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Text Box: Samuel L. Lewis at age 31 (1927)

Samuel Lewis, wearing robe of investiture as a Sufi Murshid given by Pir Barket Ali of Pakistan in 1962. For the photo Lewis exhibits the Sufi practice of tawajjeh, or sharing magnetism through the glance.

1967, weeding the garden in Bolinas, California

At Lama Foundation, 1970 (photo: Sauluddin)

Sam & Moineddin

Photos from Sufi Vision & Initiation, Meetings with Remarkable Beings, Samuel L. Lewis, Edited by Neil Douglas-Klotz

Sufi Ruhaniat International/Prophecy Publications, San Francisco & Novato

 

Murshid Sam once remarked that he grew his long hair and beard at the insistence of his senior female mureeds. Hakim Sauluddin

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Text Box: Hazrat Murshid Sufi Ahmed Murad Chishti (Samuel L. Lewis)

1896—1971

 
Text Box: Samuel Leonard Lewis was born October 18, 1896 at 2:20 a.m. in San Francisco. His father Jacob was a Vice President of the Levi Strauss Company. His mother was Harriett Rosenthal, the daughter of Lenore Rothschild of the international banking family.