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- From: boutell@isis.cshl.org (Tom Boutell)
- Subject: Re: THE DIVINE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE
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- Organization: Cold Spring Harbor Labs
- References: <1993Jan25.180818.3309@cnsvax.uwec.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:51:52 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.180818.3309@cnsvax.uwec.edu> mcelwre@cnsvax.uwec.edu writes:
- > Although the following article is on the subject of religious studies, it
- >illustrates some important facts about the Universe:
- > (1) The physical universe is ONLY the LOWEST of at least a DOZEN major
- >levels of existence.
-
- 1. Some people will believe anything and come up with quantitative values
- for it to boot.
-
- > (2) Certain phenomena which seem to have no physical origin result from
- >INTERACTIONS between the physical universe and HIGHER LEVELS.
-
- Subluminous ether, again.
-
- > (3) It is possible for INDIVIDUALS to PERSONALLY explore the Universe,
- >including our Solar System, using forms of "SOUL TRAVEL". Some of these forms
- >are also known as "out-of-body travel" and "Astral projection". [This is
- >DANGEROUS without the protection of a Perfect Living Master as described
- >below.]
-
- This is dangerous without the protection of a Member of the Priestly
- Order of Non-Working Leeches On Society as described below, as otherwise
- you may have your legs broken.
-
- > THE DIVINE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE
- >
- > Most Christians would agree, and correctly so, that
- > Jesus Christ was a perfect living Master, and a projection of
- > God into the physical world, God Incarnate.
-
- ...
-
- Anything most Christians would agree with I'm real real confident of.
-
- ...
- > Secondly, and more importantly, after a particular
- > Master physically dies and leaves this world, there is
- > NOTHING that He can do for ANYbody except for the relatively
- > few people that He INITIATED while He was still physically
- > alive. (That is simply the way God set things up in the
- > Universes.)
-
- How do you happen to know this? Why should we believe this?
-
- > Therefore, all those Christians who worship Jesus, and
- > pray to Jesus, and expect Jesus to return and save them from
- > their sins, are only KIDDING THEMSELVES, and have allowed
- > themselves to be DUPED by a religion that was mostly
- > MANUFACTURED by the Romans.
-
- Well, now, I'll give you that.
-
- > And emotional "feelings" are a TOTALLY DECEIVING
- > indicator for religious validity.
-
- So are manufactured "facts." No matter which half of your brain
- you're deceiving, it's still baloney.
-
- ...
- > Thirdly, the primary function of each Master is to tune
- > His Initiates into the "AUDIBLE LIFE STREAM" or "SOUND
- > CURRENT", (referred to as "THE WORD" in John 1:1-5, and as
- > "The River of Life" in Revelation 22:1), and to personally
- > guide each of them thru the upper levels of Heaven while they
- > are still connected to their living physical bodies by a
- > "silver cord".
-
- Dungeons and Dragons: you've played the game, now give all your
- belongings to the religion!
-
- > True Salvation, which completes a Soul's cycles of
- > REincarnation in the physical and psychic planes, is achieved
- > only by reaching at least the "SOUL PLANE", which is five
- > levels or universes above the physical universe, and this
- > canNOT be done without the help of a Perfect LIVING Master.
-
- Let me sleep all night in your soul plane...
-
- Five levels or universes. REMEMBER, folks, he has NUMBERS and
- CAPITALIZES THINGS which means that they are FACTS. QED.
-
- > One such perfect Master alive today is an American, Sri
- > Harold Klemp, the Living "Eck" Master or "Mahanta" for the
- > "Eckankar" organization, now headquartered in Minneapolis,
- > (P.O. Box 27300; zip 55427).
-
- Who do I make those checks out to? I want to get this right the
- first time. Does he take plastic?
-
- Is Prince a member?
-
- ...
- > the "Anti-Christ", which is or was to be a temporary world
- > dictator during the so-called "last days". But the Masters
- > don't ever rule, even when asked or expected to do so as
- > Jesus was.
-
- Well, that rules out Bill Clinton.
-
- > People who continue following Christianity, Islam, or
- > other orthodox religions with a physically DEAD Master, will
- > CONTINUE on their cycles of REincarnation, between the
- > psychic planes and this MISERABLE physical world, until they
- > finally WISE UP!
-
- The psychic planes: a nice place to hang out if you're an astral
- being. Me, I'm a human being, so.
-
- > RE-INCARNATION
- >
- > The book "HERE AND HEREAFTER", by Ruth Montgomery,
- > describes several kinds of evidence supporting REincarnation
- > as a FACT OF LIFE, including HYPNOTIC REGRESSIONS to past
- > lives, SPONTANEOUS RECALL (especially by young children, some
-
- The book DESCRIBES the RAPTURES OF faith in WHICH MEMBERS of our
- organization CAPITALIZE THINGS under DIVINE INFLUENCE.
-
- > Baptist was the REINCARNATION of Elias.) and John 9:1-2 (How
- > can a person POSSIBLY sin before he is born, unless he LIVED
- > BEFORE?!). [ ALWAYS use the "KING JAMES VERSION". Later
- > versions are PER-VERSIONS! ] Strong INTERESTS, innate
-
- Per-versions, eh? You said Christianity was manufactured by the Romans
- in the first place. Yet you give short shrift to attempts at serious
- scholarship aimed at sorting out the original intent. But who needs
- consistency? It's a blind-faith thing, bub, you wouldn't understand.
-
- > TALENTS, strong PHOBIAS, etc., typically originate from a
- > person's PAST LIVES. For example, a strong fear of swimming
- > in or traveling over water usually results from having
- > DROWNED at the end of a PREVIOUS LIFE. And sometimes a
- > person will take AN IMMEDIATE DISLIKE to another person being
- > met for the first time, because of a bad encounter with him
- > during a PREVIOUS INCARNATION.
-
- YES! Now you can be blindingly prejudiced against people you've JUST MET
- and have a JUSTIFICATION thanks to OUR NIFTY and TOTALLY UNVERIFIABLE
- BELIEF SYSTEM! Hate those DIFFERENT folks TODAY!
-
- > The teaching of REincarnation also includes the LAW OF
- > KARMA (Galatians 6:7, Revelation 13:10, etc.). People would
- > behave much better toward each other if they knew that their
- > actions in the present will surely be reaped by them in the
- > future, or in a FUTURE INCARNATION!
-
- In a future life you will be forced to read inane religious postings.
-
- ...
-
- > PLANES OF EXISTENCE
- >
- > The physical universe is the LOWEST of AT LEAST a DOZEN
- > major levels of existence. Above the Physical Plane is the
- > Astral Plane, the Causal Plane, the Mental Plane, the Etheric
- > Plane (often counted as the upper part of the Mental Plane),
- > the Soul Plane, and several higher Spiritual Planes. The
- > Soul Plane is the FIRST TRUE HEAVEN, (counting upward from
- > the Physical). The planes between (but NOT including) the
- > Physical and Soul Planes are called the Psychic Planes.
-
- We have NAMES for them. We have worked out MINUTE DETAILS.
- Ergo they exist. QED.
-
- >
- > It is likely that ESP, telepathy, astrological
- > influences, radionic effects, biological transmutations [See
- > the 1972 book with that title.], and other phenomena without
- > an apparent physical origin, result from INTERACTIONS between
- > the Psychic Planes and the Physical Plane.
-
- It is likely that your delusions result from INTERACTIONS between your
- brain and your anxieties.
-
- ...
-
- > The "SOUND CURRENT" manifests differently for different
- > Initiates, and can sound like a rushing wind, ocean waves on
- > the sea shore, buzzing bees, higher-pitched buzzing sound, a
- > flute, various heavenly music, or other sounds. In Eckankar,
- > Members start hearing it near the end of their first year as
- > a Member. This and other experiences (such as "SOUL TRAVEL")
- > REPLACE blind faith.
-
- "I can hear the buzzing! I can hear the sounds in my ears! I can-"
-
- THUD
-
- Sigh. You really shouldn't listen to the SOUND CURRENT while
- DRIVING.
-
- > UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this
- > IMPORTANT Information is ENCOURAGED.
-
- Oh well.
-
- > Robert E. McElwaine
- > 2nd Initiate in Eckankar
-
- Tom Boutell
- Publisher's Clearinghouse Finalist
-
- -T
-
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-
- --
- Tom Boutell, boutell@cshl.org
-
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