A review of the book "The Great White Brotherhood: In the Culture, History and Religion of America".
The Church Universal and
Triumphant (CUT) is a new religious movement with a message that sounds like a
potpourri of Theosophy, Catholicism and American nationalism. Its immediate
predecessor was the "I AM" Activity of Guy and Edna Ballard. For
decades, CUT was led by the strangely charismatic Elizabeth Clare Prophet, who
died in 2009. The group is also known under the name The Summit Lighthouse.
CUT has published a plethora of books, many of which are confusing and uninformative. This one is no exception. You have to sift through long-winding and frankly boring "channelled messages" from various Ascended Masters to find something interesting. "The flame of freedom speaks" might be the most interesting article, since it clearly shows the right-wing political stances of the CUT. It's a classical hit piece of Reaganite anti-Communist propaganda and various conspiracy theories of the ultra-right, spiced with the spiritual message of Prophet. She explicitly expresses support for Somoza's National Guard, the Renamo and the UNITA, the Afghan mujahedeen and even the resistance coalition in Cambodia, which was dominated by the Khmer Rouge! Great White "Sisterhood", a.k.a. the CIA? Contradicting herself, Prophet then condemns the genocide of the Khmer Rouge and the repression in Argentina during the pro-American military junta. On the conspiracy front, it's Antony Sutton, the Federal Reserve, the Endangered Species Act... In some ways, Prophet seems to have been almost militia, since the CUT stashed weapons at their "ranch" in Montana, which made the American media dub them "the Montana doomsday cult". However, she eventually called off the whole thing, claiming it was just a drill!
In another article, we learn that the CUT are annihilationists. There is no literal Hell, but souls who have reincarnated without improving will eventually be sentenced by a 24-member court at Sirius to die the second death, and simply be annihilated. Their energy will then by recycled by the cosmos. Prophet even claims that Lucifer has already been executed by the Four and Twenty Elders of the Court of Sacred Fire on Sirius. His trial started on April 16, 1975 and ended on April 26, 1975. The annihilation of Lucifer took place immediately afterwards - clearly, there is no death row on Sirius!
The Great White Brotherhood of the book's title is the group of Ascended Masters overseeing the Earth's spiritual evolution. The United States was founded by these Masters, including St. Germain. Prophet claims that George Washington was later reborn as Guy Ballard, the founder of the I AM Activity! She also includes various "prophecies" about Washington, Lincoln and the future fate of America.
But, as already mentioned, most of "The Great White Brotherhood" consists of extremely tedious and uninformative exhortations attributed to various Ascended Masters, including Ra Mu and Pallas Athena...
CUT has published a plethora of books, many of which are confusing and uninformative. This one is no exception. You have to sift through long-winding and frankly boring "channelled messages" from various Ascended Masters to find something interesting. "The flame of freedom speaks" might be the most interesting article, since it clearly shows the right-wing political stances of the CUT. It's a classical hit piece of Reaganite anti-Communist propaganda and various conspiracy theories of the ultra-right, spiced with the spiritual message of Prophet. She explicitly expresses support for Somoza's National Guard, the Renamo and the UNITA, the Afghan mujahedeen and even the resistance coalition in Cambodia, which was dominated by the Khmer Rouge! Great White "Sisterhood", a.k.a. the CIA? Contradicting herself, Prophet then condemns the genocide of the Khmer Rouge and the repression in Argentina during the pro-American military junta. On the conspiracy front, it's Antony Sutton, the Federal Reserve, the Endangered Species Act... In some ways, Prophet seems to have been almost militia, since the CUT stashed weapons at their "ranch" in Montana, which made the American media dub them "the Montana doomsday cult". However, she eventually called off the whole thing, claiming it was just a drill!
In another article, we learn that the CUT are annihilationists. There is no literal Hell, but souls who have reincarnated without improving will eventually be sentenced by a 24-member court at Sirius to die the second death, and simply be annihilated. Their energy will then by recycled by the cosmos. Prophet even claims that Lucifer has already been executed by the Four and Twenty Elders of the Court of Sacred Fire on Sirius. His trial started on April 16, 1975 and ended on April 26, 1975. The annihilation of Lucifer took place immediately afterwards - clearly, there is no death row on Sirius!
The Great White Brotherhood of the book's title is the group of Ascended Masters overseeing the Earth's spiritual evolution. The United States was founded by these Masters, including St. Germain. Prophet claims that George Washington was later reborn as Guy Ballard, the founder of the I AM Activity! She also includes various "prophecies" about Washington, Lincoln and the future fate of America.
But, as already mentioned, most of "The Great White Brotherhood" consists of extremely tedious and uninformative exhortations attributed to various Ascended Masters, including Ra Mu and Pallas Athena...
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