September 16, 1971
Paul Twitchell recorded on tape in a "business meeting" on the day he died - via "Difficulties of Becoming the Living ECK Master" published in 1980
Pages 133-139
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.
And this is the position I'm in.
Now, for example, the first Youth Seminar, some man came down from the Detroit Daily News. But he got it all wrong on the philosophy, and everything else, because he viewed Rama, and Rama [ie Ramaj in Eckankar] is not the same Rama on the Hindu Trinity that we're talking about.
But he goes over and gets it out, and I hadn't corrected that, so now I'm in the position of correcting a lot of this. And the only thing I can do, I can't go back and straighten out the writings that way, but I have to make it stronger in other areas now today.
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]
One thing about Paul Twitchell .. he sure can make me luagh some days. At least once the true facts are known and know what's actually going on. Then he cracks me up with stuff like ..... "some man came down from the Detroit Daily News. But he got it all wrong on the philosophy, and everything else"
Newspapermen, hey Paul, they can be such a big pain in the butt when they get their STORIES WRONG .... ahem ahem, cough cough. I really feel for you Paul, NOT!
Please see recent post here: Edouard Schuré -The Great Initiates 1961 aka The Spiritual Notebook by Jacob Paul Twitchell
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/alt.religion.eckankar/4lrr4m9uKeY
Follow the book link
Go to page 14 see the word RAMA?
Start reading and keep going until to get to page 32
Well there you go. Now can you see how utterly incompetent that newspaper journalist was? No, no! Not the one from the Detroit Daily News, the other "newspaperman".
OK class, now you must come with me on a journey to the temple of golden wisdom, at the Katsupari Monastery in Northern Tibet. Fubbi Quantz is going to give a little talk about this RAMA dude, and you'll need to take down what he says as he dictates it. So bring your pencils .....
Oh, the lucky ones who already have a copy of the SKS Book I, or perhaps don't have the ability to BILOCATE in the Sat Surap to Northern Tibet, then you can have the night off and go read that at home yourself. You'll find what you are looking for on pages 6, 55 and 56 .... off you go now. Do your own HOMEWORK and RESEARCH and stop trusting other people, especially unsuccessful and dyslexic newspapermen unable to spell anyone's name properly or recall what he had said yesterday, to do all the work for you, ok? Be self-responsible.
The Koolaide can kill you, you know that at least, don't you? <smile>
Luckily for Paul, he didn't need to read that 1961 new edition english language book publication by Edouard Schuré written before PT was born , see? Because Fubbi Quantz told him all about RAMA after Rebazar Tarszu took him on a trip to AGam Des to meet Fubbi and Yaubl those well known God-Eater chaps aka *ancient* Vairagi ECK masters who told him all about THIS RAMA, this first world saviour.
Why on earth the journalist didn't sniff out the story himself and go interview RAMA directly via Bilocation anytime between say 8 years old and well 60 years old, is anyone's guess .. or shall we say a Harold Marman Mahanta Rationalization (whenever they can get away with it, ie get away with not being very bright fellows)
Class Dismissed <smile>