Author Archives: bill gannett

Ahmad is the first and last

Posted on April 12, 2015 by bill gannett

Ahmad is the first and last of the One who is pure praise; now again he has returned to grace the end of our days.

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California Leads The Nation Into The New Life

Posted on April 9, 2015 by bill gannett

  I’m thinking that California will lead the nation into the New Life. We are that avant garde. Our population is some 40 million, and we are the world’s 7th largest economy considered as a country but we are running … Continue reading →

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The road to La Verna

Posted on April 7, 2015 by bill gannett

The road to La Verna is red with blood of tears; the grief of Francesco wept for years and years. Jesus on Cross flew the sky with wounded hands and feet to grace Il Poverello with grief perfect and complete. … Continue reading →

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All the world longs for the Friend to appear

Posted on April 4, 2015 by bill gannett

All the world longs for the Friend to appear, all the world sighs to hold him close and dear. All the lambent light playing on his pale face the world longs to touch and kiss as pure grace. All the … Continue reading →

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Day 2 of MBCNC’s “Bell of Warning” program

Posted on March 30, 2015 by bill gannett

The second day of MBCNC’s program reviewing Eruch Jessawalla’s ringing the “Bell of Warning” in 1980 began with a review by Alisa Genovese of the previous day’s program. She also observed that members of Sufism Reoriented have always been welcome … Continue reading →

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Day 1 of MBCNC’s “Bell of Warning” re Sufism re-Reoriented

Posted on March 28, 2015 by bill gannett

The program went brilliantly.  It began with the film O Parvardegar which established the the day’s most important theme: the incomparable glory of the Avatar of the Age, Meher Baba. Alisa Genovese  then gave a warm and polished welcome address … Continue reading →

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Night cries

Posted on March 22, 2015 by bill gannett

Night cries stars of tears a milky way of anguish blubbering super novas and dark repression of immense and oppressive gravity. Dawn laughs it all away.    

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Meher means the Sun who is the eternal Friend

Posted on March 20, 2015 by bill gannett

Meher means the Sun who is the eternal Friend: he is pure radiance whom mercy and grace attend. The recurring advent of the glorious Avatar dawns again and again as beauty’s rising star. Now is the spilling Rose fragrant in … Continue reading →

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A synopsis of Sufism re-Reoriented (Updated 3/11/15)

Posted on March 6, 2015 by bill gannett

Eruch Jessawalla rang the “Bell of Warning” in 1980 after having received an inner directive from Avatar Meher Baba to do so. (Meher Baba had “dropped the body” 11 years earlier in 1969.) He wrote a letter to the worldwide … Continue reading →

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Review of “Meher Legacy”, an archival website dedicated to Avatar Meher Baba

Posted on March 2, 2015 by bill gannett

Meher Legacy (meherlegacy.org) is a new website that “was created to archive and preserve the words, images, and treasures of Avatar Meher Baba and his closest followers, and to clarify how they were created, edited, or otherwise changed and interpreted throughout … Continue reading →

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