Volume 5, Issue 8, page 3

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and
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17.

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it
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our own ch• -
ling t
tha
ere
ere was
Bennett,
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is a
taken
meani
life (
is att
mitted
vealed
conscio
but in th
meaning for
are reminded
who had his s
of the world in
until it all was
all that is claimed
be the long lost Word,
Persian dust and rubble.

The Subud movement goes bac
22,1901, when a son was born to a
couple in mid-Java. His given name of
er
in one.
it, it mig
'ed for ages in
d
nt Pe
e the kno
fewer words
bud is
s an
ly fa orab
g i nne
udh
oosel
t
n
is a lo
have. We time
an king if.y
0 WRITE of Subud, after no
more than two readings of
J. G. Bennett's "Concerning Subud", is like trying to discuss intelligently
Einstein's " Theory of Relativity", with no more mathematics
than a perusal of the multiplication tables. Carelessly,
or intentionally, the book has
left too many questions with
either no or incomplete answers, even when one looks hard
for them, or tries to "read
meaning between the lines".
Undoubtedly, one does not know
Subud on an intellectual basis.
It's something to be expert.
enced -- something personal
doesn't fit into a
built for the eich
formation on a ma
We can't say
confirmed bel
that Bennet
find much
ished vie
was hone
too muc
long-t
to con
in mi
the f
who
grat
proc
know
pre
from
teas
karno was changed to Muhammad
Subuh at the suggestion of a
passerby, when the stranger
learned of the child's illness
and expected death. After his
recovery, Subuh's early years
were marked by a desperate effort to live a normal life --
frustrated by clairvoyant powers almost as soon as he could
talk, a refusal by religious
teachers to accept him as a
pupil because, they said, it
was meet that he should get
his revelations direct from
God; even his marriage and fathering of five children was
an attempt on his part to athe role of teacher which
thrust upon him. At
24, a ball of brilentered the head
experience rears -- yet even
ed upon him,
apart from
Subuh was
t it was
asked
that he

upied

t~bad
t be
six
was
his
n
at
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e of inrial lev
clos
f t
clai
at fit
. We
y and
in
stu
rt i
, wh
llowe
ve
n is
s, o
but
ions
i
ad a
incer
bud
nt o
un
wi
of
nt
a l
ser
ith
reac
e
fined
g.
s of
ne o
ing
ven
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rs
be
ing.
he re
"exe
o th
bori
proc
two
his
ave
wor
ont
from
is
dhi)
ned w
the
us t
ss,
soul".
ne lit
the
co
en
Su
tion
cie
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do
en ou
will
u th
a ted
An d
e
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d,
of
San
ct ha
ter 1
enti
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t
eras
cord
Gila
rit.
ny
e (
be
other
your
, the
e been
Its for
You ask
who
the ^eantion to see
accept the
request. T h e
rom within" (the
one qualified to
s 30 minutes or more.
ou wait. "It" happens.
o have been "opened" reach a
clear conviction as to the reality of the contact—usually in a series
of latihans -- they can, in turn, be " opens
, he
s mission
er wor
ad re
, wh
his de
tried to
lowaen.
lly
to tr
ng o
ive
the stroll
ightly f
ny was
oid
In 19
coni
it
ye
Bidan
ulasp
ned" whe
b he
s
rap
and
ant
he
s. Wh
ourse
has
you
id.
s sa
ives
is
, and
"o
plat
really
ences o
on pr
lling
your o
working
sion wit
usually t
's don
six
man
few
ort
It n
was
the age
ant ligh
Subuh --
three
ing fo
ng
, whe
ed
to
to h
the
cri
wee
f f
er
1!,
gat
e
we
ite
tha
he
t,
in
1,
span
co
wn
it
he re
e key
hen
whi
the
re
re
by
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se
dl rth
ght
let
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