The Stelle Group

2004-2-23 06:30:00

Interesting dialog between Glenys and Douglas. I think to better understand Douglas we need to understand where he is coming from.

If I remember correctly he told us when he first joined the list that he was involved with Richard Kieninger's group. Richard is the author of The Ultimate Frontier and founder of the Stelle Group in Illinois and later The Adelphi Organization in Quinlan, Texas.

In his book, first published in 1963, he described a number of meetings with the Brotherhood of Light where he was given a number of teachings an assignments.

He was told to build a city called Stelle in Illinois to prepare for a cataclysm which would come around 1977. He was told that it would soon reach a population of 250,000.

Richard was asked to leave his own group twice. He blamed his loss of power on conspiracies within, but those who tried him for memberships claimed sexual indiscretions.

He left Stelle permanently in the 1980's and founded The Adelphi Organization in Quinlan, Texas.

He made additional prophecies of World War III in 1999 and that a new land would rise out of the Pacific Ocean on May 5, 2000 where a new nation would be created by their group. By this time 90% of the world's population was to have been destroyed.

The last I heard of Richard he was in jail for bank fraud. I just went to the Adelphi Web site and it indicates he died in 2002. I'm not sure if he died in jail or not.

I read his book, The Ultimate Frontier over twenty years ago and found it very fascinating and had some quite interesting teachings in it. I found it interesting enough to call him up and ask him some questions and later take a trip to Stelle and check it out.

When I visited Stelle around 1982 there were only about a dozen people living there. Most had departed to Texas and the homes left were very unkempt and the little community was being overrun by weeds.

I talked to several who were living there to get a feeling of their mindset and was disappointed at their lack of independent thought - that they seemed to prefer an authoritative structure, very similar to the Mormon Church.

Richard's followers say that he has contact with the true brotherhood and they are the source of his teachings. His critics say that he got his material from the Lemurian Fellowship from Ramona California that he joined in the 1950's. Elizabeth Claire Prophet also got inspiration from this group.

Richard also teaches about the two brotherhoods, but instead of calling the bad guys the Dark Brotherhood he calls them "Black Mentalists." He claims they control their followers with mind control.

Richard claims that the Masters who worked through H. P. Blavatsky and Alice A. Bailey were black mentalists, even though there seems to be no record of his teachers telling him this. It appears that he came to this conclusion on his own. He seemed to have very little knowledge of the Bailey teachings but did seem to study other trains of thought.

Several old timers on the list have been associated with Richard's group. Rick, the founder of this list was very heavily into the group and lived and worked with them. Sharon Jorganson was also involved and was a personal friend of Richard's.

Douglas and others might want to check out my defense of Alice A. Bailey.

All things express their nature. As you wear a feeling it becomes your nature. It might take a moment or a year - it is entirely dependent upon the degree of conviction. As doubts vanish and you can feel "I AM this," you begin to develop the fruit or the nature of the thing you are feeling yourself to be. Neville