This is a quote; all emphasis in the original as I received it.
"I came to Earth some 2000 years ago from another physical, biological Evolutionary Level as the expected "Messiah," or Jesus, and for this current mission, RETURNED to this level, this planet and entered into a human body some 24 years ago, Earth-time," the still unidentified leader wrote in a July 1996 manifesto.
"For the most part, I have spent these years in seclusion working with my students/"disciples" - preparing them for membership in the "NEXT WORLD," the Evolutionary Level Above Human, the true physical Kingdom of Heaven.
"Now, before departure via a "Next Level" mothership, my students and I will be assisting my Father and His other Next Level helpers...
"The human kingdom was never meant to be anything but a stepping stone - a 'realized hell' that must be evacuated WITH THE HELP OF A REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE NEXT EVOLUTIONARY LEVEL - THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN."
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The apparent leader wrote: "There is a simple evolutionary procedure which applies to those who might leave or graduate from the human kingdom and enter the Evolutionary Kingdom Level Above Human (the Kingdom of Heaven or Kingdom of God). Periodically, the Kingdom Level Above Human sends one of its members "down" into the human kingdom (to incarnate into a human body) -- one who has previously been taken through that evolutionary transition -- to offer the knowledge to those who have been 'picked' as possible recipients of that graduation information. This Representative of that Next Kingdom literally takes those candidates through their weaning from the human world -- assisting them in the actual separation or breaking of ties to their humanness, and helping them 'graft' to Him as the Representative of that Next Level. Their final separation is the willful separation from their human body, when they have changed enough to identify as the spirit/mind/soul, ready to put on a biological body belonging to the Kingdom of Heaven. This entering into their 'glorified' or heavenly body takes place aboard a Next Level spacecraft, above the Earth's surface."
-From a manifesto written by a member of the Heaven's Gate cult, 39 of whose members committed suicide in the belief they would be picked up by a spaceship hiding behind comet Hale-Bopp.
From: The DRUDGE REPORT BREAK 3/27/97 10:43 PST