NinRick said:
I can not fathom how people especially HighPriests can just vanish.
Most simply have quit simply because they were below the task.
Real clergy like HPS Maxine not only have developed too much power to be toppled out or removed [she went for 20 years straight and so on]. These people cracked under pressure within 1-2 years.
Others have left "simply because". To the public this may have appeared as vanishing but to us, we knew on all cases what happened. For example, Vovim was weeded out when it came out he was doing heavy drugs, alongside other things.
When things were smaller a lot of people had all sorts of bizarre influences, and many were not adherent to the path. HPS Maxine ate the fruit of the promise of this path, yet most others simply vanished for no reason or even actually worse reasons than people would understand.
One recent HP that people may have shocked I kicked out, he had this "10 years ago so whatever it was a game back then" mentality, where they were drinking alcohol to alcoholic levels daily. We tried for 10 years STRAIGHT to help them, advise them, give them incentives to cut off, and stop. They will definitely tell you that we are assholes, heartless, and so on. How many e-mails, care, and love have I given to them to stop, few will ever know.
Eventually none of this mattered and they made themselves a total mess.
Apparently this was not what they wanted to do. In the last years this was derailing affairs too much, and they had to go, since this addiction and other issues have been clearly getting in the path of Satan and His objectives.
Real Clergy will not abandon people.