prosperous London. I was part of a family of two children. In other words, in addition to improving access to advice on family planning, we must address endemic poverty. Then families will naturally diminish in size. Nor, in assessing future population trends, should we ignore the devastating effects of AIDS, especially in Africa. If some elements of the Green Movement, and New Age thinking, is totalitarian in outlook, it is also pantheistic. Brearley's article on Matthew Fox, an American Dominican whose writings have been condemned by mainstream theologians, 'Matthew Fox: Creation Spirituality for the Aquarian Age'11 suggests that
modern New Age occultism has caused a massive increase in astrology, occult spiritual mediumship, tuning in to natural forces in creation such as ley lines and witchcraft, including Satanism. New Age teaches, as does Fox, that Man is evolving into a Godhead, that transcendent deities are now superfluous and that all morality is relative.
The Greening of the Church,12 written by the Irish Columban missionary, Sean McDonagh, has some sympathy with Fox's views, describing them as a creationcentred theology. Fox, he says, argues that the fall/redemption theology had superseded and restricted creation theology. While there is truth in this, Fox goes to an extreme which is hard to equate with Christianity. Eliminating the Fall and subsequent redemption eliminates the central claim of Christ. New Age claims there is no Creator God; that the spirit deifies everything. Thus man will become God in the age of Aquarius; that we are now living on the cusp between the Piscean Age and the Aquarian Age; and that in the New Age Christians must cease to be Christians and Jews to be Jews; they must become pagan as part of one world religion. This belief in eco-spiritualism manifests itself in slogans about world peace, unity and harmony. New Age followers seek to balance and align 'energies' and use psychotherapeutic programmes and mindexpanding drugs. Their occult meditation is based on the principle 'Build an altar to oneself' - an appropriate epitaph to the relentless selfishness of a post JudaeoChristian civilisation. Of course, Hitler too, claimed that he believed in 'God in nature, God in our people, God in one's own fate, and in one's own blood'. Eco fascism - foreseeing a 'violent planetary cleansing', insisting on enforced population programmes, and support for the destruction of our own species is totalitarian and anti-democratic. This mixture of paganism and Eastern mysticism presents a major threat to Christianity. It can also be a challenge.