What has been reported about Mr. Grubb, who was apparently seriously lacking spiritual
discernment at some point in his life as evidenced by the following reports:

Rosicrucianism's spread in seventeenth-century Germany may have gained impetus from a
Gorlitz cobbler named Jakob Boehme. Boehme reportedly has his first spiritual 'illumination'
in 1600 when, at the age of twenty-five, he sat gazing at the light reflected from a pewter
dish. The revelation led the shoemaker to abandon his trade for myhstical studies. It was
William Law's introduction to Jakob Boehme which poured light into Law and inspired him to
write The Spirit of Love and The Spirit of Prayer. People who love William Law's writings and
respect his teachings cannot believe he was influenced in any way by Rosicrucian thought that
was basically Gnostic.

The founder of InterVarsity, Norman Grubb, testifies in his biography,

"... from Boehme, most difficult to read because he could not easily put the depths of his
illuminations into readable form, I got my answer, and to this day know no writer to match him..
He is the last word to me . . I am saying that everything is a form by which He manifests Himself, much as my body is not exactly I, but an outward form of the inner me. This fact, gleaned through Boehme, confirmed through the writings of many others, with the foundations in Scripture, has given me my anchor." [Once Caught, No Escape, Norman Grubb, Intervarsity Press]

Norman Grubb confessed to receiving more from mystic writings than from studying the
Bible. Apart from Boehme and William Law, other great mystic writers that proved a spiritual
help to him were as follows: Saint Teresa, Meister Eckhart, Henry Suso, John Tauler, John of
Rusbroeck, Walter Hilton, Plotinus, Angelus Silesius, Richard Rolle, Lady Julian of Norwich,
Evelyn Underhill, William Kingsland and Rufus Jones.

These names are well known for their Gnostic and even theosophical ideas. With reference to some of the mystic writers he said, "These are out of bounds to the orthodox; but I have often got more from them than from normal Bible exegesis". According to his own testimony, during a time of severe despair and doubt as to the existence of God, he desperately sought for answers amongs the writings of mystics. "My answer came through the mystics and has been widening ever since", he writes.

Norman Grubb is a typical example of countless others, who for whatever reason, struggled
to walk by faith and unfortunately turned to Gnostic ideas (mysticism) to experience a sense of spirituality and a feeling of belonging to God. Like Norman Grubb, numerous Christians, in spite of all of their experiences, are floundering in doubt for lack of faith in God's Word and instead are searching for answers in mysticism - the spirit of Gnosticism. No wonder the masses are receptive to the modern Gnostic apostles and prophets. http://www.ncinter.net/~ejt/strange3.htm

William Law, was an English non-juror and spiritual writer. He was influential in the lives of John and Charles Wesley, and George MacDonald amongst others, and lived from 1686 to 1761. His later works The Spirit of Love and The Spirit of Prayer ) were profound expressions of the loving character and goodness of God, and were influenced by the German Christian Mystic, Jacob Boehme. Law translated Jacob Boehme's The Supersensual Life into English.

Whilst Law's latter phase did not meet with John Wesley's approval, it has with many other
Christians seeking a deeper relationship with God. Norman Grubb: "Here at last was a writer
who took me to ultimate foundations and a totality of understanding which I had long been seeking. I drank and have been drinking ever since." http://www.ozemail.com.au/~moorea/60.html

An important example of a panentheistic doctrine of deification within professing Christianity is Union Life, founded by Norman Grubb, who at one time was a respected evangelical leader. In 1980 _Cornerstone,_ an evangelical magazine, ran an article arguing that Union Life was teaching pantheism or panentheism.[7] Union Life has attempted to argue[8] that panentheism, unlike pantheism, is not heretical (despite Grubb's admission that he does not know the definition of pantheism![9]). However, neither pantheism nor panentheism separates the creation from the essential nature of the Creator, though panentheism does posit a differentiation in which the creation is the expression of the Creator.

The heretical nature of Union Life is made evident by such statements as, "there is only One Person in the universe," "everything is God on a certain level of manifestation," and "_Nothing but God
exists!_"[10] Therefore, Union Life's claim to following the tradition of the church fathers[11] is no more valid than that of the Mormons. www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/cri/cri-jrnl/crj0018a.txt

Jacob Boehme, the great inspiration for William Law, was also the great-grandfather of the new
age movement, which you should know is a satanic conspiracy for a counterfeit kingdom of God
on earth. Law's sad gullibility may have caused untold damage to the church and thus society
for his terrible compromise with the occult.

It should come then as no surprise that Norman Grubb's fruits comprise pantheistic earth
worship and self-deification. No wonder Intervarsity, Grubb's intellectual brain trust, has
been a leading source of ecumenicism and apostasy into the church for over twenty years now.

To summarize, Christian mysticism, in its passion for inner light, apparently found too much
of its illumination from counterfeits, the father of whom makes himself out to be an angel of
light.

I can vouch for the contents of the book "Rees Howells Intercessor" by Norman Grubb as I orginate from the same area in Wales. Indeed the coal mining village of Brynamman was only the next village but one to my own. I was never privileged to personally know Ress Howells, but so many of the people that I grew up with were intimately aquainted with the things written in the book, not because they had read it, but because these things were matters of common knowledge amongst us.

I did, however, know many of the people associated with the Bible College of Wales and sat under the ministry of so many who were products of the college and gone on to become good and well known expositors of the Word of God. As a boy I knew many who were children of missionaries that were boarders at the school attached to the college; their parents were out on the field serving God. I visited the college from time to time too.

I have many, many treasured memories associated with Rees Howells' college. Let me relate just one or two.

Mr. K. G. Symmonds, a surgeon, was on the staff of the college. He was very exercised about
a 30 year old woman who was only about 3 ft long and had no limbs at all. So he asked a friend of mine who was greatly used in divine healing to come and pray for her. He did. Not too long afterwards her body began to 'sprout' what could only be described as limbs!

I had been invited to preach at a certain church and found two students from the Bible College of Wales there too. They had been invited to come and share their testimony. I learned that they had started off on their journey by walking down to the railway station at Swansea Bay, a short distance from the college. But they had no money on them! They got to the ticket office when a stranger pushed some money into their hands, just enough for their fare! I later came to know the station master, a non-Christian, and he told me that he had known the same happen to so many students from the college.

However, he had not known of one student who didn't get on the train when it came along! If I were asked to think of one word that encapsulated what Rees Howells and the college stood for it was the word faith. A matter of praying through till God spoke; then standing on what God had said till the matter was manifested. In the book the three stages of intercession, identification and authority are emphasised.

The author of the book "Rees Howells Intercessor" is Norman Grubb, the former secretary of
of WEC (Worldwide Evangelisation Crusade) and the son-in-law of C. T. Studd its founder. A most highly respected British brother of a former generation. The fact that he is the author the book lends credance to what is said. But I hope that this personal testimony goes some way to further confirm the authenticity of what's in the book. [Source: author's names unknown ]