The Winslow mail., 1926-09-24

be required to master these thirty
two volumes"
Mean More Than Any Other
Books
Mr.. Barron, still credulous, con-
tinued his correspondence with
Madame Galli-Curci for some
months. He learned that soon
after she lost her dear mother she
had sought the Writings of Swe-
denborg in desire to know more
about the other world whence her
mother had gone. She spent the
entire summer vacation studying
Swedenborg's Works, and declared:
"They have meant, and mean more
to me than anything else I have
ever read"
When Galli-Curci returned from
California Mr.. Barron motored up
into the CatskiIls to her beautiful
Italian palace, and in an afternoon
with her and her husband, Mr..
Homer Samuels, he was convinced
that Galli-Curci had read and de-
voured Swedenborg m a briefer
period than anybody had ever
done before.
He says Of this interview:
"Hours flew Ike minutes. /
wasn't the questioneT. Mr.. and
Mrs. Samuels were at me with the
sharpest and deepest questions.
They seemed in perfect harmony
mentally and spiritually, as in
their work in music.
Wanted to Learn
"She wanted to know about the
Grand Man. l told her it would
be easier to comprehend it If she
would forego the idea of time and
space apd consider, as Swedenborg
says in The Apocalypse Explained,
that every society in the heavens
connects with some organ of the
human body and helps to sust ain
it. Therefore the heavens have
the organization of the Grand
Man, but we need not think of it
as a shape or figure.
eyes, exclaimed her husband,
T see it; it is organization
explained, also, how the Psalms
likewise connected with every So
ciety of the heavens, and how the
world within and without was knit
together in one grand poem and
song of creation, man in the image
of his Maker and knit into Him
through the heavens, from which
he has life in every organ of his
body.
Swedenborg's 81 Volumes Read i'm
a Single Summer
Now | understand she said,
and asked me for explanation of
other things. Her intelligent ques-
tions, as well as her statements,
left no manner of doubt that CALI
Curci had performed the stupen-
dous feat of reading the thirty
two volumes of Swedenborg in "A
single summer season. She de-
clared Heaven and He'll very
attractive and popular title and
concerns that about which people
are most eager to know; but it is
not one of Swedenborg's great
works; although it makes good
popular and Introductory work"
A Help in Her Work
Galli-Curci understands the writ
ings of Swedenborg even better
than theologians, because she puts.
them into practice in the broadcast
life of loving helpfulness.
She said that Swedenborg had
helped her in her work. She had
no longer to think Of herself but
of her audiences, and let the music
flow through her: regard herself
Just a medium for life TO pour
through. She felt with and for
her audiences, and singing was no
effort for her.
All Fear Vanishes
''The more you do-the more
you give forth--the more life and
energy is poured into you, and you
are stronger and not weaker for
the doing, the working and the
singing. | always feel stronger:
am not exhausted at all by my
singing. Swedenborg shows the
reason and how life comes in
as you pour it forth usefully to
others. You don't have to try
or worry or fret. You know it is
not you bus that it is just being
done through you"
/ Speaking further Of the help
Swedenborg had been to her in her
work she said: Zone gets so much
more confidence. The other world
and the one life, that comprehends
all life, becomes reality and all
fear and worry vanish"