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David Berg, who was never seen.
He led a worldwide movement for twenty-five years by post, from addresses his own members did not know. Photographs of him are rare; the literature drew him as a lion.
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The shared center — held across the tradition
The law is love, and nothing else survives it.
Berg's Law of Love held that any act done in genuine love is permitted. It made the group generous, mobile and fearless, and it is what the abuse was justified under.
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Contested within — affirmed by some schools, refused by others
The letters carried the authority.
For four decades the group was governed by mailed letters treated as current revelation. Members read the newest one and changed their lives that week; critics and former members describe the same mechanism.
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Cosmos & Afterlife
how reality is built, and what follows deathThe nature of reality
A world in its last days, and a movement inside it that answers to the post
After death
The rapture, the millennium and a resurrection body — expected soon, and dated more than once