Marina Tsvigun

Marina Tsvigun (Марина Цвигун), or Maria Devi Christos by assumed name, (born 1960) is a religious sect leader of the New Community of Enlightened Humanity, also known as "YUSMALOS" (acronym from Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, Luna, Orion and Sirius) or "The Great White Brotherhood". Following the collapse of the Soviet Union it was one of the conspicuous spiritual movements in the former republics, with about 80,000 members by official count.^[1]

Biography

Marina Tsvigun^[2] was born in 1960 in Stalino, Ukrainian SSR, USSR. She served as a functionary for Young Communist League district committee, worked as a newspaper journalist and an editor for Donetsk textile factory radio network.
In 1990 she attended lectures by Yuri Krivonogov, the "White Brotherhood" co-founder, who recognized Marina as a new messiah and later received the role of "Higher Priest", of the Great White Brotherhood.
The members were required to renounce the family ties and donate some money and possible property to the Brotherhood. The Great White Brotherhood came into conflict with the Russian Orthodox Church.

Arrest and imprisonment

Tsvigun predicted^[3] the Time of Apocalypses and the coming of the Holy Spirit on November 10, 1993. The event was supposed to be accompanied by her lectures in Sophia Cathedral. On the appointed day, the members of the Brotherhood met in Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev and were arrested.
According to the report of Orthodox Church, Kiev City Court found Tsvigun and Krivonogov guilty of violation of citizens' health under the guise of religious ceremonies and seizing by force. They were sentenced for 4 and 7 years in prison. The White Brotherhood reported to UNO and International Court. 6 month later, Tsvigun was freed in August, 1997 as a part of amnesty for the 6th anniversary of the independence of Ukraine.

After prison

After serving the term, Tsvigun changed her name and surname on Victoria Victorovna Preobrazhenskaya and married John-Peter II, a brotherhood member (real name Peter Kovalchuk). Now not Marina, but Victoria started a new multidimensional project "Cosmic Poliart of theThird Millenium of Victoria Preobrazhenskaya" and tried to renew the Great White Brotherhood registration as a public organization, which was denied.
She continued her activity, organized as "The Mystic College of ISIS and Her Followers."
As of November 2008, she lives in Russia, has art gallery "Dom Solntsa". She published her doctrine, which she has written in the prison: "The Science about Light and Its Transformation" (available only in Russian for now) and "The Last Testament of the Mother of the World", which also was written by her in the prison. From 2011 year she started new magazine “Victoria RA”, which is available on her site: www.victoriara.com

See also

• List of people who have claimed to be Jesus

Notes

1. ^ Anastasia Daugule, "White Brotherhood - 15 years later". "Glavnoe" Kharkiv Net Review, a1404
2. ^ Vladimir Tikhomirov, "The Criminal Goddess". "Ogonyok" #42 October 17—23, 2005
3. ^ Sergei Tereshchenko. "Great White Brotherhood Universal Church". Center for Apologetic Studies

External links

• The “Great White Brotherhood”
• "White Brotherhood - 15 years later"
• "The Criminal Goddess"
• Center for Apologetic Studies
• Cosmic Poliart of Victoria Preobrazhenskaya (Maria DEVI Christos)

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