Anne Giles is a retired technical writer, web page designer, and human factors engineer. In her spare time, she creates collages from printed images.

The Seven Kingdoms series

Paper Collages (2001‐2007)

Lucky Friends

Meher Baba’s book God Speaks describes the journey of the soul from its origins in the Original Whim, through the Seven Kingdoms of evolution (Stone, Vegetable, Worm, Fish, Bird, Animal, and Human) and back through an inward spiritual path to eventual Union with God.
Throughout this drama, the Avatar (God‐Man) comes again and again to participate in His Creation.

This series of collages arose during a period of unemployment and was prompted by a passage in Supplement #30 in God Speaks:

“For mankind it is very easy and simple to declare that the Avatar is God and that it means that God becomes man. But this is not all that the word ‘Avatar’ means or conveys. It would be more appropriate to say that the Avatar is God and that God becomes man for all mankind and simultaneously God also becomes a sparrow for all sparrows in Creation, an ant for all ants in Creation, a pig for all pigs in Creation, a particle of dust for all dusts in Creation, a particle of air for all airs in Creation, etc. for each and everything that is in Creation.”

So I wondered, what exactly would that look like‐‐the Avatar within each of His Seven Kingdoms? Perhaps a little like this…
See all of the images by clicking this link: Giles 7 Kingdoms

God Speaks © Sufism Reoriented 1955, 1973.