Ruben Ecleo

Who was Ruben Ecleo?

Ruben Edera Ecleo, Sr., a Filipino charismatic, spiritual and political leader who founded the Philippine Benevolent Missionaries Association, Incorporated in 1965, and the mayor of the Municipality of Dinagat, Surigao del Norte from 1963 up to 1987. Married to Glenda Buray Ecleo, they begot eight children: Ruben Junior, Glorigen, Grace, Benglen, Allan I, Allan II, Geraldine and Gwendolyn.

Born from a poor family in the island of Cabilan in the town of Dinagat, Ruben at the age of 8 started his mission as a transient healer-missioner assuming different names and personalities and travelled mostly in the Visayas area and in many parts of northern Mindanao. Through the instructions and directions of his spirit guides, he spent sleepless nights in the akashic plane studying and mastering the Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew and Sanskrit languages from which he able to read the akashic records and interpret the ancient mysteries. He was then commissioned to teach a new sort of wisdom which is a fusion of the Akasha, Buddhism, Christianism, Hinduism and Judaism. His teachings became the fundamental doctrines of the PBMA.

On the early years of the 1960’s Ruben organized his first group of followers which he then called “The First Thirteen”, the first batch of his fellow-workers, a group of healer-teachers known as “missionaries” resembling the Twelve Apostles of the Christ in the ancient Judea, who first received his blessings, teachings and instructions. This “First Thirteen” became the “fishers of his members”. Owing to his growing fame as a spiritual leader and a healer, he eventually called as “Dr. Ruben” or known by the title “Divine Master” his followers bestowed upon him, an indication of his great proclivity in the spirituals and of the divine; a title which is equivalent to the title “Grand Master“ or “Worshipful Master“ of the order of Freemasonry. Through the help of his loyal followers and supporters, in 1965, they organized and founded the Philippine Benevolent Missionaries Association, Incorporated, a non-sectarian, non-stock, and a brotherhood organization with the prime objectives to extend the missions of his group to do charitable works; to serve faithfully, to help benevolently and to give voluntarily, among others. PBMA was registered on that same year on October 19 with the Securities and Exchange Commission under Registration No. 28042.