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Show x I x y ib 9 R . 7?YM.: Mrs. Annie Resent, Ardent Leader of t'.io Nvw The.wiihic.'l Croup in Im.ia, Whose Effort t: have lf'.T Young Hindu ProU'.re, KrislHn:.uirti, iiai;:tl ''' the Wor'.d as (he -S-on Messiah," Have Caascn a Split in Th'or."'' C.ivi.b ! And Why Parisians Who Knew 1 ' the Handsome Hindu "Deity" When He Played Tennis, Refuse to' Take Him I Krishna- f I I Jyt rv 1 -rS-K inurti, f I Seriously, : ' - , KJ? JTN J . t S. aa a Second Left: . Krishna- f ' inurti, ; Promoted by fv ( Mrs. lies ant .v. i 4 " aa a Second ; s Messiah and v " Whom Paris ;: Ridicules as N a "Tennis , Racket and . : . - . Tea Hound i J"V Messiah," ; vw? show-n on the Courts at Deauvilto f ? Where lie r Was Also a r ! Wr Parisians Who Knew SEJSS'': " . f l .J v . Whose fciiort to nave ll-.-r . r 1 W the Handsome Hindu "Deity S':BT ' SI I Split in Tiiwur- z'' C.vi.b . JCy" When He Played Tennis, Refuse '"x " W i Wj to' Take Him ' ' -' . V r !il r'V . -- Krishna- f : JSE'V V j (Yl trimfL Promoted by ' , . V . , . .-V. V V- kjeriOlfolL. ; . - Mrs. Besant N . S Ft j ' ' ' Messiah and e s ' J -H irT ' .i'1' ! Whom Paris I. - ' -NJaA " " - a "Tennis . I; 1 W V i1 "" 4 , Racket and . k ' ". ..sa ssf,, ' :N.'iv ' 'i- . V .-.'3 S ' " - , Tea Hound f .w .,!-; r.iis .; -, ,r : -: , 'l i . f Messiah," t : 'I " ' . 'r . s - -"VT U ft t " f Courts at . . V ! J . ' ' T. I ' "X MS ' " J Deauville f' . V.' .; ' '.v'?: V '. 5ft:K? A ' f .,: . - V . , ! X. I" Wherelle Y ' , sZVCW ' ' V , "I ' ' ' lT i. r J X Was Also a ; . !;';,r;usiW..l:; 'J lv:tei:;;;..s : is:-a '!x '- '-i (. 1 ' - , : . " ' v RiEpttfother Hfv ': '''t-Efiir . J i V !-. Krishnamurti, Y. v:v.:: ..wl'mrt realize that as servants of the Master we must -4 MS. . ; f Whose Status : . ; .S-Y--: ?Y . : ., i -YX Newsmwr Clio become a spiritual aristocracy of the world Yv" I Y , , i as a Deity in the World m . -,Y.,, , . -f" Newspaper Clip- "Sometimes we may wonder why it is that lie Y J - ' ' ' . - .Theosophy Has Become the !r-."V , x X French r'A'cVoii dresses so carefully d fashionably when he i ' - Center of a Heated V,, .., v. .;-.v.,.; :..Y X I S.-- to the v'W wears European clothes, and that he speaks so X I lV Y, , Controversy Between v: ..: . YvYi-'YYi - V ' :-; V;Y:YW '? X, IsiV often of the necessity of being well dressed. ' Factions in Various f :, . ,.;v Y.:Y.,Y:.:i f c X:x Jlcssla'u "People are inclined to think that he lays too x rA I VPft ' Theosopluc Orders and - : :i":Y-SS rX much insistence on that point, which is only the YN I li) , v hose Docmnes, Mrs Besam, A ' 0 Y. . : Yi, 1 XV- outer man. But it is because he wishes us to : ; believes Should Be Accepted y K . X realize that everything in our lives is consc- TVv. I (Vu Y s hy All laiths. .Y" Y'i i.'-21jPSf ft A SScv s- crated to the Master and t. hat, therefore, we must VJ ' ' Vl' , ' , - " Y " J-- V.. YYyYYYYY Y O x fy U, X, bo as beautifully equipped in every detail, even j Y ' ja v:i ' v ; , : 7 tyt Oj- vA X of our outer dress, as we are striving to be spir- A. ' . i . - , i" .; :,..:'' . bYY Y .;; x ( f V - itunlly equipped. A (X- V ' " : ;'.v!tif ;:.v .. 1 . '-?, . V "In the veiy last letter I received from mm, Yrfb Yr7y ' sw;k V X . he gave me this message: 1 v&i ' - , ' - : -: f : A, i ' ' " 'Grow more and more magnificent.' xO "-vY: . - "i i -' '' ' i . .. VjiiL. . . . ; :Y. 'o lpp Jf "In talking recently, he used a beautiful sim- JiXii LjX3T ' f, :!- , - s,': . . . . i - pO c'i 'e: 'In t'le dawn all values become alike, all YjYjl lY225S v. y Y -.. i; ; 4 " X Y . ' V, y lovels become alike. Be careful that when the Y-yJ . SX ' " ' c; . . ' x ; .' . : V, -: - ... : ' O 5 y great dawn comes you do not miss it because Y jY' ' -.),' r- ! ! Y ;5 & YX tY . '"Y Y, r ou are t'iining so much of your own stature 'Xy -j Y ,Y : Tt v? -A : . . . m and advancement. ' , 1 ,YK. : V V gte "" Y ' V , X, Z1' ,ss :,; sYY . - g ... :; :.j I f All i"Y: ,Y fi!. :'Y While Mrs. Besant is having her world-wide xr 1 Xrpr' X V J.Y:.'-' 1 ': 4 " -'j1 . ' tX; Y-YYY; :Y YY :: Y ' troubles, Krishr.amui'ti is having troubles of liis f. A i (iaV W ' :' Y 3 ' .: j . ' iXYXYC':.:, I ; Y:, :: X own among his fellow-native followers in India. VAvJ 1 j WM I -v- . rx'.Yt ':: ' XY'XXY vY"' ;- . ! One of his wishes is to cause all his discipYs, j ' -wy . , ; . . t: ; . : ': . L 'S jY. V WY-X. - : : . : Y of whatever religion, to make the Sign of the J . :.i : ; ; - .v X Y X i XXY fY: v.XX'Y, 'Y: v.. ;'..:-Cross, in an endeavor to unite the religions of tT TT ' ' Xj'c f "'.Vi? .-. . 5 : VXXX'Y' xiXYiY:?. YX: .-. . ' Y ' the' east and west. iulif ; 'vXX HE efforts of Annie Besant to per- , 'Y Y.- -.,i--;V-.a : l lf " I YYY : : '. :' s The Bralimins, while following Krishnamurti's YrX V-tX 8 suade a million and more Theosoph- f Y?.---, - f Yf XS ;l ;YfXf lXX,S .X . !: XX .. -XXI , teachings and accepting him as a new incarna- 7- , JA . . . , , ,.. ! -::fH,'if:'.-';:; tl fSB'SSi SiiiYi '" -: i':-.'. tion of Deity, or at least as a partial reincarna- -C W ists from An erica and every other , - . ,; t V I tion, refuse absolutely to do this. Thev don't lj? : flrXX' country of the world to accept her hand- - .,. 5s . s X"f 1 1 X Xt X; S,.Y1 j like the sign of the cross, and they den't like XX ; j Xi: some young Hindu, Krishnamurti, as a X''' X'1 "' VVi.W0'i$,. . XX:- J Cliristianity. They insist on making their own yfp . : ' Fv "Second Messiah" have struck a terrible snag. --.'. I, ? '.:' 1 : Y.;X XXYfi IXXX! : . :: ..X : : : kfi Brahmin signs, and at the ceremony of procla- !RX f- At the ven- moment when she had assembled Y ' I. ,: . X:' XI? iXSX'ffl fXYX X: :XX:Y;X mation at Adyar, while the disciples of lire. Be- X . . .. ; , , . - .. -ii- 1 . ; ; f X---Y t-j'! S r i' ;. 'v-J v: ' sant made the sign of the cross and did obei- jf!fl ' i two thousand delegates of all nations, including , : . X. i , ., ' X: JX If 0 X p!Xi:YJ sauce to the new "Messiah" in a more or less W thirty-six from America, in the beautiful sacred rirc -V s . X 'Y ... X . .? Christian ritual, the Brahmins, apart, insisted Yi grove at Adyar, India, beneath the banyan tree, - Xs "' 'i k ' ' y on recognizing him with the old Brahmin signs. Vk to proclaim her protege as a god, there came a - iiiJiitiS?f'i. . :; , . , -is;' 'f Y Y xxf Moslems, also, some of whom believe that r cynical cablegram from Paris, which read: ' X f itself cannot virtually oe dis- part of the divine fire is in Krishnamurti, refuse "Your Krishnamurti may be a god, but if he . ssrifl associated from all this influ- t0 see hlm as a second Messiah, but prefer to XL- i - - 0 Right: Another tx .x' x. Photo of V -.- Krishnamurti, . L Whose Status ;,x ;; as a Deity in the World t v' ; .Theosophy lias Become the Center of a Heated Controversy Between ' Factions in Various x -; Theosophic Orders and 1 v: Whose Doctrines, Mrs. Besant Uelieves, Should Be Accepted All Faiths. , - . 'UA realize that as servants of the Master we must - become a spiritual aristocracy of the world. J; "Sometimes we may wonder why it is that lie .o, dresses so carefully and fashionably when he wears European clothes, and that he speaks so -X- often of the necessity of being well dressed. J "People are inclined to think that he lays too x, r- much insistence on that point, which is only the Xjll outer man. But it is because he wishes us to Xv realize that everything in our lives is consc- -X crated to the Master and that, therefore, we must J bo as beautifully equipped in every detail, even of our outer dress, as we are striving to be spiritually spir-itually equipped. VV "In the veil' last letter I received from him, WrTS he gave me this message: " 'Grow more and more magnificent.' 0 "In talking recently, he used a beautiful sim- iXii ile: 'In the dawn all values become alike, all X22s lovels become alike. Be careful that when the X3J great dawn comes you do not miss it because X-53 you are thinking so much of your own stature Xym and advancement.' , i Xk While Mrs. Besant is having her world-wide yXTv troubles, Krishr.amui'ti is having troubles of liis f V X own among his fellow-native followers in India. VAXl One of his wishes is to cause all his discipL-3, of whatever religion, to make the Sign of the J Cross, in an endeavor to unite the religions of tXT the' east and west. Xm) The Brahmins, while following Krishnamurti's Xf- teachings and accepting him as a new incarna- f) tion of Deity, or at least as a partial reincarna- XL J tion, refuse absolutely to do this. They don't R-JX like the sign of the cross, and they don't like kvv Cliristianity. They insist on making their own ' Brahmin signs, and at the ceremony of procla- M?? mation at Adyar, while the disciples of Mrs. Be- sant made the sign of the cross and did obei- 'jpYX sance to the new "Messiah" in a more or less X Christian ritual, the Brahmins, apart, insisted on recognizing him with the old Brahmin signs. ( r Moslems, also, some of whom believe that r 'Tvc part of the divine fire is in Krishnamurti, refuse Tj! . to see him as a second Messiah, but prefer to 3(Yn look upon him as a sort of second Mahomet. -V So they brought along their prayer carpets, and J VJ knelt and prayed in the old Islamic way. V Mrs. Besant's hope was to combine all religions N into a now world-wide religion, centered around 14 Krishnamurti. She is sincere in believing that V F , Krishnamurti is an incarnation of godliness or Y- holiness. But unbiased experts in religious Hfl$ psychology believe she has made a fatal mistake Xn in her terminology, in calling him the new "Mes- (fAXS siah," and in incorporating other Christian for- v mulas and doctrines. Consequently Brahmins, F)Vv Buddhists, and Koslems, see her efforts not as a V l If, movement toward a new world-wide religion, but Mig- as an effort to convert them to a sort of esoteric YVXt Christianitv. YY V - " 44 X - itself cannot virtually oe dis-"-SWy associated from all this influ- " ence, and cannot fail to be identified with it. It is for these reasons that we are withdrawing." ' Ajnother repudiation of Mrs. Besant's new Messiah comes from Bapsy Dastur Pavry, daughter daugh-ter of a high priest of the Parsis, who studied in the United States. And so, it begins to appear, that the proclamation procla-mation of the "Tea Hound Messiah" under the banyan tree in India is going to end in a worldwide world-wide split up and reorganization of the Theo-sophical Theo-sophical Society, one of the largest, most powerful pow-erful a,nd most sincere of all the esoteric religions. re-ligions. Of course, Mrs. Besant and Krishnamurti have many defenders and adherents. One of them is Lady Emily Lutyens, daughter of the first Earl of Lytton, who knows Krishnamurti intimately. "In all the years I have known him." she declares, de-clares, "never for one second have I faltered m my belief m the great destiny which is his. "Now the first great thing on which he is insisting in-sisting over "and over again, is that we should '': "i'-':-.i .. Y .: Besant's group, and has issued a statement, :: '"i h copies of which have already been received - by the New York society. It reads: - . ;,. ' Vt is. "Owing- to the recent proclamation relat- ';:,:,i ; .5 ing to the next incarnation of Christ into the " ! XY X body of Krishnamurti, the nomination of X X -v.: ;s apostles, etc., the members of this section f 5 , .: s ". severed all connection with Adyar. J V 5 : , S "The chief representatives of the f .. , ,' : i Order of the Star in the East, the J Esoteric section and the Liberal Cath- ; V- ;f ' olic Church, claim that they are now p i; 4 the agents of the supreme beings of .X ,J? , ; -f the universe, and these claims are in & ' f " I our opinion pretentious and blasphem- ' I ;. ' s ous. i 15 . ' i " "No one can deny the fact that the & i ; . a . v i '- whole body of the Theosophical So- f fee. '". '' jiety is at present so deeply affected f ,Y - .. ... ... . ind permeated by all these unproved , !". v . ; ideas of the leaders that the society . 1 tA) rjl HE efforts of Annie Besant to per- i V-CL' B suade a million and more Theosoph- f ists from America and every other ! htsx' country of the world to accept her hand- it- ' ; j 'P-i: some young Hindu, Krishnamurti, as a r "Second Messiah" have struck a terrible snag. ( ,jX At the very moment when she had assembled jVK tw0 thousand delegates of all nations, including thirty-six from America, in the beautiful sacred ' grove at Adyar, India, beneath the banyan tree, . , .1? 5 to proclaim her protege as a god, there came a Xw!3 cynical cablegram from Paris, which read: i A "Your Krishnamurti may be a god, but if he XC- is we suggest that you name him the Messiah of tlle Tennis Racket, or the Tea Hound Messiah. i VXi We know him well. A few years ago ho was 1 flX popular in fashionable society at Cannes, Deau- i; ville and Varanseville. He spent all his time j playing tennis and going to afternoon tea i V.i AN dances." 1 Wi2ln This c i was not read to the faithful. fC3 The c - beneath the banyan tree went f JX on Just t . Krishnamurti was proclaimed j If A. v1 the true '....oiah," thousands bowed down to M worship him, and five of his "twelve apostles" ; ! pYV3 were appointed, including Mrs. Besant herself, ! viJTj Bishop Charles W. Leadbetter, of the "Liberal ! Catholic Church," a Buddhist by the name of ! AAV Jinhaxhadasi, George Arundale and his English irlOX wife. I M n But the interesting cablegram from Paris, or ; i xyllf various news versions of it, were widely pub- : lf XSt lished in all languages. A cablegram to a Is'ew ! j T York paper said : ' !! ' "Krishnamurti, whom Annie Besant at Madras I ' ' 'M proclaimed as the "Christ" in the name of the ' V FSy Theosophical Society, may be all that is asserted ' rtN of him, but in France he is jocularly spoken of 83 'The lessiah of the Tennis Racket,' also as a jjiX tea hound. ' J'l' "9 names because he is known here 'lAv 63 a tennis player and also as one addicted to (frfON the innocuous practice which England gave to f' Nvi the world, i 11 H' "Krishnamurti spent the summer of 1910 at Vi Varanseville, nepr Dieppe, and those who re- I member him and his magnificent suite are sur- j Xi n prisod to find him in his new role. He was J.W -j, known then as Alcyon, as his full name was too .',A, difficult even for French tongues to get around. : y I What with his ascetic face and long flowing locks, yr he was the ee that 8ummer slme the entire h Jj northern coast of France, o "ijosW "As a youth ho was extremely elegant and IN y, well bred, and although good ladies who wished V to pamper him talked much about his hours of yf meditation, the fact is, he spent his time play-Ay- j ing tennis, and it is hard to distinguish him II ii from the casual Oxford youth at the afternoon Il tens." -if 1 This alone might not have created a furore or Y Z7L Interfered with the propagation of the new re- J dyl liglon. There was no accusation or even insinu- Ky ation nrainst the moral character or honesty of V LYi young Krishnamurti. The French merely pointed IfeS out with typical Gallic skepticism that it was a ii, VC- little incongruous for a fashionable and worldly "tl youth, fonnerly absorbed in society and sports, V Al t reapDear suddenly as a god. -' YV Bt it came on top of a tempest that was al- v. . ready raging, and simply added fuel to the fire. 0 'VX Even prior to the news from Paris, leading -X Theosophists, not only In America, but in Eng-lj-.d and on tho continent, had begun to witn-dr'vV witn-dr'vV from official connection with Mrs. Besant , " "vVy nd --r fi011? at Adyar. P I W Iie the Princ'Pi''3 f Theosophy is that it i cJ should bo non-sectarlnn, and in connection with -K. iio proclaiming oi Krishnamurti as the "ilea- siah," many T h e o s o phistB felt that Mrs. Bosant had also r accepted the Christian creed : of the sectarian . "Liberal Cath-. Church." The entire London Lodge of the Theo-Bophical Theo-Bophical Society was one of the first to withdraw, and its president, Lieutenant Colonel C. L. Fea-cocke, Fea-cocke, issued a statement state-ment saying: "Mrs. Besant's new roligion is entirely contrary to the original orig-inal ideas of the Theosophical Theo-sophical Society in maintaining strict neutrality as regards particular religions. "The disgraceful use being made of the society by its present president, Mrs. Besant, for the booming and advertising of her own private beliefs and superstitions is most regrettable, and has been driving out of the socioty most of those who are genuine studentBand searchers for real philosophy." A number of Theosophical Theo-sophical leaders in Calilornla and New York have similarly protested against Mrs. Besant's course. The Czocho-Slc-vakian society, which embraces most of the Theosophists of Cen-tral Cen-tral Europe, has also withdrawn from Iilrs. Miss Bansy Dastur Pevtv, Daughter of the High Priest of the Parsis in Bombay and Horself a Urlillant Scholar of Scriptures, Who Itefuses to Acknowledge Mr. Besant's Ileligioy Overt are . , Besant's oroup, and has issued a statement, these reasons that we are withdrawing." knelt ; and prayed in the old Islamic way copies of "which have already been received A.nother repudiation of Mrs. Besant's new Mrs. Besant s hope was to combme all religions Mv X:;: ' by the New York society It reads- Messiah comes from Bapsy Dastur Pavry, daugh- into a new world-wide religion, centered around 1 - ' "Owing to the recent 'proclamation relat- er of a high priest of the Parsis, who studied Krishnamurti. She is sincere in believing that U ing to thi next incai nation of Christ into the m.the United States. Kris.mamurti is an incarnation of godliness or ' , ; i ' body of Krishnamurti, the nomination of A.nd B0' ifc bee!ns to appear, that the procla- holiness. But unbiased experts m religious UQ ty; - ' ,f X apostles, etc., the members of this section mation of the "Tea. Hound Messiah" under the psychology believe she has made a fatal mistake "xA rt - si s "" severed'all connection with Adyar. banyan tree in India is going to end in a world- in her terminology, in calling him the new "Mes- ((yftLj? i . - J : "The chief representatives of the wide Bplit up and reorganization of the Theo- siah," and in incorporating other Christian for- v)A f i . ' :i i Order of the Star in the East, the sophical Society, one of the largest, most pow- mulas and doctrines. Consequently Brahmins, r , X ' Esoteric section and the Liberal Cath- erful a,nd most sincere of all the esoteric re- Buddhists, and Moslems, see her efforts not as a IV .: ; jt . olic Church, claim that they are now ligione. movement toward a new world-wide religion, but M. !i : V! - the agents of the supreme beings of Of course, Mrs. Besant and Krishnamurti have as an effort to convert them to a sort of esoteric A AXt 4 . k - I the universe, and these claims are in many defenders and adherents. One of them is Christianity. jT UXfe (t i ' X our opinion pretentious and blasphem-. Lady Emily Lutyens, daughter of the first Earl . h ! ' . 3' ous. 01 Lytton, who knows Krishnamurti intimately. $ '.;: i f X ' i . 9 ' "No one can deny the fact that the "In all the years I have known him," she de- , - ' J 1ft i: i ; , . . i t !. whole body of the Theosophical So- clares, "never for one second have I faltered in '.? 8 M H f f X i. s '.: :iety is at present so deeply affected my belief m the great destiny which is his. X ' f i - ' .-.j . ind permeated by all these unproved "Now the first great thing on which he is in- ,s . , J, JoX ; ; , t c ideas of the leaders that the society . sisting over 'and over again is that we should r .. .. . tVi 1 " ' agms. . wv-i.-v-. v?rrTO- X :. :!. Y : -X Y' ' : k xYV ' y ' v . kf-" " ' x . I ;x - ; ; ' V J Y . y The lJonutiful ' . V,X ' . . V X ; y bncrl Grove at - " Y'X'7 "' X - ' . . ' Adxar, India, l A "X, , ' h.-.e Airs. . .X l' nl. Elites IromAU (her the World vMl) '"' -----.' ' " " Y -Yi ' Ule "Second Messiah." :?TVT , r, y I he -lJonutiful ": ".yr bncred Grove at -i .. ' Adyar, India, M feJKSl . Wlwre Mrs. 'SS) Bent JV T.. n . Assombli-d Over f?xAJ r, , Tliousand Theonophist Y l' VV --"" ?n IT K'T AU (h lr th0 World ill - - W AcknoH Unigo hrlshiinmurti aa SXX" ; i u "faccond JUcssiah." xYl |