Diary 1963 - Murshid Sam's Living Stream

Diaries 1963August 16Dear Saladin:Your project may be an answer to a prayer or it may be part of divine guidance or both. TheUniversity if Islamabad wants me to write a book on “Leaves” and I have a feeling we may be on theway to the recovery of amrita. Some weeks back I spoke to Iru Price about Taoist Herbology and hesaid he would help me. But he has been moving and then you came along.Another thing, quite different. In 1923 PoM appointed six cherags and put me at the head ofthe exoteric work. As soon as he was gone Rabia appointed me cherag against my will. There weresix cherags, three of them retired, I was working six days a week and they compelled me to take overthe Universal Worship so I was lucky I had Sunday afternoons. And in those days I had to do all mycooking and laundry while living at home. It contributed to my 1925 breakdown.More recently it came to me if there is to be a Universal Worship it must include Taoism. Zarathustrianismis small and confined to a bunch of money-grabbers. Its best texts have not come downto us, and whatever it has to contribute it is not much. On the other hand I have been initiated intoesoteric Confucianism and admire many forms of Taoism. And with your agog-ness I can’t see any“sky” or any reason, if there is to be universal religion why all of this cannot be taken in.Last night I filed all my papers excepting correspondence. I looked again at the material. I hadto sweat blood to get in Rabia’s home and Etta never let me finish. I found a complete Yoga system(or many) and another type of healing system. I have also my commentary on “Health” which includesa lot of etcetera material turned over to Rabia and never used; plus the healing practices fromboth contemporary PoMs in Pakistan. The healing cum diet school alone would merit a staff workingfull time. And in between more practices for developing magnetism and healing powers besidesthe ones I know.If a certain material event takes place I shall initiate Walt Baptiste who is known as Guru Dev,in the Yoga systems. I was sent to him some weeks ago warning that his Guru, Sivanananda, was nolonger effective and six weeks later that Sage died, leaving Walt in a funk.What is more certain: I took PoM’s “Three Plays” down to him with the suggestion that hiswife present them to the public. The changes are highly favorable. They already have the costumesand stage setting for the first two plays. What they needed was dramatic material and here they haveit.Yesterday’s mail shows that for me the Fudo path is right. Now as the fall approaches—beginningnext week, I have been admitted to forums on Asia where before doors were closed. I am goingto lay it down to Iru Price in re: Buddhism. I love this man who took over from Rev. Phra Sumangalo,but he has not the good-will of the Buddhists in the southern part of the State, and if I seem anobstacle here, I found myself in total and absolute agreement with those people. The Zendo in L.A.is growing great guns and the Bishop (Yamada) is the most wonderful Buddhist (to me) in the U.S.