That is the PRECISE tactic used by his original mentor, the defrocked pervert Podmoshensky! Michael3, its like you were there! He had Mackay and the rest of the cult-turned-"orthodox"  group believing.....I kid you not.....that he was the last true Russian Holy Man....and that the Russian Orthodox Church which defrocked him was corrupt.  I heard him say it myself.  Well.....after a few years he was busted again for perversion.