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WRITERS MEAN BUSINESS Robert Way is an antiquarian book-seller in Newmarket. He is married, with five children and two grandchildren. After reading for a degree in classics and rural economy at Cambridge he spent a long period faming and breeding thoroughbred horses, before taking up bookselling. He has now handed the business over to his son in order that he may devote himself to travelling widely in search of books.
An affluent young man enters a Garden where he meets a humble gardener.
The young man desires to learn the art of loving and becomes the gardener’s
disciple. He undergoes a lon and difficult apprenticeship during which he
comes to recognise that all creatures – even the most apparently loathsome
– work for the glory of The Beloved. He learns humility and gorws
strong in his work until the gardener goes to join the Beloved. Then, when
he is alone, he is tempted by the enemies of the Beloved and foced to choose
between defending the Garden or joining them in using it for personal profit.
In his decision to defend the Garden and to endure death at the hands of
the enemies, he finally gazes upon the Beloved and is filled with joy. With
this vision all pain disappears and he awakens to find himself no longer
the disciple. He is the Lover and the new keeper of the Garden and one of
the enemies, now repentant is the new Disciple.
The Garden of the Beloved is a timeless allegory of faith, love
and the search for God, simply and exquisitely written and superbly illustrated
with delicate pen and ink drawings by Laszlo Kubinyi. It reflects the same
beauty of thought as The Prophet of Khalil Gibran and will be a source of
inspiration to us all.