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The sect now focused on the physical theories and experiments of the famous Serbo-Croatian
inventor, Nikola Tesla (1846-1943), who had undertaken extensive research into the enormous
electromagnetic (EM) energy fields that are said to span the globe. Tesla believed that influence could
be gained over these and that earthquakes could thus be triggered or the weather changed. He is
supposed to have designed appropriate machines and conducted successful experiments. In the course
of his investigations he reached the conclusion that it would be possible to split the world into two
halves like an apple with an “EM experiment”. This tempting apocalyptic conception motivated the
young scientists at AUM to write to the Tesla Society in New York and to visit the Tesla Museum in
Belgrade so as to be able to examine his notes.
In March 1994 Hideo Murai went to Australia with several assistants and carried out electromagnetic
(EM) experiments on a sheep station bought by the sect. He is supposed to have built an all round
machine, which could both evoke earthquakes and act as a shield against nuclear warheads. This
apparatus proved to be the ideal weapon of mass destruction for the “final war” (Archipelago, I).
There are speculations that the Japanese earthquake in Kobe (in 1995) had an artificial origin and was
staged by the technicians of the AUM sect. This may well sound just too fantastic, but on this
occasion one of Asahara’s prophesies, which were otherwise very rarely fulfilled, came true. Nine
days before the big earthquake which shook the Hanshin region, on January 8, 1995 the guru
announced on a radio program that “Japan will be attacked by an earthquake in 1995. The most likely
place is Kobe” (Archipelago, II, HPI 004). After the event AUM announced that the infrastructure of
the province of Kobe with its skyscrapers and major bridges had been “the best place for simulating
an earthquake-weapon attack against a big city such as Tokyo. Kobe was the appropriate guinea
pig” (Archipelago, II, HPI 004).
But at the foot of the holy Mount Fuji conventional weapons were also being mass produced.
Members of the sect there were producing Russian automatic rifles (the AK-47) in factories disguised
as spiritual centers. Sources purchased a military helicopter in Russia that was then dismantled and
shipped to Japan piece by piece.
But, as should be self-evident, the tantra master Asahara saw the explosive force of his own mind as
the most dangerous weapon of all. “In Tantrayana vows,” we hear from the man himself, “ there is
one that prohibits attainers from destroying villages and towns. This means that the power to destroy a
town or village is obtained through Tantrayana and Vajrayana practice” (Archipelago, I, HPI 003). In
accordance with the tantric logic of inversion that we have described in detail, the guru believed he
was thoroughly justified in breaking this vow.
Fundamentally, Asahara’s factories corresponded conceptually to the alchemical laboratories of the
17th and 18th centuries in Europe, although they were incomparably more technical. In both cases
scientists did not just experiment with chemical substances, rather they combined their findings with
religious concepts and symbols. Let us recall how the couple, Nicholas and Helena Ivanovna Roerich,
described the temple structures of Shambhala as “laboratories” and glorified the monastic priests of
the wonderland as “adepts of a sacred alchemy”.
Asahara also gave his chemical factory holy names and called it the “Clear Stream Temple” or
“Supreme Science” (Kaplan and Marshall, 1996, p. 87). Several altars were to be found in the threestory
building in which the poison gases were created. Shortly after entering one reached a mezzanine
and came face to face with a golden figure of the destroyer god Rudra Shiva. To the left of this stood