This was started by your grandfather, is that correct?

Correct.

Can you describe to people what the defining mission was of this particular sect, cult,

why it was started, what they believed, what the guiding principles were.

So people get a feel for what defined this particular ideology.

I wouldn't say that I could entirely speak from my grandfather.

Nothing was written down.

He did everything charitamatically, and he was very mercurial.

But my understanding, and this part I know is historically accurate, that by 1931, they were being

written up in the newspaper as a boys organization that was going up to the mountains,

which would later become where I was raised, and that he used to be a Boy Scout leader,

that he left the Boy Scouts in order to have more influence over the boys that he led. And so from 1931 until sometime in the

1960s, it was really a all-male organization. And no one was allowed to marry and nobody had children.

So the men who were there were

ostensibly or at least theoretically celibate and they were just all men for decades.

And then my mother was his fourth child, his first girl. And in the 1960s, he I think decided

since the world hadn't ended and he said it was going to end in the

1970s, that he needed to make sure she got married. And so he married her off to one of his, well,

to his main lead man, who was my father. And I think my grandfather's ideology was that he was

building the army of God. And he believed that God called him to be the next prophet, kind of like Muhammad or Elijah.

He used to quote Elijah a lot.

And he believed that he would be 500 years old and that he would lead in the army to fight in Armageddon.

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