Where Did Twitchell Get the Concept of Vairagi Masters?

Author: David Christopher Lane
Publisher: Alt.religion.eckankar
Publication date: 1996

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Question: Where Did Twitchell Get the Concept, "Vairagi Masters"?

Answer: Try page 491 of Julian Johnson's THE PATH OF THE MASTERS,
where Johnson includes (and cites) a long quote from Hazrat Inayat
Khan's book, THE MYSTICISM OF SOUND, Chapter Eight.

Quotes Johnson of Khan:

"Aluk is the sacred word that the VAIRAGIS, THE ADEPTS OF INDIA, exclaim
as the chant."

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Sidebar:

It is also from this very section that the famous "HU" chant in
Eckankar is derived. See pages 489 to 492 of Johnson's work which
cites Khan.

excerpted from the forthcoming GAKKO CAME FROM VENUS 
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Steve,

Thanks once again for your response to my post on "WHERE DID
TWITCHELL GET THE CONCEPT OF VAIRAGI MASTERS?"

You go on at some length adding implications and false inferences
from my simple post.

All i said (you can read it again for yourself) is the following:

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Question: Where Did Twitchell Get the Concept, "Vairagi Masters"?

Answer: Try page 491 of Julian Johnson's THE PATH OF THE MASTERS,
where Johnson includes (and cites) a long quote from Hazrat Inayat
Khan's book, THE MYSTICISM OF SOUND, Chapter Eight.

Quotes Johnson of Khan:

"Aluk is the sacred word that the VAIRAGIS, THE ADEPTS OF INDIA, exclaim
as the chant."

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I didn't say Johnson invented the term; I said, rather, he quoted
Hazrat Inayat Khan's book, The Mysticism of Sound.

That's it Steve.

I don't mind you adding things, but it is better to be accurate.   






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