“Desperate need” is known to lead people onto paths they might not under normal curcumstances take...oftentimes it is the wrong path. Again anyone is free to believe writers from days of old over the scriptures all that they want. But if what they believe does not stand up to the authority of the scriptures truth they would be mistaken in their belief.
The scriptures are the final authority to judge truth and falsehood. More will be deceived as these last days come and the deceptions multiplied. MAny were deceived in the past....the enemy of mens souls tactics remain in play to this day.
Example....a Christian man now believes in New age beliefs because the gurus of old convinced Him of reincarnation and what they have written. The more he learned the more he found that Christianity misrepresents the status of men and has not given the eastern religions their rightful place among men. It was hard for him as well.....and yet he now believes.
It's NOT "over the scriptures." It's along side the scriptures. A reading of the documents makes that obvious.