The Portland daily press., 1896-11-06
A YOGI vEXES THEOsOPHS.
Adyertises for Mahatma Kitty Ting
Iey's Child.

ley'S Child.
An Enemy Hath Done This, Say the Mystic
Brotherhood-Mrs. Kitty and Her Pill
grims Are in Far Bombay and Mrs.
Besant Is DreadfulIy Hostile and Vexa-
tious.
New York Sum-
A yogi ia loose in New York. The
horrid thing is trying to make trouble
for the beatifio ohelas, gurus, adopts, and
mahatmas of IA Madison avenue, and
for those now triumphantly prancing
through India and Afghanistan. The
yogi now among us used a newspaper adj
,vertisement to create spiritual indiges-
ton in the mahatmistio midst. This il
the advertisement printed yesterday
morning:
emit whereabouts of Flossie Tingley, re-
Gently Lof 1873 West End Av., or her
father. .. u.
Mrs. Kitty A. Tinglev, the adept upon
whom American Theosophisrs believe
the mantles of Blavatsky and W. @.
Judge have fallen, lived at 1873 West End
avenue before she started on theosophi-
cal pilgrimage around the world with
Claude Falls Wright and his wife;
Ernest T. Hargrove, President of the
Theosophioal Society of America and
Henry T. Patterson, an esotsric hard
ware merchant of this city. On May IS
last the Inner Circle announced that
they had detected the spiritual attribute
of q. p. B. and w. @. ]. in tbs person
of Mrs. Tingley, who was, not to enter
into too carefully detailed personal de-
soription, fair and forty and learned in
theosophioal complications. Only a short
time previous to the announcement of
z. TBS. supremacy Claude Falls Wright
had been joined In marriage to Miss
Lsonard with whom he had philandered
in the desert wilds of Cobb 5000 long
years and more ago) by "Veiled Ma
hatma," who was supposed to lie the
SUCCESSOR of Blavatsky. The Yelled
Mahatma turned out to be Mistress
Kitty. But the mystic TO TX of the Inner
Circle vehsmently denied that Kitty was
a mahatma. She was the head of the
esoterie section of the inner Circle all
right. but. though there were mahatmas
in America, Mr.. Hargrove explained to
reporters, she was not one of them. He
even said that Blavatsky herself was not
q mahatma, but only a second class
adept, only one remove from common
chela, who, as everybody knows, is a
mere pupil of those really learned in the
mysteries of the brotherhood.
Now, across the sea, while the pilgrims
are in Bonn bay. Mrs. Annie Besant has
been going further, and has denied the
legitimacy of the fall of Biavatsky's
mantle. Mrs. Besant and the Adyar
Society, which supports her, declare
that an adept may nominate ohela as a
SUCCESSOR. But they say it is absurd to
believe that H. P. B. would 90 to the
trouble before dying of preparing a
only the "worn-out body of middle
aged woman for carrying ON the work
which the ohela's old body had been I'M
able to do. These were Mrs.A BIS.
own cruel words, and they were under
stood as portending heaps of theoshopic
trouble.
"Annie Besant," said Adept Fussel
yesterday, ''is a jealous, bitter old
wsman who hates-there, didn't mean
to use that word hate, for it has no
meaning in the science of brotherhood.
We sacrifice and labor and love. Beauti-
full is tho soul that has received into
itself the sweetest of all knowledge. ~
Mr.. Russell gazed MOSTLY out at the
glowing evening sky. Everything is
40 beautiful about us.
"Pardon me-" said the reporter. "but
about Mrs. Besant?'
Mr.. RUSSELL pumped back to the mean,
material world.
Nobody cares what she satd," he
snapped, "and I'm sure have nothing
to say about her or her atteIances. AS
for that advertisement about Flossie
Tingley and her father, it is the work
Of miscellaneous persons who want to
make trouble for Mrs. ..Tingley. Flossie
Is an adopted child who was for many
years under Mrs. TinRley's oarsAadopted
whom she was very little-who was lit
tlsS The little one, of course-and
brought up by Mrs. Tingley to be a-eh
abb
.Chslar, suggested the reporter.
"M-m-I'' observed Mr. Russell with
great non-committal effect. "The whole
thing was sufficiently aired in the papers
last June.'
At that time Mrs. Tinsley told report
srs that she had sent the child back to
relative aG the advice OF friends.
Flossie's father, referred to in the adver-
tisement, said Mr.. RUSSELL, ''means Mr..
Tingley undoubtedly. I'm sure do not
know where he lie. He went as far as
Paris with the pilgrimage. but he came
back on Aug. rs, and believe is in
Philadelphia now. He travels a great
deal. He used to live at 1913 West End
avenue with his wife and the rest of us,
live there now, you know"
''It was said this afternoon at 1913 West
End avenue" said the reporter, 'that
Mr.. Tineley was with Mrs. Tingloy on
the pilgrimage, and that no sucn person
rs Flossie was known there
The great Theosophist bit his lip.
"Who told you thatr' ne said Then
he ceased to talk. In conference with
expert theosophical observers it was de-
yeloped that, in the light of sthe CONTRA
dictory Information as to the present
abiding place of Flossie and the husband
Of the Yelled Adept, it was extremely
Likely that Mrs. Besant had caused the
two to be elevated to the snow line of
the Himalayas. or, worse yet, had pro-
jeoted them into unbounded space by the
united will OF the unsympatbetic