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The PURPOSE OF LIFE REVEALED
GRADUATION from The SCHOOL OF LIFE
The Path of The DIVINE MASTERS
The Important TRUTH About DEPARTED Masters
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 a
Tibetan, Rebazar Tarzs, one of five LIVING Masters for
the Eckankar organization, now headquartered near
Minneapolis (P.O. Box 2000, Chanhassen, MN 55317;
1-800-568-3463; http://www.eckankar.org ).
See also http://www.thewayoftruth.com , NEW Master!
Sri Michael Owens.
Another Divine Master alive today is Maharaj
Gurinder Singh Ji of the Radha Soami Sant Mat
organization, now living in Punjab, India; (See the book
"The Path of the Masters", by Dr. Julian P. Johnson,
1939; ONLY $3.00 PPD. from Science of the Soul Study
Center, 4115 Gillespie St., Fayetteville, NC 28306.).
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 KJV, Revelation
13:10 KJV, 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.
See also http://www.thewayoftruth.com , NEW Master!
Sri Michael Owens.
For more information, answers to your questions,
etc., please consult my CITED SOURCES.
Robert E. McElwaine
Eckankar Initiate
http://members.aol.com/rem547 PLUS
http://members.aol.com/rem460
Preserve BOTH on CD-R and PRINT-OUTS
P.S.: PASS IT ON !
"EVERYTHING you know is WRONG."
"The Truth IS STRANGER than fiction."
"The Truth is ALWAYS the FIRST CASUALTY OF WAR."
"OFFICIAL LIES are ALWAYS the BIGGEST LIES OF ALL."
"The more things change, the more they STAY THE SAME."
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