num_pages: 136
description: A history of Point Loma. It is all here: the beginnings with ceremony and high hopes and a philosophy of 'ancient wisdom', on the chaparral-covered slopes of Point Loma, facing the blue Pacific; the pouring in of distinguished supporters, not only from the USA, but from England, Scotland, Wales, Sweden, Holland, Germany, Cuba, Japan; the transformation to a place of beauty, the initial shock to the local clergy of the Theosophists' doctrines of reincarnation and karma; congresses for peace, calls for prison reform and against capital punishment and vivisection and for universal brotherhood and humanity; courtroom battles; successes and recognition of contribution in education, in literature, music, drama, art and agriculture, financial strains and difficulties, and finally the great hegira.
language: English
title: California Utopia: Point Loma 1887-1942
publisher: Point Loma Publications, Inc