “borrowed ideas from” Boehme [www.geometry.net/philosophers/boehme_Jacob_page_no_4.php].
Boehme/Leade ==>> Branham,
W. / LR
■ “The supposed, ‘Father of the Latter Rain’
George R. Hawtin (deceased) had a 32-volume set of journals he wrote from
1960-1982. I have every volume and Jane Leade’s prophecies are in there and
they are used by Hawtin as well as George H. Warnock, Bill Britton, Rick
Joyner, Clayt [sic] Sonmore, to proof-text the
MSOG/NOLR doctrine. They, I know, have simply plagiarized Boehme and Leade’s
writings.” [Researcher in
■ “Jane Leade’s
1619/1679 (false) prophetic article is found verbatim in Hawtin's writings ...
[See] Hawtin, George R. ‘The New Attitude’ in Treasures of Truth: Here is the Mind That Hath Wisdom, Vol 9, pp.
103-106. Treasures of Truth,
■
The books of the central Latter Rainer, George Hawtin, include lengthy
excerpts from the writings of Boehme and Leade [Researcher in
■
INDIRECT: Royal Cronquist’s widow admitted in a phone call to U.S. researcher
[above] that Royal knew FROM HIS COLLEGE DAYS that the NOLR was based on the
doctrines and teachings of Jane Leade! (Cronquist knew the Latter Rainer George
Warnock “quite well”) [Phonecall to Darlene Cronquist,
May 29th 2003].
■ “I have
… copies of letters from Warnock stating that he knew about Jane Leade and
believed her prophetic declarations were genuinely from God for the times we
are living in” [Researcher in U.S., email
on file].
Boehme/Leade ==>> Fox, G. /Quakers
■ “Fox and the Quakers espoused Boehme’s
alchemistical and astrological cosmology” [Researcher in
■ “Jakob Boehme –
German mystic and theosophist who founded modern theosophy; influenced George
Fox (1575-1624)” [http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Jakob%20Boehme].
■ “Fox was one of those who were influenced by
Boehme” [http://.gospelcom.net.chi/DAILYF/2002/04/daily-04-24-2002.shtml].
■ “Jacob Boehme’s Books were the chief books
that the Quakers bought, for there is the Principle of Foundation of their
Religion.” A Looking Glass for George Fox,
1667, p. 5. [quoted by
www.bartleby.com/219/1203.html]. Also,
“This passage [by Fox] which records a striking personal experience is undated.
It is strangely like an experience of the great German mystic, Jacob Boehme,
whose works were published in
■ “Boehme was highly influential on subsequent
thinkers, including … George Fox”
[http://www.hermetic.com/sabazius/boehme.htm].
■ “For the influence of Boehme on Fox … see
studies in Mystical Religion,
pp494-5; cf., also, Fox’s Journal for
1648, 8th ed., vol.I, pp28-9, with Boehme’s Three Principles, cap. XX, §§ 39-42; also, life of J. B.
in “Law’s edition,” vol. I, p. xiii, or the Signatura
Rerum.” [www.bartelby.com/219/1203.html].
Boehme/Leade ==>> Freemasons
■ “Boehme’s teachings were also influential in
the development of high grade Freemasonry”
[http://www/hermetic.com/sabazius/boehme.htm].
Boehme/Leade ==>> Hall, F.
■ “Franklin Hall plagiarized Jane Leade’s
prophecies” [Reseacher in
Boehme/Leade ==>> Jung, C.
■ Jung positively cited Boehme dozens of times in his
works. [Donivan Bessinger, Index of
citations of Jakob Boehme in the Collected Works of Carl G. Jung, http://users.aol.com/DoniBess/boehjung.htm].
■
“[I]t
was in Jung’s writings that I discovered the rare letter written from John
Pordage (1607-1681) to Jane Leade (1623-1704) explaining ... how to alter her
state of consciousness” [Researcher in
Boehme/Leade
==>> Schuller,
R.
■
INDIRECT:
Grubb was a huge fan of Boehme, yet Grubb appeared with Schuller on the
latter’s ‘Hour of Power’ show in about 1991.
Schuller called Grubb “a living legend” and, in an interview of Grubb,
Schuller neither expressed nor showed any problem whatsoever with what Grubb
was saying [www.normangrubb.com].
Branham, William /LR [Click here for details of this name]
Branham/LR ==>> Cain, P. /KCP
■ Paul Cain’s mentor was William Branham
[Roger Oakland, op. cit., p77].
■ Cain was part of the
‘Latter Rain’ group of the mid 20th
century [{}].
■ “As a young man in
the 1950s, Cain toured the country with William Branham” [Hilborn, op.
cit., p9].
■ “Cain once called
Branham ‘The greatest prophet who EVER lived in any of my generations’” [Hank Hanegraaff, Counterfeit Revival,
(Word, 1997), p134].
■ “I know that our Lord has been very gracious to us this week, ... I want to say that a young minister, Mr. Cain, I believe it’s, if I’m not mistaken, Paul Cain, is going to continue the revival on, beginning tomorrow night at the regular time, I guess, of seven-thirty. You’re all accordingly invi—cordially invited out to Brother Cain’s meeting ... I pray that it’ll continue on and on as Brother Cain and these other ministers are ministering ... I pray Thee, Father, to be with Brother Cain as he ministers on here in this platform” [W. Branham, ‘Believe Ye That I Can Do This?’, nathan.co.za].
■
Cain became Branham’s understudy [Bill Jackson, The Quest for the Radical
Middle, p182].
■
Vineyard admits that the “parallels between [the LR] and Paul Cain’s message to
the Vineyard” are “striking” [
■
“For
quite a while I have been embarrassed to say anything about the latter rain,
because you are associated and identified with something that people don’t seem
to appreciate in certain evangelical circles. So I have played it cool and
haven’t said much about it. But I don’t care what they think any more... I believe we are going to have the latter rain and I am looking
forward to it” (Paul Cain, Toronto church on May 28, 1995) [DITC website].
■
Bickle says “there have been a lot of ANOINTED people who came to hold strange
doctrines. Their constituency bought into the false assumption that a person
whom GOD uses in a GENUINE prophetic or healing ministry must be 100%
doctrinally correct. The most notable example in recent history is William
Branham” Bickle, Growing in the Prophetic, p72 – italics in original].
■
POSSIBLY POST-1992: Bickle writes: “A prophet of the stature similar to those
in the Old Testament would face incredible temptations and pressures.
William Branham’s prophetic ministry … was so unique that he came to be revered
by some on a level with the Old Testament prophets Elijah and Elisha … Branham
himself, wanting to be a teacher [instead of staying a prophet!], ended up
promoting certain heresies [as if his ministry had previously been
sound!].” Bickle then goes on to
strongly indicate he sees Branham as one of God’s “prophetic people” and as a
“prophet”, rather than as a FALSE prophet, and merely that “doctrinal errors …
developed … at the END of his life” [Growing in the Prophetic, p118].
Branham/LR ==>>
Copeland, K. /Hagin, K.
■ Hagin
ministered “in the circles of … Branham”[McConnell
, op. cit., p60] and was “heavily influenced by his peers, …
[including] William Branham” [McConnell, op. cit., p69].
■ Branham naturally
supported Hagin’s ‘prosperity’ teaching [Hilborn, op. cit., p10].
■ McConnell, op.
cit., also shows the influence of OTHER Latter-Rain leaders on Hagin! {}
■ Hagin and Copeland are central to the Word-Faith movement which “coexisted with, and grew out of the Latter Rain movement ... [It also] tends to ... hold to the primary doctrines put forward by William Branham ... [M]ost leaders in this [WoF] movement uphold Branham as a man of God or prophet” [Tom and Sheila Smith, op. cit.].
■ “[B]oth Kenneth Copeland and
Kenneth Hagin point to T.L. Osborn and William
Branham as true men of God who greatly influenced their lives and
ministries” [Hank Hanegraaff, CRI STATEMENT DC755-1, ‘WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE
FAITH MOVEMENT (Part One)’, www.equip.org/free/DC755-1.htm].
■ INDIRECT: “RHB [a product of Hagin’s Rhema Schools] praises Branham as a great man of God, and the Latter Rain movement as a move of the spirit” [www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/4948/vine3is5.html].
■ “Kenneth Hagin
claims that Branham’s prophecies and thought reading were absolutely accurate
... [A]fter Branham’s weird doctrines came out, all Pentecostals distanced
themselves from him except Kenneth Hagin.
Hagin claimed Branham was a true Biblical prophet” [Steve Van Nattan,
http://www.blessedquietness.com/journal/housechu/branham.htm].
■ “The First Assemblies of God, I believe it is, is having a--a revival,
and morning meetings also, by some evangelist. And I don’t remember just what
the brother’s name is now, but I heard about him. Brother Hagin? [Someone says,
“Hagin.”--Ed.] Hagin? Brother
Hagin is holding a revival at the (Is that the First Assembly?) First Assemblies of God. And I’ve met their pastor, a fine
man. ... Hear the brother. I’ve never met him, but he’s my brother anyhow,
whether I’ve met him or not” [W. Branham, ‘Jehovah-Jireh’, nathan.co.za].>
■ “This morning I was at the Assemblies of God church for the morning
meeting, where we had a lovely service. I was listening at [sic] the evangelist
there. I can’t think of the man’s name. [Someone says, “Hagin.”--Ed.] Hagin, Brother Hagin. Very reliable teacher... ...Brother Hagin, this morning [was]
teaching on Divine healing, which had a marvelous message.
I sure appreciate it. My first time of knowing ever [sic] getting to shake
hands with the brother, but a mighty
fine man. [Why the efforts to appear not to know Hagin?!
- DP] [
Branham/LR
==>>
■ Latter Rain leader Ern
Baxter was a member of the FL5. Ern
Baxter was “an associate with William Branham’s healing ministry” [Dager, Vengeance is Ours, p62].
■ Ern Baxter was
William Branham’s secretary [McConnell,
■ “[T]he ‘
■ Member of the FL5, Derek
Prince, shared a platform with Branham in ’65. [See Derek Prince, Protection
From Deception booklet {}].
■ “George Warnock, who
wrote the ONLY systematic teaching from the Latter Rain (The Feast of Tabernacles), was Ern Baxter’s personal secretary” [A Second Pentecost?, by Orrel Steinkamp,
banner.org.uk].
Branham/LR
==>> Fuller
TS
■ “I was having a service at Charles Fuller...
with Charles Fuller, over in