Federico Cervantes manuscript, 1915 and 1930.
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Rio Grande Historical Collections
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The Faithist movement was founded by a New York dentist and doctor named John B. Newbrough, who claimed to have written a new Bible, called Oahspe, while under spirit control. Contained in this Bible was "The Book of Shalam," which set forth a plan for gathering the outcast and orphaned children of the world and raising them, according to strict religious principles, to be the spiritual leaders of a new age. Newbrough and some twenty Faithists, as his followers were called, decided to create suc...
Cervantes, Federico
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Federico Cervantes was a military engineer and journalist who got his degree at the Military College of Chapultepec, Mexico. He studied aerial navigation in Europe with the French Corps of Engineers. In 1913, Cervantes returned to Mexico and joined forces with General Francisco Villa in the convention of Aguascaliente. He was a representative for General Felipe Angeles. With the triumph of constitutionalism, he left the army and was named director of the academy. Cervantes held a debate with Col...