{"id":28137,"date":"2013-08-10T21:28:09","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T21:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=28137"},"modified":"2019-02-22T15:35:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T23:35:03","slug":"356-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=28137","title":{"rendered":"Q356 Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you.<\/strong><\/i><\/p>\n

To read the Tape Transcript, click here<\/a>.\u00a0To read the Annotated\u00a0Transcript,\u00a0click here<\/a>.
\nTo return to the Tape Index, click here<\/a>.\u00a0To listen to MP3, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

FBI Catalogue: <\/b>Jones Speaking<\/p>\n

FBI preliminary tape identification note: <\/strong>None<\/p>\n

Date cues on tape: <\/b>August 1973 (reference to longtime civil rights activist George Wiley dying in boating accident)<\/p>\n

People named:<\/b><\/p>\n

People in attendance at Peoples Temple service<\/i>
\nMary Phillips
\nSister Jewel (speaks)<\/b>
\nCaldwell<\/div>\n
Public figures\/National and international names:<\/i>
\nlongtime civil rights activist George Wiley<\/div>\n

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Bible verses cited:<\/b><\/p>\n

(Editor’s note<\/strong>: The verses below appear in order of biblical reference, not as they appear in Jim Jones\u2019 address. For a complete scriptural index to the sermons of Jim Jones, click here<\/a>.)<\/i><\/p>\n

    “I am that one. The I am that I am.” (Exodus 3:14, “And God said unto Moses,\u00a0I\u00a0Am\u00a0That\u00a0I\u00a0Am<\/span>: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel,\u00a0I Am<\/span>\u00a0hath sent me unto you.”)<\/p>\n

    \u201cBlessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.\u201d (Matthew 5:8, \u201cBlessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.\u201d)<\/p>\n

    \u201cAll the Bible is fulfilled in this saying: love God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength and your neighbor as yourself, and you can\u2019t love God if you don\u2019t see God.\u201d (Luke 10:26-27, \u201cHe said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou? And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.\u201d See also Matthew 22:37-39, Mark 12:29-31)<\/p>\n

    \u201cAs Jesus said, ye are Gods.\u201d (John 10:34, \u201cJesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?\u201d)<\/p>\n

    \u201cAnd Paul said, you\u2019re entirely too superstitious. Paul said that in your Bible, because you have \u2026 an inscription to the unknown God.\u201d (Acts 17:22-23, \u201cThen Paul stood in the midst of Mars\u2019 hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD\u2026\u201d)<\/p>\n

    \u201c\u2026women keep silence in the churches\u2026\u201d (1 Corinthians 14:34, \u201cLet your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.\u201d)<\/p>\n

    \u201cKing James erroneously printed many things like Servants, obey your masters, slaves, obey your masters\u2026\u201d (Colossians 3:22, \u201cServants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God.\u201d See also, Ephesians 6:5, Titus 2:9)<\/p>\n

    \u201c\u2026suffer not the women to teach.\u201d (1 Timothy 2:12, \u201cBut I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.\u201d)<\/ol>\n

    Summary:<\/b><\/p>\n

    (Note:<\/strong> This tape was one of the 53 tapes initially withheld from public disclosure.)<\/em><\/p>\n

    (Note:<\/strong> This tape was transcribed by the late Michael Bellefountaine.)<\/em><\/p>\n

    This 1973 tape was made at the end of a healing service which Jim Jones conducted in Philadelphia during one of Peoples Temple\u2019s tours of the east coast. The tape lasts for less than 30 minutes \u2013 a fraction of most of Jones\u2019 services \u2013 and even as he performs the last healings, he is arranging for transportation for people to the Temple\u2019s next stop in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

    Despite its relatively short length and its main emphasis on healings, the tape is quite complex in Jones\u2019 presentations of his understanding of God, his assumptions of God, and his relationships to Christ. There are contradictory elements of the Christian preacher which Jones began as, the declarations of personal divinity which he increasingly proclaimed, and several steps in between.<\/p>\n

    The tape begins, for example, with a rejection of the \u201cSkygod\u201d found in the King James Version of the Bible. Speaking to an elderly black woman who is apparently ashamed of her cowardice in front of white men \u2013 the tape opens in mid-conversation, and the details are unclear \u2013 Jones reminds her and the congregation how the Bible was an instrument of oppression, used to subjugate both black slaves and women. He then refers to King James himself as a slave-trader.<\/p>\n

    Even as Jones castigates the legitimacy of the Bible because of its immorality, he quotes from it approvingly to demonstrate his own incarnation as God. Paul tells them, they cannot worship an unknown god. Jones agrees, and says, \u201cyou cannot worship anything you don\u2019t see.\u201d His healings have demonstrated the proof of himself as the God that the people can see, and since God is now in their midst, \u201cyou can put your Bible away.\u201d The Bible is a contract, he says, like a mortgage, and when it\u2019s paid off \u2013\u00a0as it is with his arrival \u2013 \u201cyou can throw the contract away. When you fulfill a contract, you don\u2019t need it any more.\u201d<\/p>\n

    He becomes even more personal about the renunciation of the Skygod. Fifteen years earlier, the woman he is about to heal had a miscarriage, and was never able to conceive afterwards. \u201cThat\u2019s what I mean about the Skygod, you can\u2019t believe in the Skygod.\u201d The news of the day was of a well-known civil rights organizer who died in a boating accident \u2013 more specifically, according to Jones, he drowned when he couldn\u2019t reach the rope which his son threw to him \u2013 but the real reason the man died was, \u201che didn\u2019t know me.\u201d<\/p>\n

    While not specifically backpedaling as the service continues, he uses the more traditional language of a faith-healer as he works with the sick. Working over one woman, he quotes Jesus as affirming them all as gods \u2013 a phrase which Temple members in California, if not the worshippers in Philadelphia, often heard \u2013 but leads into the proclamation with the assurance that \u201cI have come in the name of Jesus.\u201d Later during the same healing, he invokes the name of Jesus to complete the healing. Towards the end of the service, as the crowd begins to break up, Jones urges \u201canyone that wants to give their life to Christ, [to] come out of the aisles now.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Even as he issues that invitation, though, he suggests various ways for the people in the congregation to get healed through him after he leaves. \u201cIf you want to be saved, just call upon the name of God right now.\u2026 We\u2019ll come back to Philadelphia when the hearts are ready.\u201d But he can heal in his absence: \u201cWhen you get my teachings, you\u2019ll get your healing.\u201d He acknowledges the power of money to his ministry: \u201cIn the balcony a woman gave the proper amount of money and saved her from a stroke\u2026 because she gave what she\u2019d been prospered with.\u201d The tape ends with one final suggestion: \u201c[I]f you\u2019ll take a picture of me, I guarantee you, you\u2019ll live.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Jones conducts numerous healings in rapid-fire succession during the tape, without the usual revelation of details of the lives of the supplicants in order to prove his powers as a healer. It could be that the hour is late and many people await his touch; it could be that he has sufficiently demonstrated this ability earlier in the evening and no longer feels compelled to offer proof to each person. Whatever the reason, as he moves through the crowd, he calls out, \u201cI don\u2019t have to call you out\u201d to heal you.<\/p>\n

    Instead, he apparently points to various people, names their diseases, and pronounces them cured. \u201cSickle cell anemia, you\u2019da died, but your sickle cell anemia\u2019s gone now,\u201d he says to one person. Even before the cheers of that healing have died, he performs another: \u201cA little touch on the heart. You feel a warmth there? Just touch your hands and clap them three times. I saved you from a heart attack in three minutes.\u201d Without fanfare \u2013 that\u2019s discernible on the tape, at least \u2013 he resurrects someone from the dead. A woman trying to get close to him apparently stumbles, but Jones says she won\u2019t be hurt. \u201cWhen anybody falls under the power, you\u2019re all right. [I] Just saved her. She fell because she\u2019s healed, she\u2019s all right, healed of heart trouble, blood pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n

    The session winds down with heartfelt expressions of love and appreciation for the assembled crowd. He tells them about Redwood Valley, and the wonders they work there. \u201cOh, I wish I could take you all home with me,\u201d he says. \u201cWish I could take you all home with me.\u201d<\/p>\n

    FBI Summary:<\/b><\/p>\n

    Date of transcription: 6\/18\/79<\/p>\n

    In connection with the Federal Bureau of Investigation\u2019s investigation into the assassination of U.S. Congressman LEO J. RYAN at Port Kaituma, Guyana, South America, on November 18, 1978, a tape recording was obtained. This tape recording was located in Jonestown, Guyana, South America, and was turned over to U.S. Officials in Guyana and subsequently transported to the United States.<\/p>\n

    On June 3, 1979, Special Agent (name deleted) reviewed the tape numbered 1B93-90. This tape was found to contain the following:<\/p>\n

    JIM JONES giving a revival meeting and the \u201chealing\u201d of MARY PHILLIPS and others.<\/p>\n

    Differences with FBI Summary:<\/b><\/p>\n

    The summary is accurate and meets the FBI\u2019s purposes.<\/p>\n

    Tape originally posted April 2004<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Summary prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To read the Tape Transcript, click here.\u00a0To read the Annotated\u00a0Transcript,\u00a0click here. To return to the Tape Index, click here.\u00a0To listen to MP3, click here. FBI Catalogue: Jones Speaking FBI preliminary tape identification note: None Date cues […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":27996,"menu_order":187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28137","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28137"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86050,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28137\/revisions\/86050"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}