The Renaissance was the beginning of a great falling away from Jesus Christ (John 1) and the Christian faith. Apostates did not fall away into nothing but into the ancient Mysteries, Hermeticism, mystical Eastern pantheism and evolution and reincarnation, alchemy, magic and more. Coming out of the Renaissance were many occult and diabolically occult secret societies and alchemical magicians such as Hegel and Karl Marx in performance of the Great Work of fusing opposites. In his own time, Teilhard de Chardin also performed the Great Work.Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) was an occult evolutionary scientist, New Age Hindu-style pantheist, occult Hermetic...