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God to Man and Man to God A c l o s e w e s t e r n f o l l o w e r a n d d i s c i p l e, C h a rles Purdom played a significant role in introducing Meher Baba to the Western world -- through articles published in Everyman, a magazine that Purdom himself edited, and especially through his early biography The Perfect Master, first published in 1937. Purdom wanted to collect Meher Baba's Discourses in a single volume and in a somewhat simplified prose style better suited, he felt, for a Western audience. Baba gave him permission to proceed with this undertaking, and the result was…