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First edition. Quarto. Various paginations as each section is separately paginated; [30. preface]; [32, Appendix and Israel Song Sheet music]; then each tribes is paginates; 21, [1]; 18; 25, [1]; 25, [1]; 28; 16; 16; 16; 22, [2]; 17, [1]; 18, [2, song]; 25, [1, song]; 22 pp. Each Tribe has a color title page. At the end there is a one-page conclusion. All housed in the original decorative binder. The binder has a ped patch as it someone left something there and it stuck. Overall, in as new condition.A rather scarce spiritual guidebook issued by Gwen R. Shaw's cult of personality called End-Time Handmaidens. In the early 1970's Mrs. Gwen Shaw (then Gwen Schmidt) founded the End-Time Handmaidens. ("Servants" was added several years later after men expressed interest in joining.) Joel 2:28-29 is the basis for this cult's name. At the time, she lived in Chicago. She married James v. D. Shaw, and around 1974 settled her cult in the northwest corner of Arkansas, just south of the town of Jasper. The estate is comprised of 340 acres of mostly wooded land in a valley that is labeled "The Grand Canyon of the Ozarks." The small amount of acreage that is cleared is occupied by 5 houses, 2 garages, a large dormitory that also houses a chapel and dining room/ kitchen, a barn, and a pasture for livestock.This area of Arkansas is home to other cults and aberrant groups. In the early 1980s on a bridge just outside of Jasper, two members of F.O.U. (Foundation of Ubiquity) killed themselves before a crowd. They had stated that they would resurrect within three days. "The Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord" is located near the Arkansas-Missouri border, and believers in the Book of Urantia are sprinkled throughout the Jasper area. This cult's appearance is that of a Christian missionary organization, and calls itself "A Ministry to the Family, A Ministry to the Nations." In truth Shaw was a rather harsh cultmaster. To join the End-Time Handmaids one must go on a liquid diet for 21 days (only 3 days if a participant is under 18). Shaw believed that people should have partners who make them happy and divorce was rampant among her followers. She borrowed heavily from the Book of Mormon and from the writings of occultist Annalee Skarin. Her own holy book she entitled "The Law of Angels." She died in 2013 but her organization is still extant though now operate under the moniker of "Global Outpouring.".
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