After that things were pretty crazy. Tell her how much her book and the group have helped you!" . He said he had come to Earth to warn people of an impending apocalypse, and to train his students to become leaders in the aftermath. They're cheaper than you could get wholesale!' You must write that I am the reincarnation of Jeremiah from the Old Testament. These cults attract mostly the Less than Zero generation, born in the 1960s, reared on fashionable doomsday prophecies about the millennium. "I found him at dawn reading a passage about precious stones or something," Andreadis told me. Von Mierers ordered Adams to write a letter to Ruth Montgomery. "The gems are God's thoughts condensed.. .the gateways into this dimension for the ether waves.. .. I could write three books about him. When I called Ruth Montgomery to discuss von Mierers with her, she was defensive and refused to speak for attribution. John was saying, 'Don't hit me, Frederick. Look around. And Freddie just laughed." 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Von Mierers, who believed in a master race, courted attractive young people. "I want her to write about me. If challenged about the Holocaust, von Mierers would repeat the most banal anti-Semitic propaganda: "The Holocaust has been exaggerated"; "Hitler was a misunderstood genius"; "Jews have to understand that their natures encourage pogroms. ' ' If anyone in the room argued with him, von Mierers would scream, "You either come to my way of thinking or the dark forces will destroy you.". Andreadis's flight released even more demons within Eternal Values. I even found a letter she had written him that said, 'Why don't you invite me to Nantucket when Billy Baldwin is there?' For that, you feel a sense of shame. I got suspicious when he demanded cash, but the group members said, 'This is what we've done.' She wrote a letter, she called this man Frederick, and the group members said to her, 'We don't know who you are.' Then he opened his sweater and showed us all the gems he was wearing. "I wanted to get married and I wanted out!" "Jews have been evil since the beginning of time. In the last five years, close to eight thousand people have contacted Eternal Values seeking its merchandisecassettes and videos, books and pamphlets, diet plans which urge specific food combinations and colon cleansing, personalized astrology, and psychic "life readings.'' $587.00 / piece Size: 37in. You will survive the storms and be the leaders of the millennium." The first time I tried to leave the group, I fled to New York. She was saved by her intelligence and her astonishing beauty. . The hardest part, really, has been forgiving myself. He exalted Germans and referred to the Aryan master race. At one time we were both with the Ford Modeling agency. He chose to come back because of an urgent need to reach the young people who will be founding the new society after the shift of the earth on its axis.". Within a few weeks, I met with a beautiful model named Jacki Adams, who for some years had been the face on the Elizabeth Arden campaign. There, lessons of , "The Wall Street Journal just so happened to have a supportive op-ed ready to publish within hours of the meeting. vanity fair: [noun] a scene or place characterized by frivolity and ostentation. "The fact that this gorgeous blond Ford model was talking about how brilliant Frederick was convinced me to go to see him," one model told me. He screamed at me, attacked my character, and told me I was being irresponsible and that the ring would fix all that.". The gems, he would say, are for ''special people, only the elite." . When youve been in a cult and you meet new people at a dinner party, youre never quite sure when to bring it up. Beware the razor's edge is sharp," he told one model. ", In gay circles, von Mierers was called ''the mignon." He had mastered enough Eastern philosophy to sound authentic. "Frederick immediately began to tell me that it was my job to manipulate John," she told me. The stones were impressively large and set in heavy golden bands. Bob Parks of nearby Bob's Marina wasn't familiar with von Mierers either, at least not until an ``Inside Edition' camera crew rented one of his boats to shoot the lakeside mansion. His skin was inordinately smooth, as if conferred by careless plastic surgery, yet there was nothing youthful about him. No matter how hard I tried, I was always Dipshit. " When Douglas Wyatt was introduced to Eternal Values, Andreadis claims von Mierers told him, "Be nice to him. I was from Twelfth Avenue in Brooklyn, he was from Eighth! The man's famil, Growing up in Goldsboro, Greensboro Day senior Jaydon Young averaged 25.9 points per game as a freshman at Wayne Christian. Subscribers have complete access to the archive. . In 1977, Helen Williams was in a car crash and had a stroke, which left her unable to speak. From a folder, she pulled out a sheaf of receipts and gem appraisals which appeared to show that during a four-month period she had given von Mierers more than $100,000 for gems and the cost of fixing up her apartment, most of it in cash. "I was represented by Ford," he told me. Your parents have been horrible for you. Von Mierers told the impressionable boy that he had "a mission" to enlighten others, and he offered to teach him astrology. Something went wrong. Karr visited the house occasionally, until the ``no trespassing' signs went up several months ago. Lets just say I come from a family of six, from the main line of Philadelphia, and that I had a mother who was hard toplease. Studio Design Collection. He put me up in his house for almost 18 months. Blind faith, fear of the millennium, and obsession are less easy to analyze. "I ran into her on an airplane," a close friend of hers told me. For years, Freddie Mierer, or Meyer, as he was reportedly known before he took on the name von Mierers, was like many people you meet in New York. Still, they control ourmind. ''Germans have created everything, '' he told me. 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Certain female members of the group were reportedly encouraged to seduce rich men. After Aliens Among Us came out, everyone wanted to come to dinner with us," a follower of von Mierers's named Monty Karp told me. We were supposed to be renouncing vanity and worldly possessions and living in a monastic community. Andreadis sat in a lotus position and, according to Glenna Hartwell, said calmly, "I have been asked to leave the group. It became evil. "He saves them from their egos. Only Hermes.". Montgomery's deadly-earnest oeuvre details the advice of her spirit guides and includes titles such as A Search for the Truth, A World Beyond, and Aliens Among Us ("Dazzling true testimony that extraterrestrials are on earthabout to usher in the New Age"). "Frederick immediately saw that we needed an organization, merchandise, a name!" "Everyone would sit around, and they were all wearing these gems on their fingers. But don't mention that I have them here," von Mierers told me during the afternoon we spent together. By the late 1960s, he had shed his accent and become an energetic walker who trafficked in gossip and his Rolodex. Frederick said to me, 'Susanne, what is $50,000 to you? I asked. "Why do you have to be a gem salesman? I was like, Oh my God. In those days, he would hold seminars for hundreds of people at a church on Park Avenue or at a downtown school. 'I am Socrates, I am Plato. He is trying to alienate him from all of us!" There is no punctuation in it.' His maid did my laundry. Part of many life readings was a "gem prescription." The ring had twelve of my own diamonds in it, and I was shocked when I learned that the whole ring was worth at most $15,000, because Frederick had told me that the stone was worth $23,000. ", An affluent Manhattan woman found von Mierers through Aliens Among Us. By then he had given up modeling and taken up with Billy Baldwin, the dean of American decorators, called "Billy B." "Her ideas are good," von Mierers said. One of the aspects that troubled Andreadis was Frederick's increasing desire to find members who were rich. "I recognized him as a phony," Jocelyn Kress told me. When Aliens Among Us was published, von Mierers's fantasy was realized. "You need to have your pussy slammed," he reportedly told one model before sending her a well-known man from the group. John Hoyt, another member, said, "John was a very stubborn boy. I also got a lawyer and brought a civil suit against Eternal Values. We are here to warn you! I had a Life Reading done by Frederick von Miers in the late 1980's. Although I did not get to meet him, I believe he was honest in the concept he passed on to some of us and that he was a Walk-In. Its hard to imagine just how strange it would all seem without context, an insomniac flipping through the channels, stumbling upon this exaggeration of a man who claimed to be an alien from the star Arcturus. He had sold thousands of cassettes with titles such as Space People, Karma and Destiny, and Gems and Crystals. "I had read everything. "I thought I was in love with Jacki," he told me. View cart for details. Dr. Thomas Clark, who appeared on the ``Inside Edition' report last week, confirmed von Mierers died of AIDS. He swept into the room and said, 'I come from Arcturus. He claimed to be an alien reincarnated from the distant star Arcturus. You have to cut the ties to your family! You come to realize that given the circumstances you experienced, many other humans react the very same way. . I guess thats why they call it brainwashing. "I called my cousin to warn him that his mother was in terrible danger. ' From then until now, Ive worked to rebuild my life. He lived in this awesome apartment and had all these young, intelligent and wealthy followers. A pharaoh! Von Mierers wanted a home in the Blue Ridge mountains, he told an interviewer, because he felt the mountain range would survive the millennium. EVERY PAGE. We all lived together in the same apartment building. Every few moments, the birds spread their wings. His business began to grow. At that time I was high priest! I looked at them in a loupe. Of course, some conditions are more extreme than others. . She attended a seminar and saw "a young man who was so attractive I knew it had to be John Andreadis." I was appalled by Frederick. He became, he said, deeply depressed, "disenchanted with the world, and wanting out.". And we are they!" Suddenly my son was talking like a robot.". I saw him again the next summer; two years later, when I went to Princeton, I started visiting him in Manhattan. Parrots sat on his shoulders. His followers gave him tens of thousands of dollars for rings to prove their faith. It is true that our space brothers and sisters have arrived. We just have to get down and scrub the floors!' $769.99 / piece Size: 49in. "I was always over there on East Fiftyfourth. "I came to New York from Houston to my mother's apartment and saw her checkbooks," her son, Claude Williams, told me. Karr said he had never heard of von Mierers until after his death. "I think we all thought, This can't be a cult. Ruth Montgomery had devoted three lengthy chapters to his status as a "Walk-in" from Arcturus, his genius as a psychic, the distinguished quality of his followers, and his rejection of his privileged past. Von Mierers had decorated the other apartments exactly like his own. LAKE LURE MANSION HOUSED STAR PROPHET LEADER SOUGHT REFUGE BEFORE DYING OF AIDS. In clips from these extremely 80s appearances, the former model shills mail-order cassettes and spouts new-age gibberish, his eyes getting impossibly larger and more urgent with each nonsense aphorism. I looked past Frederick von Mierers and stared at an arrangement of satin pillows in mauve, turquoise, and teal on a pale-blue sofa. "Iam doing this for you," von Mierers is said to have replied. Frederick told me that my deficiencies were so horrendous that I needed a stone that was at least two to three and a half carats. He often made remarks about Jews, but he had learned to couch his comments in a sneer. Access everything Vanity Fair has ever published.Join Now Subscriber-Only Benefit The Complete Vanity Fair Archive EVERY ISSUE. We had a mission. When I stayed with him and his (friend) John, we would visit studio 54, dance-atria, and strawberries underground quite often and never paid for anything. Soon he was attempting to find work as a society decorator and furniture restorer, living in a tiny apartment on East Forty-ninth Street which he had decorated in Baldwin style. Ask yourself, who am I? But von Mierers did not limit himself to selling jewels. He spent time at Quest, a bookshop on Fifty-third Street specializing in spiritual books, and there he met other people on their own missions. "Look at these emeralds," he was telling me, stroking his gems. Von Mierers, however, did make Gentlemen's Quarterly. He seemed to enjoy titillating the group with talk of "chocolate lords." .. . He looked at her emeralds and told her they were junk. Finally, on the night of July 3, 1999, I escaped for good. . It is embarrassing to admit, but looking back, I didnt finally leave the group because I was being abused or because I was mad about giving them my money. "Tell her about the gems and how great they are! 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