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WE ENTER TODAY into one of the most beautiful worlds, that of a small document called the
DESIDERATA. It is strange because it has appeared many times and disappeared many times;
hence nobody exactly knows who wrote it. Truth has the capacity to appear again and again;
because of human stupidity it is lost again and again too.
The Desiderata seems to be one of the most ancient documents available today, but it is copyrighted
by a poet, Max Ehrmann. In his book of poems it is also given as a poem authored by him,
copyrighted in 1927 in America, although in the first edition he talks about the legend that this
small document was discovered on a plaque installed in St. Paul’s Church in Baltimore when built in
1692, but it was lost. There is no proof any more whether it was installed as a plaque in St. Paul’s
Church or not. The legend is there; it has persisted. It seems Max Ehrmann again had the vision of
it. It came to him as a vision. He is not really its author but only a receptacle, a medium.
This has happened to many other documents too. It happened in the case of Blavatsky’s THE
VOICE OF SILENCE: she is known as the authoress of the book, but the book is very ancient. She
discovered it in her meditations; it appeared to her