Charles Manson merged current events with numerology from the Book of Revelation to develop his vision of Helter Skelter. He pointed to riots, Black Power, and the Black Panthers, as evidence of the uprising in which “blacks were going to kill most of the whites and enslave their surviving oppressors.” At the beginning of Helter Skelter, the Manson Family would enter a bottomless pit to wait out the violence. There, they would rapidly reproduce until their numbers reached 144,000, as specified in Revelation 14:3. The Family would emerge from the pit and be hailed as superior, with Manson recognized as the reincarnation of Jesus.
“I’m only what lives inside you, each and every one of you.” – Charles Manson
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