Stories
the narratives it tells itself
The promised land in Guyana.
The Temple told itself that the United States was heading for fascism and camps, and that it had found a place beyond that. The films shown at recruitment meetings in San Francisco were of orchards, a school and a medical clinic, all of which existed.
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The Scriptures
the texts that carry the stories — and everything elseThe King James Bible, preached and later publicly repudiated
Peoples Forum, the Temple newspaper
The transcribed sermons and the Jonestown tapes