Sunday, August 18, 2024

The "I AM" Activity or Saint Germain Foundation was likely one of the first "Hollywood" New Age religions with many celebrities involved

Actors like Mary Pickford and her husband were two of the adherents among actors and professionals in Hollywood. In fact, Mr. Ballard actually passed away in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles next to Hollywood near Griffith Observatory which is surrounded by Griffith Park which is sort of like a mountain version of Central Park in New York City. One of Mr Ballard's early students actually took my father and I to the house in the mountains near Griffith Observatory where Mr. Ballard actually passed away.

partial quote from:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22I_AM%22_Activity 

The I AM Movement, also referred to as the I AM Temple,[1][2] is the original ascended master teachings religious movement founded in the early 1930s by Guy Ballard (1878–1939) and his wife Edna Anne Wheeler Ballard (1886–1971) in Chicago, Illinois.[3][4] It is an offshoot of theosophy and a major precursor of several New Age religions including the Church Universal and Triumphant.[5]

The movement had up to a million followers in 1938[6] and is still active today on a smaller scale. Upon Ballard's death, several members founded their own splinter groups, adding their own beliefs and teachings to those of the original movement.[7]

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