Mysteries of the Beyond

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Who was the first person? How did that person get here?

The first person had no name. Speech, of course, had not developed yet, because names are like labels that people create to call one and not another. So, speech takes people, more than one. Even more than two or three or four, or so.

It took a long time before people dreamed up names.

How did the first person get here?

To get the answer, we ask, “So how did the first two people, or more, come into bodies in the high Mental Plane?” (Everything here comes in twos.) They materialized. It was a bit like on the TV show Star Trek, where explorers in spaceships beam down to a planet.

They just seem to appear as if by magic. Yet there are laws of science at work that allow for an orderly transfer of the atoms that make up a human body.

That’s to say, people today have a lot to learn about the laws of science. But the knowledge is growing by tiny steps.

The first people on each plane were created by the Holy Spirit, the ECK, through the arts and sciences of spiritual workers on the plane above. So people on the Astral Plane had the responsibility of seeing to the ways and means of transferring Astral Plane people to the Physical Plane.

—Sri Harold Klemp

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Where or in what country did Eᴄᴋᴀɴᴋᴀʀ begin?

In ancient times, the Living ECK Master gave the ECK teachings to his disciples by word of mouth. Rama was among the first of these Masters. The Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad says he came from the forests of northern Germany.

So where did Eᴄᴋᴀɴᴋᴀʀ begin?

Even before Rama, the ECK teachings were in Atlantis and Lemuria. Modern scholars scoff at the existence of those two lost continents, so we don’t talk much about them in Eᴄᴋᴀɴᴋᴀʀ today. Yet proof does exist. Under the waters off the southeastern part of the United States are huge stone blocks in the shape of a wall or an ancient road. Somebody put them there a long time ago, when that part of the ocean was above water.

—Sri Harold Klemp

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How long have the ECK Masters been here on Earth helping people?

The first spiritual teachings that man saw in the modern historical era arose from India. This old land, in turn, had its wise men learning the tenets of wisdom at the feet of the ECK Masters of Atlantis. These ancient spiritual travelers included such stalwarts as Decates, Castrog, and Supaku.

India became heir apparent to the arcane knowledge once centered in Atlantis before its destruction by fire and water as correctly prophesied by Castrog. The king-priests, called the Tat Tsoks because of their worship of the supreme Deity known as Tat, ignored Castrog’s warnings about the dangers of black magic. They unwittingly disturbed the natural magnetic forces of the land and doomed it to a grave beneath the dark ocean waters.

The old men of India passed the light of ECK knowledge to new nations that formed after the third worldwide cataclysm of earthquakes and volcanoes that broke up the islands and continents that had been Atlantis. The Egyptians, fond of the mysteries, developed the cult of Isis and Osiris, as well as a simplified but jumbled understanding of the ECK force that they personified in Horus, the sky god.

The Greeks, mere children to both the Hindus and Egyptians in the gathering of the secret laws, learned of the dim history of lost Atlantis only after Solon, Greek patriarch and lawgiver, made a visit to the Egyptian wise men as late as the sixth century BC.

The ECK Stream of consciousness sweeps down through layers of cosmic regions and worlds until Its perpetual message is brought to people on Earth by Its chief agent, the Mᴀʜᴀɴᴛᴀ, the Living ECK Master. The world is never without him, for the line of ECK Adepts originated before the first Aryan people were placed here by colonist from Jupiter.

The Mᴀʜᴀɴᴛᴀ appears with renewed splendor in every age and walks among people today.

—Sri Harold Klemp

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Ever since I can remember, I’ve been able to see colors emanating from everything. Often it’s the color amethyst. Why do I see all these colors other people can’t? What do they mean, and how can I use this sight so it may benefit me?

Thank you for your letter about the colors you see. It’s an ability you developed during several lives in Atlantis, where crystals were the power that propelled those times, much as electricity and nuclear power are a mainstay today. Seeing the ECK Current as big and little explosions of color was a common ability among all in Atlantis.

The spiritual lesson in Atlantis was for those who specialized in harnessing the power of crystals—scientists, priests, and engineers—to learn how to use it for the good of others.

It’s the same challenge today for those who bring a special gift into this lifetime.

The color amethyst has a natural affinity for the Etheric Plane. That’s the fountain where intuition originates. The lesson is how to use that potential to help others and not control them in any way.

That is the lesson for all people, for all have gifts and talents unique to them. But it’s in the manner of their use that determines whether they, the users, wish to go the way of love or power.

The ECK will help you deal with your gift, if you so wish.

—Sri Harold Klemp

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I am very drawn to stories about Atlantis. Can you tell me more about it?

A lot of people in the world today have quite a strong attraction to Atlantis. There are two good books on this subject written by a man by the name of Frank Joseph.* One is The Destruction of Atlantis, and a couple of years later, he wrote The Survivors of Atlantis. He puts together all the different information available from geologic surveys, people who study myths, historians, astronomers, and archeologists.

He says that Plato got the date wrong for the final sinking of Atlantis. Plato put it at about eleven thousand to twelve thousand years ago. But what Plato didn’t know when he got the story from Solon, who got it from one of the Egyptian priests, was that the Egyptians had four different ways of reckoning time.

Plato was thinking in terms of the way we think of a solar year—three hundred sixty-five days or so. But the Egyptian priests had another way of looking at it where a year was about a month, which was a lunar year. And when you apply this time calculation to twelve thousand years, you come up with a date as recent as about 1200 BC for the actual sinking of Atlantis.

This was during the Bronze Age. And it fits. Eleven thousand or twelve thousand years ago, there would still have been Stone Age people. To suddenly have a big, strong empire with all the enormous buildings Plato spoke of would have been totally out of time and place then. Things don’t happen like that.

There’s a good argument for the sinking of Atlantis having occurred in 1198 BC. In fact, by different evidence gathered from astronomy, myths, and elsewhere, the author even narrows it down to November of that year.

There were four cataclysms in Atlantis. Three of them had happened over the previous several thousand years, and then came the final one around 1200 BC. The final one was also accompanied by a comet that had been going around the earth and getting closer and closer, so that people were literally scared to death.

The Atlanteans were much bigger than the indigenous people of any other lands. To some, they were giants. The Bible mentions something to this effect: “There were giants in the earth in those days.” That’s in Genesis.

Frank Joseph also points out that Atlantis wasn’t actually a continent. This land mass just west of the Pillars of Heracles, or Gibraltar as we know it today, was an island about the size of Portugal. It was a maritime nation, and the Atlanteans traveled widely. They went up by the British Isles (though the land masses were a little bit different then) and all the way to the Americas. They were widely traveled people. They went over toward the east also, and they came to Egypt. There’s a record in Ramses III’s victory temple of a battle that had been fought with the Sea People. The Egyptians had another name for them, but it equates to the Sea People.

It’s just a fascinating history. The Egyptians were defeated at first, time and again, but Ramses III was a very wise and clever general. Eventually he arranged it so his forces overcame the invading Atlanteans. The Egyptians asked, “Why did you come here?” And the Atlanteans said, “Because our homeland sank. We had to go somewhere.”

The Egyptians even drew pictures of what the Atlanteans looked like. You can’t really tell what dress they would have worn, because when they were captured, they were put into chains. After that, they were executed, and that was the end of it.

In Frank Joseph’s next book, The Survivors of Atlantis, the author makes a very compelling case as to why the Bronze Age had flourished during the time of Atlantis—how the Atlanteans were key players, and how there are mines in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan that were worked at that time and which were abandoned at the time of the sinking of Atlantis.

It’s all a very intriguing story. And the reason people have such a strong affinity for Atlantis today is that so many of today’s people were Atlanteans.

* Use discretion in considering this author’s other titles. His works on Atlantis and Lemuria are well documented and support a compelling case. However, the author has been known for criminal behavior and extreme political views that Eᴄᴋᴀɴᴋᴀʀ completely rejects.

—Sri Harold Klemp

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Can you mention any reading material other than ECK books to help me spiritually?

I’d like to mention two books. I sometimes mention books or other sources of information that will help you spiritually. They may push the envelope of some of you into areas that you’re unwilling or uncomfortable to go. If you don’t want to go, don’t go. That’s how it is.

I think you will find these books very interesting. Both have been published recently. The first is Atlantis in the Amazon, by Richard Wingate.

Atlantis has been the stuff of legend ever since Plato wrote of it in Timaeus and Critias, about 360 BC. Plato wrote about it, and I believe it was an ancestor of his, Solon, who had gone to Egypt. There, Solon had met an Egyptian priest-historian who told him how the Greeks had been a great nation once. He went into quite some detail.

Mainline archaeologists who accept the idea that there was an Atlantis are in the minority today. These archaeologists are pretty much the way archaeologists were at the time of Heinrich Schliemann. He was a very successful German businessman in the middle of the 1800s. Then he sold his business; he had become a very wealthy man.

For years Schliemann had read accounts of Troy and all the poetry of Homer. He looked closely at what others had considered just the stuff of legend. Schliemann put together the clues and financed an expedition. He went looking for Troy. And he was one of those lucky archaeologists. He didn’t spend much time searching. He got there, and a short time later he found a site that turned out to be Troy. Troy then became the stuff of history. Maybe someday Atlantis will too.

The book Atlantis in the Amazon goes into a very fascinating look at signs of a colony that the Atlanteans may have established in South America. Wingate goes further and speaks of traces of Atlanteans in India. It’s a very wonderful book—a fascinating one. And for those of you who are interested in this sort of thing, I think you’ll enjoy it. Because once you get a handle on some of the events that took place there, I think this will help you out with your dream state—help you make sense of some of the dreams you’ve had where you were an actor back in a different time.

I’ve mentioned other books on Atlantis in the past and said the author got a lot of the points right. This book gets a lot of the points correct too. This is another take on Atlantis, and it’ll be fun, I think, for you to dig around and see how you do.

The second book is The Phoenix Lights. This is by a medical doctor, Lynne Kitei, and she writes about having seen UFOs, unidentified flying objects. She calls them something else, but they are UFOs.

On March 13, 1997, thousands of people across the state of Arizona saw a spectacle in the sky such as they’d never seen before. It was a mile-long, V-shaped formation of lights flying close to the ground.

Thousands of people reported this. They flooded the local police stations and the military with all kinds of calls.

The author photographed these lights over Phoenix. She makes a point that such sightings take place nearly daily around the world. And some of you have seen them, or think you’ve seen them. Some sightings are dismissed as merely swamp gas and the like.

But it’s funny—the media did offer coverage of the Phoenix lights, but not too much. They skimped on it. The military denied, debunked, and tried to explain away the sightings, as usual. I find it interesting that in Europe there is a more open attitude about UFOs. There they say frankly that we don’t know what they are.

There is a section in the book that gives a lot of statements by people. Jimmy Carter was one of the people who had seen UFOs. Statements by other important people also left open the possibility that there could very likely be people from another place.

Reagan, when he was speaking with Gorbachev, brought up a hypothetical situation at one of their meetings. He said something like, “You know, we’re sitting here squabbling about one little thing or another. How much more quickly would we draw together if we were faced by a threat from outer space?” It was just put out there as a hypothetical thing. And some people will say, Well, that’s not what he meant at all.

I think you’ll find this book can inform you about the great variety of consciousness all around us, because the book goes further than just UFOs. It goes into other states of consciousness, out-of-body experiences that people have, and other things. Just to stretch you a little bit.

—Sri Harold Klemp