Center for Spiritual Awareness, Christian Spiritual Alliance

By: Dr. John Ankerberg, Dr. John Weldon; ©1999

Roy E. Davis-The Center for Spiritual Awareness claims to be a vanguard movement for the New Age of enlightenment.

 

Roy E. Davis-Center for Spiritual Awareness, Christian Spiritual Alliance

Info at a Glance

Name: Roy Eugene Davis and the Center for Spiritual Awareness/Christian Spiritual Alliance (CSA).

Purpose: To serve as a catalyst for ushering in the “New Age.”

Founder: Roy Eugene Davis.

Source of authority: The writings of Paramahansa Yogananda, Roy Davis, Masaharu Taniguichi and various New Thought writers.

Revealed teachings: Yes.

Claim: To be a vanguard movement for the New Age of enlightenment.

Examples of occult potential: Meditation; psychic development.

Key literature: Various books by Roy Eugene Davis: This Is Reality; :Time Space and Circumstance; Creative Imagination; With God We Can; :The Vision of Light.

Attitude toward Christianity: Rejecting

Quotes:

• “To those who need Jesus as a god, the virgin birth concept helps them maintain their illusions” (Roy Eugene Davis, The Hidden Teachings of Jesus Revealed, p. 51).

• “We are all incarnations of God”; “We are what God is” (Davis, Truth Journal, DecemberJanuary 1977-1978, p. 5; With God We Can, p. 213).

Doctrinal Summary

God: Brahman; impersonal energy.

Jesus: A man who attained realization of oneness with Spirit.

The Christ: A state of mystical consciousness.

The Holy Spirit: Creative vibration/Lord Shiva.

The Trinity: Being, Consciousness, Bliss; Brahma, Vishu, Shiva.

Salvation: By occult meditation and higher consciousness.

Man: Inwardly divine.

Sin: Error; lower consciousness.

Satan: Illusion or maya.

The Second Coming: Awakening in higher consciousness.

The Fall: Into matter.

The Bible: A usable source of information when interpreted mystically.

Death: Transition to the next life or level of spiritual advancement.

Heaven and Hell: Higher or lower states of mind.