Testimonial letter from Eva Mazucco
This letter is one of a remarkable series of over 2650 letters amassed in 1983 to support Osho's attempt to get permanent resident status in the US at the time of the Oregon ranch. The image is reproduced here with the kind permission of The Oregon Historical Society. Information about their collection of these letters and other supporting material -- the "Jeffrey Noles Rajneesh Collection", named for Osho's immigration lawyer Jeffrey Noles, who compiled them in 1983 and donated them to the OHS -- can be found at this page. The wiki is grateful to the OHS for making access available for these documents. For more information and links to all the letters, see Testimonial letters.
This letter is from Eva Mazucco. It is "Exhibit A-614" in the Noles collection.
The text version below has been created by optical character recognition (OCR), from the images supplied by OHS. It has not been checked for errors but this process usually results in over 99% correct transcription. Most apparent "errors" are correct transcriptions of typos already in the original. The image on the right in the text box links to a pdf file of the original letter, it has one page.
 Wien, 19.VII.1983 To whom it may concern! I finished highschool for art in Vienna with a degree in sculpture and since 1953 I’m trying to manifest my own free ideas in sculpture, art and design. Tn somewhat 44 exhibitions in the whole world I had the opportiunity to present my ideas to people of the various mentalities and so to discuss various topics. The reflection from all parts of the world was without doubt very positive. And therefore invitations to exhibitions and cultural gathering were following. My relations to all the social classes are known to be very positiv and in many correspondence to be known. I always have been a searching human being and so I also met the teachings and realizations of the great genius Bhagwan. Reading many books I had the opportiunity to relate my reflexions about the wide field of the human Psyche with the thinking of Bhagwan on this topic. I have gained a lot doing so. A lot of change had occured in my own being, harries had been solved and mv creative work has so been freed, more in accordance with the cosmic laws. The new realizations I hanpily gave to other searching souls of my wide acquaintances. From all this learning soon new possibilities for the forming of its own life and of others, and for the coping of fotune had arised. For all the above mentioned reasons I believe, that the influence of Bhagwan for all the searching, misguided, mixed up, overinfluenced youth had contributed a most important bit of information, without ruining the ideals of other religions and of nature, as he sets love as the essence for a special forming of life. In this sense he is in accordance with the essence of all the religions. For myself as a catholic I would find it very sensefull, if Bhagwan especially in the country of the unlimited possibilities a residence permit for his wonderful! doings would be let out to him. This would be my warmest wish! [signed] |
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