COMMEMORATING: :

                         ANN VAN DAATSELAAR – RABE

THE FIRST INFINITE WAY PRACTITIONER IN HOLLAND.

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......15 april 1900 – 10 december 1986........

When I - Bertus - was 16 years old, I lost my mother from cancer and my aunt - our "auntie Annie" - more or less replaced her.

For the human world Ann could be called a "nobody", viz: no high position, no status, just an ordinary housewife, BUT . . . what is "low"' with the people (so we read in the Bible is "high" with God.

Ann had been active in and for the Christian Science Church.

At a certain moment ( must have been in the early '60 ies) she came in contact with the writings of Joel and was caught so much by it that she did break up with Christian Science and devoted herself completely to The Infinite Way. (Dutch: De Oneindige Weg)

She rose so high in Consciousness that she could rightly be called "practitioner" and I - Bertus - have at the time (on the advice of Lorraine Sinkler) mentioned Ann as such in the Dutch Monthly Letters.

So Ann became the FIRST INFINITE WAY PRACTITIONER IN HOLLAND. Ann can rightly be considered as one of the pioneers of The Infinite Way Holland just as my predecessor-translator the late Heloise van Brakel and others (amongst whom the late Isabel van Egmond in whose "studio"the first Infinite Way meetings took place).

I - Bertus - belonging to the "second generation" who has been allowed to continue this beautiful work, consider it a great honour and privilege to have cooperated with pioneers like Ann, Heloise, Lorraine, and like. Very inspiring indeed.

I myself have hardly any knowledge of Christian Science, never have been interested in it; it did not mean much to me. But . . one night (I must have been about 30 years old) I did visit Ann and saw a book by Joel Goldsmith and was caught so much by it that from that moment on I have been devoting myself to the Infinite Way and very soon started translating Joel's writings. Originally in cooperation with Ann, but after her transition (in 1986) I - Bertus - have been doing it all alone.

Though on the human plane Ann may not have had any status etc. on the Spiritual Scale she was very wise and inspired and inspirting. She could write beautiful poems and unfortunately only a few have been preserved. Click on annpoem .

I felt the need to devote this page to Ann. This pioneer has more than deserved it. God bless her and accompanies and guides her on her way onward. May it be given to her that she never has to return to go again through this "earthly school