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A letter from Africa told this story:

A hen laid some eggs which had been fertilized by apeculiar rooster. The rooster’s head and neck were bald.The bird was such an oddity that the family found itamusing. Every time the rooster came into the yard, theywould all laugh at it.

The Bald RoosterAn ECK parable

from The Book of ECK Parables, Volume 1, p. 11

by Sri Harold Klemp

Finally, one day, the eggs hatched. One of the littlechicks looked exactly like the rooster. The little thing had abald head and a bald neck, and because the little chick wasso ugly and small, the other chicks picked on him.

The family saw this and hurried to the rescue. Theythen decided that the ugly little chick would live insidewith the family. The people of that household came torealize an interesting thing. They had laughed at a bald-headed, bald-necked rooster, and now they found thatone just like it took up residence in their home.

This story illustrates the laws of karma. In simplerterms, if you have attitudes of any nature, they are goingto come home to roost.

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Discussion Questions

1. What thoughts and attitudes, both positive andnegative, have come home to roost (live) in your life?

2. How can watching your thoughts and actionshelp you avoid creating uncomfortable situations foryourself and others?

3. What conditions would you like to create in yourlife?

4. What thoughts and actions will help create theoutcome you would like?

Law of Causation

We create our worlds each day

in all we think and do and say.

So be aware of thoughts and deeds,

for they are each creative seeds.

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The Laws of Wisdomlet us know how divine power

works to help Soul grow.

Draw a picture of helping an animal or a person, asyou imagined in your spiritual exercise.

Spiritual Exercise:

With your eyes open or closed, take a relaxing breath.Sing HU and see the Mahanta and yourself in a beautifulgarden that you created. The Mahanta gives you a goldenseed of divine love. See the divine love growing in yourlife. There is so much love that you want to share it. Imag-ine doing something that helps other people or animals,and see how it feels.

(A couple minutes of silent contemplation.)

You are creating your world. May the blessings be.

Law of Causation

We create our worlds each day

in all we think and do and say.

So be aware of thoughts and deeds,

for they are each creative seeds.


Harold and the Purple CrayonAn ECK parable

from The Book of ECK Parables, Volume 1, pp. 39–40

by Sri Harold Klemp

There was a little book which came out a number ofyears ago, titled Harold and the Purple Crayon. Someonethought it was fitting and sent it to me. I decided to read itto the children at a seminar.

It was the story of a boywho went into the dreamstate and actually createdhis own dream. In hisdream he had a purplecrayon, and wanting to takea walk, he used it to draw aroad so that he would havesomething to walk upon.

But it was such a longroad and not very interest-ing, so he decided to take ashortcut. He thought aboutit and then chose a shortcutthrough a forest. He drew asingle tree. He didn’t wantto make the forest too big,because he didn’t want toget lost.

It was a wonderful story. The little person went throughit creating his dreams. It showed how Soul goes along andcreates whatever It needs to finally get back home.

The little boy always kept his eye on the moon.

So he took his crayon anddrew the moon up in the sky,and he kept it there through-out his whole adventure. Iexplained to the childrenwho were listening that themoon was like the Blue Starof ECK, that it was alwayswith them. Then the boy inthe story drew the windowaround the moon, and he feltvery secure. Here I am inmy room, because the moonis always right there in thewindow, he assured himself.

“Well,” he said, “Iknow the moon is

always right outsidemy bedroom window.”

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and began.

I sat down the floor with them in the children’s roomon

Every once in a while, while I was reading the story, Iwould pause and hold the book up for the children to seethe pictures the boy had drawn with his purple crayon.They would all scramble over to me to get a closer look,all except one child. One little girl sat in the back, and shedidn’t move. Instead, she called out, “I can’t see!”

I wonderedwhy she didn’t actlike the othersand come upcloser to see. ButI would lean overand hold up thebook to her. She’dtake a good lookat it and finallynod that she wassatisfied. Then I’dread another pageand hold it up tothe other chil-dren. Again, shewould call out, “Ican’t see!”

The child was actually acting very much like a grown-up. The nature of children is to enjoy an open communionwith the other worlds, but eventually education closes inon us and we lose this openness.


Create your own dream here with the Mahanta.After you have completed your drawing, cut out a

Blue Star of ECKand glue it to your dream drawing.

Imagination is the God spark within you.—Sri Harold Klemp, The Book of ECK Parables, Volume 1, p. 189

Cutouts

Harold and the Purple CrayonColor and cut out a Blue Star of ECK, and glue it to your dream drawing.

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Spiral Word PuzzleWhat is Soul’s divine gift from God?

Counting the first letter after the circled I as 1, circle every fourthletter, moving around to the center of the spiral. Then enter thecircled letters, in order, in the blanks following letter I below.

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Secret Message

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B u G l L - Q 5 V v

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Dd I b N 8 S 1 X a

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Code Key:

“How does one live the life ofECK? The answer is simply

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each of us is working to become

to live creatively, because

—Sri Harold KlempThe Book of ECK Parables,Volume 2, p. 87

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How does one live the life of ECK? The an-swer is simply to live creatively, because eachof us is working to become a Co-worker withGod.

—Sri Harold Klemp,The Book of ECK Parables, Volume 2, p. 87

Draw a picture of yourselfas a spark of God.

Imagination is the God spark within you.—Sri Harold Klemp,

The Book of ECK Parables, Volume 1, p. 189

Coloring Page


Make your own path.What will you see?

Flowers? Sunshine?A swingset? A tree?

Will you meet anyone?A person? Lizard?

Or horse?Draw what you imagine—in your own way, of course.

At the end of this path,what will there be?

A castle? A temple?

A forest?

Or the sea?

MAKE YOUR OWN PATH


Coloring Page

Life is an adventure of doingnew things and learning newlessons.

—The ECK Teenie 3 Discourses, p. 138

What is at the end of the path? You can draw it here.


Use Your Imaginationto Soul Travel

I’ve heard that we should use our imagination toSoul Travel, but can we use too much imagination?Sometimes I’ll have an experience and am not surewhether I’ve made it up.

To imagine Soul Travel is the first thing one mustdo before actually getting out of the body.

A girl who plays second base for a baseball teamin town is called a “natural.” But she works hard at herfielding and hitting. Her brothers are all good ballplayers, and in her mind she imagines herself every bitas good as they are. And so she is good, not only be-cause of her imagination, but mainly because shepractices harder than the other girls on the team.

Keep on imagining that you do Soul Travel, andone day you will suddenly do it. You will have no moredoubt about the difference between imagination andSoul Travel. Wait and see!

—Sri Harold Klemp,Ask the Master, Book 1, p. 167



Only half of this picture is drawn. You can draw the rest of the kingdomany way you want to.

An old kingdom in some faraway place in a forgotten time:

A wise king:

Do you want toadd a mustacheor a beard on theking? Go aheadand draw it onyourself. How aboutputting jewels in hiscrown? Add orchange anythingelse you want to.Or you canmake a wisequeen instead ofa wise king.

The Wise KingAn ECK parable

from The Book of ECK Parables,Volume 2, p. 83

By Sri Harold Klemp

In an old kingdom in some faraway place in a forgot-ten time, the people had a system of governmentwhereby they elected a new king every four years. Theking, once elected, had absolute power. He could doanything he wanted, and his subjects were at his beckand call. There was only one problem.

When a king’s term of service was over, so that hewouldn’t be a threat to the new king, he was taken to theedge of an evil forest and left there by his former sub-jects. The forest was filled with wild beasts, and sincethe king knew nothing about surviving in such a place,he soon perished.

One day the king of the land, aware of his ultimatefate, had an idea. He asked his royal architects to draw upplans for a zoo, and then he set the people working tocultivate the feared forest into a beautiful park. The parkwas finished just about the time the king’s four years ofsovereignty were over and a new king was elected. Andas was custom, the old king was taken to the edge of theforest and left there. However, instead of being left tosurvive in a wilderness, the ex-king was able to live inthe beautiful park.

The king had thought ahead. He had seen to thecomforts he would need for survival. Consequently, hewas happy in retirement and had no desire to return tothe kingdom and threaten the reigning monarch.

Can you draw the other half of the king? You can trace the dotted lines.

You Can Draw It


You can create your own zoo or park on the next page.


You can draw your own place that you imagine.

I have a special placeWhere I can just be.It’s in my own houseWay up in a tree.

And if I get hungry All I need to do is reach My arm out the window and pick off a peach.

Draw your picture here.Ask Wah Z to help you.


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