The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-09-03
prima Donna Gives Wonderful Interpretation
Of the Writings Of Emanuel Swedenborg-

| Then answer to yourself the number
of years that ought to be required to
master these thirty-two volumes"
Mean More Than Amy Other. Books
Mr.. Barron, still credulous, con-
tinued his correspondence with
Madame CALI Curci for some months.
He learned that soon after she lost
her dear mother she had sought the
Writings of Swedenborg 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: t'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 Catskills to her beautiful
Italian palace, and in an afternoon
with her and her husband, Mr.. Homer
Samuels, he was convinced that CALI
Curci had read and devoured Sweden
borg in a briefer period than any
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He says of this interview:
"Hours flew like minutes. I wasn't
the questioner. Mr.. and Mrs. Samuels
were at me with the sharpest and
deepest questions. They seemed in
perfect harmony mentally and spir-
itually, as in their work in music.
J Wanted to Learn
"She wanted to know about the
! Grand Man. told her, it would be
easier to comprehend it if she would
forego the idea of time and space and
consider, as Swedenborg says in The
Apocalypse Explained, that every So
ciety in the heavens connects with
some organ of the human body and
helps to sustain it. Therefore the
heavens have the organization of the
Grand Man, but we need not think
of it as a. shape or figure.
Yes,d exclaimed her husband, 4
see it; it is organization I explained,
also, how the Psalms likewise con-
nected with every society 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 80 Volumes Read in .
Single Summer
CHOW I understand she said, and
asked me for explanation of other
things. Her intelligent questions, as
well as her statements, left no man.
ner of doubt that Galli-Curci had
performed the stupendous feat of
reading the thirty-two volumes of
Swedenborg in single summer sea-
son. She declared Heaven and He'll a
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; al
though it makes a 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 do
ing, the working and the singing.
always feel stronger; l am not ex-
hausted at all by my singing. Swed-
enborg shows the reason and how life
comes in as you pour it forth usefully
to others. You don't have to try
worry or fret. You know it is not you
but that il is just being done through
you"
Speaking further of the help Swed-
enborg had been to her in her work
she saidl 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"