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    “All became still. The sound of thunder ceased, but the Light of God poured end-lessly into my heart as It swept down from the God planes, from the very center of all creation. . . .
    “Then it came, barely a breath of sound gliding over the water. . . . The soft ripple of sound washed in again. Without a doubt, it was ocean waves upon a peaceful shore. . . .
    “The sound of waves grew still.
    A pause, then again the ocean swell, but this time more compelling. . . .
    “The tide must be coming in , I thought.
    Faster, louder came the surging. Thunder-ous, booming, crashing. . . .
    . . . With each tide fall I reeled. The full Ocean of Love and Mercy was crushing me, cleansing, scouring, blessing. . . .
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    “The Sound was All. It filled my every atom. The sweet and holy Current of God cradled me with Its fierce love. There was no part of me where It was not. This was ECK, the ancient, ageless Voice of God, giving new life to Its creation.”
    That ECKist who stood on the bridge
    is Harold Klemp. This experience, ex-
    cerpted from his book Autobiography of a Modern Prophet , occurred while he was in training to become the Mahanta, the Living ECK Master. His experience was
    dramatic and unique. Yet it shows what is possible for the seeker who loves God with all his or her heart.
    Soul Travel Makes It Possible
    to Achieve God-Realization
    in This Lifetime
    Learning to recognize, understand, and work with the Light and Sound of God is one of the most unique and exciting
    aspects of Eckankar. Becoming attuned
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    vibrational rates of the God Worlds via Soul Travel makes it possible for the seeker to achieve Self-Realization and even God-Realization in this lifetime.
    The God Worlds can best be described
    as planes of reality. Each plane corresponds to a certain state of consciousness and vibration. God, or the Sugmad, is the source of all the planes. From out of the Sugmad flows the ECK. It is the ECK, Divine Spirit, which supports and sustains all life in all planes.
    Harold Klemp experienced the Ocean of
    Love and Mercy in the pure spiritual worlds of God while physically on that bridge in Wisconsin. Sugmad exists at the heart of the spiritual worlds, in the Ocean of Love and Mercy, beyond matter, energy, space, or time. It is in these worlds that you take the journey from Self- to God-Realization.
    The Soul Plane
    Self-Realization is achieved on the Soul Plane, just across the division between 58
    the lower (psychic) and higher (spiritual) worlds. The Soul Plane is the only plane in the higher worlds where Soul is still cloaked with a form or body. Each plane, whether psychic or spiritual, can be recognized by its own particular sound. The sound of the Soul Plane is the single note of the flute.
    The ECK continues to flow outward
    from the heart of God, even to the
    far reaches of the lower worlds. They are the worlds of matter, energy, space, and time. The coarsest material level, operating at the lowest frequency of vibration, is the Physical Plane.
    Life is short here, and the understanding of the spiritual laws is usually limited to a very few. As an ECKist, however, you learn that your experience is no longer limited to this plane. You also reach a point where, at the end of this lifetime, you may have a choice whether or not you wish to return.
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    Gain Spiritual
    Understanding from
    the Temples of Golden Wisdom
    Often we gain wisdom and spiritual
    understanding by visiting Temples of
    Golden Wisdom. There are Temples on
    each plane, each with an ECK Master
    serving as guardian of the Shariyat-
    Ki-Sugmad, the holy scriptures of ECK.
    Most notable on the Physical Plane are the Katsupari Monastery in Tibet
    (Fubbi Quantz, guardian); the Gare-Hira Temple at Agam Des in the Hindu Kush
    mountains (Yaubl Sacabi, guardian); the Faqiti Monastery in the Gobi Desert,
    (Banjani, guardian); and the Temple of ECK, in Chanhassen, Minnesota (Harold
    Klemp, guardian). The sound of