At 16, Daniel Lerin experienced “a peace that I could not imagine”. Raised in a family of Catholic origin but devoted to new age gurusthe young man investigated everything to discover the origin of that peace: theosophy, Eastern practices, biblical studies evangelicals…he even tried the masonry. After years of study and being aware of the “Luciferian” origins of some of these practices or the “egomania” that they implied, Daniel has today achieved with his family the peace that he always sought.
Grandson of Cubans, born in Gijón, raised in Miami and resident in Jacksonville, Daniel has experienced as many spiritual doctrines as he has traveled in his life.
At 35 years old, he has Change of Needles that this journey began when his family, despite having been raised in faith, could not resist the 60s hippie wave dragwhich led them to continue around the world to a guru like his teacher spiritual.
It was when he was 16 years old that he was startled to feel a peace “that he could not explain.”
“I woke up one morning and I knew that it wasn’t born of me, that it had to be from outside. It was far beyond any peace I could imagine,” he explains. Decades later she understands the message she heard at the time: “Your call will be to let the world know that this peace is possible for anyone”.
But the journey to find her was complex at best. Daniel knew that God was responsible for that peace and that message, but he did not know what god it could be and he did not really have any clear concept of the Christian religion. Except that would dedicate his life to search for its author.
Looking for the Truth… but very far from it
It started for the philosophyread Plato, Nietzsche, Aristotle… and was soon introduced to the New erainitially convinced that “any belief followed in a true way” would allow him to “reach God”.
With no more guidance than some philosophical and spiritual notions, he ended up immersed in a healing course through the “chakras” and “energy centers” of people like medicine man.
“Sometimes when I did a healing, I would tell the person the source of their pain. He would ask me how he knew and I would tell him that my guides revealed it to me when I asked you to open your soul to have access to their energy centers,” he says.
From believing that he could “reach God” he ended up convinced that in “the journey” there was no heaven or hell and that the only important thing was “the human conscience to get to the center of your own God“.
Despite the fact that “everything seemed very positive”, he knew that there must be “something missing” and that he still “had not arrived at the truth”. With an influence increasingly distant from the Catholicism of his childhood and without knowing other Catholics in Miami, he began to frequent a protestant bible study group.
“After the study I felt a greater and deeper peace than when coming out of any meditation and studying the Bible, I noticed how [el cristianismo] had a lot to do with the human being praising and serving Godwhile the New Age experience “had more to do with me.”
“I had to be my own God”
“I had to evolve to the next dimension of consciousness, reach be my own god and when I did my healer classes I had to proclaim ‘I am’. My life [en la Nueva Era] it had to do with me and Christianity with God,” he explains.
But Daniel was determined not to be swayed by either option. He wanted to find out the truth for himself. So much so that, praying, he asked God to let him investigate his own “potential to reach” the truth by “searching the New Age deeply” with all his heart.
Over the next six months, he had no few “supernatural experiences” at sanctuaries, such as one in California, with people “who revealed how to reach one’s full potential, who did healing, channeled spirits, and gave messages.”
But the peace he felt then was very different from what he felt in his teens. “It was superficial, deep in my heart I felt that there was something hard and I thought I was superior to other people“, he recounts.
In the dark waters of theosophy and Freemasonry
There wasn’t much left for him to learn the truth of the “Eastern (Eastern)” practices to which he was giving his life. His suspicion that “there was a mistake” in it all became final when he met the obscure founder of Theosophy and author of The Secret Doctrine, Madame Blavatsky.
“In that book it was said that Satan is the king of this world and the only king there is”, that “he is the savior, the serpent, the dragon and the logos, all in one” or that “he is the true spiritual savior of humanity who freed Adam from being the servant of God”, Explain.
He no longer felt peace, but “shock and fear”. Then she remembered that in her first course as a healer the teacher asked them to read this book. Upon questioning her, she confirmed her suspicions: “She told us that Lucifer was a good angel but with a bad reputation by the Church Catholic, who was a good angel who helps you reach the light”.
Going deeper into his life and message, he came to know the case of Alice Baileythe disciple of Blavatsky and founder of the Arcane School or of Lucifer Trusta company that distributes the publications on spirituality of the UN under the name of Lucis Trust, according to pick up your own website.
After years of study and research, Daniel was not only aware that “the New Age was the spiritual branch of Freemasonry”, but even frequented Masonic lodges where they were forbidden to even mention “the name of Jesus”.
Two conclusions that led him to the Eucharist: “It is a miracle”
Aware that all this was “a problem”, Daniel reached an important conclusion in his search for the truth.
“Other religions taught that personal effort and discipline was what got you to God. But no matter how hard you tried to be good or how much you meditated, my heart always wanted to go to evil. The only religion that told me that God entered you to change you was Christianity and I knew that the New Age was not compatible with the human experience, but only Christianity, “he relates.
After a traumatic abandonment of the New Age currents, Daniel and his wife clung to Protestantism as their last and closest spiritual ember.
But as they delved deeper into Protestant theology, they realized that “two good theologians interpreted a verse very differently or even contrary to one another” and that if they wanted to have a firm faith “they had to believe in some theologian.”
So we started to investigate the Fathers of the Church and I realized that they did not believe in anything Protestant. That the Eucharist was the Body and Blood of God, that honoring the saints helps and benefits you, that they prayed and venerated the Virgin and that they had a system of authority in the Pope and the bishops, “he explains.
Something that he lacked as a Protestant and that “causes problems” by not having “any way of knowing the correct interpretation of the Bible. In the Church you have the Magisterium and you know that God gives the authority to interpret the Bible.
Daniel understood that, upon reaching this conclusion, his path to the truth he had long sought was nearing its end. Shortly after, his children were baptized and without even wanting to know the Mother’s Homethe family became part of it.
“Every time I can take communion it is supernatural, it is a miracle. I can’t believe that God be letting me take you and get into a sinner like me, cleansing me and filling me with His Spirit. May it be so personal, that He wants to share Himself with me, not only in doctrine, but also in His Body, His Blood, His sacrifice. It is something that does not exist in Protestantism and that has enriched my faith”, he concludes.
From a hippie family, a reikist healer, a protestant, lodges…: he came to full faith for reason