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THE BALLARDS DEMAND SEXUAL ABSTINENCE


 
 
Guy and Edna Ballard forbade their followers from having sex, even to procreate. And on this matter, Gerald B. Bryan, who was a former member of the I AM cult, commented the following:
 
 
Complete abolition of sex is taught by this cult, and although they formerly taught that sex could be used to bring children into the world, they today teach quite differently.
 
As we have seen from the Goddess of Purity’s (?) statement, a philosophy of race suicide is preached. No marriage, no children. Make the “Ascension” instead. Leave the earth to the morons. What a wonderful chance for the Dictators!
 
Despite the alleged “purity” of this cult, a disguised but easily discernible eroticism plays through this cult.
 
Guy Ballard, over and over again on the public platform, referred to his so-called “Sex Law,” and seemed to take delight in picturing the fearful consequences which would result for any violation of it. At one of his early classes in Los Angeles (August 19, 1935), he said:
 
“The sex urge was only to be used for procreation. When it is used for so-called pleasure, mankind loses the dominion of his physical form . . . When it is wasted, the body becomes decrepit and helpless . . . Your aura becomes charged with the most vicious entities you can imagine.”
 
Since then, with fanatical persistence, the Ballards have constantly referred to the subject of sex. They inject the strongest sort of fear-thought into the minds of their students should any violation of their instruction take place. Time and again their “Ascended Masters” come forth to keep this subject flaming before the minds of their audiences.
 
“. . . To seek these classes,” says their Great Divine Director, “to gain acquaintance and companionship for sex desire is the most infamous thing ever on this earth! . . . There are those who have been doing it . . . If you don’t stop it, I shall pick you out! . . .You have been told repeatedly that unless you cease your sex desire, you cannot gain your Freedom and Ascension . . . Do not be surprised if I release the Fire, the Flame of Life to burn these desires out of you tonight. (applause)” (pp. 18-19, April 1940, V.)
 
This sex taboo teaching has been given indiscriminately in public for over five years among people of all walks of life. It applies, they say, to all regardless of their circumstances, conditions, beliefs, obligations, spirituality, or anything else. It is the unalterable, inexorable “Law of Sex,” and will react upon all who disobey it, producing degeneration of both mind and body.
 
Naturally, such extreme views concerning the dominant, biological urge of sex, enunciated to people who in their marital lives had built up certain habits in regard to it, had widespread repercussions.
 
 
This sex teaching alone, has resulted in an extraordinary number of divorces, separations, and disagreements among married people, many of whom up to the time Ballardism entered their homes had doubtless been living normal, sensible sex lives.
 
With the sudden introduction of a fanatical religion into the home environment, with its rigid taboo of sex expression in any form, a condition of affairs was brought about which frequently became intolerable to the marriage partner who did not embrace the religious fanaticism of the other partner.
 
The result was separation or divorce in many homes which had formerly been happy and contented ones before the arrival of Ballardism and its extreme sex teaching. The instructions from the Ballards were to divorce the partner who desires marital relations, or leave the movement.
 
Referring to the unhappiness that has come to the I AM students as a result of this sex teaching, the Great Divine Director encourages them to go on with the program, even though it separates husband and wife, parent and child.
 
“I say to you blessed ladies of the Light,” says he, “be not dismayed in the unhappiness that has come of your search for and acceptance of the Light. Stand firm and unyielding . . . Everyone of you must now stand by your ‘I AM Presence’ — I don’t care how much you love your wives, husbands and children . . . If your home life has become unbearable and you have severed it, don’t seek the companionship of other men . . . Ungratified sex desires will make a human being the most vicious individual ever known . . .” (pp. 21-22, April 1940, V.)
 
 
 
 
 
Required even from non-followers
 
Sexual abstinence is required even for family members who do not belong to the I AM cult, and to demonstrate this we quote the following letter written by a former class leader dated June 29, 1939:
 
“Last July during the Shrine class I had a private interview with Mrs. Ballard, at which time she told me (I might well use the terms, ordered or commanded, as that was her manner) to call for the release of my own mother, whom she knew I love with all my heart, just as we were taught to call for the release of our little pets.
 
“Why? Because my mother did not believe in them nor their teaching, though she never opposed me or them in any way.
 
“Mrs. Ballard told me I was carrying a big load and that my mother was a ‘Vampire activity’ keeping alive on my energy.
 
“She shot this question at me: ‘Doesn’t your mother take a lot of soda?’ ‘Yes.’ Then: ‘Doesn’t she eat a lot?’ I answered: ‘She has a good appetite.’ ‘Yes,’ she said, ‘and she sits around no good to herself or anyone else and she can keep alive for years drawing on your energy and living on it. Call for her release, you have work to do!’
 
“Then she told me to come home and ‘Tell to stop all sex relations.’ (is my daughter, who is very happily married to a fine fellow and they have two beautiful children.)
 
“I told her: ‘But they want two more children,’ etc. ‘No,’ said the dictator, ‘It is too near the Ascension for that now.’
 
“I asked: ‘What if her husband will not agree?’ ‘Tell her to take a child by each hand and walk out and slam the door,’ was her reply.”
 
The Ballards themselves, at least in this regard, evidently live up to their own teaching. Years ago, Mrs. Ballard pushed her own aged mother and only sister out of her life because they would not accept the Mighty I AM or believe that Guy Ballard’s books and his trips to India were true, knowing as they did that he was right here in the United States all the while.
 
 
 
 
 
Why did the Ballards prohibit sexuality?
 
One of the reasons for such puritanical sex teachings seems rather obvious.
 
In the failures of the average student to fulfill these sex admonitions in all particulars, the Ballards have a perfect alibi for the non-deliverance of their promised miracles. For the reason why these poor struggling students do not make their “Ascension,” have their “financial freedom,” achieve “radiant health,” and so on, is they have not kept sufficient “emotional control” over their feelings!
 
Knowing their weaknesses, these students blame themselves instead of the Ballards for the non-appearance of promised miracles; and so the stress and struggle of killing out the “entity-demons” within themselves —which they are assured are responsible for their backsliding— still continues.
 
What complexes are built up, what mental and physical reactions are brought about by such teachings, only time and an intimate investigation into their lives will reveal.
 
But certainly within the lives of students who go to such fanatical extremes, there are queer tangles of suppressed desires . . . “Twin Ray” complexes . . . condemnation of self or marriage partner for not being able to live up to the idea of a non-sexual love . . . lurking fear of alleged mental and physical degeneration as a result of giving in to the dominant biological urge . . . the spectre of divorce or separation . . . and dozens of other reactions from such ill-advised and distorted sex teachings.
 
There is consequently a sad need for a sane consideration of the sex question among the Ballard students, a real need for the psychoanalyst and psychiatrist to straighten out the tangles in the lives of these people.
 
 
(This is found in chapters 25 and 26 of the book Psychic Dictatorship in America,)
 
 
 
 
 
 
OBSERVATION
 
Guy and Edna Ballard were already in their fifties and had a son, so it was easy for them to advocate sexual abstinence. But prohibiting to their followers seems to me to be a total aberration and lack of consideration on the part of those two individuals.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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