Please Note: This post is in the Open Door archive “INO Schism.” It is part of the record of initiation and the 1989 succession. The letters are critical of the views and conduct of several people and do not stand in for the work of the Order.
Read A Schism in the Transmission for the compiled account. Read on only if you want that record.
Glad to hear Denny Sargent & Rebecca came to dine at your pad. Denny could help you much by doing the “Newsletter” as you cannot do everything alone. The Phantastikos you have done is hyper/plus. I hope it will call in other lambs to the fold.
Mike Magee has been going through some personal complications: his job, his leg, … I felt it time for a new step to be taken. Mike has had some ambition to shine in the Guru complex. I have been in the way most of the time but fortunately standing by to stop him being foolish. So I have coined a word -“Gurunath” and have asked him to accept this as a Winter Solstice present. In the Charter I have requested all Naths & Devis to use :- Gurunath Shri Lokanath. For brevity Shri Gurunath or Gurunathji.
This word can be the Western term for the same thing and it circumvents any religious or Eastern connections. Bear with me. I do suspect that the W[estern] N[ath] O[rder] will become separated into American and European sections. Americans & British, in so many ways of culture and approach, are so different. The do things differently also. Thus it must be as it will be.
