Stories
the narratives it tells itself
Armageddon, and who would be left.
From 1989 Asahara taught that a final war was coming, first in the 1990s and then imminently, and that only Aum practitioners would survive it. The doctrine shifted from surviving the catastrophe to bringing it about — a change the group never announced and its ordinary members largely did not know had happened.
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The Scriptures
the texts that carry the stories — and everything elseAsahara's lecture transcripts and initiation manuals
Metsubo no Hi (The Day of Destruction), 1989
Vajrayana Sacca, the internal teaching series