Held by most — broad, but not universal
The practice Asahara taught is still the path.
This is the position of the main body of Aleph and the reason the 2000 reform did not hold. The meditation, the stages and the cosmology are the ones Aum taught; what Aleph says it has abandoned is the apocalyptic conclusion drawn from them.
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Contested within — affirmed by some schools, refused by others
Aleph says the crimes were the acts of individuals. The state says the group is the same group.
Aleph's public material treats 1994 and 1995 as the work of members who have since been tried and executed, and points to the compensation it pays. The Public Security Intelligence Agency treats Aleph as the same organisation under a different name, with the same object of devotion. A reader is entitled to both statements and to the fact that they conflict.
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