Be Wise As Serpents part 1 of 2.pdf

121 books, and in 1922 established Lucifer Publishing, and Lucifer Trust, later changed to Lucis.

Early in the 1930s, a couple named Edna and Guy Ballard received illumination, and started the I AM movement. The St. Germain Press publishes items such as the monthy periodical The Voice of the I AM. Guy borrows much of his ideas from Alice Bailey, the Rosicrucians, and the Masons. Two of his books Unveiled Mysteries and The Magic Presence sound masonic. His messages he received from the Great White Brotherhood seem like a regurgitation of what others had also received.

Mark and Elizabeth Clare Prophet began as a spin-off of the I AM movement in the late 1950s. In 1958, they started Summit University to train initiates of their Church Universal and Triumphant (CUT).

The I AM movement feels that CUT stole their picture of St. Germain, and have started using a different picture in order to assert their separateness. Even though they don't cooperate officially, the I AM movement and the Church Universal and Triumphant are nearly identical in beliefs.

What has been covered is how the lineage of Illumination has been passed down from generation to generation in a series of spin-offs. Although there is no publicly known connection between the Church Universal and Triumphant and the Masons, it will be worthwhile to examine this movement. Although the lineal descent is a direct one between CUT and the Masons, few people would on their own see any connection between the two.

THE CHURCH UNIVERSAL & TRIUMPHANT It was the spring of 1990 and the Montanans in Paradise Valley were showing concern toward their new neighbors who had bought 33,000 acres near Yellowstone National Park.<#8. Wilhelm, Maria, "An angry publisher fights to save the valley called Paradise."

People Weekly Dec. 24, '90, p.38. See also Reid, T.R., "Montanans feel 'invaded' by survivalist church; tensions rise over "Guru Ma', followers." The Washington Post (April 22, 1990), p. A3 col. 1.> The National Park people were getting upset too at these new neighbors, who called themselves Church Universal & Triumphant. Problems, like the sect's fuel tanks leaking, had the park people unhappy.<#9. The National Parks, a Periodical put out by the U.S. National Parks, discusses in short articles in the Jan-Feb., the Jul-Aug, and the Sept-Oct. issues problems the Yellowstone National Park was having with the CUT.> An ex-member Kenneth Polini, who had served as the sect's security chief, was telling the newspapers that the sect could end up to be another Jonestown.<#10. Texe Marrs gives as his source for this in his New Age Cults & Religions, p. 171 an article in the Spokane Chronicle however an examination of the last few years of the Spokane Chronicle didn't reveal any such article. He did get the information from some source apparently. This is one quote that I am not able to verify.> The Prophet's oldest daughter Moira Lewis had to be thrown out of the CUT, when it became apparent that she didn't believe in it. Now Moira Lewis was talking, and talking to the anti-cult ministries.

"I AM El Morya," Elizabeth Clare Prophet's Christmas message read, "Through the Ages I have worn various guises and disguises. You will know me (as I stand beside you