| Show Garden of Eden W Waits Waits' for RebirtH R 1 r I i I n z t t ft 4 5 2 4 4 The home of Mrs Mi Marie Ogden The residence d i is fitt fitted d with 4 h New Jersey appointments rl I Strange ange Cult of Living Dead Spirits Corpse to New Shrine Utah Mountain Sect Declares Curiosity Seekers Hampe Hamper r Resurrection By JOHN U. U TERRELL Cop Copyright ight 1936 by The Telegram On a recent night a strange procession ss near Monticello in the wilderness of southern Utah Half Halfa a dozen d zen men and nd women guided only by by- bythe t the light o of stars tar bore a I long ng I wrapped well-wrapped burden It was yas the body of f a woman woman- who wh died in j February Feb February afy 1935 and d since that time lime it had been kept ept in ina a shrine in the heart of the Garden Garden Garden Gar den of Eden But now they were were bearing it to a secret hiding place in the fastness o of the great blue mount mountains ins which rise above o the valley valley val val- ley icy they inhabit The men and aha wom women n were members members mem mem- bers of the strange cult of Truth S Seekers ekers who dwell in isolation in inthe inthe inthe the rough and barren country north of ot Monticello Under the leadership leadership leadership leader leader- ship of ot Mrs Marie Maric M. M f. f Ogden former formerly formerly for for- mer merly wark N. N J. J n some 30 men and women have builth built h houses on three acre claims They believe in reincarnation and Sister Ogden claims the power to bring the thc dead back to spiritual al and material life Powers Tested When Mrs Edith a cult member in high standing died in February 1935 Sister Ogden was asked to demonstrate her miraculous miraculous miraculous lous p power The body o of Mrs Pak Pak- chales was placed in a room in a small frame house near the center centero o of the small colony There here it lay on ona ona ona a table and each day Sister Ogden gave it treatment by the Uie laying on on of healing hands But shortly county officers ap appeared ap- ap p- p to investigate It was against the law Jaw to keep a body unburied Strangely enough gh officers armed with a court order were ad- ad Continued on Page Four Pour I Column lumn Five r 4 it X I I Mrs 1 Marie 1 Ogden She m moved t the e body STRANGE CULT MOVES CORPSE h Continued from Pas Par One muted milled to tho the shrine they found that no law was WM being violated The body was wall perfectly pre pre- served This was vas attributed to tho the climate in which the tho mummies of the cliff cUff dwellings and prehistoric towns of the southwest have lain In a state of preservation for uncounted uncounted un un- un counted centuries Visitors Pour In InThe InThe The story of ot tho the body however got out and and curious persons came to toha the tha ha colony asking to see aee it They were politely turned away and none but ut members of ot the tho cult were al allowed al- al owed lowed to enter the little house in hi which it lay However gossip and publicity continued to increase the number lumber of or visitors and the peace ol of he tho valley vaney was often otten disturbed by carloads of outsiders come to seethe see seethe the he peculiar Truth S Seekers ekers to tc snoop into their homes and ask them their personal questions Sister Ogden could not move her hex colony olony for she had no divine divino command command com com- mand and she could have found foun no place in tho United States more Isolated For months she ho waited to te tobo toto tebe bo be to told what to todo do and recently an at order was received from the mysterIous mys ethereal realm Body Removed It gave her the opportunity t to remove the tho body Where it has ha i been een taken only she and a few o oher of ot other f her faithful know But i it is beyond beyond beyond be be- yond the reach of ot the curious th the scoffers and other religious person persons who criticise her and attempt to toi Ii I win i her r to their own sect There I Is s little to attract visitors to the tue colony now Tho The small frame I houses louses stand in the valley bowl bow looking for all their neatness anc and cleanliness like so many homesteaders' homesteaders homestead homestead- ers' ers shanties such as might be seen in n any part of the open west At regular Intervals now Sister Ogden journeys to the new shrine and carries on her work of ot bringing bringIng bring- bring Ing ng life back to the body of her lost member She Sho maintains that the full tuu I spiritual lifo was revived long Jong ago ngo With that accomplished sire she began tho the work of bringing bring back tho the material life Sho She has hns been partially she says Can Feel Now when I place my hands on the flesh I can feel the throb of life I can feel her pulse heating beating In Ia the little house the body lay in graceful repose on a table swathed in holy garments The room was filled with a faint taint light ligh which seeped in around the edges of a curtain over a sun filled win win- dow Each day at an appointed hour Mrs Ogden entered the room She stood beside the table on which the body lay until she received the c command to begin her work The touch of ot fingers was important more so than the injecting of ot foot food and broth into the remains for tor i iwas' iwas it was was' Yas through her fingers that Ogden made contact with the spiritual spiritual spirit spirit- ual world The scoffers have said that the body yas a moved to a new place because Mrs Ogden was obliged to admit defeat But both Sister Ogden Oden and tho the cult members deny this Faith Unshaken The work is Is' going on she says I am ant more moro convinced than ever that thai I shall bring life back that tha she will vill live among us again I If wo we had buried the body we would have made a report to the county That is th the tho law and we obey the law Let people think what they will The body was moved in order orde that we wo could coula continue to liv live in peace Another strange event transpired at the colony this spring For some time une the members have been workIng workIng work work- ing in an old gold m mine nc tunnel in th the belief that they would find a a. vein which old time miners lost Recently one of ot the male members had a vision in which an angel ange spoke to him The angel told him of an abandoned mine tunnel near nea the place where the members were digging for gold Tunnel Discovered After considerable search the tunnel was found No one else in the country had known of its existence and the man who had the vision W was a newcomer Now the cult members bc v have found tho the way to the rich vein cin which tradition says l is in lix tho the mountains near by known as tho the Blues Sister Ogden's own house is tastefully taste taste- fully furnished with things she sh brought from her Newark home From Froni the small veranda one looks look off toward the mountains across a vast expanse of vividly colored canyons canyons can can- and red and green pinon hills It is here that Mrs Ogden says lies tho the real Garden of ot Eden anc and she will ivill point out a white conical conica rock Out of ot it some day will wil spout a a. great fountain of water bringing flowers and fruits to th the valley Studied Occult For many years year Sister Ogden studied tho the occult sciences and re religious re- re religious work Following tho the death of or her husband in Newark some som years she he chose ago 30 between remarrying re remarrying remarrying re- re marrying and devoting her life to her beliefs She takes no action without divine divin guidance |
