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The Powers Behind Alpha, Vineyard & the ‘TE’

 

- Link Data -

 

This page is the repository for all information regarding the chart entitled

The Dragnet Behind Alpha, Vineyard, ‘Purpose-Driven’, ‘Toronto’ etc.

(Click to view the chart here but please note: you will need to use your “back arrow” to return to this page.)

 

This page currently comprises the following three sections:

 

Introduction

1) Extra Links Omitted From Chart

2) How To Use The Table of Links

3) Table of Links Between Names

 

Introduction

Some of the links in the table are included because someone has quoted another person favourably.  The 'acceptability' of quoting idolaters is invariably based on the solitary occasion when the apostle Paul, speaking at the Areopagus, quoted a pagan poet (Acts 17:28).  But this overlooks two crucial points:  Firstly, Paul did not quote this heathen poet (note that he was not quoting a heathen teacher) when instructing Christians but when EVANGELIZING PAGANS.  These are fundamentally different activities.  Secondly, Paul made clear that the poet in question was one of "your own" - i.e. someone who, like the rest of them, needed to "repent" (v30) and be saved.  (It is also surely relevant that Paul did not NAME the poet he was quoting.)  As far as we have been able to ascertain, none of the people in our chart have made this point alongside their quotes.  Indeed, there is usually no warning given at all.

 

It is bad enough to cite idolaters as sources of wisdom for Christians.  (Can people really not find any Christian sources for the points they want to make?)  It is even worse to fail to give a warning and disclaimer about that person’s idolatry.

 

 

1) Extra Links Omitted From Chart

The following are known links that had to be omitted from the chart for topological or readability reasons.  Data for each of these links is included in the table below.

 

 

 

There are many further instances of influence/co-operation that have only occurred after 1992 (so far as we can determine).  Please see the full table below for details.

 

Notes:

*Any links in the following table which do not appear on the chart itself, nor in the above table, are given in black and/or italics (see below for more).  Any lack of strong connections can therefore be ignored for these entries.

* Orange, non-italic = includes at least one direct pre-1992 connection (only orange, non-itaicl links are shown on the chart).

* Orange, italic = no DIRECT pre-1992 connection, but at least one INDIRECT pre-1992 connection.

* Black, non-italic = no pre-1992 connections of any type, but at least one direct POST-1992 connection.

* Black italic = only INDIRECT, POST-1992 connections found so far.

* We do know of probable additional links, but the evidence we have collected for them is not yet conclusive enough.  Although the data for these probable links is included in the table below, we will not add the relevant arrow to the chart (or the above table) until sufficient further evidence is found.

* We have included some solid indirect connection data in the table in support of direct connections, and this subsidiary data is clearly marked ‘INDIRECT’.

* Connections that are known to have taken place after 1992 are also included (clearly marked ‘POST-1992’) to show that this ungodly alliance is still very much in place.

* We are in the process of adding data for the various connections between each name (especially extant ones) and HTB/Alpha.  See the entries ‘[Name] ==>> Alpha’ for the data we have added thus far.

 

 

2) How To Use The Table of Links

From the chart, pick a link in which you are interested.  Identify which bubble includes the start of the relevant arrow.  Read the text in the bubble and simply find that name on the far left hand side in the following, alphabetically arranged list.  You will be presented with the topmost entries of all the links that start from that name.  Simply scroll through the list of links until you find the particular one you are interested in.  There you will find all connections we currently know of between the two names.

 

(Please Note: The names in the table are always listed alphabetically.  Please also beware of the accent on the end of Renovaré when searching this page electronically.  Please also note that INDIRECT links can be found through looking at the data linking intermediate bubbles between two names.)

 

 

3) Table of Links Between Names

As far as we are aware, NONE of these connections came with caveats.  For example, we have yet to note a single name on the chart who repudiates any aspect of the ministry of another name when quoting that other name.  We define the difference between cooperation and association as follows: Attending a conference as an observer, where one of the speakers is apostate is one thing.  Sharing the platform with him/her and failing to expose them for what they are, is quite another!  Quoting them is one thing.  Giving their NAME, but no disclaimer about their other beliefs is another.

 

Notes: (a) These are just the overt or undeniable links - how many extra, hidden ones are there? (b) In many cases the primary source reference is available from the cited source. (c) Critics of this table may be able to find a handful of links they believe to be arguable, but, even if they do so, that will still leave over 95% for them to explain away. (d) All emphases are our own unless otherwise stated. (e) Where you see “linked to HTB”, please see the extra table at the end of this page for details.

 

 

We hope shortly to provide some biographies - to show just how amazingly unchristian the names in this list are.  In the meantime, you can find out about these people from websites like: www.deceptioninthechurch.com/page3.html  or  www.banner.org.uk  or  www.gospelcom.net/aplogeticsindex.  And, for certain people in the chart, www.letusreason.org/Popteach.htm (for Schuller and Copeland), www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/exposes (for Copeland, Hagin and Wimber), www.cultlink.com/archives.htm (for the Sandfords), http://www.blessedquietness.com/journal/housechu/branham.htm (for Branham), and

http://www.geocities.com/endtimedeception/robert.htm (for Schuller).  Please note, however, that we do not necessarily endorse everything on these sites or even on the pages listed here.

 

 

Assagioli, Roberto [Click here for details of this name]    

Assagioli ==>>  Alpha

■ INDIRECT: HTB cooperates with Willow Creek, yet the former associate director of spiritual formation at Willow Creek trained at Shalem Prayer Institute and has Tilden Edwards on the back cover of her most recent book - both of these have Assagioli’s strong influence [Data from Lighthouse Trails].

■ INDIRECT, POSSIBLY POST-1992: HTB stocks the book Ruthless Trust by Brennan Manning.  This is a book which positively cites Gerald May - who promotes Assagioli’s teachings.

Assagioli ==>>  Foster, R./Renovaré

■ “[Tilden] Edwards leads the prestigious Shalem Prayer Institute [where Renovare’s William Vaswig studied]... In his book, Spiritual Friend, he [Edwards] suggests those who practice contemplative prayer ... should turn to a book entitled, Psychosynthesis, ... [by] world famous occultist, Roberto Assagioli” [Ray Yungen, A Time of Departing, {p}].

■ INDIRECT: Madeleine L’Engle was influenced by Assagioli, but Renovare quotes L’Engle very positively [Renovare’s Perspective magazine, April 1997 - Vol. 7, No. 2 - page 4].  Madeleine L’Engle is also quoted favourably on Page 205 of the 25^th Anniversary Edition of Foster’s book Celebration of Discipline [J. Sundquist].

■ INDIRECT: Gerald May, who influenced Renovare’s Vaswig, wrote a book called A Pilgrimage of Healing which was full of Assagioli’s transpersonal psychology [Ray Yungen, phone conversation with Dusty, 2004].  May was “one of Rev. Vaswig’s professors” [http://withchrist.org/MJS/renovare.htm].  It is MOST likely that May will have taught Vaswig about Assagioli.

■ “[A]n Esalen team visited Europe ... and discovered Roberto Assagioli’s psychosynthesis, ... This group then introduced Assagioli’s work to America. ... [At Esalen’s] second conference on “The Body and Spirituality” ... [participated] Sister Rose Mary Dougherty [a leader at the Shalem Institute where Renovare’s Vaswig studied] { }

■ INDIRECT: Assagioli strongly influenced Michael Murphy and others at Esalen (Murphy was a co-founder), and Esalen has strongly influenced Renovare (hence the latter’s endorsement of the Enneagram system devised by Esalen) { }

■ Gerald May is “number 2” at the Shalem Institute where Renovaré’s Vaswig studied, yet May makes extremely positive reference to Assagioli’s psychosynthesis movement [Ray Yungen, private phone conversation with Dusty].

Assagioli ==>>  Fox, G./Quakers

■ The Friends website http://fcrp.quaker.org/ contains pro-Assagioli material.  See for instance the ‘Views and Reviews’ in its magazine Inward Light, Vol XLVII, Nos. 101 and 102, Spring 1986 (as at http://fcrp.quaker.org/InwardLight101/101Reviews.html).

    Assagioli ==>>  Kelsey, M.

■ “Morton … tells us himself that one of his major influences was ‘the writings of … Roberto Assagioli’” [Morrison, op. cit., p433].

      Assagioli ==>>  Schuller, R.

■ INDIRECT: Gerald Jampolsky wrote “one of the groundbreaking classics in the transpersonal movement … Based on concepts from A Course in Miracles”.  Schuller has run A Course in Miracles and was endorsing Jampolsky as recently as 2004.

 

Bertolucci, John [Click here for details of this name]

     Bertolucci ==>> Alpha

■ INDIRECT: Bertolucci has cooperated with Yonggi-Cho – who has influenced HTB [{}].

■ INDIRECT: Bill Bright has influenced Alpha, yet “Speakers from Catholicism, mainline Protestant denominations and independent churches broke down the walls … at the Washington For Jesus Rally in Washington, D.C.  Pat Robertson, John Meares, Dr. Bill Bright, James Robinson and Jim Bakker shared the microphone with Catholic Fathers Randall and Bertalucci” [sic] [http://users.stargate.net/~ejt/founda1.htm].

      Bertolucci ==>> Kuhlman, K.

■ Bertolucci appeared on K's TV program.  The details are: video “V480 457 4/17/75” was of “Father J. Bertolucci. Same as V1074”. Audio tape “T1734 1975” is of “Father J. Bartolucci, [sic] TV 457. 883” {}

Bertolucci ==>> Scanlan, M.

■ “[Jerry] Falwell was also one of the speakers at the 4/80 ‘Washington for Jesus’ rally. Fellow speakers were Catholic priests John Bertolucci, John Randall, and Michael Scanlon [sic]” [John Beard, ‘Jerry Falwell: General Teachings/Activities’ www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/exposes/falwell/general.htm].

■ Bertolucci “is the author of several books, including Prayers and Blessings for Daily Life in

Christ (with Fr. Michael Scanlan, TOR)” [http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/707010/posts?page=22#22].

Bertolucci ==>> Wimber, J. (/Vineyard)

■ “I studied leaders like … Father John Bertolucci” [Wimber, Power Evangelism, p124, quoted in Dager, The Vineyard, p14].

■ POST-1992: “I had the pleasure off [sic] attending the Charismatic Conference in Steubenville in 1995, when Fr. John Bertolucci, [and], John Wimber … were there.” [www.cin.org/archives/cinchar/199808/0111.html].

■ Bertolucci is listed in the ‘Acknowledgments’ for Wimber’s book Power Healing.  

 

Boehme, Jakob /Leade, Jane [Click here for details of these names]

     Boehme/Leade ==>>  Alpha

■ INDIRECT: Gumbel quotes Newton approvingly and calls him a believer. {} but “Jacob Boehme was highly influential on subsequent thinkers, including Isaac Newton” [www.theliberatingsecret.com/Authors/Boehme/boehme.html].

■ INDIRECT: Gumbel quotes Paul Tillich approvingly in Questions of Life [p21], but Tillich “borrowed ideas from” Boehme [www.geometry.net/philosophers/boehme_Jacob_page_no_4.php].

    Boehme/Leade ==>>  Branham, W. / LR

■ “The supposed, ‘Father of the Latter Rain’ George R. Hawtin (deceased) had a 32-volume set of journals he wrote from 1960-1982. I have every volume and Jane Leade’s prophecies are in there and they are used by Hawtin as well as George H. Warnock, Bill Britton, Rick Joyner,  Clayt [sic] Sonmore, to proof-text the MSOG/NOLR doctrine. They, I know, have simply plagiarized Boehme and Leade’s writings.” [Researcher in U.S., personal email on file]

■ “Jane Leade’s 1619/1679 (false) prophetic article is found verbatim in Hawtin's writings ... [See] Hawtin, George R. ‘The New Attitude’ in Treasures of Truth: Here is the Mind That Hath Wisdom, Vol 9, pp. 103-106. Treasures of Truth, PO Box 99, Eagle, Idaho 83616.” [Researcher in U.S., personal email on file].

■ The books of the central Latter Rainer, George Hawtin, include lengthy excerpts from the writings of Boehme and Leade [Researcher in U.S., telephone conversation with DP].

■ INDIRECT: Royal Cronquist’s widow admitted in a phone call to U.S. researcher [above] that Royal knew FROM HIS COLLEGE DAYS that the NOLR was based on the doctrines and teachings of Jane Leade! (Cronquist knew the Latter Rainer George Warnock “quite well”) [Phonecall to Darlene Cronquist, May 29^th 2003].

■ “I have … copies of letters from Warnock stating that he knew about Jane Leade and believed her prophetic declarations were genuinely from God for the times we are living in” [Researcher in U.S., email on file].

Boehme/Leade ==>>  Fox, G. /Quakers

■ “Fox and the Quakers espoused Boehme’s alchemistical and astrological cosmology” [Researcher in U.S., personal email on file].

■ “Jakob Boehme – German mystic and theosophist who founded modern theosophy; influenced George Fox (1575-1624)” [http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Jakob%20Boehme].

■ “Fox was one of those who were influenced by Boehme” [http://.gospelcom.net.chi/DAILYF/2002/04/daily-04-24-2002.shtml].

■ “Jacob Boehme’s Books were the chief books that the Quakers bought, for there is the Principle of Foundation of their Religion.” A Looking Glass for George Fox, 1667, p. 5. [quoted by www.bartleby.com/219/1203.html].  Also, “This passage [by Fox] which records a striking personal experience is undated. It is strangely like an experience of the great German mystic, Jacob Boehme, whose works were published in England about the time Fox was beginning his missionary labors. … Muggleton, in his Looking Glass for G. Fox (second edition, 1756, page 10), says that the writings of Boehme are the “chief books” bought by the followers of Fox.” [www.raptureready.com/resource/fox/2.html]. 

■ “Boehme was highly influential on subsequent thinkers, including … George Fox” [http://www.hermetic.com/sabazius/boehme.htm].

■ “For the influence of Boehme on Fox … see studies in Mystical Religion, pp494-5; cf., also, Fox’s Journal for 1648, 8^th ed., vol.I, pp28-9, with Boehme’s Three Principles, cap. XX, §§ 39-42; also, life of J. B. in “Law’s edition,” vol. I, p. xiii, or the Signatura Rerum.” [www.bartelby.com/219/1203.html].

      Boehme/Leade ==>>  Freemasons

■ “Boehme’s teachings were also influential in the development of high grade Freemasonry” [http://www/hermetic.com/sabazius/boehme.htm].

Boehme/Leade ==>>  Hall, F.

■ “Franklin Hall plagiarized Jane Leade’s prophecies” [Reseacher in U.S., email on file].

Boehme/Leade ==>>  Jung, C.

■ Jung positively cited Boehme dozens of times in his works. [Donivan Bessinger, Index of citations of Jakob Boehme in the Collected Works of Carl G. Jung, http://users.aol.com/DoniBess/boehjung.htm].

■ “[I]t was in Jung’s writings that I discovered the rare letter written from John Pordage (1607-1681) to Jane Leade (1623-1704) explaining ... how to alter her state of consciousness” [Researcher in U.S., email on file].

      Boehme/Leade ==>>  Schuller, R.

■ INDIRECT: Grubb was a huge fan of Boehme, yet Grubb appeared with Schuller on the latter’s ‘Hour of Power’ show in about 1991.  Schuller called Grubb “a living legend” and, in an interview of Grubb, Schuller neither expressed nor showed any problem whatsoever with what Grubb was saying [www.normangrubb.com].

     

     

Branham, William /LR [Click here for details of this name]

     Branham/LR ==>>  Cain, P. /KCP

■ Paul Cain’s mentor was William Branham [Roger Oakland, op. cit., p77].

■ Cain was part of the ‘Latter Rain’ group of the mid 20^th century [{}].

■ “As a young man in the 1950s, Cain toured the country with William Branham” [Hilborn, op. cit., p9].

■ “Cain once called Branham ‘The greatest prophet who EVER lived in any of my generations’” [Hank Hanegraaff, Counterfeit Revival, (Word, 1997), p134].

■ “I know that our Lord has been very gracious to us this week, ... I want to say that a young minister, Mr. Cain, I believe it’s, if I’m not mistaken, Paul Cain, is going to continue the revival on, beginning tomorrow night at the regular time, I guess, of seven-thirty. You’re all accordingly invi—cordially invited out to Brother Cain’s meeting ... I pray that it’ll continue on and on as Brother Cain and these other ministers are ministering ... I pray Thee, Father, to be with Brother Cain as he ministers on here in this platform” [W. Branham, ‘Believe Ye That I Can Do This?’, nathan.co.za].

■ Cain became Branham’s understudy [Bill Jackson, The Quest for the Radical Middle, p182].

■ Vineyard admits that the “parallels between [the LR] and Paul Cain’s message to the Vineyard” are “striking” [Jackson, op. cit., p187].

■ “For quite a while I have been embarrassed to say anything about the latter rain, because you are associated and identified with something that people don’t seem to appreciate in certain evangelical circles. So I have played it cool and haven’t said much about it. But I don’t care what they think any more... I believe we are going to have the latter rain and I am looking forward to it” (Paul Cain, Toronto church on May 28, 1995) [DITC website].

■ Bickle says “there have been a lot of ANOINTED people who came to hold strange doctrines. Their constituency bought into the false assumption that a person whom GOD uses in a GENUINE prophetic or healing ministry must be 100% doctrinally correct. The most notable example in recent history is William Branham” Bickle, Growing in the Prophetic, p72 – italics in original].

■ POSSIBLY POST-1992: Bickle writes: “A prophet of the stature similar to those in the Old Testament would face incredible temptations and pressures. William Branham’s prophetic ministry … was so unique that he came to be revered by some on a level with the Old Testament prophets Elijah and Elisha … Branham himself, wanting to be a teacher [instead of staying a prophet!], ended up promoting certain heresies [as if his ministry had previously been sound!].”  Bickle then goes on to strongly indicate he sees Branham as one of God’s “prophetic people” and as a “prophet”, rather than as a FALSE prophet, and merely that “doctrinal errors … developed … at the END of his life” [Growing in the Prophetic, p118].

     Branham/LR ==>>  Copeland, K. /Hagin, K.

■ Hagin ministered “in the circles of … Branham”[McConnell , op. cit., p60] and was “heavily influenced by his peers, … [including] William Branham” [McConnell, op. cit., p69].

■ Branham naturally supported Hagin’s ‘prosperity’ teaching [Hilborn, op. cit., p10].

■ McConnell, op. cit., also shows the influence of OTHER Latter-Rain leaders on Hagin! {}

■ Hagin and Copeland are central to the Word-Faith movement which “coexisted with, and grew out of the Latter Rain movement ... [It also] tends to ... hold to the primary doctrines put forward by William Branham ... [M]ost leaders in this [WoF] movement uphold Branham as a man of God or prophet” [Tom and Sheila Smith, op. cit.].

■ “[B]oth Kenneth Copeland and Kenneth Hagin point to T.L. Osborn and William Branham as true men of God who greatly influenced their lives and ministries” [Hank Hanegraaff, CRI STATEMENT DC755-1, ‘WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE FAITH MOVEMENT (Part One)’, www.equip.org/free/DC755-1.htm].

■ INDIRECT: “RHB [a product of Hagin’s Rhema Schools] praises Branham as a great man of God, and the Latter Rain movement as a move of the spirit” [www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/4948/vine3is5.html].

■ “Kenneth Hagin claims that Branham’s prophecies and thought reading were absolutely accurate ... [A]fter Branham’s weird doctrines came out, all Pentecostals distanced themselves from him except Kenneth Hagin. Hagin claimed Branham was a true Biblical prophet” [Steve Van Nattan, http://www.blessedquietness.com/journal/housechu/branham.htm].
■ “The First Assemblies of God, I believe it is, is having a--a revival, and morning meetings also, by some evangelist. And I don’t remember just what the brother’s name is now, but I heard about him. Brother Hagin? [Someone says, “Hagin.”--Ed.] Hagin? Brother Hagin is holding a revival at the (Is that the First Assembly?) First Assemblies of God. And I’ve met their pastor, a fine man. ... Hear the brother. I’ve never met him, but he’s my brother anyhow, whether I’ve met him or not” [W. Branham, ‘Jehovah-Jireh’, nathan.co.za].>
■ “This morning I was at the Assemblies of God church for the morning meeting, where we had a lovely service. I was listening at [sic] the evangelist there. I can’t think of the man’s name. [Someone says, “Hagin.”--Ed.] Hagin, Brother Hagin. Very reliable teacher... ...Brother Hagin, this morning [was] teaching on Divine healing, which had a marvelous message. I sure appreciate it. My first time of knowing ever [sic] getting to shake hands with the brother, but a mighty fine man. [Why the efforts to appear not to know Hagin?! - DP] [W. Branham, ‘Glorified Jesus’, nathan.co.za].

    Branham/LR ==>>  Fort Lauderdale 5

■ Latter Rain leader Ern Baxter was a member of the FL5.  Ern Baxter was “an associate with William Branham’s healing ministry” [Dager, Vengeance is Ours, p62].

■ Ern Baxter was William Branham’s secretary [McConnell, 

■ “[T]he ‘Fort Lauderdale Five’ ... were joined by John Poole, another Latter Rain adherent. Together thesemen established a group for ecumenical renewal.” [Derek Owers, ‘The Charismatic Movement’, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/slamthedoor/message/28961?source=1].

■ Member of the FL5, Derek Prince, shared a platform with Branham in ’65. [See Derek Prince, Protection From Deception booklet {}].

■ “George Warnock, who wrote the ONLY systematic teaching from the Latter Rain (The Feast of Tabernacles), was Ern Baxter’s personal secretary” [A Second Pentecost?, by Orrel Steinkamp, banner.org.uk].    

    Branham/LR ==>>  FullerTS

■ “I was having a service at Charles Fuller... with Charles Fuller, over in Long Beach. If any of you was there, you know how many was in there.” [W. Branham, ‘Diseases and Afflictions’, nathan.co.za]

■ “Men such as Billy Graham, and Jack Schuller, Oral Roberts, and many of the great evangelists, and Charles Fuller, who has an outreach to the whole world, they do everything that they can to warn the coming of the Lord.” [W.Branham, ‘The Sudden, Secret Going Away of the Church’, nathan.co.za]

■ Fuller is called a ‘brother’ in other Branham talks including ‘Faith is the Substance’, and ‘Discernment of Spirit’ (both viewable at nathan.co.za).

      Branham/LR ==>>  Pytches, D.

■ Pytches implies that Branham was part of the true church and, by placing Branham alongside people of whom Pytches is known to approve (e.g. MacNutt), he endorses Branham’s ministry [D.Pytches, Come, Holy Spirit, p163]. 

     Branham/LR ==>>  Wimber, J. (/Vineyard)

■ Wimber has said: “I believe the Church of Jesus Christ … has been weighed and judged in this generation. And instead of learning from our predecessors from the Latter-day Rain Movement [sic] … we have allowed the enemy to come in and distract and take away the passion of God, and rob it out of our lives” [Dager, Vengeance is Ours, p157].

■ “‘I … picked up literature written by or about men like … William Branham … Their writings … did convince me that they were not frauds’” [Wimber, Power Evangelism, 1992, p84, as quoted in Dager, The Vineyard, p1].

■ Vineyard’s Jack Deere has extolled the work of Branham [Hanegraaff, Counterfeit Revival, (Word Publishing, 1997), p137].

■ Vineyard leader Bill Jackson promotes Branham and defends the LR [Jackson, The Quest for the Radical Middle., pp28,182,183-187].

■ Vineyard admits that the parallels between the Latter Rain and Paul Cain’s message to the Vineyard are “striking” [Jackson, op. cit., p187].

■ Vineyard’s Bill Jackson, in a book endorsed by the Vineyard leadership, says William Branham was the “premier” healer of the post-war period [Jackson, op. cit., p182].  According to Jackson, Branham only embraced “errors” rather than heresies [Ibid], and only did so later in his ministry.

■ Vineyard’s Bill Jackson, in a book published by the Vineyard, claims that the “Latter rain” saw a true, and “powerful”, revival and that “The Spirit of GOD” fell on its students [Jackson, op. cit., p183].

 

Cain, Paul /KCP [Click here for details of this name]

    Cain/KCP ==>>  Alpha

■ “[T]he KCP, headed by Cain, ministered … at Holy Trinity, Brompton” - this occurred the very year Gumbel took over Alpha (1990) [Stephen Hunt, Anyone For Alpha?, (Darton, Longman and Todd, 2001), p25].

■ Sandy Millar signed a statement in 1990 declaring that he had “no doubt about the validity” of KCP’s ministry [Hilborn, op. cit., p13].

■ “John Wimber, affirmed in his in-house magazine Equipping the Saints that - in July 1990, in front of 1,000 church leaders at Holy Trinity Brompton - Cain stated: ‘Thus saith the Lord: Revival will be released in England in October of 1990…’” [Fearon, op. cit, p83].

■ “[T]he Kansas City Prophets came to HTB … in 1991” to a conference on prophecy [The Collection, p198].  The KCP come out very well from the reference to them in this HTB book.

■ Mike Bickle’s glowing endorsement of Alpha and of Gumbel is included in Gumbel’s book Telling Others, p15 (2001).

■ POST-1992: HTB stocks the book Needless Casualties of War by the KCP’s John Paul Jackson.

■ POST-1992: HTB stocks the Mike Bickle book Passion for Jesus.

■ POST-1992: Millar’s endorsement of Bickle’s book Growing in the Prophetic appears on the front cover of the first edition.

■ POST-1992: Millar shared a platform with the KCPs in 2003 [new-wine-scotland.org].

■ POST-1992: HTB promotes, and HTB’s newspaper has carried a number of adverts for, conferences involving Francis Frangipane and Rick Joyner, both of whom were members of the KCP.

■ POST-1992: Floyd McClung is the senior pastor of Metro and he has influenced Gumbel.

■ POST-1992: Millar was still endorsing Cain in 1998 [UKFocus, Nov 1998, pUK2].

     Cain/KCP ==>>  Kraft, C.

■ Both Cain and Kraft participated at the 1990 ‘North American Congress on the Holy Spirit & World Evangelism’ [Cloud].

    Cain/KCP ==>>  MacNutt, F.

■ “This past July [of 1990] we had the wonderful opportunity to meet several of the so-called “Kansas City prophets” ... We were at a conference in London directed by John Wimber, who introduced us to Bob Jones and John Paul Jackson who spent half an hour prophesying in our regard” [‘Excerpts of a Prophecy’, by Francis MacNutt, taken from the November 1990 issue (of Christian Healing’s newsletter)].

■ “[P]rophecies [were] given by Bob Jones and John Paul Jackson for Francis and Judith MacNutt on July 12, 1990 at Holy Trinity Brompton Anglican Church”[‘Excerpts of a Prophecy’, by Francis MacNutt, taken from the November 1990 issue (of Christian Healing’s newsletter)].

     Cain/KCP ==>>  Pytches, D.

■ Pytches wrote an entire book in defence of the KCP entitled Some Said It Thundered (Hodder and Stoughton, 1990).  See Eric Wright, Strange Fire?, for more. {}

■ POST-1992: Pytches wrote the Foreword for Bickle’s 1995 book ‘Growing in the Prophetic’.

    Cain/KCP ==>>  Sandford, J./P.

■ The Foreword to the book Needless Casualties of War (author: John Paul Jackson of the KCP) was written by John Sandford.

■ POST-1992: The website of the Sandford’s ministry ‘Elijah House’ stocks the book Breaking Free of Rejection by the KCP’s John Paul Jackson.

    Cain/KCP ==>>  Wagner, C. P.

■ POST-1992: “A release from The Wagner Institute for Practical Ministry ...  Mobilizing the Prophetic Office for the Next Century January 28 -30, 1999: Paul Cain - New Speaker! … We have just been informed that Paul Cain, who is internationally renowned and respected, will be joining us for the key gathering” [www.cephas-library.com/apostles_unity_at_the_end.html].

■ POST-1992: “Today, if you visit the World Prayer Center … established and directed by Peter Wagner, you will find the works of … the Kansas City prophets” [XOFC article on Wagner { }].

■ POST-1992: CPW was joined by Paul Cain and Rick Joyner as speakers at a conference in January 1999 [XOFC article on Wagner { }].

■ INDIRECT: Weiner has worked with CPW, yet Paul Cain spoke at Maranatha’s conference in San Antonio, Texas, in December 1989.  Also, during 1990, Weiner and his family were planning to spend time with various ministers, including Mike Bickle. [‘Maranatha Revamps Church Structure’, Charisma and Christian Life, March 1990, pp21-22, coutesy of researcher in U.S.].

    Cain/KCP ==>>  Wimber, J. (/Vineyard)

■ At the meeting between Cain and Wimber in 1988, “Cain carries with him a warning for Wimber and the Vineyard. The essence of his message is that Wimber must give greater priority to holiness within the movement … Wimber takes this as a word from God, and decides from now on to forge a close association with KCF” [Hilborn, op. cit., p12]

■ “At a Vineyard conference held in Denver in August 1989, Wimber voiced his desire that every Vineyard pastor present should allow the KCF prophets to minister to them” [Dager, Vengeance is Ours, p157.  See also Dager, The Vineyard, p16].

■ As far back as 1982 David Parker was on Bickle’s staff and has since become the pastor of a large Vineyard Church in Lancaster, California [Bickle, Growing in the Prophetic, p22].

■ Bickle says: “John Wimber asked me to pray for the gift of prophecy to be imparted to people at the 1989 Vineyard Conference in Anaheim” – and he did so [Bickle, Growing in the Prophetic, p142].

■ “John Paul Jackson is a prophetic minister who was on the pastoral staff of Metro Vineyard Fellowship for about five years and then with John Wimber and the Vineyard Christian Fellowship in Anaheim for another three years” [Bickle, Growing in the Prophetic, p146].

■ POST-1992: Sam Storms joined Bickle’s staff in 1993 and attended a Vineyard conference in 1994.

■ POST 1992: Bob Mumford and Paul Cain were both featured speakers at a Vineyard Conference held in Minneapolis [Tricia Tillin, “THE NEW THING” Part3a, www.banner.org.uk/res/newthi3a.html].

 

 

Carter-Stapleton, Ruth [Click here for details of this name - TO BE DONE]

      Carter-Stapleton ==>>  Alpha

■ INDIRECT: Ruth’s brother, Jimmy Carter comes out very well from Gumbel’s comments and quotes in Challenging Lifestyle, pp210-11.

■ INDIRECT: Gumbel’s pal, Bill Bright, has worked with Jimmy Carter [Burns, op.cit., p85].

     Carter-Stapleton ==>>  Schuller, R.

■ INDIRECT: “[A] Georgia Dome crusade featured … Jimmy Carter [Ruth’s brother] … [and] Robert Schuller” [Burns, op. cit., p95].

     Carter-Stapleton ==>>  Wimber, J. (/Vineyard)

■ “Wimber cites in his teachings: … Ruth Carter Stapleton” [Al Dager, The Vineyard, p12].

■ In his book, Power healing, Wimber writes that he studied “the theologies and practices of leaders from different schools of divine healing” applying what he “learnt from these models to our situation in the Vineyard Christian Fellowship”.  In the accompanying footnote he writes: “Almost every model I studied offered some insight into divine healing,…”  Amongst the leaders of these “schools” and “models” he lists are … Ruth Carter-Stapleton [Wimber, Power Healing, pp182, 292-293].

■ Wimber cites Ruth Carter-Stapleton as a true DIVINE healer [Power Healing, p293].

 

Copeland, Kenneth /Hagin, Kenneth [Click here for details of these names]

Copeland/Hagin ==>> Alpha

■ HTB still stocks Wimber’s book Power Healing, and this book is advertised in Alpha News, #19, p32, yet it directly promotes Copeland and Hagin by name.  This book formed an item of recommended reading on early versions of Alpha (i.e. pre-1995), since it is listed in the recommended reading in the White (1993) Alpha Manual for attendees.

■ INDIRECT: HTB endorsed Paul Cain [David Hilborn, A Chronicle of the Toronto Blessing and Related Events, as published by the Evangelical Alliance (UK), p136], who has shared a platform with Kenneth Hagin [Charisma Magazine, July 1989, p27, as quoted in Roger Oakland, New Wine or Old Deception? (The Word for Today, 1995), p76].

■ HTB stocks John Wimber’s book Power Healing which lends substantial credence to Hagin’s ministry – and also mentions Copeland positively (see entry ‘Wimber (/Vineyard) ==>>Copeland/Hagin’ for details).

■ The God Channel is advertised in Alpha News #26, p26.

■ POST-1992, INDIRECT: HTB has endorsed Randy Clark, who has cooperated with Hagin.

■ POST-1992, INDIRECT: HTB’s leaders have no apparent problem with RHB – who was a product of Hagin’s church.  See the letter HTB’s Sandy Millar wrote in the October 8^th 1995issue of the HTB in FOCUS newspaper.

■ INDIRECT, POST-1992: HTB stocks Warren books yet, “Rick [Warren] is also a member of CFaith.com, this a basically a online Word Faith teacher gathering. This site is loaded with false teachers: Creflo Dollar, Ken Copeland, Oral Roberts {Roberts is a mason – click here for evidence], Marilyn Hickey, Charles Capps, Rodney Howard-Browne, Fred Price, John Avanzini, Jesse Duplantis, etc” [Message posted on 09/29/2004, by fishtank, www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1229142/posts].

Copeland/Hagin ==>> Cain, P. /KCP

■ Paul Cain has shared a platform with Hagin [Oakland, op.cit., p77].

■ INDIRECT  POST-1992: “Israel’s Jubilee Celebration [www.israeljubilee.com] held in 1998, where … Rick Joyner and Stephen Strang shared the stage with Benny Hinn, [and] Mike Bickle” [watchpair.com].

■ INDIRECT  POST-1992: John Paul Jackson has appeared on Hinn’s TV show [new-wine-scotland.org].

Copeland/Hagin ==>> Fort Lauderdale 5

■ “In response to Copeland’s overtures, [FL5’s] Simpson stated that ‘I’ve always believed that those men [the faith teachers - DRC] had something the church needed to hear, and I am moved by the openness I see among many of them. Ken [Copeland - DRC], for example, has taken some daring and courageous steps to identify with us and other leaders. He has won my admiration for that’” [McConnell, op. cit., p89].

■ CBM links Hagin to the FL5 since Charles Simpson was a member of both [Al Dager, Vengeance is Ours, (Sword Publishers, 1990), p126].

■ “[T]he NCM is to me the most enigmatic of all these ‘networks’ because of the paradoxical membership mixture, which ... includes on the one hand Bob Mumford and Charles Simpson, … and on the other hand men such as Kenneth Copeland” [Charismatic Captivation, By Dr. Steven Lambert].

■ See also entry FL5 ==> Copeland/Hagin.

Copeland/Hagin ==>> Pytches, D.

■ INDIRECT: Pytches calls TBN ‘Christian’ and that “special [supposedly successful] prayer went up” when TBN was contacted after someone had died [Come, Holy Spirit, p238]. (TBN has worked with both Hagin and Copeland.)

Copeland/Hagin ==>> Wimber, J. (/Vineyard)

■ In his book Power Healing Wimber cites Hagin as an apparently recommended source on healing; Wimber seemingly coming down on the side of all physical healing being in the atonement – which is Hagin’s view [John Wimber with Kevin Springer, Power Healing, (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1986), pp166, 291].

■ In his book, Power healing, Wimber writes that he studied “the theologies and practices of leaders from different schools of divine healing” applying what he “learnt from these models to our situation in the Vineyard Christian Fellowship”.  In the accompanying footnote he writes: “Almost every model I studied offered some insight into divine healing,…”  Amongst the leaders of these “schools” and “models” he lists are Kenneth Copeland, Morris Cerullo and Kenneth Hagin [Wimber, Power Healing, pp182, 292-293].

■ That Hagin was an admitted influence on Wimber is reported at:  Al Dager, John Wimber and the Vineyard, as recorded at www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/exposes/wimber/john.htm.

■ “Kenneth Copeland appeared … in New Wine, along with … John Wimber, … in a forum on unity in the charismatic movement” [McConnell, op. cit., p88].

■ “A series of Conferences beginning in 1986 called, The North American Congress was sponsored by the North American Renewal Service Committee. David Cloud writes he attended one in 1987 and also 1990. According to Cloud, influential leaders of the charismatic movement participated--[including] John Wimber, [and] Kenneth Copeland” [www.seekgod.ca/eject2.htm].

■ “Wimber cites in his teachings … Kenneth E. Hagin, ‘father’ of the word-faith movement, mentor of Kenneth Copeland, and disciple of E.W.Kenyon, whose theology was heavily influenced by science of mind teachings” [Dager, The Vineyard, p13].

■ POST-1992: Vineyard’s Bill Jackson claims that the “renewal” associated with Toronto “had already been breaking out in … men like [Hagin-product] Rodney Howard-Browne, [and] Kenneth Copeland” [Jackson, op. cit., p280].

■ POST-1992: “[Vineyard’s] Randy Clark, .... received his anointing ... at Kenneth Hagin’s ‘Rhema’ church” [Sizer, The Toronto Blessing].

■ INDIRECT, POST-1992: Wimber allowed Benny Hinn to lay hands on, and pray over, him, but Hinn believes Copeland is “the very presence of God”. {}

■ INDIRECT, POST-1992: Vineyard’s Bill Jackson and Randy Clark have no apparent problem with Rodney Howard-Browne (a product of Hagin) [Jackson, op. cit., p278].

■ INDIRECT: “John Arnott, pastor of the Toronto Vineyard, admits to having been a friend of Benny Hinn for 20 years and that he has been a leading figure in shaping his view of divine healing and anointing” [Sizer, taken from Gary McHale & Michael Haykin, The Toronto Blessing: A Renewal from God?, (Canadian Christian Publishers, 1995), p245].

■ INDIRECT: “In January 1994, John Wimber also confessed the impact Benny Hinn has had upon him, ‘...he was the most sweet, broken person I’ve ever talked to. I cry out now, thinking about it. He’s so full of the Holy Ghost. I just loved him.’” [Sizer, taken from Gary McHale & Michael Haykin, op. cit., p249].

 

Fort Lauderdale 5 [Click here for details of this name]

Fort Lauderdale 5 ==>> Alpha

■ POST-1992, INDIRECT: “JOHN KILPATRICK [linked to HTB] AND BOB MUMFORD TEAM UP AT CHRISTIAN BELIEVERS UNITED in North Carolina.” [Charisma Magazine, October 2000, as cited by ‘INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL PULSE’, www.cephasministry.com/news_pulse_11.2000.html]

■ POST-1992, INDIRECT: “One advertisement for a Vineyard Conference held in Minneapolis with the Arnotts from the Airport Vineyard [with whom HTB still cooperates], … [had] Bob Mumford as a featured speaker” [Tricia Tillin, “THE NEW THING” Part3a, www.banner.org.uk/res/newthi3a.html].

■ POSSIBLY POST-1992: HTB stocks at least three books by Derek Prince (including Blessing and Cursing and Appointment in Jerusalem [the latter predates 1992]).

Fort Lauderdale 5 ==>> Cain, P. /KCP

■ “Derek Prince came to the church [KCF] in 1986” [“Vintage Metro: My Eight Years With The Kansas City Prophets” (Part Two), Don Clasen].

■ POST 1992: Bob Mumford and Paul Cain were both featured speakers at a Vineyard Conference held in Minneapolis [Tricia Tillin, “THE NEW THING” Part3a, www.banner.org.uk/res/newthi3a.html].

■ INDIRECT: Weiner has worked with at least 4 members of the FL5, yet in 1990 Weiner was found preaching at Rick Joyner’s Morning Star compound.  Weiner is on Morning Star’s Board of Directors.  (Weiner has admitted that he and his organization had “taken the teachings, eaten the meat and swallowed the bones” of the FL5’s ‘discipleship’ movement.  Furthermore, Weiner spent time during a sabbatical in 1989 being ‘ministered’ to by Larry Tomczak, Albie Person and Derek Prince [‘Maranatha Revamps Church Structure’, Charisma and Christian Life, March 1990, pp21-22, courtesy of researcher in U.S.].  Also, “Weiner welcomed … Mumford and others to preach” at Maranatha’s conferences [letter from researcher in U.S. , Oct, 17^th 2004].

Fort Lauderdale 5 ==>> Copeland, K. /Hagin, K.

■ “In January of 1984, New Wine magazine featured and endorsed Kenneth Copeland, ... The Shepherding leaders defended Copeland, claiming that his doctrine, like theirs, was misunderstood and misapplied by followers.  Bob Mumford commented, ‘One thing all of us have learned through the opposition we have experienced is that when a biblical truth is revealed to us, we cannot cease to preach it because some people misapply it. We feel an identification with Kenneth and those other brothers…’ … [‘A Voice of Victory: An Interview with Kenneth Copeland’, New Wine 16 (Jan. 1984)]” [Dan McConnell, The Promise of Health and Wealth, (Hodder and Stoughton, 1990), p87]

■ “The first national Network conference in Denver [in 1985] … included Faith leader Kenneth Copeland, and Shepherding leaders Charles Simpson and Bob Mumford … In the afterglow of the first Network conference, Kenneth Copeland appeared again in [FL5’s] New Wine, along with Charles Simpson, … in a forum on unity in the charismatic movement. In this forum, Copeland and Simpson engaged in mutual absolution of past abuses. They hailed Shepherding and Faith doctrine as valid and important parts of the multifaceted revelation given to the independent charismatic movement.” [Ibid, p88].

■ Mumford and Copeland both participated in the ‘North American Congress’ in ’87 and/or ’90 [{}]

■ INDIRECT: Hinn (who works with Copeland) quotes favourably from Derek Prince [G. Richard Fisher and M. Kurt Goedelman, The Confusing World of Benny Hinn, (Personal Freedom Outreach, 1996), p77].

■ See also entry Copeland/Hagin ==> FL5.

Fort Lauderdale 5 ==>> Frisbee, L.

■ “It was to Bob Mumford that Lonnie Frisbee went in 1971, when he left Chuck Smith …  At the invitation of Mumford, Lonnie entered the beginning of the shepherding movement ‘to join with other Jesus People leaders,’ for five years of ‘intensive Bible study’, where upon he returned to Calvary Chapel for a short time” [www.seekgod.ca].

■ “In October 1971 Frisbee announced that he was leaving Calvary Chapel and California. His immediate plans are to join Bob Mumford, a popular, Florida-based charismatic teacher for a period of intensive Bible study” [R.M. Enroth, E.E. Ericson, C.B. Peters, The Story of the Jesus People: a Factual Survey, (The Paternoster Press, 1972), p93].

■ “The Frisbees accepted the invitation of Bob Mumford … to come to Ft. Lauderdale for the BEGINNING of what would become the Discipleship (or Shepherding) movement … Mumford asked him [Lonnie] to submit to his direct spiritual supervision for a one-year sabbatical from the ministry to engender healing and restoration” [Jackson, op. cit., p44].

■ “Lonnie Frisbee had returned to Calvary Costa Mesa after several years of being involved with Bob Mumford in Santa Clara, CA. Lonnie had suffered a very painful divorce, and had fallen prey to their shepherding doctrines.” [Nancy Blankmeyer  ‘John Wimber’, www.cephasministry.com/john_wimber.html].

■ Lonnie was a fan of Derek Prince and even gave his bother some teaching tapes by Prince [telephone conversation with Stan Frisbee].

Fort Lauderdale 5 ==>> MacNutt, F.

■ “In January (7-10), I [MacNutt] was part of the annual meeting of the Charismatic Concerns Committee (CCC). This group of about 40 has been quietly meeting since 1971 when Dennis Bennett invited a group of diverse leaders (including myself) from the newly begun charismatic renewal to help these national leaders get to know each other. Among those leaders (for those of you who remember back that far) were David duPlessis, the “Fort Lauderdale Five” (such as Derek Prince, Don Basham, Bob Mumford, and Charles Simpson). The group was small enough that we really got to know and esteem each other” [Healing News by Francis MacNutt, taken from the Mar/Apr 2002 issue, www.christianhealingmin.org/healingnews2002-2.htm].

      ■ MacNutt was a member of the CBM alongside FL5’s Simpson [Dager, Vengeance is Ours, p126].

■ MacNutt is linked to Derek Prince through them both attending a CFO camp in 1967 [Francis MacNutt, Fire From Heaven, www.christianhealingmin.org/firefromheaven.htm].

■ “I have learned so much about deliverance, beginning with Agnes Sanford, and then Tommy Tyson, and then Derek Prince and other protestants who have written extensively about casting out demons (as in Derek’s recent book, They Shall Expel Demons.)” [‘Seeking a Balanced Deliverance Ministry in the Church’, by Francis MacNutt, taken from the Fall 1999 issue of his  newsletter].

■ MacNutt recommends a Don Basham book [Healing, p329].

■ The MacNutts recommend and praise work by both Basham and Prince [Praying for Your Unborn Child, (Hodder and Stoughton, 2002), p157].

Fort Lauderdale 5 ==>> Wierwille, V.P.

■ INDIRECT: Wierwille was greatly influenced by Clark, Daily and Moseley of CFO, but [Derek] Prince spoke at a CFO camp:  “CAMPS FARTHEST OUT -- This semi-metaphysical  movement is even more errant than the above, yet Mr. Grubb enjoys fellowship at their far-out camps, and even recommends the strange writings of CFO leaders such as founder Glenn Clark, Starr Daily, and Rufus Moseley” [Mr. Norman P. Grubb, Miles J. Stanford].

Fort Lauderdale 5 ==>> Wimber, J. (/Vineyard)

■ “[I]n [FL5’s magazine] New Wine, … [appeared] John Wimber, … in a forum on unity in the charismatic movement” [McConnell, op. cit., p88].

■ POST 1992: Bob Mumford [was one of the] featured speakers at a Vineyard Conference held in Minneapolis [Tricia Tillin, “THE NEW THING” Part3a, www.banner.org.uk/res/newthi3a.html].

■ POST-1992, WEAK: “The Renewal Journal, Number 5, on ‘Signs and Wonders’ included comment on the current blessing from overseas by Derek Prince, John Wimber, Jerry Steingard and others” [Renewal Journal # 7 (96:1): Blessing].

■ In his book, Power healing, Wimber writes that he studied “the theologies and practices of leaders from different schools of divine healing” applying what he “learnt from these models to our situation in the Vineyard Christian Fellowship”.  In the accompanying footnote he writes: “Almost every model I studied offered some insight into divine healing,…”  Amongst the leaders of these “schools” and “models” he lists are … Derek Prince. [Wimber, Power Healing, pp182, 292-293].

■ Wimber cites Derek Prince as a true divine healer [Power Healing, p293].

 

Foster, Richard /Renovaré [Click here for details of this name]

     Foster/Renovaré ==>> Alpha

■ Foster’s book Money, Sex and Power is recommended in the first edition of Gumbel’s book Searching Issues.  Although Searching Issues only came out in 1994, the reference is to the 1985 Hodder and Stoughton edition of Foster’s book, whereas Hodder and Stoughton brought out another edition in 1987, so Gumbel almost certainly read the book prior to 1987 else he would surely have used a more up-to-date version of it.

■ Gumbel quotes from the *1978* Hodder and Stoughton edition of Foster’s book Celebration of Discipline [Nicky Gumbel, Challenging Lifestyle, (Kingsway Publications, 2000), p264].  Given that Hodder and Stoughton brought out another edition of Foster’s book in 1989 the obvious implication is that Gumbel had already read the book by that date.

■ HTB published details of Foster’s endorsement of Alpha in Alpha News, #22, p4.

■ Foster spoke at HTB twice in April 2000 [HTB audio catalogue].

■ INDIRECT: HTB was very close to David Watson, who was very close to Foster (see Morrison, op. cit., pp432 and 559).  Gumbel recommends Watson’s 1984 book Fear No Evil, in his 1994 edition of Searching Issues. But their relationship (through Wimber) goes back much further.

■ INDIRECT: At the end of chapter 5 of his book Searching Issues, Gumbel recommends a volume by Leanne Payne – who is closely associated with Karen Mains (on Renovare’s Board of Reference) [Al Dager, Special Report: Holy Laughter, (Media Spotlight, 1995), p14].

■ INDIRECT: Campolo has influenced HTB, and Renovaré’s ... speakers have included ... Tony Campolo” [Dave Hunt, The Berean Call, March 2000].

■ POST-1992: Foster spoke at HTB at least 5 times between 8^th and 13^th April 1994 [See HTB tape catalogue].

■ POST-1992: Three sections of the book The Collection, edited by Mark Elsdon-Dew (HTB Publications, 1996), were by Richard Foster.  The book also gives a photograph of him.  He is identified in the book as follows: “Bestselling author of Prayer: The Heart’s True Home and Celebration of Discipline, Richard Foster is the founder of RENOVARÉ, a movement commited [sic] to spiritual renewal” [p12, capitals in original].

■ POST-1992: HTB described Foster in 1996 as a “personal friend” of HTB [Elsdon-Dew, Ed, The Collection, p15].

      Foster/Renovaré ==>>  Cain, P. /KCP.

■ In July 1989 Wimber introduced Bickle to Foster, whom Bickle had wanted to meet “for a long time” and the two men went out for lunch [Bickle, Growing in the Prophetic, (Kingsway, 1995), pp13-14].

    Foster/Renovaré ==>>  Sandford, J./P.

■ “Of the many Evangelicals who have endorsed Richard Foster’s ‘Celebration of Discipline’, in the Spiritual Disciplines (Second Edition, pp 203-210) we find ... John and Paula Sandford” [‘Renovaré & The Christian Mystic’, www.seekgod.ca/renovare.htm].

■ The Sandfords called Foster’s book Prayer: Finding the Heart’s True Home – “Magnificent!” [Editorial Review from Amazon].

    Foster/Renovaré ==>>  Wagner, C. P.

■ Wagner has endorsed a Foster book: “Of the many Evangelicals who have endorsed Richard Foster’s Celebration of Disciplines, [sic] in the Spiritual Disciplines  (Second Edition, pp 203-210) we find CPW” [Dager/www.seekgod.ca] {} 

     Foster/Renovaré ==>>  Wimber, J. (/Vineyard)

■ “In the Foreword to [Wimber’s book] Power Healing, Richard Foster … claims that ‘John speaks with the confidence of one who is living out of the divine Center’” [Al Dager, The Vineyard, p4].

    

Fox, George /Quakers [Click here for details of this name - TO BE DONE]

N.B. All the links in this section are APART from any influence by Quakers ON THE CHART (i.e. Foster, Wimber).

     Fox/Quakers ==>> Alpha

■ A Quaker is referred to in Gumbel’s book Telling Others, p47.  That this Quaker was objecting to a valid aspect of John Wesley’s ministry yet was still supposedly ‘blessed by God’ in Nicky’s eyes suggests he believes Quakers are such good Christians that they still receive from God even when they are opposing Him.

■ INDIRECT, POST-1992: Michael Green defends George Fox and the Quakers [Wallace Boulton, Ed., The Impact of “Toronto”, (Monarch Publications, 1995), p13] and Gumbel often quotes Green and recommends Green’s books.

■ INDIRECT, POST-1992: Gumbel works with Schuller, yet one of Schuller’s closest aides is a Quaker { }

■ INDIRECT: Michael Green has heavily influenced HTB, yet he promotes George Fox [Wallace Boulton, Ed., The Impact of Toronto, (1995), p13].

      Fox/Quakers ==>> Fort Lauderdale 5

■ Don Basham quotes a letter from someone he calls “a doctor friend” as being God’s answer to one of Basham’s prayers.  (The letter was accompanied by two cheques.)  The problem is that the letter’s author was a Quaker – AND BASHAM MAKES THIS CLEAR, thus legitimizing Quakerism as a movement which hears from God [Deliver Us From Evil, p87].  Basham had already edited PART of the letter.  It would have been easy for him to drop the five little words “as we Quakers would say” from it.

■ “The Encyclopedia Britannica states that glossolalia (speaking in tongues) ‘recurs in Christian revivals of every age, e.g., among the mendicant friars of the thirteenth century, among the Jansenists and early Quakers...’” [Don Basham, Handbook On Holy Spirit Baptism, Whitaker House, 1984].

      Fox/Quakers ==>> Foster, R. /Renovaré

■ Richard Foster is a Quaker.

■ “[I]t is out of the religious traditions of the Quakers that Foster has come with the message that today’s Christians are missing out on some wonderful spiritual experiences…” [Al Dager, Media Spotlight Special Report: Renovaré: Taking Leave of One’s Senses, (1992, 2003), p1].

■ On Renovaré’s Original Steering Committee, and the Speaking Platform for the 1991 Conference in Los Angeles, was T. Eugene Coffin who is a Quaker and a Counselor at Crystal Cathedral [Dager, MS Special Report, Renovaré, p15].

■ Gayle D. Beebe, a Quaker, is a member of Renovaré’s Ministry Team [http://www.renovaré.org/invitation_ministry_team_list_1.htm].

■ “[Renovaré’s] William L. Vaswig [is] a Lutheran minister whose experience in the religious disciplines was gained through the Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation in Washington D.C. … Another facet of Shalem’s work is what is known as ‘body prayer’ … taught by Isabella Bates … [her] credentials are stated thusly: ‘Quaker, … Reiki practitioner…’ (Shalem Institute, Winter 1991 Catalog)” [Dager, MS Special Report, Renovaré, pp1,12.  See also Miles J. Stanford, ‘Renovaré: NAVIGATORS SANS COMPASS’, http://withchrist.org/MJS/renovaré.htm].

     Fox/Quakers ==>> Kelsey, M.

PLEASE NOTE: this list does not include the influence that Quaker Richard Foster has had on Kelsey.

■ Kelsey legitimizes Fox and the Early Quakers [Kelsey, Speaking With Tongues, p55].

      Fox/Quakers ==>> MacNutt, F.

■ MacNutt refers very positively to “the early Quakers” [‘Echo of Restoration’, by Francis MacNutt, taken from the December 1990 issue of his newsletter].

Fox/Quakers ==>> Pytches, D.

■ Pytches legitimizes Fox’s spiritual discernment (and, in so doing, gives credence to “the founder of the Quakers” and thus to Quakerism) [D.Pytches, Come, Holy Spirit, p88].

■ Pytches knows that Wimber was “an assistant pastor of a Quaker church” and is apparently totally unruffled by this fact [D.Pytches, Come, Holy Spirit, p14].  He also says “a small group had come into renewal at the Quaker church that John had formerly helped pastor” [Ibid, p15] which tends to lend credence to Quakerism.

      Fox/Quakers ==>> Sanford, A.

■ Sanford explicitly uses Quaker terminology in one of her books [Sanford, The Healing Light, p150].

■ Thomas Kelly was a Quaker, yet Sanford quotes Kelly favourably more than once in her book The Healing Light (e.g. see p158).

     Fox/Quakers ==>> Wimber, J. (/Vineyard)

■ Wimber joined a Quaker congregation in 1963 [Hilborn, op. cit., p6] and “From 1970-73, John … [was] co-pastoring at the same church” [Ibid].

■ “In 1970 [Wimber] joined the staff as an assistant pastor at the Yorba Linda Friends Church (Quaker) in Yorba Linda, California” [Al Dager, The Vineyard, p1]. [See also Al Dager, Media Spotlight Special Report: Renovare: Taking Leave of One’s Senses, (1992, 2003), p1].

■ “…a long-time friend, Lawrence ‘Gunner’ Payne [a Quaker], to whom Wimber attributes his conversion” [Al Dager, The Vineyard, p2].

■ “In 1970 I joined the staff at Yorba Linda Friends [Quaker] Church” [John Wimber, Power Healing, p42].

■ A Vineyard position paper on the ‘Toronto Blessing’, concludes by “pointing to the historical precedent of George Fox, founder of the Quakers” [Eric Wright, Strange Fire, {add Pub details and date}, p80].

 

Freemasons [Click here for details of this name - TO BE DONE]

N.B. All the links in this section are APART from any influence by masons ON THE CHART (e.g. Schuller and Suenens).

     Freemasons ==>> Alpha

■ Billy Graham is a major influence on HTB, yet he is a Mason [click here for evidence].

■ INDIRECT: “The man who Graham says initially told him to become a Christian minister was the head of the Jesuits, Malachi Martin, who I know to be an Illuminati mind-control programmer” {}

■INDIRECT: “Peale, Schuller, and Roberts are Illuminati” {}

■ HTB still stocks Wimber’s book Power Healing, and this book is advertised in Alpha News, #19, p32, yet it directly promotes mason Oral Roberts by name.  This book formed an item of recommended reading on early versions of Alpha (i.e. pre-1995), since it is listed in the recommended reading in the White (1993) Alpha Manual for attendees.

■ Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, a high-ranking mason (and Archbishop of Canterbury, proving that the C of E has been heavily compromised by freemasonry) is praised in Gumbel’s book The Heart of Revival (1998), p158.

■ INDIRECT: “The Church of England has been a stronghold of freemasonry for more than 200 years. Traditionally, joining the brotherhood and advancing within it has always been the key to preferment in the church” [Stephen Knight, The Brotherhood, (Grafton Books, 1985), p240].

■ INDIRECT: HTB claims that Mozart was a Christian, yet he was a freemason.

■ INDIRECT: HTB is happy to associate with Bill Bright, yet Bright’s Committee of Reference includes Roy Rogers – a 33rd degree Mason [Burns, op. cit., p488], Jesse Helms – a 33 degree Mason [Ibid], Norman Vincent Peale – a 33rd degree Mason [click here for evidence] [Ibid], Robert Schuller – a 33rd degree Mason [Ibid].  Bright has been a member of the national Honorary Committee of Clement Stone’s Religious Heritage of America (RHA).  Stone is a 33rd degree Mason [Ibid, p488].

■ The Bishop of London, who works VERY closely with HTB, can often be seen wearing a ‘double-cross’ (as in “he double-crossed me”).  This is a Masonic sign and is similar to that appearing in the insignia for the company name ‘exxon’.

■ POSSIBLY POST-1992: Gumbel quotes [mason] Mozart positively [A Life Worth Living, p30].

■ POSSIBLY POST-1992: Gumbel quotes (mason) Benjamin Franklin favourably [A Life Worth Living, p105].

■ POST-1992:‘Canon’ Andrew White is a Knight Templar, yet he has spoken at HTB on several occasions [see HTB tape catalogue].

■ INDIRECT: Lord Hutton appears to be a mason, yet he is a member of HTB. (Hutton was tasked with defending the government during the Widgery inquiry into ‘Bloody Sunday’. Given that Lord Widgery too was given the job by the government, and took Hutton’s line, and that Hutton himself completely followed the government’s line when he was appointed to run the Hutton inquiry just before he retired, it seems very likely that Hutton too was a mason – since Widgery was a mason of grand rank [Stephen Knight, The Brotherhood, (Grafton Books, 1983), p156].

■ INDIRECT: Alpha recommends participants to read a book which approvingly quotes a mason (i.e. Dr. A. M. Ramsey) [David Watson, I Believe in the Church].

■ INDIRECT: “Rev. William Booth--  Salvation Army” was a mason, as was Henry Ford.  Both make a positive appearance in the Alpha materials.

■ INDIRECT: Bright has influenced Alpha, yet he wrote the book The Greatest Lesson I’ve Ever Learned which gives “fascinating personal glimpses into the lives of Christian men from Billy Graham to … Norman Vincent Peale”.

■ POST-1992: The August 2005 edition of HTB’s Focus newspaper carries an advert for a debate entitled ‘To be or not to be a freemason’ featuring “One minister who IS a freemason [and] One minister who is not”.  This is worrying for the following reasons: Firstly, if HTB is opposed to masonry then it would already have told its congregants to have nothing to do with it and thus there would be no need to advertise this meeting.  Secondly, why is it a DEBATE?  Since it is about Christians becoming masons, rather than non-Christians, there is no need to debate it – only a need to spell out the facts about masonry and how it is incredibly dangerous and wrong.  To have a DEBATE gives a platform to a masonic ‘minister’ to potentially beguile young believers.  The issue of masonry is totally clear-cut to anyone who believes the Bible, so there IS no debate!  It’s not like certain other subjects where young believers can sincerely reach differing opinions due to inadequate knowledge of the subject!  It seems that HTB only advertised this meeting so it could be seen to be doing SOMETHING, now that we are putting pressure on HTB in this regard, but it is doing the minimum possible!  I [DP] don’t recall seeing ANY books on masonry in the bookshop at HTB!  If they were anti-masonry surely they would stock some??

■ Masonry is widespread in legal circles.  Millar left the bar in 1974, but is still very good friends with senior lawyers a full TWENTY years later.  Why is this if he’s not a mason, and why would he stay in such close touch with a group of unbelievers when he’s so incredibly busy?

■ Curate Andrew White is a knight templar yet “In 1994, 50 members of St. Mark’s, Battersea [essentially an HTB plant since 1987] … went with curate Andrew White to ‘graft’ into the existing congregation … of the Church of the Ascension in Balham” [Focus, June 2005, p16].  Note that HTB’s John Irvine has become dean of COVENTRY – i.e. the same cathedral that Templar Andrew White is now at!!

■ Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army, was a mason – yet HTB regularly legitimizes him [e.g. in the Sandy Millar sermon called ‘For All The Saints’, given at HTB on Nov. 2nd, 2003].

■Bob Hope was a mason, but Millar quotes him favourably [‘The Extraordinary God’, a talk given at HTB on 9th Feb. 2003].

■ HTB stocks a book which unreservedly praises Norman Vincent Peale [Ken Blanchard, Bill Hybels and Phil Hodges, Leadership by the Book, (HarperCollins, 1999), p204.  Ken Blanchard worked with Peale, even co-authoring a book with him in 1988. (This fact is mentioned on page iii of the above book sold by HTB.)

■ INDIRECT: Stott has hugely influenced Alpha, yet he wrote a tribute to (mason) Michael Ramsey [EFAC].

■ INDIRECT: David Wilkerson has influenced HTB (his book The Cross and the Switchblade is recommended reading for ‘Session 3’ of Alpha), yet Wilkerson has cooperated with mason Oral Roberts [See Roberts’ autobiography Expect a Miracle].

■ INDIRECT, POSSIBLY POST-1992: Gumbel approvingly quotes “psychiatrist Paul Tournier” [Gumbel, Heart of Revival, (Kingsway, 1998), p111] yet Tournier gives an unnecessary legitimacy to mason Norman Vincent Peale in his book ‘The Adventure of Living’ [see its index].

■ INDIRECT, POST-1992: Luis Palau is a speaker for the (masonic) PK organisation, yet Gumbel is a fan of Palau [e.g. see CL].

■ INDIRECT: The archbishop of Canterbury (Dr. Fisher) at the start of the 60s was famously a mason.  In other words, the head of the CofE was a mason during the decade before the Alpha leaders joined the CofE.

Freemasons ==>> Assagioli, R.

■ “[I]n 1932 Roberto Assagioli came within the influence of … [co-Mason] Alice B. Bailey, and assisted her with her renowned ERANOS Conferences” [Morrison, op. cit., p433].

Freemasons ==>> Bertolucci, J.

■ “[W]hen the charismatic Rock Christian Network was launched in 1986, Tim LaHaye’s beaming face joined those of the charismatic mystics Oral Roberts [33^rd degree mason – click here for evidence], David (Paul) Yonggi Cho [linked to HTB], and Demos Shakarian, Catholic priest John Bertolucci, and others” [Biblical Discernment Ministries, www.straightistheway.com/warning/lahaye/tim_lahaye.html].

■ INDIRECT: Bertolucci has worked with LaHaye, but “Timothy LaHaye ... [founded] the Council for National Policy ... in 1981. This secret council consists of ... [mason] Jesse Helms [among others]”  { }

Freemasons ==>> Boehme, J. /Leade, J.

■ INDIRECT: “[T]he eminent antiquarian and astrologer, Elias Ashmole, … granted Dr. John Pordage (1607-81) [the man behind Jane Leade] the clerical living at Bradfield…(ibid, pge. 45). Elias Ashmole … is renowned in occult circles as being the first officially enrolled ‘speculative’ Freemason” [www.unitypublishing.com/NewReligiousMovements/WhatSpirit3.html].

Freemasons ==>> Branham, W. /LR

■ “Question: ‘Brother Branham, is there anything wrong with belonging to a secret lodge, after we have become a Christian, such as the Masons?’ Answer: ‘No Sir! You can be a Christian wherever you are. I don’t care where you are, you can still be a Christian.’” It has been alleged by many that Branham had been a Mason.  ... He bragged about the Masons helping him when he was a boy and needed medical help. He never once spoke against this cult” [Steve Van Nattan, www.blessedquietness.com/journal/housechu/branham.htm].

■ “When I went into the Marble church up there at—at the... [33^rd degree mason] Norman Vincent Peale, you’ve heard of him. You see? And I went into... A great psychology, he’s a teacher, you know. And I went into his church, I just thought that, “I wished my Tabernacle would do that again.” ... New York’s a big place, and he’s a popular man. ... And you could have heard a pin drop anywhere in that church, and everybody in prayer for at least thirty minutes before the first note was ever hit on the organ, the prelude. And just everybody in prayer. I thought, “How wonderful it is.” ... And then—and then when it was over, there was nothing went on except divine worship, all the time, and that’s what we come there for.” [W. Branham, ‘Church Order’, nathan.co.za].

■ “In New York, last week, ... I went to hear Norman Vincent Peale on his psychology, about how that people should do or walk, and project themselves into psychology” [W. Branham, ‘What Shall I Do With Jesus Called Christ?’, nathan.co.za].

■ Masonry is often referred to as “The Brotherhood”, and Masons meet in “Lodges”.  Without clarification, Branham said “after the second or third round of apostles, they begin to denominate the churches, break up the brotherhood, like lodges”. [W. Branham, ‘The Roman Nobleman’, nathan.co.za].  In just one talk, Branham refers to the term the “brotherhood” sixteen times without once distinguishing between the Christian and Masonic versions. [W. Branham, ‘I Will Restore’, nathan.co.za].

■ “And there was something about Abraham that he knew that there was--them men was just a little different from ordinary men. There’s somehow... You know, a mason knows a mason when he speaks to him. And different lodges know by different signs. The Christian does too. There’s just something about when you speak to a man, and you feel that gentle sweet spirit, you know he’s your brother” [Steve Van Nattan, www.blessedquietness.com/journal/housechu/branham.htm].  “they have things in common. They could talk about things. The Masonic--Masonic lodge, they have things to talk about, brothers of the Masons’ lodge; brothers of the Odd Fellows lodge” [W. Branham, ‘A Super Sign’, nathan.co.za].

■ “Many high ranking world Masons in government and business and involved in wicca and satanism received him [Branham] by a mysterious hand grip. How could he have known these secret signs and grips without being a member himself?” [Steve Van Nattan, www.blessedquietness.com/journal/housechu/branham.htm].

■ [Note: A mason must have reached the 32^nd degree in the Scottish Rite, or the Knights Templar degree in the York Rite before becoming a ‘Noble of the Mystic Shrine’ or shriner.]  “Let’s, before we read this, let’s ask Him to meet with us now, and bless the building, and the place that we’re attending as we gather for His glory. We want to thank the—that’s the Shriners isn’t it...?... opening up their... The Shriners...?... They have been nice to me wherever I have went [sic]. They’ve opened up their doors, and I’ve been given a chance to express...?... They’ve throwed [sic] their doors open...?... I’m the only one of my family, in my father’s, or my mother’s people, or also my wife’s people have...?... [been allowed?!] into the Masons, Shriners, or...?... in their organizations. And may God bless them, is my prayer” [All ellipses in original talk, W. Branham, ‘The Second Coming’]. 

■ “Now, tonight is the last night until Sunday afternoon, for the auditorium services here, because I think our beloved friends, the Shriners, may be using their auditorium on Saturday night. And we certainly give a way in respects to that and very happily to do it” [W. Branahm, ‘Glorified Jesus’, nathan.co.za].

■ “This Message by Brother William Marrion Branham called Experiences #2 was delivered on Sunday, 14^th December 1947 at the Shriner Temple in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A. [nathan.co.za].

■ “Branham said the ZODIAC AND THE EGYPTIAN PYRAMIDS were equal to the Scriptures in the revelation of God’s word. He has a pyramid shaped tombstone in Indiana.” [William M. Branham, Adoption (Jeffersonville, IN: Spoken Word Publications), pp. 31,104, quoted in www.blessedquietness.com/journal/housechu/branham.htm].  “The pyramid is so perfect you can’t run a razor blade between them, where them stones go together, such beautiful masonry. Some of them would weigh hundreds of tons up in the air, and so perfectly set together” [W. Branham, ‘Adoption’, nathan.co.za].

■ “Men such as Billy Graham [mason – click here for evidence], and Jack Schuller [mason], Oral Roberts [33^rd degree mason – click here for evidence], … do everything that they can to warn the coming of the Lord” [WB, ‘The Sudden, Secret Going Away of the Church’, www.bible-way.com/en/581012.html].   “Who is This that’s performing these miracles? Who is It that’s doing these great works? Is--is the preacher? Is it Oral Roberts? Is it Billy Graham? Is it Jack Schuller? William Branham?” [W. Branham, ‘Who Is This?’, nathan.co.za].

■ “[T]hat would knock out that astronomic year or the Julian year--calendar (See?), the Masonic year, because the world’s tilted” [W. Branahm, ‘Daniel’s Seventy Weeks’].

■ Demos Shakarian and [Freemason] Oral Roberts started the Full Gospel Businessmen’s Fellowship Int. in Los Angeles, 1951.  This organization was a huge supporter of Branham, even at his worst!

■ Branham said “I believe it was in the "Ten Commandments,” the late Cecil DeMille, that wrote and put on the screen one of the masterpieces of the movie world. And before it was put on the scene, or let out, Cecil DeMille called Oral Roberts, and Demas [sic] Shakarian, and a bunch of the Full Gospel ministers, and took them into his own studios, and showed the

four hours of the “Ten Commandments,” and asked them their opinion of it. God rest his gallant soul.”  But Cecil B. DeMille was a mason [www.blessedquietness.com/journal/housechu/famous.htm].

■ “Branham came to be the assistant pastor of a Jeffersonville Baptist church. When the church burned down Branham took over the congregation which initially met in a tent and a ‘Masonic temple’” [Answers.com].

■ Branham said “George Jefferies, and F. F. Bosworth, and [mason] Charles Price, ... those great warriors of the faith” [Is Your Life Worthy Of The Gospel? 30^th June 1963, nathan.co.za].  Branham referred to Price again in his talk ‘Turning Northward’ delivered on Sunday, 29th January 1961 [Ibid].

■ Branham’s gravestone is a pyramid – a classic emblem of masonry as can be seen on the one dollar bill and in many other places.

Freemasons ==>> Cain, P. /KCP

■ POSSIBLY POST-1992: Bickle cites [mason] Billy Graham as a “prophetic minister” raised up by God to “reveal the deep things about the knowledge of God” [Growing in the Prophetic, pp224-5].

■ INDIRECT, POST-1992: Hinn has worked with John Paul Jackson, yet Hinn cites mason Billy Graham positively in his book The Blood published in 1993 [The Confusing World of Benny Hinn, p77].

Freemasons ==>> Copeland, K. /Hagin, K.

■ An entire webpage with evidence for this is: www.Kenneth-copeland.com/Freemason.html

■ Both men associate with the 33rd degree mason Oral Roberts. {}

■ INDIRECT:Hinn works with Copeland, yet he cites mason Billy Graham positively in his book The Blood published in 1993 [The Confusing World of Benny Hinn, p77].

■ “Kenneth Copeland started his ministry under Oral Roberts 33rd Degree ... Kenneth was on TV sometime around June 1997 praising Oral Roberts as they are close friends” [newsletters.cephasministry.com/copelandmason.99.html].

Freemasons ==>> Fort Lauderdale 5

■ “[T]he NCM is to me the most enigmatic of all these ‘networks’ because of the paradoxical membership mixture, which ... includes on the one hand Bob Mumford and Charles Simpson, two of the original Fab Five founders of the Discipleship heresy, along with others such as Earl Paulk ..., Larry Tomczak ..., and Bob Weiner (Maranatha Ministries) ..., and on the other hand men such as Kenneth Copeland, Ken Sumrall, and the now late Demos Shakarian, all of whom were staunch opponents of the whole Discipleship matter. Other NCM members (as of 1989) include: [freemason] Oral Roberts” [Charismatic Captivation, By Dr. Steven Lambert].

■ Basham promotes mason Billy Graham and mason Oral Roberts in his book Face Up With A Miracle, p158.

Freemasons ==>> Foster, R./Renovaré

■ POST-1992: Foster recommends listening to Mozart (who, according to Masonic sites, was a freemason) [Foster, Seeking the Kingdom, (Hodder and Stoughton, 1995), p46].

      Freemasons ==>> Frisbee, L.

■ A photograph exists of Lonnie’s meeting in Las Vegas with Billy Graham.  (Unless you are a leading politician, you don’t just stroll up and have a meeting with Billy Graham unless he approves of you!)  [The photo can be seen in David di Sabatino’s documentary.]

■ Lonnie admitted getting at least parts of his healing technique from watching (mason) Oral Roberts.

■ INDIRECT: [Mason] Billy Graham gave the closing sermon at Explo ‘72 shortly after he had “penned a book affirming his allegiance with ‘The Jesus Generation.’” [‘People and Faces’, http://one-way.org/jesusmovement/index.html].  Graham called the event “a Christian Woodstock” [Alvin L. Reid].  {}  Even if Frisbee was not present, he will have been close to a number of people who were.

■ INDIRECT: Frisbee remained a hippy, and a key hippy phrase was “flower power”, but “Eternal Flower Power” was also a secret password in Freemasonry [D. Meyer].  This bolsters the belief that Masons were behind the hippy movement (and behind ‘Jesus Freaks’ like Frisbee).  It is commonly held that the CIA was behind both the hippy movement and the Jesus Freaks.  Since the CIA is full of masons, this too fits.

■ INDIRECT: “[Billy] Graham [a mason] advocated persistently for the ‘Jesus Revolution’ in his Crusades of the early 1970s … and threw significant support behind Explo ’72, the period’s ‘Christian Woodstock.’. The age’s young radicals for Christ responded in kind” [Christ Armstrong, Christian History Corner: “Tell Billy Graham the Jesus People Love Him.”, Christianity Today, posted 12/13/2002].