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Dear Meher Center Family and Friends,
A loving Jai Baba from Meher Center.
This time of years marks the anniversary of a gathering Meher Baba held at Meherabad, India, which came to be referred to as the "Three Incredible Weeks." It was a meeting of Western men disciples and took place from September 11th to September 30th, 1954. What follows is a passage from a talk called "The Final Declaration" which Meher Baba gave during that time.
"I have come to sow the seed of love in your hearts so that, in spite of all superficial diversity which your life in illusion must experience and endure, the feeling of oneness, through love, is brought about amongst all the nations, creeds, sects and castes of the world.
"In order to bring this about, I am preparing to break My Silence. When I break My Silence it will not be to fill your ears with spiritual lectures. I shall speak only One Word, and this Word will penetrate the hearts of all men and make even the sinner feel that he is meant to be a saint, while the saint will know that God is in the sinner as much as He is in himself.
"When I speak that Word, I shall lay the foundation for that which is to take place during the next seven hundred years. When I come again after seven hundred years, the evolution of consciousness will have reached such an apex that materialistic tendencies will be automatically transmuted into spiritual longing, and the feeling of equality in universal brotherhood will prevail. This means that opulence and poverty, literacy and illiteracy, jealousy and hatred, which are in evidence today in their full measure, will then be dissolved through the feeling of the oneness of all men. Prosperity and happiness will then be at their zenith.
"This does not mean that oneness in illusion shall remain so eternally. That is because all this that is, is illusion, and the consciousness of oneness as well as of manyness in illusion is part of the process of evolution. The time is bound to recur when there will be again the same beginning, growth and culmination of the heights of manyness and oneness in illusion.
"My next advent, after I drop this body, will be after seven hundred years, and that will mark the end and the beginning of a Cycle of Cycles. All cycles of time in illusion end and begin after 700 to 1,400 years, and there have been and will be millions and billions of such cycles in a Cycle of Cycles; thus, there is no end to illusion, which always remains illusion.”*
In Baba's Love and Service,
Buz Connor,
For Meher Center board and staff
*Three Incredible Weeks, Malcolm Schloss & Charles Prudom, pp. 116-117.
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