The Baha'i Studies Listserv > Why does LJ even still have followers? Wikipedia lists several prophecies he > made that failed to materialize...
He lost a lot of followers as a result of these failed prophecies. I've corresponded with several of them on the internet. Jensen's proclivity to apocalyptic prophecies seems to have come from Mason Remey, though Jensen and Neal Chase have carried it to extremes. For instance there is a pamphlet published in March of 1962, entitled "The Impending World Catastrophe." In this pamphlet Mason Remey is said to foretell an impending shift in the earth's crust which would cause a catastrophe. As I noted before, it is likely this prophecy was based on Ruth Moffett's misunderstanding of a talk Abdu'l-Baha gave in Egypt, but I think such prophecies became especially important to Remey when he realized so few of the Baha'is would follow him. His only hope at that time was for something apocalyptic to happen. In any case, this catastrophe was predicted to occur "very soon." "It may come at any time after April, 1963." In another publication by the New Mexico Remeyites it was stated: "This global catastrophe will cause certain land areas of the Earth's surface to rise above their present levels while others will disappear below the newly formed seas. These inundations will result in the annihilation of all human life in the submerged regions and this Death and Destruction will be augmented by the sudden extreme changes in temperature at the new Arctic and Antarctic areas. There will be other attending conditions such as earthquakes, the opening up of volcanoes and the crumbling-up of mountain ranges; - all of which, taken together, make up a terrifying picture of the coming of the dreadful day of The lord as prophesied in Holy Writ and which is now being confirmed through scientific studies of these movements of the Earth's crust." "The fear that the end is near is spreading amongst the peoples of all the world. those who seek physical safety at the high altitudes above sea level will in all probability be safe from the inundations; however, this does not guarantee that they will not suffer greatly. It is prophesied that two-thirds of the people of the world will be killed!" It was in response to prophecies such as this that Leland Jensen relocated to the mountains of Montana. warmest, Susan __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:arch...@mail-archive.com Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-483259-274...@list.jccc.edu Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to ly...@list.jccc.edu Or subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:bahai-st@list.jccc.edu Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai...@list.jccc.net New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.edu
