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Organization and Clergy
Eck Masters
Eckankar emphasizes individual spiritual growth, yet is a deeply hierarchical organization.
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The religion is headed by the Living ECK Master or the Mahanta, the spiritual leader of the religion. The Mahanata represents “the highest state of God consciousness on Earth.”1 The ECK Master is revered and respected by ECKists, but is never to be worshipped.
ECKist Kathleen explains Mahantaship:
"We believe that in every day and age that mankind has been on Earth, there’s always been a living Eck Master. And so there’s been over nine hundred of them…[There have been] previous Living ECK Masters from ancient China and Egypt and Tibet, but there’s a line, or a lineage of Eck Masters.
And what that means is that an Eck Master is, we believe, the highest state of consciousness represented in a physical person on earth. And ECK means Holy Spirit, so they are one who has mastered the ways of the Holy Spirit."2
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