FOLLOWING THAT STAR AGAIN -

In the book Communion Whitley Strieber makes mention of the idea of "transformation" (also the title of his next book about the visitors). The idea was that the way to Christ is lit by the "Star of Bethlehem" or in Babylonian ISHTAR. Lots of mention is made about the triple goddess (shades of Robert Graves who doesn't even get a byline in this novel/autobiography). He also mentions Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego as having "followed the path of transformation". As if these "Hebrew children" honestly were following the path of Ishtar of the Babylonians of whom they were captives. Just doesn't make much sense does it?

As in ALL hermetic or gnostic tradtions, from which much of modern occultism draws its roots, this transformation is mysterious and in the case of the visitors to Streiber downright malevolent and dark. This idea is surfacing in a number of trends such as the Da Vinci Code. But contrast the sexual assaults and bodily and mental harm done by the aliens, which Strieber hopes will lead to some kind of "transformation" or evolution, with that which happens to simplest soul who comes to Christ for forgiveness:

2Cor 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

You see the misunderstanding is that these other traditions believe the transformation is mystical, something not to be understood by the mind. But TRUE Christianity is involved with the moral soul, and we are in deep need of forgiveness, security and hope beyond the grave.

Once this "door" is opened, the glories of Heaven and God break in the waiting soul...