John Balou Newbrough, received the book OAHSPE by automatic writing, and was first published in 1882. Numerous OAHSPE and Faithist groups came out of the spiritualist movement of the late 1800s. Universal Faithists of Kosmon (UFK) was started in the late 1950s by Will Crosby of Prescott, Arizona. He published a newsletter for readers of OAHSPE, and feeling a need to organize, asked readers to sugg
est names for the group. After several rounds of voting, Universal Faithists of Kosmon was the name finally chosen. Crosby was in the process of incorporating UFK when he passed on in the early 1960s. The newsletter and UFK was put in the hands of Sam Johnson and a large active group of Faithists in Sacramento, California. They continued the incorporation process in California, as the first step to the group being recognized as a Church. The California incorporation was completed before the group dwindled because there were no new members, and the work was assumed by Hans Berhold and Erma Lee of Salt Lake City, Utah. Berhold completed the incorporation, and UFK became legally recognized as a Church. When Berhold passed on, Lee formed a Board of Trustees to move the church forward, and continued the newsletter, Kosmon Voice. Lee has retired, the Board of Trustees is continuing the work of the Church which is to improve the lives of children.
