The Early Life of Mark L. Prophet

He was the only child of Thomas and Mabel Prophet, born Christmas Eve 1918 in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin.

As a child his mystical inclinations were apparent. He saw and freely communed with angels and nature spirits. When he was nine his father died and it affected him deeply.

Attending the Pentecostal church, praying by the hour at the altar he built in the attic of his home, the young Mark showed an extraordinary religious devotion.

Before finishing high school he had received all nine gifts of the Holy Spirit.

When Mark was a young man the ascended master El Morya appeared to him but, unable to reconcile the turbaned Eastern adept with his lifelong devotion to Jesus or his mother’s studies with Unity School of Christianity, he dismissed him.

Years later, El Morya returned. Having realized that the path of the ascended masters was also the path of Jesus, Mark accepted Morya as his teacher and took on the rigors of Eastern discipleship.

Mark also studied the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda and was for a time associated with Self-Realization Fellowship as well as the Rosicrucian order.

After serving in the Air Force in World War II, Mark lectured on Christian and Eastern mysticism and the Masters of Wisdom from 1945 until 1952 when he began publishing a series of letters for his students called Ashram Notes, dictated by El Morya from his Ashram at Darjeeling, India.

The Master directed him to establish the headquarters in Washington, D.C. On August 8, 1958, El Morya dictated the first of the Pearls of Wisdom to Mark, launching a worldwide movement.