The Dangers

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Eastern Masters
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 Contents

The Dangers of Eastern Masters ........................................................................................................... 1

Foreword ............................................................................................................................................. 1
Who is like God?................................................................................................................................. 1
Who is Christ? .................................................................................................................................... 2
Disillusioned Christians seek in the East ......................................................................................... 3
Where do eastern masters lead to?..................................................................................................... 3
What do the paths of the masters offer? ............................................................................................ 4
What happens while practicing eastern meditation? ....................................................................... 5
Masters work via telepathy ................................................................................................................. 5
The path of Christ is a path of purification ....................................................................................... 6
Difficulties on the Christian path because of eastern practices ...................................................... 7
The great danger: Blocking our world of feelings and sensations .................................................. 8
A master is not easily dismissed ......................................................................................................... 9
The indirect and the direct guidance by God..................................................................................... 9
Where is our freedom in this? .......................................................................................................... 10
On the Christian Path: The decision for Christ ............................................................................. 11
Eastern practices in the churches .................................................................................................... 11
Bound over many incarnations ........................................................................................................ 12
Masters often consider themselves to be God .................................................................................. 12
The task of masters is at an end ....................................................................................................... 13
Closing the points of access ............................................................................................................. 14
The pupils, too, show their fruits ..................................................................................................... 14
No master can take away our karma ............................................................................................... 15
Ignorance is no protection against becoming bound ...................................................................... 16
Where does this leave our neighbor? ............................................................................................... 17
A subtle kind of egotism instead of selfless love .............................................................................. 17
The masters, too, will have to acknowledge Christ.......................................................................... 18
Christ, the true Inner Master ........................................................................................................... 19
So why take detours? ........................................................................................................................ 19
The Inner Path "Nearer, My God, to Thee" .................................................................................. 20
 Foreword

It has been foretold that towards the end of the materialistic age many "Christs"
will appear who will announce false teachings of salvation in His name. (Mt. 24:5)
This is why, especially for our time, the following words are so relevant: "Test the
spirits" and "You will recognize them by their fruits." But to test them, one needs
clarity and the power of discernment.
For some time now, the "Christian" churches have been increasingly offering
meditations and spiritual techniques that are of eastern origin, of which one in
particular is Zen meditation. Among other things, it is claimed that by practicing
these, the Christ-power in man is developed.
But what really happens? Through the spiritual paths offered by the eastern
religions, many people are ultimately led to masters and away from Christ. This is
made possible by a lukewarm and degenerated "Christianity" which has far
removed itself from its origins as a result of the teachings found in Catholicism and
Protestantism.
In this booklet, the Original Christians in Universal Life point out the dangers to
which one exposes oneself when we orient ourselves to masters – that is, to people
– instead of to God, our Creator, and to Christ, who has been our Redeemer for
2000 years.

Who is like God?

In his innermost being, every person, every soul, is a creation of God. We are all
children of the eternal Father-Mother-God. Each one of us is divine in his
innermost being, created by our Father in His image.
Our status in creation is the filiation of God. None of the creations of God is
God. There is only the one God, only He, the eternal Spirit. To accept the filiation
of God is the task of the created beings, and the desire to be God is a Fall-thought.
It led to the separation from God, to the Fall from the pure heavenly worlds and to
the ever increasing condensation of forms all the way to the Earth. The Earth is the
place of highest condensation and, at the same time, the point of return for the Fall,
the base from which to return home.
Those created beings who have fallen are, figuratively speaking, the prodigal
son, who, as described in the parable, returns home to his father’s house. So we are
on Earth in order to become divine again. Thus, every human being is a wanderer

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on the way back to his eternal home.
But where is the way?

Every fallen being thought he knew better than God. And so each one pursued
his own way to "happiness." But a person who now recognizes that it was the
wrong way, turns back and reaches for the true path. So one could say that there are
as many paths as there are human beings, because each one has to find the way
back to his true being from where he stands on the wrong path he took. And yet,
there is only one path, just as all rivers flow into the one sea, each river, however,
in its own way; for the force of motion in every drop of water is the streaming
Spirit, God. The same Spirit flows through us, too, through every cell of our body,
through every particle of our soul: it is the Spirit of life.

Who is Christ?
Christ was incarnated in Jesus of Nazareth in order to teach the eternal laws of
God and to live them as an example for mankind. Through His sacrifice on
Golgotha, He transferred to each soul and person a supplemental force, the
redeemer-spark. With this, He stopped the further degeneration of all created forms
whose dissolution was and is the goal of the beings of the Fall. At the same time,
this additional spiritual energy makes it possible for us – as for every soul – to
develop again spiritually and to find our way back to our eternal home.
All of infinity is based on seven basic powers. They are the four divine natures
of God and the three powers of filiation. Together, they form the primordial power,
the Holy Spirit, God. God is the primordial power, and Christ is the part-power of
the primordial power. Christ is omnipresent Spirit in the four basic powers of
creation, the four divine natures: Order, Will, Wisdom and Earnestness. And so, as
Jesus, He professed, "The Father and I are one" and "My Father is greater than I."
(Jn. 10:13)

Our pure spirit body in the innermost part of our soul consists of these
seven basic powers of life. For this reason, Christ dwells within, in each one of us.
He is the Spirit; He is the life in us. When as Jesus of Nazareth He said in the
following sense, "I am the vine and you are the branches," this image tells us that as
omnipresent Spirit, Christ is the tree of life, the life force, the life in us. This is why
what He said holds true, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the
Father but through Me." (Jn. 14:6)
Through our faulty human attitudes, through our sins, we have suppressed for the
most part the seven basic powers of our soul which are, at the same time, the seven
levels of the law. But by leading a life according to the divine laws, we will again
develop these levels of Inner Life with the help of the power of the redeemer-spark.
Christ, the omnipresent Spirit in the four basic powers of God, is also the Inner
Master, the moving, transforming and leading-back power in every human being

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and in every soul. He is the way. He leads us back to the three filiation
characteristics of God – Patience, Love and Mercy – and when we have opened
these again, our eternal Father can then take us back into His Father-heart.

Disillusioned Christians seek

in the East

Externalized, denominational pseudo-Christianity cannot show man the way to

the Inner Master, Christ. Spiritually hollow and without strength as it is, it cannot
satisfy the longing for spiritual nourishment, it cannot show the way back to the
eternal home.
For this reason, many seekers turn to the East, to the eastern religions. The
followers of older eastern religions are often less intellectual; they pray; they are
materially poorer but warmer in their heart; they think less of war. So one can
understand that God-seeking Christians who are weary of Christianity sit up and
take notice when an eastern teacher comes. In many seekers there is a longing for a
genuine spirituality, or at least for meditation – or simply the wish to become still
in order to develop the creative powers in oneself. For spirituality and the true
meditation that prepares one for this has long since disappeared from the official
Christian churches. Other Christians, in turn, wish to activate the healing powers in
themselves and to be able to practice healing. The masters know about this, and
also about the fact that generally this wish is not selfless.

Where do eastern masters lead to?

The teachers of the East let themselves be called "master" or "guru." "Guru"
means "spiritual teacher." The terms "master" or "guru" express that such a teacher
claims to be able to lead his pupils on the path to God.
But the question is, where do these eastern masters really lead to? For thousands
of years self-redemption has been taught in the eastern schools of thought. And it is
so that the eastern teachers still teach partial aspects of the path within. But what
they lack is the knowledge that since Golgotha, self-redemption does not exist any
longer. Since Golgotha, Christ is the Redeemer of all souls and men. This is why
the eastern teachings have not been valid for 2000 years now, insofar as they do not
guide one to Christ, to the only omnipresent master in the innermost part of one’s
soul. If the masters do not lead one to Christ, the only master, the master of all

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masters – then where or what do they lead to? They lead to the hierarchies of those
masters who do not acknowledge Christ as Redeemer and Co-Regent of creation, or
who – as representatives of the satanic hierarchies – reject Him.
Jesus of Nazareth said, "Do not be called ’Rabbi’, for there is only one Teacher,
and you are all brothers." (Mt. 23:8-9).

And so, since Golgotha, there is only one master, and that is the Inner Master:
Christ, the omnipresent Spirit in each one of us.
Many of the eastern masters of the most differing grades of development see
Christ as a master among masters, as a so-called Avatar. Avatars are high spirit
beings from the absoluteness of God who incarnate in order to teach human beings
the path of truth. But Christ not only taught the path as an Avatar does: He is the
path Himself, because He is the omnipresent Spirit, the Inner Master, in us. He
Himself is the power that brings about the transformation of low-vibrating negative
human aspects in us into higher, positive, divine energy. It is through this that the
complete event of the Fall will be led back into the pure Being.

What do the paths of the masters offer?

The masters recruit their pupils today with what seekers are looking for: peace,
inner stillness, fulfillment, love, healing powers, clairvoyance, levitation,
enlightenment, pleasure, happiness; in Sanskrit, they are called, satori, samadhi,
and so on.
From the viewpoint of a master, how can a person attain these goals? Above all,
through eastern meditative techniques. "Meditation" means the same as "to go
within, to sink deep within." A meditation becomes a technique when the person
himself does not have to strive to put into daily practice what he affirms in the
meditation. One can also speak about a technique when a pupil thinks or speaks
into himself a mantra from without – not knowing where it comes from or what
effect it has, simply trusting in the promises of the master.
One refers to a mantra as a word or a combination of words that normally stems
from Sanskrit. There is an eastern meditation technique where it is sufficient to
meditate several times daily using a mantra, in order to relax, to get rid of stress or
to find enlightenment. "The one who regularly meditates will realize that he always
bears paradise with him in his heart." (Yogananda, "Words of the Master" p. 90).
According to this, an examination of conscience, a day-by-day striving to
recognize one’s faults and weaknesses, and to clear these up with the power of the
Spirit and no longer commit them, does not seem to be a requirement. These words
of a master do not speak about the daily work on oneself, nor about an alignment
with Christ – both of which are necessary in order to come to the Father. If there is
talk about Christ in the eastern paths, then it is mainly just words and given not in

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terms of a decision – essential for one’s existence – for God in Christ, who is our
life.

What happens while practicing

eastern meditation?

During the meditations, the law of "sending and receiving"* holds true. By
repeating a mantra, via the sound stream that is created, the pupil tunes in, to a
certain transmitter from which he then receives.
The masters work via telepathy, that is, by the transfer of thoughts. Telepathy is
a quickly effective force which can be received by any person who enters into the
frequency range – through a mantra, meditation or relevant physical exercises,
techniques or practices; through intense desire or just through his own will power –
of one who works with the corresponding energies. It is enough to acquire the
spiritual knowledge from books in order to produce a line of communication.
Through this alone, an unstable person can align his inner antenna to certain
frequency ranges.

Masters work via telepathy

In order to be successful with their pupils, masters – whether incarnated or not –

often do the following:
With the power of thoughts, they beam a ray to the sixth or to the fourth
consciousness center of a pupil, respectively, that is, to the two strongly active
consciousness areas that support the spiritual circulation in a person. This energy
supply, that is given from without via telepathy, stimulates the spiritual circulation.
Through this, all the consciousness centers, including the physical body of the
person, experience a short but heightened state of vibration. As long as this
"magical" irradiation is maintained, it is quite possible that the person meditating
perceives some spiritual visions or takes in the thoughts of the master. But these
visions are not from God; they were stimulated by a master in order to tie his pupil
to himself. This is a form of black magic and is the influencing of a person’s free
will. Aside from this, it is an unlawful intrusion into his spiritual circulation.
Through such treatment by this type of a master, unstable people can become
mentally disturbed or even physically harmed.

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 The spiritual circulation is the law of the Spirit. It can be stimulated in a lawful
way only by the person himself, through the fulfillment of the laws of God. When
this happens, the increased activity of the spiritual circulation takes place via the
nucleus of the soul. This is the lawful way, and contributes to true spiritual
development as well as to increased health of soul and body. Anything else is
against the divine law and conceals many dangers.
Many people fall into the hands of this form of black magic through
unscrupulous teachers who call themselves masters, as well as through their own
light-hearted credulity. With many, it could be based on a wish to find an easy path
to God – without the real effort to conquer oneself – or as a way of fleeing from the
difficulties of life.
But there is no such thing as a comfortable path to God. There is no "automatic"
ascension to heaven. Even the Son of God did not bring us such a path through His
sacrifice on Golgotha. Even though the official Christian churches teach
redemption by passive faith – the power of Christ in us first becomes active when a
person takes the steps necessary to recognize and clear up his faulty behavior.
The paths of the masters are tempting with promises of inner visions and
sensations and spiritual experiences at the beginning of the path – and are often
taken as a criteria by which one can recognize a true master. But once the pupil is
tied to the master, the master then demands payment for the energy loaned. By
aligning with a master, the pupil became dependent on him and is now a supplier of
energy for his "guru" and for the interest groups of souls and corresponding energy
fields behind him.

The path of Christ is a path of purification

But Jesus of Nazareth taught us something else. He said the following: "Every
one who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who
built his house upon the rock ..." (Mt.7:24) And so, the path of Christ consists of
the step-by-step actualization of the divine commandments in our daily life – the
Ten Commandments and the spiritual laws of the Sermon on the Mount. This path
consists of self-recognition, of repentance, of forgiveness and of asking for
forgiveness, and – most important – of no longer committing the faults one has
recognized, fulfilling instead, the spiritual laws. This is what Jesus of Nazareth
meant when He told us to look at the beam in our own eye before trying to help our
neighbor with the splinter in his eye. (Mt.7:5)
And so, a person who is striving towards God will – from the very beginning –
not orient himself to other people but to Christ alone, who is in his inner being.
And since Christ is freedom, this means that no binding takes place. Instead, by the
step-by-step actualization and fulfillment of the eternal laws, we attain a hold in
Christ, the pure, selfless power through which we gain freedom.

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 A person who had practiced Zen for seven years reported the following: "I was
always simply told, let go of your thoughts. Become quiet and still. But during all
those years no one ever told me that I should clear something up, that I should feel
repentance, that I should forgive and ask for forgiveness and no longer commit the
fault I had recognized."

A Western Zen teacher said the following about this eastern teaching: "To
experience one’s being and to experience the Being is one and the same thing.
Thus, Zen is not the proclaiming of a supernatural revelation that calls us – we who
live in the "I" and its world – to believe in a supernatural Redeemer. Zen is the
expression of a supernatural experience that opens the transcendental in us in which
we become redeemed, and in which, in a certain sense, we were never unredeemed.
This transcendental in us is called in Buddhism, the Buddha nature." (Baron
Duerckheim, "Zen and We" p. 55)
And continuing: "The right way to be, in the true sense of a personal presence,
becomes reality when man maintains himself as the mediator between the Being
beyond time and existence in time and space. To be in the world but coming from
the viewpoint of the Being, that’s what it depends on, and that’s what Zen teaches.
The basic exercise for this is Zazen, to sit in unmoving silence, totally alert, being
there from within. The meaning of this exercise? To be transparent for the
transcendent." (Baron Duerckheim, "Zen and We" p. 109)
There is no mention here of the daily actualization of the Ten Commandments
and the Sermon on the Mount, that is, of doing. Transcendence appears to be the
right thing in the search for a spirituality that comes from the longing of men for
their origin. But one needs to ask, to where do we transcend? Are we opening
ourselves for the Christ-force, the power of selfless love, or for forces that are
looking for their own, which bind and then demand payment?

Difficulties on the Christian path

because of eastern practices

People who walk the Christian path can often get into difficulties if they have
previously practiced other spiritual techniques or exercises for some time.

Whether it is Yoga in its most varied forms or the most differing paths of eastern
meditation, for example, Zen meditation; whether it is Asian combat sports with a
meditative or spiritual background – all these practices can bring about problems.
The reason for this is that by practicing these spiritual techniques, the pupils enter
into communication with a transmitting potential of the corresponding energy field.
Such energy fields, whether of the various types of Yoga or Zen meditation and so
on, continue to emit into the world of feelings and sensations of the person. This

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can go so far that his world of feelings is blocked. When this is the case, a student
can grasp only with great difficulty what takes place in his own thoughts,
sensations and feelings.

But the Christian path is the path of purification of all our human faulty behavior.
And to clear these up self-recognition is necessary, and self-recognition is possible
only when we can get a hold of the thoughts and feelings that are moving us at a
particular moment. Only then can we clear these up with Christ.

The great danger:

Blocking our world of feelings and sensations

Why is it that a pupil of eastern techniques can no longer get a hold of his
thoughts and feelings?
The main reason for this is that the eastern paths may very well speak of God
and of the expansion of one’s consciousness, but they do not basically require a
cleansing of the soul through a life based on the commandments of God.

The masters may guide a pupil to a certain point within. But this happens only
because they try to guide him by way of techniques and practices to become quiet
within, in order to lessen his difficulties and problems, the tensions which life
brings with it. At the same time, they often try to give the pupil inner or spiritual
experiences. This should solidify the pupil’s trust in his master and in the path that
he is being taught.
With much spiritual knowledge, with meditations that lack the actualization of
the divine commandments, with the endless repetition of mantras – since
everything is energy – a layer is created in the pupil which numbs his feelings and
sensations. From this layer, one can very well call up answers to life’s questions.
But one’s own burdens which lie underneath this layer can no longer be cleared up.
And why not? Because our deep-seated human faults and weaknesses show
themselves in our world of feelings and sensations. But if these are covered over by
programming ourselves with mantras or with imaginary images, then we can no
longer recognize them. Another consequence of this layer is that such a person
considers himself to be positive and spiritually advanced. He is convinced that he is
on the way to enlightenment and to God. If he should have any spiritual
experiences, then he will see these as a confirmation for the rightness of the path he
has taken. He is then largely immune to criticism or may even feel unjustly treated
and react with open or hidden aggression.

But how can such a person even begin to recognize the thoughts or, above all,
the feelings in his own subconscious? And so, his soul remains burdened and

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shadowed, but the person cannot register this anymore. His conscience no longer
moves him, calling his attention to his faults and weaknesses. He lives in a
deceptive state of calmness which can easily turn into lethargy and depression,
since the power of God has not been developed in him. What is lacking is the
actualization of the laws of God in his daily life.

A master is not easily dismissed

Experience shows that once a person binds himself to a master, then the master
does not want to let him go. This means that when he later wants to leave this path
– even renouncing his master and for years no longer practicing the master’s
teaching – the binding that was created remains in many cases and the influence of
the master can hardly be broken.
The master is unable to lead his pupil to God. Instead, he wants to draw the pupil
to himself, to his state of consciousness, and through this – knowingly or not – to
his community and, at the same time, to the hierarchies that are behind it. But,
why? The masters may emphasize that they want to lead the pupil to God, but
many write openly and say that the master is more important for the pupil than
God. This means that the pupil must first go to the master in order to be able to find
God, via the master.
Thus, for example, Yogananda states: "It becomes clear from this that the words
of Jesus (Mt. 21:23-32) are an assurance to all sinners and transgressors of the
divine laws, wanting to tell them that one can reach the kingdom of heaven quickly
when one follows a God-inspired guru and throws out all delusion – much more
quickly than if one were to insist self-gloriously on his own narrow-minded moral
conceptions, proud of his limited knowledge, thinking that without help, one can
enter into the cosmic consciousness." (Paramahansa Yogananda, "Self-
Actualization" 1986, p. 30)
The reasoning behind this is simple: Man has sinned. He has lost the
communication with God, and so he needs a mediator, a master who already has
the connection with God – this is what is said; only when he has given himself over
to the master and is thus bound to him, can the master guide him to God.
Such a path often binds a pupil for the rest of his life and beyond, because with
physical death the soul simply leaves the physical body. But the soul itself
continues to live in the worlds beyond unchanged. The ties to the hierarchy of the
masters continue.

The indirect and the direct guidance by God

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 When the soul of a person has become pure for the most part, God’s guidance
can become active in the inner part of his soul. But as long as the Spirit of God
cannot yet be effective through the mostly purified soul of a person, then His
guidance is indirect. This means that the spiritual laws of the Ten Commandments
and of the Sermon on the Mount, which are excerpts from the eternal law of God,
are available to the student as a criteria for his life. God can also address a person
through another one, so that he can reach a free decision for himself. And the
guardian spirit of a person can also guide him through his conscience, as long as his
feelings are not blocked. A guardian spirit can influence a person by stimulating a
question in him: Is what I’m doing lawful, in the will of God? But the Spirit of God
or the guardian spirit will not give impulses into the soul or person that say, do this
or leave that, because the free will of a person must be maintained.
On the other hand, the guiding technique of a master is quite different: Via
telepathy, he transmits certain inputs into the brain, into the conscious mind of the
unknowing pupil. In this way, the pupil is tied to the master and cannot get away
from him. He is completely convinced that he has found the master who can truly
lead him to God. Through this band that was created by the master, the pupil can be
influenced and controlled, and energy can be drawn from him. Both of these things
happen.

Where is our freedom in this?

When former pupils try with all their strength to cut loose from such a tie, they
often have great difficulties. When they turn away from a master, they often fall
into such a lack of energy, into such lethargy, that they are hardly able to master
their own life. They may just be able to do the least necessary for their life – but
more is not possible. The reason for this is that the pupil did not develop the divine
source of energy in him. He no longer follows the program for his own life, but
instead establishes a line of communication with a certain energy field. And if he
now wants to cut off this outside program, this stream of energy, then it can be
likened to cutting off the branch on which he is sitting.
So where is his freedom in this?
The pupil gave up his freedom. The freedom that God, his Father, gave to him,
he turned over to a master; and this master will not give it back to him, because
above all he needs his pupil as a supplier of energy, an energy source. The more
people a master ties to himself, the more energy he can draw from this group of
people aligned with him. The master can then use this energy for his own purposes,
or shift it about to gain further goals.
In addition, many eastern teachings and masters teach the dissolution of God’s

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creatures and of all creation. They say that the soul and all created forms will
dissolve into the flowing, not manifest Spirit, into the Being, as it was before the
beginning of creation. At the same time, this is glorified as the goal of life and as a
state of highest bliss. The dissolution of the divine creation and the formation of a
new creation is a part of the Fall-thought and is still the teaching today of many
masters.

On the Christian Path:

The decision for Christ

Every person who wants to walk the Christian path is faced with having to
decide clearly and implicitly for Christ.
If a person has tied himself to a master and after this decides to walk the
Christian path, then there is only one way for him: To actualize the laws of God
from the very beginning in a consequent and disciplined way day-by-day,
especially the Ten Commandments and the spiritual laws of the Sermon on the
Mount. He cannot afford to give any leeway at all to the teachings and instructions
of his previous master – otherwise they will continue to influence him.
If the person who has decided for the Christian path becomes negligent or
complacent on it, he can be sure that he will not reach his goal on his path to God.
Because then, he will not be able to free himself from the binding to the master and
from the master’s manipulations. Those who have never been confronted by such a
situation may think it has to be simple to cut oneself off from a master; it may even
appear to be so. But often, after 10 or 15 years, the influence can still be clearly
detected.
People who have left an eastern path and taken the Christian path have expressed
the following: We never realized what we had gotten ourselves into; because we
did not know about the spiritual law of "sending and receiving" or how it functions.

Eastern practices in the churches

Especially in the externalized Christianity of the official churches, one can often
find the teachings of eastern practices today – under the guise of "Christ." In
reality, it has to do with, for example, Zen Buddhist meditation, Hindu Yoga
techniques or other eastern paths. For example, on "Church Day" several years ago
in Frankfurt (this is a major Protestant event in Germany), one could learn about

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and try out many eastern teachings, practices and techniques – all of this described
as "Christian."

Yoga courses are offered in many local night schools and associations. Some
Yoga instructors do not even bother anymore to say that their course has to do with
Yoga. They simply offer physical movements, relaxation and methods for
harmonizing oneself. Often, the whole thing is dressed up as "Christian," by more
or less saying the following: "There is only one power. We all have only one
Father, and it is the same whether we go this or that path to God. Christ, too, was a
good man; He, too, was a master." By mixing the eastern with the Christian, they
lead those seeking God into error. And so, the people are not told what really
happens in their inner being – perhaps because the instructors do not know
themselves.
To most people it isn’t clear what it means to tie oneself to a human master or to
an institution or group, thus giving up one’s own freedom. Many times one is under
the illusion that the one doesn’t exclude the other, that both can be linked together.
But this is an error that is often first recognized when it is too late.

Bound over many incarnations

A binding to a master can last for several incarnations. It is difficult to say how
long it can take in individual cases, because the master does not receive the energy
for his teachings and activities from God. He merely shifts about the energies
which he gets from people and says, "I have given you energy; now you have to
pay it back." And then it is possible that the soul of his pupil will have to incarnate
again in order to pay back the master living in the purification planes of the
beyond. And so, it may be that they have to incarnate with a mission for the beings
who are against God.

Masters often consider themselves to be God

Some masters say of themselves that the guru is God and God is the guru – and
in such a case, the master makes of himself God. But on the other hand, Christ said
of Himself, "The Father and I are one" and "The Father is greater than I." If we
pray to the Father, then we also are speaking to Christ, because the Father and
Christ are one.
But the master says, "The master is God and God is the master." Pope Boniface

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VIII said a similar thing, "What am I other than God, Himself?"
Many think that there are a few masters who teach in secrecy and are one with
God. One of our friends believed this, having read travel reports about such
encounters with masters. He then travelled two years in the Himalayan region in
order to encounter such legendary masters and attain through them the highest
guidance. After a long search he admitted, "Neither in Europe nor in the
Himalayas, nor in India did I find such a living master who is one with God.
Always when I was told about such a one, I would travel to meet him – but it was
never him." This was his experience.

The task of masters is at an end

Since through His deed of redemption almost 2000 years ago, Christ placed His
spirit power, the part-power of the primordial power, into every soul as support and
leading-back power (the redeemer-spark), the task of the true masters is over. In the
time before Jesus of Nazareth, there were true masters on the Earth. They were
incarnated heavenly messengers of light, who were active on Earth.
But since the deed of redemption of Christ, the part-power of the primordial
power, Christ, is the only master. Since the redeemer-deed of Christ, the hierarchies
of the masters that continue to be active are leading all people and souls into the
hierarchies of the adversary forces that are against God, into the hierarchies of the
satanic. These are the beings of the Fall who are not willing to turn back, who
continue to strive for the dissolution of creation. They do not recognize Christ as
their Redeemer and Co-Regent of creation. Even though the Inner Master, Christ,
has been the only master of mankind for 2000 years now, the adversary forces still
teach through the hierarchies of souls and men, which – remembering the true
masters from the times before Jesus of Nazareth – still call themselves masters,
even today. They are the masters that live and work out of the different hierarchies.
Because of their fully developed consciousness, the true masters from the
time before Jesus of Nazareth who had continued to teach in the worlds beyond
recognized on their own the meaning of the event of redemption on Golgotha.
Since then, they serve Christ in His mission of redemption; they lead others to
Christ, to the Inner Master in every soul and in every person. And so, they teach
and work as true spiritual teachers.
Because the eastern religions, for example, Hinduism and Buddhism, are without
Christ – having become outdated since Golgotha – they have weakened during the
last two thousand years. They still live and teach, but only out of their recollections
or from their book knowledge about the Absoluteness of the eternal Being. They
think that what was before the deed of redemption of Christ is still reality today,
namely, the possibility to lead people into the Absoluteness of the eternal Being
through a human master. And so, instead of the former true masters who were able

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to do this, what we have now are the masters who in any case can guide their pupils
into the purification spheres of the worlds of the beyond or into the planes of
preparation for the Absoluteness, but never into the Absoluteness itself. And this,
for the simple reason that they do not accept the supporting and leading-back part-
power of the primordial power of the Christ-of-God. And so, they do not accept
Christ as the way, the truth and the life.

Closing the points of access

If a person has walked an eastern path and now comes to the Christian path, he
has to walk it diligently and consistently, aligning with Christ alone, daily anew.
This is especially important because otherwise, he will not be able to break away
from the influence of his former master and the energy fields behind him.
Also, it is not enough to personally take one’s leave of a master. In addition, it is
necessary to break off all lines of communication to him and to the traditions that
lie behind him. But this means to no longer send any thoughts in that direction, so
that the points of access through which the influencing can take place are closed.
These can even be such things as "wonderful" memories, longings, desires, books
and pictures. The person who is now striving towards Christ should not think about
these any longer, because every thought is a magnet through which telepathic
contact can be made with masters from the beyond or even with human masters.
Books, objects and mementos from that time should be removed if they remind
the student of his world of thoughts or of how he lived then. This is because
through every single thought in that direction the old lines of communication are
established again – even if unconsciously – through the principle of "sending and
receiving."
But the person who knows that he is the temple of the Holy Spirit himself, that
the Spirit of the Christ-of-God dwells in his innermost being, also knows that he
has to go daily in prayer to the One who dwells in him. The one who does this, who
intensively asks for the inner guidance and daily fulfils the laws of God more and
more cannot be touched by books or anything else. But as soon as one starts to
vacillate or become negligent, it is possible that the previous master’s pupil will be
grasped by his earlier world of thoughts and be influenced by it again.

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 A pupil can examine the quality of the teaching of a so-called master by his
fruits. He only needs to look at the pupils of a particular "spiritual teacher" who
have gone the master’s path for a long time. Often, these people are lethargic,
without energy. The reason for this is that behind every such spiritual teacher are
strong energy fields, this means souls in the worlds beyond that have an interest in
drawing the energy from the human master’s pupils. The person who has followed
the practices of such a master for some time is, for this reason, often passive and
hardly able to work.

A true spiritual teacher is one who has developed aspects from the kingdom of
divine wisdom, that is, who is on the path to becoming a truly wise one. He is able
to give and explain the divine laws as well as the spiritual principles of inner life,
insofar as he has developed these in himself.

No master can take away our karma

Very enticing is the promise of so-called masters who say, "I’ll do everything for
you; I will take your karma and transform it for you." The impression is thus given
to the pupil that the master can take the pupil’s soul burden, his karma, from him
without his having to put any effort into it. This is why very often there are people
making pilgrimages to the East who are looking for a quick "enlightenment." They
themselves do not want to put the effort into living according to the laws of God
which would bring their soul into its original frequency of vibration, thus making a
life in the eternal Being possible. Thus, they trust the literature that has spread in
the East and the West, including travel reports. They believe in the promises of
their "spiritual teachers" because – lacking the means for testing them – they
assume their spiritual perfection.

And to say that the pupil has to make his own effort to approach God in his inner
being through the fulfillment of the divine commandments in one’s daily life is
something that these "spiritual teachers" mention only lightly or not at all. Instead,
they instruct in the conscientious exercise of their own tasks and techniques. And
so, one can read in the glossary of one of Yogananda’s books, the following:
"Yoga: literally the unification of a person with his creator through the practice of
scientific techniques that lead to self-realization...; Yogi: One who practices Yoga.
... the mark of a Yogi is that he daily practices scientific techniques
conscientiously, techniques which lead him to the recognition of God."
(Yogananda, "Words of a Master" p. 122)
The unknowing pupil likes only too well to believe in such statements. Often,
such "spiritual teachers" themselves believe in the perfection of their own teaching,

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because the energy fields that are active behind what they teach do not offer a
higher spiritual knowledge.

However, no master can take the karma of a pupil from him. Neither can a
master forgive the pupil his sins. Only God, through Christ, His Son and our
Redeemer, can forgive sins. This is why it is written, "No one comes to the Father
but through Me." It is only the power of Christ in us that is able to transform our
soul burdens into positive power. But this transformation is possible only when the
student has recognized his faults beforehand, has repented of them, asked for
forgiveness, has been forgiven, has made amends as far as this was possible and,
above all, if he no longer commits the faults he has recognized, practicing instead a
law-abiding behavior. Only when this is taking place, does Christ transform the
negative which the student has given over to Him into positive power.

Ignorance is no protection against becoming bound

During an autogenic training workshop, the leader said that he had access to the
souls of the participants of the course. Such a statement means that the students had
opened themselves to the influence of this teacher, so that he could "program" them
with instructions. In such a case, one is faced with the same problem as with the
eastern masters. But of course, it depends on who is leading the autogenic training
and how intensively the student participated. But here, too, the dangers should not
be underestimated, including the danger of becoming influenced by souls in the
worlds beyond who are behind such workshops or their instructors.

Here is another example: A woman merely read a few books on the subject and
called intensively on souls only once. The result was that she could no longer get
rid of these souls. One single time of transmitting was enough to establish a line of
communication with souls.
Occasionally Yoga is offered simply as a type of "gymnastics." A woman
learned such Yoga exercises in a health club. She had never had anything to do
with the spiritual teachings of Yoga, just simply seeing these exercises as
gymnastics. After these exercises took place, there were some courses then offered
in the health club. At one of these week-end sessions, a teacher just "simply"
opened one of the spiritual centers of her fine-material body. The result for the
woman is that still today, after many years, she sees pictures, beings and grotesque
faces all around her.

We know that everything that we think, feel, speak or do is communication.

Every one has experienced that his body posture influences his mood and his
thoughts. Every movement – and thus, every Yoga exercise – is the same as a

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transmission. Every repeated or rhythmic movement activates certain feelings,
sensations, thoughts or actions. Through this, we begin to emit and, in accordance
with this vibrational frequency, we also receive – either from this world or from the
spheres beyond. And so, through Yoga exercises, a student connects with certain
energy fields.

Where does this leave our neighbor?

Some scribes asked Jesus of Nazareth, "Master, which commandment of the laws
is the greatest?" Jesus answered him, "You shall love the Lord thy God with all
your heart, with all your soul and with all your might. This is the greatest and the
first commandment; the second is like the first: You shall love your neighbor as
yourself. The whole of the law and all of the prophets depend on these two
commandments." (Mt. 22:36-40)

On the Christian path we experience that this commandment is not the easiest.
The love for God and for our neighbor are our main tasks. This is where we
confront our daily tests and trials.
If we merely bow a thousand times a day or think or speak out mantras several
hundred times during the day as spiritual exercises, where does this leave our
fellow man, our neighbor, who is directly at our side? Such a path is oriented solely
towards the person who is practicing it, towards the force-field of the human ego.
But where does this leave his neighbor?

God is the unity of all Being, and our neighbor, too, belongs to this unity, to the
great totality. If a person striving for spirituality turns his back on his neighbor,
then that can never be the path of unity for all people and beings which the Spirit of
the Christ-of-God teaches. It may very well be the path of a master and the
hierarchies from the soul realms behind him that are active through him, but not –
even if so claimed by a master – the path to God; for God is unity and the link to all
Being.

A subtle kind of egotism instead of selfless love

A woman who followed an eastern path of self-realization for many years

explains why she left this path:
"One day I asked the master: ‘Master, what do you say to the love of one’s

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neighbor? Shouldn’t we love one another?’ And this was his answer: ‘Better to just
let it be. We only need to look at the last 2000 years to see what the commandment
of Christ – to love one another – has led to. Better to just let it be. Let’s love God in
us, and in this way we will actualize the highest wisdom that I have taught you. To
love one’s neighbor brings nothing, we should love God. Each one of us loves his
God in himself, and that is everything.’

I then asked myself if it was at all possible to love God in me without going via
my neighbor. I suddenly realized that this was the greatest egotism that can ever be,
to want to force – via techniques – the experience of love, of peace and of unity
with God who is in me, in order to have it for me, so that things go well for me, so
that I can have peace. And what about the other person? ‘Let it be,’ said the master,
‘they, too, have their God in themselves.’"
This experience shows so clearly why the eastern masters say so little about the
universal law of selfless love. The masters may speak about love, that God is love,
that we should love our neighbor. But that the way to God can lead only through
our neighbor, because our neighbor is in our innermost being, in our pure being,
that he is a part of us – nothing is said about that.
If we want to reach unity with God who is the love, then the pure being of our
neighbor has to be awakened in us and belong to our life in a conscious way. This
is the unity in God; this is the family of God. And so, when I want to enter into
God, into the all-encompassing selfless love again, then I have to first become this
love again, to attain the highest vibration in the universe, to become a conscious
child of God.
The path to God leads solely via the selfless deed of love for our neighbor. This
is the path that Jesus of Nazareth taught us in the Sermon on the Mount and which
He again teaches and deepens today as the Christ-of-God.

The masters, too, will have to acknowledge Christ

Even the individual masters – no matter what their tradition is – will have to
acknowledge the filiation of God in order to become conscious sons and daughters
of God again. Every master will have to acknowledge the order of creation, with
Christ – the part-power of the primordial power – as the Co-Regent of infinity.
Only then will he be able to step through the wall of light of the heavens in order to
return to the eternal Being.
A master may have all the spiritual knowledge he wants; he may have actualized
certain divine laws; he may have developed a certain humbleness, and yet, ever
since the deed of redemption on Golgotha, none will reach God, the Eternal, except
through Christ. For Christ is not only the manifested spirit being, He is at the same
time, as the part-power of the primordial power, omnipresent in the four basic

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powers of creation as well as in the very bottom of the soul of every single person.
However, none of the true masters working on Earth during the time before
Golgotha was omnipresent power.

Christ, the true Inner Master

Christ, the master in our innermost being, is the only one who can guide us into
our innermost being, to God. As long as we are not aware of this, we will always be
seeking. And as long as we are seeking for something that we can concretely grasp
hold of, we will look to men and bind ourselves wherever possible to masters.
Christ is able to truly guide us to our innermost being, to our true being, because
He is omnipresent in our innermost being. Whoever is not in the innermost being
may be able to give certain instructions or indications that lead us some steps
within, but since Golgotha no master can guide us into our innermost being, into
the unity with God.
A spiritual teacher can teach from his tradition; he may be able to teach the
divine laws which he himself has actualized. But only we can walk within to the
divine that is in us, and we can do this only through the actualization of the divine
laws of God. There may be many ways and as many masters – but none of them
can guide us into unity with the divine in us. There is only one way that leads to the
Eternal in us: It is the step by step actualization of the Ten Commandments, of the
commandments of the Sermon on the Mount, it is the actualization of the eternal
laws – all under the guidance of the redeeming power in us, the power of the
Christ-of-God.

So why take detours?

Why do we seek? Is it not our soul that is seeking? But a person who wants to
attain everything quickly thinks that he may be able to progress more quickly and
perhaps become "someone" in a spiritual sense, if he were to tie himself to people,
to spiritual leaders and their hierarchies wherever possible.
However, it is fundamentally important for us to recognize that there are only
two possibilities in our lives. Either we orient ourselves directly to the source of
power, God, and let ourselves be guided via the redeeming power of Christ in us to
our Father in the eternal Being – or we take other paths and sources. In all of
infinity, since Golgotha, there are only these two possibilities: either through Christ
to the Eternal in us – or through the alignment with people, that is, with created

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beings, whether these people now call themselves "master" or "spiritual teacher."
They, too, are children of God, who bear the redeemer-spark, the Christ-power, in
them, and for this reason will – at some point in time – acknowledge Christ as their
Redeemer and the Co-Regent of creation.

Christ is the law, and the law is the law of freedom. And so, the person who is
aligned with Christ is and remains free on his path to perfection. This means that he
does not tie himself to anything on this path. Freely, he turns back to the eternal
source, to God in the innermost part of his soul, to his true being. God is freedom,
and so He also gave His children freedom, their free will. All other pathways,
especially those that are oriented towards a human master, invariably lead to
becoming bound to that particular person and to the corresponding hierarchy of
souls in the beyond, for which this master lives and works on Earth.

So why take detours through human soul-guides when we have the direct way:
Christ in us!

The Inner Path

"Nearer, My God, to Thee"

Through His prophetic word today, the Spirit of the Christ-of-God teaches us the
Christian mystical path in all its levels and details. With this, He is making true
what He promised: "I still have much to tell you, but you would not be able to
understand it. However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will lead you into all
truth." (Jn. 16:12) This Inner Path in Universal Life consists of the step-by-step
actualization of the divine commandments in one’s daily life – the Ten
Commandments and the spiritual laws of the Sermon on the Mount including the
Absolute Law of God, which the Spirit of the Christ-of-God has revealed today
anew.

On this path of Christian mystical schooling we turn to Christ in our innermost

being. We develop our spiritual heritage through self-recognition, that is, the
recognition of our faults and weaknesses and clearing up what we recognize and, at
the same time, through the step-by-step actualization and fulfilment of the
commandments of God. Every person who seeks God can examine this schooling
path of the inner being beforehand – it is printed and available for every person.
The student on the Inner Path is prepared by way of the Original Christian
Course for the Development of Consciousness. When a decision is made for this
course, this means that a decision for Christ has already been made. In this Original
Christian Course for the Development of Consciousness, we affirm aspects of our
inner being and at the same time strive earnestly to fulfill these. For example, if we

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say the words, "I am peaceful" into our inner being, then this positive energy will
activate those aspects in us that still have no peace. Through this, we can recognize
them and clear them up, so that we will gradually become peaceful as is in
accordance with the divine laws.

If a pilgrim on the path within has walked an eastern path and now comes to the
original Christian Inner Path, he certainly can participate in the preparatory course
for the path within. But a certain time period should have already passed since
practicing the previous path. This course of preparation is to help the student align
with God and Christ in the innermost part of his soul. If the student now begins to
walk the Inner Path, then he has to walk it consistently and diligently, aligned only
with Christ in his inner being. Otherwise, he will not be able to break away from
the energy field of his previous master and the forces behind him, because
especially then – as we have read above – this energy field will try to influence him
in a very strong way, so that it continues to receive energy from him. But by
aligning with Christ alone, who is in him, no binding takes place since Christ is the
freedom. By the step-by-step actualization and fulfilment of the eternal laws, we
attain a hold in the divine in us, a hold in Christ, the pure, selfless power. This is
the real security, which means freedom.

This path comprises seven levels: Order, Will, Wisdom, Earnestness, Patience,
Love and Mercy. The actualization and fulfillment of the aspects of the law of God
that are taught on the levels one through four lead to a degree of purity and
development of soul and person, so that the Inner Master, Christ, can take over the
direct guidance of the student on the further levels five to seven: the guidance all
the way to the conscious unity with God, the Eternal, in the conscious unity with all
Being, in the selfless work as a human being for the good of all.

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