The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-28
THEOSOPHlSTS ALL AWRY.
CLAUDE FAILS WRIGHT BECOMES
ONE OF THE LOST MYSTEKIES.

ne Caught y Kittie TinGiey ChciA 'B1nvntsky-
Ing IN updin, LHnd Periious to Occidental
Fatirp-So te Quii-Ths keightleys Resign
-Assie Besant,s Faction Making lnronds.
There IL, In the words Of one OF the ''ad-
vanced" enthusiasts of the Theosophical So
ciety, o "violent row" In the organization, mani
Testing itself both here and abroad. It 10
said to be due TO dissatisfaction with Mrs. Kittio
ringley, tho head OF the ~esotcric body here.
There are people who do not wholly approve Of
Mrs. Tingley's high place in the society. and
according to the story, their number is growing
DO fast that already two ~esoteric Presidents
have resigned and the resignation of q third 10
expected. Ernest Hargroves resignation from
the Presidency Of the society in this country was
ohronicled not long since. when he was sue
ceeded by K. August Neresheimor. Yester-
day news came from England that DR.. Archi-
bald Keightley Of London, the Pre- sident OF tho
society In Great Britain, had resigned, and
that his wife. Mrs. verplanck Keightley. had
followed him out Of the society. DR.. Height
Icy has been reckoned as pretty far lad
vanced" In the mysteries of the order. and he
has given money freely for carrying on the
work. He visited this country and was duly
honored ON the occasion Of tho ~society's last
convention. Mrs. Kcightlcy is an American,
and is credited with tremendous occult
power" and with working magnifcently in
astral realms.
The received yesterday from
London included q strong intimation of the in
tention Of one Of the other European Presi-
dents TO resign shortly. Complaints are made
that the society In this city no longer studies
thoosophy. and that It has been converted into o
charitable organization, tho work OF which Is
carried on In the name of ''The International
Brotherhood League" The name Of the CO.
oioty's paper here, Theosophy. has been changed
to Unirersdl Brotherhood, and tho Theosophi-
cal Netos of Boston has been rechristened the
NetD Era. Mrs. Tingley's pet project, the
school for the Revival of the First Mysteries
desuetude that the building which was only
begun at Point Iona, near San Diego, Cal. Is
70 be completed and turned into a sanitarium
by DIR. Loren A. Wood. formerly of Westerly,
r. l., to whom It has been turned over. Dir.
Wood was on the recent crusade of the Ting
Etizing here last spring has begun to tell.
Branches Of the society in different cities have
Tingley is, and have Joined themselves to that
fostered by Mrs. Besant. The branch at Lynn.
mass. Mrs. Tingiey's former home. has gone
One of the TinEley lost mysteries, it might be
eaid, 10 the once ubiquitous and devoted Claude
Falls Wright, man OF the magenta aureole, who
not long ago was remarked TO his affinity after
. 6,000-year separation, since the days they
bowed to the ibis and the crocodile. no has, 1t
Is said, disappeared utterly, and even the
nuepLN WOrhlnB alOnB the abtral planes nave
failed to get into communication with him or
to hear Of him or feel his whereabouts any more
definitely than lin Missouri" There IL some
conjecture as to whether the m ahatmas have
made a winter home out there. 1t was a
spurious cbela in India that filed Mr.. Wright's
ooul with pangs and inIpelled him to remove
and occlude himself. He told a friend of his
awful experience when he returned FROM the
great crusade which Mrs. Tingley led around
the world. 1t was at a seance given for the
benefit Of anxious novices in the top story of u
hotel at Madras. Mrs. Tingley, having pulled
hard on the ethereal wires over the Himalayas,
had announced that a message would be re-
ceived from one of the .mahatmas. A door
opened and there materialiZed a chela disciple
or messenger of q mshatma) and he, or 1t, ten
dered q note to Mrs. Tingley.. Unfortunately
for his peace OF mind, which he has ever
guarded carefully, MIR. Wright recognized In
the chela q scissors grinder he had seen turning
his wheel on the street in the afternoon. When
Mrs. Tingley asked Mr.. Wright to read tho
mahatma's message which the chela had
brought, no declined to do so. Mr.. Hargrove
offered to read it and Mrs. Tingley handed it to
him. Mr.. Wright thcn,. he told his friend,
looked over Mr.. Hargroves shoulder and rcCog-
nized in the message the handwriting Of Mr.
Hargrove. This was too much for &. +. W.,
veteran as he was and faithful G%anymede as he
had been to Blavatsky and Judge. He deter
mined to quit, although he had been devoted in
the beginning to Hargrove.
for him" said Mr.. Wright's friend.