Collins, Mabel
1851-1927 76 years
aka: Minna Mabel Collins, Mabel Cook (legal name)
1851-1927 76 years
aka: Minna Mabel Collins, Mabel Cook (legal name)
English society woman of highly questionable history
supposed author of many books, including some on
esoteric religious thought, e.g. Light on the Path--many
believe this was written by other people.
married at 20 to an English clergy type, or lawyer
fashion columnist for a newspaper
spiritualism, seance groups, Theosophy,
anti-vivesectionist, etc.
author of 46 books, mostly of sensationalist romantic
novel types
met Blavatsky
thought in her mind she had lived with Jack the Ripper,
the notorious London rapist.
many "nervous breakdowns" in life.
supposed author of many books, including some on
esoteric religious thought, e.g. Light on the Path--many
believe this was written by other people.
married at 20 to an English clergy type, or lawyer
fashion columnist for a newspaper
spiritualism, seance groups, Theosophy,
anti-vivesectionist, etc.
author of 46 books, mostly of sensationalist romantic
novel types
met Blavatsky
thought in her mind she had lived with Jack the Ripper,
the notorious London rapist.
many "nervous breakdowns" in life.
| Many parts of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra are also very ancient, and the same is the case with Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat. Mabel Collins’ Light on the Path is of the same category, Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet also. I have looked into all Max Ehrmann’s poems but no other poem has the same quality, not even a single poem. If Desiderata was written by him then many more poems of the same quality would have flowed. It has not happened. In fact, Desiderata seems to be so different from all his poems that it is impossible to believe that it has come from the same person. The same is true about Mabel Collins’ Light on the Path. These are strange documents. The possibility is that they have always existed – again and again lost visibly, but truth manifests itself.... Whenever there is a vulnerable soul, a receptive person, truth again starts flowing through him. And of course the person will think, “I am writing it...” --Osho Guida Spirituale, ch. 1 |
| oshobob The Living Workshop |
| People in Osho's Talks |
| Osho has a book using Mabel Collins' Light on the Path as a starting point for his own talks, titled: The New Alchemy: To Turn You On and re-published recently as: The Voice of Silence |