The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-06
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h0tmas Are Energised fn America.
NEW YORK, June 5.-Four Of the mas
ter minds OF theosophy are going to
europe IN q little time to do some won
uerIul things They are not going in their
astral bodies but in a steamer and viii
pay their way just as ordinary folk do who
nave 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 to 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 Theosophf-
cal Society; Mrs. Katherine Alice Ting
ley the boss theosophist of them all On
whom has fallen the mantle Of Helen r.
Blavatslcy and w. O. Judge, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Claude Falls Wright, who were re-
Gently married by a yelled Mahatua com
plete the quartet Of master minds The
secondary minds in the party are owned
by H. T. Patterson. Mrs. Russell and Mrs
keightley, all Of them deeply studied in
Poful-Vuh and Mayas and Clutches. To be-
a theosophist and not to nave read PofuI-
Nuh and Mayas and CLUTCHES is a terrible
state of affairs
These wonderful minds are not super
stltlous, for their owners have engaged
passage on a steamer which sails on Sat
urday, June 13. Some people might demur
at beginning voyage on the thirteenth
OF the month but the exalted mind of the
theosophist passes lightly over such
trivialities- Even the newest chela would
not think about bothering over a matter
Of that kind. A chela, be It known. is
the pupil Of an adept An adept is just
one Eulg on the LneOEOpliCal ladder be-
low Mahatma. Mahatma is Sanscrit for
great soul Nah is great, and atma is
soul To amount to anything in the oc-
cult line it is necessary to begin life as
cneia- u is hard work to become an
adept. and to become a Nahatua re-
quires fund Of taking that is inexhaustf-
bic.
OBJECT OF THE TRIP.
The object of the trip to Europe is re-
carried with suspicion by those who are
familiar with the dOings Of The0sophfcaI
leaders in the past. About twenty years
age B-avatsky and OlcOtt went to India.
and then sent back word that theosophy
rad existed in India for four thousand
years Mahatmas abOunded there. and
every one was at the least an ADEPT The
very young children were the chelas. This
news gave a big boom to the0sophy in this
country anu England Skilled East In
dian travellers asserted, however, that the
oSOpny was never heard Of in India until
BlaVatsky and OlcOtt went there and drum
med up some excitement among few cred
ulous natives Even then it amounted to
nothing, and nov the0sophists in India are
as scarce as sn0wbans at the equator
With this as a precedent astounding re-
ports can be looked for when the master
minds reach Egypt. Among the ancient
peoples there IL should De an easy matter
to show that theosOphy hourished in the
time of the Pharuohs. OF that it came out
of the Ark with Cham, the son Of Noah.
But according to the programme of the
master minds they do not intend to de-
vote all Of their time to Egypt Every
country in Europe viii be visited, and the
fact made known that America is the foun-
tain head Of theosophy, that the reincar-
mated spirits OF the great men and women
Of thousands OF years ago abide here in the
bodies Of other folks, and that in the mat
ter Of age Europe Is not in it with this
country. How this is to be recOnclled with
the assertion of Helen Blavatsky that the
OsOpny existed in India 4 O00 years ago
and was only introduced to this country
within the past two decades is a problem
too deep for the lay mind to solve. although
it is doubtless very clear to the master
minds.
AN INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION.
There is to be . convention In Dublin
during August Of all the theOsophical So
cieties OF Europe. AT this convention tho
four master minds Will make the claim OF
Americas greatness in theosophy, and a
great hullabaloO is certain to be raised. be
cause the European adopts take very little
stock in the societies here
About the European tour Mr. Hargrove.
the president. said; I'VE go first to Lon
don and then through France. Holland.
Switzerland. Germany, Italy and Egypt III
all Of the principal cities we viii lecture
particularly among the poor. In Egypt we
are going TO visit two individuals-tWo indi-
VlGualG llQ AlieAls "a MIS- -9leFs-t'AA- --'-
whom we are associated. You know certain
members OF the great occult brotherhood
live in Egypt. One Of these two individuals
may come to live and work ia America re
Is a deep student in theosophy and occult
ism Eventually we viii go to Australia.
where there are many believers"
Much mystery surrounds Mrs. katherine
Alice Tingiey, the successor Of Blavatsky.
She lives at No. 273 West End avenue. i'm
the heart Of the fashionable West Side dis
trict, ard the naighbors say that bewhis-
kered Mahatmas fly in and out OF the house
all day long. No one ever heard anything
about her until the great honor was thrust
upon her. She Is something over forty fin
years and weighs close to 200 pounds. in
this latter she resembles Blavatsky. She