We begin to have experiences with the light and sound of God, and thus we develop a greater understanding of the spiritual laws of life. Knowing these laws, we can then make our own life easier
Harold Klemp
The Dream Master,
Mahanta Transcripts, Book 8

Ignorance of the spiritual laws of life does not exonerate the individual from the consequences of flouting them.

these laws are universal and cuts across all religions and races and stands above all man made laws .

as one Judge subtly hinted at it after a brilliant lawyer defended a criminal and got him acquited. the judge told the criminal that despite the fact the court did not find him guilty that there is another group of judges who he may not be aware of and who operate with higher spiritual laws that is above man made laws and in their court cases are treated with detachment and the deserved judgement handed out and there are no defence lawyers and no appeal.

knowledge of these laws therefore , are very important for the spiritual survival of souls.

The Spiritual laws of Life are divided into 3 broad groups

1. Laws of Wisdom
2. Laws of Freedom
3. Laws of Charity

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The Laws Of Wisdom are the laws that speak of divine power and how it manifests in the universe

under the Laws of wisdom you have
1. the law of causation
2. the law of change
3. the law of consciousness
4. five spiritual laws of this world
5. the law of God
6. the law of grace
7. the law of HU
8. the law of life
9. the law of Mksha
10. the law of the physical universe
11. the law of self
12. the law of soul
13. the law of spirit
14. the law of spiritual evolution
15. the law of spiritual nonperfection
16. the law of strength
17. the law of survival

The Law of Causation

the ECK power is the intelligence which pervades all space and animates all living things. this mental action and reaction is the law of Causation.

Sri Paul Twitchell,
Dialogues with the Master

benodic:

The Laws Of Wisdom are the laws that speak of divine power and how it manifests in the universe

under the Laws of wisdom you have
1. the law of causation
2. the law of change
3. the law of consciousness
4. five spiritual laws of this world
5. the law of God
6. the law of grace
7. the law of HU
8. the law of life
9. the law of Mksha
10. the law of the physical universe
11. the law of self
12. the law of soul
13. the law of spirit
14. the law of spiritual evolution
15. the law of spiritual nonperfection
16. the law of strength
17. the law of survival

Dearest Brother Benodic.
How have you been. Hope well.

Please I would appreciate it if you can briefly explain each of these laws.

Thank you.

@ deepsight

Thanks for your comments.
i will be taking the laws one at a time to explain .
questions and comments are very welcome

The Law of Causation deals with primary causes. it is through this law that creation was made manifest.
souls being miniature gods can through the law of Causation bring into being anything that they can imagine

the law of change

states that

conditions in the worlds of time and space will always change at some point; there is no stability here.

. . The LAW of CAUSATION
.
. The ECK Power is the intelligence which pervades all space and animates all living things; this mental action and reaction is the Law of Causation.
. In order to express life there must be the power. Nothing can exist without the cosmic power.
. Man lives in a fathomless sea of this plastic ether called the ECK Power; and this substance is ever alive and active. Thought form takes mould or matrix from that which the substance expresses.
. The other aspect of Spirit, even more important than the Light, is that which we know as the Sound. This Sound Current is actually the Voice of God, spoken of in the Bible as the word: "In the beginning was the Word. . . . And the word was made flesh, and dwelt among us. "This Voice, the creative current which comes from God, has created the lower worlds. It comes out like a radio wave from a central broadcasting station. It's like a pebble thrown into a quiet lake, causing ripples to go out. These waves go out but they must always come back to the center; it's the returning wave that we are interested in. This is what Soul is looking for: To return to the God center. When It returns to the God center, we call this God-Realization, or the God Consciousness.



The Spiritual Laws of Life
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

. The LAW of CHANGE

. Conditions in the worlds of time and space will always change at some point; there is no stability here.
. Whoever is under the hand of moha (attachment) is unconscious of the Law of Change, which permeates all things in the lower worlds. There is no stability here, as the positive and negative streams are in a constant interplay that can feature the good things in life for a while, but then can take a discouraging turn toward the unhappy lessons; this dynamic tension between the positive and negative forces is needed to stretch the individual beyond his present capacity.
. As harsh as change may often appear to us, it is for the purification of immature and mature Souls alike.



The Spiritual Laws of Life
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

. The LAW Of Consciousness

. We each choose our own state of consciousness. It takes a while for many individuals, even many ECK initiates, to recognize this. We make our own worlds. What we are today is the sum total of everything we have thought or been throughout the ages.

. Everything in the universe has its origin in idea, in thought, and it has its completion in the manifestation of thought through form. Many intermediate stages are necessary, but the cause and effect of the series are the thought and the thing. This shows that in essence the thing had already existed in thought.... This is consciousness. If it is a true fact that the thing must be in thought before thought can form the thing, then it is plain that the divine ideal can only be externalized in our objective life to the proportion it is first formed in our thought. It takes form from our thoughts only to the extent we have apprehended its existence in the divine ECK. . . .
. . . Soul is the thinker of thoughts. The consciousness responds when directed by Soul, which is beyond all thought, beyond all matter, energy, space, and time. The very act of thinking imposes self-consciousness because all thoughts are possible only through self-consciousness. Therefore, that which I am, that which is above and beyond all thoughts, cannot be revealed by the consciousness nor intellect. Even when the consciousness cannot think of it, it is possible for Soul, which I am, to know the whole thing in a complete way.

. . . In the creative process of Soul we become the individual reflection of what we realize the divine power to be, relative to one's self. If we realize the divine as the infinite potential of all that can constitute a perfect human being, this conception must, by the law of creativity, gradually build up a corresponding image in our thoughts, which in turn will act on our external condition.
. This, by the Law of Consciousness, is the nature of the process.
.
. All paths to God are provided by Spirit for the express purpose of giving Soul in Its varying states of consciousness a choice in how It wants to return to God. Each path leads to another path, and then to another. It is one thing to be born into a certain state of consciousness, but we owe it to ourselves to make the effort to reach higher and beyond. Upon birth, we are given whatever consciousness we need to get from birth to death; the kind that allows us to go to school, learn a trade or a profession, and make our way. But it takes a special effort to go beyond and reach greater states of consciousness. We can do this by direct experience with the Light and Sound of Spirit.




The Spiritual Laws of Life
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

. FIVE SPIRITUAL LAWS OF THIS WORLD

. These are just five of the many spiritual laws of this world. They are important especially when looking at political and religious fields. (1) The beginning of human life is when breath comes into the fetus. (2) Love is the first and great commandment; also called the rule of spiritual law: Love God, love your neighbor, and love yourself. (3) work for your food. This deals with the welfare system and our responsibility to make our own way as much as we can in this world. (4) Give tribute to God and Caesar. This relates to our duty to the government regarding taxes. (5) Reward the laborer. This is about the government's duty to the people.
.
. The first law deals with the beginning of human life. The beginning of human life is when breath comes into the fetus. . . .
. The backup for this in the Christian Bible is Genesis 2:7. "And the lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the Breath of Life; and man became a Living Soul." The key point is"and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life."




The Spiritual Laws of Life
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

. The Law of Fixidity

. The lackeys of the Kal Niranjan (Negative Force) are misguided in their search for truth because his region of dominion is under the Law of Fixidity, which gives the appearance of spaciousness, accommodation, and completeness, but is set within a bowl of countless restrictions not perceived by anyone but the Spiritual Traveler.
. The hidden ECK teachings have survived in a hardened world due to their flexibility. It is said that Taoism, the ancient philosophy and religion of China, outlasted Confucianism, the moral and religious system, because the latter reduced everything to fixed rules. ECK and life are flux; Kal and limitations are fixed states of consciousness that try to build prison walls around truth.



The Spiritual Laws of Life
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

. The LAW of God
.
. Everything has its origin in Spirit; divine truth is one and unchanging.
. The odyssey of Soul teaches us to cooperate with the laws of God. It takes many lifetimes of bumps and bruises before all the lessons of Godhood sink in. And when they do, we are granted the grace to partake consciously of the highest aspects of sainthood.

. The law of God states that "Soul has existence because God wills it." Thus, God loves all life so dearly that It allows Soul to exist. If It did not love life, there would be no life-forms in this universe and all would be barren.
. There was a time before these lower worlds were created when Soul resided in the heavens. It's difficult to conceive of such a thing in heaven as a selfish, or ungrowing, Soul; but interestingly enough, It wouldn't serve anyone or anything except Itself. And so God sent Soul down into the lower worlds which had been created specifically for Its experience. The hardships and troubles, even happiness and joy- the full spectrum of experience that we know through the five senses and beyond - are for Soul's unfoldment, so that one day It may become a Co-worker with God. This is the only purpose of it all.
. Time, space, law, chance, matter, primitive energy, and intelligence are only the effects of God's love for life, and only exist to serve Soul in Its journey to find liberation and freedom.

. One of the most prevalent misunderstandings is that the Law of God works only for those who have a devout or religious objective. This is a fallacy. It works just as impersonal as any law of physics. It can be used for greed or selfish purposes, as well as noble ones.
. The ECK Master speaks of the Law of God.
. This supreme law speaks to the heart, for it tells of the relationship between the Sugmad (God) and Soul. That law is love. It gives each person an answer to the ancient riddle of life: What is my purpose here? Agnostic or simple believer in a traditional God, all Souls are moving into a greater circle of light and understanding.

. Let it be known, here and now, that all knowledge and wisdom are never given to Soul. For the world of God is without beginning and without ending, infinite in all attributes and qualities, and constantly expanding toward greater truth and greater wisdom.




The Spiritual Laws of Life
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

. The LAW of GRACE
.
. We take our steps on the spiritual path; we climb the ladder to God. Jesus said, "Come unto me and be lifted up." What he tried to explain was simply this: The grace of God does not descend upon us. This is something that religions often do not understand. They feel the grace of God comes to us merely because we ask. It does in a way, but first we must earn it. We must make at least some effort before the grace of God comes to us; but when it does, we are lifted up into it.
. You have to undergo the discipline to lift your state of consciousness to an area where these teachers are, where they can help you.

. Nothing is ever the same as it was.
. If life has a single lesson to teach us, it's that. Many lessons and experiences are similar, but no two will ever be exactly alike. The best approach to spiritual unfoldment is to expect the greatest love and blessings from the divine ECK, but then accept whatever comes your way.
. Expect, but accept.




The Spiritual Laws of Life
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

. The LAW of HU

. The first law of the physical universe. Spirit is the all-penetrating power which is the forming of the universes of HU, the voice of HU(God)
. HU, the secret name of God. . . Can be chanted or sung quietly to yourself when you are in trouble or when you need consolation in time of grief. It gives strength, it gives health, it opens you as a channel for the greater healing of Divine Spirit.

. The Masonic order speaks of the lost word. This lost word actually is the sound of HU, or the sound of God, which is a charged word.
. HU, the secret name for God, has been brought out again. It is a pure word which hasn't been debased in profanity, like words such as God.

. The Spiritual Exercises of ECK are necessary to those who want the wisdom of ECK. Sing HU every day. You will begin to vibrate in tune with the Sound Current. Once you enter the rhythm of life, you become the Song of HU itself.




The Spiritual Laws of Life
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

. . THE LAW OF LIFE
.
. Being; the experience of states of consciousness; life is Spirit, and Spirit is static; the Sound; the ECK

. Each new experience, each new situation of life, widens the outlook of the chela and brings about a subtle transformation within himself. Thus the nature of every chela who is earnest and serious about the works of ECK is changing constantly, not only on account of the conditions of life, but by the constant addition of new impressions, the structure of the mind becomes ever more diverse and complex. Whether it is called progress or degeneration depends upon how one looks at it. But it has to be admitted this is the law of life, in which the spiritual and the psychic coordinate and balance one another in the world of the spirito-materialistic, where Soul must serve out Its time for perfection.

. Every issue of life is determined not by external conditions and things, but by one's consciousness. For example, the body in and of itself has no power, no intelligence, and is not responsible for its actions. A hand left to itself would remain where it is forever. There must be something to move it, and that something we call "I" or "Spirit." That "I" determines how the hand will be used; the hand cannot determine that in and of itself. The hand exists as an effect or as a form and responds to direction. As a vehicle or tool, it is obedient to us, and we impart to it whatever usefulness it has.
. This idea can be applied to other parts of the body. The consciousness that formed the body in the beginning is the consciousness that maintains and sustains it. God gave us dominion through consciousness, and this consciousness, which is the creative principle of our body, must also be its sustaining and maintaining principle.
. Once you have this principle, you have caught the entire principle of life. Literally, this is the Law of Life: The substance, the activity, the intelligent direction of life which is within man.

. It is the law of life to either progress or degenerate.

. The law which all seek to know is the great principle of life. Its simplicity is amazing for it is summed up in the statement: Soul exists because God loves It. In other words, all life exists because God so wills it. This is the very foundation of life, the whole philosophy of Eckankar. There is nothing more and nothing less. All life is built upon the basic principle of God. If Soul did not exist, there would be no life anywhere on earth or on any of the planets, nor on the various and many planes throughout the universe of God.

. The Law of Life is that you must earn everything that you get in the true coin.

. ECK does provide a shortcut to spiritual freedom, of course, but it is only a shortcut - not instant, undeserved entry. The Law of Life still requires that an individual repay as many of the karmic debts as needed to realize the reason for his troubles.




The Spiritual Laws of Life
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

. The LAW of MKSHA

. There are fundamental laws that govern this physical universe through Spirit. These were once taught by an ancient ECK sage named MKsha, who appeared on this earth some 35,000 years ago to teach the people of the Indus Valley. His first teaching was, "Life is only Spirit, and being spirit it has nothing." The understanding of this points out clearly that it has only intelligence with the peculiar ability to perceive, penetrate, survive, have causation, specialization, creativeness, beauty, love, and ethics.
. Spirit is the all-penetrating power which is the forming power of the universes of HU. It is the immortal unchanging source of life which only changes form regardless of what the world may be. It is the causative force which man has studied, written about, and can only know the exacting properties of, never actually acquiring total knowledge. We know that its modus operandi works peculiarly in exacting ways as do the mathematical formulas. Scientists and students of holy works, all know this.



The Spiritual Laws of Life
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

. The LAW of the PHYSICAL UNIVERSE

. Seven fundamental laws that govern the physical universe through Spirit.

. Law of HU: Spirit is the all-penetrating power which is the forming power of the universes of HU, the Voice of HU(God)

. Law of Soul: Soul is the manifested individual beingness of the ECK Spirit(Holy Spirit); It has free will, opinions, intelligence, imagination, and immortality.

. Law of Polarity: The Law of Opposites. The state of opposition between any two related forces; yin and yang (negative and positive), feminine and masculine; the negative, or reactive, side and the positive, or active, side; the third part is the passive, or middle, path; each thing in this universe is supported, animated, maintained by, and in opposition to its opposite.

. Law of Vibration: Governs all the influences upon Soul and the body in this world, such as wavelengths, outflows from the planets, stars, and heavenly bodies; music; sound; color; and general harmonics. Under this principle falls karma, cause and effect and inflow and outflow.

. Law of Attitudes: Law of the States of Being; the power of imagination rules over will in the actions in this universe.

. Law of Facsimiles: All effects in life are brought about by the thoughts and pictures in the mind of the individual.

. Law of Unity: Thinking in the whole instead of the parts; a way of knowing the solution to a problem the instant it presents itself. This law simply means one must be wholly within the ECK (Holy Spirit) in order to select consciously what he wants in life and work at it.

. One must come to realize that all creation is finished in the lower universes. Creativeness is only a deeper receptiveness. The entire contents of all time and all space, while experienced in a time sequence, actually coexist in an infinite and eternal now. In fact, all that mankind ever was or ever shall be in these lower worlds exists now! This is what is meant by the statement that creation is finished. Nothing is ever created, only manifested. What is called creativeness is only becoming aware of what already is. You simply become increasingly aware of portions of that which already exists.

. It is a law of the physical world that for a group to survive as long as possible, it must set up a seat of central government. For religions, this center is the hub for its spiritual activities, administration, and culture. Rightly or wrongly, people consider their seat of power the most important place on earth.




The Spiritual Laws of Life
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

. The LAW of the SELF

. Each must understand and act to solve the mystery of their little self before they can solve the mystery of God.

. The seeker in Stranger by the River has done the right thing. In pursuit of truth he has sought out the very best role model that Soul could hope to find: In this case, the ECK Master Rebazar Tazs.
. . . Who better, as role model, than an ECK Master, who once also made his first halting steps to God Consciousness - but who finally reached it?. . .
. And what does Rebazar tell the seeker?
. "You, yourself, are your own problem," he says. "You must understand and act to solve the mystery of thy little self before you can solve the mystery of God."

. So Rebazar says, "This is the law of the Self - the law of God. Therefore, I tell you not to take up the seeking of God until the little self within thee is conquered and solved."
. Some signs the little self is a stumbling stone to one's spiritual desire for God include, as Rebazar points out, a greater sense of outrage over the faults of others than our own. Excusing our own weakness and shifting our blame to others. Liking gossip.

. You may ask, "Well what am I doing here on earth?"
. That's like a child in school saying, "What am I doing here?"
. Earth is a classroom. Its purpose is to help people develop (usually after many lifetimes) a godlike character.




The Spiritual Laws of Life
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

. The LAW of SPIRIT

. Spirit, in Itself, is the principle of increase; future conditions grow out of present conditions; there is always something more to come, another experience to experience.
. This Spirit, the Voice of HU- HU is often known as the Sugmad- which is the true name of God in the upper realms, has one great quality and that is to create effect. As It flows down through the worlds, far above this earth world, It needs distributors, and It works through Souls.
. This only means that God of Itself is Being and Spirit is that extension of It into all universes, and you, as the instrument, are Spirit made flesh.
. In ECK, the individual is instructed in the laws of Spirit. How he uses this knowledge determines how soon he enters the joyful state of God Enlightenment, which can be attained while still in the human body.



The Spiritual Laws of Life
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

. The LAW of SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION

. This creative process depends upon the spiritual unfoldment of Soul and the degree of Its awakened consciousness. . . . This is also in accord with the Law of Spiritual Evolution, which presupposes inequality in all things and beings and their continued effort for self-improvement in life



The Spiritual Laws of Life
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

. SPIRITUAL NONPERFECTION

. "The Law of Spiritual Nonperfection holds that no one ever becomes a perfect being." There is always one more step in God's plan of conscious evolution. This is all the more true of spiritual things which always seek, but never find, completion.



The Spiritual Laws of Life
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

. The LAW of STRENGTH

. The Law of Strength says that only the strong enter the kingdom of heaven. This spiritual strength is developed through the disciplines, customs, and practices set up by the Mahanta to separate illusion from truth for the seeker. Among the cheif of all percepts in ECK is the need to do the Spiritual Exercises of ECK; these are mainly to give Soul the recognition of Itself as a channel for the Mahanta and allow It to become secure in the Sound and Light of Sugmad. This comprises the Law of Strength.

. Suffering could build strength, but only if a person acknowledges his or her responsibility for whatever went wrong.
. Sometimes you can't. Sometimes what goes wrong in this life is caused by something you did in your last lifetime. If you don't remember, you're not able to connect cause and effect. . . .
. How do you know when you're getting stronger? Other people can often tell better than you, yourself. A humble person wouldn't even put attention on that because it's inside yourself. The only way you really know if you're stronger is if you go through a time of hardship and you get through it somehow by listening. You trust something inside yourself - the strength you have gained to this point.

. Spiritual strength cannot be separated from the moral qualities of mankind.

. Every knockdown in life is teaching you to be stronger, to stand more sturdily. Each hardship and trial is actually there as a gift from God, to make you stronger. If people understood this, they wouldn't complain so much.

. Only the strong can stand the true love of God.



The Spiritual Laws of Life
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

. THE LAW OF SURVIVAL

. Each must take care of himself by earning his own way in society; Soul must keep growing.

. My spiritual duty is to help you, the ECK initiate, understand the spiritual laws of ECK that apply to everyone. If the law of your country provides for you in times of need, accept the aid as long as necessary. But when you can take care of yourself, by earning your own way in society, you owe it to yourself to do so. The Law of Survival, like any of the laws of ECK, often appears to forget the offender. But the grace period does end.

. If you give to others of your goods or time with an attitude of love and goodwill, you act in God's name. If you find yourself in need of help, accept the aid of others with grace. But if you later can repay them, it is a spiritual duty to do so. Life requires that each repay his debts to others - here and now, in this lifetime.
. Do it soon. Later could mean another lifetime.




The Spiritual Laws of Life
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

. THREE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF ECKankar

. First, Soul is eternal; It has no beginning or end. Second, whosoever travels the high path of ECK dwells in the spiritual planes. Third, Soul always lives in the present; It has no past and no future, but always lives in the present moment.

. Every Soul is the spiritual spark of God invested in the physical body. The body does not have to die for Soul to reach the spiritual universe during the time that It resides upon earth. Man does not have to become anything other than what he is in order to have divine guidance, divine protection, divine wisdom, and divine understanding through the Living ECK Master. He must recognize only that God is and that he himself, as Soul, also is.
. Soul is never anything else but this. It is always in eternity. It is always in the present NOW. It is always in the heavenly state of God. These are the three principles of Eckankar which It must come to understand and know well. Out of these principles springs the doctrine and philosophy of ECK. There is nothing more to say and there is nothing less to say.
. By the realization of these three principles the chela becomes a transparency for the divine impulse. He comes into a greater awareness of the divine plan in this world, and his part in it. He now rests in the arms of the Mahanta, the Inner ECK Master, and relies upon him to give him his divine guidance.
. As he rises higher in this spiritual realization, the great discovery of life is found. The majestic law of God upon which the three principles of ECK rest is that "Soul exists because the Sugmad wills it."




The Spiritual Laws of Life
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

. Laws of Freedom - The practical laws that afford a smoother passage through everyday life.

. Assumption
. Attitudes
. Balance
. Connecting Diamonds
. Destiny
. Detachment
. Discrimination
. Economy
. Facsimiles
. Invincible Laws
. Karma
. Nature
. Polarity
. Progression (Unfoldment)
. Protection
. Resonance
. Reversed Effort
. Spiritual Growth
. Unity
. Vibration




The Spiritual Laws of Life
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

. The Law of Assumption

. It is only by living each moment in the assumption of one's divinity that an individual can bring his spiritual potential into the world.

. Soul, in waking from Its languor, begins a search for truth. The individual first seeks the Mahanta on the inner planes, because the spiritual law requires a recognition of the agent of God. After that, the spiritual forces converge. This law further states that whatever takes place inside of us may later become a reality in this physical world.

. The question always arises: What should I do if I am consciously dreaming or on a different plane and I want to get back into the awareness of the physical body? There is one basic rule: Assume with the sense of feeling that you are in your physical body. This will happen immediately.

. When you have a bad dream, the dream censor has not allowed the whole story to come out. Begin with the assumption that something's missing, that you don't know everything yet. Then use the inner faculties to get the answers you need.



The Spiritual Laws of Life
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

. THE LAW OF ATTITUDES

. The fifth law of the physical universe, or Law of the States of Being; the power of imagination rules over will in the actions in this universe.

. Lai Tsi says, "I have learned to stand back and let the Divine work through me." We find that this is the simple way of doing it. . . .
. . . I found when adopting a certain attitude that I made contact with this power. It was an attitude of curious, childlike devotion to the great Spirit. . . .
. . . So many people want this childlike state but the urgency of their physical needs causes tension and fear thus closing the channel between themselves and the Spirit. Anxiety and fear are tensed emotions, fastening the person rigidly into the emotional plane of consciousness so that he cannot reach the spiritual plane where things come true.
. Competition intensifies the attitude of tension; tension springs from fear; fear rises out of excessive self-love; excessive self-love cuts one off from the contact with the ECK; thus, the qualities leading to satisfaction, happiness and growth are not archived. . . .
. . . Anyone who recognizes his own self, as Soul, relaxes at once, for he can truly say, "I and the Father are one."
. In this relaxed way, all channels from within are opened.

. Briefly, the Law of Attitudes goes like this. It is the corrected feeling and pictures you carry in your mind constantly. If you decide to take a picture with a camera - let's say of a tree, and do so, you view the pictured tree in the viewfinder. After a few days you get the pictures back from the camera shop, and you are not surprised to find that it's really a picture of a tree you took.
. This is, simply the same way life works. When we think, when we image something in our minds, we are sighting pictures in the viewfinder of the mind. The thought vibrations within us will deal with the exposed films we have made and presently the finished picture comes into visibility in our lives. It's as simple as that.

. This is the attitude we take in life on the path to God. We don't say, "I'm afraid to step out in life because I'll be shown up as ignorant." We learn things. We're willing to make a fool of ourselves just for the sake of experience or learning.

. So we come to the most important part of life's message: It is not what we do that determines our experience in life, but it is what we expect! Even when you have done all the correct things, if you have the haunting fear that things will go wrong, they will go wrong. Is it because you are bad, sinful, or evil? No. It is because you have that belief.




The Spiritual Laws of Life
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master

. The Law of Balance

. The stability which lies in the Godhead: All is completely in balance in God's universal body. The principle of unity, or oneness, but in the lower worlds this unity is simulated by the interchange between the pairs of opposites.

. Blindness to cause and effect is still man's relentless problem today. The human consciousness refuses to admit that all actions have consequences. The Living ECK Master demonstrates the Law of Balance in terms of contemporary customs.

. Life goes up and down. We have times when everything is going our way, but there are also times when we're at the bottom. If we keep ourselves open to Spirit, there will be an equal balance. This is what is meant by the detached state: When our fortunes hit bottom, we surrender to Spirit. Then we can go back up more naturally, and we'll maintain this rhythm of life. As life goes on around us, the detached state is that which runs right through the center; we are the balanced individual working in the Soul consciousness.

. We do what we can, but we don't feel guilty and we don't let ourselves get out of balance. We work with other like-minded people to accomplish things; we don't sit back in life and just wash our hands of the whole affair.

. You get to the Soul Plane by balancing the positive and the negative parts within yourself; they come into perfect balance on the Soul Plane. From this moment on we have Self-Realization. . . . This is a spiritual transfiguration that occurs - you actually become a new person. You are now in the state of self-recognition: Knowing who you are, what you are, and what your mission in life may be.

. We don't practice austerities; that is not balance. Buddha spoke about this. He had started out his life as a rich young man, protected from seeing poverty or sorrow; and when he went out into the world, he said, Now I must beg and become poor. He tried fasting, and that didn't work out so well. All he got was skinny as a rail. After a while he said there must be some way to live a life that is well balanced. There must be a middle way.
. In the spiritual life, we look to find the balance so that when we have this experience of God and see the Light - whether It is the Blue Light or anything else - we are able to carry on. We don't get frantic and say, will I ever see It again? When the time is right, you will. Others will hear the Sound. These are the two aspects of God which the ECKists, and even those who aren't in Eckankar outwardly, are beginning to learn about and experience in their daily life.




The Spiritual Laws of Life
Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta, the Living ECK Master