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	Marshall Applewhite
		Applewhite's characterization proved to be inadequate in March 1997, after the group's elaborate mass suicide.
		However, that awareness cannot stand in the way of my simple acknowledgment of these facts for the sake of those who might go with us, and also for the sake of those who desire to be a contributor to our demise or exit from this world.
		In this day and time the authorities make no bones about their "need" to protect the public from "dangerous radicals like us." They will aggressively attempt to require us to abide by their values and their rules (which are of this Luciferian world and its society -- as difficult as that might be to believe).
	www.rotten.com /library/bio/religion/cult/marshall-applewhite (698 words)

	Marshall Applewhite - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Applewhite was born in 1931, the son of a Presbyterian minister who started new churches and moved from place to place in Texas about every three years.
		While living in Houston, Applewhite had some trouble with his heart and ended up in the hospital and, according to the nurses, had a near-death experience.
		The two, never lovers, gave one another playful names such as "bo" and "peep." Applewhite saw Nettles as his superior, and there is evidence that their mental illnesses rebounded on one another within the cult fabric.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Marshall_Applewhite (262 words)

	Online NewsHour: Discussion on Mass Suicide -- March 28, 1997
		Applewhite, who reportedly first became interested in the occult some 20 years ago, was an accomplished singer and musician who received a Master's degree from the music school at the University of Colorado in the early 60s.
		MARSHALL APPLEWHITE: We came for the express purpose to offer a doorway to the kingdom of God at the end of this civilization, the end of this age, the end of this millennium.
		Applewhite was able to exercise undue control over his followers with the message that it wasn't really him talking; that this alien entity had actually come into him to enter his body in 1975, and that the message that he was using was beyond the time-space continuum.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/religion/cult_3-28.html (2377 words)

	Cult leader's son offers own message (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Marshall Herff Applewhite, the leader of the Heaven's Gate cult, was among 39 men and women found dead last week in a California mansion.
		He gleaned what little information there was from newspaper articles and conversations with Marshall Applewhite's sister, Louise, who tried for years to contact her brother.
		Applewhite, who took a break from trimming the lawn at his Corpus Christi home to speak briefly with the AP, said he harbored no resentment toward his father for leaving his family or for joining the Heaven's Gate cult.
	www.lubbockonline.com /news/033097/cult.htm (482 words)

	CNN - Applewhite: From young overachiever to cult leader - Mar. 28, 1997
		Applewhite, who was born in 1931, was the son of a Presbyterian minister who started new churches and moved from place to place in Texas about every three years.
		Applewhite and Nettles would live together in what he termed a sexless union until she died in 1985.
		Applewhite and Nettles made news in 1975 when they convinced a group of 20 people from Waldport, Oregon, to leave their homes and move to eastern Colorado, where they would meet with a space ship.
	www.cnn.com /US/9703/28/applewhite (773 words)

	Heaven's Gate
		Marshall Applewhite was the founder called Bo along with his partner, Bonnie Nettles known as Peep.
		I look to Marshall Applewhite's birth chart and the transits at the time of the suicide since he controlled the group and was the leader/patriarch.
		Marshall Herff Applewhite was born May 17, 1931 at 3:20 am in Spur, TX.
	home.swbell.net /naomiben/heaven.htm (1134 words)

	Thomas H. Marshall - Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Marshall, Thomas H. (1893–1982) An English sociologist and professor of sociology at the London School of Economics, he is best-known for his theory of citizenship.
		Marshall Retires From Divided Supreme Court;Liberal Is Second to Quit in a Year;Bush to Move Quickly on Successor
		NASA and the Marshall Center recognize employees during annual honor ceremony.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1O88-MarshallThomasH.html (649 words)

	UCLA Today: CULTS CAN BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH
		Very rare is a classical case of paranoia, like Marshall Applewhite, whose grandiose delusion, after it crystallized, persisted in an otherwise relatively well-organized personality.
		Applewhite remained mentally integrated enough to organize a cultic group along fairly typical lines, but with the eventual intensity of folie a famille.
		Normal to begin with, by the time a cult member finally escapes from the clutches of the group he or she is likely to be suffering from a post-traumatic stress disorder and needs help to re-enter society and rebuild a normal life.
	www.today.ucla.edu /1997/970411CultsCan.html (525 words)

	The Watchman Expositor: Heaven's Gate Timeline
		Marshall Herff Applewhite is born near Corpus Christi, Texas son of a Presbyterian minister.
		Applewhite leaves his employment as a Choral Director at the University of Alabama.
		Applewhite meets Bonnie Lu Nettles, a nurse and astrologer involved in Theosophy and reincarnation.
	www.watchman.org /cults/hgtetime.htm (734 words)

	HEAVEN'S GATE
		Marshall moved to San Diego County CA with the group, now renamed "Heaven's Gate", and lived on to become one of the 39 suicides.
		Applewhite said that bodies were only "the temporary containers of the soul...The final act of metamorphosis or separation from the human kingdom is the 'disconnect' or separation from the human physical container or body in order to be released from the human environment."
		Perhaps Applewhite was attempting to emulate both the UFO inhabitants and ancient Christian tradition.
	www.religioustolerance.org /dc_highe.htm (1443 words)

	Local News
		The same Applewhite who fell out of the tree all those years ago now was making news as the leader of a cult in which he and 38 other members committed suicide near San Diego, Calif.
		Applewhite, who was known to cult followers as "Do," like the musical note, was born May 17, 1931, in Spur while his father was pastor of the Presbyterian church there.
		She also remembered the young Marshall Applewhite, who was about seven or eight when the family moved to Sweetwater.
	web.reporter-news.com /local97/cult032997.html (720 words)

	"Heaven's Gate" Suicides
		Applewhite taught his followers that he was a messenger from an "Evolutionary Kingdom Level Above Human." He claimed that periodically this higher kingdom sent messengers to earth and that one such previous visitor was Jesus.
		Applewhite believed he was once "Jesus" in that same "away team" now "incarnated again in...[a] mature (adult) [body] that had been picked and prepped for [his] current mission." He advised that if his followers studied with him, he would become their pivotal link to this higher level.
		According to Marshall Applewhite the world was merely a "stepping stone" to "the true Kingdom of God." And this world was about to be "recycled" or "spaded under" because its inhabitants had refused to evolve.
	www.culteducation.com /hgate.html (1053 words)

	Heaven's Gate: A Profile
		Applewhite earned a B.A. at Austin College in 1952 and studied briefly at Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia beforedropping out to pursue a career in music.
		Applewhite and Nettles met in Houston in 1972 after he had been dismissed from St. Thomas University as the result of a scandal involving a male student.
		Applewhite's father was a Presbyterian minister, and he briefly studied for the ministry before electing a career in music.
	religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /nrms/NRMS_unedit/hgprofile.html (2578 words)

	Heaven's Gate Revisited - 10 Year Later
		Applewhite convinced 39 followers to commit suicide so that their souls could take a ride on a spaceship that they believed was hiding behind the comet carrying Jesus; such beliefs have led some observers to characterize the group as a type of "UFO religion."
		All went willingly under the guidance of their leader, Marshall Applewhite, also known as 'Do.' Their bodies were discovered by a former cult member who had received videotapes in the mail telling him that by the time he watched them, the group would have moved on.
		Applewhite offe red a simpler, more focused way of life that also isolated group members from the outside world and fostered a shared belief system.
	www.crystalinks.com /heavensgate307.html (3671 words)

	Definition of Marshall Applewhite
		Applewhite was born in 1931, the son of a Presbyterian minister who started new churches and moved from place to place in Texas about every three years.
		In 1972, Applewhite's life took a turn for the worse, when he left his family and met a 44-year-old nurse named Bonnie Lu Nettles.
		The two, never lovers, gave one another playful names such as "bo" and "peep." Applewhite saw Nettles as his superior, and there is evidence that their mental illnesses rebounded on one another within the cult fabric.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Marshall_Applewhite (317 words)

	UFO Cults Multiply in End-Time
		Fast forward with me now to 1997, as cult leader Marshall Applewhite leads his deluded flock of true believers into what they imagined to be a fantastic adventure from death to new life as UFO explorers.
		Applewhite convinced his followers that the Hale-Bopp comet was the sign for which they had long waited—a grand opportunity to poison and kill their physical bodies—which they called their "shells" or "containers." Passing into spirit, the 39 fully expected to then hook up with a UFO mother ship parked nearby in rugged mountainous terrain.
		Marshall Applewhite was often pictured as a loving, kind, and tenderhearted man, oozing with genuine concern for humanity.
	www.texemarrs.com /051997/ufo_cults.htm (2115 words)

	mass suicide
		Applewhite, 65, leader of the Heaven's Gate cult, was a native of Corpus Christi, Texas.
		Son of a Presbyterian minister, Applewhite studied for the ministry but switched his focus to music, serving at one point as a church choir director and performing in operas.
		Applewhite taught music from 1966 to 1970 at the University of St. Thomas in Houston.
	www.corvalliscommunitypages.com /Americas/US/Oregon/corvallis/330thumb.html (2440 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Applewhite was born in 1931, the son of Louise Haecker Winfield and Marshall Herff Applewhite,
		He was also very dedicated to music and at his father's urging he pursued a degree in music and pre-theology at Austin College.
		In 1972, Applewhite's life took a marked turn, when he left his family and met a 44-year-old nurse named Bonnie Nettles.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Marshall_Applewhite (392 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The newest leader in the news, the late Marshall Applewhite of the cult known as "Heaven's Gate," is no different.
		No doubt this leader and his cult exhibited traits quite different from other groups in years past, but the end result was the same as that of other cults ¯; the death of an entire group of people.
		Applewhite convinced 38 people that if they followed his teachings and methods and committed suicide, they would find themselves on a spaceship trailing behind the Hale-Bopp comet, headed for a better place.
	www.marshall.edu /parthenon/archives/19970401/ourview.html (290 words)

	The Watchman Expositor: Heaven's Gate Profile
		They came to the conclusion they were the two witnesses mentioned in the Book of Revelation, and developed the germ form of their theology that the kingdom of heaven was a physical evolutionary level.
		Nettles and Applewhite had predicted their own death and resurrection, and members were becoming disillusioned because this promised "demonstration" had not occurred.
		Nettles died of liver cancer in 1985, but not before Applewhite came to the conclusion that she was actually his Older Member from the Next Level.
	www.watchman.org /profile/hvnsgatepro.htm (1995 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / Heaven’s Gate: Why Did They All Die?
		Before long Applewhite was arrested for stealing a rental car, and he spent several months in prison.
		Soon afterward, in California, which in the 1970s was awash in peculiar pseudo-religions, Applewhite and Nettles started gathering dozens of willing believers in their twenties, all eager to give up their possessions, cut their family ties, and follow the pair, who were calling themselves the Two (or sometimes Bo and Peep).
		Applewhite and Nettles imposed a strict regimen on their followers, with rituals for every task—eating, bathing, sleeping, washing clothes, cooking—timed down to the minute.
	www.americanheritage.com /rss/articles/web/20070326-heavens-gate-cult-suicide-hale-bopp-star-trek-marshall-herff-applewhite.shtml (994 words)

	The Spur connection
		The reverend's son, Marshall, the 66-year-old leader of the Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., cult that committed mass suicide earlier this week, was among the 39 found dead in a million-dollar mansion in the hills north of San Diego.
		Soon Applewhite and Nettles left to travel and developed beliefs that they were reincarnated aliens.
		Applewhite and Nettles called their group Human Individual Metamorphosis, or HIM, and recruited members from California, Colorado, New Mexico and Oregon.
	www.lubbockonline.com /news/032997/spur.htm (869 words)

	Ti and Do (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Better known to the followers of Heaven's Gate as Do, Marshall Applewhite was thought to be the "Present Representative" or successor representative to Jesus.
		Do and Ti, or the Two, as Applewhite and his former partner, Bonnie Lu Trusdale Nettles were known, plucked bits of doctrine intertwining New Age symbols and ancient belief systems.
		Applewhite believed that by shedding any signs of sexuality was integral, and several of the men, including Applewhite, went so far as to get castrated.
	www.conncoll.edu /academics/departments/relstudies/290/newage/tianddo.html (233 words)

	From Religious Family to Reins of Deadly Cult
		Applewhite grew up in a family that was, by all accounts, loving, but perpetually nomadic.
		Applewhite was a philosophy major, and he and Alexander took several philosophy courses together, becoming particularly entranced with a professor named Glen Maxwell, who first introduced them to Plato, Aristotle and John Locke.
		Applewhite and his wife, the former Ann Pearce, were newlyweds at the time, as were Mrs.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/national/0329mass-suicide-leader.html (1114 words)

	Heaven's Gate (Part 16)
		CNN and Time magazine reported Sunday that cult members killed themselves because leader Marshall Herff Applewhite convinced them he was dying of cancer.
		Newsweek reported in its April 7 issue that Applewhite may have had only six months to live, and that he told his followers his body was ``disintegrating.'' Computer disks sent to the former cult member identified in news reports as Rio D'Angelo contain a message from an unidentified female cult member: ``Once he is gone.
		In my opinion, it was like going to bed and knowing that they would wake up still alive but not in their bodies.'' Sawyer said he once believed in Applewhite's message of renouncing human ties and corporeal distractions to the point that he considered emulating the former music teacher and voluntarily castrating himself.
	www.sacred-texts.com /ufo/39dead16.htm (1071 words)

	Return to Sermon Archive
		Applewhite attended Union Theological Seminary in Richmond for awhile and then served as music director at the First Presbyterian Church in Gastonia, N.C. before he went west and went weird.
		And even before they acted, we could have known they were evil, by what they said, because they used words to justify their evil actions.
		Applewhite’s cult talked about “exiting the human vehicle.” Jim Jones had his people down in Guyana practicing suicide rituals.
	members.tripod.com /yarpc/csihbevl.htm (2064 words)

	Heaven's Gate mass suicide
		Applewhite himself compared the obedience of a ‘good' religious disciple to that of a ‘good' dog.
		Applewhite had told them that he would soon die of cancer (according to the coroner's post-mortem, he did not have cancer at all).
		The psychopath patient Marshall Applewhite ‘brainwashed' 38 people into giving up their freedom, their rationality, their possessions, their friends, their relatives, their names (which the cult replaced with cryptic acronyms, like rkkody), and finally their lives.
	www.stelling.nl /simpos/heavgate.htm (1173 words)

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