Elizabeth Clare Prophet, retired spiritual leader of the Church
Universal and Triumphant, which was based for several years in a
Calabasas headquarters called Camelot and gained notoriety in the late
1980s for its followers' elaborate preparations for nuclear Armageddon,
has died. She was 70.
Prophet, who had Alzheimer's disease, died Thursday in Bozeman,
Mont., her legal guardian, Murray Steinman, told the Associated Press.
The church's beliefs combined aspects of the world's major religions,
mixing Western philosophy with mysticism. Despite Prophet's illness,
her videos and writings continued to dominate teaching in the church,
which has transformed into a New Age publishing enterprise and
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