Jim Jones (1931–1978), founder of Peoples Temple, which started off as an offshoot of a mainstream Protestant sect before becoming a personality cult as time went on.Anne Hamilton-Byrne (1921–2019) of The Family, born Evelyn Grace Victoria Edwards.Church members ("Unificationists") consider Sun Myung Moon and his wife, Hak Ja Han, to be the True Parents of humankind as the restored Adam and Eve. Sun Myung Moon (1920–2012), believed by members of the Unification Church to be the Messiah and the Second Coming of Christ, fulfilling Jesus' unfinished mission.Her funeral in 1956 was the only time when outsiders were admitted to the chapel. Smyth-Pigott died in 1927 and the sect gradually declined until the last member, sister Ruth, died in 1956. It is currently the home of the television presenter Vanessa Feltz and was previously the home of Charles Saatchi. The house which may have belonged to Smyth-Pigott in St John's Wood was visited by John Betjeman in his film Metro-Land. He took Ruth Anne Preece as his second wife and she had three children named Glory, Power and Hallelujah. Around 1890 Smyth-Pigott started leading meetings of the Agapemonite community and recruited 50 young female followers to supplement its aging population. Carl Browne (1849–1914), American activist and leader of the Coxey's Army protest movement, claimed to be the partial reincarnation of Jesus.Cyrus Teed (1839–1908), American physician, claimed to be the incarnation of Jesus Christ and to have obtained knowledge regarding the Hollow Earth theory, presenting a cosmological model having the Earth as an inverted sphere and the remaining universe located within it.
He founded the Ahmadiyya Movement in 1889, envisioning it to be the rejuvenation of Islam, and claimed to be commissioned by God for the reformation of humankind. He claimed to be Jesus in the metaphorical sense in character. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, India (1835–1908), claimed to be the awaited Mahdi as well as the Second Coming and likeness of Jesus, the promised Messiah at the end of time.When Davies's second son, David, was born in 1869, he was declared to be God the Father. When his son Arthur was born on 11 February 1868, Davies declared that the infant was the reincarnated Jesus Christ.
He taught his followers that he was the archangel Michael, who had previously lived as the biblical Adam, Abraham, and David. Davies (1833–1906), leader of a Latter Day Saint schismatic group called the Kingdom of Heaven located in Walla Walla, Washington from 1867 to 1881. They commonly compare the fulfillment of Christian prophecies to Jesus' fulfillment of Jewish prophecies, where in both cases people were expecting the literal fulfillment of apocalyptic statements. The Baháʼís believe that the fulfillment of the prophecies of the second coming of Jesus, as well as the prophecies of the 5th Buddha Maitreya and many other religious prophecies, were begun by the Báb in 1844 and then by Bahá'u'lláh.
His body was later retrieved and buried by his followers. He died in an attempt to "ascend into heaven" by jumping off a cliff.
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