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Hello,
It must have been in the early ‘70s when I was asked by an ancient organization known as “The Great Brotherhood” to take
on the task of infusing life into the remnants of the organization and to keep it alive into the forseeable future.
Before I got involved the managers of the Brotherhood had depended on things like a book: “The Ultimate Frontier,” an
actual housing development for people who desired to move to Cabery, Illinois and be a part of the local group. Then,
there was an industry, a bucket manufacturer, that could provide a livelihood for those who moved to the area.
Right away I noticed that the Stelle Group, which was what the organization was called, seemed to be trying to get people
who had more than a little bit of money to move to join them. Very little effort seemed to be directed toward contacting the
world at large, which was made up of people who didn’t have much in the way of money. (If you happened to buy a copy of
The Ultimate Frontier and wrote them, they’d talk to you and try to get your commitment).
In other words, Stelle Group was looking for the higher classes of individuals because they had the money that was
needed for Stelle’s projects and growth.
My thrust, from the beginning, was directed toward the average Joe and Jane who were smart enough to detect problems
in the religious world and who were seeking something more truthful and different. We never tried for a housing
development or some kind of local industry. Instead of the publishing of a book, I chose a newsletter format that could be
broadcast in wholesale lots across the various countries in our world using a network of volunteers who would share the
costs of the newsletters and who would assist in the letter’s circulation. The idea was to get the pages of the newsletter in
as many hands as possible using as little money as possible, since our structure was pointed toward getting the job done
on tithes and offerings alone. Our hope for expansion and for future growth lay solely in the newsletter.
As for what we would teach … I must be truthful, in my own mind, I felt that the world already had too many groups
trumpeting what they branded “The Truth.” We chose the “hidden knowledge” of the Bible. Our stance would be along the
lines of the ancient medieval “Guilds” of dedicated monks who guarded the ancient teachings originally given by Yahweh
and His angels to humankind. We would take on the job of safeguarding the original teachings, keeping them safe from
those who would misuse them, offering them carefully to those who had proven that they would not misuse or destroy
them. We would seek out those ancient teachings and preserve them against the coming day when they would be needed
to rebuild the fallen ancient Ecclesias to become the buttress against the total collapse of the civilizations of the world. Our
basis of reference would be the Bible, as it was once taught. Eventually we added a distant cousin to the Bible … The
ancient Kabbalah – not the words of the Kabbalah, mind you, but the knowledge and the insight offered by it. In this
concept, the knowledge of the Bible, and the insights gained from the Kabbalah, built a marvelous picture that we could
effectively use.
Eventually, we worried about storage of the knowledge we were gathering. Fortunately, with the advent of the computer
age, storage and retrieval became a moot point. All we had to do was establish a central storage facility that we could use
for the safeguarding of all our materials.
My initial directive was to begin with a “grass roots” level of teaching and offer it to a beginning core group of students who
would become a part of the “Brotherhood Guild” of the latter day. Then, carefully structuring the methods of teaching, the
core group would be brought bit by bit from the ancient concepts once taught by Yahweh to mankind up through the
modern age and into the future. Thus far, it has worked nicely. The core group is now poised on the lip of the future, ready
to receive even more information and knowledge. When they indicate their readiness, it will be made available to them.
We hope this admittedly sketchy description of how my ministry and the work of the Brotherhood through it evolved will help
those of you who have asked for the story. Obviously, many details have not been told … many stories must remain out of
print. But, for the most part, you have before you the whole story, the big picture.
Thank you for reading it.
It must have been in the early ‘70s when I was asked by an ancient organization known as “The Great Brotherhood” to take
on the task of infusing life into the remnants of the organization and to keep it alive into the forseeable future.
Before I got involved the managers of the Brotherhood had depended on things like a book: “The Ultimate Frontier,” an
actual housing development for people who desired to move to Cabery, Illinois and be a part of the local group. Then,
there was an industry, a bucket manufacturer, that could provide a livelihood for those who moved to the area.
Right away I noticed that the Stelle Group, which was what the organization was called, seemed to be trying to get people
who had more than a little bit of money to move to join them. Very little effort seemed to be directed toward contacting the
world at large, which was made up of people who didn’t have much in the way of money. (If you happened to buy a copy of
The Ultimate Frontier and wrote them, they’d talk to you and try to get your commitment).
In other words, Stelle Group was looking for the higher classes of individuals because they had the money that was
needed for Stelle’s projects and growth.
My thrust, from the beginning, was directed toward the average Joe and Jane who were smart enough to detect problems
in the religious world and who were seeking something more truthful and different. We never tried for a housing
development or some kind of local industry. Instead of the publishing of a book, I chose a newsletter format that could be
broadcast in wholesale lots across the various countries in our world using a network of volunteers who would share the
costs of the newsletters and who would assist in the letter’s circulation. The idea was to get the pages of the newsletter in
as many hands as possible using as little money as possible, since our structure was pointed toward getting the job done
on tithes and offerings alone. Our hope for expansion and for future growth lay solely in the newsletter.
As for what we would teach … I must be truthful, in my own mind, I felt that the world already had too many groups
trumpeting what they branded “The Truth.” We chose the “hidden knowledge” of the Bible. Our stance would be along the
lines of the ancient medieval “Guilds” of dedicated monks who guarded the ancient teachings originally given by Yahweh
and His angels to humankind. We would take on the job of safeguarding the original teachings, keeping them safe from
those who would misuse them, offering them carefully to those who had proven that they would not misuse or destroy
them. We would seek out those ancient teachings and preserve them against the coming day when they would be needed
to rebuild the fallen ancient Ecclesias to become the buttress against the total collapse of the civilizations of the world. Our
basis of reference would be the Bible, as it was once taught. Eventually we added a distant cousin to the Bible … The
ancient Kabbalah – not the words of the Kabbalah, mind you, but the knowledge and the insight offered by it. In this
concept, the knowledge of the Bible, and the insights gained from the Kabbalah, built a marvelous picture that we could
effectively use.
Eventually, we worried about storage of the knowledge we were gathering. Fortunately, with the advent of the computer
age, storage and retrieval became a moot point. All we had to do was establish a central storage facility that we could use
for the safeguarding of all our materials.
My initial directive was to begin with a “grass roots” level of teaching and offer it to a beginning core group of students who
would become a part of the “Brotherhood Guild” of the latter day. Then, carefully structuring the methods of teaching, the
core group would be brought bit by bit from the ancient concepts once taught by Yahweh to mankind up through the
modern age and into the future. Thus far, it has worked nicely. The core group is now poised on the lip of the future, ready
to receive even more information and knowledge. When they indicate their readiness, it will be made available to them.
We hope this admittedly sketchy description of how my ministry and the work of the Brotherhood through it evolved will help
those of you who have asked for the story. Obviously, many details have not been told … many stories must remain out of
print. But, for the most part, you have before you the whole story, the big picture.
Thank you for reading it.
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