Word: ballards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...BALLARD...
...been a reporter on the "Cleveland Press." Last year he got wind of a rather strange religious sect known as I Am, which had a large following in Cleveland. It did not take him long to discover that I Am was founded in 1930 by a Mr. and Mrs. Ballard in Los Angeles, and that the Ballards had previously fled from Chicago under indictment on a charge of conducting a phony gold mine racket. After attending their meetings for a few months, Miller wrote a series of satirical articles in the "Press." The response that this received from the sect...
...floor houses an equally prosperous-looking suite of offices. The main book cases are filled with expensively bound books, and the desk is occupied by an expensively clad librarian. If you look closely at the volumes which line the walls, you will find that they are all written by Ballard, and if you talk to the librarian you will find out about this man and the religion he founded...
...rather distinctive name of the sect is taken from the words of Christ, "I am the resurrection," and the whole creed of I Am is based on a belief in reincarnation. Ballard, for instance, claimed that he was the reincarnation of George Washington, Mrs. Ballard is Martha Washington, and their son is Lafayette. The basic pattern behind all this is a conviction that the human mind, in order to reach Heaven, must achieve a state of absolute purity, and that one lifetime is not sufficient to attain this. Therefore it is being constantly reincarnation until it arrives at the pure...
...Ballards, however, have used plenty of words to describe I AM, most of them confusing. They claim to be the "Accredited Messengers" of a group of spirits whom they call the "Ascended Masters." These include Christ and Moses, but the chief revelator is one "Saint Germain." St. Germain's precepts appear in a series of Ballard-edited books which adepts of the Mighty I AM Presence study. The 20,000 who follow the precepts and live an "I AM Presence-like life" are called "Hundred Percenters." Last week bewildered Hundred Percenters met in their "temples of instruction," wondered what...