Heaven's Gate UFO Cult
Suspicious Discrepancies and a Link to Theosophy
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Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 14:10:41 -0500 (EST)
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Volume 2, Number 13
March 30, 1997
Editor: Joseph Trainor
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APPLEWHITE GROUP LINKED TO BLAVATSKY, TWAIN
Heaven's Gate, the UFO group headed by Marshall Herff Applewhite,
had links to 19th Century occultists, including Madame Blavatsky
and novelist Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain.
The house at 18241 Colina Norte is just down the street from the
San Dieguito Reservoir, a favorite spot of Mrs. Katherine A.
Tingley, a disciple of Madame Helena P. Blavatsky. Mrs. Tingley
moved to San Diego in 1896 and founded an ashram of the
Theosophical Society at Point Loma. The center opened February 25,
1897, with a ceremony attended by several prominent people in San
Diego, including the mayor. (See the San Diego Union for February
26, 1897)
Like Applewhite, Mrs. Tingley believed that a major cataclysm
would sink most of California and end Western civilization. She
predicted that San Diego would survive to become the capital of an
island nation called "Nueva California."
She also had an interesting vision of alabacore tuna swimming
through the drowned halls of the Assembly building in Sacramento.
Another one of Madame Blavatsky's disciples had a vision in India
in 1907 of San Diego in the year 2100 as "a gleaming white city
and capital of the New Age world."
Interestingly enough, in 1907, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, aka Mark
Twain, wrote a short story entitled "Extract from Captain
Stormfield's Trip to Heaven," in which the hero leaves Earth for
"an extended excursion among the heavenly bodies" on the tail of a
comet.
In the story, the hero has his passport on him, plus five dollars
and three 25-cent pieces for the fare.
Many of the Heaven's Gate victims had their passports on their
persons and $5.75 in their hands. (See New York Post, March 29,
1997, page 6)
In a strange twist, the comet Hale-Bopp has the same initials as
Helena Blavatsky.
Also, the acronym for Evolutionary Level Above Human (ELAH) spells
HALE backwards. (See the Boston Herald for March 29, 1997, page 3)
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