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Re: Theos-World Why Leadbeater is considered King of All Occultists

Apr 03, 2005 05:39 AM
by Mauri


Leon wrote partly: <... opportunists eager to take Papist-like power and mind
control rule over the members of the TS. >>

Here'a Karen Armstrong's review (New Statesman and Society) of Gordon Urquhart's THE POPES ARMADA. Not that some of it might not sound like what one might experience in a Zen monastery?

<<The three most powerful of the ultra-traditionalist movements within the Catholic Church engage in secret initiation ceremonies, brainwashing techniques involving ego destruction, moral and spiritual intimidation and highly questionable, even dangerous, psychotherapeutic practices. These three movements --- Focolare, Communion and Liberation and the Neocatechumenate --- have a total world memebership of around thirty million. They are completely self-contained, and each is ruled by a charismatic founder, the centre of a fanatical personality cult. In many respects these movements behave like other sects susch as the Moonies. Yet they have the strong support of Pope John Paul himself, who has a adopted them as his personal 'Armada': his task-force for a crusade of extreme right-wing values. The author, who for nine years was a Focolare leader, draws on interviews with ex-members and his own experiences to reveal the bizarre hidden world of these organizations. THE POPE'S ARMADA shockingly depicts a potent and sinister force for reaction, which could turn out to be John Paul II's most enduring legacy.>>







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