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Last Post 04/29/2012 11:36 PM by  Wayne
A Wizard Who Will Serve
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04/29/2012 11:36 PM
    This is the title of the Chapter in "Spiritual Journeys along the Yellow Brick Road" that mentions Elizabeth Clare Prophet. The author, Darren John Main, visited the Ranch when he was living in Bozeman, and wrote an article about CUT. He attended services, and interviewed Mother, people from the Cult Awareness Network, and Erin Prophet. He made some interesting observations. He thought it was ironic that the people in the Cult Awareness Network exhibited many of the characteristics of a cult they were trying to warn against. He quoted Erin saying that "Jesus told people to leave their jobs and homes and follow him. Did that make him a cult leader?" And he wrote that "a true teacher puts the student first, and is willing to lay down everything for the betterment of even one student. He also said that he should always speak truth... His job is not to do something for us, but to inspire us to keep pressing on along the Yellow Brick Road."

    The next chapter is titled "The Small and the Meek" and discusses two qualities of a disciple: humility and trust. Dorothy and her companions required those qualities when the wizard told them to kill the Wicked Witch of the West.

    Main wrote "The beliefs of Ms. Prophet's group are very unique. I do not share them for myself, but they are no more outrageous than the belief that Mary was a Virgin or that Moses parted the Red Sea." It's unfortunate that he didn't see the many connections between "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" and the teachings. In the Introduction, in which he discusses Baum's Theosophical background, he admits, "Although I am not a Theosophist and know little of their beliefs, I can see where their teachings certainly influenced Baum's writing." Main decided to base his book on the movie rather than the book, as most authors of books about the Wizard of Oz do. If he had based his book on Baum's book, he would have seen the symbolism of the three-fold flame, the higher self, four lower bodies, dweller on the threshold, etc, and made the connection between "the beliefs of Ms. Prophet's group" and the Wonderful Wisdom of Oz.
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