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Everybody knows that God is love. It's very easy to say. But if people who say they believe this principle would hold to it and practice it in their everyday lives, this would be a better world.
. This is the main divine law of all laws: Simply, God is Love.
. The second of the two great laws is: Soul exists because God loves It. And that's it.



Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta the Living ECK Master
How to survive spiritually in Our Times

OPENING To NEW IDEAS

. The information age has opened up so many subjects that used to be taboo. Not so many years ago, dreams were held in very low regard. But now people are starting to accept dreams. Television has broadcast so many shows about near-death experiences that people are getting quite accustomed to hearing about light, beings of light, and modern manifestations of angels. They don't need to rely on someone's account of a saint who lived three centuries ago or more.
. People today are experiencing the sort of miracles that the church would not acknowledge just a few short years ago. People even claim to be out of their bodies - can you imagine! Doctors, social philosophers, and religionists are now studying the question: Were they really out of their body, or was this some sort of mind trip?
. Someday people will even get used to the fact of Soul Travel. This goes beyond astral travel and mind travel, the common teachings of psychic groups. Generally, astral travel takes the individual to the next plane closest to the earth, the Astral Plane, which is the plane of emotion - the area where emotions originate. Some of the more spiritually advanced people can go on the mental areas with mind travel. This sort of travel can take them to the lower Mental Plane, which is the Causal Plane; then to the true Mental Plane; and finally to the high area of the Mental Plane, which is the Etheric Plane.
. But only Soul Travel, which is the care and teaching of the ECK Masters, can take you to the Soul Plane.




Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta the Living ECK Master
How to survive spiritually in Our Times

First Landmarks of Soul Travel

One way to leave the body via Soul Travel is to lie down after dinner when you are drowsy. Plan to nap for five minutes, and watch the process of falling asleep. If you try the exercise with your spouse, agree to meet outside the body a few minutes later. Then watch carefully as your mate steps free of the physical body and enters the spiritual one in a burst of radiant light.

One always goes out of the body when he falls asleep, but it is an unconscious act. In Soul Travel, the only difference is that we are trying to get out of the body in full awareness.

The moment Soul leaves the body, It finds Itself in a blue-grey zone near the Physical Plane. This zone is an approach to the Astral Plane. The sensation of moving from the Physical to the Astral body is like slipping through a large iris of mild wind currents; this iris is the Spiritual Eye. Soul enters this neutral zone of blue-grey tones in Its Astral form, a sheath which looks like a thousand sparkling stars.

This buffer zone, or corridor, between the Physical and lower Astral Planes resembles the underground silo of an enormous rocket that is perhaps two hundred feet in diameter and more than two thousand feet deep. The ceiling if this circular pocket is open and may display a brilliant canopy of white light, or you may see a night sky sprinkled with specks of twinkling stars. There may even be a pastoral scene by a river, whose waters murmur their pleasure at life.

Whatever scene is displayed in the opening of the vast ceiling, Soul is drawn toward it at a mighty speed. Most people begin to recall their dreams only after their departure from this launching zone between the two worlds, and after their arrival at a faraway destination on the Astral Plane.

—Sri Harold Klemp
The Spiritual Exercises of ECK

Now briefly, 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 tense 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 arises 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.
. Once you realize the importance of you, Soul, and your value to ECK, as a distributor of the Divine, you will relax. You will no longer want to grasp things before others can have them, nor to influence the will of others so that they favour you. Instead, you turn to this Spirit and merge with it, merge with all the forces as well as the ECK in others. 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. Without causing injustice to anyone, the Spirit of you reaches out in Spirit, touching the Spirit of those who are concerned in the fulfilling of your needs, and increases your ability for helping others.
. It is not hard as one thinks!



The Flute of God
Sri Paul Twitchell

Sri Frank

. Did you ever wonder why it is that children have laughter in their eyes?
. Because they have no fear. And having no fear, they rest in the loving arms of the ECK. Their trust in the ECK is like the swings they ride. They trust the upward exhilarating ride and experience freedom. An adult may fear that the chains might break, that the swing isn't strong enough to support their weight, or that they might lose their hold and fall. But children never think of that. They think only of the ride.
. Perhaps what makes adults tentative is that they once fell off the swing. Pain will either make one tentative or make one Love SUGMAD even more. A choice is always to be made after times of great pain. And this choice will determine which way the individual will choose to walk for a time - the road of love, or fear.
. I suffered some beatings in prison and discovered something about pain - every man has a pain threshold. When this threshold is breached, the will is broken. The will to resist the forces of the world, but also to resist the inner forces of the ECK. I learned that one can reach this threshold of giving up the will without going through the process of pain by surrendering to the ECK. You see, pain is merely friction caused by the tense grasp and resistance of the will, the ego, to keep Soul from accepting the inevitable - the will of SUGMAD. And our daily lives, one can see that pain is a reflection of desires. Life is simple. One can either desire the things of the outer life and constantly live in a state of pain or potential pain, or be like those kids on the swings - not wanting, but living in the heart of the SUGMAD, living for love and freedom, for the ride.
. By not holding inwardly to the things of material world, you can give freely of yourself to life. It's difficult to give anything of yourself if you're busy clinging to things that you feel are important. What could be more important than giving 100 percent of yourself at each moment? If the goal is God-Realization, then the only way to reach it is to emulate It - by giving love - for what does the Divine Creator create, other than love itself?
. Everyday life is nothing more than a series of problems to be solved. There's no escaping them. What makes the differences between men is that those on the lower end of the survival scale let the outer conditions and problem move and toss their inner states about. Emotionally, they're always in a turmoil, seemingly never able to gain control of their lives. Mentally, they can't control which thoughts enter their minds. But the experienced Soul is like the child that lets the SUGMAD speak through them via the ECK. They are the patient ones, because they know and trust that the ECK will reveal all of life's answers. They know that love exists all about them, for they have the eyes and ears to partake of it.




In the COMPANY of ECK MASTERS
Phil Morimitsu

"When someone gets a healing, it is because the time is right. He has come to the point where the Karma he is carrying is no longer necessary and it is quickly and easily passed away by the Master into the ECK."



Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta Living ECK Master
The Book of ECK Parables, Vol. 2

Sri Zadok of Judea

. The theatre, the stage, life in the streets of your metropolis - all are illusory. Yet they serve their purpose, for in their unreality, they bring Soul back to reality - to the ECK!
. The illusions man creates on the earth world have no value before Yama, the judge of the dead. There is no argument, there are no delays. Only justice.
. The man known as Jesus Christ was a contemporary of mine. We met on several occasions while he was preparing for his mission. We talked, but we both knew our missions were different.
. There are several differences. First, Jesus's teachings became the worship of the personality, for there was no other way to get his message to the people in the manner they would understand. This is the way of the saviors. He took on the karma of making his work known through the power of his personality.
. When the ECK Masters lead the chela to the Mahanta the Inner Master, there is no personality involved. The Outer Master is the teacher who clears up any misunderstandings he can on the outer, but when he leaves earth, he leaves karma - free. There are no karmic debts attached to his personality, for he has guided the chelas to the Inner Master - the Mahanta.
. Now it is the nature of the Inner Master to teach self - reliance and self - responsibility. Since he is the highest representative of SUGMAD, yet resides in the heart of man, there is no outside agent to pin any blame or guilt on. The Mahanta reveals more of himself to the chela as the chela is able to demonstrate responsibility for his own actions.
. On the other hand, the followers of Jesus believed that he would take care of the karmic debts himself. Those following him dumped all their transgressions on him, doing nobody any good.
. The only purpose of the Mahanta, the Living ECK Master is to guide the chela back home to SUGMAD. The rest is up to the chela. This is the difference between world saviors and the Vairagi ECK Masters.



In the COMPANY of ECK MASTERS
Phil Morimitsu

Best Sleeping Techniques for Soul Travel

There are three main steps to prepare yourself for Soul Travel in the dream state:
1.Arrange your schedule to get as much sleep as needed to be fresh in the morning.
2.For a few minutes before sleeping, read from one of the ECK books to signal your intent to pursue spiritual activity during sleep. I recommend The Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad, Book One or Two, or Stranger by the River.
3.At bedtime contemplate upon the image of the Mahanta, the Living ECK Master. In this spiritual exercise, give an invitation to the Master like this: "I welcome you into my heart as my home. Please enter it with joy."

Then go to sleep as usual, but leave the eye of Soul alert to the coming of the teacher. Look for me, because I am always with you.

—Sri Harold Klemp
The Spiritual Exercises of ECK

As time goes on, watch how the Holy Spirit begins to make changes in your life. Little things will happen. For instance, if you're looking for happiness, events will start to shape themselves where you have new choices. It's up to you to make the right choice, but doors will begin to open for you.
. Be aware. Watch the Voice of God, this Holy Spirit, the living water, pour into your cup. Be a worthy vessel.



Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta the Living ECK Master
How to survive spiritually in Our Times

But an interesting thing about life is that no matter what circumstances you find yourself in, be assured you belong there at that particular moment.
. Why? Simply because you're there.
. People will say that doesn't make any sense. But it makes all the sense in the universe. If you weren't meant to be in a certain situation, you wouldn't be there. And since you are, there's something there for you to learn. You will either learn it before you leave - or you'll miss the lesson and leave. But then you'll come back in a similar situation in the future to face the lesson again.
. The lesson is always about yourself.
. It is about how you can become a clearer, purer vehicle for the Holy Spirit. And the way this is done your heart opens to divine love. That's all there is to it.
. What opens the heart to love? It certainly isn't flush times when everybody's walking around with their pockets filled with money. The most interest in spirituality comes when life is hard.



Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta the Living ECK Master
How to survive spiritually in Our Times

The secret and unknown name of God was first given light by the ECK Masters - that which we call HU, the beginning and ending of all.
. The Supreme has been called various names in different languages, but it is known to those who recognize the real wisdom as HU, the name of the nameless one. The word HU is the Spirit of all sounds and of all words, and is hidden under them all as the Spirit of Soul. It does not belong to any language; no language can help belonging to it. This alone is the true name of God, a name that no people and no religion can claim as their own. This word is not only uttered by human beings but it is repeated by animals and birds. All things and beings exclaim this name of the Lord, for every activity of life expresses distinctly this very sound. This is the word mentioned in the Bible as existing before light came into this world: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
. The word, the avenue of Spirit, is the real liberation for anyone. The word HU was the first manifestation of the Divine Creator, and the rest of creation, including the ethers and other elements, were created by the sound of HU. The Spirit current, HU, was the prime mover and the first impulse that came from the Deity and also the first cause of motion, color, and form.



Sri Paul Twitchell
The Flute of God

Often people look at society, and they ask, What has happened to the sensibility of people? Everything seems to have gone mad. The values of a few years ago are thrown out the window, and what seems right is wrong and what is wrong is said to be right. And people wonder, as they look perhaps at their leaders, Where is Justice?
. The problem with us as people is, number one, we should be minding our own business. Number two, the Law of God has long arms. And the justice of God has a long memory.
. You can be assured that the complexity and fabric of life in which we live is regulated to the smallest degree - but not by the human mind. It's run by the Holy Spirit.
. We call this Holy Spirit the ECK, which means simply one, because It's the Voice of God. It's the source - where it all comes from. When God created all the worlds it was done through means of this Voice - the Holy Word, the Holy Spirit. That's how God created the heavens and the earth. Today everything is maintained at this level by the Holy Spirit.
. The point I want to make is about your relationship with the Holy Spirit, with the Voice of God. Because that is the means of talking with God.




Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta the Living ECK Master
How to survive spiritually in Our Times

" Those who talk too much about the Supreme ECK and those who talk too much about realization are usually wandering around in their own minds, and are in the throes of struggle. If you will stop and think upon this fact, that the ability to contemplate does not come easily, then you will know that too many hope to find it as the easy path to God.
. "Many of the saints have been in silence for years before they became adept in the art of ECK and the ability to leave their body at will. It is said that Saint Paul had to study the art of inner silence for eight years in the Arabian Desert before he was able to say that he 'died daily.' So I tell you that if you desire to become a saint, you will never be one.



Sri REBAZAR TARZS
Stranger by the River

God's Voice

. The Holy Spirit, remember, is the Voice of God. In the beginning was the Word. This is the Holy Spirit, the Word, the Voice of God. This is why we speak so often about the Holy Spirit, God's voice. God's voice speaks about love. We see this voice on the inner planes and out here as the Light. All different forms of light. We hear it as the Sound. All different forms of sound.
. You mix light and sound, and you have the building blocks of creation, the building blocks of the entire material universe. It's all created out of the Light and Sound, because they create energy. The Light and Sound are the primordial forces.


Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta the Living ECK Master
How to survive spiritually in Our Times

Sri Lai Tsi

. Strength is not always apparent to the visible eye.
. True inner strength is rarely seen, for it takes special eyes to see it.
. "In order to have strength, there must first be a goal by which to measure the degree of strength. True inner strength means the goal will be Self-Realization and then God-Realization. The measure of strength is how well man can stay true to those goals. For example, those men boxing on TV. They train long and hard to build this type of strength. Then there is the second kind of strength, inner strength. It has nothing to do with annihilating an opponent, but is the building of the inner foundation and balance so that nothing can shake one from this point. Every champion touches this inner reservoir at one time or another. The difference between the athlete and the man going for God-Realization is that the athlete is limited by the condition of his physical body. The man of God is limited only by his desire for the higher states."
. The other factor, the most important one, is that an athlete is measured in comparison with other men and ultimately must beat them in order to remain champion. The man going for God-Realization competes with no one but his own lower nature. As long as he remains in the lower worlds, there is never a final victory or defeat, but one endless struggle. The inner strength is built around self-mastery of all that comes in his life. Not that he tries to control all things in his life, that would be an impossible and futile endeavor. What he tries to master are his actions and reactions to all that would come into his life. To be able to look and act upon all life from the Soul point of view. To know when to assert himself and when to give in, but always to act in the name of love for all life. When man can live his life in conscious and willing love, when the angers and passions of the world around him bounce harmlessly off the glow of Spirit that surrounds him, when nothing can move him against his will - for his will has now become the will of the SUGMAD- then this is true strength. Now, there is no measures, no separation of goal and beingness, for the individual and the goal are combined into one; he is on his way to true mastery!"


In the COMPANY of ECK MASTERS
Phil Morimitsu

Seed for Contemplation

Learn to give, without ever thinking of a reward. That’s how to find the treasures of heaven.

—Harold Klemp
The Language of Soul

What Is Divine Love?

. Divine love means to love your neighbour as your self. To do that, you have to love yourself.
. Not the vain part of yourself, so that when you walk past the mirror you pat your hair and say, "Aren't I a good-looking one." Not that side. But the side that says, "I am a creation of God." This is the greatest gift that life could bring. And then, with the same voice, saying, " But so are you. You are Soul too. And if I am Soul and you are Soul, and we're both existing because of God's great love for us, then why can't we at least love each other as divine beings?


Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta the Living ECK Master
How to survive spiritually in Our Times

Most of the nonessentials of divine wisdom were invented or were openly promoted when Truth was forced to go underground due to persecution by the Church and state. These two groups did not wish for men to learn lest they observe ways and means of bettering their downtrodden condition and try to overthrow the established orders. The saviours did not have the worldwide means of instantaneous communication which we have today, and could not reach enough people to make their teachings effective enough to have lasting strength except for a few, like Christ and Buddha. So what we got as holy scriptures was little more than a pale reflection of truth. In many cases, it makes me wonder what is actually hidden in the hearts of many who know, but who will not tell the truth to the masses of people. It has been every man for himself, and much truth had been hidden behind symbolism in the writings of the Magi and wise men of the ages. A lot of guesswork by self-styled savants has been born and written for the public. Students of truth have been compelled to seek truth the best way possible, through records left, through researching among those living who have claimed to know and whose words have had to be tested. A lot of unsound guesswork has been made. Today all seekers have inherited the job of sifting out the useless and trying to rediscover what has been hidden or lost. It is a gargantuan task, and there are few authentic teachers and centers among the thousands of utterly useless promulgators of shallow doctrine.
. The experiences of the seekers lead them into realizing that something is beyond the sweetness and light of the leaders they may have been following. Mainly, this comes about for the simple reason that what they have been hearing and reading did not have agreement. Contradictions started them looking deeper into the subject and into their own experiences to find truth.Many learned that they couldn't share their newly hard-won knowledge because of the possible dangerous aspects of spreading truth.
. Once the individual becomes emancipated from the convention of society he can easily become a criminal in the eyes of that society. Few really want change, peculiar enough. Few understand that truth reveals itself only to those who seek it and love it. The whole purpose of spiritual training is, therefore, the absolute union with the Divine Self.
. Buddha said, "The summit of Reality can only be realized within oneself." The principal source of human life comes from within and from the depth of the Soul. The jewels of the ECK wisdom are seldom strewn along the highway for people, but are left to the individual to find and know. The masses are never lifted to the position of understanding, nor have the religionists ever wanted them to be. It would mean lost trade for the pseudo mystics.
. Yet many true seekers have found something. Hazrat Inayat Khan gave me a clue in his writings, "He who depends on his eyes for sight and, his ears for hearing and his mouth for speech, is still dead.


Sri Paul Twitchell
The Flute of God

Sri Quetzalcoatl

. Fear makes believers of men when it becomes overwhelming.
. Guilt is fear. It is an external device of the lower worlds. When an action is done that you know is wrong for yourself and others, the inner voice tells you so. Guilt occurs when you open yourself to the willing critics of the wrong done. This is unnecessary, for the inner knows what payment is to be extracted. There is no shame or guilt involved, just compensation without emotion or ridicule. The opinions of the outer world have no place or importance here. But the guilt of the outer world will try to make you pay for the debt as long as it can. There is no logic to it, as it is a form of negative indulgence. Until the individual has his eyes and ears opened by the Mahanta, the Living ECK Master via the ECK, he will be a slave.
. "There is but one day to live and rectify life's wrongful situations and to escape the net of karma. That is to live and to do all things in the name of the Mahanta, the Living ECK Master. By this, I do not mean that one heaps his dirty actions and attitude upon the Master to clean up, so one can go skipping away free from responsibility!
. It means that the Mahanta, the Living ECK Master is the inner and outer guide. When you come to a decision and you are not sure how to handle it, ask the Mahanta on the inner, what is the course I should pursue in this situation? If you cannot decipher the answer, you can ask yourself, What would the Living ECK Master do in a similar situation?
. "The Mahanta is always giving directions-provided you ask and have the attunement to listen. The Inner Master resides within your heart, always giving directions, never wrong. It is our interpretations to these directions that causes misunderstandings. Life itself will confirm or reveal the correct answer.
. "This play of life, thousands of years distant, is not foreign to present-day man, for you see the exploitation of guilt through fears occurs today in more numerous ways than before, and all for the benefit of those in power.
. "You alone have the power to free yourself of guilt by placing your life in the hands of the Mahanta. But ah, I detect some resistance to this statement? Then think on this: By placing your life in the hands of the teacher, the Mahanta, the Living ECK Master, you place your welfare in the hands of the highest consciousness in existence - higher than you could imagine- for this is the direct representative of the true creator, the SUGMAD."


In the COMPANY of ECK MASTERS
Phil Morimitsu

A Seed for Contemplation

Those living the high spiritual life are the knowers, not believers. There is a world of difference between knowing and believing.

—Harold Klemp
The Language of Soul

A Gateway to Soul Travel

If you are interested in Soul Travel, you can try this technique tonight in the dream state. Before sleep, close your eyes and place your attention very gently on the Spiritual Eye. Then sing HU, and fill yourself with love.

This feeling of love is needed to give you the confidence to go forward into an unknown, unexplored area. One way to fill yourself with love is by calling up the warm memory of a past occasion that filled you with pure love.

Then look inwardly for the individual who is your ideal at this time—whether it is Christ or one of the ECK Masters. In a very gentle way, say, " give you permission to take me to the place that I have earned for my greatest spiritual unfoldment." And then silently or out loud, continue to chant HU, God, or another holy word.

Try to visualize yourself walking into the inner worlds, and know that the individual who comes to meet you is a dear friend.

If it doesn't work the first time, do it again and again. The spiritual exercises are like physical exercises: before your muscles grow strong, you have to exercise them a number of times; it doesn't always happen in one try. It's quite likely that if you take up an exercise routine for thirty days, you're going to be stronger than you were at the beginning.

It's the same way with the spiritual exercises. The purpose of the Spiritual Exercises of ECK is simply to open a conduit or a channel between yourself and the Holy Spirit, which we know as the Audible Life Stream—the wave that comes from the heart of God. From the moment you begin singing HU and looking for truth in this particular way, whether you are conscious of it or not, changes are being made in you.

—Sri Harold Klemp
The Spiritual Exercises of ECK

. A TEACHER FOR EVERY STATE OF
. CONSCIOUSNESS
A person of another faith will likely have a bond with the spiritual leader of his own faith, and that is as it should be. God has created all religions and all spiritual leaders to fit a certain place in the lives of certain people. No spiritual leader is going to be right for everyone. I don't say I am.
. Each person has to decide whether or not any other person is going to be their spiritual tutor. That is not something that any human law can decree. That doesn't work in the spiritual teachings.
. God has given a teacher for every state of consciousness.
. Sometimes this teacher is not a religion. The teacher can be your boss at work. Or this individual may be your mate. Divine Spirit, the ECK, will bring the words of wisdom that you need for your spiritual unfoldment through someone very close to you. It can come through the words or hug of a child. It can come through the cry of a baby. It can come through the love of your pet, your dog or cat, as it comes up to you too greet you when you come home from work.
. We in human state of consciousness are sometimes too protective of what ways God can our cannot show love to Soul. We think well, Good isn't going to show love through my dog, because my dog has fleas. Or not through my cat, because my cat has worms.



Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta the Living ECK Master
How to survive spiritually in Our Times

. WHO IS THE MAHANTA

. The Mahanta the Living ECK Master is a big title. The Mahanta is the inner state, the inner Master, the one who comes as the Dream Master and works with you in the dream state. The Living ECK Master is the Outer Master.
. It sounds like there is a spilt here. You're at the seminar in Washington, D.C., and I'm someplace else in the the physical body. But in Soul body, we are together.
. As the Mahanta, Divine Spirit, or the ECK, is able to work with you on a one-to-one basis. It can work with you with your strengths, it can work with you in your weakness, and it can help you just like a tutor. Sometimes standing behind your desk, sometimes working with you at the desk. Then sometimes just being with you. Being with you at work, on a walk, in rush-hour traffic. This is what the Mahanta, the inner Master, can do and does.
. In the inner self, I can be with all people in all places around the world. But only if they are in agreement with the principles of ECK. These are the principles of Divine Spirit that come through this state of consciousness, the Mahanta. If you're in agreement with them, there is a bond between us,a connection.


Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta the Living ECK Master
How to survive spiritually in Our Times

For the members of ECK there are discourses to help you to another stage of understanding yourself spiritually. But the greatest unfoldment comes not through the books, discourses, or talks that happen on the outer side, in the physical world. The greatest unfoldment happens on the inner planes, in your dream worlds, through your intuition, through nudges, and sometimes more directly through visions and Soul Travel.
. These are Divine Spirit's way of helping you. This is how the Mahanta works.
. The Mahanta works to help you, to lift you, so you can understand why you're even in this life and why it pays to go on, because some days it seems almost impossible. You wonder, Why bother? Well, bother.


Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta the Living ECK Master
How to survive spiritually in Our Times

So sometime in contemplation or in prayer, maybe as a spiritual exercise, in your mind's eye just see a room with three distinct parts. A semicircular room where you are at the point of the room and the room curves out around you, divided into three parts. You can look into each one: Past, present, and future. But there is a wall separating each of the three parts.
. Dissolve those two walls between those three parts and see what happens.
. Do that for a few nights before you go to sleep. Say, "I dissolve the walls that try to break life into parts."Because from the higher state of consciousness, you realize that life is not divided into parts. Life is all one.
. Life is love, God is love, and Soul exist because Good loves It. If you get this overview that everything is a wholeness-that everything is right and in its proper place at this time-then you will have gained spiritually. You will have a viewpoint in life that is different from 99 percent of people.


Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta the Living ECK Master
How to survive spiritually in Our Times

More importantly is to have a true look at yourself today: Who and what you are here and now.
. This is more important than a look at the past or a look at the future, even though we in ECK know that the past, present, and future are all one. They are a continuum. The past still exist now, the future is here and now, and as is the present. They're all mixed, back and forth, in and out.
. But with the logical mind, it's a linear way of thinking. We separate the continuum of life into three separate parts: Past, present, and future. And we build walls between.
. In building these walls, we sometimes limit ourselves, limit the potential of what can occur through the gifts of the Holy Spirit.


Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta the Living ECK Master
How to survive spiritually in Our Times

The Battle for survival is adventuresome and not a game for weaklings... To succeed one has to throw in all he or she has. Wit, skill,a daring spirit, and a heart full of love.


Sri Harold Klemp
The Mahanta the Living ECK Master
How to survive spiritually in Our Times

Imaginative Techniques

Soul Travel occurs in two ways. One form is experienced as the apparent movement of the Soul body through the planes of time and space. It is not really movement, because Soul already exists on all planes. What seems to be movement, or travel, is simply Soul coming into agreement with fixed states and conditions that already exist in the lower worlds.

This explains the imaginative technique for Soul Travel. You imagine a scene, and you are there in the Soul body. It may feel as though you are moving along very quickly, and this is why it is perceived as travel. Actually, it is the process of changing the setting around you.

To practice this, you can take a scene from your memories and control the actions in it. For example, imagine the sea beating against a beach. Now try to see the sea as being as still as lake water. Try it on things you know by stilling or stopping actions.

You may experience a rushing sound, like wind in a tunnel, and the sensation of moving incredibly fast.

The other form of Soul Travel is the expansion of consciousness. This is closer to the state of true personal revelation or enlightenment that we are looking for in ECK.

—Sri Harold Klemp
The Spiritual Exercises of ECK

No true realization of Spirit can take place in you unless you are to accept it or reject it. An example of this is love; love must be spontaneous our it has no existence. There is no such thing as mechanically induced love. Anything which is formed so that it automatically produces an effect, without any volition of its own, is nothing but a machine.
. If the Spirit is to realize the reality of love, it must be in relation to some individual who has the power to give or withhold love. In other words, you must have freedom to love our not to love, otherwise you will suffer the flow-back of energy which ordinarily causes an adverse effect upon yourself. This also applies to any quality of life, any circumstance in this physical world or other planes.


Flute of God
Sri Paul Twitchell

Now without the element of individual personality the Spirit, or Soul, can only work cosmically by a generic law; it must work solely with plants or minerals, that state of which has only the consciousness. The law of God is a far higher specialization, and this specialization can only be attained through the introduction of the personal factor.
. Individuality is the necessary complement of Spirit. The whole problem of life consists of finding the true relationship of self, the individual, to the true power, to true Spirit. So the first step is to realize what this power must be in itself.
. If Spirit is a law unto itself to express life, love, and beauty, then the answer is found in man's consciousness. I cannot be conscious of anything except by realizing a certain relationship between it and myself. I must have it affect me in some way, otherwise I am not conscious of its existence. According to the way it affects me, I recognize myself as being related to it. It is this self-recognition on my part with all the relationships I establish, whether spiritual, intellectual, or physical, that constitutes my realization of life. This is the principle for the realization of living and the creation of centers of life. Through this action conscious realization can be attained and divine power flows through me.


Flute of God
Sri Paul Twitchell

A Gentle Exercise before Sleep

Try doing this spiritual exercise each evening before you go to sleep. Close your eyes, and sing HU or your secret word for five minutes.

Then just before you go to sleep, say to the Mahanta, "Please take me to the place where I can learn whatever is important for my spiritual unfoldment. Take me to a Temple of Golden Wisdom."

Or say, "Let me see what it's like to Soul Travel; you have my permission."

If you can establish the Golden Heart, which is actually the viewpoint of Soul, you'll find it easier to have inner experiences and let go of the fear. If you have fear in Soul Travel, you have fear in other things, and it's holding you back in your life.

—Sri Harold Klemp
The Spiritual Exercises of ECK

Divine truth is one and unchanging. Desire truth and you will then find the inner meaning unfolding. Everything has its origin in Spirit. One decides to invent a machine. He first creates it in thought, believing in its power to do a certain work. Then he takes the necessary steps to bring it into visible being. We ask and believe and give something mental existence. The necessary step are unfolded from within to bring it into visible being. So you see,a Master states divine truth, when he says we must ask and believe, to have. Unless we first give a thing mental existence it can never have physical existence.
. Do not be in too much of a hurry for it may take time.
. Yaubl Sacabi, the great ECK Master, says: "There are three basic truths. They are: One-We are the offspring and heirs of God. Therefore we inherit the power to mold the God power by the thoughts we think. Two-What we think, if held to, comes to pass in our lives. Thus we learn by experience. Three -Through learning by experience, we become conscious children of God, and presently come into the glorious liberty of the children of God."


Sri Paul Twitchell
Flute of God