In August 1999, he gave the sermon he called: ‘I want to show you how to love in a beautiful way’. And he asserted that a man can have as many wives as he wants “for the sake of the submissiveness of women”. From that moment, love triangles began to appear in the commune and men were allowed to change their wives. Some families could not bear this kind of psychological onslaught and fell apart. Then, Vissarion himself parted from his wife and took a new wife - a 16-year-old.

The Church of the Last Testament sect and its leader Vissarion, who declares himself to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ, have been known in Russia for 30 years. During this time, their commune has built a fully operating eco-town in the taiga, turning the lives of thousands of people into a mysterious cult.
This summary of tragic deaths is not a crime news round-up. It is just a small part of a list recreated from memory on social media forums by former followers of the Church of the Last Testament and its “savior”, Sergey Torop, known as Vissarion.

Vissarion has led a cult in the depths of Siberia for the past three decades. After losing his job as a traffic officer in 1989, Torop claimed to have experienced an “awakening”. And in 1991 he founded a movement now known as the Church of the Last Testament.

Torop calls himself Vissarion and 300 of his followers live in wooden huts in a village around his church.

| آن نور حقیقی بود که هر انسان را منور میگرداند ودر جهان آمدنی بود. |
| و کلمه جسم گردید و میان ما ساکن شد، پراز فیض و راستی و جلال او را دیدیم، جلالی شایسته پسر یگانه پدر. ...
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