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'''Carrie Jacobs-Bond''' was born | '''Carrie Jacobs-Bond''' (1862-1946) was born in Wisconsin. Her flame of the Divine Mother held the balance for the young men who went to war in the First Word War. And there are many stories of them playing her music as comfort and inspiration on the battlefield. | ||
She expresses the longing of the Mother flame for the Father, for she, in her own life, lost her husband to a very untimely death. When she was 32, her husband, Dr. Bond was pushed over in the snow by some frolicking children. He suffered an injury and passed on within five days. She knew that nostalgia, and she lived to serve his Spirit as the Spirit of the Father. His going on enabled her to bring forth the heights of the feminine ray because she had to support their son. And in her son she found comfort in the Christ. | She expresses the longing of the Mother flame for the Father, for she, in her own life, lost her husband to a very untimely death. When she was 32, her husband, Dr. Bond was pushed over in the snow by some frolicking children. He suffered an injury and passed on within five days. She knew that nostalgia, and she lived to serve his Spirit as the Spirit of the Father. His going on enabled her to bring forth the heights of the feminine ray because she had to support their son. And in her son she found comfort in the Christ. | ||
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=== “Just A-wearyin’ for You” === | === “Just A-wearyin’ for You” === | ||
“Just A-wearyin’ for | “Just A-wearyin’ for You” captured the longing for the Father as well as the longing of the boys on the battlefield for their homeland. | ||
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“My son has made the great sacrifice. Jamie has gone. He was buried yesterday. The last time we saw our boy he was waving his cap to us, and he was marching away never to come back. And as he was looking at me he was singing ‘The End of a Perfect Day.’” | |||
Then there was a letter from Ireland, from little Jean Craig, who gave up her stenographic work to sing for the boys in the hospitals. We corresponded for a long time during the war, and though I never saw or heard her I know she must have been a sweet, sweet singer. This is one of the stories she wrote me. She had gone into the hospital where the boys had been taken who had been wounded on the battleships by bombs, and one boy whom she remembered had asked her to sing. She sang “This is the End of a Perfect Day.” The boy asked her if she knew any more songs by Mrs. Bond, and she replied that she did not. “Well,” he said, “I’m going to die, and I want to give you something. This is the one little treasure that I have.” With that he took from under his pillow a little book of seven songs. He had carried it inside his jacket all during his service. He had been rescued from the water and the leaves of the book were water soaked. But as he gave it to Miss Craig, he said, “I have taken the best care of it I could. I am sure if you will write to Mrs. Bond she will send you another copy.” I did send her a copy, and many copies, and she sang my song for months. | Then there was a letter from Ireland, from little Jean Craig, who gave up her stenographic work to sing for the boys in the hospitals. We corresponded for a long time during the war, and though I never saw or heard her I know she must have been a sweet, sweet singer. This is one of the stories she wrote me. She had gone into the hospital where the boys had been taken who had been wounded on the battleships by bombs, and one boy whom she remembered had asked her to sing. She sang “This is the End of a Perfect Day.” The boy asked her if she knew any more songs by Mrs. Bond, and she replied that she did not. “Well,” he said, “I’m going to die, and I want to give you something. This is the one little treasure that I have.” With that he took from under his pillow a little book of seven songs. He had carried it inside his jacket all during his service. He had been rescued from the water and the leaves of the book were water soaked. But as he gave it to Miss Craig, he said, “I have taken the best care of it I could. I am sure if you will write to Mrs. Bond she will send you another copy.” I did send her a copy, and many copies, and she sang my song for months. | ||
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“A Perfect Day” is for the soul’s reunion with the Presence. It is the perfect day for which we are all yearning; the day of our ascension. | “A Perfect Day” is for the soul’s reunion with the [[I AM Presence|Presence]]. It is the perfect day for which we are all yearning; the day of our ascension. | ||
== Her life == | == Her life == | ||
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Elizabeth Clare Prophet, “Music of Leo,” November 4, 1973. | Elizabeth Clare Prophet, “Music of Leo,” November 4, 1973. | ||
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