The Cultists Click here to jump to the links on this page. Click here to go to our page of Creeds, Confessions, and Catechisms. Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things. Mormons look to Joseph Smith, Christian Scientists to Mary Baker Eddy, Jehovah's Witnesses to Charles Taze Russell , and so on.
Most modern cults echo the errors of ancient heretics .
Jehovah's witnesses are simply latter-day Arians, and Christian Science is a variety of Gnosticism. The proliferation of new cults in recent years mirrors the rampant varieties of Gnosticism in the second century. The Life of Emanuel Swedenborg Swedenborg was an eighteenth-century philosopher who blended occult mysticism with Christian terminology. With the rise of the New Age Movement, Swedenborgianism is currently undergoing a revival of popularity. This site has links to various resources on the history of this movement and the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg.