I 

Betrayal of All,

Especially

The Children

at

Mount Hope

Herbert Thomas

Schwartz

December 14, 1903 – 

November 1, 1980

“CHEER UP – IF GOD COULD LOVE ME

HE COULD LOVE ANYONE, EVEN YOU

AND HE DID LOVE ME !”

Tomb Stone of Herbert Schwartz

In Otisville, N.Y.

Spiritual Leader of Mount Hope

A man who who cloaked his evil  acts in the language of the love of Jesus

A man who abused his followers: 

physically,

psychologically,

sexually,

emotionally,

financially,

verbally,

socially,

spiritually,

AND IN SO DOING

violated the interior life,

collapsed the personhood,

left the soul in pieces,

fractured what was whole,

shattered the spirit,

OF HIS FOLLOWERS

A GOOD NUMBER OF WHICH

WERE MY FAMILY MEMBERS

and two in particular  – 

my nephews

Matthew Van Lokeren

 & 

Mark Van Lokeren 

who

died by their own hand – 

Mark David Van Lokeren

August 26, 1966 – February 1, 2009 (43 years old)

Matthew David Van Lokeren

August 26, 1964 – November 19, 2013 (49 years old)

Herbert wasn’t the only one in the abuse business!

He had his lieutenants-his right hand and his left hand–!     YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE   ! AND SO DOES EVERBODY ELSE ! 

Who literally flanked the giant easy chair that was his throne, in THAT ROOM (one perched to the right and one to the left)…where gatherings were marked by joy and a sense of occasion and which was the space that served in the insidious indoctrination and mind control of his followers and a crime scene for thousands of heinous acts !