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MQhQr Baba Australia Meher Baba Australia 'The Stealer of Hearts' Karl Gallagher I had not done a Baba painting paintings of Baba and in August since 1968. 1990 I sent over the Stealer of In 1988 when I visited Hearts. The following month I got Meherabad/Meherazad I had with a letter from Mani saying that they me a handful of photos of some of were delighted with the painting my Baba paintings and showed and that Goher was having it them to Mani who expressed framed ready for hanging. Since delight at my work. As much as I the early eighties I haven't done felt wonderful at Mani's reaction, Baba paintings for myself but only what happened later lifted my do them on commission from spirits beyond expectation. Mani Baba lovers. Having a painting suggested that I show Mehera the hanging at Meherazad has meant photo of'The Stealer of Hearts' so much to me and has sustained and that day when Mehera came me through dark times. Jai Baba. out on the verandah Mani brought [As Karl has mentioned, he only it to her attention. Mehera took paints on commission. If you would the photo in her hands and looked like more information, please contact 'The Stealer ofHearts' 1982 at it for a minute or two and then him by email at said to me 'You are a very strong hukarlos@ hotmail.com The painting of Baba that has painter', and then she lovingly or by mail at Unit 9, 244 Gladstone become known as 'The Stealer of kissed the photo (of the Baba Road, Dutton Park, QLD 4102 - Ed.] Hearts' hangs on the wall at the painting) before handing it back to end of the verandah at Meherazad, me. I was over the moon. next to the Blue Bus. It was Some years painted in 1982 along with several previous to this other paintings of Baba, and was Eruch had told prompted by an American Baba me that there lover, that I had met when I visited has always been ff' India for the first time in 1982. He a space reserved commissioned me to do a painting at Meherazad for him on my return to Australia. for one of my 'Eruch, Baba and Agnes Barren at Ojai'2001 'Baba and a group'1983 June — August 2002 Heroines of the Path Baba's work with women in the west Filis Frederick In the early twenties, Meher Baba as various types of metaphysics. To predicted His work in the West be drawn to these soul-companions would be done by women, and in this way was already a touch of the the East by men. And so it has New Age awakening fostered by proved, for several decades, both in Baba. I shall always be grateful to Europe and America. The stongest these three women,for living and personalities and the hardest working with them prepared me in a workers have largely been women, very special way for meeting the especially those He contacted Avatar. I cleared away some during His trips to the West in the personal karma and learned some thirties. Baba said, before He left very valuable lessons in how to be India for die first time in 1931, that with a super-conscious Being like He had to contact all the Western Baba. In the West we grow up with members of His Circle* before the so many misconceptions about the Second World War. spiritual path. One learns, with the I first met Baba's "trio". Princess Avatar, Who is so unique in His way Norina Matcbabelli, Countess of working, to throw most of these Nadine Tolstoy and Mrs. Kenneth out the window. (Elizabeth) Patterson in New York Filis at Avatar's Abode, early 1980s. Later on, I met other outstanding City in 1948. At the end of their stay women disciples of the Master, in India in 1941, Baba bad sent gold room, who said to me some of whom Baba had declared them West to work together to "Attendez le Maitre Parfait." And were in His Circle: — Margaret "spread His message of love and again I had a waking vision of a Craske, Ruano Bogislav, Kim truth." They lived together in a woman in a large blue car who Tolhurst,Jean Adriel, Delia De duplex on East 67th Street. Norina beckoned me to join her, — then we Leon, Hedi Mertens, Kitty Davy gave the public talks on Baba, seemed to ride off on a spiral road and Rano Gayley. Nadine welcomed individual into the sky! It was only a few weeks Murshida Rabia Martin, head of seekers, and Elizabeth quietiy paid later that I very mysteriously got an the Inyat Khan Sufi order, came to the bills. They were a unique blend invitation to hear Princess stay with us for many months, having of talent, temperament and Matchabelli speak on "Love is the heard about Baba on Norina's nationality. Nadine was Russian, Solution" at a nearby hotel. There I lecture tour to the West Coast, as Norina Italian, Elizabeth American. met the other two and recognized had Mildred Kyle in Seattle. Rabia When I met them I felt they were them instandy. Nadine had the declared Baba was the "Kutub" of old and dear connections and bright blue eyes and white hair, the Age and went back to announce became so close to them I was Elizabeth I found out later, had been this to her group. Mildred Kyle, who invited to live with them, which I did Baba's chauffeur many times, — for had been President of her from 1944 to late 1946, when Baba example, on the blue bus tours. And Theosophy Lodge for almost 40 recalled Elizabeth and Norina to Norina wore her fashion trademark, years, did the same thing. Later India,just before the "New Life." a white turban (Baba had predicted Rabia's successor. Ivy Diice, came to Nadine had already passed away. that one of the Western women in visit us to learn more about Baba. Actually, I had met all tliree His Circle would wear a white Both Ivy and Mildred brought many women "inwardly" before I even turban). precious souls to Baba, as did die knew of their existence, or dieir I mention tliese unusual other women I mentioned above. Master, Meher Baba. I had seen a experiences because it was Baba's Why did Baba choose women for "vision" of a strikingly beautiful way of working with me in His main work in the West? A good woman in a white turban fastened by particular; for I have always paid question. A clue may be found in a square amethyst, with handsome attention to my dieanis and visions, Baba's statement that in the East it is dark eyes that looked into mine. I they had great meaning in my own the men who are spiritual, and in development. I had studied Jungian had dreamed of a white-haired, blue- Continued on page 4 eyed lady in a beautiful white and and Freudian dream analysis as well Meher Baba Australia Continued from page 3 the West, it is the women. He also Kitty Davy had said Eastern souls were now being incarnated in the West and vice versa. I also feel it is of great significance that Mehera, Baba's female counterpart, shared the suffering of His accident in America in 1952, and that it might symbolize a breakthrough for women everywhere, but especially in the West At least since the "Age of Enlightenment" — enlightenment by reason, of course, — it has been easier for women in the West to be "religious", as faith leans more on intuition than on reason. The West for so long, has emphasized the rational or "left brain" activity, supposedly the province of men, that the intuitive or "right brain" Kitty Davy at functioning has been left to women, Myrtle Beach on her 100th birthday often in a derogatory way. So perhaps it was easier in the thirties, when the skeptical rationalism of Freud, Marx, Wittgenstein, Russell, etc., (all men!) England was the first Western Meredith and the group he had dominated our thinking, for a group country visited by the Avatar of the drawn together carried them out and of Western women to step outside Age, and 13-2 Russell Road, Kitty's home was chosen for His first of conventional religious roles and Kensington, London, home of Kitty visit. follow an "Eastern guru" who Davy, was the first place He stayed. That very first evening under the emphasized the way of the heart The year was 1931, eight years same roof with the Master, Kitty Baba certainly put some of them to before World War II, the same year together with her brother Herbert the acid test In 1933 He invited a Gandhi first visited England. In fact, and Margaret Craske, fell under the number of women and girls to join he and Baba arrived on the very spell of the Beloved. She was one of Him in India, supposedly "for same boat, the "Rajputana,* at those who saw Him alone that good," only to send them back Marseilles, September 11. Gandhi's evening: home in a few weeks to face a blast mission was the liberation of India, "I was impressed with Baba's long of publicity from the yellow Baba's mission was, of course, the hair and His kindly face and journalists. liberation of mankind, with as His manner. My eyes filled with tears. I It's time to get acquainted with target on this first trip to the West, a spoke to Him only of my brother, some of these miusual women.

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