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voidgate
Intermediate Member
Username: voidgate
Post Number: 109
Registered: 3-2006
Posted From: 144.138.162.74
| | Posted on Friday, July 21, 2006 - 11:49 pm: | 
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The Life and Teachings of the Masters of the Far East were recommended reading by Ramtha in the early years of the school.
The following is an excerpt from a paper written by cult expert Joseph Szimhart. The paper was titled: "Denouncement of the Prophet's Cult."
CUT stands for Church Universal Triumphant and the Ballards are founders of the I AM Activity.
CUT’s formation, however, depended primarily on two mediums and their teachings: Guy and Edna Ballard, who founded the I AM Activity in 1934. CUT reveres Guy Ballard, a.k.a. Godfre Ray King who died in 1939, as an “Ascended Master”. The Ballards were an eccentric couple who dabbled extensively in occultism, New Thought, Christian Science and Theosophy for some years before appointing themselves as Messengers of the Ascended Masters, a.k.a. the Great White Brotherhood.
It would seem that "The Life and Teachings of the Masters of the Far East" are a work of fiction............
Baird T. Spalding is the attributed author.
Beyond Theosophy, New Thought, and the Silver Shirts a fourth significant influence came from Guy Ballard’s personal contact with Baird T. Spalding, who wrote Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East. This was a series of six volumes, the first published in 1924. Spalding lived with the Ballards briefly in 1929. (22) In his series he recounts his claimed adventures from 1894-98 in India and the Tibetan region where he and his party of eleven met superhuman "masters" with magical powers who initiated them into mysteries of the great I AM. Despite his claim to the contrary in volume one, Spalding had not been to the Far East until after his third volume was published in 1935. Both Spalding and Ballard wrote their adventures in the magical autobiography genre, a euphemism for writing from the imagination. CUT promoted the Spalding series in their bookstore at conferences I (Dr. Joseph Szimhart) attended in 1979-80 and members I knew believed the stories literally. |
david_mccarthy
Intermediate Member
Username: david_mccarthy
Post Number: 101
Registered: 11-2004
Posted From: 66.243.212.244
| | Posted on Saturday, July 22, 2006 - 5:04 pm: |
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I remember JZ Knight touting these books as an example of “The Great Work” and made these books required reading.
She started calling the locals “The Villagers” and RSE students “The Masters”.
JZ Knight is now presenting herself as a “spiritual leader” and billing her self alongside “Ramtha”… but it has fallen flat.
I suspect she realizes that the “Ramtha gig” will eventually collapse under its own deceptions,
She wants so much to be the star in her own show.
Sad.... |
voidgate
Intermediate Member
Username: voidgate
Post Number: 110
Registered: 3-2006
Posted From: 144.138.162.113
| | Posted on Saturday, July 22, 2006 - 11:43 pm: |
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Cult experts are not prone to publicly disseminating information that is untruthful. They have been sued too many times...... |
mathew_morrell
New member
Username: mathew_morrell
Post Number: 17
Registered: 7-2006
Posted From: 12.73.196.75
| | Posted on Sunday, July 23, 2006 - 2:15 am: |
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It seems to me as if RSE is doing quit well financially. In other words it doesn't appear as though RSE is collapsing under its own deception. In fact, the school looks more marketable than ever. Then again I live 1,800 miles from Yelm.
I have noticed, however, the disproportionately large number of females in the pictures that were taken by the Olympian. Have the men left? Or are the pictures misrepresentative of RSE demographics? Seeing all those women using bows and arrows gives the impression that RSE has become a giant tribe of Amazon woman.
Maybe I should re-enlist in the school! |
david_mccarthy
Intermediate Member
Username: david_mccarthy
Post Number: 102
Registered: 11-2004
Posted From: 66.243.212.244
| | Posted on Sunday, July 23, 2006 - 5:04 am: |
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mathew..
my point being..
As Abraham Lincoln would say...
“You may fool all the people some of the time,
you can even fool some of the people all of the time,
but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.”
There have always been a disproportionately large number of females in RSE,
I suspect in part… because JZ Knight with her macho “Ramtha image" attracts a gay following.
I remember when I first arrived in Yelm… so many women in RSE were gay… Most were angry…
No wonder.. with all that anti male rhetoric that JZ use to preach..
“We Men” apparently raped and pillage them “In the city of the Blue Race”
How JZ F#$k’s with peoples sexuality is monstrous,
I wonder how many marriages have been ruined because “Ramtha” entered the bedroom?
David. |
in_the_zone
New member
Username: in_the_zone
Post Number: 25
Registered: 6-2006
Posted From: 71.56.236.247
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 25, 2006 - 11:26 am: |
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Is there actually proof that Baird Spaulding was a fraud? |
david_mccarthy
Intermediate Member
Username: david_mccarthy
Post Number: 104
Registered: 11-2004
Posted From: 66.243.212.244
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 25, 2006 - 1:33 pm: |
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I would also ask..
Where is the Proof…. of Baird Spaulding's claims?
This whole notion of super human "Christ like beings"
is a perversion of our real divinity..
The foundations of most religions and cults use this doctrine to control its flock,
It is subservience to religious causes through clever indoctrinations..
A perverted and fake spirituality..
Our super human divinity. is accessible to every human being..
To love each other,,, To see.. and live.. in the magnificence of Gods creation..
I will step off my soapbox now..
David |