"William Kamm the Fragmented Pebble"

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Excerpts from the article "William Kamm the Fragmented Pebble" by George G. Amad:

 

"I wanted to help warn people about this treacherous cult leader by writing my own article, which is only the tip of the iceberg. Graeme Webber, a young journalist with ethical concerns for in-depth reporting and social responsibility, plunged into the entire 360-degrees of Kamm's world, and left no stone ( or 'Pebble' ) unturned. Kamm's sordid and reprehensible world - of iniquitous socio-psychological, financial manipulations of millions of dollars, et cetera, - behind his sanctimonious façade, has been stripped, and fully exposed in Webber's book: 'a WOLF among the SHEEP' --   ^_2.   An exposé which covers religious/ecclesiastic and secular perspectives for those genuinely concerned about serial paedophiles, and the proliferation of cults. "

"'BAYSIDE' APPRENTICESHIP.

In the early 1970s Kamm formed informal rosary groups dedicated to devotion to Mary ( B.V.M. ), in the suburbs of Sydney, Canberra and Wollongong, which, in 1987 (q.l.), he formalized as the 'Marian Work of Atonement, Ltd.' In the intervening 17-year period (q.l.) he had travelled twice to New York in the United States, first in 1978 and then in 1980, making brief visits to the controversial, and infamous, oracular organization known as 'Bayside,' ^_8. which had been established in 1968 (q.l.) by the canonically discredited Veronica Lueken. 

"WARNING

The late Bishop Francis Mugavero † ( 1914 - 91 ), the then Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn NY, made a 'Declaration Concerning the “Bayside Movement”', ( 4/11/1986 ). He stated: 

“No credibility can be given to the so-called "apparitions" reported by Veronica Lueken and her followers ... “Anyone promoting this devotion in any way, be it by participating in the "vigils," organizing pilgrimages, publishing or disseminating the literature related to it, is contributing to the confusion which is being created in the faith of God's people, as well as encouraging them to act against the determinations made by the legitimate pastor of this particular Church”. ^_9.

Notwithstanding Bishop Mugavero's earlier 'Declaration', Kamm continued his false pretensions, appropriating and disseminating Lueken's discredited falsehoods, and so-called "apparitions”. 

QUALIFIED “SEER” AND “POPE”.

Subsequent to Kamm's return to Australia, he metamorphosed into a soi-disant “seer”, ^_10. with self-given grandiose titles: “New Abraham”, ^_11. “Little Moses”, ^_12.“ last Pope”,  ^_13.  “modern day prophet”  ^_14. int. al. He began having his own “apparitions” beginning on 11 November, 1983 (q.v.)  ^_15.   And from the Bayside blueprint established his own cult (1984), duplicating the prophetic and millenarian model he plagiarized from 'Bayside', disseminating well rehearsed Lueken's mélange of apocalyptic millenarian falsehoods, and “apparitions”; continuing these follies beyond 1986; notwithstanding Bishop Mugavero's 'Declaration'. An example of Kamm's sterile imagination occurred in December 1984 when he alleged that Jesus said: 

“I tell you most solemnly, my dear child, my Little Pebble of Love: it was on Peter the rock that I built my Church and it is upon you, the Pebble, that I will renew and save my Church”. ^_16.

Sixteen years later, in October 2000, he claimed to have received:

 

“revelations” with “...some four hundred other mystics throughout the Church ... that I [ he ] will be the Pope and not the next one but the last one...” brackets mine ]; ^_17.  and “the new Abraham”. ^_18.

Kamm would face fierce opposition from several other contenders for the papal leadership, e.g., David Allen Bawden ( or “Pope Michael I” ), Delia Kansas U.S., and Manuel Alonso Corral ( “Pope Peter II” ), of Palmaria Spain. 

Kamm began his cult on a 10-hectare property, to become known as 'Gethsemane', in Cambewarra, west of Nowra NSW. On 2 February 1984 he assumed the alias “Little Pebble”, and began expanding his activities globally. He accumulated numerous “seers” within his network. Webber lists sixteen adults and fifteen children of the Cambewarra constellation, and five outside the compound, and a further twenty-four in fifteen other countries. ^_19. Furthermore, Webber in his footnotes [ in part ] says: 

“Neither Kamm nor any purported seers from Cambewarra have been recognised as such by the mainstream Church”, and that the “...list is only a small selection; hundreds of seers from virtually every continent have exchanged Messages with The Little Pebble”. ^_20.

 

"Kamm began his cult on a 10-hectare property, to become known as 'Gethsemane', in Cambewarra, west of Nowra NSW. On 2 February 1984 he assumed the alias “Little Pebble”, and began expanding his activities globally. He accumulated numerous “seers” within his network. Webber lists sixteen adults and fifteen children of the Cambewarra constellation, and five outside the compound, and a further twenty-four in fifteen other countries. ^_19. Furthermore, Webber in his footnotes [ in part ] says: 

“Neither Kamm nor any purported seers from Cambewarra have been recognised as such by the mainstream Church”, and that the “...list is only a small selection; hundreds of seers from virtually every continent have exchanged Messages with The Little Pebble”. ^_20.

OPENING 'SHOP'.

In the following year ( 1985 ) Kamm formally established his cult naming it the 'Order of Saint Charbel'"...  Read entire article:   Father's Home Page