I was doing some reading up on the WTBTS former belief that the annointed would go and be with Jehovah and Jesus on "Alcyone" when they died. (Alcyone is a star system in the constellation Taurus. It is the brightest star in the Pleiades open cluster, which is a young cluster, aged at less than 50 million years. Alcyone is approximately 370 light years from Earth. Wikipedia)
Alcyone is in the Pleiades constellation and you may have heard that Charles Taze(r) Russel believed that this was where the throne of Jah was as this star was thought to be the center of the Universe. Ties in with some mytholgy and pyramid stuff etc,..
Anyway, didn't the Heavens Gate members think that when they died that they would be taken to a waiting spaceship hiding in the tail of the Hail Bop Comet?
We all pretty much think that the Heavens Gate members are KRAE KRAE right? Is there really that much difference in belief between what the early JWs used to believe and what the Heavens Gate members "used" to believe? Just really the location as to where they would wind up. Jws would be Alyone, Heavens Gate would be Hale Bops Comet (in space ship) Jws beleived it would happen the instant when they died, Heavens Gate believed it the instant when they died.
I have not heard what the current belief is as far as "where" everyone of the annointed is supposed to wind up when they die. I would love to ask them is they were going to be spread around the universe or be in one location like a government usually does. Of course they would have to be able to obseves what is happening on the Earth etc. I would love to try to pin them down on what physical location they would say that they would be confined to.
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