[2] In the late 1980s Prophet controversially called on her members to prepare for the possibility of nuclear war at the turn of the decade, encouraging them to construct fallout shelters.

[14] In her autobiography she writes that upon his release he inspired her to help others who may also suffer because of their nationality, race, or religion, [16] and that the Holocaust convinced her of the reality of absolute evil in the world.

[17] She also writes of her father's addiction to alcohol, his verbal abuse of her mother and violent temper which he directed towards them and the destruction of his beloved fish tanks.

[18] Prophet came to believe that when the blood alcohol content creates a chemical imbalance in the body, possessing demons take over the mind and the emotions.

This was first diagnosed as petit mal epilepsy, known more commonly today as absence seizures, although she believed it was a way of escaping her father’s alcoholic rages.

)[22] She claimed that as a child she felt God's light around her naturally, and heard a sound in her inner ear like that of an ocean wave or the roar of Niagara Falls.

[26] In Theosophy and the I AM Activity she heard about the Ascended Masters, Karma, and Reincarnation; in Christian Science she was told that matter was not the only reality and that the spirit part of us made in the image of God was our true nature.

When she left after three months, she was depressed, and held the opinion that, to solve the world's problems people would need to change their concept of themselves and God.

[29] Wulf claimed she had realized she was intended to be a messenger while meditating with Mark L. Prophet at a public meeting in Boston on April 22, 1961.

She later claimed to have received a vision, while meditating with him, that her role in life was to pass on a higher teaching to further humanity's spiritual evolution.

She said she received another vision in June of that year by way of a visitation by the Ascended Master, El Morya, who told her to go to Washington, D.C. to be trained as messenger.

[10][3] The dogma of The Summit Lighthouse included a doctrine called the Path of Personal Christhood, or the way of the soul's one-on-one relationship with God through Christ consciousness.

The Science of the Spoken Word, as Elizabeth and Mark taught it, was thought to be a gift of sound combined with meditation, prayer and visualization.

[37][10] Adherents started construction of a what was called the largest bomb shelter in the U.S.[38] at the church compound in Corwin Springs, Montana[8] on land purchased from magazine publisher Malcolm Forbes.

Starting on 15 March 1990, over three days, "hundreds" of followers waited for a nuclear attack in various bomb shelters,[38] communicating with each other by radio.

Around this same time, the nearly-completed construction was halted by court order when large amounts of stored diesel fuel leaked and contaminated the area.

[43] Video footage played on monitors of her "channeling, chanting, lecturing, singing, and prophesying" are part of the church's religious service and are said to "composed the bulk of her ministry".

It is asserted that Lady Master Clare's previous incarnations were:[45] In September 2021, retired General Michael Flynn addressed the "Opening the Heavens 2021" conference, an evangelical Christian event organized by Pastors Hank and Brenda Kunneman of Lord of Hosts Church and One Voice Ministries.

During his speech, Flynn led the audience in a supposed Christian Nationalist prayer that directly plagiarised a sermon given by Clare Prophet in the early 1980's.

[citation needed] [dubious – discuss] Jim Stewartson created a video comparison of Clare Prophet's strident sermon and the militant prayer led by Michael Flynn with Clare Prophet's words being restated unknowingly by the conservative Christian audience.