They concluded that they had been chosen to fulfill biblical prophecies, and that they had been given higher-level minds than other people. By June 19, Applewhite and Nettles's beliefs had solidified. Applewhite also read science fiction, including works by Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke. They kept a King James Bible and studied passages from the New Testament focusing on Christology, asceticism, and eschatology. Īpplewhite and Nettles pondered the life of St. Francis of Assisi and read works by Helena Blavatsky, R. D. She told him their meeting had been foretold to her by extraterrestrials, persuading him that he had a divine assignment. Applewhite later recalled that he felt that he had known Nettles for a long time and concluded that they had met in a past life. It has been rumored that it was a psychiatric hospital, but another account had Nettles substituting for a nurse working with premature babies in the nursery. According to Applewhite's writings, the two met in a hospital where she worked while he was visiting a sick friend there. The circumstances of their meeting are unclear. Thomas in Houston, Texas over an alleged relationship with one of his male students, he met Bonnie Nettles, a 44-year-old married nurse with an interest in theosophy and Biblical prophecy, in March 1972. After being fired from the University of St. The son of a Presbyterian minister and a former soldier, Marshall Applewhite began his foray into Biblical prophecy in the early 1970s.
The name "Heaven's Gate" was only used for the final few years of the group's existence, and they had previously been known under the names Human Individual Metamorphosis and Total Overcomers Anonymous. We are happily prepared to leave 'this world' and go with Ti's crew." our 22 years of classroom here on planet Earth is finally coming to conclusion-'graduation' from the Human Evolutionary Level. Just before the mass suicide, the group's website was updated with the message: "Hale–Bopp brings closure to Heaven's Gate.
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They had participated in a mass suicide, a coordinated series of ritual suicides, coinciding with the closest approach of Comet Hale–Bopp. On March 26, 1997, deputies of the San Diego County Sheriff's Department discovered the bodies of the 39 active members of the group, including that of Applewhite, in a house in the San Diego suburb of Rancho Santa Fe. The death of Nettles from cancer in 1985 challenged the group's views on ascension, where they originally believed that they would ascend to heaven while alive aboard a UFO, they later came to believe that the body was merely a "container" or "vehicle" for the soul, and that their consciousness would be transferred to new "Next Level bodies" upon death. The central belief of the group was that followers could transform themselves into immortal extraterrestrial beings by rejecting their human nature, and they would ascend to heaven, referred to as the "Next Level" or "The Evolutionary Level Above Human". Scholars have described the theology of Heaven's Gate as a mixture of Christian millenarianism, New Age, and ufology, and as such it has been characterized as a UFO religion. In 1976, the group stopped recruiting and instituted a monastic lifestyle. Nettles and Applewhite first met in 1972 and went on a journey of spiritual discovery, identifying themselves as the two witnesses of Revelation, attracting a following of several hundred people in the mid-1970s. Heaven's Gate was an American new religious movement (often described as a cult), founded in 1974 and led by Bonnie Nettles (1927–1985) and Marshall Applewhite (1931–1997), known within the movement as Ti and Do, respectively. Human Individual Metamorphosis, Total Overcomers Anonymous
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