Word: cult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Incensed. Sir Arthur retorted: ". . . [The work of the Society] is an evil influence-is anti-spiritualist." He called for other members to resign with him. Replied the Society: "There is nothing but an honest difference of opinion. While Sir Arthur regards spiritualism as a 'cult,' the Society was founded to carry on critical investigation...
Recent years have witnessed a great burgeoning of California cults. Examples : The Rosicrucian Fellowship. In Oceanside is a fellowship founded by one Max Heindel who wrote a book called Cosmo-Conception while living in a Manhattan boarding house on a diet of milk and shredded wheat. Object of his cult: to distribute literature on Western learning, to practice spiritual healing through agents known as "Elder Brothers" and "Invisible Helpers." There are no public ceremonies; a maxim of the fellowship is in substance: "Know all things but remain unknown." Founder Heindel died in 1916. his work is now continued...
Officiating was Mirzah Ahmad Sohrab, accredited U. S. leader of the Bahai cult. Stocky, moist-eyed, he adjured them...
Like many an oriental cult, the Persian Bahai movement dates itself back to a ''forerunner," one Bab, who was martyred at the age of 31, "his breast becoming the target of a thousand bullets." Bab, in 1844, sagely predicted the coming of the Founder, Baha'u'llah. The Founder spent most of his life in banishment, gathering followers and codifying the cult's beliefs. When he died in 1892 he left the faith in the hands of his son, Abdul-Baha, the Expounder & Promoter, who languished in a Turkish gaol until the release...
...Publisher Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden's New York Evening Graphic, a pink tabloid devoted to its owner's cult of things physical published an epithalamic editorial, based upon pure assumption, dealing with a subject into which not even the most nosey newspapers are accustomed to intrude. Under the heading "When Athletes Marry," the Graphic publicly discussed Mrs. Moody and her husband as follows...