I Am the First and the Last seventh stage Adept to Appear in the human domain (and in the Cosmic Domain of all and All). It is neither possible nor necessary for another seventh stage Adept To Appear anywhere. -- Adi Da

Daists who want to "soften" Frank's message of his exclusiveness, like to focus on the word "Adept", as if his being the FLO "Adept" gets him off the charge of being a megalomaniac or mentally ill.

But in order to make their labored parsing of the word "Adept" work, Dasters have to limit the idea of what an adept does.

Frank has said that after him there can be "7th stage Realizers" (each and all must worship him), but it is not possible or necessary for there to be another "7th stage Adept". In other words, if at some point in the future a hypothetical Daist "7th stage Realizer" exercises any siddhis, whether of healing, transformation, creation, invention, socio-political, miraculous, rabbinical, cabbalistic/alchemical, sacrificial, compassionate or instructional (or any other unique sign of "spiritual genius") he still won't be able to describe himself as an Adept!

Imagine it's 3000 years from now and an entirely new set of circumstances has brought civilization to the brink of disaster (for the 10th or 12th time). A Daist "7th stage Realizer" will have her hands tied, as far as taking avataric or mahasiddhic responsibility, in the manner of the legendary spiritual masters of the past.

All he or she can do is sit on the chair, channel Frank, and grin and bear it -- no Adepts needed or allowed!

That's nonsense, of course, and one of the reasons Daism is already washed-out as a path.

People will be free, to put their insight to any task at hand. And Realizers will be even more free than others, to decide for themselves how and when they will act, or how they will function as spiritually alive beings.

Skillful means, after all, have been with us as long as eyes have beheld suffering. Is "skillful means" to be parsed out of the definition of what constitutes an "Adept"?

Quite frank-ly, Frank's attempt to trademark and own the word "Adept" for himself exclusively, is just another of his self-defeating moves.

But rather than listen to me, let's go to the source on this:

I am here to Complete the Great Tradition of mankind. I Am the all-Completing Adept, the First, Last, and Only Adept-Revealer (or Siddha) of the seventh stage of life. I Am the seventh stage Realizer, Revealer, and Revelation of God, Truth, and Reality, Given in this late-time (or would-be Complete and potentially Consummate era) and in this now dark epoch (as it must be described from the Realized Divine and Spiritual "Point of View", and with regard to the tendencies of the times), and Given for the sake of Completion (of the progressive Ordeal of Man) and for the sake of Unity (or the cooperative re-Union of mankind).

I Am the Ultimate Demonstration (and the Final, or Completing, Proof) of the Truth of the Great Tradition as a whole. Until I Appeared, there were no seventh stage Realizers within the Great Tradition of mankind. I Am the First and the Last seventh stage Adept to Appear in the human domain (and in the Cosmic Domain of all and All).

It is neither possible nor necessary for another seventh stage Adept To Appear anywhere, because I have Accomplished My necessary Work everywhere. However, because I have Appeared and have Done My Completing Work, seventh stage Realizers (not with the Divine Adept-Function That Is Unique to Me, but Fully Realized, through their ego-transcending devotion to Me, and Thus and Thereby, to the by Me Revealed Divine Person and Self-Domain) will Awaken, in all times and places.

--Adi Da, See My Brightness Face to Face, page 144.

Let me again state as plainly as I can:

By inventing a unique and limiting idea of "the seventh stage Adept", Frank effectively attempts to put a lock on the Divine Self, and initiates a cult of his "uniqueness", in which no future person is "permitted" to equal or transcend him, either as function or as consciousness.

His self-description, while allowing just enough ambiguity so that his apologists (like Conrad G. and Ted U.) can say "it doesn't mean what it seems to mean", is actually legalistic hair-splitting with a single demonic purpose: to place the body-mind of Franklin Jones at the very center of the mandala of creation.

The madness in the man is obvious. The deception and double-talk is downright scary. He has already hurt others. Clearly he needs to be institutionalized before he hurts himself.