The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-08-31
prima Donna Gives Wonderful Interpretation
Of the Writings Of Emanuel Swedenborg-

Thea answer to yourself the number
of years that ought to be required to
master these thirty-two volumes"
Mean Mere Than Amy Other Books
Mr., Barron, still credulous. con-
tlnued 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 SweG .nborg in a 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
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 briefer period than any
body had ever done before
He says of this interview
"Hours flew like minutes. 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.
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 shape or figure.
Yes exclaimed her husband, 4
see it; it is organization | explained,
also, how Tire r salnrs' likewise cur-
nected with every society of the
heavens, and how the world within
and without was knit together in one
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 a
Single Summer
Now 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
that about which people are
most eager to know but it is not ono
of Swedenborg's great works; al
though it makes good popular and
work"
A Help in Her Work
Galli-Curci understands the writ
ngs Of Swedenborg even better than
because she puts them
INTO practice in the broadcast life Of
owing helpfulness.
She said that Swedenborg had
helped her in her work She had no
onger to think of herself but of her
audiences, and let the music flow
through her: regard herself just .
medium for life to pour through. She
'elt with and for her audiences. and
singing was no effort for her
All Fear Vanishes
1.-THE more you do-the more you
rive forth-the more life and energy
s poured into you, and you are
tronger and not weaker for the do
ng, the working and the singing.
always feel stronger; l am not ex-
lausted at all by my singing. Swed-
'nborg shows the reason and how life
omes in as you pour it forth usefully
% others. You don't have to try
worry or fret. You know it is not you
'ut that it Is just being done through
'ou."
speaking further of the help Swed-
nborg had been to her in her work
he said: "One gets so much more
onfidence. The other world and the
me life, that comprehends all life.
ecome: reality and all fear and
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