The herald., 1896-06-21
Poful-Vuh and Mayas Students
to Tour Europe
FOUR OF THE MASTER MINDS
They Will Attend an international
Convention
Lending Theosophists Will 90 Abroad 10 Show
That All the Mahatmas are Ener.
gized In America

NEW YORK, June 5.-Four of the
master minds of Theosophy are going to
| Europe in little time to do some Won
| derful things. They are not going in their
| astral bodies, but in steamer and will
| pay their way just as ordinary folk do
| who have no inside pull with Mahatmas
TWO or three others who have not yet
reached the pinnacle of Theosophical
wisdom are going along with the four
| 10 help the good cause along in their
| humble way.
The four master minds are owned by
ernest Temple Hargrove, who was re-
Gently elected president of the Theo-
sophical society; Mrs Katherine Alice
Tingley, the boss Theosophist of them
all, on whom has fallen the mantle of
Helen L. Blavatsky and w. @. Judge,
ana Mr.. and Mrs. Claude Falls Wright
who were recently married by a yelled
Mahatma, complete the quartet of mas
ter minds. The secondary minds in the
party are owned by H. T. Patterson.
MRS. russell and Mrs. Keightley. all of
tnem deeply studied in Poful-Vuh and
Mayas and Quiches. To be a Theo
sophst and not to have read Poful- -Vuh
anu Mayas and CLUTCHES is a terrible
state of affairs.
Ihese wonderful minds are not s,,per-
stltious, for their owners have engaged
passage on steamer which sails on sat
urday, June 18th. Some people might
demur at beginning a voyage on the 13th h
or the month, but the exalted mind of
the Theosophist passes lightly over such
.rlviantles. Even the newest chela
matter Of that kind. A chela. be if If
known' is the pupil Of an adept. An
auept IS Just one rung on the Theosophi-
cal ladder below Mahatma. Mahatma
IS Sanscrit for great soul. Nah Is great
a; ,"t "a, a.fna IS soul. TO amount to anything
IN the occult line. it is necessary to be.
gin life as chela. 1t is hard work 70 he
come an adept. and to become n Mahe1-
ma requires fund of taking that 10
1nexhaustible. ''ia' Is
OBJECT OF THE TRIP
me object of the trip to Europe Is re-
sarded with suspicion by those who are
iialIillar with the doings of TheosophicaI
leaders In the past. About twenty ven &c
ago Blavatsky and Olcott went TO indi.
an9 then sent back word that Theosonhv
nao existed in India for foua-thousan nd
Years. Mahatmas abounded there. and
every one was at least an adept Tho
very young children were the cbeias
IN! anis news gave a big boom to Theoso.
Eas. Fly ~ tnls country and England. Skilled
East indian travellers asserted however
Ihat Ineosophy was never heard of ~
!nola until Blavatsky and Olcott wont
tnere ana drummed up some excitement
+han lew credulous natives. Even
t,, 1Meh IL amounted to nothing. and nov,
,, Iheosophists in India are as scarca q =
snoWballs at the equator. as
win this as precedent asto,nd.
reports can be looked for when ths
liaster minds reach Europe. Amone the
ancient peoples there It shoujd he .ie a,,
Easy matter to show that Theosonhu
nourLsned m IN the time of the Pharaohs
or tnat 1t came out Of the ARK with
tham the son of Noah. But accordine
70 the program Of the master n,inds
tney 40 not intend to devote Ali of 49,
..ile 10 Egypt. Every country in E,,-
rope VIII be visited, and the fact naIo
known that America is the founta inhao :
ol uneosophy. that the reincarnatad
spirits OF the great men and vor,a, ~ ~
thousands of years ago abide harn ~ -.
th the poules of other folks, and that IN
., .ne matter Of age Europe is not IN ~ =.
with this country. How this ia ~ - hs ~
| Teconciled with the assertion of Eo,ar
Piavatsky that Theosophy existaS ~
!nula 4ooO years ago and was oniv INV
uuced to this country within the m q.
Two decades is problem too deem Sor ~ :
iay mind to solve, although II Is douht-
less very clear to the master minds
INTERNATIONAL CONvENTroN
Ihere' Is, to be. convention in DuhI,,
during August of all the ThensonL.an
socleties OF Europe. At this conwentio,,
the -FOUR master minds will net,n ~ !
claim of Americas greatness in Theosa sne