Richard Foster, the Quaker Connection and Neo-Gnosticism

George Fox claimed more authority than the Bible

Blasphemy, heresy, fanaticism, and cultic lifestyle in the history of Quakerism
Richard Foster, the celebrated mentor of spiritual disciplines by many Evangelicals, is a Quaker, a
member of the Friends Church. What is Quakerism? Who is the founder of the Quaker movement?
What were the Quaker teachings and practices in the past, and what are they in the present? These are
questions that will be answered, unveiling the true R. Foster.
It is good to start by first quoting George Fox the founder of Quakerism. This sect is also known as
Friends or the Society of Friends. His testimony is loaded with heresies and blasphemy.
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desires after the Lord grew stronger, and zeal in the pure knowledge of God, and of Christ alone,
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They asked me whether I had the spirit of discernment. I said "Yes, I discerned him that
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dhey asked me whether the scripture was the word of God. I said, "God was the word,


Quakers, Mormons, and Seventh Day Adventists share the same story. The birth of their movements is
marked by deep heresies and occultic encounters. George Fox claimed he heard a voice telling him how
le. His savior is
the one of his own experience and revelation as he specifically stated in the quotation above. As a result
Fox asserts for himself more authority than the written Word of God. The Mormon founder Joseph
Smith Jr. declared that between the age of 14 and 23 was visited by God the Father, His Son, angel
Moroni, John the Baptist, Peter, James and John17, and the list does not end here. The angel Moroni
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W:eep the sabbath day.
They all claim absolute apostasy of Christendom and the need for the restoration of Christianity in their
terms. In the course of time they underwent dramatic changes, putting a human/Christian face to their
organizations but their 
their converts are instructed in the special gnosis of the sect.

They all witnessed the work of God in their era but they all rejected the sound doctrine. Contemporary
with Quakers were the Puritans. During the life of the Mormon founder, the Second Great Awakening
was fully at work. Ellen G. White was contemporary with D.L. Moody. All these cults were in fact a work
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All three cults after decades or centuries of struggles became financial empires. For instance the three
leading British manufacturers, Cadbury, Fry and Rowntree, were all Quaker family firms which
produced pharmaceuticals and biscuits (cookies, crackers, wafers). Most striking of all were the Quaker
bankers -- of the modern ''big four'' British banks, two of which (Barclays and Lloyds) are Quaker
foundations19.
They all use the best apologets trying unsuccessfully to rescue their past. Either the cults founders or
subsequent ideologists of those sects employ a specific cultic language of self exaltation. They betray an
unhealthy fanatic enthusiasm which is a form of religious neurosis.
The history of Quakerism goes like this: George Fox was born in 1624, and was the son of a devout
Puritan in Leicestershire England. His mother was an upright woman. They were fairly prosperous as a
family. George Fox grew up as a prideful, self-
of the fact that he did not lack material and spiritual care. Essentially, he was a combination of
arrogance and religious madness. He quietly rebelled against Puritanism, and looked for spiritual
guidance elsewhere. He became a religious vagabond for the next four years, wandering throughout
England, at times seeking isolation. He was an
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 stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved
:-13b). In his presumptuousness, Fox badgered priests and divines. His first
imprisonment was in 1649, after rising up in a crowded church in Nottingham, disputing the Biblical
views of the local priest.
This insurrectionist attitude was the badge of honor for the first Quaker generation. They took
advantage of the social unrest caused by the Civil English War under Cromwell, and the fall of the
monarchy, and practically started a religious revolution in England. Throughout the country, there were
many rebels, low-lifers called Ranters20 who joined the Quaker religious revolution. They, as the
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fanatical, restless, and resilient- overcoming many beatings and prison terms. Many Quakers today still
carry on the spirit of peaceful anarchy and individualism. The Green Peace movement is their creation.
The fundamental Quaker trait is rebelling against authority of any sort- Biblical, state, or church.
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their sect and they wage political-correct wars like those of human rights and environmental issues. For
instance Amnesty International, a Quaker originated human-rights agency, many times takes sides with
the wrong detainees just for the sake of challenging governmental authority.
George Fox was able to convert to his new religion of exaltation, Margaret Fell, the wife of the powerful
Judge Thomas Fell, Lord of the Manor of Ulverston and master of Swarthmore Hall, along with three of

her children. Judge Fell and his son never converted to the Quaker faith, and Thomas Fell Jr. openly
opposed his mother on Quakerism. But Swarthmore Hall became the headquarters of the Quaker
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fanatic Quakers. The Quaker movement gained influence and some political upper-hand through the
Fells. Their house was constantly flocked by Quakers coming and going, eating and staying.
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daughters were mesmerized too. I quote from one of the letters from her daughters and herself to
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him. Eternal praises be to our father, we your babes with one consent being gathered together in the
power of the spirit, you being present with us, our souls do thirst and languish after you, and do

Oh our life, our desires are to see you agK
Father when will you come - Susan Fell, Dear Father pray for us - Sarah Fell, Oh my dear heart shall we
not see you once more again - Isabel Fell, You are the fountain of life ( Ps. 36:9) - Mary Fell, Margaret
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Margaret Fell is nicknamed The Mother of Quakerism. She is equally responsible for the growth of the
sect. Historians look at her as one of the first religious feminist; she was a preacher too. Margaret was
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twice, having her property confiscated; wrote sixteen books (five
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addressed to Jews), about twenty-seven epistles, mostly to Friends, and numerous epistles to
authorities, including Charles II, the duke of York, the princess of Orange, and magistrates, mayors and
justices22. In the 19th century another apostate woman, Ellen G. White of the Adventists equals and
exceeds Margaret Fell in religious activism.
D&'eorge Fox. She was fifty-five and he was
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lived most of their married life separately- him in London, and her in Swarthmore, both fervently
laboring for the expansion of their sect. Fox died when he was 67; she died much later, reaching the age
of 87.
Here are some samples of bizarre Bible exegesis in the Women's Speaking Justified by Margaret Fell,
rationalizing the right for women to preach: Note what the Lord said after he had pronounced sentence
on the serpent: I will put Enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; it
shall bruise you Head, and you shall bruise his Heel, Gen. 3:15. Let this word of the Lord, which was from
the beginning, stop the mouths of all that oppose women's speaking in the power of the Lord; for he has
put enmity between the woman and the serpent23. She also explained in the pamphlet The Women
Learning in Silence that in 1Tim 2:11 the women who are supposed to stay silent represent the Church,
so she can preach to it24.

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whole doctrine. They affirm that God is in every person by birth. The only thing needed is for the person
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authority for the Quakers. It is the key doctrine of Quakerism.
Continual revelation. Quakers affirm that God continues to reveal to them different things equal in

understanding or in the consensus of the Quaker meetings. Friends General Conference25 the ruling
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blasphemous to the traditional Christians, and the Quakers were often reproached for belittling the
scriptures. They quite willingly denied the Bible the right to be regarded as the only and final rule. John
Wimber,26 founder of the Vineyard movement, a former Quaker held to that view too, even as a
Charismatic leader. Wimber urged his congregation to incorporate shamanistic terminology in their
quest for miracles. He also said the Holy Spirit could be commended27. Wimber along with Peter
Wagner the missiology professor from Fuller seminary fathered a heresy called the Third Wave28 which
is extreme Pentecostalism obsessed with demonism. They have a fixation with exorcism wanting to
implement it not only for people but geographical regions and whole countries. They see all sicknesses
related to Satan so they suggest most of the peod
unity over doctrine. The Vineyard Churches are Third Wave churches.
Messiah Complex and Blasphemy. George Fox recruited James Naylor in one of his campaigns and
Naylor proved to be even more fanatic than Fox. Both Fox and Naylor preached that heaven was here
and now because they reached perfection. They claimed they were not
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Naylor took the reins of the sect. His followers, among whom was a married woman Martha
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chief Quaker instead of Fox. On October 24, 1656, Martha Simmonds along with J. Naylor and a small
group reached Bristol, mimicking the triumphal entry of Christ in Jerusalem which caused a national
scandal. Naylor narrowly escaping execution, he was instead punished with two floggings, branding of
the letter B on his forehead, piercing of his tongue with a hot iron, and two years' imprisonment at hard
labor. Another woman by the name of Dorcas Erbury called Naylor "the only begotten Son of God," and
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leaders of early Quakerism.
Fox was very sly and dishonest; specific to cults leaders. In his book, The Great Mystery of the Great
Whore, he often answered charges against the Quakers by avoiding the issues. The Naylor incident for
instance is not even mentioned. When accusations of sorcery and Ranterish practices could not be


Quakers multiplied and continued to harass communities and churches, disrupting services. They were
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treated quite roughly for speaking out in a meeting against the priest. When she came again, they beat
her brutally and threw her in the street. In all of these harassment, though, Quaker men and women
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They also went to extreme manifestations. Solomon Eagle, a Quaker, traveled naked in the city with,
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example: Diane Rapaport, a former attorney writes in her book, The Naked Quaker, about Lydia Wardell,
a QuakeEDW
coreligionists by walking into a Puritan Sunday Meeting service and promptly disrobing. For her sins, she
was ordered to be severely whipped and not long afterward, she prudently relocated to New Jersey34.
Mystical. Professor Ben Dandelion, a Quaker himself from the University of Birmingham, accurately
describes that salvation for Quakers means a mystical union with Christ identical with what the mystics
of Eastern Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism said35. Mystics claim direct experience with God36 as do
the Quakers, who reject the role of the Bible in relating to God. Mysticism is the main trait which is
present even among Evangelical Quakers such as Richard Foster whom we will discuss later. Foster uses
mysticism to connect his spiritual disciplines to the world religions, importing from there, occult
practices. Unadvised Evangelicals take that as a deep spirituality. Here is what an important Quaker
rine of "the light within" is held to be sufficient to define the mystical core of Quaker
belief(emphasis mine), from which everything else may be derived37.
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their uniqueness as being a religious body with no creeds or theology; but every
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Apology, a 425 page systematic theology of the sect. Early on, George Fox called protestant theologians
Notionists, but at the end of his life, he wrote a compendium The Great Mystery of the Great Whore in
which Fox, the greatest hypocrite becomes the greatest notionist. Another example of creedal
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with no creeds or theology is a very simple one: they do have a theology, but it is petty and heretical.
This is the character of the work of Z-of-
context usage of Bible quotation. He was citing any possible source, including the Church Fathers, in
order to salvage the indefensible Quaker pseudo-theology. Here is a sample of R. Barclay audacity: I
demand, wherewith shall I make this observation? What shall ascertain me that I am not mistaken? It
cannot be the Scripture: that is the matter under debate. If it be said, My own heart38.Barclay along
with Fox and all the Quaker heretics constantly discounted the Bible, but use it copiously and wrongfully
whenever they defended their damnable heresies. Gnosticism. George Fox denied the historical Christ.
For him He was just a spiritual Christ39. Glen D. Reynolds in his monograph40 discusses how John Owen
the Puritan Vice-chancellor of Oxford University made observations about Quaker tracts published
between 1655 and 1679 noticing that Quaker theology had renewed aspects of Gnosticism. He argues

'&articular, his interpretation of the concept of revelatory

Light) incorporated a remarkably similar soteriology and realized eschatology as that found in
Valentinian Christian Gnosticism.
Simplicity, Quietism, Solitude, Fasting. The Quaker teaching on simplicity was another way of protesting
the way of life of the 17th century. They also created the well known Quaker uniform. After they
became affluent, the simplicity ideology just faded away. Today, they parade simplicity in their spiritual
formation sem
Quietism is another feature of the Quakers specific to their meetings but also imposed on their children.
They pretend that excessive quietism is a sign of spirituality, and the way to understand what the spirit
will communicate to them. This practice is similar to introductions into sances specific to their
unprogrammed meetings. It is also a way of intimidation, oppression of reason, favoring esoterism.
Solitude for the Quakers portrays spirituality, but in reality it is isolationism, making individuals
vulnerable for occult encounters. Fasting 41 sometimes accompanies solitude, but for them it was a way
to get deeper into their false spirituality. For instance, James Naylor fasted for ten or twelve days several
times, and the result was calling himself Messiah. The spiritual disciplines proposed by Foster deepen
the evil that is in people or brings them under dark influences.
Pacifist stance. In 1651, George Fox comes out with the doctrine of peace understood in the Quaker
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of text from James 4:1-3. Today, the pacifist movements of Quaker origin are very aggressive and
insubordinate. Many times, their anti-war
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demonstration turns violent and the result is a small scale war waged by the pacifists against authorities
and anybody that disagrees with them. Occultism and Spiritualism. Witchcraft in Early Modern
Europe42 is an investigation of witchcraft in different European countries. The strength of the book lies
in the abundant documentation on sorceries, witches and demonic manifestations. The weakness of the
book is marked by the defense of the occult phenomenon among Quakers and witches against Church in
general, and Puritans in particular. The authors candidly report how all the normal people such as
university faculties, churchmen, and authorities, reproved and wrote against Quakerism for half a
century, but the fanatic Quakers are deemed in the book as being discriminated against. In pages143-
156 early Quakers are objectively described as really quaking, having fits and trances, barking and
howling like all the animals. They had all the manifestations of demonic presence and possession, but in
spite of all that, they were not seen as malefic by the general authorship of the book. The occult
outburst of the Toronto BY
blessing of John Wimber, the Quaker. Later, pressured by the media to explain the grotesque
manifestations of Toronto Blessing, Wimber retracted his endorsement. Radical Spirits43 is another
book written by an authority in the field of the occult. The author, Ann Braude, is Senior Lecturer on
American Religious History at Harvard Divinity School. In her book, she reports how the occult
newspaper, Radical Spiritualist of the 19th century, advocated among other things egalitarianism, non-

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pushing radical politics such as abolitionism of all sorts and feminism because there was not too much
difference between Spiritualism and Quakerism. Spiritualism spread throughout the North Eastern part
of the United States among Quakers. Shakerism.44 The Shakers splintered from a Quaker community in
Manchester, England (Gidley and Bowles 1990). James Wardley, its preacher, had absorbed the
teachings of the millennial French Prophets and his community began to evolve around 1746 (Melton
1992). The members were known as the Shaking Quakers and were viewed as radical for their
communion with the spirits of the dead and impassioned shaking that would occur at their services
(Horgan, 1982; Robinson 1975).
The Shakers were present at the Azusa Street Revival and the Cane Ridge Revival, revivals that most of
the Third Wavers hearken back to as a great revivals of God. However, many false groups such as the
Shakers, were present at those and other "revival" meetings and had influence on the "manifestations"
that ended up dominating those meetings. Robert Liichow of Discernment Ministries said:
The Shakers were the true forerunners to today's revival. The Shakers had visions, personal prophecy,
they spoke in other tongues, they had "holy" laughter, spiritual drunkenness and a form of spiritual
warfare. The only thing the Shakers did not have was Jesus Christ, they were a Pagan cult! (Robert
Liichow, Discernment Ministries, audio interview45)
Total ecumenical. George Fox wrote a huge book called The Great Mystery of the Great Whore in
defense of his sect. Of course the great whore was anything that was not Quaker. If we are
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possible religions under umbrella of the Society of Friends? The greatest prostitute? A Quaker source
states the following: They are further encouraged to seek new light from whatever source it may arise.
This may make it easier to understand how the Religious Society of Friends can accommodate such a
range of religious outlooks among its members4dY-
ecumenism. The Society of Friends hosts universalism, agnosticism, atheism, secular humanism,
neopaganism, new age, occultism, Islam, Buddhism, and anything under the sun in the area of religion.
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ecumenism and make it a syncretistic religion.
Evangelical Quakers. In spite of the occultic, confused manifestation of Quakerism, the simple contact
with the Bible determined genuine conversions among them. One of the greatest factors was the
powerful testimony and doctrines of sound protestant and Evangelical denominations that surrounded
the Quakers. Today there are Evangelical Quakers who are part of the Evangelical Friends Churches.
Their weakness is accepting the unregenerated leadership of the Society of Friends. Normally, they
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Another Jesus and a different Spirit. As we saw, George Fox encountered another Jesus who led him to
establish a full fledged aggressive, occult sect. They also affirm the leading of the Holy Spirit, but again
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a different gospel (2Cor. 11:4). The Bible teaches clearly that whoever is lead by the Spirit will encounter
the true Jesus as portrayed in the Scripture, and will fellowship with true believers which have the same
Holy Spirit. Quakers proved to be haters of true Christianity. Their frequent mention of spirit leading is
just a different way of occultic spiritualism as we previously saw. Pentecostals also abuse the name of
the Holy Spirit, claiming all kinds of prophetic utterances and promptings which in most of the cases,
prove to be false.
From open anarchy to cunning opposition; and from simplicity to affluence. Early on, Quakers
underwent a change in strategy. They knew that if they would continue an open war against order and
authority, they would end up being exterminated. As a result, they fanatically worked their way up by
peaceful means. Towards the end of his life, Fox started using some conciliatory statements and
promoting a positive psychology among the cult members. Their community became a state-within-the-
state, promoting hard work and wealth accumulation as a way of social control of their opponents. Over
the centuries, simplicity, scarcity, and marginalization were long forgotten and were replaced by
economical takeover. The same behavior was exhibited by Mormons and Adventists.
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Concluding remarks on Quakerism by Edward Grubb an important Quaker leader.
THE QUAKERS SUFFERED FIERCE PERSECUTION AS BLASPHEMERS, MAINLY ON THE GROUNDS THAT BY
THEIR ASSERTION OF THE LIGHT IN ALL MEN THEY MADE CHRIST AND HIS SALVATION NEEDLESS ; THAT
BY REFUSING TO CALL THE BIBLE THE "WORD OF GOD" AND MAKE IT THE FINAL "RULE" OF FAITH AND
PRACTICE, THEY LEFT EVERY MAN TO BELIEVE AND ACT AS WAS RIGHT IN HIS OWN EYES ; THAT THEY
DENIED THE TRINITY, AND THE HUMANITY OF THE SON OF GOD ; AND THAT THEY HELD UP TO MEN THE
DELUSIVE STANDARD OF "PERFECTION" IN THIS LIFE47.
Who then is Richard Foster? He is an exponent of revived Quakerism. To certain extent he is a version of
George Fox of our days. He is like a high priest of total ecumenism. Celebration of Disciplines is the book
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insufficiently advised Christians. I will not take space to comment on the book because others did an
excellent job on that. In the end notes, I placed two links for those who are interested48. Celebration of
Disciplines is a book of mystical experiences rooted in esoteric practices of Christian and non-Christian
tradition. The book references the Bible nevertheless, but in a minor key, and that confirms the Quaker
mark of mixing Bible concepts with pagan tenets. So Celebration of Disciplines is a Quaker book with a
Christian garb. Professor Ben Dandelion, expert in the religion of Friends, states in an anthology Creation
of Quaker theory (p.16&Y&
beyond Quakerism and is not intending to either. Occult bookstores like those of theosophy promote
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theological error. We would be hard pressed to find in one so-called evangelical volume such a
composite of false teaching. These include
faulty views on the subjective leading of God (pp. 10, 16-17, 18, 50, 95, 98, 108-109, 128, 139-140, 149-
150, 162, 167, 182); approval of New Age
teachers (see Thomas Merton below); occultic use of imagination (pp. 25-26, 40-43, 163, 198); open
theism (p. 35); misunderstanding of the
will of God in prayer (p. 37); promotion of visions, revelations and charismatic gifts (pp. 108, 165, 168-
169, 171, 193); endorsement of rosary and
prayer wheel use (p. 64); misunderstanding of the Old Testament Law for today (pp. 82, 87); mystical
journaling (p. 108); embracing pop-
psychology (pp. 113-Z
confession, and penance (pp. 146-150, 156,
185); and affirming of aberrant charismatic practices (pp. 158-174, 198).
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