Just a small footnote in the financial history of the Brahma Kumaris ... most readers will know by now that leading up to 1976 BapDada, the spirits the Brahma Kumaris inform their followers are the God of all religions, predicted that Destruction was going to happen that year. It was taken very serious amongst the followers. Many left when it failed and the failure was later put down to "Baba testing the BKs" and "The Children ... not making enough efforts". Usual twaddle that has been repeated since.
I cant remember which month of 1976 it was meant to happen in, perhaps others around at that time can remind us, but I was interested to discover that according to 'Title NGL91399' held at the Land Registry office, 96 Tennyson Road, Kilburn ... where BK "service" in the West started ... was purchased for the Brahma Kumaris on
When I write the "failure" of Destruction, perhaps it was not a failure at all ... I wonder how many followers handed over their wealth in order to increase their status in the Golden Age that year and where it all went? Who paid for Tennyson Road?
I am naive to find it remarkable that on one hand "God" and the leadership were telling their adherents that the End of the World was going to come and, on the other hand, they were buying Freehold property in one of the most expensive property markets in the world; London ... and in a country that was going to imminently sink beneath the oceans?
The owners being 'The Trustees of the World Renewal Spiritual Trust' went on to buy number 98 too (11 St Gabriel's Road was bought in 6 October 1978). No picture of Tennyson Road, but here is St Gabriel's Road. Looks humble enough from the front but seemingly worth £1,000,000 plus.
I cant remember which month of 1976 it was meant to happen in, perhaps others around at that time can remind us, but I was interested to discover that according to 'Title NGL91399' held at the Land Registry office, 96 Tennyson Road, Kilburn ... where BK "service" in the West started ... was purchased for the Brahma Kumaris on
- ... 26 March 1976.
When I write the "failure" of Destruction, perhaps it was not a failure at all ... I wonder how many followers handed over their wealth in order to increase their status in the Golden Age that year and where it all went? Who paid for Tennyson Road?
I am naive to find it remarkable that on one hand "God" and the leadership were telling their adherents that the End of the World was going to come and, on the other hand, they were buying Freehold property in one of the most expensive property markets in the world; London ... and in a country that was going to imminently sink beneath the oceans?
The owners being 'The Trustees of the World Renewal Spiritual Trust' went on to buy number 98 too (11 St Gabriel's Road was bought in 6 October 1978). No picture of Tennyson Road, but here is St Gabriel's Road. Looks humble enough from the front but seemingly worth £1,000,000 plus.
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