God Is My Adventure
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
There is something sacrilegious in your intention of writing such a book,' said a friend and yet I went on with it.
Since I was a boy I have always been attracted by those regions of truth that the official religions and sciences are shy of exploring. The men who claim to have penetrated them have always had for me the same fascination that famous artists, explorers or statesmen have for others and such men are the subject of this book. Some of them come from the East, some from Europe and America; some give us a glimpse of truth by the mere flicker of an eyelid, while others speak of heaven and hell with the precision of mathematicians.
I have met them all, and some I have watched in their daily lives. For years now I have sought their company, questioned them and watched them closely at work. I have tried to dissociate the personality from the teaching and then to reconcile the two. I have included some of those whom now I cannot view without mistrust. Since thousands of other people believe in them, they are at any rate most interesting figures in contemporary spiritual life, however little of ultimate value their teaching may possess.
There are people who know the heroes of this book more intimately than I, but my aim has never been to identify myself with anyone teacher. On the contrary, I have always been anxious to discover for myself through what powers they have influenced so many people.
This attitude will warn the reader not to expect an impersonal survey of contemporary spiritual doctrines. I have limited myself to writing of those men with whom I have been in personal contact. I approach them not as the scholar but as the ordinary man who tries to find God in daily life.
This book is the confession of an adventure and the story of my friendships with those men whom a future generation may possibly call the true prophets of our time. The core of the adventure is a search for God. I leave it to the reader to decide whether such a search can be sacrilegious.
Rom Landau
God Is My Adventure
CONTENTS
PART ONE: THE UNKNOWN CONTINENT .
Introduction: Truth in Kensington Gardens
I. Wisdom in Darmstadt
COUNT KEYSERLING
II. Episodes in Modern Life
STEFAN GEORGE and BO YIN RA
III. Occult Truth
RUDOLF STEINER
PART TWO: THE ENGLISH ADVENTURE
Introduction: The English Scene
I. The Throne that was Christ’s
KRISHNAMURTI
II. Portrait of a ‘Perfect Master’
SHRI MEHER BABA
1II. Miracle at the Albert Hall
PRINCIPAL GEORGE JEFFREYS
IV. The Man whose God is a Millionaire
DR. FRANK BUCHMAN
V. War against Sleep
P. D. OUSPENSKY
VI. Harmonious Development of Man
GURDJlEFF
PART THREE: FULFILMENTS
Introduction: Aryan Gods page
I. The Loneliness of Hermann Keyserling
II. The Testament of Rudolf Steiner
III. Krishnamurti in Carmel
Conclusion: The Living God
Bibliography
Index
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