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Sorry for the wait on this, been dealing with a lot offline lately.

So the short, honest answer that may piss some people off is this: He has all the fixings of a cult leader, plain and simple. 

I cannot personally verify this in any way without sinking a ton of money into him personally and possibly putting my own safety at risk, but his organization The Assembly of Light Bearers (formerly known as the Greater Church of Lucifer) fits a whole ton of the criteria for a money-making cult. 

For starts: he outright lies on his own website, constantly, to keep the reader hooked. He begins by talking about how non-dogmatic it is, but then later he tells you that in order to be in ALB you have to buy his book and agree with its principles: this is the definition of dogma. 

I want you to read this paragraph really closely. He paints a lovely picture, doesn’t he? But what has he actually said? What information can you actually glean from this at all, except that Michael Ford desperately wants to keep your full attention on how great he can make you?

Going further, he claims that becoming a member is free. However he later states that it is only free if you personally know an existing authority figure in ALB, are within a reasonable distance of them, and they are willing to vouch for you personally to be able to enter for free. Otherwise it is $10 a month just to be the lowest level member, which he is quick to point out is the level with the least personal attention and involvement. That’s just to get your foot in the door. He even has the gall to say that the order form at the bottom of the page isn’t really an order form, and that you aren’t really paying.

I don’t know about you, but that looks a LOT like an order form, and my definition of payment is when money leaves my possession and enters the hand of somebody else. And that is exactly what’s happening here.

Past that, the real bullshit begins. The whole church (oh wait, my bad, its an assembly now. Wouldn’t want people to think your religion is a religion.) is set up as a business-type hierarchy for you to ascend through. This in and of itself is a huge red flag. This is the exact same structure a pyramid scheme has. There is no instruction on how to advance except that it is entirely merit based, meaning that those at the top decide who ascends and who does not among themselves. 

This is straight from the main page of their website. They literally put the idea of becoming a leader right in your face from the first moment you lay eyes on the website. The whole organization is then set up to make you want to ascend the ranks, and how do you do that? Please the people above you of course! Because we all know that the most Luciferian thing you can do is work solely to please people in authority above you. Right? Right?!

Wait, didn’t he tell you in that inspiration porn paragraph that “No Luciferian submits to any higher force outside the self?” What happened to that all of a sudden?

In short: Avoid Michael Ford like the plague if you know what’s good for you. I’m sure going to. The only thing I can guarantee if you get involved with this is that it’ll most likely separate you from your very last cent before you get anywhere truly satisfying with your practice.

Thanks for the question!

He also was associated in the past with ONA, and left because allegedly he doesn’t like fascism… but he still sells all those ONA books he wrote forwards for on his Luciferian Apotheca website. HMMM.

And he’s prone to random social Darwinist rants against welfare and “the mentally disabled.”