Forward of post sent to alt.religion.eckankar
Lion Kimbro
>> ALL of us were ORIGINALLY created and born into one of
>> the upper Spiritual Planes of Heaven. In general, we were
>> SELFISH, LAZY, IMMATURE, and IN-EXPERIENCED there. So God
>> sent us down here for a long series of incarnations and
>> RE-INCARNATIONS between the Physical Plane (Pinda) and the
>> Psychic Planes (Astral Plane, Causal Plane, Mental Plane, and
>> Etheric Plane), and the numerous SUB-planes within each of
>> these major planes, for the purposes of gaining EXPERIENCE,
>> building CHARACTER, and learning the importance of SERVICE to
>> OTHERS, to become a SERVANT of Life and a CO-WORKER with God.
>>
>> To help us accomplish this training, God created and
>> assigned to us a SCHOOLMASTER, who rules over ALL of the
>> Psychic Planes and the Physical Plane, BELOW the Soul Plane
>> and higher Spiritual Planes. Christians know him as the
>> Devil, Satan, Lucifer, etc.. He is also known as Kal
>> Niranjan, the Universal Mind Power, or simply the Negative
>> Power. It is his God-given DUTY to use clever tricks to keep
>> us IMPRISONED here in the lower worlds for extended training.
>>
>> God also provided us with an easy way of ESCAPE from the
>> MISERABLE and seeming ENDLESS cycles of births, deaths, and
>> rebirths. All a person has to do to obtain this Salvation is
>> to find, and seriously accept Initiation from, a PHYSICALLY-
>> LIVING Divine Master, and then daily do some of the various
>> suggested spiritual contemplation exercises. (A TRUE Divine
>> Master is one who tunes his Initiates into the Sound Current,
>> the Audible Life Stream, referred to as "The Word" in John
>> 1:1-5.) When the Initiate physically dies, s/he will go
>> DIRECTLY to at least the Soul Plane, and will NEVER AGAIN
>> have to REincarnate into ANY Physical or Psychic Plane of
>> existence.
>>
>> One such PHYSICALLY-LIVING Divine Master is an American,
>> Sri Harold Klemp, the Living ECK Master, or Mahanta, for the
>> Eckankar organization, now headquartered in Minneapolis (P.O.
>> Box 27300, zip 55427; 1-800-568-3463; www.eckankar.org ).
>>
>> Another Divine Master alive today is Maharaj Gurinder
>> Singh Ji of the Sant Mat organization, now living in Punjab,
>> India; (See the book "The Path of the Masters", by Dr. Julian
>> P. Johnson, 1939, $5.00 ppd., Radha Soami Books, P.O. Box
>> 242, Gardena, CA 90247.). There are others. However,
>> Eckankar has some important ADVANTAGES over these others,
>> including fewer restrictions on diet and life style, less
>> daily time required for spiritual comtemplation exercises,
>> and the ability of Initiates to work off negative karma
>> during the DREAM STATE where it won't disrupt the Initiate's
>> outer physical life.
>>
>> It should be emphasized that one can NOT obtain this
>> Salvation from a DEPARTED Divine Master, such as Jesus
>> Christ, who is NOT now physically alive, NOR will be again.
>> THIS IS SIMPLY THE WAY GOD SET THINGS UP IN THE UNIVERSES.
>> Therefore, ALL Christians, as well as ALL Muslims, Hindus,
>> Buddhists, etc., WILL CONTINUE to REincarnate.
>>
>> Quoted from "The Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad, Book One" (the
>> Eckankar Bible), pages 95-96 (1987 Edition):
>> "A vital difference exists between the Mahanta and a
>> departed Master [such as Jesus Christ]. The chela cannot
>> follow a Master who has left this plane and gone into the
>> other worlds. The departed one cannot initiate anyone on the
>> spiritual path. He has nothing now to do with the earth
>> world....
>> "No child can get nourishment from a deceased mother,
>> nor a sick man from a departed doctor. The Masters of the
>> past ages have left this field of action and so their work
>> here is finished.... The SUGMAD [God] cannot instruct, or
>> give man the needed help on the upward path, without the
>> Mahanta in human form to act as his instrument and
>> spokesman....
>> "Those who cling to a Master [such as Jesus Christ] who
>> has been translated from this earth are in error. He is not
>> dead, but he has left the field of action in this region of
>> matter. He is no longer in touch with humanity; his work is
>> elsewhere. The discipleship of the chela must change to the
>> successor.
>> "Men must recognize that feelings provide no proof in
>> religious matters...."
>>
>> Books containing several kinds of evidence supporting
>> REincarnation, and the related LAW of RETRIBUTION or KARMA
>> (Galatians 6:7, Revelation 13:10, etc.), can be found in most
>> bookstores and libraries. One of the best of these books is
>> "Here and Hereafter" by Ruth Montgomery. See also the book
>> "Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives", by
>> hypnotherapist Dr. Micheal Newton, Ph.D., 4th edition, 1995;
>> but note that this book's references to the "spiritual
>> realms" are actually LIMITED to the PSYCHIC Planes.
>>
>> Two CLASSIC original Eckankar books are: "ECKANKAR: The
>> Key to Secret Worlds" and "The Tiger's Fang", both written by
>> Paul Twitchell.
>>
>> For more information, answers to your questions, etc.,
>> please consult my CITED SOURCES.
>>
>> Robert E. McElwaine
>> Eckankar Initiate
>>
>> P.S.: PASS IT ON !
I have recently been thinking about Robert E. McElwaine.
I once e-mailed him a long time ago, and also got a reply from him that
was very kind.
Personally, I like him.
Haven't you all seen _Repo_Man_?!?!
With Love,
Lion {:)}=
PS-
If you haven't, you've got to rent it tonight.
Dirk van Deun
: I have recently been thinking about Robert E. McElwaine.
: I once e-mailed him a long time ago, and also got a reply from him that
: was very kind.
I have looked into the newsgroup you mention, and I was quite
amused to see that he has finally found a forum whacky enough
for some people in it to take him seriously :-)
Dirk van Deun
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