Show w TV m j GAGE JOINS SECT FORMER SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY FRIENDLY TO THEOSOPHISTS CONVERT TO SIMPLE LIFE WellKnown Chicago Banker and Financier Fi-nancier Settles In Colony Founded by Madame Tingley at Point Loma California Point lAma Cal Lymnn J Gage Is leading the simple life Though interested In-terested he Is not a member of the Theosophical society These statements state-ments are made by the former secni tary of the treasury to set at rest reports re-ports that he had joined the school of Katherine Tlnglcy lIe says I am trying this life at Point Loma because limo personal friends here because the climate Is most agreeable because It Is just outside of the rush and roar of the world because here one can lead the simple life Beyond these reasons there are two Institutions established here which tome to-me lend much Interest to the place The first is the United States military reservation with its fine system of harbor defenses Its companies of artillery ar-tillery men etc The second Is the Raja Yoga school for children and youths of all ages This school was established and Is being carried on by Katherine Ting ley as leader and official head of the Universal Brotherhood and Theosoph leal society throughout the world The school excites my Interest and the magnificent work It Is doing In the development de-velopment of clean healthy welledu cated and selfcontrolled young lives stimulates my hope for the future of the society L I am not niniiateu except in this friendly way either with the military station or the Theosophical society I am too old to enlist In the army and I have not yet been Invited to join tb theosophists I would consider It honorable hon-orable to be related to either of them I Mr Gage Is at present occupying Prospect cottage which he owns near Katherlno TIngleys temple It Is a beautiful spot In Idyllic surroundings Inducing the contemplative life which is a feature of the Theosophists cult With Mr Gage are Col and Mrs Bralnerd Mrs Brainerd being Mr Gages sister and a member of the Universal Brotherhood It Is they who first induced the distinguished proselyte prose-lyte to visit Point Loma and drink at tho fount there Becomes Ready Convert Tho former secretary of the treasury treas-ury visited his grandchildren who are In the Raja Yoga school at Point Loma several months ago and became Imbued with the belief that he should I Identify himself with the Theoso phlsts Ho Is attending the lectures and his friends say will take up the course Plenty of probation is allowed beginners be-ginners and they may withdraw at any time when they find their Ideas clash with those of the brotherhood Tho society maintains its own theater halls and printing plant and Is growing grow-ing in accessions wealth and Influence Influ-ence That Mr Gage has taken up His residence In Prospect cottage just south of the homestead In the Ting ley domain and that ho has bought for 8000 property on the top of Point Loma for a permanent home does not verify but lends added interest In-terest to the story of why ho dropped business affairs at a mqmcnts notice and came west also why bo gave up a 50000 a year position wltlr a great New York trust concern to devote what money he has to the work at Point Loma Gets Instruction In Dream Tho story briefly Is that ho had received re-ceived Instructions In a dream to seek advice at the hands of the Point Loma leader and that when he got tho instructions in-structions on his hurried trip ho went back and quit his lucrative Job and bought property from Mme Tingley Mr Gage whether tho story of the dream Is correct or not has had the persuasive voices of relatives In his ears for ther live at Point Loma his brotherinlaw and sister Col and Mrs Uralnerd the latter a member i of tho Tlieosoplilcal brotherhood and some Of tho former ari n > rntniva rmi g children are pupjls In Mme Ting leys Raja Yoga school at the homestead home-stead Now that he has settled at Point Loma Mr Gage Is taking a deep Interest in the work of Mine Tingley attending all the instructive lectures Mrs Tlngloy and her Universal brotherhood which is a seceding organization or-ganization from the older Theosophist movement first came Into notoriety In 1902 when 11 Cuban children were Imported for the school at Point Lomu These wro known at the time as the lotus buds A great stir was caused and an order secured through the efforts of the fJciry society for tho deportation of the children when they reached Ellis Island New York The order was subsequently revoked and the children allowed to proceed but not until tho brotherhood had been given a thorough airing A Student of the Occult Mr Gage was well known during his residence In Chicago to students of the occult and tho black art His Interest In esoteric mutters be gan In a dramatic way In Chicago in 1895 lie has been considered a candl date for the great world society un known and unnamed which waits for Its exponent In tho year 2000 when i new Christ Is to come to earth to leach the truth that tho world is I not ready to receive now There was mourning the other day among the two or three members of this society 1 c kin in Chicago when It brine that ho had followed a new them false god and While Btlir president of the National bank Mr Gage hard pYa man of money rot received a flash u inner vision which Is 0 said to changed his life bar I It was whUe I wan at a banquet at the Andltori h hotel that tho vision clime lie a scene in far sa a eouutr couutry II h11 his brother n western mine owt + Was the principal figure r He r tTCeitt a distinct impression that his broth was holding n gun and D1g ht weapon exploded He saw his that broth th t rII1 r a er lying dead In n lonely country pn1teo Tho picture was so vivid roa threaten that h was disturbed by It and when JOSS hle few hours later he received Tile this word thai his brother had been killed 1 In 1eI as th t tad same manner ns had i1 nppeared to hln In the dream ho was M > Imprew kutbk that ho began to study the thcorle e 1 underlying theosophy mate I At that time Thomas Hudson 11 line tho great psychic In Chicago had written books on the H i of subject gto taught tho cult Mr Hudson left u U to ti 10 the enst a few years inter and dl pally flab recently It was under this that the banker took up the tna b tag study eroo < Call Gage a Born Psychic In the opinion of Chicago sttidcni dial student he was a born psychic He comfort was i Is II i the habit of receiving flashes of son Indistinct thing that was I SL going Sun happen to him The black s art 0 5 the study of astrology was the Del Ter step and although he communicated pad U Indirectly with lenders In this art elln ho also pursued the study hi quiet tunce and was identified with no organza llOugl tlon t au Astrology goes beyond the mathematical IIlha mathe-matical calculation of the Influence The of heavenly bodies upon Individual aUght and national life It develops de Ge through concentration in the study 111 a Fat F-at colors a great brain power according tray ac-cording to those who profess to know pacts l The voices of tho stars best Inter ler a proted by Zaldkcl of London hare da to lured many of tho worlds greatest As f business men financiers and think havl ersMr pck t Mr Gage began with the most humble she hum-ble neophyto in the study of the nor Identity of blue and yellow stars 1r After this it is claimed comes the tg b power to conjure out of the black fIce t unknown the souls of men in any part Pi of tho world tBG Interest in Spiritualism b t alOne al-One of Mr Gages first esoteric Interests liOn In-terests wns spiritualism An Intimate VXlr Inti-mate friend of tho banker told of till 1 tho delight with which Mr Gaga followed PIe fol-lowed this study before the more wp modern cult of theosophy was known toot to tho world at large It was rumored ru-mored among his friends tea yean ago that spiritualism was occupying a great deal of his attention and attempts at-tempts were made to dissuade him from It In this study the call to tho unseen I Is answered by evil as well as good J spirits it is claimed by the astrologers astrolo-gers and a man Is in danger of low erlng his mental piano when he lets his soul roam the trackless paths It Is a lower science and a precarious stepping stone to that which Mr Gage sought HIs Investigations this wero not extensive |