Brother XII

By John Oliphant

Subjects: Biography, Worship, Biographies, Imposters and imposture, Histoire, Cultes, Théosophes, Impostors and imposture, History, Theosophists, Imposteurs, Cults

Description: 'Brother XII: The Strange Odyssey of a 20th-century Prophet' chronicles the life and exploits of the enigmatic figure who established a utopian community in southern British Columbia in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The tales of gold, sex and black magic associated with Brother XII and his flamboyant mistress, a whip-wielding devotee of ritual magic with the pulp-fiction name of Madame Z, have gripped people's imaginations for years, and the story has been described as a Gone with The Wind of the occult, an evocative mixture of the sacred and profane. Though other religious figures may be better known, for pure drama, nothing rivals the story of Brother XII.