Repudiation of those who are not
supporters
Probably in
no other movement has there ever been such attempt at widespread interference
with the personal lives of its members as in this cult of the Mighty I AM.
The Ballard
students are instructed to push people out of their lives who cannot embrace
the Mighty I AM teachings, and to have as little as possible to do with them.
As result, the deepest relationships of many years’ standing have been severed
by zealous students fanatical enough to live up to the Ballard instructions.
Husband,
wife, mother, or some other relative living in a fanatical Mighty I AM family,
has actually been kept in another part of the house and denied former
privileges because he or she would not embrace the Ballard doctrines. We cite
an instance of this in the following story.
We cite an example of this in the following story:
A car was
parked outside of an “I AM Temple” in a certain city. The man within it had his
head bowed over the steering wheel.
Another man
was waiting outside this same “I AM” meeting place, and was pacing back and
forth.
In passing
by the parked car this latter man noticed that the man with head bowed over the
wheel was sobbing. In ready comprehension, he approached him.
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“I
see they’ve got you too,” he said.
The
man at the wheel raised himself up confusedly, quickly brushing the tears away.
Then seeing the understanding in the other’s face, said:
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“Yes,
I was conceded an unusual privilege today. I ate at the table with my wife and
children for the first time in weeks. They’ve had me in another part of the
house.”
He
looked pathetically into the face of the other man who seemed to understand,
and added:
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“I
hope other privileges will be conceded too, or at least these same ones
continued, but one never knows what the demand will be next. I am waiting to
take my family home.”
This
intolerance of other people’s beliefs and methods of living is a direct outcome
of the Ballard teachings, particularly among so-called “hundred per cent
students” who follow the Ballard instructions in every way.
Sexual prohibition
This sect
teaches the total abolition of sex, and although in the past they 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.)
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.
Fanaticism
But sex was
not the only thing which broke up these homes. The general philosophy itself,
with its devotion to “Masters,” fanatical inhibitions and prohibitions, caused
and is causing today many intolerable conditions in the home environment,
separating life-long partners and estranging children and relatives.
Decrees
which have to be uttered the live-long day and half the night leave little time
to devote to the duties and obligations of home building. Children are
neglected, the husband or wife ignored, for this newer and more thrilling
experiment of worshiping unseen “Masters” and “Goddesses.”
A marriage
partner who before the advent of Ballardism was all that the other could
reasonably expect, almost overnight became neglectful of things which had
produced happiness in the past in a fanatical endeavor to follow this newer and
more streamlined pathway to happiness.
All this,
and much more than we have space to record, is the result of this teaching — in
a land which the Ballards assertedly came to “Save.”
Further, much of the alleged “purity” and “morality” of this cult is
puritanical and ridiculous. This is readily seen from the following quotations.
(This
is found in chapters 25 and 26 of the book Psychic Dictatorship in America)
OBSERVATION
The lack of consideration that Guy and Edna Ballard
showed towards their followers, imposing their whims on them without caring
about the dire consequences they would have, shows me that this couple had
become dehumanized and was completely lost in their delusions.
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