The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-03-02

made by natural causes, but which the Theosophists believe were made by the man of long ago civilization and that they are building their temple on the site of temple of great antiquity.
 Aside from this circumstance there are a thousand reasons why this site should have been chosen by a people who believe in the unity of all things and desire to develop their latent spir- itual possibilities. Charles Dudley Warner, standing on the site of the school three years ago, said that it was one of the three finest views ill the world. ....
 Any one standing on Point Loma, looking east, sees at his feet the inlet from the ocean, about half mile broad then the lowlands of Coronado beach a half-mile broad, then the bay of San Diego, stretching south for sev- eral miles, then the city on the hillside, then many miles of beautiful hill coun- try, rising to the main mountain chain of Southern California, twenty miles away.
 To the west, northwest and south west, stretches the limitless Pacific. The six crusaders who left here last June have just landed in California, and will be present at the corner stone laying. They will remain in California for some time, prosecuting the work they have been engaged in, and will visit different cities on their way east.
 The object of the crusade was to lay a thought cable around the world. The party went first to Ireland, which is one of the oldest of the European countries, and where the remnants of a civilization are found, ante-dating any thing in England. The Theosophists have a large number of adherents in that country and it is proposed that their next school shall be located there. From Ireland the crusaders journeyed to the continent and put themselves in touch with other centers of occultism, thence to the older civilizations of Asia, and have regained America with an enriched experience which they pur- pose to devote to the, quickening and deepening of the theosophical move ment in this country So successful has this crusade been that 1t is pro- posed to send out another very shortly, and, in fact, to keep up a sort of per- petua1 onward movement of Theosoph- ical thought through the agency of crusaders.
 The present period is very interest ing one to the Theosophists; it is the termination of a cycle of five thousand years since the death of Krishna, the Hindoo saviour. This is the iron age from which we are to emerge into a brighter cycle, but the transition of which is to be marked with social, po- litical and physical cataclysms. This period of disaster extends from 1897 to 1900, and our hard times, the wars and revolutions are all 8 part of it and WE have not as yet touched bottom.
 An old German mystic made proph- ecy forty years ago of a curious na- ture. He prophesied that the end oi the century would see Manhattan Is land submerged, and part of Florida and half of Cuba submerged, and a great uprising in this country, which should result in the establishment ot six republics.
 He also prophesied that the twenty fifth president of the United States would be the last one MT. Mckinley will be the twenty-fifth.
 This was the same man who foretold that Germany would have three em- perors in one year, which was fulfilled
 RUFUS McHARA.