. They are free today and living normal lives in the real world - it is now my prayer that my wife can be free too, and all the other victims of Gilbert Clark, aka "Davied Israel", and eventually come home. I pray for all the families shattered by this man, that they may one day be restored in God's grace, and I pray for Clark too, and those still with him, that the demons that drive them may be cast out and that they may come to know of the true God, and of His Christ, and of the simplicity of His love and truth.
"For certain men whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are godless men, who change the grace of our God into a licence for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord" (Jude 1:4, NIV).
"And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast" (1 Pet.5:10, NIV).
Footnotes
[60] A Berlin-educated German Jew from Prussia, and well acquainted with the Kabbalah, joined the Mormon Church in 1841 and taught Joseph Smith the Zohar. Return
[61] cp. Book of Mormon, LDS 2 Ne.2:25; RLDS 1:115 Return
[62] “As I urged you when I went into Macedonia, stay there in Ephesus so that you may command certain men not to teach false doctrines any longer: nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies. These promote controversies rather than God's work - which is by faith (1 Tim.1:3-4, NIV). These gnosticising tendences were recognised, and warned against, very early on in the New Testament Church. Little wonder that Clark despises Paul. Return
[63] “The wedding feast of the Bridegroom is the pure union of all the members of His Kingdom..The union of the Priesthood in Heaven and the people on the earth being an orgiastic (physical as well as spiritual) experience and happening - Zion is truly a people who are one heart, one mind, one flesh people” (Hava Pratt, letter to Jess Groesbeck, May 14, 1986, p.3). Quoting the Mormon Doctrine & Covenants, she goes on to explain that it is these sexual practices that are “unlawful to utter” [i.e. to discuss in public] (D&C LDS 76:114-118, RLDS 76:8). Throughout the letter she makes it clear that these practices are to be found in “Patri-Matriarchal Marriage”, the SAI term for mixed marriage. Return
[64] “Yes, ordinances here at SAI are physical - sexual - temporal - outward - but so are baptism and the sacrament...Why do you find it so difficult to believe that “Light” can be transmitted by sexual intercourse?...Isn’t God love? Isn’t intercourse the most focused intimate form of expressing that love?” (Bob Cummins, concubine-‘husband’ of Hava Pratt, in a letter to the author, December 30, 1988, pp. 4,6). Return
[65] cp. The Sacred Scrolls of Sons Ahman Israel, Volume 1, Oracles of Mohonri {OM} 1 Mohonri 1:28, Original Version, First Edition - here "Yahweh", the SAI Demiurge, is described as creating both "good" and "bad" seed - the "enemy" {Satan} also creates "bad" seed - v.31 implying that Yahweh and Satan are somehow "one". Return
[66] Jesus and Mary Magdalene in the SAI system. Return
[67] cp. OM 1 Mohonri 1:36. Return
[68] Not dissimilar from the Baptist teaching of "once saved, always saved, doctrine. No matter how far a Christian may fall into sin, the Baptists teach, they will be saved. Return
[69] Called by Clark “Aumen” (or “Ahman”), the kabbalists’ Ain Soph Aur - see Part 2, §21.1. Return
[70] Rigid asceticsm is the “public image” of SAI with their Beni-Ami Monastry but their inner teachings and doctrines are the gross licentiousness of “patr-matriarchal marriage”, or sexual communism. In early SAI may “levels” of mixed marriage were in fact practiced, and not just within the “hierarchy” and may possibly still be practiced today. “Delbert [Ammaron] and Patti [Delbert’s legal wife], Ted [a member of the hierarchy], and all are now in a full united order [economically, sexually, etc.]” (Hava Pratt, letter to the author, April 23, 1988, p.1). “Ted is working in Las Vegas, I think I told you that he, Delbert, Patti, Faith [Clark’s legal wife] have all entered into a deeper united order Covenant” (Hava Pratt, letter to the author, March 1, 1988, p.2). Return
[71] “1. We believe in Yahweh-God, the Father Almighty, creator of heaven and earth. 2. We believe in Yah’shua haMashiach/Jesus Christ, His Only Begotten Son, our Lord. He was conceived by the power of the Ruach haKodesh/Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended to the dead. On the third day He rose again. He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of God the Father Almighty. He will come again to judge the living and the dead. We believe in the Ruach haKodesh/Holy Spirit, 10. the universal Body of Christ, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen” (NCCG version of the Apostles’ Creed). Return
[72] After the death of Joseph Smith the Utah Mormon Church, like Marcion, abolished wine and substituted water in their sacrament of the Lord’s Supper. The Reorganized (RLDS) Church retained the original practice as taught in the Doctrine & Covenants (D&C LDS 20:75, RLDS 17:22; LDS 89:6, RLDS 89:1). However, whereas the Utah Mormon Church substituted water for unfermented wine (grape juice), Clark went in the opposite direction and instituted strong alcoholic wine, imitating his predecessor John Bryant who used brandy. Return
[73] Precisely imitated by SAI. However, instead of discarding everything but the Gospel of Luke and most of the Pauline works, Clark discarded everything except the Johannine writings and Hebrews. The Utah Mormons discarded only the Song of Solomon in the Old Testament, but both they and the RLDS use a KJV Bible substantially modified by Joseph Smith (LDS Joseph Smith Translation, RLDS Inspired Version) that accords better with Latter Day Saint beliefs. Return
[74] This view bedevils large segments of the contemporary Christian charismatic movement. Many of its churches will not touch the Old Testament and at least one uses only Acts. Return
[75] Understandings of Sons Ahman Israel, #5, in The Sacred Scrolls of Sons Ahman Israel, Volume 1, p.157. Return
[76] Understandings, ibid., #15, p.158. Return
[77] Understandings, ibid., #20 Return
[78] Understandings, ibid., #12, 13, 20, 21, pp.158-9 - explanations added in parentheses. Return
[79] “...almost the entire day can be filled with ordinances, endowments and rites...” (Gilbert Clark, letter to the author, October 15, 1987). The detriment to the mental, emotional and social needs of the children at SAI is quite evident in this scenario. Return
[80] One of the more bizzare doctrines and practices of Clark is the belief that two men may jointly fertilise a woman and that this is necessary to make “perfect children”. “If some woman had some unique gene pattern known only to the Lord, which result in a new generation of prophets, seers and prophetesses, if she were to conceive through uniting with two different fathers, at two different times, whose offspring would marry at some future time to produce this new generation....I would not reject the idea because it went against my preconceived idea of marriage, or purity...” (Gilbert Clark, letter to the author, September 24, 1986). “I do not believe this gene oneness can come about without the direct intermingling of physical seed...nor do I feel it is wise to mix seed with a common partner in marriage [concubine on a lower order] unless the Neshamah Spirit is present. For without its unifying influence the mixture of 2 male seeds in a women [sic] cause chaos and spiritual degeneracy off the offspring. With the Neshamah Spirit however, the opposit [sic] is true, and true conception after a divine pattern can take place” (Gilbert Clark, letter to the author, ibid.). He had no explanation when I confronted him with the genetic impossibility of two sperms fertilising the same egg, let alone from two different fathers. Return
[81] “If in the Ch[urch] of 1st Born there are a dozen family units bound together, each headed by a patriarch with several women bound to him and one another....if they desire physical union, such is possible thru a complicated series of special [sexual] ordinances...” (Gilbert Clark, letter to the author, undated, received 15 October 1987). Return
[82] Sexual relations are not limited just between heterosexuals in his multiple-marriage practices. Though homosexual activity is not encouraged it is not prevented either, especially between bisexuals: “...bisexual individuals...purely herosexual souls, as they come closer together [sexually] and develop deep spiritual bonds, often go thru phases when they question just how far they can go in developing relations with the same sex...this is...not encouraged or allowed to get out of hand” (Gilbert Clark, letter to the author, September 24, 1986). Though homosexuality and bisexuality are never taught, only the former is openly condemned. “If any type of ‘strange marriages’ are to occur [at SAI], then they should only occur by direct command of the Lord [i.e. through a revelation received through Gilbert Clark] within the confines of the [SAI] temple [in practice, it occured anywhere]...Letting people believe there may be some unorthodox sexual practices in a high order betwixt here and godhood is an effective ‘scare tactic’ that psychologically prepares people to begin to think in a new and different way [Clark’s way]” (Gilbert Clark, letter to the author, ibid.). Return
[83] To get the members sex-centred, such rituals as the following are used in their ordinances: “Turn your minds to YHWH [Yahweh], let His Holy Spirit fill you so that you can feel truely [sic], and repeat FUCK with me three times. All: FUCK, FUCK, FUCK...raising both hands high above the head, and while lowering the hands repeating the word, FUCK, FUCK, FUCK,;FUCK, FUCK, FUCK; FUCK, FUCK, FUCK...All arise. You will please remove all your clothing and be seated again...” (Extract from the SAI Enochian Priesthood Temple Endowment Ceremony - I was not supposed to have seen this ceremony which I “borrowed” in order to photocopy before mailing it back to Clark. The cult is understandably very sensitive about its secret rituals falling into the hands of the outside world and has since issued a denial that this ceremony has anything to with them - ref. Gilbert Clark, letter to the author, June 18, 1988). Return
[84] Mary Lindsey Baddley. This lady was heavily involved in the New Age and was claimed by Clark to be a bisexual. Return
[85] “The death of Emma [Smith], had she chosen to take her own life, might have spared much turmoil and destruction that occurred in the inner family [Joseph Smith’s secret polygamous wives]. Eliza Snow [one of Smith’s secret wives] lost her unborn baby for example by being knocked down the stairs by Emma’s broom. Look also at the harm done against the testimony of plural marriage by Emma after Joseph’s death [she was instrumental in the formation of the RLDS Church which rejected polygamy]. All these things help me appreciate how Joseph might have felt it best to offer Emma poison, as a better alternative to the destruction of the restoration thru her public denouncing of Joseph as an adulterer” (Gilbert Clark, letter to the author, February 22, 1988). Return
[86] Interestingly Jim Jones’s cult was registered as part of the New Age Movement (NAM) until the mass suicide took place. Thereafter the NAM denied all past affiliation and tried to align Jones with evangelical Christianity. Such switches are not an uncommon part of the policy occultic conspiracy to discredit Christianity. The story of the Salem witch hunt of early pioneer America has entered the maintream of US tradition as an example of Christian bigotry and murder. The truth, however, is that the 23 victims were Christians and those condemning them were New England witches disguised as Christians. See, Marion Starkey, The Devil in Massachussetts, Anchor Books, Doubleday & Co., Garden City, NY, 1949. Return
[87] Gilbert Clark, undated letter to the author, received on May 9, 1986, p.10, in response to my suggestion that the Oracles of Mohonri might have been dictated to him by the devil. Compare with John 8:44 where Yah’shua/Jesus says: “You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father's desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies” (NIV). Return
[88] Gilbert Clark, undated letter to the author, postmarked May 9, 1987, p.3. Return
[89] “...they saw [their Church] as a tightknit group of people united economically, emotionally, and physically [sexually]. Women as well as men had many marriage partners, their few ordinances were conducted in the nude, ect [sic] ... [they were] persecut[ed] for being a ‘fertility cult’...” (Gilbert Clark, letter to the author, undated, ca. December 1984). “About seven years ago, when I was twenty three years old...I came across some likemided souls who I later learned were associated with John Bryant’s group. Associated with them for a year...” (Ibid., March 17, 1986). “As for John Bryant I feel he is correct...as a forerunner in attempting to live a patriarchal lifestyle [multiple marriage]...I know that he, as well as...the LeBaron Church of the Firstborn [a fundamentalist Mormon Church] established in 1955...have been instrumental...for a true Church of the Firstborn [SAI] to flourish later and independent of them...” (Ibid., undated, ca. May 1986). Return
[90] Gilbert Clark, undated letter to the author, postmarked March 17, 1986. Return
[91] e.g. John 16:23-24; Ephesians 4:6-8; James1:17 Return
[92] Gilbert Clark, undated letter to the author, received in December 1987, p.13. Return
[93] Gilbert Clark, undated letter to the author, received October 22, 1987. Return
[94] “I believe Joseph Smith did some very questionable things, things that have tainted Mormonism to this day. But like Brigham Young once said: I don’t care if he is an adulterer, murderer, etc. if he can but shew me more light and truth about God...I accept truth from wherever it comes, even from the devil himself” (Gilbert Clark, letter to the author, February 9, 1986, pp.11-12). Presumably this is the same reason Clark goes to the work of notorious satanist and sexual pervert, Aleister Crowley (who called himself “the Beast” and is believed to have murdered several persons), for “more light and truth”. Return
[95] Gilbert Clark, letter to the author, dated May 12, 1988, p.1. Return
[96] In response to a revelation which I had received from the Lord, he wrote: “I will agree [the revelation] comes from the Lord, but I would prefer to define him in this instance as L(ev’s) O(wn) R(idiculous) D(desires)” (Letter to the author, dated May 28, 1988, p.5). Return
[97] Gilbert Clark, undated letter to the author, postmarked June 18, 1988, p.1. Return
[98] “I don’t think it matters a wit to our Heavenly Parents whether we drink wine or not, eat animal flesh or not, live the sabbath or not...” (Ibid.). Return
[99] Ibid., p.3. Return
[100] This philosophy teaches that truth is derived ultimately from our experience, religious or secular, and not from God’s personal revelation to mankind in the form of the Bible. Thus the truth is not to be derived from divine truth-statements recorded in Scripture (e.g. the Shema, which says there is only one God, the fact that nobody has access to the Father except through Christ, salvation is by faith, etc.) but from personal feelings, circumstances and happenings. Thus there isn’t ultimately a general all-embracing ‘truth’ but each person’s individual ‘truth’. Return
[101] “The greatest danger is said to lie at the entrance of the sixth heaven, where the angel Domiel stands guarde [sic]. It is much more likely that one will loose [sic] one’s sanity, than die with the kiss of death. But both are likely possibilities for those that use the names of God to enter the heavens” (Gilbert Clark, letter to the author, February 21, 1987). Return
[102] “The writings of Mary Baker Eddy of Chicago [Key to Science and Health] I definitely feel good about...” (Gilbert Clark, letter to the author, postmarked March 17, 1986, p.7). Return
[103] “You may think it strange, but it has been my habit to end up scratching, cutting, or otherwise causing a little of my own blood to be shed during my mountain ascentions [sic] [this is part of an SAI meditative ritual in which the devotee “climbs into heaven” along the kabbalistic paths and can sometimes be physically quite dangerous]” (Gilbet Clark, letter to the author, February 21, 1987). Return
[104] Named after a pagan Egyptian fire goddess. Return
[105] I knew that the chances of a father getting custody of his children from their mother was nigh impossible and when the court proceedings began the case went very badly for me, not aided by the fact that the judge was a woman. My attorney advised me that the case was virtually lost. I went into prayer and asked the Lord to reveal His mighty hand and was told by him to petition the judge for a hearing. She reluctantly agreed that I should be allowed to speak. Standing in the witness box I was met by a cold and hostile stare. But as I began to speak the Holy Spirit fell upon me and I spoke as the Lord directed. I saw with my own eyes the Spirit fall upon the judge - one moment hostile, the next warm and sympathetic. Even now I do not recall what I said but the judge was moved. After 45 minutes of court time I was awareded custody in a case that was expected to last many days or weeks and be guaranteed to bankrupt me. My attorney could not believe her ears. Yahweh-Elohim, the Lord God of Israel, had saved my children from the clutches of Clark’s unredeemed Demiurge. Return
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