The wind bloweth where it listeth,
and thou hearest the sound thereof,
but canst not tell whence it cometh,
and whither it goeth:
so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
(John iii. 8)
Interesting accounts have been given by various people of their meetings-on a spiritual level-with the author of this work. One such account can be found in the preface to Healing into Immortality, by the New York psychiatrist Gerald Epstein, who describes there an experience in 1974 while he was with his teacher in Jerusalem drinking tea in her garden. A thin bespectacled gentleman walking by stopped for a moment and said in a booming voice:
“It reminds me of the days of the prophecies.”
His next encounter with this stranger was in January 1986 in the Paraclete Bookshop in New York. He was interested in mental imagery and had selected several volumes. He was about to pay for them when this same stranger, without saying a word, picked up each book in turn and laid it down again, as if to say “This is not it; this is not it.” Then the stranger pointed to a copy of Meditations on the Tarot. Dr. Epstein decided to buy this book and forego the others. He went to the door of the bookshop to thank the stranger, who had just left. When he got outside the stranger was gone.
When he began reading it, his life was changed. A stream of inspiration began to flow and his questions began to be answered inwardly.
from The Wandering Fool by Robert Powell
