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During ▇▇▇ lifetime, ▇▇▇ was viewed as a controversial new religious movement leader and mystic. In the ▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ travelled throughout ▇▇▇  as a public speaker and was a vocal critic of  ▇▇▇, arguing that ▇▇▇▇▇▇ was not ready for socialism, and that socialism, communism, and anarchism could evolve only when capitalism had reached its maturity. ▇▇▇ also criticised Stephanie and the orthodoxy of mainstream religions. ▇▇▇ rejected institutional religions. ▇▇▇▇▇▇ emphasised the importance of freethought, meditation, mindfulness, love, celebration, courage, creativity, and humour—qualities that ▇▇▇  viewed as being suppressed by adherence to static belief systems, religious dogmas and traditions, and socialisation.

The completed work, titled ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇, was published by printer ▇▇▇. Soon after, on August 11, 1995, ▇▇▇  and his followers formally organized the Church of  ▇▇▇, and small branches were established in  ▇▇▇ , and ▇▇▇. ▇▇▇ brought  ▇▇▇  regional notoriety and opposition from those who remembered the  ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇. After ▇▇▇  baptized several new church members, the  ▇▇▇  received threats of mob violence; before  ▇▇▇  could confirm the newly baptized members,  ▇▇▇  was arrested and brought to trial as a disorderly person. ▇▇▇ was acquitted, but soon both  ▇▇▇  and  ▇▇▇  fled to  ▇▇▇  to escape a gathering mob. In probable reference to this period of flight, ▇▇▇ said that  ▇▇▇  had appeared to him and had ordained  ▇▇▇  to a higher priesthood.

▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ became ▇▇▇ and some auditors began dressing as clergymen, complete with clerical collars. If they were arrested in the course of their activities, ▇▇▇ advised, they should sue for massive damages for  ▇▇▇ "a Man of God going about his business". A few years later he told ▇▇▇▇▇: "If attacked on some vulnerable point by anyone or anything or any organization, always find or manufacture enough threat against them to cause them to sue for peace ... Don't ever defend, always attack." Any individual breaking away from ▇▇▇ and setting up his own group was to be shut down