Michael Lyons, 51, wore flowing robes, drove expensive cars and flew around the world boasting of links to the Dalai Lama, a court heard.
Passing himself off as a spiritual leader called Mohan Singh, he duped women into believing he was a healer who could help them.
But after gaining their trust, Lyons raped one woman and sexually assaulted another.
He was described in court as a "sexual predator" who used his harem of apparently respectable female devotees to recruit his targets.
Wood Green Crown court was told that one of his victims was a receptionist and aspiring actress in her 30s, who was raped in June 2002.
She went back to Lyons's flat in Belsize Park, north London, after a friend had made introductions.
He wafted fumes from a burning frying pan around her and mumbled spiritual mantras before giving her a massage and raping her in a bedroom.
The second victim, a 43-year-old teacher, was assaulted in January 2005 after attending what she thought was to be a chiropractic treatment.
She travelled from the north to London after her lodger introduced her to Lyons. He drove her to a flat in a Bentley before indecently assaulting her in a bedroom.
Lyons was cleared of a further three rapes against different women.
The jury is still deliberating on one charge of rape and a further count of sexual assault.
The trial continues.
