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Show 'PACEFCU2 1 I TIIE SUNDAY HERALD, SUNDAY, MARCH -- N4J ' - 1S2S. ---- -- 'if? .:-- 1- 7." 1 ...1 4.1 . 1 .A t - t 1 1 ., .- fecht: i4hJ Why Parisians Who Knew Ura. Annie Ucrirnt, f l!u N.'i rhwi!Vc&l Croup In !m ia, Vh9b tATortsto Hw H(t 'lonnt HmJn t'rftUf e. . Argent m lLheJdcm(kpmeJdindu . Left! m mm : J- - - f - jurlshnamitrtl tlillH br' :h MtK.,mh," in 'f Splits When He Played Tennis, Refuse rX 7 KrishaMarti. Utdr c iiave Cmied Circle . f ,1 h"uaV - - ' ProMotod by iin. BeMDt Second Mectiah - and Seriously. u IS'kaa Paria Ridimfea V - V- J.v ri - Racket :. and ...lea fivuna MeaaUh.' Shoini on tha Court at . Deaarillo . Where lie Waa Also a Pet of 7 v Society. 9 t. r el "4 h -- v fhotoor i KrUhnamarti, WhoM SUtaa m a Deity in the World o( Xheoaophjr 11 a tieeame tai . venter of a ilea lea ,". Controversy Between J ' 't- i Rlshtt Another ifJ 4 f- ! Lii iff .f i - FJ h ' t I M ' -- Mea8Uh.,,- ... Theosophie Order and Whoa Doctrines, Mra. Besant 4 that at atuvanta of the Master wc mast a spiritual aristocracy of the world. "Sometime we may wonder why it is that he dresses so carefully and fashionably when he wears European clothe, and that he-- speaks so ' often necessity oz being well dressed I'eopie-ar- e inclined to think that he lays too much insistence on that point, which is only the outer man. But it is becaue he wishes us to reahie that everything in our lives is consecrated to the Master and that, therefore, w must be as beautifully equipped in every detail,- - even of dresa; as we tr sctlvmg to be Ipir-,..;..t itually equipped. "In the very last letter I received from Um, . .. he gave me this message: !! 'Crow-mo-re and more magnificent.1- - - "In talking recently, he used beautiful simile: 'Irt the dawn all value become alike, all of-th- ... - Beliarea, Should Be Accepted by All Faiths. '... i; !U Factiona in Varioua reulize become Newspaper Clipping Showinff french Ueacl.un to the New -- -- . V. 1 our-out- 'V ae if4 1 .. r, I - '.. j 3'r V "w. rv ... i m m w -1-jO levels become alike.Bcareful that whett-th- e great down comes you do not mis it because you are thinking so much of your own stature 1 and advancement' ' While Mrs. Befant is having her world-wid- e troubles, Krishnamurti is having troubles of his own among his fellow-tfati- v followers In India; One of his wishes ia to pnuso n hfa'rfUM-- w wiuiujver religion, to mae tne aign ot the - oi Cross, In an endeavor to unite the religions of , the' east and west i I ... The Brahmins, while .Krishnamurti' following - teachings and accepting him aa a new incarnation of Deity, or at least a a partial reincarna tion, refuso absolutely to do. this. They don't like the sign of the crogsj1 and they dent like tTiriBtlahitr hey Insist "on making :theifr own Brahmin signs, and at the cereraonv of nrorla- tnatlon at Adyar. while the disciples of Mrs.- Be- aant made the sigh o( the cross and did obei-- i sance. to. the new '.'Messiah "in. a. more or less Christian ' ritual) the Brahmins, apart, insisted on recognizing him with the old Brahmin signs. 4 if - jgt efforts of Annie Besairt to per- - I ' 'tiuade a million and more Theosoph Y 1st from America and, every other country of the world to accept her hand- SonKTounff Hlndu, rishnamurtt, as "Second Messiah" have struck ajtsrnble snag. At the very moment! when she had assembled two thousand delegates of all nations, including thirty-si- x from America, in the beautiful sacred grove at Adyar, India, beneath the banyan tree, to proclaim her protecre as a srod, there came a Cynical cablegram from Paris, which read: ; Hp HE - 4J wmmm. ailC r tec v. ft c - v -- is we suggest that you name him the Messiah of the Tennis Racket, or the Tea Hound Messiah. We know him welL A few years ago he was popular, in fashionable. society at Cannes, Xeau-rill- e and Varanseville. He spent all his time tennis and going to afternoon tea Slaying was not read to the faithful This cp 3 beneath the banyan tree went The c ;. Krishnamurti waa proclaimed on just ti thousands bowed down to the true ' . . worship him, and five of his "twelve apostles" were appointed, including Mrs. Besant herself. Bishop Charles W, Leadbetter, of the "Liberal Catholic Church," a Buddhist by the name of Jinharhadasi, George Arundale and his English wife. ; V KaJ V many . : accepted the Christian creed of the sectarian "Liberal Cath-- Church.". The entire London Lodge of the -- ? war one of the first to withdraw' and its president, Lieutenant Colonel C. L. Pea- cocke, issued & state-- ; . But the interesting cablegram from Paris, or were l. widely pubr various jwwb. versions. .of. laent sftyingi "Mrs. Besant's new listed in ail languages. , A cablegram to a Me' religion - is entirely York paper saia: "Krishnamurti, whomAnnie Besant a Madras" "contrary to the orig- Proclaimed as the "Christ" in the name of the -- Inal ideaa of the Theo- Thaosophlcal Society, may be all that is asserted-- of sophical Society in maintaining strict him, but in France he is jocularly spoken of as fThe Messiah of the Tennis Racket,' also as a neutrality as regards tea hound, particular religions. "He got his names because he is known here '.."The - "disgraceful is a tennis player and also as one addicted to use being- - made of the the innocuous practice which England gave to ; society by its present . the" world. president, Mrs. Besant, "Krishnamurti spent the summer of 1910 at for the booming and Varanseville, near Dieppe, and those who readvertising of her own member him and his magnificent suite are sur- private beliefs. and to And him in his new role. He was superstitions is most then as Alcyon, as his full name was too . regrettable, and has difficult even for French tongues to get around. been driving out of What with his ascetic face ana long flowing locks, the society most of those who are genuine he was the rage that summer along the entire , studenteand searchers northern, coast of. France, for real philosophy." "As a youth he waa extremely elegant and wished who ladies and well bred, although good A number of. to pamper him talked much about his hours of leaders in fact he time his is, playspent meditation, the California . and New is hard to distinguish him' . York have similarly ing tenpis, and it from the casual Oxford youth at the afternoon prviegiea against Airs. tea. Besant's courser . or - Thte sJone might not have created. a furore The: Czecho-Sl- reInterfere with the propagation of the new vakian 'society, which insinnHglon. There was to accusation or even embraces most of the ItUon against the moral character or honesty of Theosophista of Krishnamurti. The French merely has also out wita typical uiuu wDutin vnm re wasm withdrawal from Mrs. ; ( little incongruous lor a utamuunpia ana wonaiy ' Moth, formerly absorbed in society and sports, lit Minnnar andenlv aa a rod. But it cam on top of a tempest that was al- ' ' Miss Bapsv Dastur Pavry. Daughter nt ready raging, and simply added fuel to the fire. ven prior to the news from Paris, leading the High Priest of the. Parsia in Jwntbay Theosophista, not only; in America, but in EngHerself a Brilttant land fend on the continent had begun to withdraw from official connection with Mrs. Besant . Scholar of Scriptures, - Who Refuses and fcer group at Adyar. .' . ia Ot or the principals of Theosophy Is that ft "Acknowledge HrV ihottU be Besanfs Rellrii anj ia connection with the proclaim tog ot Krishnamurti as th "Mo Besant'i' group, and has issued astatement; copies of which have already been received ' by the New York society. It reads t "Owing to the recent proclamation relat- - ' Ing to the next Incarnation of Christ into the body of Krishnamurti, the nomination of apostles, etc., the members of this section severed all connection with Adyar. "The chief representatives of the . Order of the. Star in the East, the Esoteric section and the Liberal Cath- " olie Church, claim that thev are now the agents of the supreme beings of the universe, and these claims are in our opinion pretentious and blasphem' ' "A ous. , "No one can denv the fact that the whole- - body of the Theosophical So- . Theo-aophic- al Society Itself cannot virtuaflr or associated from all this influence, and cannot fail . be " identified with it' K L for , these" reason that we are withdrawing." Ajnother repudiation of Mrs. Besant's new Messiah comes from Bapsy Dastur Pavry, daughter of a high priest of the Parsia, who studied in the United States. Ana so, ii Degins to appear, tnat the proclamation of the "Tea Hound Messiah" under the banyan tree in India is going to end in a worldwide split up and reorganization of the Theosophical Society, one 'of the largest, most powerful and most sincere of all the esoteric religions.it ' Of course, Mrs. Besant and Krishnamurti have many defenders and adherents. On of them is .Lady Jkmily Lutyens, daughter of the first Earl 01 ytton. who knows Krishnamurti fotimnielv. 11 i4f h r 'V 1 1 . . Tn clares. itmh T V.. 1. a "never for one aecnnd s iety-ia-- at ind permeated by all these unproved of the leaders that the society f . ' ill - . n ... hsvl fnlfnit j Moslem alFoaomejshomJhelievejtbat of the divine fire i in Krishnamurti, refuse to see him aa a second Messiah, but prefer to .look upon him-aa sort of second Mahomet they brought along their prayer carpet, and knelt and prayed in the old Islamic way. Mrs. Besant'i hope waa to combine all religions into a new world-wid- e religion, cente'red around Krishnamurti. She is sincere in believing that Krishnamurti is an incarnation of, godliness or holiness. - But unbiased experts iin religious psychology believe she has made a fatal mistake In her terminology, in calling hint the new "Messiah," and in incorporating other Christian for--mulas and doctrines. Consequently Brahmins, Buddhists, and Loslems, see her efforts not as a movement toward a new world-wid- e religion, but aa an effort to convert them to a sort of esoteric part ills-- t-- Theotophista 7fett that Mn. - Besant had also ; s . - Kiah," . i Christianity. "Now the first great thing on which slstihg over and over again s that we ahould . a In rsr he is - as i- - ixA Cj m - . eed 'hf,y Theo-sophi- cal - Till i L--v. iiAWf 'iV j$wr.;f lr 1 -- i I -- .- -r - J -:- Cen-you- EMe--TtrSrl&- pa. c 'A'-- ' -- - - A 1 " I , n, A :i- . ',7 V, vw tii I SiX y '.i-,- .LA', " -- . r z ' Li.. ni.Vi, r'x ' ;- " -- T71 , -. .,7N. , r tit - - ' .... - urwr , r jtaju.. TTI irmi r - . '; . - , V - ,v i.. .-- , .. . r '. . - r v v - : '" - ' a a ' . ' " i w- - jrjmL. ' - y Krishnamurti as rSeconi Meaaiah," , Acknowledge . i ! AasemWed Orer Two Thousand Theosophist 1rl-- Ti lo i ! . rrrrTiT -- iti IKS or - j l jv; ., U-F''1- in " ft- j v.- - - ' 1 lh eijjjwajBaM i J t t , . wn. 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