Introduction


Robert Earl Burton founded The Fellowship of Friends in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1970. Burton modeled his own group after that of Alex Horn, loosely borrowing from the Fourth Way teachings of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky. In recent years, the Fellowship has cast its net more broadly, embracing any spiritual tradition that includes (or can be interpreted to include) the notion of "presence."

The Fellowship of Friends exhibits the hallmarks of a "doomsday religious cult," wherein Burton exercises absolute authority, and demands loyalty and obedience. He warns that his is the only path to consciousness and eternal life. Invoking his gift of prophecy, he has over the years prepared his flock for great calamities (e.g. a depression in 1984, the fall of California in 1998, nuclear holocaust in 2006, and most recently the October 2018 "Fall of California Redux.")

According to Burton, Armageddon still looms in our future and when it finally arrives, non-believers shall perish while, through the direct intervention and guidance from 44 angels (recently expanded to 81 angels, including himself and his divine father, Leonardo da Vinci), Burton and his followers shall be spared, founding a new and more perfect civilization. Read more about the blog.

Presented in a reverse chronology, the Fellowship's history may be navigated via the "Blog Archive" located in the sidebar below.

Monday, July 24, 1995

Tenth Union International Inc.

[ed. - Tenth Union International Inc. appears to have been set up by the Fellowship of Friends and its Taiwanese partners to support and promote the Fellowship's Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture in advance of its sale. Tenth Union published Masterpieces of the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture. The corporation was later a defendant in a lawsuit brought by Abraham Goldman and The Fellowship of Friends.]
From the California Secretary of State site:

Entity Name:TENTH UNION INTERNATIONAL INC.
Entity Number:C1899037
Date Filed:07/24/1995
Status:SUSPENDED
Jurisdiction:CALIFORNIA
Entity Address:40701 TIRSO ST
Entity City, State, Zip:FREMONT CA 94539
Agent for Service of Process:CHI HSIU CHEN
Agent Address:40701 TIRSO ST
Agent City, State, Zip:FREMONT CA 94539

Chi Hsiu Chen is listed as President of Tenth Union Internation Inc.

Suspended: August 20, 1998

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