Tigerlilly - Lobsang Rampa

way than in his natural state. While on the subject of Egypt I
am trying to think how I came to be known by the Egyptian
name of ‘Ra'ab’. It just seemed to happen and if anyone were
to use any other I would hardly realize they were addressing
me. Sometimes I think the word is diminutive of a longer
name but I am not bothered about that, having been called
many things in my lifetime, but Ra'ab is one of the nicest!
Still, names do mean something—one has heard of an actor
or actress who had no luck at all, made no headway until they
changed their name, and then the floodgates opened and sud-
denly they were acclaimed wherever they went. Some names
seem to bring ill-luck, misfortune and lack of progress while
others are harmonious and protective. I know a person who
changed just one letter in his name (he actually added a letter)
with the intention of bringing him better business results.
Well, while we lived in Weybridge the time came when we
changed our name and as this has all been described in As It
Was, one of Lobsang Rampa's most recent books, there is no
need for me to go into deep detail regarding the reasons and
decision for the change. This I do know, though, we had to put
up with a lot of unkindness and even sarcasm from the highest
position—a certain ‘gentleman’ in high authority finding it
amusing to compose a piece of doggerel in as cutting a manner
as he could muster and keep repeating it! Yes, we had a
share—and perhaps more than a share-of harshness directed
towards us, not least when Carl had the impression (or was he
instructed, but what's the difference!) to wear an Eastern type
of clothing and to grow a beard. I have very good reason to
believe that some of those persons who thought we were crazy,
are not feeling so well these days; some of them are this side of
the veil of life, the remainder on the other, where it is too late
to make amends, and all they can do is to wail at Lobsang
Rampa for their blindness. Some of those who were intended
to pave the way for him—‘in the future’, the future which has
been, is, and will be. Sometimes one feels a little sympathy
towards those who were told, even warned, about their purpose
in life but chose to ignore the message and are now bound to
the earth, either in the incarnate or discarnate state. Having
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