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...happiness: "You can get caught holding one end of a love, when your father drops, and your mother; when a land is lost, or a time, and your friend blotted out, gone . . ." But in the end, she witnesses a baptism that heralds her own reawakening of faith. One Christian sect, she reads, posits a substance known as "Holy the Firm," a substance buried deep within planets that "is in touch with the Absolute, at base." She writes with irreverent abandon: "Yank the Absolute out of there and into the light, God pale and astounded, spraying a spiral of salts...
Begin's visit to the U.S. last July erased many remaining apprehensions. In Washington, he got along well with Carter and congressional leaders; in New York, he impressed leaders of the Hasidic Lubavitcher sect, the Central Conference of American Rabbis and several other groups. Says Miamian Val Silberman, national vice chairman of the United Jewish Appeal: "Everyone went away feeling good about him." Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman told TIME Jerusalem Correspondent David Halevy that Begin's main and "probably only real success in the U.S. was to unite American Jewry behind him and Israel...
...Indian born in what is now Pakistan, is far different from that practiced by 10 million Indians. Sikhism, a blend of reformed Hinduism and Islam, is practical-minded, allows democratic election of its priests, and abhors personality cults. Bhajan's powerful personality is central to his sect, and ambition has driven him far since his days as an unknown customs officer at the Delhi airport...
...brothers eventually quarreled. Ervil wanted to turn Los Molinos into a beach resort, while Joel envisioned a simple, self-sustaining community. Moreover, Joel, unlike Ervil, thought that a separation of church and civil law was essential. Kicked out of the First Born Church in 1970, Ervil started his own sect, the Church of the Lamb of God, in San Diego. He also began writing tracts claiming the authority to execute anyone who refused to accept him as God's representative. Less than two years later, Joel was shot dead in nearby Ensenada, Mexico...
Within 30 months of the raid, at least ten other opponents of Ervil's new church had either disappeared or were found dead. Among those missing are an Ensenada woman who sided with Joel LeBaron's sect rather than Ervil's, and Utah Polygamist Robert Hunt Simons, whose disappearance came after his wife and a daughter refused to move in with LeBaron. Shot and killed in National City, Calif., was 7-ft. Dean Grover Vest, a follower of Ervil LeBaron's who had begun saying he could do without...