Editing Elizabeth Clare Prophet (section)

==Influences==
Wulf grew up in a home that was mainly non-religious except for major holidays. (The New York Times describes her as being a [[Christian Scientist]] as a child.)<ref name="Grimes-NYT-obit">{{cite news |last1=Grimes |first1=William |title=Elizabeth Prophet, 70, Church Founder, Is Dead |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/17/us/17prophet.html |access-date=31 July 2024 |work=New York Times |date=16 October 2009}}</ref> Her father was [[Lutheran]], her mother nominally [[Catholic]]. Yet it was her mother's interests in [[Theosophy (Blavatskian)|Theosophy]], the [[I AM Activity]], and [[Christian Science]] that had the most influence on her.{{sfn|Prophet|2009|p=45}} In Theosophy and the I AM Activity she heard about the [[Ascended Masters]], [[Karma]], and [[Reincarnation]]; in [[Christian Science]] she was told that matter was not the only reality and that the spirit part of us made in the image of God was our true nature. Prophet stayed with Christian Science until she met [[Mark Prophet]] at the age of 22.{{sfn|Prophet|2009|p=52}}