Show POINT lOM INSTITUTE Remarkable Revelations of < the Inner Workings DETAILS IN DEPOSITIO Bookkeeper Employed by Universal Uni-versal Brotherhood Talks Spirit of Former leader Thcocophici Movement Declared to Have Been Inherited by a Dog San Diego Cal Dec 20JIhe form evidence was turned to what purport to be a remarkable revelation of thInner th-Inner workings of the theosophical institution In-stitution at Point Lorna todays sos 3lon of the pending trial oC sin ncllo for libel In which Mrs Katherine Tingle Tin-gle head of the Universal Brotbci hood Is plaintiff against the Times Mirror company of Los Angeles dc fondant This evidence is in the form of a deposition made by Louis S File of 200 Bond street Hartford Conn ANIMAL INHERITS SPIRIT According to the deponent who say he was employed as a bookkeeper b the Universal Brotherhood of which he became a member and had privilege s accorded tp few a dog belonging to Mrs Tinglcy was supposed to have Inherited In-herited the spirit oi the former len cr of the theosophist movement that Mrs Tlnglcy was regarded as a prophet Inline In-line of succession including Buddha Christ and Mahomet and that she had told deponent that marriage relation as known to the world in her belle were wholly false and perverted and < that people who lived the life at Point Loma would evolve EO as to reach a stage where marriage would not be nc ccssary ccssaryPLEDGE VERY BINDING In his deposition Mr Fitch said that he Is 30 years of age that he went to Point Loma to live about the 1st o August 1900 and that he remained there till the 1st of March 19dl that hi went there as a bookkeeper for the Universal Brotherhood organization i lie said the pledge of the Esoteric So clety of Theosophy was Very binding all members taking oath to obey thc < leaders In all things the leader being Catherine Tlngley MRS TINGLEY IN CONTROL I 1 Mrs Tingley had absolute control over everything and everybody and she exercised this in the minutest detail She regulated where every member ihould lodge what they should cat nnd where they should eat it whom hey should have conversation with whom hey should walk or talk with and whom they must not speak to or lool it The fare consisted of breakfast ol one or two sllves of very hard unlit ered toast and a portion of a cuj coffee without milk or sugar and ou cased egg eggATE ATE IN SILENCE On leaving l the diningroom after breakfast > each member took from cray tray lour email crackers and what hey might hae concealed which was all hey had until the evening meal which was fairly substantial All the eating was done In absolute silence no member being alldwcd to speak to an itber while going to or from meals or thllc at meals by the express order of Ira Tinglcy SPIRIT IN A DOG Deponent testified that itlrs Tlrigley ad a dog named Spot and further aid Mrs Tlngley told me that Spot was a great deal more than a pel I believe I know said Mrs Ingley that Mr Judges spirit entered en-tered Into Spot at his death Mr Fudge giving Spot to me at the time of his death and at the time that I aa turned the leadership of the Universal irothcrhood as his successor RULES WITH ROD OF IRON Deponent testified further that Mrs Ingleys supervision of the intercourse o f members extended to interference of relations between members of the same imily that she did not allow Mr and trs Hanson who were Inmates to peak to their own children that the colony was patroled by armed uards and that restrictions were laced upon the entrance of visitors CEREMONIES DESCRIBED Mr Fitch dcacrfbcd some of the core lonles performed In connection with some of the orders to which he be mged The costume prescribedfor all meetings and gatherings except the unday morning meetings consisted of without Bleees I L cheesecloth garment es cited with a cord about the waist this urmcnt to be worn underclothing uly and that no Htarched clothing was to be worn according to Mrs Tlngleys order MORNING GATHERING One of i the most common ceremonies wns that of the morning sunrise galh rIng when all the members marched to a point Just withIn the line of the acted ground where the rising sun > ull be viewed while they stood In lent meditation until the sun topped l11e hill when they welcomed Its ap 2arance with song after which one o if the members read a selection from the Bahavld Gila SENDING THOUGHT WAVES The evening gathering was held at 9 The members remained from three to llvi minutes In silent meditation scndlnf thought waca throughout the world Tin addresses at thcee mcolli8H nays Filch wero almost entirely laudatory of tin sacredness of the organization and thc < grounds at which they were and cape dally of the tjacrcdncng of Mrs Tlncloy CHECKS FROM INDIAN Mr Fitch says that Mrs Tlnelcy showed him a portrait of an Indian with tht greatest air of secrecy and veneration saying Thin Is tho mon who sendu usa us-a check when we are In direct need as hi has power over the spirit and the flesh and money muncKNOWN AS PURPLE Mr Fitch says further that Mrs TlnK that although icy wnM u very hanl worker and though her official title was leader nh < wao frcfliiPtUly adrlroflsud as Purple bj her official cabinet and oftentimes an P and frequently as Mother until she ro quested that thu latter be stopped WOMEN TILLED SOIL Mr Fitch affirmed that to his own knowledge women members of the colony were employed at hard work In tho > ur dens and lloliJa Hoalno Clate that Mrs Tlnglny told him lhat her husband was i wealthy Inventor and thnt abC frequently received a check for X > W3 or more from him Mrs ThiRloy FJtch says was In ollned to > IntOj using Her bnjakfust wa Invariably served In herroom very gen r91J IU quality and quantity Th r |