Show HIS STORY IS TOLD Former Member Tingley Cabinet Cab-inet Concludes INITIATIONS ARE DETAILED Candidates Taken Into the Lost Mysteries of Antiquity Sacred Costumo Worn by Mrs Ting ley in Welcoming Bridal Couple Described by Dr Anderson San Diego Cal Dec 3In the TlngleyTlmca libel suit today the deposition de-position of Dr J A Anderson of San Francisco onco a member of the Ting hey cabinet was finished Anderson described his Initiation Into the society of the lost mysteries of antiquity Ho said all who were present sat on canvas can-vas and were supposed to be taking part In a very ancient ceremony All were dressed In light muslin costumes and air the rite was solemnized In the open Describing the Initiation Anderson said It consisted chiefly of Mrs Ting leys telling of her dog Spot and what the dog had done Then Mrs TIngley ate some fruit which was supposed to be a very mysterious symbol and apart a-part of the high Initiation which was taking place ORDER RISING SUN Anderson then told how he was made a member of the Order of the Rising Suna son of the Rising Sun The chief feature of this Initiation was he said that each candidate held a sunflower sun-flower There was another order known as the Ancient Order of Scribes which was very high Anderson related In some detail what Mrs TIngley had said about the dog Spot Mrs Tingle he said had related how she was very blue and Cst down and that Spot had gone to a heap of letters on the hoer and picked out one from Dr Allen Griffin which greatly great-ly I comforted her MANY CEREMONIES In describing the ceremonies the dc ponont said there were a great number num-ber of them In come those who took part went about barefoot but they varied s that It would take much time to describe them Anderson said when Mrs TIngley went to welcome her visitors she wore n large purple robe that gave her a queenly appearance SACRED COSTUME DESCRIBEDe Describing the sacred costume such as was worn to welcome a bridal couple married at the homestead Dr Anderson Ander-son said It was something like a skirt but rather longer The one I wore he said was lee a wrap belted at the waist Men and women wore about the same All those who toolc part carried car-ried lime lights In order to read Improvised Impro-vised parts and responses of the ceremony cere-mony which took place at night and was supposed to be one of great antiquity an-tiquity FOOD OF CHILDREN in reference to the food of the children chil-dren the deponent continued The little tots were fed principally on bread and milk a suitable food I suppose They seemed to have sufficient I am referring to those from a year to 2 years old There was I class of new babies there Those Mrs Tlnglcy told me she had great trouble with because be-cause of Dr Woods Mrs Tlnglcys physician He would not fall Into line with her Ideas n to food She said he desired to have them fed while she desired de-sired to have them starved first because be-cause they could more quickly kill out the lower animal nature in those children chil-dren She believed in giving them very little food and the doctor protested This she told me directly and personally personal-ly lyPARENTS PARENTS AND CHILDREN SEPARATED SEP-ARATED As to parents being separated from children Anderson said I leo of one instance In which they were separated I was a matter of discipline Parents were permitted to sec their nonce n-once In two weeks OC course there were exceptions but ho said that was the rule Mrs Tinglcys reason wan that parental favoritism and parental law Interfered with the proper development develop-ment of the children and were things to be avoided as much as possible DISCIPLINED BY STARVING Referring to the discipline of chil dren Anderson averred She takes away their food that Is she orders them away from the table and orders them to cease eating If they do anything any-thing that she docs not want that Is contrary to the rules I have seen that and know that they were deprived altogether al-together of a meal for the time being I did not watch very closely because It was considered 0 matter of Imperti nence almost to question her on any of her methods or to observe things too closely WHY BABIES WERE BTARVFJD Reverting to the feeding of the babies Anderson said I was gohf through the grounds once with Mrs I TIngley We came to the babies and one was only a few days old She was explaining her methods starvation withholding the food She said that In one case she withheld the food twenty ouT hours The child was about 1 year II old Sh said that the childrens lower nature was subdued and broken that the quickest way to bring It about was to adopt the course of withholding food until the child came to Its senses until Its soul appeared POINT LOMA INSTITUTION I In reply to a question touching the I status of the Institution at Point Loma Anderson Bald Truthfully it is not a theosophical society at all I Is a seceded se-ceded movement from the theosophical 1 society branch I He sold he left the Universal Brotherhood Broth-erhood because Mrs TIngley had substituted sub-stituted her will for the Institution As to writings that had been prepared for publication by Mrs Tingle he said they were rejected by Mrs TIngley because II be-cause he would not acknowledge her as divine us others did |