Church Universal and Triumphant

Movement·Founded 1958 CE·At its height in the late 1980s the church claimed tens of thousands of members worldwide. It publishes no current figure and is far smaller than that.

Church Universal and Triumphant

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Core tenet of Church Universal and Triumphant

The I AM Presence is above you, and it is you.

The Chart of Your Divine Self shows three figures on one axis: the Presence, the Christ Self, and the person standing here. The practice is closing the distance.

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Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held

The Chart of Your Divine Self is the teaching in one image: at the top the I AM Presence, the individualised God-flame; in the middle the Christ Self as mediator; at the bottom the person in a body, connected by a cord of light. Every decree is addressed upward along that axis. The doctrine is a direct inheritance from Theosophy through Guy Ballard's I AM Activity of the 1930s, and members are usually told so. Its practical effect is that the practitioner is never petitioning a distant authority — the light being called on is described as the practitioner's own higher identity.

The same ground, other faiths

claims that share this one's ideas
Atman and Brahman are one — the self is the absolute. Hinduism Go deeper →
All things arise dependently. Buddhism Go deeper →
Syadvada — the sevenfold answer. Jainism Go deeper →
God contracted to make room for the world. Judaism Go deeper →
Let your yes be yes. Christianity · precept Go deeper →
Every child is born on the fitra. Islam Go deeper →

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