| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.3

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The Church Universal and Triumphant: Elizabeth Clare Prophet's Apocalyptic Movement. By Bradley C. Whitsel. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2003. xvi + 221 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95, cloth; $19.95, paper.)
The American West has been a catalyst, haven, and place of conflict for a seemingly endless variety of religious and spiritual movements. Soon after the 1980s implosion of Rajneeshpuram in Oregon and a few years before the deadly confrontation with the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas, the Church Universal and Triumphant (CUT) prepared for apocalypse in Montana. Bradley Whitsel's densely analytical and compact study of religious separatism and messianic leadership is based on his dissertation in political science and traces how CUT evolved.	1
This spiritual journey began in 1929 when Guy Ballard claimed enlightenment after encountering the legendary Count of Saint Germain on Mt. Shasta in California. Ballard and his wife, Edna, founded I AM, which merged elements of theosophy with a decidedly anti-New Deal stance and taught that it was America's "cosmic destiny" to create a new civilization (p. 23). I AM and its successors taught the wisdom of the Ascended Masters and celebrated the Teton Mountains of Wyoming as the sacred dwelling place of Saint Germain and his followers.	. . .

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