I am not sure these are " the beliefs that are required to be a practicing premie".  Some of these are now outdated and will be quite alien concepts to new premies: like the necessity of Maharaji's Grace, or becoming one with God (realising Knowledge), or that God has manifested Himself in a human body.  I am also not sure there is such a thing as 'required beliefs'. I think they operate on a more subtle level than that, which is why most premies genuinly believe they do not have any beliefs.

For me, the list is a collection of ideas, concepts and beliefs we have 'borrowed' from Maharaji over a period of some 3 decades. You only have to step back from the World of Knowledge for a while to see not only that you have concepts but in fact you are full of them up to your eyeballs. Its just that you cannot see the wood from the trees.

When I listen to premies I can always hear Maharaji speak. I was like that too. Which reminds me of the story of Clever Hans. Do you know it? Clever Hans was a horse who was taught to do arithmetic by his trainer. He would just tap the answers with his hoof. People were very impressed until they realised that the horse made mistakes when his trainer did not know the answer. Clever Hans was not so clever after all.

Wittgenstein said that The hardest thing in life was not to deceive oneself. I agree with him. In fact I think the reason is that we have an almost natural inclination toward self deception rather than self knowledge.

                                                                                                        Just look at it. How much truth can we really bear? Not much. Not much at all. We can't handle even small truths (ask your spouse, friend) never mind really big ones. So what do we do? We go for 'truths' that sound really good. Truths that make us 'feel good'. I know this is not a very noble image of man or a sound basis for approaching 'truth' but it is perfectly in keeping with  man involved primarily in self preservation.