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Consider a family living in a house. One day, they were enjoying the fresh cool breeze coming through their open doors and windows of the house.

However, the weather suddenly changed to a terrible dust storm. The family realizing the storm, closed the doors and windows. Some of the dust had blown into the house. After closing the doors and windows, they started clearing the dust that had come in to make the house clean again.

What are the Spiritual Laws working here?

Do you wish to open a door to the hidden spiritual realms that exist beyond our physical senses?

There are many planes that exist beyond the physical plane which we live in. Worlds beyond worlds, they are created for us to learn about our true divinity and the principle of ‘Soul exists because God loves It’.

As Soul we are a spark of the divine source, here on earth to learn how to give and receive love in our daily spiritual encounters.

Venture on to read the profound experiences of many who have embarked on a journey to discover who we truly are as spiritual beings.

The boy watched the eggs of a moth hatched into a wriggly little larva. After some day it became a chrysalis and was enclosed in a cocoon.

One day, he saw the pupa eating itself out of the cocoon. It created a small entrance and tried to squeeze its way out of the cocoon.

The boy thought it was going through pain and agony and decided to assist it by cutting the top portion of the cocoon to save it from pain and agony.

A young moth did come through easily but its body and wings were heavy with fluid and it was just a blop. After sometime it died.

The boy now realized that the small exit was God’s way of clearing all the fluid and turning it into a beautiful moth.

What are the Laws of Wisdom in operation?

The Spiritual Exercise for the month of March from the Dream 2 discourse required Ariel to read from The Living Word Book 1, 2, or 3. Before Ariel did the Spiritual Exercise, she asked the ECK for help with one particular passion that seemed to have taken hold of her. Gossiping!

Random flipping of The Living Word Book 2 brought her to page 60: Dreams, Your Road to Heaven. The passage that lit up for her read:

“When the Mahanta wanted to remind her to avoid gossip and honor the Law of Silence, she had a dream in which something unpleasant was in her mouth.”

This passage certainly held a special meaning for her as it was the answer to her request for help regarding gossiping. The ECK then gave her several experiences to test her adherence to the Law of Self and the Law of Silence.

Ariel worked at a Simulation Center where she was assigned the role of patient chaperon to a lady named Margaret. This lady, ‘Ms Know It All’, seemed to know everything about the management and was nonchalant about putting them down. Ariel tried not to participate in her chatter but was so tempted to gossip about her after the assignment.

First, she wanted to bring to the coordinator’s attention the fact that Margaret was not attired in the button-down shirt which all participants were instructed to wear. Before she could broach the subject, someone wanted to speak to him. That timely interruption was the hand of ECK at work. Ariel was grateful for this disruption as it gave her time to reflect on her negative intention.

Then at the lunch queue, she was tested again. She tried to talk about Margaret to another friend but he advised her not to discuss cases as the students were about. That was the second time divine intervention saved her from gossiping. Later, when the gossip-mongers tried to engage Ariel about Margaret’s performance in the examination room, Ariel very honestly admitted that although she was tempted to gossip about her, she had chosen not to.

All these three consecutive episodes about not letting the ego take precedence were a walk on the razor’s edge. Nevertheless, Ariel was grateful to the Mahanta for being there for her and helping her overcome the subtle lure of the negative force and ‘the little self’.

The Law of Self states that each must understand and act to solve the mystery of their little self before they can solve the mystery of God. Rebazar Tarzs adds that the little self can be a stumbling block when it expresses ‘…a greater sense of outrage over the faults of others than at our own. Excusing our own weaknesses and shifting our blame to others. Like gossiping.’

By giving her these experiences, Divine Spirit was making Ariel aware of the play of ego and vanity. And one sure way to side-step these insidious traps were the Spiritual Exercises of ECK!

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Two months ago, Ivy went to Askleposis to attend a class on Five Spiritual Laws of this World by ECK Master Gopal Das.  To get there, she sat comfortably on her bed in tailor fashion (known as the lotus position to Buddhists), closed her eyes and sang HU as she gently placed her attention on her spiritual eye.  The spiritual eye is located between the eyes and close to the pineal glands in the head.

After a short HU chant, she found herself on the grounds of the Golden Temple of Wisdom at Askleposis.  Walking towards the Temple entrance, flanked by two imposing Roman columns, she realised she had no idea where the class was being held.  She chided herself for not checking with her classmates who are studying the spiritual laws under the guidance of ECK Master Gopal Das.  Climbing up the short flight of steps, she entered the temple.

Ivy was disheartened to find it empty.  There was not a Soul in sight!  What was she to do?   Then her earthly habit kicked in.  She cried out, “Hellooo! Anybody in?”  She waited.  Nobody came.  Wondering what to do next, she looked around.  On either side of the lobby, hugging the wall, two long flights of stairs wound upwards to the upper floor.  These two semicircular shaped stairs formed an alcove on the ground floor.   Beneath the alcove is a long narrow corridor.  There something caught her eye. Slightly off the center to the left stood a waist high rectangular table-like structure.

She walked over to it.  Instinct said it is an information counter like those found in shopping malls. However, this one is quite different.  There were no pictures or words to tap on for information.  There was just a simple line drawing of a hand on the screen.  Heeding her nudge, she placed her right hand on the line drawing.  To her surprise, her name appeared on the screen, followed by topic of class discussion, the name of ECK Master Gopal Das and lastly it stated: Straight down corridor on ground floor, 3rd room to the left.

Ivy was ecstatic!  And relieved too that she had not just located the class but also that she wasn’t late! Interestingly, she had been nudged to start her HU chant several minutes before the scheduled time of the class the night of this experience.

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Megan had a dream in which she received a photo of her nephew holding a HUmmingbird via WhatsApp. He and his colleagues had found it in their office. She responded with a text for them to bring it back with them as she really likes it.

Alas, they returned without the Hummingbird. Noticing the look of disappointment on her face, Megan’s nephew gently remarked, “I know you like it but I didn’t know you really wanted it. Here, it is so easy. Just reach out your hand and you will find it.”

True enough, there was a Hummingbird in his hand! Megan’s nephew handed it to her and said, “Here, reach out your hand and take it.” And she did.

Upon awakening, Megan realized the connection between the Hummingbird and HU. The HU can be hers for the asking. Just reach out for it. What a precious discovery!

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Chantilly contemplated on the Law of HU before she retired for the night. That night she had an inner experience. In her inner experience, she said out loud, ‘I do not have any socks.’ She was given a choice and selected the one with animal prints. Upon awakening, Chantilly vividly remembered her inner experience and tried to figure out the significance of that pair of socks. Socks are protective footwear one wears with shoes and she knew intuitively that SOCKS meant ‘protection’ from the ECK.

Chantilly travels regularly on the inner planes and has lost her way a couple of times. This inner experience was confirmation from the ECK to continue to explore the Inner worlds with confidence for she knows she will always be protected.

The Astral Plane is a vast place, indeed. Once, Chantilly had wanted to go to ASKLEPOSIS, the Temple of Golden Wisdom, on the Astral Plane and found herself in a campsite looking for her book discussion group. Another time, she ended up in a basement building with lots of rooms, again looking for her group.

She is now a little wiser. Her group has now given themselves a specific location in ASKLEPOSIS to meet on the night of their class so that Chantilly doesn’t get lost. But even if she does, she knows she has the guidance and protection of the Mahanta to help her navigate through unfamiliar Inner terrain.

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Mahanta. A title to describe the highest state of God Consciousness on earth, often embodied in the Living ECK Master. He is the Living Word. An expression of the Spirit of God that is always with you.

Emma bought an amaryllis plant with a single bloom from Holland about 10 years ago. That single flower was the only one she witnessed for the years to come. She tried all kinds of ways to coax the plant to bloom, like dutifully watering the plant, adding fertilizers, moving the pot to a shadier spot in the garden. But all her efforts were futile. She even left the bulbs in a plastic bag in the fridge to hibernate. Nothing worked. They just kept on liberally putting forth green spears!

Did Emma give up? Well, no. She persisted in lovingly coaxing them to bloom. Finally, after 10 long years of care and attention, the first bud burst forth. A gardener’s joy is hard to describe!

7 more blooms are on the way. Emma is in heaven now! That humble bulb has transformed into a glorious array of blooms! Now, she has a new found respect for her plant, a feeling she hopes it senses.

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This is the Law of Grace at work! The Law of Grace does not merely come to us because we ask. “It does in a way, but first we must earn it. We must make at least some effort before the grace of God comes to us” like Emma’s perseverance with the amaryllis plant.

The Law of Grace is “To be in accord with the ways of Sugmad for making each a divine channel, through working in the area of non-attachment mainly through the discipline of emotions.”

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Nathan gleaned these 4 main points from his understanding of the Law of Grace.

1. Grace of the Sugmad (God) involves sending Soul down to creation & returning Soul back to Sugmad (God). Divine love can be soft love or tough love.

2. In the lower worlds, grace is seen in helping Souls reach Self-Realization through non-attachment to emotions and mindset, which would help to clear karma and help make one’s life easier.

3. In the higher spiritual worlds, grace is seen as helping Soul achieve God-Realization by Its connection to God.  Soul has to put in effort by shedding further blockages in its consciousness.

4. At the last hurdle of God-Realization, grace is granted by the Sugmad (God), independent of Soul’s effort. Put in another way, Soul cannot affect Sugmad’s (God’s) grace.