"Those mystics who have come from the higher worlds do not attempt to reform the world as do the saints of the negative world. They desire to take man out of this sphere to his true home of pure and lasting bliss, absolute knowledge, and divine love.
So you see the world of Karma [is] a big prison with many rooms and cells. The warden is Brahm and man is the prisoner. His true home is in the nameless region above, but Brahm does not desire that, although he wishes perpetual reform going on constantly within his prison.
So he sends his saints, prophets, moral, social and political reformers, who are to try to set his world right. As his agents they act with his power and do his reform work in his prison . . . . Just as the incarnated ones are the agents of the negative power, so do the sacred scriptures reveal the laws of this prison world . . . . The revelations of the Holy Books want man to give up bad actions and embrace good ones, but so few of them tell how to go beyond good and evil, how to transcend the bonds of mortality and the Law of Karma.
So I tell you that if bad actions are iron shackles, then good actions are gold chains and still both are fetters that bind man to his prison . . . . It is difficult to get out of the clutches of maya and karma, but there is always hope if you can take shelter in the shadow of the Living ECK Master . . . . I will tell you this, dear one, . . . You have a great mission on earth. You are in the midst of it now. Keep progressing and very shortly it will show results. You will someday become the MAHANTA."
"These men were trained in submission to God and those over them in authority.
They were trained in teamwork -- in harmoniously working together.
Secondly, they were trained in knowledge of the true values.
After that, they were trained in handling people, in wise management of people, of wealth without letting it turn their heads.
In the same way, King David was trained and developed."