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| | New Age Movement: Reversion to Paganism |
 | | Herein this term includes (but is not necessarily limited to) classical idolatry, pantheism, neo-pantheism, and Eastern faiths (e.g., Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Yoga, Jainism, Shintoism, as well as numerous forms of occultism). |
 | | Gaining prominence in the NAM, refers to the doctrine that imagines the deity as merely an intelligent force or “Natural Law” immanent within nature –not separate from it– that causes everything to exist and function. |
 | | Unlike classical pantheism, this view does not deify the physical world itself, but rather the “Universal Life-force Energy” they imagine animates it. |
| www.jewsformorality.org /pagan_resurgence.htm (1027 words) |
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