# Guy Ballard > [!note] Stub — fill out Founder, with his wife Edna Ballard, of the [[I AM Activity]] occult movement in the 1930s, claiming to channel the "Ascended Master" St. Germain (writing as "Godfré Ray King"). After his death in 1939, the movement's leaders — including Edna — faced the 1940 mail-fraud prosecution that produced the Supreme Court case *United States v. Ballard* (1944). Expand.