From: ROBTMCELWN@aol.com
Date: Thu Nov 07 1996 - 03:59:22 EST
                        GRADUATION from the SCHOOL of LIFE
               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, 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.  There are others.  However, Eckankar has some 
          important ADVANTAGES over these others, including fewer 
          restrictions on 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." 
          
               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. 
               The CLASSIC original Eckankar books are: "ECKANKAR: The 
          Key to Secret Worlds", "The Tiger's Fang", and "The Spiritual 
          Notebook", all three written by Paul Twitchell.
               For more information, answers to your questions, etc., 
          please consult my CITED SOURCES.
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                                           Robert E. McElwaine
                                           2nd Initiate in Eckankar
                    
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