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Originally Posted by aron
The Ascended Master (AM) can get some (businesses, donations, cash, material goods, servants, adoration, obedience) because the AM is "above it all" and thus incorruptible. Only the guru WL continually lived within the veil, everyone else was at best occasionally there, and then often only 'positionally'; i.e. because we were 'under the covering' of the AM.
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And you never see it, because you don't see the hook.
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In the LC, they are harsh critics of Christians or groups who have been distracted by issues such as materialism. As a matter of fact, I was just reading about the wife of the founder of the Trinity Broadcasting Network who died. Their Newport Beach home is for sale to the tune of $4.6 million:
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/c...e-newport.html
So you read this stuff, and it's hard not to criticize these kinds of groups. You then look at groups like the LC and there isn't an immediate appearance of materialism, so it is assumed that everything is okay. Lee didn't drive a convertible (or even drive at all?). He didn't have a multi-million dollar Newport Beach home. So to the unsuspecting eye, the LC might seem perfectly normal.
Thus, LCers wrongly assumed that such a fate would never fall upon Lee or any leaders. For current members, I'm sure they could never even entertain the possibility that businesses like Daystar happened. These lapses in judgement were supposedly something that was an exclusive problem with outsiders. In essence,
no one saw the hook.
But Lee himself didn't need to be motivated by materialism. He had a family that he desired to take care of. He had sons who needed funding for their debauchery. For whatever reasons, Lee felt compelled to help them out. So like it or not, Lee was also motivated by what his ministry could provide to his family (prosperity).