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Einstein and the Poet - In Search of the Cosmic Man by William Hermanns - cover

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The Holocaust - from a Survivor of Verdun by William Hermanns - cover

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To My Neighbor

I lift you higher,
lift you out
of your body cells
stuffed with anxiety
of your past -
an evil load that smells.

I'll fill each cell
with love and joy
that makes the
angels dance.
You'll glide through earthly
filth and stench -
a spiritual trance.

From your youth filled eyes,
your hands
and feet,
a holy peace shall flow,
so you and I
be filled with grace -
let us be still
and know.

William Hermanns
[P527]

Seelentränen

Seelentränen sind Gedichte,
rot mit Herzblut aufgeschrieben,
tiefem Menschenleid zum Ruhm,

Lies sie still in reinem Lichte,
unbeschattet,
frei von Trieben:
Du betrittst ein Heiligtum.

Wilhelm Hermanns
[G001]

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Notable Encounters

William Hermanns had the knack to see whomever he wanted. His guiding thought was his Vow made on the battlefield of Verdun and the German proverb: "Don't go to the apprentice; go to the master." Geh' nicht zum Schmidtchen, Geh' zum Schmidt !

We will be adding the notables here. Some photos will be linked to another page on this website that concerns them.

Paramhansa Yogananda	September 1949
Albert Einstein	1954
Albert Schweitzer	8/16/1955
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen	July 1971
Linus Pauling	3/23/1976
Dom Hélder Câmara	5/23/1976
Bundespräsident Walter Scheel	October 1976
Senator George McGovern	April 1977
Empress Zita of Austria-Hungary	Autumn 1980

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We have no photos with Paramhansa Yogananda, but the spirit of his teachings was quite influential in Dr. Hermanns life.

Inscription by Yogananda

Inscription to William Hermanns by Paramhansa Yogananda in his book Autobiography of a Yogi after a 3-week Retreat with him at Mt. Washington, Los Angeles, 9/25/1949.

Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramhansa Yogananda Title Page

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Albert Einstein and William Hermanns, Princeton, 1954. Photo by William Miller

William Hermanns and Albert Schweitzer, Gunsbach, 8/16/1955

William Hermanns, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, Kenneth E. Norton - New York, July 1971

William Hermanns, Linus Pauling and Kenneth Norton, Stanford, 3/23/1976

Dom Hélder Câmara, Archbishop of Recife, Brazil and William Hermanns, Stanford, 5/23/1976, photo by Kenneth Norton

"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint," he loved to say. "When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist."
- Dom Hélder Câmara <-- Click for citation.

“Too many religions preach love without justice. As long as there are no decent conditions for all men, as long as religions do not consider that their highest obligation is to create decent conditions for all mankind regardless of what creed, they have degraded love and justice.” Albert Einstein, in Einstein and the Poet – In Search of the Cosmic Man by William Hermanns (Branden Press, 1983, p. 142.)

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