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While referring to himself as a Christian, Burke generally ignores the [[Bible]] and promotes Hindu scriptures such as the [[Upanishads]] and [[Bhagavad Gita]] instead, though affirming the apocryphal [[Gospel of Thomas]], a proto-[[gnostic]] text which most scholars believe to be a forgery from the 2nd or 3rd century. Burke also alleges that the Saint Thomas Christians (an ancient Christian community in India founded by [[Thomas the Apostle]]) espoused similar views confirming Hinduism, though other sources make no mention of this supposed Hindu connection.
While referring to himself as a Christian, Burke generally ignores the [[Bible]] and promotes Hindu scriptures such as the [[Upanishads]] and [[Bhagavad Gita]] instead, though affirming the apocryphal [[Gospel of Thomas]], a proto-[[gnostic]] text which most scholars believe to be a forgery from the 2nd or 3rd century. Burke also alleges that the Saint Thomas Christians (an ancient Christian community in India founded by [[Thomas the Apostle]]) espoused similar views confirming Hinduism, though other sources make no mention of this supposed Hindu connection.
Ordained by the [[Liberal Catholic Church]] as a priest in 1974 and a bishop in 1975, Burke lives in a Cedar Crest, [[New Mexico]] home dubbed “Light of the Spirit Monastery” (though it seems very few, if any, other “monks” live there), a cabin extensively decorated with [[Orthodox Christian]] icons as well as statues of [[Krishna]], Buddha, and others. <ref>https://ocoy.org/light-of-the-spirit-monastery/</ref>
Ordained by the [[Liberal Catholic Church]] as a priest in 1974 and a bishop in 1975, Burke lives in a Cedar Crest, [[New Mexico]] home dubbed “Light of the Spirit Monastery” (though it seems very few other “monks” live there), a cabin extensively decorated with [[Orthodox Christian]] icons as well as statues of [[Krishna]], Buddha, and others. <ref>https://ocoy.org/light-of-the-spirit-monastery/</ref>
==History==
Information regarding Burke's religious and monastic history is sparse, but Fr. Anthony Nelson of the Russian Orthodox Church paints an image of him as a sort of [[cult]] leader who has founded "monasteries" and "convents" in various American states since the 1970s, leading his followers in [[occult]] practices and frequently forcing massive denominational and doctrinal changes on them as he goes along.
According to Nelson, Burke got his start as a monk in the Holy Transfiguration Orthodox Monastery in [[Boston]] (after experimenting with [[Roman Catholicism]] and other Christian denominations) before fleeing to [[Oklahoma City]] to start his own Hindu-inspired monastic community with a small handful of misled followers of both genders. After tiring of Hinduism, Burke moved his group to [[Austin]] and refashioned them as the "Holy Protection Old Catholic Benedictine Monastery of the Primitive Observance" until 1981 when they were again refashioned into the "Holy Protection Orthodox Monastery". Burke's group would only remain Eastern Orthodox until the mid-1980s, when they would again refashion themselves as Coptic Christians, going so far as to invite actual Egyptian Copts to their monastery under false claims of Apostolic Succession.
It was during this "Coptic" phase when Nelson would come to visit them in person, finding them in the middle of a Hindu-inspired ritual in which they were offering fruits and flowers to icons of Jesus and [[Mary]]. Nelson describes a second, "secret" chapel on the monastery premises in which Burke would lead his followers in the worship of [[demons]] and other black magic practices, an activity which caused some of Burke's followers to abandon his monastery altogether in favor of more traditional expressions of Christianity.
Burke's monastery would eventually relocate and refashion themselves again by the 1990s, becoming [[Gnostic]] and settling in [[Nebraska]] as the "Light of Christ Monastery".
Nelson's writing also describe Burke as a [[tarot card]] enthusiast and self-described reincarnated Catholic Bishop and Christian [[martyr]]. <ref>http://orthodoxinfo.com/general/monasteryicons.aspx</ref>
=="Original Christianity"==
=="Original Christianity"==