Eckankar's holy "bibles" the Shariyat ki Sugmad (two books and plagiarized material - although Twitchell claimed it was directly dictated to him by the Eck Master Fubbi Quantz), claim Eckankar was brought to earth by an Eck Master named Gakko 6 million years ago from Venus. The hitch is that nobody ever heard of any of this until 1965.

In pulp magazine articles and interviews prior to 1965, Twitchell bragged Eckankar was his own invention - a form of shabda yoga. Also, in prior magazine write-ups, there was no mention of any Vairagi masters, Rebezar Tarzs, etc. There's considerable evidence that he was making it up as he went along, as even he forgot who was supposed to be whom on occasion. On one audio tape made at one of the earliest world wide seminars, an audience member asked Twitchell to please tell them more about Rebezar Tarzs. There was a long, embarrassing pause and some nervous throat clearing until, apparently, someone quietly reminded Twitchell of who Rebezar was supposed to be.

Even in his own copious writings, he never got it straight, in that different books would give different origins. There exists quite a mountain of evidence, though, that Eckankar never existed before Twitchell invented it in 1965.