The Beginning of Sufism in Australia - Michael Le Page's presentation at Avatar's Abode on 6/10/14 on Youtube
Michael Le Page delights the Avatar's Abode audience with previously unearthed documentary evidence of the life and legacy of Baron Friedrich von Frankenburg (1887-1950), a German teacher of Sufism of the School of Hazrat Inayat Khan*. Son of an Australian heiress, the Baron moved to Australia in 1927 to lay claim to his and his mother's inheritance. In 1939 he accompanied his Murshida, Jewish American Rabia Martin, head of the International Sufi Society, on a tour of Australian states. It was later, under her enlightened guidance, that this Sufi order took shelter of the renown Indian Master, Meher Baba (1894-1969)^. During the early 1940's, the Baron lectured widely and attracted a small number of interested people to the teachings of Inayat Khan, Sufism and later, Meher Baba. With his health declining in 1946, the Baron sent dedicated Australian student Francis Brabazon (1902-1983) to California for further training and to accompany Murshida Martin