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Last Post 04/22/2012 11:38 PM by  Wayne
L. Frank Baum as a messenger
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04/22/2012 11:38 PM
    Next Sunday, I will be attending a lecture by the National President of the Theosophical Society in America, Tim Boyd on "The Habit of Dying." The flyer from the Theosophical Society said he will talk about the nature of death and how we can practice dying while still alive. Omraam talked about this in "Looking into the Invisible" when he suggested we commend ourselves into the hands of the Angel of Death (aka Angel of Sleep) at night as we leave our bodies.

    After the lecture, I will ask him a question which has intrigued me after reading L. Frank Baum's three biographies and books about the spiritual symbolism in the Wizard of Oz: Was he a type of messenger?

    He admitted to a friend that The Wizard of Oz just poured out of him in an intense period of inspiration during which he used scraps of paper and envelopes to write on. He said, "Sometimes the Great Author has a message to get across and he has to use the instrument at hand. I beleive that I happened to be that medium." He meant it in the sense of a spiritual medium. At the time, Baum and his family were into spiritualism and were friends with a Chicago medium, Genie Van Loom. Baum's biographer, Rebecca Loncraine wrote, "Baum understood his writing process, especially the Oz books, as a form of channeling."

    On November 11th, I will be speaking on The Wonderful Wisdom of Oz at the Theosophical Society in Phoenix, and will put forth this theory. I will say that most authors have muses who inspire their writings. Baum's muses were likely ascended masters who inspired him to transmit key teachings of theosophy in simple words and images that a child could understand without sounding preachy. Then I will present some of the major examples.

    Wayne
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