The Portland daily press., 1896-11-04
A YOGI vEXES TIL EOsOPHs.
Advertises for Mahatma Kitty Ting
ley's Child.

An Enemy Hath Done This, Say the Mystic
Brotherh0od-Mrs.K Kitty and Her Pill
grims Are in Ear Bombay and Mrs.
Besant Is Dreadfully Hostile and vexa-
tiOus.
(New York Sum-
A yogi is loose in New York. The
horrid thing u trying to make trouble
for the beatif1o ohslas, gurus. adopts. and
mahatmss Of LA Madison avenue. and
for those now triumphantly prancing
through India and Afghanistan. The
yogi now among US used a newspaper ad-
vertisement to create spiritual indiges-
tion in the mahatmistio midst. This ID
the advertisement printed yesterday
morning,
SO rsward for information as to pres
ent whereabouts.of Flnssie Tingley, re-
| Gently LOT 37S West End Av., or her
father. j. L.
Mrs. Kitty A. Tingley, the adept upon
whom American Theosophists believe
the mantles of Blayatsky and W. @.
Judge have fallen, lived at 1913 West End
avenue before she started on theosophi-
cal pilgrimage around the world with
Claude Falls Wright and his wife;
Ernest T. Hargrova. President of the
Theosophioal Society of America, and
Henry 7. Patterson, an esoteric hard
| ware merchant of this city. On May Is
| last the Inner Circle announced that
they had letected the spiritual attribute
of H. P. B. and W. @. J. in the 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 short
time previous to the announcement of
K. T's supremacy Claude Falls Wright
had been joined in marriage to Miss
Leonard 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 be the
successor of Blavatsky. The Yelled
Mahatma turned out to be Mistress
Kitty. But the mystic folk of the Inner
Circle vehemently denied that Kitty was
mahatma. She was the head of the
esoteric section of the inner Circle all
right. But though there were mahatmas
in America, MIR. Hargrove explained to
reporters, she was not one of them. He
even said that BlavaIsky herself was not
a mahatma, but only a second GLASS
adept, only one remove from common
chela,, who, as everybody knows, is a
mere5pupil 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
successor. But they say it is absurd to
| believe that H. T. B. would go to the
trou BILE before dying of preparing
body for her incarnation. if it was to be
only the "worn-out body of q middle
aged woman for carrying on the work
| which the chela's old body had been un-
able to do.'' These were Mrs. A s. BIS.
| stood as portending heaps of theoshopic
trouble.
"Annie Besant," said Adept Fussel
yesterday, sis a jealous, bitter old
woman who hatas-there, didn't mean
to use that word hate, for 1t has no
meaning in the science of brotherhood.
We sacrifice and labor and love. Beauti-
full is the soul that has received into
itself the sweetest of all knowledge"
Mr.. Fussen gazed MOSTLY out at the
glowing evening sky. Everything is
| so 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 said," he
snapped, "and I'm sure have nothing
to say about her or her atteraDces. AS
for that advertisement about Flossie
OF miscellaneous persons who want to
make trouble for Mrs. . .Tingley. Flossie
is an adopted child who was for many
years under Mrs. Tingley's oare-adopted
when she was very little-who was lit
tie? The little one. of course-and
brought up by Mrs. Tingley to be a-eh
-ah-o
"Chelap suggested the reporter.
"M-m-!" observed Mr.. Russell with
great non-committal effect. "The whole
thing was sufficiently aired In the papers
last June"
At that time Mrs. Tingley told report
ers that she had sent the child back to
relative at the advice Of friends
Flossie's father, referred to in the advor-
tisement, said Mr.. Russell, ''means Mr..
Iingley undoubtedly. I'm sure do not
know where he is. He Ewent as far as
Paris with the pilgrimage. but he came
back on Aug, 25, and I believe is in
Philadelphia now. He travels a great
deal de used to live at 3T3 West End
avenue with his wife and the rest Of us.
i've there now, you know"
II was said this afternoon at 1873 West
End avenue. said the reporter, "that
Mr. !ingley was with Mrs. Tingley on
bne pilgrimage, and that 10 suon person
as ~ = lossle was known there.'
; Ine great Theosophist bit his lip.
VINO toid you thatp" ne said. Then
ne ceased to talk. In conference with
experS tneosophical observers it was de-
yeiopea that, in the light Of fthe contra
dictory information as to the present
apidlng place Of Flossie and the husband
oi tne yelled Adept, it was extremely
likely that Mrs. Besant had caused the
Two + to be elevated to the snow line of
% !ns lmalayas. or, worse yet, had pro
Jeo9ed tnem Into unbounded space by the
unlteo Will tof the unsympathet1c