Diary 1963 - Murshid Sam's Living Stream
Diary 1963 - Murshid Sam's Living Stream Diary 1963 - Murshid Sam's Living Stream
Diaries 1963-2There has been a monster and useless conference on the problems and opportunities of women.All things are faced analytically and intellectually. Puck is amused by ladies arising and sayingthey are different from men and must have opportunities and only one used an intuitive or nonintellectualelement. They were either logical and precise or else that awful emotionally-cum-clichémethod: “We are equal or better than men because we are equal or superior in creating and usingclichés.” I have no doubt about it, but what does it prove?Bill discussed Judith, whom he has seen and I told him that Judith had faculties, even on theverge of Delphic Woman, and we must be careful. It would seem that womankind could recover itsor her faculties, these useless conferences would be unnecessary. Ted showed me a book by PercivalLowell on Occult Japan wherein the oracles functioned. It was the disjointing of the Oracle in Japanwhich destroyed her exactly as it was in Greece and nobody looks into such matters. Who was SaintElizabeth?He also was delighted in David and almost shocked by Clare. He also got Gina’s address. Thedetails here are old and corroborative.The need for revision and emphasizing the ego-centric predicament first are evident.Ted has discussed Sepher Ha-Zohar and I have found it at George Field’s. I may be reading itwhile working on the manuscript and it also may affect it. We simply do not know the Bible and weplay loosely with it. The inner side of the Greek myths will be evident when we integrate Graves,Jung and Campbell. The inner side of the Bible will be evident without this, but until I get a sign, it isbeyond my capacity.Vera reports on fana-fi-Rassoul, which is most important. I am now more anxious than everthat Major Sadiq comes. Each corroborates the other and this corroborates me better than anythingelse.Wednesday night I went to see Charlotte White and met her husband, Clifford. She has keen insight—ontwo planes and thereabove is blind. She is Jewish, turned Catholic and pretends to resentmy anti-Semiticism, but all the while she is displaying herself. But while she is serious, I am amused.I hope to see them again. Friday night visited Natalie Cecotti who was with me, who is moving toHollywood. She has already heard from Gina and I have already written to Aramdarya about her.Letters arrived: Gina—the Reeves are in Honolulu—and one from Matz family.
Diaries 1963January 31It is easy to accuse one of manufacturing drama, but it may equally be that drama is aroundus. Anyhow Tuesday night, contrary to my own will, I went to Magana’s class on the Mudras. Theseceremonies, actions, etc. are difficult because when the words are expressed I experienced them andgot into “states” which were not easily sloughed off. But the dualistic prayers attached have littleimpression. One does not want “things” or favors; one sometimes wishes to get above wanting.This negative state disappeared Wednesday morning. All the Mudra-words centered aroundthe Lotus. Here am I writing, The Lotus and the Universe. Just as in previous years Pir-o-Murshidmanifested and said, “Be a Flute” and opened the doors to the cosmic universe, God so to speakmanifested and said: “Be a Lotus. You feel, you can’t both write The Lotus and, the Universe and accuseKoestler and not be a Lotus. Be a Lotus and be blessed.” So here I am, writing now from the“lotus point of view” a against the “robot point of view,” and it is transforming the manuscript andwill require, no doubt, extra revisions, but at least there is inner satisfaction and joy.Then there was yesterday. I knew something would happen when I went to hear Consul-General Menon at the World Affair’s Council. It turned out to be something very different. Comingearly there was only one man present. Ha said, “Us being the only men, let us sit down together.”Actually the late arrivals were as many men as woman. Anyhow we sat down. What is your name:“Garst.” “Any relation to Jonathan Garst?” “I am Jonathan Garst.”There I was, never met the guy, carried his fertilizer plans with me, got into long discussionsin Egypt, turned the whole thing over to the Pakistanis, abandoned it in India, etc. But I guess I can’tbe too chagrined for he has abandoned some of his own ideas, too. He had written he was going toPoland and Iron Curtain countries, but recently he has been to Central America. So after a long timea pen-pal appears, just like that, and I am supposed to be manufacturing my dramas? Why do thesethings happen to me—thank God!Saw Miss E.E. Pence and met Gale Darling, “my fellow traveler.” Will ring up Gale.Norman has now moved in and two women will share the front upstairs. No housewarmingfor the immediate present.Victory? For the first time in my life an “expert” has admitted he made a mistake, On 26 JanuaryDonald N. Wilber of Princeton, N. J. (140 Quaker Road) conceded that there may be Sufis. Hemade an over-all statement in his book on ”Afghanistan” that they were few, unimportant and fastdisappearing. Now he wants to know more because he is writing two books on Pakistan. My pointis simple: you can reason with American “experts” on Asia (except Northrup), you can’t reason withEuropeans, they are adamant, ego-centric and wrong.Wilber also explained something, to me: Why had I so violently and whole-heartedly supportedRichard Frye of Harvard against Northrup of Yale? I have been most uncompromising, and hadthe most wonderful friendships with Frye’s students and animosities with Northrupians and friendshipswith those that despise Northrup—i.e. real Asian Philosophers. Frye is a Sufi! Why do thesethings happen to me, thank God.”
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Diaries <strong>1963</strong>-2There has been a monster and useless conference on the problems and opportunities of women.All things are faced analytically and intellectually. Puck is amused by ladies arising and sayingthey are different from men and must have opportunities and only one used an intuitive or nonintellectualelement. They were either logical and precise or else that awful emotionally-cum-clichémethod: “We are equal or better than men because we are equal or superior in creating and usingclichés.” I have no doubt about it, but what does it prove?Bill discussed Judith, whom he has seen and I told him that Judith had faculties, even on theverge of Delphic Woman, and we must be careful. It would seem that womankind could recover itsor her faculties, these useless conferences would be unnecessary. Ted showed me a book by PercivalLowell on Occult Japan wherein the oracles functioned. It was the disjointing of the Oracle in Japanwhich destroyed her exactly as it was in Greece and nobody looks into such matters. Who was SaintElizabeth?He also was delighted in David and almost shocked by Clare. He also got Gina’s address. Thedetails here are old and corroborative.The need for revision and emphasizing the ego-centric predicament first are evident.Ted has discussed Sepher Ha-Zohar and I have found it at George Field’s. I may be reading itwhile working on the manuscript and it also may affect it. We simply do not know the Bible and weplay loosely with it. The inner side of the Greek myths will be evident when we integrate Graves,Jung and Campbell. The inner side of the Bible will be evident without this, but until I get a sign, it isbeyond my capacity.Vera reports on fana-fi-Rassoul, which is most important. I am now more anxious than everthat Major Sadiq comes. Each corroborates the other and this corroborates me better than anythingelse.Wednesday night I went to see Charlotte White and met her husband, Clifford. She has keen insight—ontwo planes and thereabove is blind. She is Jewish, turned Catholic and pretends to resentmy anti-Semiticism, but all the while she is displaying herself. But while she is serious, I am amused.I hope to see them again. Friday night visited Natalie Cecotti who was with me, who is moving toHollywood. She has already heard from Gina and I have already written to Aramdarya about her.Letters arrived: Gina—the Reeves are in Honolulu—and one from Matz family.
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