"BAPAK AND THE COMING OF THE LATIHAN"... IV BAPAK'S FIRST WORLD JOURNEY

"BAPAK AND THE COMING OF THE LATIHAN"... IV  BAPAK'S FIRST WORLD JOURNEY 


(Continued today Monday 8/23/10... on both Muftiah's Notes Page... as well as on her Blogs... "JIWA TO JIWA"  and  "MUFTIAH"... 




That was how it began.  


Days, weeks, months went by, and Rofe was making reasonable progress; once he had Received, he Received quite well. 


But Rofe had a very strange character.  He never felt at home or contented anywhere.  He always wanted to keep moving, moving, moving on. 


After a while he wanted to move on, and Bapak told him in the first place to go to Palembang.  But after a year or eighteen months in Palembang he no longer felt happy there either.  He asked Bapak where he should go next, and Bapak told him to move to Hong Kong.


Rofe had his profession, of course, which was writing for the press about his experiences and the things he saw.  As he happened to have Received SUBUD, he wrote an article about it for a paper circulating in Turkey and Cyprus.  He was also fluent in Turkish.


There chanced to be a group of English people in Cyprus under the spiritual leadership of  Mr. von Bissing and, later, of another specialist in this field named Meredith Starr  [later Roland Starr, who died in Latihan at his home in England while this Talk was being prepared for press].  


The latter must eventually have read Rofe's article, for Bapak received a letter from Cyprus bearing Meredith Starr's name and address.  Bapak was astonished, for he had never had a letter from overseas.  Well, here was a letter from overseas.  Bapak opened it and had someone read it.  Rofe was already in Hong Kong.


Bapak read the content of the letter: 


'May I introduce myself - Meredith Starr. I devote myself to the search for spiritual knowledge, and I have read a magazine article by Husein Rofe in which he says that Bapak, who is his teacher, can give explanations of spiritual matters.  As this is something I very much need, I hope Bapak will come to Cyprus and open me and instruct me'.  Well, at that time the word 'open' was not in use - he said 'teach me'.  It was signed Meredith Starr, and beneath the signature was written:  'If Bapak can indeed come and visit us in 
Cyprus, I will at once send the money to cover his expenses'.


When Bapak read this letter, he remembered Rofe who very much wanted to get back to England.  So Bapak made a copy of the letter and sent it on to him, so that he might take up Mr. Starr's invitation to go to Cyprus.  Then, of course, he would be quite near and could go back to England. 


To Mr. Starr himself Bapak wrote that he had forwarded his letter to Bapak's pupil, Husein Rofe, then in Hong Kong, because Rofe was actually English and wanted to return to England and could Open the people in Cyprus. 


Bapak then received an answer from Rofe agreeing to go to Cyprus provided the money were sent to him.  This was done, of course, and Rofe got his expenses.  He then went to Cyprus, where he Opened Meredith Starr and others.


Not long afterwards, Rofe wrote to tell Bapak that, by agreement with the people he had Opened in Cyprus, he was going to England.  He said Mr. Starr and the others would follow him to England, and they hoped Bapak, if he had the time, would accept an invitation to come there.  


Bapak was invited to come to England and expenses were at once sent to him. 


That was the beginning.


Bapak accepted the invitation, which clearly signified that human beings would provide Bapak with money, not God.  That was how it was; as there was no way for God to give Bapak money, the Power of God induced people to do so.


("BAPAK AND THE COMING OF THE LATIHAN"... IV  BAPAK'S FIRST WORLD JOURNEY 
(To be Concluded on Thursday 8/26/10... on both Muftiah's Notes Page... as well as on her Blogs... "JIWA TO JIWA"  and  "MUFTIAH"... Insha Allah... God Willing...)