Diary 1963 - Murshid Sam's Living Stream

Diaries 1963-3One of the hardest things to bear is that in the absence of each other, these mutually hatingpersons, Rom Landau and Ivy Duce, have assiduously avoided each other and pushed their venomat me. This is liable to end now as a comic opera. The presence of the Indonesian dervishes, and ofFarooq Mawlawi, the gradual acceptance by the diplomats, and especially the demonstration in PartTV of “Saladin” which has proven to be absolutely prophetic and objective, is going to defeat thesemachinations, inshallah.The last attack on me, from another source, has resulted in finding out that the persons concernedhave made many enemies. It began with Sam Newson. I said to him, “What about this Asianconference? You know, one of those affairs in which those who do not know tell those who do?”“That’s why I am leaving the country. Then they can’t invite me.” Sam knows more about Japanthan practically any other. American and he hides out.The Conference was on the air and instead of listening to a German Professor tell all about Asiathey listened to a retired English diplomat. Then the TV station appealed for funds. I switched toanother station which did not appeal for funds and listened to sundry Africans, Asians and Europeanstell what they thought about American foreign policy and American life. Any relation betweenthem and the others is not. What the Asians thought was what they generally think—and no relationto the paff peddled out before the public here. We are losing all over and are going to lose more.The same is true on the food problems. I won’t go into that. The more campaigns, the moreorganizations, the less the alleviation especially when the population of the world is growing.Sound. Your remarks are wonderful and they negate what you wrote previously about holyphrases in English. It is on sounds which have been offered by holy men which have the psychicpower. If the words of Jesus had been preserved as the sounds, perhaps the mission of Mohammedwould have been unnecessary. But the name of Jesus was not Jesus and when people sing, “Take thename of Jesus with you,” these are unfortunately only noises.Graves has built a great deal on the very principles you support. There is the seven VowelSpiritual Name and the Five Vowel Spiritual Name and from these came the seven tone and fivetone scales, too. We do not know anymore the origin of do (ut), re, mi, etc. all of which are mantric.They seem to be Latin but ultimately are Indo-Germanic. Mantrams need not be either Semitic norIndo-Germanic and there are plenty of nonsense sounds too. In the Buddhist lectures it comes outthat the originally sound was AH, which is to say the sound of the first letter of those alphabets commonto the Indo-Germanic and Semitic speeches, and the first sound of both the Seven-Vowel areFive-Vowel revelations.The letter “L” makes the smoothest sounds reflected in the Zikr. For Zikr has two meanings—one the remembrance of God and the other the particularizing sounds. The very sounds help theremembrance. In “Irfan” we learn that Allah is not God but the name (sound-base) which God hasassumed; or “In the beginning was the word.” Everybody looks for “the Lost word.” I can assureyou it is not Om but it also is not-not-Om.