In 1951 Mother Mary Mae Maier walked barefoot from India into Tibet and was taken to a hidden city of 5,000 saints, sadhus, and yogis. She lectured them on the need to serve humanity. She said only a few understood her message, but those few asked her, upon her return to America, to move permanently to Mt. Shasta and to open what was to be called "The Inn." These few Great Ones told her they would use their spiritual powers to send to her those who she could help on the Path. She said, "10,000 came." I was one of them.

Several months later, I contacted everyone I could think of who had known Mother Mary, and invited all to meet up at Sand Flat on Mt. Shasta on July 4, 1992. When I called Henry Fuller, one of Mother Mary's closest friends for many years, he immediately agreed to come and told me how much he was looking forward to being there. A few days later he called me back, and told me, "I have a telepathic message for you from Mother Mary." I thought to myself, "Sure, you do." But, being a reasonably civilized man, I held my tongue once again.

Despite the fact this book is about Great Ones, Astrology, Brothers and Space Brothers, I really do consider myself highly skeptical about spiritual claims. For instance, in this book there is information about a numerological system which Mother Mary said is derived from the system used in Atlantis by the Brothers of Solitude. But in a true base-12 system, there are no double-digits until the number 13, so 10, 11, and 12, cannot be reduced to 1, 2, and 3, respectively. Also, there are teachings about music and keynotes which were written about a century ago, when the values of these notes were different. Most Americans today believe the tone A equals 440 Hertz, however, this is historically not the case. I have seen tuning-forks from 1900 marked A=426. My math book from 1960 gives the value of A as 436 hertz. I myself make musical instruments for sale in Europe, and the order I am working on right now, as of this writing, is a batch of bamboo flutes for the Stockholm production of "Miss Saigon," where they use the value of A=442. So, comments made in this book about the Key of F major, for instance, would actually be something around the key of E today, particularly in Europe.

When Henry told me he had a message for me from Mother Mary, I really didn't believe him. I asked him what it was. He said, "I don't want to tell you over the phone. I'll tell you at Mt. Shasta." When we met at Mt. Shasta, I asked him again, and he said, "She told me to tell you that when you speak with people, tell them 'Good is never lost.' She told me that she didn't figure out how to put this phrase until she left the body. She used to say, 'No good is ever lost' and 'Nothing for the good is ever lost' but after she left the body she realized that starting the sentence with a negative deflects the understanding of the listener. If you want people to understand, it's much better to say 'Good is never lost.' " I was very surprised by this message. Taught me a lesson.

In the same vein, I would recommend to the reader to contrast the section called by Henry Fuller "Rainbow Gems" with the similar section of teachings taken from "Atlantis Speaks Again." These two lists of aphorisms were written 25 years apart, and Mother Mary's own evolution during that period is apparent in them. Between the two, she reached nirvikalpa samadhi (a trance or profound meditation in which one is completely identical with or absorbed into the Infinite), which she called "The union of Soul and Spirit." If you use your discernment, you will feel the energy of that light emanating from her later work, yet the hint of it is in the earlier material as well.

She rarely spoke of her past lives, but sometimes she would mention that she had been at Mt. Shasta in Atlantean times, that events during that period went very badly at the Temple, and that karma from that time still affected events in her own life and the work of the adepts at Mt. Shasta. This is the origin of the title of her book, "Atlantis Speaks Again." She also said that she was the re-incarnation of a Hopi holy woman whose room is still kept today by two elderly women on the First Mesa, because there is a prophecy that she would someday return to that room. She went with her friendHenry Fuller up to the door of that room, but would not enter, because she did not believe that she should fulfill the prophecy at that time. She did much work with the native Americans, who called her "Rainbow." Part of this work was to publish the book, "The Great White Chief," and most of the copies of this book were given to native Americans.

One person who was asked to speak at the Rainbow Auditorium was a young Bengali student named Mahanam, who gave a talk on the Bengali avatar Jagadbandhu of Faridpur, East Bengal. This was the first time she ever heard the name, "Jagadbandhu," which means, "Friend of the World." Around the turn of the century, the avatar was living alone in a small room in his ashram, which he never left. His disciples would pass his food to him through a screen, and he would sometimes on rare occasions talk to people through the screen. However, people in many parts of India would see him, and from time to time he was seen abroad as well. He could apparently appear at will whenever, wherever, while his physical body was alone in his room at Faridpur. Even after his death in 1921, he was sometimes seen in her meditation room at the Rainbow auditorium, and one person who saw him there, Henry Fuller, said that he seemed entirely physical, not at all like an apparition or a vision. Henry said he smiled at him. Mother Mary was in telepathic contact with Jagadbandhu after his death, and she said that in 1944 he appeared to her and told her, with his usual sense of humor, that, "You must come to India. I will bother you every day until you do." In 1951, she did visit India, and spent weeks with Jagadbandhu's disciples in Calcutta and Faridpur. Henry Fuller published and re-published several books about Jagadbandhu, and maintained contact with disciples of the Jagadbandhu ashram until his death in 1997. Jagadbandhu was somewhat infamous in India for having made the statement "Initiation by a guru in the modern world is superfluous." When Mother Mary made statements about "the saints are the Light of the World," Jagadbandhu was one of the ones she had in mind.

During the 1940's the Maiers moved for a time to Ojai, and she started "The Creative Hobby Clubs," a small chain of clubs to encourage handicrafts. She was very proud of this endeavor, and considered it part of her spiritual work to encourage people to make handicrafts and to sell their products. She considered hobbies to be a kind of meditation which would help an individual align with his or her own soul. Many people involved in the Creative Hobby Clubs were of a spiritual bent, and they held many meetings on various spiritual subjects as well. About ten years later the clubs evolved into "The Esoteric Hobby Clubs" but she soon dropped that name and the same activities became known as "The Eastern Research Society."

Several years after her return to America she journeyed to Mexico and this trip was the beginning of a chain of events which resulted in the publishing of the books, , "The Great White Chief." and "Atlantis Speaks Again." The first book was not written by her, but by an adventurer who traveled in Latin America looking for lost cities and Inca gold. He wound up with a tribe of Indians in southern Mexico, in the area near Mitla, who have an unbroken spiritual tradition going back thousands of years, and who have a tradition that Jesus visited them centuries ago, before the Spanish, much as the Mormons believe. Both agriculture and writing developed in the New World at about the same time they developed in the Near East, in this very area. The book was printed as a favor to the Great White Chief of this tribe, who Mother Mary visited in Mexico. When she returned from Mitla, she knew nothing about the craft of bookbinding, and took classes to enable her to typeset, print, and bind the book herself with her own hands, in Henry Fuller's printshop. That's why both books are so full of misprints. In Mexico the Great White Chief had spoken with Mother Mary of the disciples Jesus took in the New World, one from the White Indians, one from the Hopi, one from a tribe in Wyoming, and nine others from different tribes. She said that the Great White Chief was 123 years old when she saw him, and that he was the 32nd leader in the tribe's history. It is of interest to note that both agriculture and writing developed in the New World at about the same time they developed in the Near East, in this very area of southern Mexico.

While she was producing the last few copies of the book, she met a Native American at a movie theater in Los Angeles and gave him 7 copies of the book. Henry Fuller wanted to give her a break from the 16 hour days she was working to produce the book, and took her to a movie about Native Americans which he had seen advertised in the paper. At the end of the movie, there was a scene with a Native American medicine man who both Mother Mary and Henry immediately recognized as a man of true knowledge. When the movie was finished, they said to each other, we have to find this man. When they left their seats, to their amazement this very medicine man was sitting in the lobby of the theater. She struck up a conversation with him and found that he had been touring with the movie, but this would be his last day. He told her that his spirit guide had told him to sit and wait in the lobby. He'd been there all day. As she talked with him for a few minutes, he told her he was going to a gathering of the tribes in Canada the next day. She told him the story of how she had been to see the Great White Chief, and published the book for him, and that he had specifically asked that copies be given to the council members of the Six Nations. The medicine man told her that these were the very people he was going to see in Canada so she asked him to take six copies of it with him to give to those who should have it, and keep one more for himself. He was very happy to do this. She apologized to him about all the misprints and told him how she had typeset it herself, and that despite her best efforts, the typos kept appearing. He said to her, "Don't worry about the misprints. That's how we get our directions."

Mother Mary took a second trip to India in 1966. She stayed for a while with people of the Jagadbandhu ashram in Calcutta, attended the Kumba Mela in Allahabad, visited the Dalai Lama who was now living in exile in Dharmasala, and again visited the ashram of Sivananda in Rishikesh. She became ill in India, and never fully recovered. After returning to the U.S. she regularly took healing treatments from Joe Jessel in Ashland, Oregon, and these probably prolonged her life. Numerous people helped her run "The Inn," giving of their time and lives to further the spiritual work. Some of these were Daniel Boone, Jack Darrow, Jan Darrow, Clark Coffee, Helen Ruth, Al Jennings, Henry Fuller, Linden Carlton, Robert Williamson, Elaine Bragg, and Maxine McMullen, later the owner of "The Golden Mean" bookstore in Ashland, Oregon. Lady Mae died on January 4, 1970 at "The Inn."