Marshall Applewhite

Heaven's Gate cult leader

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Sayings by Marshall Applewhite

The Earth's present 'civilization' is about to be recycled — 'spaded under.'

1993-1997 — From Heaven's Gate public statements/manifestos, explaining the impending doom of Earth.
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Its inhabitants are refusing to evolve. The 'weeds' have taken over the garden and disturbed its usefulness beyond repair.

1993-1997 — From Heaven's Gate public statements/manifestos, describing Earth's state.
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If you can get your name in our 'book,' on our spacecraft's computer (and only there), making your actions reflect that desire – then you will go with us.

1990s — From Heaven's Gate public statements, outlining the criteria for joining them.
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Everything of this world has been offered us, and I can honestly say, 'Thanks, but no thanks.'

1997 — From a farewell statement, 'Do's Final Exit'.
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You see, death to us, has nothing to do with the body...

1990s — Explaining their philosophy on death and ascension.
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we do in all honesty, hate this world.

1990s — A core statement of their philosophy, found in various documents and videos.
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Your only chance to evacuate is to leave with us planet Earth about to be recycled.

1996 — From recruitment videos/statements like 'Last Chance to Evacuate Earth Before it is Recycled'.
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What if we had to exit our vehicles by our own choice?

1997 — Reported as a question he posed to his followers, introducing the idea of mass suicide.
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Just as within a civilization, a civilization evolves upward, that each segment of civilization becomes more civilized, less barbaric in some ways. It's supposed to, not that it necessarily does. Sometimes it seems to appear to be more civilized when in fact it becomes more barbaric. More quick to condemn the rest of the world, more quick to be, quick to kill the rest of the world that does not think as it thinks.

Early 1990s — From 'Planet Earth About to be Recycled' video/document.
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One of the major tools of Lucifer is the New Age movement -- Theosophy, Ascended Masters, channeling, Eastern religions, mysticism, yoga, Christ consciousness within, and the 'Ye are God' concept. All are a fantasy and a trap.

1988 — From his 1988 writing 'The UFO Two and Their Crew'.
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Ti had 'traveled to the Next Level' because she had 'too much energy to remain on Earth', abandoning her body to make the journey.

1985 — Explanation for Bonnie Nettles' death to his followers.
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It is suicide to not leave.

1996-1997 — From a video, arguing that staying on Earth was the true suicide.
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We're so excited, we don't know what to do, because we're about to reenter the level above human. And we feel like my Older Member and the crew working with my Older Member has said to us 'We can't wait any longer! I mean, we've done everything we can, you don't need to stay there any longer!' …. It's okay with us. We're very, very glad. We hope that we took advantage of the time that we were incarnate in these human vehicles, and we'll be of better service to the next level because of it.

1997 — From 'Do's Final Exit' video.
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If I have truly given it up, then I am not that anymore.

1991-1992 — From 'Beyond Human -- Session 7,' discussing identity and overcoming humanness.
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If I speak of something in my past that was not my Older Member's past, then I am separate for the time that I am discussing it.

1991-1992 — From 'Beyond Human -- Session 7,' discussing identity and channeling the 'Older Member.'
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I'm afraid that would be a trick that Lucifer, or Satan, would pull to have you satisfied with something that you're anticipating.

1991-1992 — From 'Beyond Human -- Session 7,' warning against traditional interpretations of Jesus' return.
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So, who's talking? It's obviously not my Father. It's not my Older Member. It's not my Older Member's Older Member. It's somebody else, and therefore, for the time that I am identifying with that, then it is not my Heavenly Father, my Older Member speaking. I am not a vessel - I am a separate identity.

1991-1992 — From 'Beyond Human -- Session 7,' emphasizing the importance of shedding individual identity.
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When Jesus tried to tell them that the Father speaks through Him, and that He and His Father are one, He was trying to help them understand this same process that we're discussing right now. And I'm so glad that it was pointed out to me and I was reminded how easily I can get off the track in that way.

1991-1992 — From 'Beyond Human -- Session 7,' equating his own experience with Jesus'.
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I believe that in an earlier tape we discussed that you might be disappointed if you are anticipating some spacecraft coming over the Mount of Olives or someplace in the Middle East or in the Israel area, and it hovers there, or it rests over that mountain, and an individual steps out and comes down through the air with a flowing white robe and flowing long hair, looking like the picture that artists have depicted of Jesus and shows his scars and says, 'Here am I, Jesus.'

1991-1992 — From 'Beyond Human -- Session 7,' debunking traditional images of the Second Coming.
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We must address that question. Who was speaking when Jesus said...or another way to say it, who was saying, 'I will come again'?

1991-1992 — From 'Beyond Human -- Session 7,' a rhetorical question setting up his explanation of Jesus' identit…
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