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{{Short description|U.S. religious organization}}

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[[J. Gordon Melton]], an American religious scholar, studied the group and ranked it in the category “established cult”.<ref>{{cite book |author=J. Gordon Melton |title=Encyclopedic handbook of cults in America |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KRTGzgpDvL4C&pg=PA65 |pages=58–68 |year=1992 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=9780815311409 |accessdate=27 August 2009}}</ref> Also present in New Zealand, the St. Germain Foundation is considered by the writer [[Robert S. Ellwood]] as a religious group with [[Theosophy|theosophical]] and [[esoteric]] roots.<ref>{{cite book |author=Robert S. Ellwood |title=Islands of the dawn: the story of alternative spirituality in New Zealand |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tmwK3xu4PAgC&pg=PA147 |pages=147, 148 |year=1993 |publisher=University of Hawaii Press |isbn=9780824814878 |accessdate=27 August 2009 |via=Google Books}}</ref> It is recognized by the [[Theosophical Society]] and the [[Great White Brotherhood]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Paul Christopher |title=Alien intervention: the spiritual mission of UFOs |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0E4kBeK0UrYC&pg=PA68 |page=68 |year=1998 |publisher=Huntington House Publishers |isbn=9781563841484 |accessdate=27 August 2009 |via=Google Books}}</ref>

[[J. Gordon Melton]], an American religious scholar, studied the group and ranked it in the category “established cult”.<ref>{{cite book |author=J. Gordon Melton |title=Encyclopedic handbook of cults in America |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KRTGzgpDvL4C&pg=PA65 |pages=58–68 |year=1992 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=9780815311409 |accessdate=27 August 2009}}</ref> Also present in New Zealand, the St. Germain Foundation is considered by the writer [[Robert S. Ellwood]] as a religious group with [[Theosophy|theosophical]] and [[esoteric]] roots.<ref>{{cite book |author=Robert S. Ellwood |title=Islands of the dawn: the story of alternative spirituality in New Zealand |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tmwK3xu4PAgC&pg=PA147 |pages=147, 148 |year=1993 |publisher=University of Hawaii Press |isbn=9780824814878 |accessdate=27 August 2009 |via=Google Books}}</ref> It is recognized by the [[Theosophical Society]] and the [[Great White Brotherhood]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Paul Christopher |title=Alien intervention: the spiritual mission of UFOs |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0E4kBeK0UrYC&pg=PA68 |page=68 |year=1998 |publisher=Huntington House Publishers |isbn=9781563841484 |accessdate=27 August 2009 |via=Google Books}}</ref>

The group founded a community in France in 1956 and is now located in the [[Alpes-de-Haute-Provence]]. It counts less than 50 members.<ref>Jean-Pierre Van Girt, ”La France aux cent sectes”, Vauvenargues editions, 1997, p. 193,194 ({{ISBN|2-7443-0049-7}})</ref>

The group founded a community in France in 1956 is located in the [[Alpes-de-Haute-Provence]]. It counts less than 50 members.<ref>Jean-Pierre Van Girt, ”La France aux cent sectes”, Vauvenargues editions, 1997, p. 193,194 ({{ISBN|2-7443-0049-7}})</ref>

Worldwide, the religious group had over one million members in 1940, but it began to decline after Ballard’s death.<ref>{{cite book |author=James R. Lewis |title=Cults: a reference handbook |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aqmbnfXCzn0C&pg=PA132 |pages=131, 132 |year=2005 |publisher=Abc-Clio |isbn=9781851096183 |accessdate=27 August 2009 |via=Google Books}}</ref> Among its splinter groups have been [[The Bridge to Freedom]], [[The Summit Lighthouse]], and the [[Church Universal and Triumphant]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Jean-François Mayer |author-link=Jean-François Mayer |title=Les nouvelles voies spirituelles: enquête sur la religiosité parallèle en Suisse |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tmn2yDLUYuMC&pg=PA120 |page=120 |language=French |year=1993 |publisher=L’Age d’Homme |isbn=9782825104125 |accessdate=27 August 2009 |via=Google Books}}</ref>

Worldwide, the religious group had over one million members in 1940, but it began to decline after Ballard’s death.<ref>{{cite book |author=James R. Lewis |title=Cults: a reference handbook |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aqmbnfXCzn0C&pg=PA132 |pages=131, 132 |year=2005 |publisher=Abc-Clio |isbn=9781851096183 |accessdate=27 August 2009 |via=Google Books}}</ref> Among its splinter groups have been [[The Bridge to Freedom]], [[The Summit Lighthouse]], and the [[Church Universal and Triumphant]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Jean-François Mayer |author-link=Jean-François Mayer |title=Les nouvelles voies spirituelles: enquête sur la religiosité parallèle en Suisse |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tmn2yDLUYuMC&pg=PA120 |page=120 |language=French |year=1993 |publisher=L’Age d’Homme |isbn=9782825104125 |accessdate=27 August 2009 |via=Google Books}}</ref>

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U.S. based religious organization

Saint Germain Foundation “I Am” Temple, Seattle, Washington. The building is a former cinema on Aurora Avenue North.

The Saint Germain Movement is an American religious movement, headquartered in Schaumburg, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, with a major facility just north of Dunsmuir, California, in the buildings and property of the Shasta Springs retreat.[1] There is also a facility in the Capitol Hill neighborhood in downtown Denver, Colorado.

The organization’s doctrines are based on teachings and wisdom received by Guy Ballard in 1930. Ballard was hiking on the slopes of Mount Shasta in California, and claimed that Saint Germain appeared to him and began training him to be a “Messenger”.[2] Ballard published his experiences in a series of books. The organization’s philosophies are known as the “I AM” Activity, and its members popularly known as “I AM” students.[3]

There are hundreds of “I AM” temples and sanctuaries located in most principal cities of the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia and locations in India, Latin America and Africa where members come together every week to decree for the benefit of mankind. There are also group meetings on various continents, as well as introductory classes and musicals.[4] The Saint Germain Foundation and Press serves “I AM” students all over the world and performs pageants for residents and visitors alike in Mt. Shasta: “For more than 70 years, the ‘I AM’ COME! Pageant, on the Life of Jesus the Christ, has been given annually in the outdoor G. W. Ballard Amphitheater, with magnificent Mt. Shasta (California) as a backdrop.”[5]

J. Gordon Melton, an American religious scholar, studied the group and ranked it in the category “established cult”.[6] Also present in New Zealand, the St. Germain Foundation is considered by the writer Robert S. Ellwood as a religious group with theosophical and esoteric roots.[7] It is recognized by the Theosophical Society and the Great White Brotherhood.[8]

The group founded a community in France in 1956 that is located in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. It counts less than 50 members.[9]

Worldwide, the religious group had over one million members in 1940, but it began to decline after Ballard’s death.[10] Among its splinter groups have been The Bridge to Freedom, The Summit Lighthouse, and the Church Universal and Triumphant.[11]

  1. ^ Santucci, James A. (2004). “The Theosophical Society”. In Lewis, James R.; Petersen, Jesper Aagaard (eds.). Controversial New Religions (1st ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. p. 283. ISBN 978-0-19-515682-9.
  2. ^ King, Godfre Ray. Unveiled Mysteries. Chicago, Illinois: Saint Germain Press 1934. page vii: “The time has arrived, when the Great Wisdom, held and guarded for many centuries in the Far East, is now to come forth in America, at the command of those Great Ascended Masters who direct and protect the evolution of mankind upon this Earth.”
  3. ^ Saint Germain Foundation. The History of the “I AM” Activity and Saint Germain Foundation. Schaumburg, Illinois: Saint Germain Press 2003
  4. ^ “Our Activities – “I AM” Group Meetings”. Saint Germain Foundation. Retrieved 24 May 2023.
  5. ^ ““I AM” COME PAGEANT”. Saint Germain Foundation. Retrieved 25 May 2023.
  6. ^ J. Gordon Melton (1992). Encyclopedic handbook of cults in America. Taylor & Francis. pp. 58–68. ISBN 9780815311409. Retrieved 27 August 2009.
  7. ^ Robert S. Ellwood (1993). Islands of the dawn: the story of alternative spirituality in New Zealand. University of Hawaii Press. pp. 147, 148. ISBN 9780824814878. Retrieved 27 August 2009 – via Google Books.
  8. ^ Paul Christopher (1998). Alien intervention: the spiritual mission of UFOs. Huntington House Publishers. p. 68. ISBN 9781563841484. Retrieved 27 August 2009 – via Google Books.
  9. ^ Jean-Pierre Van Girt, La France aux cent sectes, Vauvenargues editions, 1997, p. 193,194 (ISBN 2-7443-0049-7)
  10. ^ James R. Lewis (2005). Cults: a reference handbook. Abc-Clio. pp. 131, 132. ISBN 9781851096183. Retrieved 27 August 2009 – via Google Books.
  11. ^ Jean-François Mayer (1993). Les nouvelles voies spirituelles: enquête sur la religiosité parallèle en Suisse (in French). L’Age d’Homme. p. 120. ISBN 9782825104125. Retrieved 27 August 2009 – via Google Books.

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