Part 64 (1/2)

I a with the Swami in his appeal for international schools on the art of living which, if established, will co hich I araphed picture of himself

I treasure it even as a Hindu merchant once treasured a picture of Lincoln The Hindu, as in A the Civil War years, conceived such an ad to return to India until he had obtained a portrait of the Great E himself adamantly on Lincoln's doorstep, the merchant refused to leave until the astonished President perton, the famous New York artist When the portrait was finished, the Hindu carried it in triunature--see bsignaturejpg]

{FN38-2} New York: Century Co, 1922

CHAPTER: 39

THERESE NEUMANN, THE CATHOLIC STIGMATIST

”Return to india I have waited for you patiently for fifteen years Soon I shall swiananda, coly in ton headquarters Traversing ten thousand e penetrated

Fifteen years! Yes, I realized, now it is 1935; I have spent fifteen years in spreading s in America Now he recalls me

That afternoon I recounteddisciple

His spiritual development under KRIYA YOGA was so re Babaji's prophecy that America too would produce ic path

This disciple and a nu a donation for ements to sail, via Europe, for India Busy weeks of preparations at Mount Washi+ngton! In March, 1935 I had the Self-Realization Fellowshi+p chartered under the laws of the State of California as a non-profit corporation To this educational institution go all public donations as well as the revenue froazine, written courses, class tuition, and every other source of income

”I shall be back,” I told et Aeles by loving friends, I looked long at their faces and thought gratefully, ”Lord, he who remembers Thee as the Sole Giver will never lack the sweetness of friendshi+p a mortals”

I sailed from New York on June 9, 1935 {FN39-1} in the EUROPA Two students accoht, and an elderly lady from Cincinnati, Miss Ettie Bletch We enjoyed the days of ocean peace, a welcome contrast to the past hurried weeks

Our period of leisure was short-lived; the speed of rettable features!

Like any other group of inquisitive tourists, alked around the huge and ancient city of London The following day I was invited to address a largein Caxton Hall, at which I was introduced to the London audience by Sir Francis Younghusband Our party spent a pleasant day as guests of Sir Harry Lauder at his estate in Scotland We soon crossed the English Channel to the continent, for I wanted to e to Bavaria This would be reat Catholic mystic, Therese Neumann of Konnersreuth

Years earlier I had read an aiven in the article was as follows:

(1) Therese, born in 1898, had been injured in an accident at the age of twenty; she becaained her sight in 1923 through prayers to St Teresa, ”The Little Flower” Later Therese Neumann's limbs were instantaneously healed

(3) From 1923 onward, Therese has abstained co of one smata, or sacred wounds of Christ, appeared in 1926 on Therese's head, breast, hands, and feet On Friday of every week thereafter, she has passed through the Passion of Christ, suffering in her own body all his historic agonies

(5) Knowing ordinarily only the si her Friday trances Therese utters phrases which scholars have identified as ancient Aramaic At appropriate times in her vision, she speaks Hebrew or Greek

(6) By ecclesiastical permission, Therese has several times been under close scientific observation Dr Fritz Gerlick, editor of a Protestant German newspaper, went to Konnersreuth to ”expose the Catholic fraud,” but ended up by reverently writing her biography

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