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baby in whatever way she can.
    “She doesn’t question the reason for
    the baby’s needs or wait to be told what to do. She does it simply because she
    loves the baby, with none of the petty jealousies that can make things complicated in a family or a group.
    “. . . Love makes things very simple.”
    Know Greater Love
    through the Golden Heart
    The key to love is the Golden Heart.
    If you have it, it is very easy to Soul Travel. Let’s take a moment to look within and experience the radiant love of the Golden Heart.
    Begin to visualize a growing, golden
    light surrounding you. It may be very
    subtle at first. It embraces you, flows with you.
    Soon you are riding currents of light
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    place you’ve long forgotten. It’s a place deep within your inner being, the dwell-ing place of Soul.
    Now your consciousness settles on the
    surface of the sea. Now the sea of love and light begins to emanate from you,
    expanding. It’s deeper than the mind can conceive. You’ve moved beyond the regions of space and time.
    Ever so lightly, you sense a breeze. You hear the sound of a wind from deep within.
    It creates tiny ripples on the surface of the sea. Suddenly you realize you’re experiencing the Light and Sound of God.
    You can stay here for a while if you choose, basking in this radiant, soothing ocean of Light and love.
    When you’re ready, slowly come back.
    It should be easy enough to speak of this kind of experience, but words often fail us. We can try to share our experience, but it’s up to each of us to open up that awareness within ourselves.
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    path of Eckankar offers each of us the opportunity to open our consciousness and our hearts to greater awareness, to become the Golden Heart. We can each feel the love that passes on from one world to the next, into the higher planes of reality.
    But the awakening has to start within
    your heart.
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    The ECK-Vidya
    If you are open to the Holy Spirit, you will find truth coming to you through the actions and words of other people.
    This is a facet of the ECK-Vidya, the ancient science of prophecy. I call it the Golden-tongued Wisdom.
    When God speaks to you through others, the words may even come via the electronic media. . . . Suddenly a sentence pops out that is precisely for you. It may mean nothing to anyone else, but for you it has a significant meaning.
    Harold Klemp
    The Drumbeat of Time
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    into the ECK-Vidya and the nature of
    prophecy through the following story:
    “An individual had a question about
    the role of the ancient oracles in the spiritual life of man in the time of the Oracle of Delphi. To learn and open up, he decided to study the ECK-Vidya. First he went into a contemplative state and
    asked, ‘What is this all about?’ He then visualized himself in ancient Greece,
    sitting on the side of a mountain. After a while, an ECK Master came along and
    asked him what he wanted. He said he
    wanted an understanding about the role of oracles in the spiritual life.
    “He came to understand that the
    oracles were used in those early times because the consciousness of man was so low. They were not able to go to the temple within directly, through the Spiritual Exercises of ECK, and meet the Inner
    Master to get information on whatever
    they were looking for. So the ECK Mas-
    ters at the time would work through
    oracles. What has come down to us in
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    history is a poor shadow of the original message that was given; it’s merely a
    rehashing of the psychic and occult techniques which have lost their original
    meaning.
    “As he sat there on the mountainside
    and got insight into his question, the ECK Master showed him some incidents
    from his past lives, revealing something that was of importance to him in this lifetime, something which had a direct bearing on his