"BABA desires that all those who get this CIRCULAR or get the information contained therein, should wholeheartedly, from the depths of their heart, repeat audibly, one Name of GOD, for one hour without break, from four to five o'clock, early morning of the tenth of July, 1953. Hindus say PARABRAHMA PARAMATMA; Muslims say ALLA-HU-AKBAR; Parsis say AHURAMAZDA; Iranis Say YEZDAN; Christians say GOD ALMIGHTY."

E ARE VERY HAPPY to dedicate this little magazine, The Awakener, to the living Spiritually Perfect Master of our age, MEHER BABA. For he is destined, we believe, to be one of the great spiritual Awakeners of mankind, one of those great spiritual Torches that come down every now and then to enlighten the hearts of men and to give them not only hope, but an actual foretaste of their ultimate end . . . Union with God.

Because he gives us not merely dry words and teachings, but the actual experience of GOD, we call him "THE AWAKENER". He himself says, "I have come not to teach, but to awaken." He comes particularly to awaken our hearts that are dry of Love. He says that mankind has reached the zenith of its intellectual development and the next step in its upward evolution is the awakening of the spiritual intuition, which functions primarily through the heart. Only this heart-change can redeem mankind from the abyss of destruction in which it has now fallen. Reason without love, intellect without intuition, he has likened to a concrete reservoir in which all the machinery is in good order but which is bone-dry and empty. Intellect alone can