Extracts DOBTLEM Last Words of Paul Twitchell 1971-09-16

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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"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" Copyright © 1980 by ECKANKAR. ISBN: 0-914766-63-5 Library of Congress Cat. Card #80-69588 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form by an electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording means or otherwise without written permission of the copyright holder. Printed in U.S.A. ECKANKAR and ECK are Trademarks and/or Service Marks of ECKANKAR, registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office. For a free catalog of other books write:

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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’. Page 3 of 43

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 mid1960s 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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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 972nd 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 responsibility 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 Page 7 of 43

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 Page 8 of 43

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 Page 9 of 43

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 Page 10 of 43

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 Page 11 of 43

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. Page 12 of 43

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. Page 30 – end of Extract

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NOTE: This section is mostly about Paul’s 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 didn’t 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 I’ve given from time to time. Then on the other hand, I’ve had a very fantastic understanding, and a foresight in knowing what would be the problems that I’d 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 didn’t 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. Page 13 of 43

Another time in my life, I ran away and went all the way down to Port au Prince in Haiti, aboard a ship—it 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 that’s 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 don’t 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 we’d 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 don’t know, but it is one of the interesting facts that they have a way and an affection to give to children that we don’t 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 weren’t 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 Page 14 of 43

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 didn’t 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 I’m 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 he’ll allow them. But Sudar Singh didn’t believe in this because he had people walk in to him upright, and few ever bowed or anything but he always rose. He Page 15 of 43

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, I’m 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 isn’t 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 I’ll 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 didn’t 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 Master’s 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 Master’s full gaze is turned upon the individual, it seems to be that this will bring about a certain amount of upliftment. A Master’s gaze can uplift an individual to the higher realms. The public, as a whole, has never understood this, especially the Page 16 of 43

westerners. The westerners don’t seem to have the understanding about what is known as the Master’s Gaze, because it appears that so many of the people who follow spirituality or the spiritual programs just don’t understand what he’s talking about, and today we’re 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 didn’t 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 you’d be interested in this because this is a part of the makeup and the personality of this man. He died, I believe, if I’m 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. Page 46 - end of Extract 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. ---0---

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The end part of the section of Paul’s taped talks with Patti SimpsonRivinus. 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 selfdefeating 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 3½ 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 – Page 131 - end of Extract

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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 woman’s thing is nothing more than poorly written material. She should be talking above the area of planets. Now, I don’t 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 Page 21 of 43

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 Page 22 of 43

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, won’t you pat my head?” Page 139 - end of Extract

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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 50100,000 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. Page 151 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 Page 24 of 43

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 Page 25 of 43

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. Page 155 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 Page 26 of 43

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. Page 157 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 Page 27 of 43

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 Page 28 of 43

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 fellow’s 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 Page 29 of 43

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. Page 164 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, Page 30 of 43

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? Page 166 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 Page 31 of 43

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. Page 169 - end of Extract

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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 Page 33 of 43

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 ECKthat 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 Page 217 - end of Extract

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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 Page 34 of 43

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 nothingbut after hanging up he said he tried again and found that nothing prevented him from lighting the cigar. Page 35 of 43

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 Page 36 of 43

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, Page 37 of 43

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. Page 38 of 43

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, preknowledge 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 Page 39 of 43

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 misunderstood, 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 Page 41 of 43

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. Page 42 of 43

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 Page 257- end of Extract

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