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Jutta Knobloch – 90 and Going Strong

 

Jutta Lange Knobloch was born in Germany on the December 9th, 1925. This year she reached the amazing age of ninety. It is not the number of years that is amazing as much as it is the state of health that she has maintained in her ninety years (and she does have a secret or two that she shared with me, which I will disclose later). It is also her stamina, spirit and zest for life and J-R, and her deep spiritual journey that have made her ninety years so remarkable.

As a young girl she spent some time working in Sweden during the 1940’s when there was war in Germany. She began a pen pal relationship writing to a young man named Helmut Knobloch, while she was still living in Sweden. Helmut, who had migrated to Australia a few years earlier, asked her to marry him via letter and she took the courageous step in 1953 to come to Australia to join him.

In 1962 she and Helmut moved to live at Daly Rd Magill where she has lived ever since. In this home that she created for herself and Helmut, she bore him three children, Monica, Peter and Raynor Knobloch, and they, each in their own way have been influenced and guided spiritually by this amazing woman.

Peter says he has witnessed his mother’s progression through the stages of her life, and that her 90th birthday is a celebration of milestone upon milestone that she has survived and surmounted on her journey. Like most of us, Jutta has had her challenges, and unlike most of us her indomitable spirit has always led her back to what is really important to her. She is going home to God and nothing will interfere with her journey, no negative emotion will stand in her way or lead her away from her course.

In her home, in the tiny kitchen that still stands today as it did many years ago, Jutta has created the most amazing food for friends and family. Since 1983 when she began having home seminars—and to date she has held 3611 seminars—many people, not just those from MSIA, have come to receive her sustenance, not just via her cooking but via food served with a loving, healing spirit. They have bared their soul and shared their troubles to someone in whom they could trust and find loving and acceptance. Many a traveler from the Movement has found hospitality and a bed for the night in this home.


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But back to her history. On her arrival in Adelaide, she met Fred Victor Knobloch, Helmut’s brother, and two years later he brought to Australia his pen pal bride Edith. This formed the nucleus of the Knobloch triangle who were as adventurous as they were brave.

Jutta, with Fred Victor and Edith were curious and questioning of religion as they knew it at the time. Perhaps the two world wars had left their mark and put them on a quest to find answers that traditional religion did not supply.

It was this curiosity that led Edith and Fred, and then Jutta, to a little purple book titled “The Spiritual Promise” by John-Roger. They ordered the book from America in 1975, and shared it with friends and family. The book spoke to them, and together with John Deanshaw in 1977, the ‘Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness’ was born in Australia; first in Adelaide then later moving the head office to Sydney in 1979.

In 1983 Helmut died, and her children and grandchildren still stay in touch, wherever they are living, via phone. In fact Jutta’s phone never stops ringing, as Peter, her son from Queensland found when he came to stay with his mother.

Jutta was ordained a Minister in the Movement in Sydney in 1979. In 1997 at the Sydney Conference she received her Minister of the Year Award from John Morton for her Support of the Traveler’s Teachings, confirmation of the Traveler’s loving and for her unconditional, non-judgmental loving and acceptance of all.

Needless to say, to the MSIA community in Adelaide she is the wise one we all respect and love. Her quiet, unobtrusive presence at meetings and seminars always adds that feeling of peace and calm to the room that she silently extends with her spiritual exercises. You always know she is filling the room with love when she sits in her chair and goes on about her business of chanting. It is there in her eyes for all to partake of as they need.

Jutta has celebrated her ninetieth with her families over the week—with her MSIA family, her neighborhood family, and of course, on the day itself, with her own immediate family. Her children and grandchildren all have much they want to share about their beloved Jutta but the following song, with music and words which were written by her grandson Stewart, and the poem written by Peter to his mother, say much about her as a mother, grandmother and friend.

From all of us in MSIA, in Adelaide and around the world who have had the pleasure of meeting you, lovely lady, we wish you many many more wonder-filled years and send back to you all the years of Light and love that you have given us.

Happy Birthday from us all. Thank You, we love you.

Ah yes—her secrets for longevity and good health:

This article was published in the January | February 2016 edition of the New Day Herald Online Magazine, available via ISSUU.

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