esentative” (Jesus) to teach people how to enter the “true” Kingdom of God. But humans inspired by demonic forces killed this individual, also called “the Captain,” and transformed his teachings into “watered-down Country Club religion.” Then a new chance was offered to humanity in the 1970's, when the Kingdom Level dispatched a second team of two Older Members to take up human bodies (or “vehicles”) and resume the teachings. The documents also make clear that the group's members took peculiar new names, another sign of their complete break with the outside world. Applewhite was identified on the Internet site simply as Do while Nettles was Ti.The group's followers arrived on Earth in “staged” spacecraft crashes and were temporarily disembodied before taking human form in bodies especially designated for that purpose by “other crews from the Level Above Human.” The document is full of foreboding about the state of the world, warning that the Government, the wealthy and “moral” leaders are controlled by evil space aliens, who have also used all religions to deceive humans about God. It warns of a coming apocalypse that will destroy civilization. Gang wars and ethnic cleansing are offered as proof that the process has begun. Later there will be a “restoration period” in which another civilization will be born. The group's rigidly authoritarian code is also revealed. “The only way an individual can grow in the Next Level is to learn to be dependent on his Older Member as that source of unlimited growth and knowledge. So, any younger member in good standing forever remains totally dependent upon (and looks to) his Older Member for all things.” The most recent (and final) posting on the Heaven’s Gate Internet site declared that the approach of the Hale-Bopp comet provided ''the 'marker' we’ve been waiting for -...
