Norina's Gift

Total Page:16

File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb

Norina's Gift NORINA’S GIFT Messages from Meher Baba Received through Princess Norina Matchebelli An Avatar Meher Baba Trust eBook March 2019 Source and short publication history: EliNor Publications Myrtle Beach, South Carolina 1997 Preface and Introduction ©1997 by EliNor Publications, Inc. All rights reserved FIRST ELINOR EDITION Printed in the United States of America 1997 ISBN 0-9655534-1-8 eBooks at the Avatar Meher Baba Trust Web Site The Avatar Meher Baba Trust's eBooks aspire to be textually exact though non-facsimile reproductions of published books, journals and articles. With the consent of the copyright holders, these online editions are being made available through the Avatar Meher Baba Trust's web site, for the research needs of Meher Baba's lovers and the general public around the world. Again, the eBooks reproduce the text, though not the exact visual likeness, of the original publications. They have been created through a process of scanning the original pages, running these scans through optical character recognition (OCR) software, reflowing the new text, and proofreading it. Except in rare cases where we specify otherwise, the texts that you will find here correspond, page for page, with those of the original publications: in other words, page citations reliably correspond to those of the source books. But in other respects-such as lineation and font-the page designs differ. Our purpose is to provide digital texts that are more readily downloadable and searchable than photo facsimile images of the originals would have been. Moreover, they are often much more readable, especially in the case of older books, whose discoloration and deteriorated condition often makes them partly illegible. Since all this work of scanning and reflowing and proofreading has been accomplished by a team of volunteers, it is always possible that errors have crept into these online editions. If you find any of these, please let us know, by emailing us at [email protected]. The aim of the Trust's online library is to reproduce the original texts faithfully. In certain cases, however- and this applies especially to some of the older books that were never republished in updated versions- we have corrected certain small errors of a typographic order. When this has been done, all of these corrections are listed in the "Register of Editorial Alterations" that appears at the end of the digital book. If you want the original text in its exact original form, warts and all, you can reconstruct this with the aid of the "register." The Trust's Online Library remains very much a work in progress. With your help and input, it will increase in scope and improve in elegance and accuracy as the years go by. In the meantime, we hope it will serve the needs of those seeking to deepen and broaden their own familiarity with Avatar Meher Baba's life and message and to disseminate this good news throughout the world. ________________________________________________ MESSAGES FROM MEHER BABA Received through Princess Norina Matchabelli Meher Baba with Princess Norina Matchabelli, India, ca. 1939. ________________________________________________ MESSAGES FROM MEHER BABA Received through Princess Norina Matchabelli WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY Christopher Wilson and Charles Haynes EliNor Publications Myrtle Beach, South Carolina 1997 EliNor Publications was founded to make books about Meher Baba and his close disciples available to the general public. Our primary focus is the preservation and publication of the papers and photographs of Elizabeth Patterson, Norina Matchabelli, Nadine Tolstoy, and Jane Barry Haynes. ELINOR PUBLICATIONS, INC. P.O. Box 1241 North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina 29598 Preface and Introduction ©1997 by EliNor Publications, Inc. All rights reserved FIRST ELINOR EDITION Printed in the United States of America ISBN 0-9655534-1-8 Interior design and typesetting by Steve Dyer CONTENTS Preface • vii Introduction: The Life and Work of Princess Norina Matchabelli • 1 • Fragments from a Spiritual Diary • 55 • 40 Messages from Meher Baba • 105 • • v • PREFACE HE BEAUTIFUL and powerful messages from Meher Baba received through Princess Norina Matchabelli nearly fifty years ago still speak directly to the receptive heart. They remain today timeless expressions of love and wisdom. This volume contains two extraordinary collections of these messages, Fragments from a Spiritual Diary and Forty Messages from Meher Baba. Both books were compiled in 1948 while Norina resided in India with Meher Baba and were then published soon after her return to the United States in 1949. Now, during the year that marks the fortieth anniversary of Princess Matchabelli's death, EliNor Publications is pleased to make these works available to a new generation of spiritual aspi- rants. We include in the present volume an introduction explor- ing Norina's life and work. Much of the material in this opening section draws upon her previously unpublished papers and pho- tographs. We owe the gift of the new material about Norina as well as the founding of EliNor Publications to Jane Barry Haynes. Sev- eral years ago, Jane entrusted us with the task of preserving and cataloguing the collection of Norina's papers and photographs. Before her death in April 1997, Jane gave her approval to the present volume and expressed her wish that we continue to make Norina's papers available through publication. This, then, is the first of a planned series of books that will contain the papers and journals of Norina Matchabelli. We acknowledge with much gratitude the editorial help of Kendra Crossen Burroughs. Kendra's insights and guidance have • vii • PREFACE been indispensable at every step of the process. We are also grateful for the creative contributions of Steve Dyer for his book design and typesetting, and to Graciela Galup for her jacket de- sign. Many others have given us loving help and support, including Wendy and Buz Connor, Patti Cavendar, Dixon Withers-Julian, and Steve Edelman. Special mention should be made of the generous contribu- tions of time and energy by Hugh and Suanne McCleneghan, who have undertaken the enormous task of distribution for Eli- Nor Publications. Their labor of love will make the dissemina- tion of this book possible. Finally, we acknowledge with deepest gratitude the "EliNor" of EliNor Publications: Elizabeth Patterson and Norina Matcha- belli, who will always be remembered as living examples of Meher Baba's Love. Christopher Wilson Charles Haynes July 26, 1997 • viii • INTRODUCTION The Life and Work of Princess Norina Matchabelli (March 3, 1880—June 15, 1957) BY CHRISTOPHER WILSON AND CHARLES HAYNES RINCESS NORINA MATCHABELLI was one of the most compelling and significant of Meher Baba's first Western disciples. Today, however, she is one of the least known and understood. Her writings are long out of print, and the few stories told of her do little to illuminate her pivotal role in Baba's work. In spite of her relative obscurity, Norina's legacy lives on. All who visit Meher Spiritual Center in Myrtle Beach, South Car- olina, the place Meher Baba called his "home in the West," experience her love for Baba reflected in the beauty of the grounds and buildings, which she did so much to create. And all who love and follow Meher Baba in America are heirs to Norina's unique efforts to spread his message of love and truth in the United States. Now, forty years after her death, the time seems right for a fuller appreciation of how Norina worked for the One she took to be the living Christ, the Avatar of this Age. Perhaps today more of humanity is better prepared to grasp the inner meaning and significance of the extraordinary thought-transmission mes- sages that are reprinted in these pages. After all, in these final • 1 • INTRODUCTION years of the twentieth century, we appear to be drawing ever closer to the age of intuition promised by Meher Baba. It is through intuition, the capacity to hear the inner voice, that these messages can be received and grasped deep within the heart. The experience of listening to the language of Norina's thought-transmission may be enhanced by knowing more of the context of her life and work. To that end, we offer the following brief account of one of the most remarkable women of the twentieth century. The progression of her outer life, from world- renowned actress and film star, to co-founder of a famous per- fumery, to spiritual disciple, is a fascinating backdrop to the inner life that produced the thought-transmission messages from Meher Baba. Ave Maria: Princess Norina in The Miracle Norina Gilli was born in Florence, Italy, on March 3, 1880. Her father, Ludovico Gilli, was a native of Florence, and her mother, Emma Trolle, was born in Winterthur, Switzerland. We know little about Norina's childhood, besides the fact that she spent large amounts of time with one of her uncles, Heinrich Wölfflin (1864-1945), who, because of his pioneer-ing studies of Renais- sance and Baroque art, is regarded as one of the founders of the modern field of art history.1 Wölfflin's influence must have shaped some of the educated artistic taste that Norina was to ex- ercise throughout her life—both in her theater and film career, when her gestures sometimes echoed those of figures in Baroque religious paintings, and later in life, in the development and beautification of Meher Spiritual Center in Myrtle Beach. It must have been during these early years that Norina also began to acquire her extraordinary linguistic skills. Her journals and correspondence reveal that she was able to write not only in her • 2 • INTRODUCTION native Italian but also in French, German, and English. Her flu- ency in these languages became especially valuable many years later, when she traveled throughout Europe with Meher Baba and contacted individuals of different nationalities to come and meet him.
Recommended publications
  • Meher Baba Books (Los Angeles, California) Jan‐02‐2016
    Meher Baba & Adele Wolkin "I am always with you and I am not away from you. I was, am and will remain eternally with you, and it is for promoting this realization that I have severed external contact. This will enable all persons to realize Truth by being bound to each other with internal links." -- Meher Baba (last message on alphabet board) Weekly Reflections No. 53 from Meher Baba Books (Los Angeles, California) Jan‐02‐2016 Hello Dear Friends and Companions: Greetings from Los Angeles, California. Happy New Year! and enjoy the cold crispy weather, if you are in the Northern Hemisphere. This issue of Weekly Reflections comes with warm New Year's wishes, as we begin a new cycle together in His remembrance. For our weekly appointment (delayed a day in deference to New Year's day on Friday), we turn to reflect on the life of Adele Wolkin (April 9, 1918 ­ December 21, 2015), a notable life­long Baba­lover who recently completed her round of days on Earth. A stalwart devotee of Avatar Meher Baba, Adele first learned of the Master along with her friend Filis Frederick in the mid­1940s, when the two young women joined a circle of aspirants surrounding Baba's close Western women disciples Elizabeth Patterson, Norina Matchabelli, and Nadine Tolstoy in New York City. Adele and Filis were invited to live in Elizabeth's home for several years, while this dynamic cluster of women prepared the new Meher Spiritual Center for Baba's anticipated return­visit to the United States. Adele and Filis met Beloved Baba for the first time in Myrtle Beach in 1952.
    [Show full text]
  • Booklist 2021.Pdf
    MEHER BABA ASSOCIATION BOOK LIST 2021/2022 I Have Come Not To Teach, But To Awaken Meher Baba HB = Hardback PB = Paperback - Postage codes in brackets - Postal Charges: Section 12 1. MEHER BABA’S OWN WORDS BEAMS FROM MEHER BABA ON THE SPIRITUAL PANORAMA by Meher Baba 88pp HB £7.50 (3) Thirteen key essays detailing the inner workings of the spiritual journey, piercing through intellectual formulae to direct and joyful perception of Divine Truth. DISCOURSES by Meher Baba 452pp - PB £21.50 (6) An indispensable work, covering all aspects of spiritual life, from the most sublime to the most practical. For the searching intellect, they provide clear answers with unassuming simplicity; for the hungry heart, deep emotional nourishment; so all embracing, they could come only from the very source of truth and love. Including discourses on discipleship, reincarnation, karma, the termination of the ego, meditation, sex and marriage, love, violence and non-violence, and much more. The best possible companion for anyone seeking spiritual direction. Four Volume DISCOURSES (revised sixth edition, published 2008) £22.50 (6) This version is the same as the turquoise, three volume set which was published during Meher Baba's lifetime, edited by his explicit directive and sealed with his personal approval. This edition reproduces that 1967 text with a few small alterations, mostly in spelling and capitalization. It also incorporates (in a new fourth volume) certain new supplemental materials meant for readers who would like to study the history and language of the Discourses in greater depth. THE EVERYTHING AND THE NOTHING by Meher Baba 115pp PB £6.50 (3) This is a collection of beautiful short discourses dictated to his disciples during the late 50s and early sixties, they are both powerful and accessible.
    [Show full text]
  • Meher Baba Journal, Vol. 2, No. 6
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
    [Show full text]
  • Meher Baba Journal, Vol. 1, No. 7
    MEHER BABA JOURNAL Volume 1, No.7 May 1939 A Monthly Publication of the "Meher Editorial Committee" An Avatar Meher Baba Trust eBook July 2015 All words of Meher Baba copyright © 2015 Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust, Ahmednagar, India Source and short publication history: The Meher Baba Journal, a monthly magazine, was published from 1938 to 1942. This eBook reproduces the original edition of the Meher Baba Journal published by the "Meher Editorial Committee" (Meherabad, Ahmednagar, India). eBooks at the Avatar Meher Baba Trust Web Site The Avatar Meher Baba Trust's eBooks aspire to be textually exact though non-facsimile reproductions of published books, journals and articles. With the consent of the copyright holders, these online editions are being made available through the Avatar Meher Baba Trust's web site, for the research needs of Meher Baba's lovers and the general public around the world. Again, the eBooks reproduce the text, though not the exact visual likeness, of the original publications. They have been created through a process of scanning the original pages, running these scans through optical character recognition (OCR) software, reflowing the new text, and proofreading it. Except in rare cases where we specify otherwise, the texts that you will find here correspond, page for page, with those of the original publications: in other words, page citations reliably correspond to those of the source books. But in other respects-such as lineation and font-the page designs differ. Our purpose is to provide digital texts that are more readily downloadable and searchable than photo facsimile images of the originals would have been.
    [Show full text]
  • THE WAYFARERS an Account of the Work of Meher Baba with the God-Intoxicated, and Also with Advanced Souls, Sadhus, and the Poor
    THE WAYFARERS An Account of the Work of Meher Baba with the God-intoxicated, and also with Advanced Souls, Sadhus, and the Poor. Fully Illustrated with many Photographs and Maps Third Printing (1988) By William Donkin An Avatar Meher Baba Trust eBook June 2011 Copyright © 1948 by Adi K. Irani Copyright © 1988, 2002 by Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust, Ahmednagar, India Source and short publication history: This eBook is based on the third printing (1988) of The Wayfarers by Sheriar Press (North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, U.S.A.). The Wayfarers : an account of the work of Meher Baba with the God-intoxicated, and also with advanced souls, sadhus, and the poor was originally published by Adi K. Irani for Meher Publications (Ahmednagar) in 1948. eBooks at the Avatar Meher Baba Trust Web Site The Avatar Meher Baba Trust’s eBooks aspire to be textually exact though non-facsimile reproductions of published books, journals and articles. With the consent of the copyright holders, these online editions are being made available through the Avatar Meher Baba Trust’s web site, for the research needs of Meher Baba’s lovers and the general public around the world. Again, the eBooks reproduce the text, though not the exact visual likeness, of the original publications. They have been created through a process of scanning the original pages, running these scans through optical character recognition (OCR) software, reflowing the new text, and proofreading it. Except in rare cases where we specify otherwise, the texts that you will find here correspond, page for page, with those of the original publications: in other words, page citations reliably correspond to those of the source books.
    [Show full text]
  • Film Architecture and the Transnational Imagination : Set Design in 1930S European Cinema 2007
    Repositorium für die Medienwissenschaft Tim Bergfelder; Sue Harris; Sarah Street Film Architecture and the Transnational Imagination : Set Design in 1930s European Cinema 2007 https://doi.org/10.5117/9789053569801 Buch / book Empfohlene Zitierung / Suggested Citation: Bergfelder, Tim; Harris, Sue; Street, Sarah: Film Architecture and the Transnational Imagination : Set Design in 1930s European Cinema. Amsterdam University Press 2007 (Film Culture in Transition). DOI: https://doi.org/10.5117/9789053569801. Nutzungsbedingungen: Terms of use: Dieser Text wird unter einer Creative Commons BY-NC 3.0/ This document is made available under a creative commons BY- Lizenz zur Verfügung gestellt. Nähere Auskünfte zu dieser Lizenz NC 3.0/ License. For more information see: finden Sie hier: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ * hc omslag Film Architecture 22-05-2007 17:10 Pagina 1 Film Architecture and the Transnational Imagination: Set Design in 1930s European Cinema presents for the first time a comparative study of European film set design in HARRIS AND STREET BERGFELDER, IMAGINATION FILM ARCHITECTURE AND THE TRANSNATIONAL the late 1920s and 1930s. Based on a wealth of designers' drawings, film stills and archival documents, the book FILM FILM offers a new insight into the development and signifi- cance of transnational artistic collaboration during this CULTURE CULTURE period. IN TRANSITION IN TRANSITION European cinema from the late 1920s to the late 1930s was famous for its attention to detail in terms of set design and visual effect. Focusing on developments in Britain, France, and Germany, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the practices, styles, and function of cine- matic production design during this period, and its influence on subsequent filmmaking patterns.
    [Show full text]
  • To the Beloved Meher Baba by CONTESS NADINE TOLSTOY
    Contents SHRI MEHER BABA ON THE BEGINNING AND THE END OF CREATION 1 FOLLOW LOVE Elizabeth C. Patterson 15 MY EXPERIENCES Chhota Baba 20 THE VAISHNAVITE SAINTS OF C. V. Sampath Aiyangar SOUTHERN INDIA AND THEIR (Late of Madras Judicial Service) 23 HAGIOLOGY YOU MUST BELIEVE IT Dr. Abdul Ghani Munsiff 27 HAZRAT BABAJAN OF POONA Dr. Abdul Ghani Munsiff 29 ST. TERESA OF SPAIN Will Backett (London) 40 SPIRITUAL ANECDOTE Dr. Abdul Ghani Munsiff 45 THE SIGNIFICANCE OF LOVE Dr. C. D. Deshmukh 47 IN HUMAN LIFE M. A., Ph. D. (London) THE VOICE Princess Norina Matchabelli 53 SHRI MEHER BABA AND THE Mrs. Indumati Deshmukh NEW WORLD CULTURE OF THE 59 M. A., B. T. FUTURE HOW I MET THEM AND WHAT Abdul Kareem Abdulla 63 THEY TOLD ME TO THE BELOVED BABA Countess Nadine Tolstoy 71 FROM THE RUBAIYAT SADGURU IS LOVE INCARNATE 75 QUESTION BABA ANSWERS Dr. Abdul Ghani Munsiff 76 SHRI MEHER BABA'S TOUR OF NINE DAYS THROUGH Princess Norina Matchabelli 78 CENTRAL INDIA SHRI MEHER BABA Princess Norina Matchabelli 85 IMPRESSIONS NOTES FROM MY DIARY F. H. Dadachanji 89 ♦ The February number, being the Birthday issue, is dedicated to the Anniversary of the Forty-fifth Birthday of Shri Meher Baba. "I have come not to teach but to awaken" —SHRI METIER BABA MEHER BABA JOURNAL VOL. 1 FEBRUARY 1939 NO.4 Shri Meher Baba on the Beginning and the End of Creation As long as the human mind does not directly experience Ultimate Reality as it is, it is baffled in every attempt to explain the origin and the purpose of crea- tion.
    [Show full text]
  • Stockholm Cinema Studies 10
    ACTA UNIVERSITATIS STOCKHOLMIENSIS Stockholm Cinema Studies 10 The Coming of Sound Film in Sweden 1928-1932 New and Old Technologies Christopher Natzén ©Christopher Natzén, Stockholm 2010 Cover image: Advertisment for The Jazz Singer (1927) from Stockholms-Tidningen, 26 February 1929, 3. ISSN 1653-4859 ISBN 978-91-86071-45-5 Printed in Sweden by US-AB, Stockholm 2010 Distributor: eddy.se ab For Harald It’s easy to get buried in the past when you try to make a good thing last Neil - 1974 Contents Introduction ................................................................................................11 Aims and object of study....................................................................................12 Limits of study and periodisation......................................................................14 Previous research in Sweden: a critical survey.............................................16 Sound and the teleological view of historical progress................................21 Previous research on the conversion to sound film......................................24 Film sound theory ................................................................................................27 Film music theory.................................................................................................32 The concept of intermediality ............................................................................35 A note on terminology: the notions of external/internal logic of perception and formative music .......................................................................37
    [Show full text]
  • Meher Baba Journal, Vol. 2, No. 12
    ! 2&..F?% 7A%A@2%'G7A79%!2@29%&7C7%H90?A%I2C%<DA2% ! ;'1!"9/&/3!#1'13!:/,/!;3+<&P<!1:$$=<!/<C-31!&$!,1!&1Q&+/(()!1Q/.&!&'$+D'!%$%R0/.<-7-(1!31C3$5+.&-$%<! $0!C+,(-<'15!,$$=<F!S$+3%/(<!/%5!/3&-.(1<M!T-&'!&'1!.$%<1%&!$0!&'1!.$C)3-D'&!'$(513<F!&'1<1!$%(-%1! 15-&-$%<!/31!,1-%D!7/51!/9/-(/,(1!&'3$+D'!&'1!"9/&/3!#1'13!:/,/!;3+<&P<!B1,!<-&1F!0$3!&'1!31<1/3.'! %115<!$0!#1'13!:/,/P<!($913<!/%5!&'1!D1%13/(!C+,(-.!/3$+%5!&'1!B$3(5M!! ! "D/-%F!&'1!1:$$=<!31C3$5+.1!&'1!&1Q&F!&'$+D'!%$&!&'1!1Q/.&!9-<+/(!(-=1%1<<F!$0!&'1!$3-D-%/(!C+,(-./&-$%<M! ;'1)!'/91!,11%!.31/&15!&'3$+D'!/!C3$.1<<!$0!<./%%-%D!&'1!$3-D-%/(!C/D1<F!3+%%-%D!&'1<1!<./%<!&'3$+D'! $C&-./(!.'/3/.&13!31.$D%-&-$%!NU6VO!<$0&B/31F!310($B-%D!&'1!%1B!&1Q&F!/%5!C3$$031/5-%D!-&M!4Q.1C&!-%!3/31! ./<1<!B'131!B1!<C1.-0)!$&'13B-<1F!&'1!&1Q&<!&'/&!)$+!B-((!0-%5!'131!.$331<C$%5F!C/D1!0$3!C/D1F!B-&'! &'$<1!$0!&'1!$3-D-%/(!C+,(-./&-$%<W!-%!$&'13!B$35<F!C/D1!.-&/&-$%<!31(-/,()!.$331<C$%5!&$!&'$<1!$0!&'1! <$+3.1!,$$=<M!:+&!-%!$&'13!31<C1.&<X<+.'!/<!(-%1/&-$%!/%5!0$%&X&'1!C/D1!51<-D%<!5-0013M!U+3!C+3C$<1!-<! &$!C3$9-51!5-D-&/(!&1Q&<!&'/&!/31!7$31!31/5-()!5$B%($/5/,(1!/%5!<1/3.'/,(1!&'/%!C'$&$!0/.<-7-(1!-7/D1<! $0!&'1!$3-D-%/(<!B$+(5!'/91!,11%M!#$31$913F!&'1)!/31!$0&1%!7+.'!7$31!31/5/,(1F!1<C1.-/(()!-%!&'1!./<1! $0!$(513!,$$=<F!B'$<1!5-<.$($3/&-$%!/%5!51&13-$3/&15!.$%5-&-$%!$0&1%!7/=1<!&'17!C/3&()!-((1D-,(1M!!Y-%.1! /((!&'-<!B$3=!$0!<./%%-%D!/%5!310($B-%D!/%5!C3$$031/5-%D!'/<!,11%!/..$7C(-<'15!,)!/!&1/7!$0! 9$(+%&113<F!-&!-<!/(B/)<!C$<<-,(1!&'/&!133$3<!'/91!.31C&!-%&$!&'1<1!$%(-%1!15-&-$%<M!G0!)$+!0-%5!/%)!$0!&'1<1F!
    [Show full text]
  • Fragments from a Spiritual Diary
    FRAGMENTS FROM A SPIRITUAL DIARY PRINCESS NORINA MATCHABEILI w I ? irer I have come not to teach... hut to awaken!" MEHER BABA FRAGMENTS FROM A SPIRITUAL DIARY hy Princess Norina Matchabelli FOREWORD by Adi K. Irani Ahmednagar, India $ COPYRIGHT 1949 CIRCLE PRODUCTION, INC., NEW YORK, N, Y. Published by Circle Productions. Inc. NEW YORK, N. Y. y Printed in United States of America by THE W. C. HEALY PRESS, SEATTLE To My Beloved Master Meher Baba * Norina Matchabelli CONTENTS CONTENTS I. Foreword adi. k, irani II. Introduction • • • PRINCESS NORINA MATCHABELLI III. Intuition of the Impersonal Self . IV. Message "life in THE truth" V. The After-Word [y A FOREWORD FOREWORD PRINCESS Norina Matchabelli, who has offered to the Master these fragments of her spiritual diary, has always been divinely gifted with the capacity for deep prayer. It was because of her selfless dedication to the Divine Cause of the Master, that the Master selected her for the projection of the Spiritual Light through her. One who is child-like in simplic ity and free from all prejudice, can be the true recipient of Divine Light, which is the same as Divine Love. Aglow with the fervour of sincere prayer, she has become a spiritual Mes senger by being accepted by the Master for his divine work. Through her earlier devotion to Jesus Christ as well as through many inner spiritual experiences at a later stage, she was prepared for meeting the Master in person and for being accepted by him for a special type of his spiritual work. She has alluded to some of her own intimate spiritual experiences, which she had before meeting the Master, in the following words: "Since my very childhood, I knew of God.
    [Show full text]
  • Glimpses of the God-Man, Vol. 6, Part 1
    GLIMPSES OF THE GOD-MAN MEHER BABA Volume VI (March 1954 – April 1955) By Bal Natu An Avatar Meher Baba Trust eBook June 2011 Copyright © 1994 by Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust, Ahmednagar, India Source: This eBook reproduces the original edition of Glimpses of the God-Man, Meher Baba, Volume VI, published by Sheriar Foundation (North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina) in 1994. eBooks at the Avatar Meher Baba Trust Web Site The Avatar Meher Baba Trust’s eBooks aspire to be textually exact though non-facsimile reproductions of published books, journals and articles. With the consent of the copyright holders, these online editions are being made available through the Avatar Meher Baba Trust’s web site, for the research needs of Meher Baba’s lovers and the general public around the world. Again, the eBooks reproduce the text, though not the exact visual likeness, of the original publications. They have been created through a process of scanning the original pages, running these scans through optical character recognition (OCR) software, reflowing the new text, and proofreading it. Except in rare cases where we specify otherwise, the texts that you will find here correspond, page for page, with those of the original publications: in other words, page citations reliably correspond to those of the source books. But in other respects—such as lineation and font—the page designs differ. Our purpose is to provide digital texts that are more readily downloadable and searchable than photo facsimile images of the originals would have been. Moreover, they are often much more readable, especially in the case of older books, whose discoloration and deteriorated condition often makes them partly illegible.
    [Show full text]
  • Misus MIRAKEL Eine Transatlantische Karriere, Eine Transatlantische Kontroverse
    MICHAEL WEDEL Misus MIRAKEL Eine transatlantische Karriere, eine transatlantische Kontroverse Wenn Anekdoten einerseits die Eigenart des Zufälligen aufzeichnen - und [ ... ] eher mit dem Rand verbunden sind als mit dem unbeweglichen und lähmenden Zen­ trum-, so werden sie doch andererseits als repräsentative Anekdoten erzählt; das heißt, man hält sie für wichtige Bestandteile einer umfassenderen Entwicklung oder Struktur, die der eigentliche Gegenstand der Geschichtsschreibung wäre, zu der es aber wegen der nicht enden wollenden Flut von weiteren Anekdoten( ... ] niemals kommt.' Mime Misu war noch bis vor kurzem so etwas wie ein Phantom der frühen Filmgeschichte - ein »klangvoller Name«,2 über den so gut wie nichts bekannt war, die verheißungsvolle Hülle eines Signifikanten, dem mit seinem Referen­ ten auch jede filmhistorische Bedeutung verloren gegangen ist. Daran hat sich erst jüngst im Zuge der Wiederentdeckung seines einzigen erhaltenen Films TITANIC-IN NACHT UND Eis (1912) etwas geändert.3 Heute läßt sich die eben­ so steile wie kurze Filmkarriere des· Regisseurs, Autors und Schauspielers Mime Misu zumindest wieder in Umrissen skizzieren. Das Bild, das dabei entsteht, konturiert sich vor dem Hintergrund einer international operieren­ den und mit dem Austausch kulturellen Kapitals kalkulierenden Filmindu­ strie. Auf der Achse zwischen Europa und den USA gewinnt hier eine Figur Gestalt, die zwielichtiger wird, je deutlicher sie sich abzeichnet. Es ist die Ge­ stalt eines transatlantischen Glücksritters, eines Hochstaplers zwischen
    [Show full text]