Francis Brabazon

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name = Francis Brabazon


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birth_date = January 24, 1907
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death_date = June 24, 1984
death_place = Queensland Australia
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Francis Brabazon (January 24, 1907 - June 24, 1984) was an Australian poet and a mandali of Meher Baba.

Brabazon was born in London, but moved to Australia with his family when he was still a boy. At the age of 21, Francis Brabazon embarked on a quest to discover the relationship between beauty and truth. He studied music and painting and finally found his niche in poetry. In the 1940s, Brabazon became interested in Eastern spirituality and soon became a student of the Australian Sufi leader Baron Friedrich von Frankenberg.

With the death of his Sufi teacher in the early 1950s, Brabazon became the head of the Sufi Movement in Australia. He met Meher Baba on a trip to America in 1952 and later described Baba as "the very personification of truth and the very embodiment of beauty." After returning to Australia, Francis and a party of helpers managed to complete the "Beacon Hill house" in time for Baba's first visit to Australia in August 1956. It was later called "Meher House". In 1958 he established on a 100 acre (40 ha) estate on Kiels Mountain, Woombye, Queensland, a place to host Meher Baba on his next visit. Baba, while he was there, named the area "Avatar's Abode" and said it would become a place of world pilgrimage. ["Lord Meher", Bhau Kalchuri, 1986, p. 8460.] Francis' grave is on the "Abode" overlooking the ocean. The Avatar's Abode Trust holds copyright of Francis Brabazon's works.

Publications

* "The Word at World's End", 1971
* "Cantos of Wandering," Beacon Hill Press, 1957 (ISBN 1-151-21106-0)
* "The East West Gathering," Sydney: Meher House, 1963
* "7 Stars to Morning," Designed and produced by Edwards & Shaw for Morgan's Bookshop, 1956
* "In Dust I Sing," Beguine Library, Berkeley, 1974
* "Singing Threshold"
* "Stay With God A statement in illusion on Reality," Meher House Publications, 1977
* "Journey With God," Sheriar Press, 1971
* "The Silent Word"
* "The Golden Book of Praise," Awakener Press, 1982
* "Four and Twenty Blackbirds," Sheriar Foundation, 1975

Further reading

* Ross Keating, "Francis Brabazon - Poet of the Silent Word - a modern Hafiz," World Axis Press, 2002 (biography)

See also

* Avatar's Abode

References

External links

* [http://www.avatarsabode.com.au/ Avatar's Abode Australia]
* [http://www.avatarsabode.com.au/fbLegal.htm Francis Brabazon Copyright]
* [http://www.realnothings.com/Brabazonpage.htm Francis Brabazon Page]
* [http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/B/BrabazonFran/index.htm Poems and Biography]
* [http://www.sheriarbooks.org/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=EXTR&Source=francis_brabazon_bio Biography]
* [http://www.sheriarbooks.org/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=SBO&Product_Code=949191078 Stay With God]
* [http://www.belovedarchives.org/mandali/mandali_art003_1.html Brabazon's first meeting with Meher Baba]