The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-07
A Modern Movement of Broad
Purpose That Is Attracting
Wide Attention,
The Crusade Under Full Roadway
in the East and Will Soon
Reach This City

Tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock the
theosophists will hold a meeting in their
hall in the Academy OF Sciences, when
there will De something interesting told OF
the great Philosophical Crusade" Those
who go out to hear the addresses will be
told what the crusaders are doing and why
they are doing it. The officers of the
society here expect some important in
formation in to-day's mail, which will be
made public at the meeting.
News has just reached the theosophists
here that the crusaders have arrived safely
in Bombay and that they will be in San
Francisco about the end OF March,
The crusade started from Boston last
summer and went first to London and
Liverpool. In Liverpool they accom-
plished more than in any city OF their
journey. From the principal cities of
England they next visited Glasgow, Edin-
burgh and Dublin. Next they pushed
their crusade to Hamburg, Berlin and
Vienna. In the city of Hailein. Austria.
they met DR.. Franz Hartman, who is one
of the greatest of theosophists and author
OF books full of mystic lore. In all these
cities their efforts had gratifying results.
When they reached Athens they found
themselves totally among strangers, there
were no theosophists to welcome them to
the classic city, but they rented a large
hall and Immediately after the first meet
ing they organized a branch of 100 mem
bers.
From Athens they went to Malta and
thence to Alexandra and Cairo. The re-
port of their success in Egypt has not yet
arrived, but is a part of the news expected
this week.
From India they will came to San Fran
cisco with their minds fresh stored with
wisdom gathered from the great manat-
mas of the East.
The leader of the crusade is Mrs. K. A.
Tingley. Nextin prominence is f. T. Har-
grove, who is president of the Theosoph-
ical Society, not only the American branch
of it, but for Europe and Asia also. The
other crusaders are +. Pierce, Mr.. and Mrs.
Claude Wright, H. T. Patterson, Rev. Will
liam Williams and Mrs. Alice Clether.
The purpose of the crusade is to rouse
public attention to the cardinal truths
taught by theosophy, first among which
is that all men are brothers. They do not
merely mean by this that all men should
treat each other with kindness, but they
insist that the brotherhood is a fact of
creation from which we cannot escape.
They lay claim to broader teaching of
this principle than the churches incul-
cate, because they say that is only a
brotherhood of members, while theirs
reaches to the whole of humanity regard
less of race or creed or color, of sinfulness
or righteousness.
The second essential of their teaching is
the necessity of the study of all religions
in oroer to find the unity which runs
through them all.
The third is the study of the mysterious
in man and surrounding nature.
The crusade is not for the purpose of
People may remain in
their churches as now-but Christians,
Jews, Moslems, Buddhists can all be
The Crusaders hope to
form nucleus from which will spread
of the Universal Brotherhood
of Humanity.