MARCH 16, 2005
PASTOR'S LETTER
AT THE FEET OF THE GURU

Some new ideas are afoot. It all started with B. Ihnot sending me "Peda Puja" photos of gurus, some female. Now we are way past that, studying how to build the beginnings of our Church/Ashram. I am going to move anyway, probably to the Los Angeles area. Why not get a place where my main devotees can visit for periods of time, (those who can help me build the institution) and where others can visit? A large room can temporarily serve as "Church" until we get a Temple built - or whatever it is we will do. Right now Ihnot is helping me with research, as he knows two or three female gurus, and a few males, and is familiar with how they run their organizations. He is explaining all that he knows to me, as I need templates not to copy but to start with as points of departure. How mine will be totally different is that we have both Christianity and Yoga combined. If we have a Church, we will celebrate two sets of holidays! I understand the Catholic/Christian point of view the best, but I also understand the yoga as well as any yoga saint. I do not yet know all the terms, but that's a matter of language, easily remedied by study. The grace part, inside me, is the most important part, and if anyone tells you that study is more important, it is not. The grace is the main thing, and study helps for one's own understanding and to transmit understanding to others. What I plan to do is continue studying how ashrams are made, and have costumes ready, and study their language.

In the spring I will have photos made that would be suitable for meditation/worship, and have these available to the public who want to accept me as their guru. It will begin spiritually, then center into physical presence. I now understand the world is in such darkness, and they need the human touch to galvanize their Faith, Hope and Love. Some are not yet strong enough to receive spiritually, unless they are in the physical presence of their guru. While I am living I suppose the logical thing to do is let them see me, meet me, talk with me. This will be mostly in a public setting, except for the closest devotees who help me build the system. When the guru is dead, then the time for spiritual-only communication has come. But when the guru is alive, I suppose is the time for physical meetings. Even so, with all my efforts, I would meet only a fraction of the people I could meet all around the world, who would benefit by such meetings. The thing I must emphasize now and always is that this is not a tool for domination and lustful "body worship" type meetings. These are not sessions of any kind. This is 100% spiritual. Now if anyone thinks otherwise, please do not bother me, but go to professional dominatrixes for their services. Let us understand once and for all that sex is not salvation. Sexual domination will not save the planet, nor are tantric practices spiritual. For those who are hung up on sex, you need to work on this and get as much of it out of your system as you can. Sex is an animal appetite, and although it makes the world go round, it does not create spiritual progress; it can be a serious block to it. Those who are addicted to sex can make little progress in the spiritual life. I have been celibate since 1978. Please look under my interviews of Jesus and Mary concerning sex. It is not evil, but if you want to reach the heights of spirituality, it will be like a boulder on your back that you carry. Any attachment to the flesh - whatever it may be, even food - will slow you down or even stop you completely. You cannot be addicted to anything to reach the heights of spirituality. That is the very essence of spirituality; to be free for God means free of earthly things, and open to God in Love. If you LOVE earthly things, the more you love them, the less you are free for God. I am not saying to be abnormal, and to turn into a strangeling. If you just do ordinary things, like daily prayer, spiritual reading and meditation, bit by bit you will be pulled out of the flesh and into your own spirituality.

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