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MARMAN - The World Champion at Getting Things WRONG - Exhibit #692 Gross = Mahanta
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Peetee Aitchei
Sep 17, 2014, 6:26:26 PM9/17/14
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Copyright 1973 article by Brad Steiger
"The Strange World of Brad Steiger" [a 1975 book collection]
THE NEW LIVING ECK MASTER was *Annointed in 5 Days* by Gail Twitchell on 22nd September 1971
(first published late 1971 in newspaper/magazine syndicate)
"Strangely enough," he went on, "just two weeks before
Paul translated, I quit my job, resolving to go out into
world as a missionary for ECK."
Then, on September 22, 1971, five days after Sri Paul
Twitchell's death, Gail Twitchell called Darwin Gross and
told him that he was to be Paul's successor, the new living
ECK Master.
At the fifth Worldwide Seminar, Gail read an unpublished
poem that had been written by her husband, handed a blue
carnation to Darwin Gross as a symbol of the transfer of
the rod of ECK power.
"That was when a funny thing happened," Patti
Simpson, Eck director of publications, told me. "At that
very moment when Gail passed the blue carnation to Darwin,
Dap Ren, every television camera, every radio microphone,
every piece of recording equipment in the room
suddenly ceased to function. The momentous moment
simply went unrecorded, and Gail's presence is not down
for posterity. When Darwin mounted the speaker's platform,
however, all the recording and camera equipment
once more began to function."
(iow, Patti basically noted that ALL the 'light and sound'
equipment failed at that moment. Trippy.
Isn't Eck supposed to turn the 'lights on' not off?)
see file: 1971-1973 PT DG articles by Brad Steiger [1975].pdf
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DARWIN GROSS ALWAYS REFERRED TO AS THE MAHANTA
(disagrees with DM a.r.e. and THE WHOLE TRUTH story)
Subject: Re: An Introduction to Eckankar for Newcomers: Part I
Date: 23 Jun 1996
> Incorrect. Two Mahantas. The other one was a Living ECK Master only.
Just a quick point of clarification. Throughout his tenure as the spiritual
leader of Eckankar (1971-1981), Sri Darwin Gross was consistently introduced
as "Sri Darwin Gross, the Mahanta, the Living Eck Master." Also, if you
recall, from 1981-1983 (Sri Harold Klemp's first two years of tenure as the
spiritual leader of Eckankar) the operating paradigm was that, while Sri
Harold was indeed the current Living Eck Master, Sri Darwin retained the
Mahantaship.
Historical revisionism is not a pretty sight.
Michael Turner
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.religion.eckankar/2Im8om2gteM/pJOMV6SXr9cJ
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> Incorrect. Two Mahantas. The other one was a Living ECK Master only.
Are you claiming that Darwin Gross was not the Mahanta? If so, that is
wrong.
I have every eck publication from the 1970s, Mystic Worlds, Eck World
News, special notices, Wisdom Notes, etc. Gross is referred to as the
Mahanta.
From the Eck World News, June, 1976:
"In this painting by Diana Stanley, the Ancient Order of Vairagi Masters
gather on October 22, 1971 to welcome the MAHANTA Sri Darwin Gross, the
972nd Living ECK Master in this unbroken line....."
"The spirit body of the MAHANTA, the Living ECK Master, known in the
physical body as Sri Darwin Gross,..."
Picked at random from the pile.
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.religion.eckankar/2Im8om2gteM/jTKmkRiLueQJ
"The Strange World of Brad Steiger" [a 1975 book collection]
THE NEW LIVING ECK MASTER was *Annointed in 5 Days* by Gail Twitchell on 22nd September 1971
(first published late 1971 in newspaper/magazine syndicate)
"Strangely enough," he went on, "just two weeks before
Paul translated, I quit my job, resolving to go out into
world as a missionary for ECK."
Then, on September 22, 1971, five days after Sri Paul
Twitchell's death, Gail Twitchell called Darwin Gross and
told him that he was to be Paul's successor, the new living
ECK Master.
At the fifth Worldwide Seminar, Gail read an unpublished
poem that had been written by her husband, handed a blue
carnation to Darwin Gross as a symbol of the transfer of
the rod of ECK power.
"That was when a funny thing happened," Patti
Simpson, Eck director of publications, told me. "At that
very moment when Gail passed the blue carnation to Darwin,
Dap Ren, every television camera, every radio microphone,
every piece of recording equipment in the room
suddenly ceased to function. The momentous moment
simply went unrecorded, and Gail's presence is not down
for posterity. When Darwin mounted the speaker's platform,
however, all the recording and camera equipment
once more began to function."
(iow, Patti basically noted that ALL the 'light and sound'
equipment failed at that moment. Trippy.
Isn't Eck supposed to turn the 'lights on' not off?)
see file: 1971-1973 PT DG articles by Brad Steiger [1975].pdf
====================================================
DARWIN GROSS ALWAYS REFERRED TO AS THE MAHANTA
(disagrees with DM a.r.e. and THE WHOLE TRUTH story)
Subject: Re: An Introduction to Eckankar for Newcomers: Part I
Date: 23 Jun 1996
> Incorrect. Two Mahantas. The other one was a Living ECK Master only.
Just a quick point of clarification. Throughout his tenure as the spiritual
leader of Eckankar (1971-1981), Sri Darwin Gross was consistently introduced
as "Sri Darwin Gross, the Mahanta, the Living Eck Master." Also, if you
recall, from 1981-1983 (Sri Harold Klemp's first two years of tenure as the
spiritual leader of Eckankar) the operating paradigm was that, while Sri
Harold was indeed the current Living Eck Master, Sri Darwin retained the
Mahantaship.
Historical revisionism is not a pretty sight.
Michael Turner
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.religion.eckankar/2Im8om2gteM/pJOMV6SXr9cJ
---
> Incorrect. Two Mahantas. The other one was a Living ECK Master only.
Are you claiming that Darwin Gross was not the Mahanta? If so, that is
wrong.
I have every eck publication from the 1970s, Mystic Worlds, Eck World
News, special notices, Wisdom Notes, etc. Gross is referred to as the
Mahanta.
From the Eck World News, June, 1976:
"In this painting by Diana Stanley, the Ancient Order of Vairagi Masters
gather on October 22, 1971 to welcome the MAHANTA Sri Darwin Gross, the
972nd Living ECK Master in this unbroken line....."
"The spirit body of the MAHANTA, the Living ECK Master, known in the
physical body as Sri Darwin Gross,..."
Picked at random from the pile.
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.religion.eckankar/2Im8om2gteM/jTKmkRiLueQJ
Peetee Aitchei
Oct 8, 2014, 9:35:49 PM10/8/14
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"Dap Ren [Sri Darwin Gross] ....passed through the
state of MAHANTAship and still RETAINS IT. "
The Wisdom Notes - March/April 1982 by Sri Harold Klemp
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.religion.eckankar/oXAFfXT_3EE/Pc98W0LVf5EJ
Ha Ha! :-)
Kinpa
Oct 13, 2014, 10:59:48 PM10/13/14
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