Adelphi Organization

The Adelphi Organization dates to 1976 when Richard Kieninger, the founder of the Stelle Group, left Stelle, Illinois, and founded a second group near Dallas, Texas. Kieninger's autobiographical volume The Ultimate Frontier had provided the main teaching at Stelle, but he was asked to leave the community after his sexual liaisons with several of the married women were discovered. The new organization was modeled on Stelle and had the same goal, which Kieninger had been given by his teacher, of building a new nation that would survive the disasters at the end of the twentieth century.

After Kieninger left Stelle, a significant power struggle developed. His former wife, the president of the corporation, and the entire board of trustees resigned and left the community. Those remaining reestablished relations with Kieninger. Stelle and Adelphi reunited, the headquarters moved to Texas, and Kieninger was named chairman of the board. However, in 1986, Kieninger was again forced out and founded a short-lived group, the Builders of the Nation of God. A short time later Kieninger was accepted back at Adelphi and at that point Adelphi and Stelle went their separate ways.

Adelphi continues with its program of building a city on an island in the Pacific Ocean. The Adelphi Organization publishes a newsletter, Adelphi Quarterly, and can be reached at PO Box 2423, Quinlan, TX 75474. Website: http://www.adelphi.com/.