The Agasha Temple of Wisdom was founded in Los Angeles in 1943 by Richard Zenor, a medium who said he was channeling messages from a spiritual entity named Master Agasha. Zenor relayed a system of spiritual knowledge called “Universal Understanding of the God Consciousness” that he said was the result of a “Grand Convention” of representatives of 37 different sects in Egypt about 7,000 years ago.
Zenor said that this group had foreseen a decline in the world’s spiritual knowledge and met to preserve and transmit their wisdom. They created a system of “inter-transitory mediumship” that utilized a trance state to allow spiritual entities to communicate to humans directly. Zenor channeled Agasha until his death in 1978, at which point Geary Salvat succeeded him and began to channel Master Ayuibbi, said to be a contemporary of Agasha.
A 1950 book entitled Telephone Between Two Worlds brought brief attention to Zenor and the Agasha Temple of Wisdom. Zenor’s channeled teachings were later compiled into books by a temple member.
Key Sources:
Crenshaw, J. (1950). Telephone Between Two Worlds. DeVorss.
Eisen, W. (1977). Agasha, Master of Wisdom. DeVorss.
Zenor, R. (1965). Maggie Answers You. Philip J. Hastings.
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