Premium Episode 178: The Mankind United Cult with Ryan Serisu (Sample)
A 1930s California cult that prefigured QAnon and posited a world-shattering battle between the "Secret Rulers" and "The Sponsors". Its leader, Arthur Bell, enlisted people in the "Universal Service Corporation" and made them participate in a multi-level-marketing scheme to sell books. Bell's vision also included "a race of little men with metallic heads who lived at the center of the earth" among many other oddities. The cult eventually morphed into a church after some unwanted attention by the FBI. Ryan Serisu of the Rumor Flies podcast has done in-depth research on the subject and guest wrote the episode.
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Welcome, listener, to Premium Chapter 178 of the QAnon Anonymous Podcast, the Mankind United episode.
As always, we are your hosts, Jake Rokitansky, Ryan Sarasu, Julian Fields, and Travis View.
Hidden Rulers, a group of ultra-wealthy figures controlling all governments and leading us in and out of every war, intent on enslaving humanity through division and media mind control.
A mysterious figure representing a benevolent group known as the Sponsors, who refers to himself as the Speaker, or the Voice of the Right Idea, and relays secret information about the coming global revolution against evil.
Marvelous weapons of peace, capable of rendering all war technology inoperable, prepped to be used at the push of a button.
Sedition trials, and a tagline.
One for all, and all for one.
No, these are not your half-assed recollections of being cornered by an uncle at a 4th of July barbecue in the 2020s.
They're the beliefs of a group led by a charismatic man named Arthur Bell, who convinced thousands of Californians that if a mere 200 million people devoted their entire lives to the organization of benevolent sponsors that he represented, the Great Awakening would happen right in the middle of the Great Depression.
This week we'll be exploring Mankind United, a movement born in the 1930s that could easily be confused with today's QAnon.
And to help us with this, we've got Ryan Sarasu from the Rumor Flies podcast.
He also happens to be our guest writer on this topic.
So, before we get too esoteric, how's everybody doing?
Better every day.
Um, pretty good.
Great.
Okay.
Unspecific?
Yeah, I've been watching the January 6 hearings.
They recently had one where they showed outtakes from Trump's speech that he gave the day after, in which he kind of stumbles over the word yesterday, and then does multiple takes, and then rewrites the script on the fly with help from Ivanka.
Well, that's not so bad.
There's nothing wrong with, like, rewriting the script while you're making the content.
What is that so wrong?
That's what we do.
That is literally a description of us.
God bless him.
Maybe he is the best president.
Yeah, I hate, like, that was like, aw, shit.
This is, like, the most relatable thing I've ever seen him do.
That's terrible.
The only thing I very vividly remember from watching while I was writing yesterday, while watching the J6 committee, was them having a picture of one of the situation rooms in the White House, and for some reason they felt the need to photoshop a still of Fox News on the TV, and it was very clearly up there, and I'm not sure which poor bastard intern had to do that, but just... gotta make it look good for everybody.
Yeah.
Would you rather that or know that Trump watches Dragon Ball Z?
Um, yeah, I don't want to feel any more sympathetic towards, uh, anybody in the situation.
So maybe, yeah, I'd rather that.
He recently flew off the handle when he found out that, uh, they were about to reveal that Frieza is bisexual.
Which I wish I was making up, but that was a Kotaku article recently, so.
Wait, really?
Uh, I've been in France dodging fires.
It's pretty messy.
Figuratively or literally?
No, very literally.
A fire displaced the wedding I was attending.
Um, and, uh, then we came to Paris, but there were fires on the way.
And, you know, I've never seen it so smoggy.
It was very hot, and now we got some healing rain going on, but at least I've had my favorite dish about three or four times in three or four days.
Now I feel bad.
I was gonna complain about how bored I am by the Jan 6 hearings, but now I feel bad saying that, knowing that Julian is literally running for his life from apocalyptic fires.
Yeah, I can come by your house while you're watching that and set it on fire if you want.
You could.
Yeah, I think last night, you know, in my bed at like 3 a.m., Teddy's got a cone right now.
It's a long story, but everybody's up.
I'll post a pic or something so people can see.
It's really cute.
And it's not like a Joe Biden cone of beautiful soft serve.
No, no, no, no, no.
It is a...
It is a Richard Nixon cone of hard plastic that smells like the vet.
Or chocolate chocolate chip.
Yeah.
Can we talk about how our venerable leader has COVID days after saying accidentally that he had cancer in a speech?
Yeah.
Things are great.
Things are good.
Yeah, things are great.
No, I was going to say, after laying in bed at like 4 a.m., reading like the 100th thread in like a Tweet thread and being promised over and over how many, how many guilty verdicts and how many crimes, just the, the amount of crimes, you know, committed.
I was like, I can't, I can't look at this.
You know what?
Ring me, ring me when they, when they read out the charges and I'll start paying attention again.
I have no more, I have no more brain capacity for the potential fate of our corrupt politicians.
I can't do it anymore.
That's why we've brought Ryan in to bring us back to January 6, 1930.
The better January 6.
Yep.
That's unfortunately what I picked to be my little pet project.
Well, we're glad you did all the work for us.
That's why we have wonderful guest writers like you to just Teach us about something and we just basically sit on our hands And just kind of enjoy.
All right.
All right.
Well, let's kick it off Mankind United, later known as Christ Church of the Golden Rule, was a cult founded by Arthur Loeber Osborne Bell, or at least that's what the most accurate guess to his full name is.
It was predominantly active between the mid-1930s and the early 1950s.
The followers of Mankind United held beliefs that a shadowy, nameless group of elites known as the Hidden Rulers were responsible for all of the greed, war, poverty, starvation, racial tensions, and class divides.
In counter to this, Mankind United believed that they were serving under the benevolent but also shadowy sponsors that aimed to bring about a socially, spiritually, and economically egalitarian entity known as the Universal Service Corporation that would usher in the new age of humanity, with mysterious Arthur Bell serving as the liaison between the sponsors and the people.
Instead of bringing economic and social equality to his followers, Bell would bring social and economic ruin to nearly every business and individual that made the mistake of trusting him.
All for him to vanish without a trace and without any true recompense.
Oh, man.
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