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...plowed under" in the apocalypse. Only those vessels prepared to receive the word will be fortunate enough to ascend when the time comes. Indeed, while the group may have given outsiders an impression of Christianity, their version of Jesus was most certainly heterodox. Two thousand years ago, the Kingdom Level Above Human appointed a representative to preach the Kingdom of God to earthlings. This being inhabited the container called Jesus (also known as "the captain"), who was killed by forces that eventually turned his legacy into "watered-down Country Club religion." Ti and Do, however, were then appointed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MARKER WE'VE BEEN...WAITING FOR | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

...three tanks of propane that were hooked to an electric burner and a timing device. As many as four times, they swallowed sedatives, then arranged themselves in a cross around a queen-size bed, only to rise in bleary frustration when the detonator fizzled. Finally, they blew themselves to kingdom come. For them that would be the star Sirius, in the constellation Canis Major, nine light-years from Quebec. According to the doctrines of the Solar Temple, they will reign there forever, weightless and serene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LURE OF THE CULT | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

...with my mother and Herff. I was the only one who could talk with them together. Their followers had to talk to them in groups, not individually." By 1973 Applewhite and Nettles were convinced they were the Two Witnesses prophesied by Revelation to prepare the way for the kingdom of heaven. They traveled around the country, and Nettles wrote her daughter, "I'm not saying we are Jesus. It is nothing as beautiful but it is almost as big...We have found out, baby, we have this mission before coming into this life...All I will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMPRISONED BY HIS OWN PASSIONS: Marshall Herff Applewhite | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

...prime-time series.) A 1993 ad in USA Today carried this message: "Caution: If the above information is assimilated, you may experience such side effects as loss of marriage, family, friends, career, respectability, and credibility. Continued use could even result in the loss of your membership in the human kingdom." No one can say they weren't warned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMPRISONED BY HIS OWN PASSIONS: Marshall Herff Applewhite | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

When we heard of the strange cyberdoctrines of the Heaven's Gate group last week, the easiest thing in the world to do was to mock them for their unapologetic embrace of UFOs, "Human Evolutionary Levels" and even a Star-Trekky Kingdom of Heaven--to mock them, in fact, for defying our belief as they embraced their own. Their very name, we could tell ourselves cosily (as we painted Easter eggs and watched outlandishly dressed icons waving golden, human-shaped statuettes), sounded like an X-Files version of a Californian health-food store. It mattered little that unlike the members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OUR DAYS OF JUDGMENT | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

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