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The Church of Akkadia was an ancient Aztec religious cult founded in Southern Mesopotamia by Saragon of Akkad in 500bc. It was re-established in Tuscan, Arizona in 1949 by Jeremiah P. Collins (1927-1991). On January 1st 2014 Glasgow Metropolitan Police discovered the bodies of 134 members of the cult who had committed mass suicide in order to reach the “13th Dynasty Chapter”. The religion believed that the world would end on midnight on the 31st of December, and if they sacrificed themselves before this occurred they would transcend the Earth and be able to reach the “13th Dynasty Chapter”. The group believed that heaven consisted of 13 levels and reaching the 13th would bring them closer to eternal bliss.

History

According to Jackson Goofenhauser in his book Allies of the MesoZyon,[4] the group began in the late 1940s when Jeremiah P. Collins was recovering from a heart attack during which he claimed to have had a out of body experience where he spoke to the deceased spiritual leader Sargon of Akkad. The leader instructed Collins to reform the church of Akkad and prepare his followers for doomsday, which he predicted would incur on December 31st, 2013. After his recovery Collins reestablished the Church of Akkadia and preached to American citizens the ancient religion. Collins believed that he was directly related to Sargon, meaning he was an "Evolutionary Kingdom Level Above Human".

Belief System Akkadia members believed that the planet Earth was about to be "recycled" (wiped clean, renewed, refurbished and rejuvenated), and that the only chance to survive was to leave it before doomsday. While the group was formally against suicide, they defined "suicide" in their own context to mean "to turn against the Next Level when it is being offered," and believed that their "human" bodies were only vessels meant to help them on their journey. In conversation, when referring to a person or a person's body, they routinely used the word "vehicle"; when shown a picture of his son in an interview, Collins commented, "Look, there's the little vehicle."