Nothing else matters to this cult except preserving the narrative....ie wierwille was called and destined by God to "teach this word that hadn't been known for centuries." Problem was..... preachers and ministers HAD been teaching these truths.
Twi is a classic example of an authoritarian, thought-control cult. Manipulation of 1) behavior, 2) information, 3) thoughts, and 4) emotions. The only way twi can function is thru deception at every level. Notice how they skewer twi-history and ONLY focus on the 1967 pfal-filming as a seismic shift in the spiritual universe. Why do they AVOID....
Wierwille's beginnings of teaching Leonard's class (1953) in the Van Wert Church basement?
Vpw's staying on church payroll until August 1957.
New Headquarters and Independent Beginning: Thursday, December 19, 1957.
Ten years of vp's driving from city to city to teach pfal classes (1958-1967).
Meager abundant sharing.....until confiscating Heefner's and Doop's independent works (March 1972)
Really, wierwille only had 10 years of exponential growth AFTER cunning deceit and exploits.
Wierwille lost an eye, had cancer.... keeping this cancer secret from the body of believers.
Reminds me of something I recently read about George Orwell's character Winston Smith in Nineteen Eighty-Four. Winston worked in the Records Department of the Ministry of Truth where his job was to rewrite historical documents so they matched the constantly changing party line (twi's "present truth"). This involved revising newspaper articles and doctoring photographs -- mostly to remove "unpersons" (mark and avoid people/corps). In manipulating and altering historical realities......in essence, “history had stopped. Nothing existed except an endless present in which the Party (Cult) is always right.”
Another thing, twi avoids any mention of all other attempts of these foundational classes.....Another pfal class full of dead men's bones
Power for Abundant Living (1967). Wierwille plagiarized wholesale from B.G. Leonard (stolen class)
PFAL '77. Wierwille attempted to update this class in 1977 (failed)
Way of Abundance and Power Class (1996). Martindale's attempt. A class filled with sport analogies and jockstrap ego. (crash & burn)
WAP Class Update (2004 ?). Three Amigos teach sections. Still has the lingering effects and questions of Craig Martindale's presidency and cover-up.
Power for Abundant Living Today (2022). Shiny and new. Makes it looks like twi is actually doing something rather than just serving refried teachings over and over again.
With each passing decade..... twi has become the "unpersons."