Don't you want devoted followers who leave their families for you, give their money to you, give their money to you give their bodies to you give up their lives

for you consider you God and will kill for you

you don't you want to become a cult leader?

Hello and welcome to serial killing a podcast where we also veer off the serial killer path to delve into other topics within our beloved

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podcast will be on the Australian cult The Family. And as with any cult, there is a cult leader and the leader of the family was a woman

named Anne Hamilton Byrne.

Part 2, getting into the actual cult activities of the family.

So let's get back into it.

If you haven't seen part 1, I highly suggest you go back and watch it, and I will leave a link to that in the notes below.

So Anne Hamilton's sermons made up the majority of the family's doctrine. She would tell them things like, quote, I'm looking right at each one of you. You are the

initiate. You are the cosmic being. You're staring into the awakening. This is the moment of

rebirth on a new planet. We've received the call and great things will be done."

You see Anne stressed the need to be

unwaveringly loyal, strong, discreet of course and dedicated.

She said, quote,

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