GRADUATION from the SCHOOL of LIFE Date: Sat, 7 Oct 1995 00:04:58 +0100 From: Robert McElwaine (rem5@sawdust.cvfn.org) Newsgroups: alt.atheism GRADUATION from the SCHOOL of LIFE ALL of us were ORIGINALLY created and born into one of the upper Spiritual Planes of Heaven. In general, we were SELFISH, LAZY, IMMATURE, and IN-EXPERIENCED there. So God sent us down here for a long series of incarnations and RE-INCARNATIONS between the Physical Plane (Pinda) and the Psychic Planes (Astral Plane, Causal Plane, Mental Plane, and Etheric Plane), and the numerous SUB-planes within each of these major planes, for the purpose of gaining EXPERIENCE, building CHARACTER, and learning the importance of SERVICE to OTHERS. To help us accomplish this training, God created and assigned to us a SCHOOLMASTER, who rules over ALL of the Psychic Planes and the Physical Plane, BELOW the Soul Plane and higher Spiritual Planes. Christians know him as the Devil, Satan, Lucifer, etc.. He is also known as Kal Niranjan, or simply the Negative Power. It is his God-given DUTY to use clever tricks to keep us IMPRISONED here in the lower worlds for extended training. God also provided us with an easy way of ESCAPE from the MISERABLE and seeming ENDLESS cycles of births, deaths, and rebirths. All a person has to do to obtain this Salvation is to find, and seriously accept Initiation from, a PHYSICALLY- LIVING Divine Master, and then daily do some of the various suggested spiritual contemplation exercises. (A TRUE Divine Master is one who tunes his Initiates into the Sound Current, the Audible Life Stream, referred to as "The Word" in John 1:1-5.) When the Initiate physically dies, s/he will go DIRECTLY to at least the Soul Plane and will NEVER AGAIN have to REincarnate into ANY Physical or Psychic Plane of existence. One such PHYSICALLY-LIVING Divine Master is an American, Sri Harold Klemp, the Living ECK Master, or Mahanta, for the Eckankar organization, now headquartered in Minneapolis (P.O. Box 27300, zip 55427; 1-800-568-3463). Another Divine Master alive today is Maharaj Gurinder Singh Ji of the Sant Mat organization, now living in Punjab, India. It should be emphasized that one can NOT obtain this Salvation from a DEPARTED Divine Master, such as Jesus Christ, who is NOT NOW PHYSICALLY ALIVE, NOR will be again. THIS IS SIMPLY THE WAY GOD SET THINGS UP IN THE UNIVERSES. Therefore, ALL Christians, as well as ALL Muslims, Buddhists, etc., WILL CONTINUE to REincarnate. Books containing several kinds of evidence supporting REincarnation, and the related LAW of RETRIBUTION or KARMA, can be found in most bookstores and libraries. UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this IMPORTANT Information is ENCOURAGED, ESPECIALLY to COMPUTER BULLETIN BOARDS. Robert E. McElwaine 2nd Initiate in Eckankar