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initiator, the trigger of the final event” (Lifton, 2000, p. 59).
Somewhat later, in his book Day of Annihilation, there was no longer so much time left. According to
this text, Japan would sink into the ocean already in 1996. The end of the world would begin in
1998/99. A pupil saw in a vision how a branch of AUM would move to Jerusalem in 1998 and that
members of the sect would be imprisoned there and then tortured. In a triumphant campaign the
fellow believers would be freed. Asahara, this prophecy predicted, would die the death of a martyr
during the liberation and set off a final world war.
In order to introduce his “Shambhalization of the world”, it was only natural that Asahara would want
to lead a great apocalyptic army, then that is integral to the script of the tantric myth. Hence, as he
was meditating on the Japanese Pacific coast, one day a powerful voice told him, “I have chosen you
to lead God’s army” (Kaplan and Marshall, 1996, p. 12). From this point in time on the sect’s music
also changed; in place of the old harmonic New Age music of the spheres, military marches now
sounded over the loudspeakers. “The time has come … We have to fight ... Defeat means death for
the guru”, Asahara’s closest intimate wrote in his notebook (Kaplan and Marshall, 1996, p. 154). The
connection between the destruction of the world and emptiness invoked by the Kalachakra Tantra
also had a decisive influence on Shoko Asahara, and even found expression in the title of one of his
writings, From Destruction to Emptiness: A Sequel to the Day of Destruction.
Religion and chemical laboratories
The final war could not be fought without effective weapons. Asahara recruited a small group of
highly qualified scientists, all university graduates in the natural sciences: chemists, biochemists,
electronic engineers. They were commissioned to establish large laboratories for the manufacture of
chemical and biological weapons. According to Kaplan and Marshall colonies of all sorts of deadly
bacteria were cultivated there, anthrax, influenza, and even the notorious Ebola virus. The young
people dreamed of gigantic laser cannons. “When the power of this laser is increased,” Asahara says,
“a perfectly white belt, or sword can be seen. This is the sword referred to in the Book of Revelations.
This sword will destroy virtually all life” (Kaplan and Marshall, 1996, p. 207). He was especially
fascinated by a “microplasm” weapon with which all living things could be vaporized in seconds.
“The weapons used in World War III” he wrote in 1993, “will make the atomic and hydrogen bombs
look like toys. At present, the centerpiece of the Russian arsenal is called the star-reflector cannon.
The United States has the Strategic Defense Initiative and the extension of this is
'microplasma’" (Archipelago, I, HPI 003).
In particular, Asahara’s ingenious scientist, Hideo Murai reveled at the idea of all kinds of apocalyptic
weapons of destruction. He was a specialist in electromagnetic (EM) phenomena. For him too, and for
his work, the tantric law of inversion would one day take effect. At first Murai began by constructing
weapons to defend the cult against the military apparatus of the superpowers. For years his paranoid
guru believed himself to be the target of electromagnetic and chemical attacks by the most varied
worldly and religious secret services. It was only thanks to his elevated spirituality that he was still
alive at all. As redeemer of the world he wanted to rescue humanity from an imminent war of
destruction and hence he devoted his thoughts to what countermeasures could be developed. But then
came the moment when defense turned into attack. Hideo Murai was commissioned by his guru to
develop miraculous weapons that were no longer defensive, but would rather accelerate the end of the
world.