400 Years of Imaginary Friends: A Journey Into the World of Adepts, Masters,
Ascended Masters, and Their Messengers
by Kenneth Paolini and Talita
Paolini
Foreword by Joe Szimhart
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Who
are the Adepts, Masters, and Ascended Masters? Who are the messengers? Why do
people believe in the Masters and join groups built on "Their" teachings? Why
and how do members leave? Most importantly, where did belief in the Masters
originate and how do these beliefs manifest themselves today?
Kenneth and
Talita Paolini's thirteen years of research, meticulous compilation of source
material, access to original documents and inside information, and personal
experience in an Ascended Masters group helps you answer these questions and
understand one of the most intriguing phenomena of this era.
400 Years
of Imaginary Friends: A Journey Into the World of Adepts, Masters, Ascended
Masters, and Their Messengers takes you inside one of these groups, Church
Universal and Triumphant. The Paolinis' trek into the group and their personal
interaction with its leader, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, gives you insight into a
modern-day Masters group. Their struggle to leave and find independence outside
of the organization is riveting.
After recounting their adventures, the
Paolinis document the creation and evolution of the Masters, and introduce the
messengers--the controversial people who claim to write and speak for the
Masters. You'll follow the trail of the Masters as it winds through
Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry, Spiritualism, New Thought, Theosophy, Agni Yoga, I
AM, Bridge to Freedom, Church Universal and Triumphant, and The Temple of the
Presence. And you'll see the evolution of the belief system developed through
the persons of Rosenkreuz, Swedenborg, Mesmer, Fox, Quimby, Eddy, Blavatsky,
Leadbeater, Bailey, Krishnamurti, Roerichs, Ballards, Innocente, Prophets, and
Shearers.
Common threads link many of the groups. The Paolinis discuss
some of the groups' fundamental teachings and explore the messengers' motives,
the treatment of members, and the origin of the Masters Saint Germain, El Morya,
and Kuthumi.
The Paolinis address the issue of phenomena by exploring a
variety of possibilities for people's mystical encounters and conclude by
offering ex-members ideas on life after involvement with a Masters
group.
Well-researched, well-written, engaging, and credible, 400
Years of Imaginary Friends untangles the web of mystery that surrounds the
Masters and the messengers.
See How These People
Influenced the Formation of the Masters Myth As It Exits Today
Christian
Rosenkreuz
Emanuel Swedenborg
Anton Mesmer
The Fox Sisters
Phineas
P. Quimby
Mary Baker Eddy
Helena Blavatsky
Charles Leadbeater
Alice
Bailey
Krishnamurti
Nicholas and Helena Roerich
Guy and Edna
Ballard
Geraldine Innocente
Mark and Elizabeth Prophet
Monroe and
Carolyn Shearer
Below is the Table of
Contents.
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Contents
Dedication
Foreword--Joe
Szimhart
Preface
1. The Dream
Part I--Our Journey
2.
Talita's Story
Who is that Turbaned Man?
I Find the Brotherhood
Welcome
to Camelot
Living in a World Apart
Through the Looking Glass
Back in
Santa Cruz
Round Two
Row, Row, Row Your Boat . . . Life is but a
Dream
3. Kenneth's Story
Summit University
Beer, Beer Everywhere,
but Not a Drop to Drink!
The Yellow Brick Road
Cosmic Honor Guard:
Training, Guard Dog, and Bulletproof Glass
Sleep, Food, and Life in the
Mystery School
Sons and Daughters of Dominion
What is the Sound of One
Hand Clapping, Grasshopper? or Is it Better to Marry than to
Burn?
Oops!
Leaves, Leaves, and More Damn Leaves
Let Them Eat Cake, but
Guru Food is Better
The Second Set of Books
True Love
4. Together
at Last
The Dating Game
Guns in the Basement
We Tie the Knot
And
Baby Makes Three
Alaska Bound . . . Then Again, Maybe Not!
Toil and
Trouble
All You Need is Love
The Final Straw
5. Life Without the
Masters
6. Guns? We Don't Have No Stinking Guns
7. The Boise
Intervention
8. Free at Last!
Part II--The Masters and Their
Messengers
9. The Masters
10. Esoteric Tradition
11.
Gnostic Roots of the Masters
12. Occult Tradition of the
Masters
13. Rosicrucianism
The Masters in Rosicrucianism
A Modern
Rosicrucian Group
14. Freemasonry
15. Swedenborg's Rings of
Angels
16. Mesmer and Animal Magnetism
17. The Birth of
Spiritualism: The Fox Sisters
Spiritualism Sweeps America
18. New
Thought
19. Theosophy
Blavatsky the Storyteller
The Founding of
Theosophy
The Masters Appear
Blavatsky's Writings, Plagiarism, and the
Mahatma Letters
The Masters
Another View of the Masters
After
Blavatsky
The Judge Affair
Leadbeater the
Pedophile
Krishnamurti
Alice Bailey
Benjamin Creme
20. Phylos
the Thibetan
21. Agni Yoga Society
22. Mighty I AM
The Ballards
Before the I AM
I AM That I AM
Sources of Inspiration for the I AM
Movement
Baird T. Spalding
The Movement Grows
Do as I Say, Not as I
Do
Writings and Teachings
The Ascended Masters
Decrees
Ballard
Demise
A.D.K. Luk
23. Bridge To Freedom
24. Church Universal
and Triumphant
Life at La Tourelle
Of Prophets and Kings
All that
Glitters
Church Universal and Triumphant is Born
Staff, Summit University,
and Decrees
Confessions Betrayed
Buddha's Birthday Caper
Camelot Comes
Again!
The Call of Camelot
Power Plays
Daughter of a Devil?
Children
at Camelot
Political Aspirations
Gregory Mull
Prophet's Very Private
Life
Montana Bound
Prepare Thee an Ark
Gotcha!
Hear No Evil, See No
Evil, . . .
The Sky is Falling!
The Shelter Crisis and Children
The
Final Crisis
Fuel Leak
A Trail of Guns and Deception
And More
Trouble
It's a Miracle!
Once Upon a Dream
What Motivated
Prophet?
Gone With the Wind
25. The Temple of the
Presence
Part III--Common Threads
26. The Messengers and Their
Stories
Messengers to the Gods
The Big Lie
A Good Story Never
Dies
The Notovitch Affair
Dueling Messengers--Malice in
Wonderland
27. Saint Germain
28. El Morya and Kuthumi
29.
The Teachings
Astrology
Karma
Reincarnation
I AM Presence
What of
the Ascension?
30. Science of the Masters
The Truth and Nothing but
the Truth
Eye of Newt and Toe of Frog
31. Treatment of
Members
Praise and Condemnation
Part IV--Know Thyself
32.
Phenomena and the Believer
We Can All Be Fooled
Storytellers vs.
Scientists
Masters and Dragons
Nobody's Home
Mystical
Experience
Look Into My Eyes
And Santa is Real
Of Men and
Masters
33. Life After Myth
A New Path . . .
Appendix: The
Pantheon of Masters, Angels, Archangels, Elohim, and Assorted Beings of
Light
Bibliography
Suggested
Reading
Acknowledgments
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