 In 1992 Asahara published "Declaring Myself the Christ", within which he declared himself Christ, Japan's only fully enlightened master, and identified with the Lamb of God.His purported mission was to take others' sins upon himself, and he claimed he could transfer spiritual power to his followers.He saw dark conspiracies everywhere, promulgated by the Jews, the Freemasons, the Dutch, the British Royal Family, and rival Japanese religions.