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December 16, 1986 Dear Friends, Although I’ve been
assimilating the Philosophy of the Brotherhoods as given in The Ultimate Frontier
for over 15 years, and have been a Stelle Group member for 10 years, it is
only within the past year that I have become aware of vitally important facts
that are affecting our part of the Brotherhoods’ and Christ’s Great Plan. In
the past 10 months I have learned: - That our Trustees have not been
seriously interested in locating at Adelphi. - That some leaders have been instrumental in
introducing changes in The Stelle Group By-Laws which have deprived us of the
democratic process in the guise of bringing the group more into line with the
Brotherhoods’ organizational structure and chain of command. - That a plan has been implemented to strip The Stelle
Group’s admissions requirements of the stringency which we laboriously built
in to protect our freedom from being undermined by less qualified and less
responsible individuals. Such loose policies have taken over all the mundane
schools of the Brotherhoods to their detriment. - That in 1984 Richard Kieninger wrote of and warned
of the misuse of politics in our groups for gaining personal power, and that
this warning was included in The Adelphi Organization’s membership manual at
that time and has come to pass this year. - That an official position” of The Stelle Group is
nonexistent, that everyone in positions of “leadership” has different views
which are usually contradictory. - That there is scandalous deceit in our midst, which
has its national counterpart, ‘~ providing a learning experience for us. - That Stelle Group people have been perceived as
courageous and perceptive, but some are apathetic and ruled by their less
noble needs to preserve what seems social] club which has lost its
philosophical integrity. - That the national propensity to
choose leaders who want to do our thinking for us is common even among
spiritual seekers. - That people denigrate and misunderstand genius
because of their own lack of self esteem, that they
find it impossible to accept their own divinity, much less the human
qualities of their leaders and are incapable of loving their leaders or
themselves. - That Stelle and Adelphi have remained small in
numbers because a great pruning process has been occurring for years. - That people in positions of responsibility in our part
of the Great Plan are under extreme pressures, so that many eventually
succumb to these pressures in a way that expresses destructively. - That the self-esteem of women in our culture is in
serious question; and this is a warning and great lesson to us (per Chapter
16, TUF). - And last and most important, that
my greatest task in this life is to learn to respect and utterly acknowledge
my innermost subtle observations; to see, despite outward appearances, my
inner reality; and to give my internal feelings as much respect and honor
such as we are learning to allow to the little children with whom we work; my
quietist observations are humble, innocent and pure, but they tend to be
drowned out in the din of what is around us and largely accepted by our culture. I here share my dissenting
view with you because my 10 years as a Stelle Group member have strengthened
and nurtured me. In the days ahead I may be silenced
from sharing my truth. If that happens, I am honored
to have fulfilled a valuable task, although I grieve for some of my old
friendships. But the newer deeper bonds of respect
that I have recently forced with like minds brings me renewed happiness.
Cleverness has had its day in The Stelle Group, but truth will surely
triumph. In the meantime, our organizations seem devitalized and confused,
yet the great essence of what Stelle has been becoming for 23 years can still
become viable again even though we few have been silenced for a time. For anyone who wishes to
contact me, my phone number is ???. My address home
address is ???, Dallas, Texas. In kinship, Marge Haines |
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