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Extracts from DOBTLEM 1971-09-16 Published 1980 by Eckankar (Out of Print)

"Difficulties Of Becoming The Living ECK Master" and "The Last Words of Sri Paul Twitchell in Cincinnati"


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"Difficulties Of Becoming The Living ECK Master"
and
"The Last Words of
Sri Paul Twitchell in Cincinnati"
Presented by ECKANKAR
Compiled by Bernadine Burlin
from tapes donated by Patti Simpson
and Anya Foos-Graber
Additional articles from
The Mystic World by Sri Paul Twitchell
plus
"Some Chela Letters to Paulji"
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Table of Contents
Difficulties Of Becoming
The Living ECK Master .................... 11
The last Words Of Sri Paul Twitchell
In Cincinnati ..................................................... 133
Paulji's Mystic World Articles ........................... 173
The Works Of ECKANKAR .................................. 174
Intimate Glimpse Of Far East
And South Pacific ................................................ 178
The European Tour ............................................... 186
ECK On Rise In European Countries ......................... 190
ECKANKAR Is The Next
Big Campus Movement .......................................... 194
The ECK Discourses ................................................. 196
The Gifts Of The Master ........................................... 200
Meeting The ECK Master .........................................202
The Universal Face Of The Master ........................... 205
The Kal Traps For Chelas ......................................... 208
Spiritual Healing ...................................................... 211
The Failure Of The Human Consciousness ................214
Symbology Of Boots ................................................ 218
Singing To One's Self Is Lost Art ..............................220
The Warning Against Psychic Ventures .................... 223
Warning To Those Who Abuse
The ECK Laws ...................................................... 227
Insight Is Not Intuition ............................................. 228
A New Understanding Of The SUGMAD ................. 230
Holy Man Warns Of Moon Virus ............................. 234
Miracle Causes Youth To Riot .................................. 236
New Insights On Paul ............................................... 238
Paulji Translates ....................................................... 255
Some Chela Letters to Paulji ............................... 258


In this special compilation, to assist readers, some links to websites has been added,
several passages of importance are underlined, and we have added some background
information NOTES.
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Preface
By Sri Darwin Gross
Very few in this world have known Sri Paul Twitchell, known who
he was, what he represented and how he worked. The Living ECK
Masters, past and present, down through time, have always had a
greater knowledge of Spirit and the use of Spirit than the average man
can conceive. Yet it isn't stated in the teachings of ECK, nor am I
saying that the Living ECK Master is unfolded spiritually greater than
the next man. For on the outer it wouldn't show, due to the fact that
what one does and what one says does not necessarily mean that one
should judge one's spiritual unfoldment.

Becoming a spiritual giant, there's a great misunderstanding in this
world of the pure positive God Worlds, and what it takes to reach these
heights of spiritual unfoldment in the Soul body. Man has tried down
through history to attain perfection in his physical body and is unable
to attain perfection. It is in Soul that those in ECKANKAR through the
teachings of ECK reach perfection and not in the physical body.

The struggle that I have seen Sri Paul Twitchell go through,
maintaining not only a balance in this world but bringing ECKANKAR
forth to the masses world wide, as well as other worlds, I have seen not
only the struggle but the drain upon his physical body in presenting the
message of ECK, both here in North America as well as abroad.

An example: At a major ECKANKAR seminar, many others as well as
myself, who grew to understand and know Sri Paul Twitchell, saw the
strain upon his physical being by the second and third day. The work is
joyful and pleasant, yet there are times when one wishes to step off this
planet, for the rewards in unfolding spiritually on the path of ECK are
great. There is no promise that it will be easy but it's worth it!

Introduction
By Bernadine Burlin
On October 22, 1965, Paul Twitchell accepted the Rod of ECK Power
in the Valley of Tirmer, Tibet, becoming the 971st Living ECK Master in
the continuing line of Vairagi ECK Masters. On September 21, 1971, he
translated (died) from the physical. The Rod of ECK Power was accepted
October 22, 1971 by Darwin Gross, the 972nd Living ECK Master of the
times, who had been trained by Paul.
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Difficulties of Becoming the Living ECK Master documents in a
personal yet historically important way how one man's responsibility to
God (SUGMAD) was carried out with determination, humor and hard
work. Only one who was totally dedicated and devoted to his task could
have poured out the books, discourses, lectures, and travels Paul did to
assist the Vairagi ECK Masters in getting ECKANKAR* established on
the earth plane.
*ECKANKAR: The Path of Total Awareness; means co-worker with God. A teaching
which gives knowledge of both the light and the sound which contains the total sum of all
teachings emanating from God.

In his Leadership In ECK tapes, Sri Paul Twitchell, also known
spiritually as Peddar Zaskq, recounted the foundational plans the ECK
Masters had in the overview of establishing a Seat of Power for
ECKANKAR and making the message of ECK available to the hundreds
of thousands of searching Souls awaiting Its word.

Patti Simpson, one of Paul's earliest chelas (students), dedicated
assistant, and supporter, presented Sri Darwin Gross with many of Paul's
personal tapes. Some of this transcribed material makes up the section
entitled "Difficulties of Becoming the Living ECK Master."

Anya Foos-Graber, another of Paul's devoted Initiates, made available
the tapes of the last meeting Paul held with several Initiates just hours
before his translation. "The Last Words Of Sri Paul Twitchell In
Cincinnati" comprise excerpts of these tape transcripts.
It was appropriate that Paulji's Mystic World articles be included, for this
personal and private publication continues to be the Living ECK Master's
written contact with the chelas of ECKANKAR. These ageless words of
truth serve as a compilation of the spiritual principles that make up the
foundation of ECKANKAR from Its modern-day stirrings in the mid-
1960s to the present.
Mankind is indeed fortunate to be experiencing an exciting time in
history understood by those who place their faith and trust in the Living
ECK Master of the times, whose purpose is to bring those Souls who are
ready back to their home in the Godhead.
The similarity in the lives of Sri Paul Twitchell and Sri Darwin Gross
is astonishing when viewed through their biographies: In My Soul I Am
Free, Paul's life story written by Brad Steiger, and Sri Darwin's life story
From Heaven to the Prairie. Underlining their lives and all of the ECK
Masters of the Vairagi Order is total dedication to their responsibilities,
and an awesome Divine Love for all life.
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From Pages 11 thru 30

Difficulties of Becoming the Living ECK Master
(In July 1971, Sri Paul Twitchell made private tapings of his
struggles before and after his acceptance of the Rod of ECK Power on
October 22, 1965, making him the 97lst Living ECK Master of
ECKANKAR. His successor, Sri Darwin Gross, the 972
nd
Living ECK
Master, has made this material available to show the many obstacles
that stand in the path of the Living ECK Master, who has the respon-
sibility of bringing those Souls who are ready back home to the
Godhead. Our thanks to Patti Simpson who presented these tapes to
Sri Darwin.)


The struggle really started when I was a child. I don't know of
anyone who really had the problems that I have had. Well, I'd say as
an individual. 'Course this is natural to think that each of us must have
the greatest of all problems, but you must remember that I had
practically every disease that could have been known to a child in
order to get out of this body, as the Kal tried to fight it all the way
through. Actually, I had pleurisy so bad at one time when I got to be
about three that I had to learn to talk all over again, and for many
years I had a lisp in my voice. Even as an adult I couldn't pronounce
the "L's" right and I had to overcome this in order to do public
speaking.
Now, there are many things that I had to do, and it can go all the
way back into the lifetime before this, in which I was born in the
Caucasian Mountains and had to go through a series of trainings there,
even to the extent of keeping myself inside. Let me put it like this, I
was walled in a place in which I had to stay for fifty days. And within
that fifty days, there was no light, nothing, just a small amount of food
was put in there twice a day for eating. Then I was trained in order to
eventually come into this position as Living ECK Master.
Now you must remember, as I have always said before, those who
gain mastership are always chosen by the ECK* or say the
SUGMAD** and the ECK acts as a vehicle and the ECK concentrates
Itself in the one individual who becomes the Master. And believe me,
from the time that he's selected from childhood up to the time of the
birth of a true consciousness, of the full consciousness, he really has a
terrible struggle. His struggle is not only financial but is spiritual, and
emotional, because he is so highly sensitive to everything around him.
He can't work in commercial work because he's too sensitive. He has
to learn certain things to move along in life or has to work in a certain
amount of commercialism, in business, and that sort of thing, but at
the same time, he has to be himself in this other world.
*ECK: The audible life stream; the essence of the Sugmad, the holy spirit.
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**SUGMAD: The formless, alI-embracing, impersonal Ocean of Love and Mercy, from
which flows all life, all truth, all reality, wisdom, love and power.

I suppose that I was really the worst of rebels you ever found and I
was paying for it because of my attitude towards the state-old society
or the establishment which you'd call it. There's a lot of things that I
did in those days which when I look back on them, I have to have a
long laugh about it. As I was talking to a friend in Seattle not long ago
who worked for one of the major newspapers there when I was
working there too, and we laughed over something that would be of
interest today to you. And one was, that I had so many caps in those
days that I could wear a new cap for sixty days.

I was working for the advertising department there on this paper, and I
put up an argument with one fellow one day and laid down a ten dollar
bet that I could wear a new cap or new hat for everyday for the next
two months and he bet I couldn't. So about twenty days after appearing
in the office with a new cap on every morning, it began to create quite
an excitement for everybody. So I was called in before the advertising
manager and stood on the carpet and told I had to get rid of those hats.

And this fellow didn't like me in the first place and I told him wearing
hats was my own business and that he had nothing to do with it. And
he says, "Well, you won't wear them to work here," and I says, "I'll
wear them any place that I please, regardless of who says what." And
that didn't suit him fine so then he set out to get me fired, but he
couldn't get me fired because I was then under a different department
of his. Although he had a big department all of his own, he was not
completely over all of us, because he was only what they call the
display advertising man, and the advertising man who was over all of
it heard the story from him and the complaint about me and told him
that he wanted me fired.

Well, I got along pretty good with the advertising manager and he
just slipped me some under-the-table advice. He says, "Oh, don't stir
up any more hornets, just wear your regular little hat everyday that you
want to wear, or your little cap you want to wear to work, and don't get
anymore hornets stirred up." And I says, "OK, I'll take it like that," and
then promptly went off and forgot about my hats. But he hadn't
forgotten about it and eventually in the long run, with added in two or
three other things, he had his way about me getting out of his hair.

Well, most of these things that I did were actually pranks and/just
whimsical little things I did to stab those people who had swollen
heads and who were very unhappy about me being in their way like
this. I did a lot of button-punching and did a lot of things there that
people didn't like and they all felt it was funny. And I was actually
playing pranks on the whole organization and this is the way that I've
actually been all my life with the establishment. I just kept punching
holes here and there where they would feel my punches, and yet
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sometimes they were so subtle that they couldn't be seen and
sometimes they were just so big they'd hit them on the head with it.

I paid for all of these things and yet in a way this is a part of the
struggle and part of its training that I had, that I couldn't live in society
and yet I couldn't be with it. I spent a lot of time walking the sea shores
trying to adjust myself to living like the ordinary person lives, but I
couldn't do it. The main thing came down to the point that nobody ever
wanted me and they could sense this freedom and independence in me
that was much greater than they had seen in other people and yet then
they weren't interested anymore from that time on that I would do
them any good. In other words, as long as I could serve them and bring
them in a dollar or two, they could use me and pay me starvation
wages and that I didn't like. I thought I was as good as the next fellow.
And I figured out then that I would be the fellow who could outshine
anybody else if they wanted to do something for me, but they never
wanted to do anything.

They always wanted to give me the worst end of everything and yet
they themselves wanted to make money off my labor so I says I can't
work this way and I went into writing and eventually I became a writer
and eventually this writing was what helped me become the writer that
I am today.

Going back to my youth, of course, the development in my early
youth, I was very interested in watching, going back now and watching
some of this development. Let me give you a very simple story.

After I had the problems of pleurisy, the speech impediment that I
spoke about awhile ago, I was around the age of three at that time and
I've written on several occasions how my step-sister had saved my life
at this time. While recovering, I used to go out on the porch during the
spring and sit down in a lotus fashion and look across the fields and
watch what was the beginning of the summer heat rising over the
fields.

Very interesting. I had the visions at one time there about a huge
harbor that looked particularly like the South Seas Islands. I was on
board ship. I looked up at this great, great mountain that rose
completely out of the sea, with very little beach, and up to a height of
about maybe 5,000 feet, all wooded area, completely up to the peak
and the peak was wooded also. And the interesting thing about all this
was the very factor that while sitting there, seeing this vision, I was a
part of the vision and I know that it was a part of me. But then I didn't
understand until later, many years later in my life, when I was on a
ship out in the Pacific, we went right into this harbor, anchored one
night, and during the long twilight there, I remember going out up to
the bridge of the ship, and looking up and all of a sudden I say, "This
is so familiar, this is a part of me, I wonder where it came from?" Then
it went all the way back to this particular time as a youth, sitting there
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on the porch of my home, practically three or four years of age, and
seeing this vision rise up before me while I was looking out over the
fields that were beyond the house, during the early spring heat that was
a part of our life in the south.

Now, I want to go onto another point, which shows something about
my childhood and my stepmother. My stepmother was very much a
woman who was terribly negative. She was constantly being used by
the Kal power, which I can go back and see now. This is my
stepmother that I'm talking about, and she, in raising me, did not want
me to have any part of a religious life outside of what she gave me.
She didn't want to have anything to do with the way that I could
project in those days, and my stepsister could project and my father,
who was also my stepfather, he could do the same thing. And she
thought this was the devil's work, and she wanted nothing to do with it
and she tried to hold us back.

Now, her very consciousness was a consciousness of the lower class
people. How my father ever come to marry her, I do not know, but this
is a consciousness. She had the mass social consciousness within her,
and this mass social consciousness was a separate consciousness
altogether from what I had. Or what the other two had in the family,
because she and my stepbrother were banded together against the three
of us. And it was a terrible struggle within this home to know that this
sort of thing went on constantly.

Now, these two consciousness, the negative and the spiritual
consciousness, are entirely different, and when one looks back at this
and sees all of it that's going on, and can look back into their childhood
and can separate these consciousness from the parents' consciousness,
or those that are around themselves, this would be a great
enlightenment and a knowingness of the struggle that they went
through in order to reach the state that they are now.

I look back and I can see that in order to reach the particular state
that I'm in today, I would have never been able to do so and have the
resolution to be the MAHANTA today, if I hadn't survived this
particular period.

Everything seemed to be against me while trying to grow up at a
very youthful age, or through childhood rather, because of the fact,
that everything in the world I tried to do was of no particular use, of no
particular purpose to myself or to anyone else. It just seemed that I
was a misfit; I was all out of sorts with society, I was all out of sorts
with the family except for my stepsister who seemed to have that
feeling that here was the one that she had to take care of, and I still
look back today and know that this is right. That was her duty within
this world to bring up this child. It was one of the particular things that
the MAHANTA or the child who grows into the state of consciousness
must learn that life is all ECK. And ECK is All life, and this is one of
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the things that we must learn about it. It is so fluid that nothing
prevents it or keeps it from being that state of ability or the state of
living of itself.

When we grow to this point, we then begin to see how it, of itself,
works, and how it enters into people and they not knowingly
understand it. At this point in my life, I was a terribly lonely child.
With all of these things pushing in on me, I became a rebellious sort of
a person who thought and knew that I couldn't live within this world. I
had to live outside the world.

It seems that I was always at a point of rebellion against anything
that anyone had to say to me or anything that anyone tried to have me
to do. One never knows about where life goes until he attempts it, and
of course, he can look in retrospection from adulthood and see what
went on in his childhood and he began to know then, if he can, to put
all of these things together and make a separation of his consciousness
or see the separation of his consciousness from the consciousness of
others.

When I was a kid, I had a dog named Ringo. Ringo was a big bushy
black and white dog, mostly black with white legs and sort of a
streaked face with one black eye. But Ringo was a childhood playmate
of mine when I was very young and we were hardly ever separated. By
the time I got to be six, I headed out for school. I didn't want to let go
of Ringo and neither did he want to let go of me. So we went to school,
and the teacher being a very lenient sort of person, let Ringo in the
classroom and he sat in the back. He always laid down in the back and
the only thing we ever knew about Ringo being back there was
sometimes all that panting that he'd get in hot weather or early autumn
and late spring, and the thumping of his tail.

And he was a very quiet dog. He never said much and he liked children
and he got a great deal of attention and affection from children and
when we had recess, why he went out to recess and played with us.
Then he'd always troop back in and he'd be very quiet until lunch time,
and I always had a lunch that was made up for two. One of my lunches
was given to Ringo, which was made up for him and he'd eat anything,
it didn't matter what you'd put in front of him, a piece of bread or
anything else, Ringo loved it. And he would eat it.

And then we had a very interesting thing happen when Ringo came
into the first semesters. Ringo got promoted with me, and Ringo
always got A because A was given only for him in conduct. And every
year he would get his A, and we'd bring it home on his report card. My
stepfather would sign it and we'd bring it back to the teacher, and on
that one year she wrote that Ringo was a very fine dog, he didn't even
smell like a dog. And that's true, he didn't have a dog smell about him.
She also put down there that he never said anything until he was called
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upon and if the teacher had something to say to him, she'd speak to
him and he'd bark in return. But that's the only time that Ringo would
ever have anything to say in the classroom.

So this continued all through my grade school until the time I
entered into junior high and then they wouldn't let Ringo go to school
with me anymore. By that time he was getting a little old anyway, and
he wasn't getting around like he used to, so we'd leave him everyday at
home by the fireside or out in the backyard sunning himself, and he
seemed to enjoy this more than he enjoyed going to school with us. I
think the time he got through school, the sixth grade, he thought he'd
had enough of dog schooling. By that time he figured he could read
and write so what was the use of him going into higher education.

It is my opinion that pets are good for children, especially in their
earlier years when they need something to love them and give them
complete devotion and this is true with some adults. They need a dog
around them because they need that admiration and that fullness of
love that they don't and cannot get from an inner exchange with
people, especially a mate, because a love with mates will never remain
on this sort of a level.

There was not any kind of a pet that you can name that we didn't
have. And today I hear from people who say, especially doctors, that
they won't let their children have pets because there's the questions of
fleas, there's the questions of worms that may enter from the dog into
the child, all of these different things that they may have, and I know
this might be true. But the love that a pet gives a child can overcome
all of this sort of thing, and this is why the child needs a pet of some
kind. The pet learns to love the child.

I suppose I have to tell you this funny story that happened one time
when I was a kid. I don't know, maybe I was five, something like that,
and I went to visit my grandmother. She had some pills there that
looked like pink peppermint pills and had a taste like it. So I ate them
all and they turned out to be the pills for de-worming the dog. And my
grandmother laughed about this and she says, "Well, maybe we didn't
get Fido dewormed, but we certainly got Paul dewormed."

There was a certain amount of the "fussy old man" in me as a child
and I remember one time when I went down to my father's office and
sat down and put my feet on the table; I must have been about twelve
at the time, and one of the workmen walked in and he told my father
that I was a "good old man at that age of fourteen" because I looked
and acted that way. And there's a lot of things which I did and fussed
about that were unusual as a child.

For example, at one time I lost a safety pin which was to go to
pinning up my pajamas. I always had the top of the pajamas, and even
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to this day, the pajamas do not seem to have a top button on them and
I still use a safety pin to pin them up. And at that time as a kid, I lost a
safety pin to that and I had said to my stepmother that it goes without
saying that my whole night was ruined because I couldn't find my
safety pin. It wasn't any particular safety pin but MY safety pin that I
wanted, no other one would do.

My stepfather wanted me to be a professional man, like a doctor,
and he hopped on this quite a bit, so when I first went off to school,
the freshman year in college, I took what I considered to be a medical
course. I was very interested at that time in going ahead and thinking
about being a doctor but then after that one year I saw all the pressure
and the work and everything that went with it, and I gave it up and I
began to study in other lines.

Now, this was the fact that I wanted to write and everybody at home
thought I was foolish for thinking of this except Katie and she knew
what would come of it if I would keep up with my writing work. And
sometimes we'd have quarrels around the table and occasionally we
had glass that got broken by these quarrels 'cause nobody could ever,
in my family, ever sit still and quarrel. There wasn't anything like a
legitimate argument. Everybody would bang their plates or sometimes
they'd even pick up a water glass and throw it at you. This was one of
the funny things about living in this sort of family, that we've always
had the problem of who was going to get hit next with a water glass or
a plate or a spoon or that sort of thing at the table.

You might even get hit in the face with a bunch of spaghetti if the
occasion warranted it. There was one time that I remember that I
disagreed with my step-brother so badly that I got up from the table,
picked up my whole glass of ice tea, for we didn't drink ice tea out of
small glasses like they do now; when we drank ice tea, we drank from
BIG ice tea glasses. I walked over and I just poured the whole glass of
iced tea on the top of his head and walked out of the room. And if you
don't think that didn't almost start a big fight!

One of the things one has to get rid of in the struggle for mastership,
in which I had the most terrible struggle I suppose of anyone, was to
rid myself of vanity, because I knew I was different from anyone else.

I knew that I of myself was not the same as that child that was next
to me. I knew that I was superior in my mentality, I knew that I was
superior to the teacher in all my knowledge, in all my understanding.
This brings about a story. But before I get into this, at one time I had a
teacher in the sixth grade who spoke about the war of 1812, and I said
it was not the war of 1812, it was the war of 1814 which is really
recorded in history as being this way. And she slapped me very hard
saying that I disputed her and that I was always disputing her. A few
days later I brought a history book back to her into class, and showed
where she was wrong and she wouldn't accept it at all.
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But these are the things that I went through as a child and because I
had disputed the teacher and proved that she was wrong in her
statement, she really give me a wallop on the side of the head and she
refused to recognize me in class for quite sometime.

Now, the fact was the war of 1812 started in 1812 and ended in
1814, when General Jackson at New Orleans, I believe it was
December 9th, 1814, defeated the British. The British didn't know that
we had already signed a treaty as the United States, which is called the
Jay Treaty, John Jay, who negotiated the treaty which included, well,
we almost robbed them of Canada. But in fact, we go back to this point
of history where the communications were so bad, that neither side
knew that the war was already over with.

If they had, they probably wouldn't have fought the battle and if they
had, and Jackson won, Canada would probably have been a part of the
United States today, the whole of Canada.

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From Pages 36 thru 46

NOTE: This section is mostly about Pauls teenage years, Sudar
Singh, Paris, Kaydee, India, the Masters Gaze, and rel ated stories.

Since birth I have known what I was going to do in this world. The
only thing that I didnt know was how to take direction on it and that I
had to wait and be very patient until the proper time, until the ECK
Masters began to work with me. I was doing the out-of-the-body
projection at an early age, as you see in some of the articles that are in
the books, in the newspapers or magazines, that Ive given from time
to time. Then on the other hand, Ive had a very fantastic
understanding, and a foresight in knowing what would be the problems
that Id have to put up with during my lifetime.

The first one that I always thought about was the question of how was I
going to live until this time, or the time came about when I had to
announce mastership. In the early days, my family had some money
which had taken care of me up through school, and around the age of
fourteen, I discovered that I was an illegitimate child and it didnt sit
very well with me. I discovered who the woman was, who supposedly
had been my mother, and I had then run away for the first time and was
on my way to New Orleans when I was caught and brought back home.
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Another time in my life, I ran away and went all the way down to Port
au Prince in Haiti, aboard a shipit was a trading schooner.

Later I would be able to go to Paris to see my sister who was studying
art at one of the art studios over there. She was under an instructor who
had studied under Degas, Edgar Degas, who was a very famous
portrait painter of the opera and the ballet during his day in Paris,
which was the later part of the last century and somewhat into this
century too.

I suppose that thats where she got her ability to paint figures because
she had copied Degas time and time again, and also that she had been
so much interested in him that she bought every possible reprint that
she could of his paintings and had one or two of the originals which I
never knew what happened to them after she passed away.

Well, in living in Paris, I was quite happy at the time when I was over
there with my sister, my stepsister, Katie. Because I felt that it was a
romantic and a wonderful life, despite the fact that most of us were not
in the financial bracket in which to have everything we wanted, but
this one place where I came to learn that I had no taste for wines or
alcohol at all.

I guess it was the fact of the overdose of drinking wines at that time,
because we took wine at every meal, and I dont particularly care for
wine. I never could take anything that had alcohol in it. And we were
quite happy in living there because it gave us a freedom that wed
never known before and we took advantage of this freedom, because
for some reason the Europeans seemed to have an affection for young
people, more than they had in the western countries, particularly at that
time.

Why that has always grown up to be that way, I dont know, but it is
one of the interesting facts that they have a way and an affection to
give to children that we dont have in America, and some of the other
parts of the world. The French and the Italians are very much this way.

Well, as we were living there, we got into a lot of particular problems,
escapades, anything you could think of. We were just a few blocks
away from Montmartre, where all the famous artists were living. At
that time there werent any great artists living that I know of there.
Edgar Degas was the last that I knew of, and Katie was very close to
him because she was studying under one of his students.

We met with Sudar Singh who was the leading advocate at that time of
Soul Travel. From Paris we decided that we would go back to his little
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ashram, which was five miles above Allahabad, on what they call the
Old Canteen Road, near the army barracks where the native troops
were bivouacked in at the time. It was a small place; I think he had
about fifty, maybe one hundred people that were there around him, and
we found that life was pleasant.

Although he didnt want us in the beginning and tried every way he
could to discourage us, we found it very interesting and we were
hoping to stay there for the Kumbh Mehla, a meeting every twelfth
year, where at the forks of the river there in Allahabad, they have a
meeting of the holy men.

It was very interesting about Sudar Singh. He was rather a tall, lean
man. He had a very lean face at the time, and he had started out as a
Sikh in his life and changed later because he was in his early twenties
when he came back to ECKANKAR. And it was then that he went into
training there in his own country and became an ECK Master.

He talked very rapidly and he had a quick and ready smile and a lot of
humour about him. I liked him very much as a person because he
seemed to have an ability to make friends with people instantly. And
Im not talking about any of his spirituality that seemed to gleam from
him with a very shining face, countenance, and his eyes which were
dark brown, had a luminous glow to them. He seemed to live in this
spiritual atmosphere.

I was very happy to be around him because he was always a person
who seemed to have a lightness and a laughter with him and his
teachings did not have a heaviness about it that most of the Indians and
the Hindus have when they are teaching what they call the works of
God.

Nor any of this that seemed so solemn about the Americans or the
westerners in their teachings as ministry and clergy, or the priests. He
never seemed to lay any heavy hand on the individual but he kept
himself rather quietly in a sense and lived quiet, and never made any
demands upon anyone at all.

So we were very happy to be around him and to live in this sort of a
circle which no one seemed to be afraid of the man. Like a lot of the
Indians seem to be afraid of their master and they will even crawl on
their hands and knees from the door to his feet and kiss his feet if hell
allow them.

But Sudar Singh didnt believe in this because he had people walk in to
him upright, and few ever bowed or anything but he always rose. He
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was a very courteous man, he had lots of feeling about him and he
would stand up and shake hands with you because this was the way he
had seemed to be raised as a person, and not like someone who had
gained a lot of power and was trying to use this power over other
people.

Now, Im trying to get a personality sketch for you about him because
he seemed to have a feeling and a drawing towards him, like the bees
go to honey. Yet it isnt a seduction as we all think about. It was a
feeling of cheerfulness, and a feeling of lightness, happiness within his
presence. I often felt this radiating from him at least fifteen-twenty feet
away like an aura. And the one time I felt this in his ashram, when
approaching his ashram, I felt it at least a half a mile away.

That it was like going through an electronic fence, and once you step
across that line, then you were in a radiating field which was a
pulsating field. I also found this to be true of Rebazar Tarzs when I
was with him and Ill describe this later.

But at the present I wanted to say that he had a bit of outgoingness
about him that was so much different from these people that we find
around us today who are trying to seduce students and people to follow
them. He didnt care whether anyone followed him or not. This was a
greatness that I felt about the man.

One of the characteristics about him were his hands. It seemed that his
hands fascinated me rather than his eyes, which had quite a fascination
in themselves, because he had quite a luminous glow that when he
looked at anyone, it was the look of a master. I have described
someplace in the tapes or in the ECK studies about this look of a
master.

And a master turns and he looks at someone and he looks at him very
intensely; he is communicating with them and putting across to them
that which we know as the Tiwaga [or Tiwaja] or the Masters Gaze.

He often turned and looked at a person and when he did, this became a
communication, and it was a communication of love, a communication
of kindliness, and a communication of something which he put across
to the student or the chela who was sitting there. The chela never on a
whole could contain all that was given to him within that gaze. And
when the Masters full gaze is turned upon the individual, it seems to
be that this will bring about a certain amount of upliftment.

A Masters gaze can uplift an individual to the higher realms. The
public, as a whole, has never understood this, especially the
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westerners. The westerners dont seem to have the understanding about
what is known as the Masters Gaze, because it appears that so many
of the people who follow spirituality or the spiritual programs just
dont understand what hes talking about, and today were having a
great deal of people who are trying to seek what they call followers or
what we call nothing but little power units, controlled over a certain
amount of people. I advise all our own students to forget this, forget
any approach made by anyone else and keep strictly on the path of
ECK, or they may fall by the wayside as a victim of something of this
nature.

Sudar Singh didnt seem to care whether he had any of what they call
power or control over people or any of this sort of thing. He met
everybody on an equal basis, he always contained himself and was
very much in himself, a self- disciplined person. His voice was very
deep and masculine, and a lot of people were very happy with his
manner of speaking.

And if he spoke directly to an individual, they usually felt a deep sense
of ecstasy coming into themselves, so you see, his hands and his voice
and his eyes were actually the greatest things that I found about the
man. I know youd be interested in this because this is a part of the
makeup and the personality of this man.

He died, I believe, if Im correct, 1937; could have been a year or two
off someway there, but it was approximately in that year when he
passed away. We stayed there almost a year and were shipped home
because our parents were screaming bloody-murder, and then finally
they cut our money off and we were forced to return.

But as it was, I found a great deal of things that were humbug in the
Indian life and a lot of things that were truth and reality as we know
about. And some of these things I will describe and some of things will
be left out simply because I hate for the public to know what goes on
in some of these ashrams.

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NOTE: the Kumbh Mehla and Triveni Sangam | the Purna (complete)
Kumbh takes place every twelve years,
[2]
at four places Prayag (Allahabad),
Haridwar, Ujjain, and Nashik.

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From pages 126 thru 131

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The end part of the section of Pauls taped talks with Patti Simpson-
Rivinus.

So therefore we got to be, to place ourselves in the mainstream, which
I hope I do and I have to say, unless I make myself a historical figure,
the struggle of ECK for survival is useless. And the question of that
comes up, well, why? Why do you make such a statement as that?
Every man who set out to do something in this world, unless he made
himself a historical figure, then he never again is remembered except
by a few when he passes.

Now, how does he make himself a historical figure? He might make it
by his writings, as Confucius did, or the delta king as Leonidas did, but
he might be a doer or an activist. He may be a man of action and by
being a man of action, then he becomes a historical figure, not
necessarily, but usually. And this is what I'm trying to say to you.
Unless I get busy and get off all of this little routine and all of these
things which you are pushing at me constantly, and set out to do
something in this world, with my writings already established, then I
become a historical figure and all of the works of ECK become a part
of the mainstream of life.

And if you don't believe this, take a look at those who have done such
a thing. Buddha entered into the reform of the Indian religions, which
was a terrible burden upon the average Indian, at the time of his day in
India. And as a result, he became a great historical figure who
established a worldwide religion. The same thing is said of Jesus
because he set out and reformed the Jewish religion which was at that
time a very terrible way of living, in the sense that the taxes, the way
of life for the Jew, hindered by his own activity, hindered by his own
sacred laws, was so bad that he couldn't even walk fifty feet on
Sunday, because the law said he couldn't. They hardly ate on Sunday
because it was a sacred day. Well, all of these things have become a
part of those that have become a historical figure.

Now, the Moslems are a different situation because Mohammed
welded together all of the wild tribes of Arabia or the Middle East, and
put them under one religious belief; he unified them by religion, and
they became the great Moslem nations. It was an empire by religion. It
wasn't a religion by an empire which the Christians later became when
Constantine in 325 A.D. made the religion a state, made Christianity a
state religion, because then it became a religion by the state, or an
empire by religion. And on the other hand, when we talk about the
Moslems, it was a religion by the empire. The religion tied the empire
together.

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With the Romans, they had to use religion in order to tie their empire
together for political reasons. Well, politics has always been entered
into religion and vice-versa, so you have to remember here, until that
you people can go out and really tell the world what ECK is, then we
have nothing at all for survival. But once we start it, it's going to be the
greatest known of all those philosophies and doctrines that the world
has ever seen. Because everything is embraced by ECK. ECK
embraces all religions, all philosophies, all cults, all life. Therefore, we
should tell the world about it.

The followers of the occult from the Orient and the Oriental religions
fall into a self-defeating role, assigned to them by their leaders,
swamis, yogas, and other fame but pseudo-titles. The passivity of the
individual which comes to this sort of thing in their daily living and the
will power that they surrender to these people is not the same type of
surrender that is in ECK.

Now, this is one of the points that you have to remember. Because in
ECK, we don't surrender what we call the human willpower, we
surrender that inner self which we would call ego or vanity, and
become humble or have humility in the face of everything. But we
don't let people run over us; we don't let people take advantage of us.
For example, the other day when a woman told me in a letter about a
problem she had whereas a woman came into her Satsang class and
deliberately tried to break it up because her daughter had taken up
ECK, and she did everything that she could to break up the meeting.
And if I was in the leader's place, I would have the woman taken in by
the police as a nuisance because she entered my home. And me having
my friends there, she tried deliberately to break up a meeting or a
discussion of my friends about a philosophy or a philosophical
meeting. I wouldn't have stood for that.

Now, this is what I'm talking about. These Indians will lay back and
just let anything happen to them and this has been a self-defeating role
which they have played over the centuries because they've had so
many conquerors in their country and therefore they use this self-
defeating role as a manner of a spiritual role. But it's not within the
leader himself, he teaches this to the individual. Now determinism, or
that which the individual develops here, is this outer or this way of
living that we have for ourselves in the lower worlds. And
determinism, according to them, is abandoned in favor of the supreme
will and intelligence and human will and power. But this is a mistake
because cults and religious leaders make their attempt to control this
and bring that under themselves and not under actually, what we would
call, the will of the inner self or the will of God.

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Now, this is something that you'll have to look at all through your life -
is what you're surrendering to what we call God, or what you would
feel would be the point of surrender, whether it is to an individual, or
whether it is to that inner self we call God or the God- Power?

I'm in Seattle. I came here thinking that after several years of absence
from this city, where I spent 3 years formulating into the outer
teachings, those words which you hear today which is ECKANKAR, I
would see friends, speak with friends and talk with friends that I knew
in those days, but suddenly I find out that they are no longer included
in my world. This world that I'm in now only includes ECK and those
that cannot talk to me about ECK and who want to question about it,
the basic teachings of it and all that, for some reason I'm no longer
interested in saying to them, it is this thing and it is that thing. I want to
speak to my own people and it's been a long struggle. Gail said the
other evening when walking down the street herein Seattle: "They
didn't treat you very well here, did they?"And then I began to see the
whole picture of the struggle that I had to go through in order to get
ECK.

End of recorded stories section

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From pages 132 thru 139

The Last Words of Sri Paul Twitchell in Cincinnati

When the Living ECK Master of the time, Sri Paul Twitchell (Peddar
Zaskq) met in Cincinnati, Ohio, September 16, 1971, with a few
Initiates in ECKANKAR, the private, informal meeting was recorded
on tape. Little did these Initiates know that within hours after their
meeting, Paul would leave the physical realm.

Through the kindness of Anya Foos-Graber, these tapes were made
available to Sri Darwin Gross, the present Living ECK Master of
ECKANKAR. Excerpts from these tapes bring us Paulji's last words,
for on September 17, 1971, at 1:00 a.m., Paulji translated from the
physical. By sharing this material, we are privileged to see some of the
trying intricacies the Living ECK Master goes through on a day-to-day
basis.

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PT: Personally, I want to say that this womans thing is nothing more
than poorly written material. She should be talking above the area of
planets. Now, I dont mind what she wants to say in public as long as it
is not connected with ECK. I can't control that, and if she wants to
write a book on it, I can't control the book; there's nothing I can do
about that, but anytime that one is connected with or on an ECK
program, they should talk about ECK, that's all. As long as one is on
an ECK program-and what one does anytime else, I can't control it.
That's up to the individual.

AF (Anya Foos-Graber): Those two letters explain about the article
that I sent you.

PT: That's all right. She can do this. It has been going on for a long
time and I didn't tell her to get started. Here's the thing about it, that I
don't like to get into. This is her place in the sun and I don't want to
take her place in the sun away from her. If she would talk about Venus
and bring in the Temple of Golden Wisdom up there, and the ECK
books and all, that'd be different. Then she'd have something to talk
about, but she doesn't do that.

AF: Could we do that with that book, or should we dump it?

PT: Oh, yes, if you want to.

AF: I don't want to mess with it if you don't want to mess with it. I
don't want any part of it if you feel it would be detrimental.

PT: It's not detrimental.

AF: It could be a real scary thing.

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
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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
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.

NOTE: Ramaj aka Ramaji in Eckankar is supposedly not Rama of
Hindus, but another entirely different from the West, at least according
to Paul he is.

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.

Down there in Miami, the one woman reporter came in and wrote a
story on us and she wouldn't believe the words. She went to the
encyclopedia and got all the background on the different religions and
decided that the words were telling the truth about everything, see?
Now, where she drew the conclusions on this, I don't know.

But nobody's going to argue with her and no one printed her story.
So, we won a point there; not many reporters will do that. Usually
reporters sit down and report what you say. Y'know, a trained person
who's not trained in the ways of the press will start talking, and
anything they say, the press will take it. It's not even in conjective
(sic). Sometimes it's way off the subject but this is what the reporter
remembered from the notes he took on it. When he gets through with
his story, he gets everything out of order.

Over there with Doc, they did a big story for the Riverside Press
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and they're not trained people to talk to the press. The one day during
this interview, Doc said something to the effect about the astral body,
that they go out in the astral body every night and travel. And this
fellow wrote "astral body" all over his article. So that is all he knew.
He couldn't think any further. He heard about it, and read about it, and
was interested in something, but y'see, when we start talking about
Soul, and Soul body, and anything else, we have every Spiritualist in
the country saying, "Oh, we knew about this stuff years ago."

Well, you've had a fairly successful summer, haven't you? Nolan
was out at the Oregon seminar. I don't know if he'll be over here or not,
gets on his little motorcycle and goes where he wants to go now. That's
freedom! Rest of us don't know that, never done that yet. I used to go
out and hitchhike when I was a kid. I was awfully shy and to ask
somebody for a ride was just terrible, and I always ended up taking a
bus. Y'know the bus would come along and I'd flag him down.

This is actually a phenomena, just gangs of kids will stand there and
hold up a sign "Los Angeles," and here's kids with a surf board, see? A
little pair of shorts on the road, y'know, they get rides. One night down
in Del Mar, this girl, must be about sixteen, and she had a big German
police dog. She had a haversack on her back and she was out there
hitchhiking. And y'know, the police came along.

Out in California, they'll stop and ask their names and where they're
going, and what they're doing, and then they'll take this information
and send a letter to the parents. If the parents didn't know anything
about it, well, they'll phone for them. Police don't arrest, they don't do
anything. This police car stopped to talk to this girl, and her dog
jumped up in the police car and they couldn't get the dog out of there.
And y'know, this officer was afraid of the police dog.

He didn't want to go near it because they've been bitten, a lot of these
officers. They stop somebody and they've got a big dog, the dog might
bite them. They are afraid of people who have street dogs.

This kid, y'know, the dog had probably been at home, and every
time somebody'd start to drive someplace, he'd hop in for a ride. And
when the policeman opened his door, that dog got in there. Was the
funniest thing, trying to get that dog out. She got hold of his collar and
she'd pull and pull, and he'd stand back and let her pull. If you've got a
dog in the car, and they stop you for an inspection, like Gail had an
experience one day. She was driving, I was with her that day, and a
police car stopped her. We've got a police-type collie and the collie
nature is in him, see? He doesn't get mad at anybody, he's the mildest
tempered dog. So Gail rolled the window down and the officer came
up, and this dog stuck his head out, he said, Woof, like Hello,
wont you pat my head?

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From pages 150 thru 169

The Last Words of Sri Paul Twitchell in Cincinnati Part 2
PT: That's just psychic news.

Tom: The Psychic News and Between Two Worlds, something like that.
They do a lot of book advertising.

PT: And now they have another on called The Spiritual News. We're
going to do our own publishing after the first of the year, and we're
going to Chicago. This is our plan. We're hoping we can do 100,000
books on one run. Now, all printing companies print everybody in the
paperback field and it's cheaper for us to go there and do it on a 50-
100,000 run. Then we got to make a deal with distributor, that sort of
thing, until what we get back is 25% net or less out of it. It's good
enough.

Tom: But that's a margin. The way Lancer's doing it, you have no
margin.

PT: No, we have no margin but we could get 50,000 for a certain
amount so it's better to deal that way than it is to try to deal this other
way. I don't know about The Spiritual Notebook coming out in
hardback; the Board publishes that, and, that'll go on the bookshelves.
[Sri Darwin stated they did not make it to the book shelves.] They'll
take any book we got but I don't like their printer. I've got with their
printer and he gives us terrible problems. They've been printing the
ECK Monthly Letter for the last six months and it's not in good shape.
They don't know how to shoot, see? What they're doing, they're doing
a letter press which is a linotype operation, and the other people we
had did it by the offset, and by film, but we took it away from him this
month and we got another printer doing that.

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I've had pot-shots taken at me all the time, see? And this is the thing
about going out on the stage. You get up there and talk and hear some
little fellow way back get up and put you down, and everybody loves
that, because they like to see the leader put down. What these people
don't understand when they start out with this other course to injure
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someone else, they only injure themselves.

Now, one time a woman wrote a letter to me and she was awfully mad
at me because she'd asked me to put money into her organization and I
refused to do it. It was a parapsychology group in San Diego and I had
made some talks down there at one time, and she claimed that I should
give her a big donation for her place; maybe a thousand, two thousand
dollars, but I didn't pay any attention to her. I didn't even answer her
letter, see? She gets mad and she writes this man in India and she tells
him that I am a crook, a fraud, a confidential (sic) man, and everything
else, and you know what happens to that letter? Now, I don't know
how they got it in Washington, the letter back, but this letter went to a
tremendous amount of people around the country, see? And this
American representative was sending it to people.

Now, I had somebody up in Canada, who'd left this group and came to
us, send me the letter. And if that doesn't represent something that the
postal authorities can't take up when you make a complaint about it,
then there's something wrong with us, see?

NOTE: This refers to Ruhani Satsang and Sri Kirpal Singh is the man
in India. The woman was from the California Parapsychology
Foundation, where Paul first gave his Eckankar lectures in 1965.

I just sent a whole stack of papers about this big to our attorney and in
these papers are letters of this kind that have been coming in from
these various groups. One fellow, oh, my God, he was just absolutely
fantastic, that he was going to report us to the ICC, and I couldn't
figure it out for the longest time, the Interstate Commerce
Commission. I couldn't figure out what the Interstate Commerce
Commission had to do with it, and I went to a lawyer and talked to him
about it, and he fiddled around and never gave me an answer. So I
went out and researched it myself and found out that the ICC have
charge of any interstate advertising-any advertising that crosses the
state line.

Like you put an ad in Fate and it goes across the stateline, they can get
anyone on this ad. The other thing is working conditions in one's office
of any company; you're not paying them the right money, or a lot of
these ideas, and I went back and told the lawyer. He said, "I knew that
all the time," and I say, "Why didn't you tell me-charging me $25 an
hour to come in here, see, and I do the research for you, and you tell
me you know all this, see?"

All he had to do was go through this book out there or show me or
write me a letter on it. This fellow, I mean, he was vicious. You don't
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know, but this is the kind of mail that comes in constantly everyday
over there, see.

We're getting it from all sorts. We're getting it from the spiritualists,
and do you know why these people are after us, because we're
successful and they're not. Cause we've come up awfully fast, like that
Hank Fleming who did the James Bond stories. You could almost read
the obituaries when somebody said, "Oh, boy, we're through with him
now," because he came up so fast and became popular and made so
much money so fast. Everybody was mad at him. And this is what's
happening to us.

You get to wondering about these people whether they've got
something up there because the higher you go on these levels, see, the
more you begin to see and understand and think about how the human
level works, and you begin to get more practical sense about the
human level.

You don't go pushing around in these areas, you're just wasting time,
see. All of these things, as I say, I see them coming out in a lot of those
little magazines; they're coming out in exploring the unknown and
advertising in these very heavily. Now they'll have a certain amount of
people in them, of course, but they certainly won't get mass market in
any of this, and they'll get some in the Fate magazine, and they'll get a
certain appeal out of these, but there's only one appeal, one thing that'll
stick anywhere, and that's TV. You come out on that TV and you're
seen by millions of people. Oral Roberts, as well as the TV evangelists,
need these people. If you want to go that route that's it.

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Let me tell you a very interesting thing that happened to a friend of
mine. One time a guru was visiting in this country; you know he never
talks, he wouldn't talk because that was a sacrifice to save humanity.
So this friend of mine went in to see him and people were getting about
three minutes with this guru. Through his interpreter he said, "You
have a problem and I will help you." And this fellow couldn't figure
out what his problem was, but at the same time he thought, "Ohhh, I
found it now, I have somebody that is going to help me, see?"

This poor fellow, he ran into all sorts of problems. He was broke, his
wife had four or five different operations, he fell down in his health,
and all of these things because he fell into this trap. Now, if he'd just
said, "Cool it, see, there's no problem. We've all got problems," and
just marched off there and left it alone; see, in other words, he put his
mind on troubles and troubles started moving, and this is what the guru
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was trying to move in this man. This is a subtleness in these people;
they come in and say, "Gee, you're in real trouble," y'know, and bingo!

What he found out, he eventually came to that understanding about it. I
know some other groups that have taken in properties like that. We
haven't had this; the highest thing that we ever had ever given to us,
and I'll just tell you this, we had some money given to us because we
needed it to pay for some books. That's the only time that we have
gotten any money on any big scale at all. Anybody can go in there and
look at our books.

I tell you, we have to sell in order to survive, see? In other words, if
we're not selling these things or if we're not getting our money from an
effort and a service that we're giving people, we couldn't survive like
these other people who come up and are doing their own personality
bit. We're doing it on a service, see? We're saying to you or the fellow
here, "All right, we give you a service by selling you books," and take
and sell them, and that's the only way we're getting our money.

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I went up to Oregon this last time; I went out on the stage, talked, and
then I walked right off that stage and went back to my room and said I
didn't want to see anybody, because this is the very thing we're talking
about. What good does it do to talk to these people? Now, I'm getting
to the point of this, see? If this man wants to come in, and I've seen this
hundreds of limes, doesn't mean that I don't want to help a person. I
don't want it said that I don't want to do something for people-but he
comes in year after year after year and what's he got, he's got the same
problems he's talking about. And he doesn't want to do anything about
it and you can say everything in the world that you want to the fellow,
and he doesn't want to do it.

It's like that old lady down in southern California. She came up about
four years ago and her daughter had been in an insane asylum for five
years. She wanted me to help her take her daughter out of there. Now,
she's 76 years old and she wanted her daughter to be healed and out of
there so that she could take care of her the rest of her life. And I said to
her, "You mean to tell me that at your age you want to bring your
daughter out of that place and put her in the home, and you, at 76 start
waiting on her?" I says, "Where are you going to be two years from
now? You're going to be in your grave if you do this, 'cause she's going
to demand. In the first place, you put her in there, and she's mad at you,
and the doctors didn't want them to take her out," all of this sort of
thing. And she took her out and she was murdered! The daughter
murdered her within six months after she was there. And I had advised
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her not to do it. The doctors advised her not to do it but she had guilt
feelings.

See, they don't listen to you. Why should they want to come talk to me
anyway? It's wasting their time and wasting my time. Here's the very
thing we've been talking about; it happened down in southern
California there. Some kid was anxious to see me and he had to see me
at night at eleven o'clock. At two o'clock in the morning, he's still
going, see? And the thought was that I was telling him he was a young
boy about twenty-two, he wanted to know whether he should go to
college or get married. I kept trying to tell him-go to college. Maybe
this isn't the girl for you anyway, see? Go to college, get your
education, then get married, 'cause if you get married now, and try to
go to college, and have children, then you'll have a problem, you'll
never make it. So he listened to all this, and in one week's time, he was
married and never did go to college. So I've begun to think, what's the
use of talking to these people, do you follow? I can't force them into
doing it, that's their choice, but they come in and they got all this sort
of thing, as you know, see?

I'll tell you something, over there in Baltimore, several years ago.
There was some fellow who was going to put on a one-day symposium
and he had Arthur Ford, he had Bishop Pike, he had myself, and
somebody else on his program. This was his drawing program. He
never said anything to me about it except just at the last minute. Like it
was September the 14th; well, on the 12th, I get a letter saying all these
people, including myself, are going to be on the program, and y'know,
you couldn't even give him time to get back a telegram or anything to
tell him, "No, thank you!" Something like that. So what it turned out to
be, he walks out on the stage there on Sunday morning, and said, "My
good friends, I have all these telegrams from these people." What he
did, he got telegraph blanks and type them off, see, and then he read
the telegrams from all of us, saying to the effect, that we couldn't
attend because of previous business, see? He said, "I got these at the
last minute."

Now, this is what they call "usage." And they'll try to use us every
place they can get; this isn't the first time, see. We get this all the time.
We get people who try to use us for selling, try to use our name and
everything else. Now, we got a setup there in southern California
where one of our own people has set up a vitamin business, an herb /
vitamin product. It's a good product. An excellent product, but he
wanted to come in and use the Satsang groups, and call each of the
Satsang groups in and ask them if they would take so many to sell for
themselves, and all that, and I said, "No, you just can't do it that way."
If you approach an individual ECKist and say, "Would you like to see
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this," and he said, "Yes," this is all right, see? They can't keep you
from selling it and it's a good product to sell, see, but he wanted to use
us. He thought he was going to take our whole operation, so we get this
thing constantly. There's no end to it so we have to be on our toes
constantly every minute of the day, for some fellows trying to figure
out how to use us.

Now, up in Canada somebody took The Spiritual Notebook, y'know, it
was in notebook form. He goes and mimeographs it and takes it out
and says to a large number of ECK people that did have it: "Paul says
that I can sell it to you people for a reasonable cost, and he sold fifty of
these things, see? So you have to watch these people constantly
because if we don't, that's what they want to do.

Now, we had one man, maybe you knew about this up there in
Chicago, when we were talking about it in the crowd there. This fellow
takes every discourse we have, then he gets all the ECK books and he
gets himself initiated up to the second, then he goes out and starts his
own group, see? He had a meeting every night and he would give them
what they call aura-balancing or adjusting.

I thought this thing was awfully funny. I sent some people in to see
him and hear him, and he was having kind of a seance every night and
he was saying, "Well Brother Paul's here, Brother Paul's going to talk to
us now." Then he was saying that I had lunch with him about twice
month asking him if we could join organizations, see. And he was
selling al of his work upon the inference in that 1968 seminar over
there. There were two women who came up from Santa Barbara and
she says, "Oh, we're ECK students." And I says, "You are?" She says,
"Yeah, we're studying under Roger Hinkins." See, this fellow who had
taken all of this and stolen it from us and this thing was building up
because he was using us to build his organization.

So I wrote him a letter and said, "Stop now!" And he didn't pay much
attention to that. Then I told the attorney, I says, "Stop him." The
attorney wrote him a letter. He had this organization going down there
in Miami and was based in San Gabriel, California and I had the
attorney fly down there, and just walk in and talk to him.

Over in Denver we had a woman that was quite a follower of
ECKANKAR and she was very ambitious, so I go over there and make
weekend talks. A few days later, somebody starts sending me the ad
clippings, and she was running ECKANKAR, the Secret Science of
Soul Travel, with the five little marching men under HER name and
her address, see. I let it go for a few days and all of a sudden I saw
what she was doing; she was collecting names in order to start her own
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group. I wrote her a letter and told her to stop it or we'd have to take
her to law, and she wrote the nastiest letter. Imagine, let me give you a
sequence up to this point.

She was awfully mad at the Las Vegas Office that we had Millie
Workman and Judy Husband and somebody else in there helping us,
and she was writing me these long five page letters. I wrote her back,
and I said, "Now, look, you didn't get a letter from me the whole time
you were writing all of these letters in to me, and I got everyone of
these letters in my files and I'm keeping them. You interfered with me
and my freedom in trying to change my state of opinion and attitude
towards these people, see." That's all she's trying to do, change it, so
she could get this, see, and run it herself. That was her
whole purpose, to get her hands on it.

And I says, "But you didn't hesitate to try to change me, in this sense."
So I got another letter from her and she's all apologetic about it
because she says, "I don't want to have anything more to do with you,
but I'm sorry that I ever wrote those letters and I want them back." I
never sent them back. I kept them in the files, to hold her down.

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Now, what I'm trying to do, and I was talking to them about this, I'm
trying to set up a sort of a Board. I don't know, I might even have fifty
people on it and this fifty people, they'll be adults and they'll be young
people. Now, I already did this and I got it up to about twenty-seven
people now. I want these people, the feeder people, in other words,
everything you have to tell me in your district that you want to flow in
as ideas or policy, you flow it in, see. Now, what I would do out of this
group: say, you yourself needed to know, or we think you needed to
know something about what goes on in the ECKANKAR Office, there,
and more about ECK Itself. We would bring you to Las Vegas and
maybe we'd keep you for two weeks or a month, whatever time you
could give to us. We'd pay your way out, we'd pay you the minimum
wage scale, maybe $2.25 or whatever Chet would decide, see? And
keep you there for that time working in the Office to find out actually
what goes on in that Office and the problems they have in that Office,
so you could go back out and then when somebody's going to talk
about all these things, you say, "I don't know about that, how wrong
you are," see?

Now, this is what I'd do. I'd rotate these people around and bring them
in and spend the time that they could. Chet used to come down and
give up his fishing vacation, two weeks time and he'd come into the
Office down there and he'd get back in that mail room and pitch letters,
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or make up the mail, and take it down and that's how he began to know
about the operation there. I'm telling you, these problems that you
people are talking about, that's coming into this Office. The first place
is, number one is, that they are flooding the ECKANKAR Office with
more problems than we could think about. The thirdy (sic) thing is, and
I have said this time and time again, that anytime we started a new
program, such as this youth program or started a publicity program
advertising program, it throws it right back on the mail department,
and the mail department, the bigger it gets, the more problems it has,
and the less opportunity it has towards perfection.

It has built up now since Chet's been in there; we've gotten over 2,000
new students because, you see, Chet has organized this thing stronger.
The stronger and the tighter that unit become as a business unit, see,
the better we function in the field and the more is taken off my
shoulders, because all these problems that you're talking about here
tonight, when I go back, all that stuff, that goes back to the
ECKANKAR Office, see? I do nothing but the writing. I do nothing
but come out and lecture. I don't do any administration, I do not do any
counselling, I do not do any readings, see?

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OK, now. Here's the harassment that we get in this sort of thing. I'm
not talking about that, but 1 wrote this book, The ECK- Vidya, Ancient
Science of Prophecy. It's about 250 typewritten pages; I sent it to New
York, I sent it along in May. We were on our way to Europe, Gail and
I, and we stopped in New York, and we talked to an editor who had it
in his hands, and he says, "Oh, boy, this is the best thing I've ever seen
in ages."

Anyway, it's about this thing that you're talking about, readings, see?
He had it in his hands, the editor. They were hardback people, and
myself and Gail, we talked out all the details about it with him. We get
back from Europe about a month later and nothing's happened. The
editor quit. He took the manuscript with him; he had an office there in
New York of his own, and he took the manuscript with him and I
called the agent and I says, "What happened?" The agent says, "I don't
know who's got the manuscript now; I don't know if it's in the
company's hands or the editor's hands, or who's got it." I says, "Well, I
want my manuscript back; 1 want it taken out of whoever's hands it's
in, I want it back in my hands." And then I wrote him a letter to that
effect, see. He's never answered me and it's been a month ago.

OK. Now, the minute I have that manuscript back in my hands, the
manuscript is going to be published by us and that is going to give us
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the whole basis of how to do an ECK-Vidya reading. But I myself have
run into too many problems with these readings. The first place, I
haven't got the time to do readings. The second place is, I've done
about 12-1500 readings and I'll swear to goodness about this thing, I
don't find enough to say about people in all these readings without
having to repeat myself back over this fellow to this fellow to this
fellow. Because when you come to think about it, when you start your
life, and my life, and his life, and all you people here, you start
thinking about all the physical events, they're practically the same
thing.

All the emotional problems are about the same thing, all this about the
same thing, and when you start to thinking about all back during this
long long time coming up to this present time, they're all about the
same thing. And Edgar Cayce with 35,000 readings that he did, you
can't tell me that he never repeated himself on it because I've heard
people who've said, "I've got the same reading that Joe Joe's got over
there in Philadelphia, and I don't know what's the matter with Edgar
Cayce that he got me the same reading that he did, " and I heard them
say this.

So I says, I quit it. I won't be bothered with it because when I give it
and somebody runs into a problem, and I don't care if I just say one
line on it, see. This fellow jumps up and he says, "Gee, y'know, you
had the same information as me and him over there," and you throw up
your hands, and say, "Good heavens, y'know, why bother with these
things anymore." It isn't worth the money even at $200 a reading.

The fellow over there in Los Angeles that's doing the same thing is
charging $500 a reading, and he's got people lined up for six months to
come in, and he swears them all to secrecy. But still the word gets out.
I went on one of those programs one time, you know how it is, they'll
try to embarrass you. This fellow kept at me and says, "Tell me
something about myself," and I kept putting him off and putting him
off. Finally, he was getting to the point he was trying to make an idiot
out of me, I says, "You have a wart in an unmentionable place, and I
don't want to say it on the public TV." And he didn't say another word
because if he denied it, he would have made it worse, and he didn't
want to confirm it.

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From pages 214 thru 217

Quarterly article in The Mystic World by Paul Twitchell, Jan-Feb-Mar
1970

The Failure of
The Human Consciousness

Often we are involved in some decision which needs certain data, or
knowledge which is beyond our ken of thinking an ability to judge
what the results might be for the human verdict.

The higher anyone is on the spiritual survival ladder, the easier it is for
him to make decisions for he can foretell and judge the course which
must be taken.

Since ECKANKAR, the Ancient Science of God-Awareness, furnishes
the chela with whatever knowledge is needed, it is the only method to
use for making judgments.

Also, since ECKANKAR is the only path to God, we can find
ourselves unfolding the latent ability which is always within each
individual. Therefore, we can use this modus operandi for self healing,
responsibility to all, and enter into the Kingdom of God Here and Now
while living in the physical body.

However, we find a problem existing in the field of knowingness. The
decisions each of us meet daily in life must be made with ourselves in
relationship to whatever that problem might be. We either adjust and
live with the problem, take control of it, or resolve it.

Too many people want to resolve their problems Here and Now
through some agency outside the human consciousness. They are
constantly on the lookout for miracles. This is the failure of the human
consciousness-it is the Kal trap in which man falls so many times.
Most people have come to believe that it is possible to have a miracle
in their lives regardless of what the condition might be. They run about
constantly trying to find the miracle man who will give them relief
from their problems.

If one is ready for the miracle, he may have it. But too many are not
and they desperately grasp at any straw to get relief from some
pressing problem. They seek but are found wanting. What they do not
understand is that their own pressing to get relief is what is keeping it
with them. For example, a chela who asks for spiritual help from some
problem, then questions the answer will never have alleviation from
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suffering or pain.

Those who ask for an explanation of what my answer might be in these
cases are only prolonging the case. Those who become annoyed and
impatient with what I tell them, even though it is only a short
statement, might as well not ask for spiritual help for it does little
good.

So many ask and receive but in their blindness fail to see, nor
understand what has taken place within themselves. Many expect to be
struck on the head with some spiritual club, but the Living ECK
Master does not do this. He often leads the individual very quietly and
gently out of his morass of worldly troubles into another plane. He
fulfills the petition, but he does it his own way, not the way the
petitioner wants it, to be done.

Many a time he never interferes and completely ignores the chela who
stands crying over his problems, begging that something might be
done. If a man asks the Living ECK Master to have his wife or son
who have left him for some reason to return, the Master will do
nothing for it depends upon those who have separated from the
petitioner. They must return of their own free will; otherwise there will
be little happiness left for any of the parties concerned.

The answer for success in knowingness is all in one principle of ECK-
that is, non-attachment to our problems. Once we give up any hold on
problems, the Living ECK Master steps in and removes the cause so
that spiritual survival is greatly enhanced.
January-February-March 1970

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From Pages 238 thru 257

New Insights On Paul
By James Walker

These are excerpts taken from the first chapter of a new biography on
Paul, The Wind From Heaven. The book should be ready for
publication next spring.

NOTE: This autobiography was due April 1981 but was never
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published. Harold Klemp was promoted to the LEM in Oct 1981. We
do not know what the Wisdom Notes monthly notations refer to below.

Once he said to Gail, "I have never committed a small folly." She
remembers they were sitting under a large tree at the Church of St.
Mark, some thirty miles southeast of Athens in the summer of 1968.
"I have often wondered about this remark," she said. "It was a pleasant
afternoon during late June. We were on a long drive through the
countryside of Greece and had stopped at this beautiful church. It
overlooked a deep valley and the wind was cool in the shade of the
tree.

"Paul was sitting in a chair looking out at the beautiful pastoral scene.
He loves Greece and its antiquity. He had several past lives in that
ancient land and loves it dearly.

"The profile of his head was so finely shaped. His blue eyes deeply
intense and he had been silent for a long time. Suddenly, he spoke
these words. That was all he said, but I knew what he meant. He was
speaking of some past life in Greece, and the part he had played in the
history of that ancient country.

"Paul is a mystery. I have never known him. I do not believe anyone
knows him. He is beyond the concepts of my thoughts and mind. I just
accept him for what he is and love him for this. I do not believe anyone
will ever unravel the mystery of Paul."

Some neighbors of Paul's had a large dog that they kept chained.
Whenever the owners would leave to visit or go to the grocery store,
the poor animal would yelp and cry for hours. One night it cried
continuously. Paul became so upset and annoyed over this he decided
to move these people.

Not one word was said to anyone except Gail. She noticed the next day
the neighbors quietly packed their household goods and left without
speaking to anyone. It only proved Paul's mysterious powers!

One time when a well-known writer who had become very close to
Paul and had seen many mysterious things that he had done, started to
light up his after-dinner cigar it would not light for some reason. At the
same time, the telephone rang and Paul was on the wire. While Paul
talked, he tried to light the cigar again but the lighter continued to go
out. Suddenly, it occurred to him that Paul did not like people smoking
around him. He joked about it on the phone to Paul who said nothing-
but after hanging up he said he tried again and found that nothing
prevented him from lighting the cigar.
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Paul never smokes or drinks, nor does anyone else do so in his
presence. This accounts for the story just told about the writer's
experience although there were hundreds of miles between them. This
is one of the things people do not understand about Paul; although he is
not with them in the physical presence his image or the Radiant Body
is with them at all times. Therefore, why should anyone wish to smoke
or drink in the presence of this body which is truly Paul himself?

Paul never has any need for luxury. He lives as simply as a shepherd
and watches over his flock which numbers into the thousands. He
knows what everyone is doing at all times because of his ability to be
with each of them.

He eats sparingly and this is purposely done because he feels that he
should not have more to feed himself than the lowest peasant. If others
must suffer from the lack of food and shelter, Paul believes he must do
the same; he says he cannot put himself above those who have nothing.
His personal allowance for the week is inconceivably low. He rarely
eats in public and when on trips takes his meals in his room, eating
only enough to keep up his body strength for the terrible load he must
carry.
July-August-September 1970
===

Paul told this writer that "when one discovers who he is and what he is,
then he must come to terms with this discovery." In other words, he
must recognize himself and act accordingly to what he knows about
himself. Otherwise, there are a number of problems that might come
up which he will not be able to manage. This lack of discipline causes
unhappiness.

According to Paul, ECK is not a sect but an experience. "When one
discovers this," he says, "he finds peace with himself. He can make his
way in the world without the troubles he formerly had."

Among the experiences that many people have had with Paul, one of
his chelas tells this one. "I once saw Paul save a plane when the engine
caught fire some five hundred miles out of Rome going east to Cairo.
When the pilot announced he was turning back, Paul put his feet
together, crossed his arms and closed his eyes. He stayed in this
position until the plane was landed safely in Athens again."

One person reported an unusual phenomenon during a three month stay
with Paul, while working for him as an assistant. He said, "Paul and I
went to Los Angeles where he was to give a talk to his chelas on
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February 14, 1969.

"He walked into the studio office about 8:30 a.m., and handed me his
black handbag. I took it to my car and placed it with my own in the
trunk. I was sure of doing this, and so was he, and Paul is seldom
wrong about anything.

"We drove directly to Los Angeles to the Ambassador Hotel. When the
trunk of my car was opened the handbag was missing. He later called
Gail who searched the studio office and the house but found no travel
bag. He insisted that it was in the office, but I couldn't believe this. We
went to a store where he purchased the necessities for an overnight
stay. I felt badly and didn't know what to say, but knew positively I had
put the bag in my car trunk.

"We returned the next evening and looked through the office again. He
had claimed it was there all the time-but we didn't find it until later that
evening. It was in a chair behind a desk-to my surprise!

"I didn't know what to say, or what had happened. The only
explanation possible was that he was demonstrating to me those
miraculous powers of his. When I asked him-no explanation was
given.

"I still wonder about this. Did he really make the bag disappear and
then manifest it again?

"I think so!"

Paul is always doing something in the invisible-something which
affects multitudes of people. But few understand this because of his
quiet manner-his humility when he is around people. He constantly
cautions people not to worship him, but the Inner Master, the
MAHANTA. Because of his wide spiritual knowledge, austere way of
life and independent spirit, few persons can get close to him.

Paul does not appear to like the intellectual person. He says they are all
the same, making elaborate little plans. They give fussy attention to
small perfections and when something goes wrong because of their
inborn blindness, they scream frantically for help from someone else to
act in their behalf-to do something for them.

His files contain many letters reporting people have seen him and in
many cases talked with him, when he was known to be appearing
elsewhere in his physical body. Strangely, these letters continuously
agree he has been in the spirit body at approximately the same time,
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but in different parts of the world. Does this prove that he is able to
appear in many places at the same time?

The ability to appear to his chelas in danger or confer with them on
various spiritual instructions, has made him the subject of a raging
controversy. He steadfastly refuses to be tested by the experts,
although many Parapsychology Departments of world universities
have extended invitations to do so. They are being received in larger
numbers since the publicity of In My Soul I Am Free, the unusual story
of Paul Twitchell's life, by Brad Steiger.

His reason for rejecting the parapsychologists is not fully known but
many who are close to him say that Sri Paul Twitchell dwells almost
constantly in total consciousness-that state of God Consciousness that
few have ever reached, and he claims it makes him an unlikely subject
for any scientific tests.
October-November-December 1970
===

Paul Twitchell, world famous leader of ECKANKAR, the Ancient
Science of Soul Travel-a movement which is worldwide with
thousands of followers, is the greatest spiritual enigma of the twentieth
century.

Close to fifty million people in practically every country in the world
seek spiritual succor for some complaint, regardless of what it may be,
from this shy American-born Vi-Guru.

From the looks of things, their petitions are not in vain for his spiritual
help brings a minimum of some twelve to fifteen thousand letters a
week, including many from behind the Iron Curtain, in Russia and her
satellites.

Even letters can be counted from Red China and Albania. There have
been some from the ice-bound countries of Greenland, Siberia and
Northern Canada. Also, a handful from the remote islands of the
Atlantic and Pacific, including the Falklands, Marshalls, South Sea
Islands and Patagonia. His works are widely known. One of his books,
Introduction to ECKANKAR, was found on the Island of Bora Bora
during his trip to the South Pacific in 1969.

Books have been written about him and his work called, ECKANKAR,
the Ancient Science of Soul Travel. Articles both pro and con have
brought about a raging controversy as to whether or not he has
replaced the eminent figures of religion, Buddha, Christ, Moses, St.
Paul of Christian fame and Mohammed.
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People appear to have known him well, yet they do not. He walks the
streets of the world capitals with large crowds in his wake, hoping to
find some blessing that will bring relief to their problems.

Scientists, doctors, clergymen, psychologists and those interested in
seeking answers to questions about the worlds beyond death, and the
unknown mysteries of life, search out this extraordinary man hoping he
will unravel for them the secrets of the supernatural, in the hope of
finding God.

The charisma of Paul Twitchell cannot be described by words. He
always travels incognito, for whenever the word is spread that he is
visiting a city-whether it is in Rome, London, Paris, New York,
Istanbul or Tokyo, a vast crowd gathers around the airport or hotel
hoping to see him or receive a word from him. It is their Darshan - the
opportunity to see him is to receive a spiritual blessing.

Proof of this was during the summer of 1968 when he visited Rome.
People, upon discovering his identity, followed him on the streets
seeking to touch him, receive a blessing or a glance of his china blue
eyes in their direction. As one woman put it, "Only to gaze upon his
countenance is to receive great spiritual blessings. It is like the Grace
of God descending upon one."

Many make the claim that just to be in his presence is to receive a
spiritual gift - in the form of good fortune, a physical healing, pre-
knowledge of what is going to happen in their future, or explanations
of events in past lives.

Few can explain who Sri Paul Twitchell might be, how he gained his
miraculous spiritual knowledge - nor does anyone seem to care, for as
long as they receive benefits of IT, all apparently are happy.

Because of his supernatural ability to be in many places
simultaneously, he has become one of the most influential spiritual
leaders in the history of man.
January-February-March 1971
===

Paul has always been sceptical of newspapers and the whole
information media which includes newspapers, magazines, books and
other printed matter, also the broadcast media or television and radio.
In other words, he says the trouble with news and information media
despite the argument that it gives depth to certain forms of journalism,
it is capable of giving singular, narrow, one-pointed view of life and
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the news created by man. This is one of the main reasons why he has
constantly avoided reporters, journalists and magazine writers.

None share the ideals which he has since the beginning of his work in
ECKANKAR, the Ancient Science of Soul Travel. Because of this, he
refuses constantly to be interviewed by anyone who does not have a
good background in religion and metaphysics, this includes journalists
as such. Despite this, he knows there is always danger of being mis-
understood, the bias and prejudice of those who will twist his words, or
the impression of the man's image. Many times this is done
deliberately and often subconsciously.

For example, a few writers who have interviewed him saw only his
clean shirt and shaved jaw. As a result, they said he could have been
serving on the board of some big corporation. Another said he might
be a dentist, or any professional man, perhaps a merchant or a doctor.
One writer described him as a kindly looking chap who had just picked
up a check at the welfare office, because he was wearing what was
described as a faded blue shirt and a dull looking suit. But few ever
connect him up with being a holy man, the MAHANTA, the Living
ECK Master.

There is a need of the people to believe in the magic of a saviour, and
Sri Paul Twitchell knows this and acts out the part. He belongs to a
unique society of adepts, the Ancient Order of Vairagis, the ECK
Masters.

His need for money is completely nil for he doesn't seem to care or
have any use for it. His face is his credit card over the world, for many
people in foreign countries, hotel managers, restaurant managers, and
those in small, intimate, out-of-the-way places recognize him and put it
on his bill which is later sent to his home where Gail pays it.

No one really knows for sure where he came from, when he was born,
or if his true name is even Paul Twitchell. How long he has been on
this Earth planet is not known. But it is a fact that his Master Rebazar
Tarzs, an ancient Tibetan lama, who appears to be in his early forties,
was a young man when Columbus discovered America.

Paul, who is known to the world as Peddar Zaskq, which is his real
name, is an occidental. The majority of avatars have usually been
Orientals but the pendulum of time has swung back again completing
the cycle when the first known ECK Master came into this world and
began teaching the people the way to God by the universal path of
God.

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This first ECK Master was Ramaj, the founder of the Ancient Order of
the Vairagi which is the secret brotherhood of the ECK Masters. It is
said that out of his teachings have come the many religions of the
world, e.g., Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism, Shintoism, Moslem, to
name a few. His teachings were taken from the Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad,
the sacred scriptures of the heavenly worlds. To the elective few came
the religious books of the various orthodox faiths.
April-May-June 1971
===

During the early part of the seventeenth century, four ECK spiritual
masters who serve in the spiritual hierarchy, met in the ancient sacred
city of Agam Des in the Himalayan Mountains. They were:
Ramaj, viceroy for Sat Nam, the great deity of the fifth world,
commonly called the Soul Plane; Rebazar Tarzs, emissary for ECK in
this physical universe today; Gopal Das, spiritual master at the Golden
Wisdom Temple on the Astral plane and Yaubl Sacabi, spiritual head
of the ancient city of Agam Des.

They met to discuss the birth of the coming avatar for the twentieth
century, Peddar Zaskq. Born in the Caucasian mountains during the
seventeenth century, he lived and was trained to the heights of spiritual
perfection.

Given several years in the art of silence and darkness he gained
enlightenment in preparation for his return to the twentieth century.
When the time came for his demise, he passed away still looking the
same youthful appearance yet beyond the normal age of man.

He was prepared for entering into the world again to take up his
mission. The four great ECK Masters met once more, but this time at
the Sakipura Monastery in the vast mountains of the northern
Himalayas.

This time the ancient prediction that a new world avatar would be born
on a great body of water, near the shores where horses grazed was to
become true. This time Peddar Zaskq was born on a Mississippi river
packet enroute to New Orleans.

The miraculous birth took place just below the city of Natchez,
Mississippi near a stock farm. At the time of his birth, a great
earthquake shook the Mississippi valley, forming a vast body of lakes
in western Tennessee. There appeared a blue carnation in a vase on a
night table by the mother's bed.

The work of the hierarchy was completed except for the training of
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Peddar Zaskq. It was immediately arranged for him to be given a home
in which to be raised.

His foster parents raised him in a small southern river town. He
adopted their name and became known as Paul Twitchell in the
twentieth century. He looked and acted and was raised accordingly like
any American child, except for his enormous knowledge and ability to
do Soul Travel.

None knew much about him for he kept to himself. His companion in
these years was his stepsister who gave him much of his knowledge on
Soul Travel. She acted as the instrument through which the divine
power flowed to open his consciousness to God again, and acted as his
guide until the ECK Masters were able to take over.

The rest of his story is told in fragments of his first visit to Paris to be
with his stepsister, who was in training to be an artist. It was here that
he first met Sudar Singh, an ECK Master, and followed him to India
with his stepsister to study ECK.

Later as a young man, he returned to India and set out to find Rebazar
Tarzs, the ancient Tibetan ECK Master, near Darjeeling. It was here
that the contact was made with the great ECK emissary and his training
taken over to prepare him for world leadership in spiritual affairs.
July-August-September 1971


Paulji Translates

Paulji, the MAHANTA, the Living ECK Master, translated from his
physical body at approximately 1:00 a.m. on Friday, September 17,
1971 in his hotel room in Cincinnati, Ohio. He had gone to attend the
ECKANKAR Cincinnati Seminar.

Paulji arrived in Cincinnati Thursday afternoon in good spirits. He
shared a light supper with some Higher Initiates and later joined a large
group of them at a table in the coffee shop. Late that evening he
summoned several to his room for a business meeting. A short time
after they had departed one of the Fifth Initiates felt a sharp call on the
inner to go to him. She hastened there, he opened the door, greeted her
and collapsed. The official cause of death was a heart attack. The
separation was immediate and Doctor Louis Bluth, 7th Initiate, who
was hastily summoned, witnessed Paulji ascending in the company of
the ECK Masters of the Vairagi. He realized that efforts to revive the
body would come to no avail although every medical effort was made.
As is laid out in the ECK teachings, the body was cremated.
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Disposition of the ashes has not been revealed.

The ECK chelas who were gathered in Cincinnati were stunned by the
surprise departure of Paulji, but in keeping with the teachings, and
knowing that Paulji was there as usual, they carried out the three day
seminar as planned. The three days were ones of deep spiritual value to
all who attended. All distance was forgotten as they drew close in the
common bond of a great happening. The lectures were inspiring and
the weekend was to be an example of ECKists at their very best.

Rebazar Tarzs stepped into the breach and served as the Living ECK
Master for the 35 day period between the translation and the passing of
the Mantle to the present Living ECK Master, Sri Darwin Gross.

During the Cincinnati Seminar several manifestations of Paulji were
reported. One eyewitness account appears in the ECK Monthly Letter,
November, 1971 issue. There have been many miracles and mysterious
happenings in the days preceding the translation and following. If you
had or have any strange, different or hard to explain experiences
surrounding the days of the translation, Gail Twitchell has specifically
requested that you write or tape them and send them in for historical
documentation.
October-November-December 1971

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