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

"BAPAK AND THE COMING OF THE LATIHAN"... IV  BAPAK'S FIRST WORLD JOURNEY 
Concluded today on Thursday 8/26/10... as follows...:- 


Then Bapak went to England, where strangely enough there were people who knew why he had come, among them those then at Coombe Springs. 


Mr. Bennett happened to be holding a seminar at the time Bapak went to England.  Well, that was very curious: something was going on that would never have occurred to one - there was a Gurdjieff seminar.


Because of this seminar, pupils of Gurdjieff from everywhere had of course come on a visit to England, to Coombe Springs. 


People had come from South Africa, from Ceylon, from Europe itself - Holland, Germany, France; and from North and South America - Chile and Peru.  The Gurdjieff system was going along fairly well and its followers though not numerous, were widely distributed.


All this was quite by chance; Bapak had not reckoned on people from other countries outside England being there.  He had not reckoned on it nor had such a possibility even occurred to him. 


So Bapak came to England and went in the first place to where Rofe lived, in a street whose name Bapak now forgets.  And because the quarters were very cramped, very restricted, Bennett took Bapak to his house at Coombe Springs. 


Bapak Opened all these people, because Starr and the others whom Rofe had Opened asked for Bapak to Open them again.  So Bapak did as they wished.


On moving to Coombe Springs, Bapak conducted Openings and did Latihan with Bennett, von Bissing and others.  


The people attending the Gurdjieff seminar seemed to wonder how it came about that their master and guru now had a guru himself.  They were rather puzzled, because they had come to visit Bennett, whom they trusted, and now Bennett had entered SUBUD.  By implication, Bennett was in fact asking Bapak to teach him.


'Oh', they thought, 'this visitor must be someone higher still; it must be that'.  


So they asked Mr. Bennett's permission to join SUBUD too, and be Opened.  Bennett asked Bapak, telling him that the Gurdjieff people at the seminar were asking him if Bapak would allow them too to follow the Latihan Kejiwaan if they wished.


Bapak said they could, as the Latihan was indeed for all mankind.  


As soon as Bapak gave permission, one, two, three, ten, twenty joined, and on to a hundred, two hundred.  


Bapak had an English visa for only three months to begin with, or maybe only for one month, or two.  But because so many people at Coombe Springs were asking to be Opened, until they numbered over a thousand, Bapak was obliged to extend his visa to seven months.


Thus, on his first visit, Bapak stayed in England for seven months on end; one might say he was Opening people every evening while there.  Every evening thirty or forty people were Opened, sometimes a hundred, but at least thirty, forty, fifty.  


Well, Bapak had to stay for seven months, to make sure that the people from outside England really could in some degree Receive and understand what the Latihan Kejiwaan of SUBUD was.  After that Bapak went home again.


The people returning to their various countries after Receiving the Latihan probably felt it was very beneficial.  Many did indeed say that this was what they had been looking for. 


From the people returning to their various homes, after Bapak had Opened them, SUBUD began to spread; this was the cause of its spreading in other countries.


When Bapak experienced all this, he became convinced and was certain, whereas formerly, when he Received the Gift of Knowing from God in 1932, he was still only half convinced. 


Well, yes, Bapak did believe, but was not yet truly convinced because he had not yet had the Experience.  But, in due course, Bapak experienced that all this was really true.  What he had been Told and what he Received really did come to pass.


Amen.  Bapak Muhammad Subuh Sumohadiwidjojo


The End




"THE MEANING OF SUBUD"... comprised of four Talks... given by our Beloved SUBUD father... BAPAK... in London... in August 1959... with the titles of... "THE  TEACHINGS OF THE PROPHETS AND THE ACTION OF SUBUD"... "GOD AND THE SOUL"... "THE DEFECTS OF THE SOUL"... and "SUBMISSION"... will be featured...in serialized form... beginning Monday 8/30/2010... on both Muftiah's Facebook Notes Page... as well as on her Blogs...... JIWA TO JIWA"... and "MUFTIAH"... Insha Allah... God Willing...