The prophet's dictionary guide to the supernatural

religions whose roots date back to ancient Egypt, Babylon, and Sumeria. They stress meditation to get in touch with one’s self and to allow the invisible forces and powers of nature scouting for human agents to locate and enter them. Usually yoga plays a great role in this scheme. Through meditation they exercise their spiritual gifts and intrude into the spheres of the supernatural. Chanting, yoga, and spiritually seductive music are primary means of achieving these ends. Founded by Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and refined by Alice Bailey, New Agers see themselves as the answer to humanity’s ails and conduits of the spiritual powers of creation seeking to seat themselves in the heart and soul of humanity’s world societies and governments. See Yoga. 931. New Birth—The process of God by which the Holy Spirit transforms and removes people’s old human spirits and hearts and installs the new ones from Christ’s nature in their place. 932. New Creation—The race of humans who through the new birth have become citizens of the kingdom of God. They are the adopted sons and daughters of the Father God through His Son Jesus Christ. 933. Niche—The sanctuary habitation of the god of the temple. The supposed dwelling place of the guardians of the faith. Reminiscent of the cleft of the rock residence of the gods of the nomadic era. See Cleft of the Rock. 934. Nicolas—The people’s victor. Victor of the people. 935. Nile—A major river in Egypt. Symbolically, it was associated with the Milky Way by ancient religious astronomers. The word means “dark blue.” 936. Nimbus—Latin for cloud. A word for the halo around a deity or a saint. 937. Nimrod—The son of Cush and founder of the four oldest cities of the world. They were Babel (Babylonia), Erech (Uruk), Accad (Akkad), and Calneh (Nippur). These were all in the Bible described in Genesis 10:10 as the land of Shinar, a code name for ancient Babylonia. In addition to being Ham’s grandson, Nimrod was also the great-grandson of Noah. Nimrod’s ruling territories extended to Assyria, another ancient city and civilization that influenced and troubled the people of God. His name designates him as a tyrannical warrior who governed his lands with cruelty and rebellion against the Most High God. He was apparently bent on establishing himself as god and instituting religious forms and worship that deposed the Lord God in the minds of His creatures.