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With local CUT members pulling their children from schools and leaving their jobs, it would seem that something more is up. That feeling was heightened recently when Prophet sold the local building that houses the church's printing operation, a prime source of revenue. At least one internal church memo set last Friday as the day that members should be ready to go underground. Another memo quotes a representative of Guru Ma telling a shelter-group meeting, "You must do nothing but eat, sleep . . . and work at least twelve hours a day until the shelters are completed...
Throughout the week, cars loaded with baggage, children and guns clogged the roads around Paradise Valley, just north of Yellowstone National Park, where the church has amassed 33,000 acres since relocating its headquarters four years ago from Malibu, Calif. Responding to the warnings of CUT leader Elizabeth Clare Prophet, at least 2,000 of the faithful have arrived from Europe, South America and across the U.S. With stores in nearby Livingston reporting a run on dried food, aspirin and flashlights, hundreds of trucks were hauling supplies to 46 steel-and-concrete shelters dug deep into the mountain soil...
...have been invaded," says state Representative Bob Raney. "We're occupied by an armed force of people with an intense allegiance to one person." That person is Prophet, also known as Guru Ma, who claims as many as 30,000 followers around the world. Lately she has been telling them that the apparent warming of U.S.-Soviet relations is a Kremlin ruse designed to get Americans to lower their guard. She warns that the world is entering a "dangerous period" in March and April. Or, as her astrologer and spokesman Murray Steinman puts it, "We're at a general trend...
...Prophet claims to serve as the voice (or channel, as New Agers say) for the Ascended Masters, a group of heavenly notables who include Jesus and Buddha, as well as CUT founder Mark L. Prophet, her husband, who died in 1973. Many of the faithful have sold all their possessions, quit their jobs and emptied their savings accounts to pay fees of up to $10,000 for space in the shelters. But this is not the first time that Prophet has prophesied Armageddon; in 1987 she predicted that California would fall into the sea. That may be one reason...
...Whosoever toucheth the mount shall surely be put to death," said the Lord. For over 3,000 years, the occupiers of the Sinai peninsula, from Justinian to the Prophet Muhammed to Abdel Nasser and Golda Meir, took the site under their protection. Mount Sinai is enclosed in a convective divinity that is primitive and powerful. The mountain seems to gather thousands of years into a prismatic clarity. The Egyptian Ministry of Housing and Reconstruction, however, is not awed...