Diary 1963 - Murshid Sam's Living Stream

Diaries 1963December 7, 1963My dear Harriet:This is the third time his week I have started to write to you and I am going to mail it althoughit can’t be final, nothing is final. But among Puck’s Ten Commandments, some of which are ages old,is “A gentleman is one who remembers a woman’s birthday but forgets her age” and so it happensthat I send thee birthday greetings and love and all that, but I am not going to get out my slide ruleor Univac to figure out your age, commandment or no commandment.What is certain is the uncertainty of seeing you and that uncertainty has become so uncertainand the only certainty is uncertainty. After pledges and a clear program “comes it now” reversing itand also the reversal and unless there is thunder, lightning or death I shall be in Berkeley Mondayand may even telephone before you get this, although it is also uncertain.Three things plopped together: an emergency letter of a god-son who moved to Berkeley, andtwo important contacts with regard to my projects. I don’t even know if the god-son has a car—if hehas will try to say hello also in person. The projects today are all integrated, and they are taking ona tremendous vista, all of life’s works, dreams, efforts, researches and what not being in one basket,called Project: The Garden of Allah, and no nonsense about it.There has also been a cosmic drama, that I had a most bitter, vicious and irreconcilable enemy,a woman whom I had once taught and she turned against me. The Spirit of Wisdom said to makefriends with her husband’s friends, but the Spirit of Wisdom was a leading quicker on the dram thanSam Lewis and all over the world it has happened that her husband’s friends have befriended me,including here as well as there and there. And recently when I got the going over from the Chamberof Commerce I not only had the answers, I had the men who could handle the detail. All are in Californiaand most connected with UC. Briefly it is a food and soil project but it also has recognition oflocal religions, superstitions and aptitudes.And just to show you how the Spirit of Wisdom works. Last night was a farewell party to ayoung woman who is going to India to find God, spiritual liberation and Shangri-la. A Zen Masterwas to be present and I wanted to give her some wisdom that she did not have to send her money—which she hasn’t, because the spiritual liberation and Shangri-la do not depend on travel agents.This is very unfair to Madison Ave and the BOAC and Qantas pressure adds. Of course my women“friends” were up in arms. Never once have “they” ever permitted me to demonstrate any wisdom,if indeed I have it—but not once in America, until last night.Well Irene brought one Krishna, and like all real spiritual persons he does not follow the bookin anything. For the world is divided into the European Professors who give their Keyserling misviewsabout Asia and the Miss Cloudnines and having with much difficulty rescued most of thosepresent from the European Professors of Oriental “Philosophy,” it has only been to get them into thecamps of the Miss Cloudnines.