That's a play on Effie Dorothy Twitchell making "Doris", and Gail Atkinson
shortened to "Atkins". There are many articles by "Doris Atkins" and it's
obviously Twitchell's writing.
There's nothing wrong in using "literary devices" when used in novels and fictional
works, and people know that's what they are. Fictional characters may or may not reflect
who the real life person being referred to actually is.
It's common to bring together 3 different characteristics from 3 different people,
and then blend that all into one person in a screen play or novel. that's a "literary
device" too.
Making up out of thin air several superior beings to speak the copied plagiarized words
of other people, groups, paths and philosophies and then to claim those fictional characters
dictated and taught "yourself" all these wondrous teachings in your apartment
is quite
an amazing thing to claim as being real and true.
I think it is pretty funny when Twitchell uses the RS Mat Prakash (from 1897)
"Vibratory Motion" verbatim to speak the very same words by Rebazar Tarzs and
Gopal Das in THE SAME BOOK ... and by "Paul Twitchell" again in another book;
see quotes:
http://goo.gl/PyUZ4r
But so said the New Age Messiah, the 'new messia' of the age in 1968-69-70 Twitchell !!!
ALL ABOUT ECK - 1968
Is the New Age Messiah in Our Midst?
"Certain factors and events which are coming about somewhat prove that
we are blessed with his presence."
"The ancient one, the agent of God, whom we call the Messias (sic),
or the Godman, appears in the world with every new age. Now he has
appeared with the age-old teachings, ECK, which will give the
human race a spiritual boost, taking many over the crises into the
realm of God."
"He is an Occidental who shall not sit in the lotus position, but
will occupy a straight chair and put his feet on the floor. Many
have claimed they were the Messias (sic), but the proof is not in
evidence."
Yes where's the PROOF? There is no evidence for these others being the
Messiah~!!! Haha! See, NO Proof! So it must be Twitchell. :-)
Doug never acknowledges this reply by Joe. He does that a lot - Marman just
runs away when confronted with FACTS that counter his BELIEFS and ASS-UMPTIONS.
Such as the 1936 who's who in kentucky, and that twitchell submitted that info
himself on the Form used for such self-submissions that were invited by the Publishers. The wrong info in that entry were by Twitchell himself such as the ATHS
graduation date, and vague years for College, but born in 1908 which is when he
believed he was born. and the 22nd because that was the date his b'day was
celebrated. and that neither Paul or his siblings have Birth Registry Records
from the year they were born.
Such as his egregious errors about Kirpal Singh and Ruhani article, even after
being told several times, that kirpal was NOT speaking about twitchell there.
That he'd not seen any plagiarism in DWTM and saw that as the best example of RT teaching Paul and he typing it up those 'dialogues' as best he could ....
and then there's things like this, for those who see marman as an authority:
About Graham F's journal ... via Ford J. (but think Twitchell as reading )
" he just told us that his earlier experiences weren't real after all,
but they were just given to him this way because he could accept them that way.
In other words, they were given in the form his imagination was expecting."
"He is admitting his experiences aren't real, himself. But this undermines his
whole journal. Why should we now at the end imagine that his experiences are
now real, when he admits they weren't in the beginning, even though he thought
that they were?
"Also, if it was so terrible for THEM to tell him the truth in the beginning,
since he needed to be prepared for it, then why is he telling the truth to the
world? Shouldn't the world be prepared for it?
"As I read it, Graham has changed what he believes in as the journal goes along,
and his experiences change along with what he believes. He realizes that he no
longer believes his earlier experiences were true. He no longer believes any of
it. So now he is having an experience where it is explained to him that yes,
they were not true, but he was given these false experiences to help prepare
him for the truth.
"This seems dishonest to me. I don't know of any inner masters I have met who
would do anything like this. How could you ever trust them if they did? How can
you trust Graham's "voice of God" since it has admitted giving him false
truths?
"I can see inner teachers pointing out to us that it was our own imagination at
work that caused us to see things in ways that were not true. But I don't see
why any true inner teachers would intentionally give us false experiences to
prepare us for something later on."
from 2004 post Dialogues, pre-TWT
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.religion.eckankar/BrMdjOdqv8o/Hm579QzgUCgJ
So much of what Graham wrote sounded like inner beings coming to him and
telling him what was true or false. This is a very low level experience and not
even close to Self-Realization and God-Realization.
Graham even at one point is listening to Sugmad talking to him. We all know
that Sugmad does not speak to us in words or even in thoughts, so what do you
make of that?
and
"By the way, I believe the fact that Graham was given the spiritual name, Phoo
Lin, which sounds like Foolin' in his own english language, is a sign of what
he is really experiencing. Comparing what Wah Z means in swahili is not the
same thing, since english is Graham's language and thus the word Foolin' means
exactly that to him. What it means in his own language is what matters."
Doug was always a generous guy with advice of how to interpret one's own
experiences, and how much one might share about them in a 'published journal'
"Yet, Graham stressed that what
came through from Chungchok was new and for the most part outside of his
knowledge of Eckankar."
I think Ford asked a good question here, but Graham's answer shows that his
experiences were falling right in line with his changed feelings and thoughts.
I think that people will believe these things if they want to, and there is
nothing wrong with that. But this doesn't mean he was having experiences from
the Silent Ones telling him great truths that would be of value to all ECKists.
In other words, no one should take those experiences to mean anything.
And yes, I agree, we should treat the experiences of the Masters the same way"
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.religion.eckankar/BrMdjOdqv8o/RMSBrguHvF8J
..... we should treat the experiences of the Masters the same way!!!!
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1971-09-16 DOBTLEM Part Two - Pages 133-139
"The Last Words of Sri Paul Twitchell in Cincinnati"
When the Living ECK Master of the time, Sri Paul Twitchell (Peddar Zaskq) met in Cincinnati, Ohio, September 16, 1971, with a few Initiates in ECKANKAR, the private, informal meeting was recorded on tape. Little did these Initiates know that within hours after their meeting, Paul would leave the physical realm. BB
September 16, 1971
PT: On the other hand, we've had one problem ever since we've been in this work and that is getting people on the right track to talk about the right things and do the right things. You follow?
It's easier to start them from the beginning and say "Here, do it this way," than it is for them to get it out and then have to come back and repeat, and do everything, and try to straighten it out.
It doesn't work, see? Because the impression is already out there.
Now, a lot of the impressions that I first set out in my first work, I'm having to go back and redo these things and try to correct them.
And I'm like the fellow who felt his way along in a college course and they told him he had to write a book in order to keep in the work, and he didn't know what to say and he had to go, and he had to do something, and when he did, he got it all wrong.
And by getting it all wrong, ten years from there, he had to go back and correct his book and rewrite it, and nobody believed him because they were believing the first impression of what he made.
[...]
It's coming through-the whole history of ECK is coming through now in The Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad, and this is where all you people are going to be at an advantage because you've been at a disadvantage before.
When somebody asks you about the background of ECKANKAR, you never knew what to say, so now you're going to have the advantage of it.
'Cause with all of that, see, I write books in series. I have four books that are finished now; well, the Shariyat is a continued writing, but I've got three books actually.
In my next series, I'm taking up the MAHANTA and all the history of the MAHANTA back to the beginning, so you people will have something you can go by.
You won't flounder around like this fellow floundered around. He didn't know what to say; nobody told him, and he just took what he thought was being said, see?
I don't like for people to have to go out and do their own research.
end quote
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Note from 1970-1971 DOBTLEM Part Four - Pages 238-257
"This first ECK Master was Ramaj, the founder of the Ancient Order of the Vairagi which is the secret brotherhood of the ECK Masters. It is said that out of his teachings have come the many religions of the world, e.g., Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism, Shintoism, Moslem, to name a few.
His teachings were taken from the Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad, the sacred scriptures of the heavenly worlds. To the elective few came the religious books of the various orthodox faiths." Mystic World article by Paul Twitchell April-May-June 1971
Meaning that the Rama of ECKANKAR, is not the same one as the Hindu Rama.
It's the Edourd Schure "Rama" that Twitchell is referring to.
and every HI would know that by the time they're a HI after 20-25 years ..
eckankar 101 yeah?