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TAILOR-MADE
MAHATM MA
A Story of Psychical
Research.
Hsw Brooklyn Theosophists WrestIed
With Problems of the Inhn-
ite--Wine Of AchitopheI.

true believers and one Mahatma kept the
society in high standing ia the world of
the flesh and the spirit world for a year;
the one scoffer punctured the bubble in a
night.
/ was in at the death. 1nat l was not
in at the birth, so to speak, was not my
fault; | did not learn OF the ex stence of |
the Brooklyn Society for Amateur Psy-
chcal Research, until just before the
gaudy climax which marked it's finish. |
Barbara raked me into IL. Barbara is !
beautiful beyond doubt, and wonderful ]
ly interesting, but she is one of the I'M /
quiet of her sex. / have often wished |
that she lived in San Franc SEQ, because |
with Chinatown and strange restaurants !
and like vents CT the so-called "Bohe- |
milan" sort, and a city of people who |
mind their business. there are many ways |
for a San Francisco girl to blow off her
superfuous soul in innocent thrills. But
she lives in the City of Churches, where /
things AIRED fferent She used to swap
souls, but lately she has been going in for
theosophy, with all the etceteras from
splritualism clear to black magic. / will
let Barbara tell OF the beginnings as she
told them to me:
do you believe it-really? Then you
mustn't tell, now viii you? We have a
tailOr-made Mahatma."
"A tailor-made-"
1T is funny. isn't it? But you would
understand II you saw her. 1t got SO
dreadfully tiresome, meeting every other
TUESDAY evening after the theater, ana
watching Mrs. Sturtevant Hynes tip ia
bles and Mr.. Jenkias go of into frances,
and all that. and listening to Mrs. Posen
read from Madame Blavatslxy, that we'd
made up our minds that we weren't a
harmonic circle after all, and unless
you're harmonic and have sympathetic
vibrations or synthetic chords-I think
that's it-you cant get 1t at all"
wv hats It?'
"Oh. Nirvana or something Anyway,
Mr.. Perkins said THAI what we needed
was a mahatma. and she came-and ever
since that it's been perfectly lovely"
What's this It?'
ooh, lectures and manifestations and
things. DO you know, | didn't like her at
all at first? She was-handsome AND
all the men said that she was beautiful.
1 never did care for those bIg, black eyes
/ put in W tn dirty thumb. But her lee
lures have been just splendid. All about
Mahatmas and development of our high
! er astral selves ana Sanskrit and those
/ funny little magic things. And she says
\ that none of US need despair, because If
we only macerate the spiritual sen ana
! absorb her lectures a i.sLe longer, we can
| ali separate our astral bodies from self
and see manifestations like MIR. jenkins
If we have faith; ana think that have
faith. don't you? Wouldn't it be lovely
And wh9re does the Mahatma come
Off"
/ Il don't understand"
/ How much vulgar, dross, unpsychical
coin does she get out of mis-?
/ We'll, you see. Aiahatmas come high,
and ] think that sDe - very reasonable
for real one. She charges only five dol
lars a lecture-we have one every week
-"
Five dollars each? And how many are
there Of your
only thirty She says that if you truly
believe in the vascular suDmergation OF
the phy steal, drOss, objective etnos-l
nix that's the way IT gOes-that you
shouldn't mind vulgar money, because
you'd pay money for millinery and things
and this Is more than millinery. II does
look reasonable that way, doesn't itY'
4 had to admit mat Il looked very rea-
| sonabie tor the Mahatma. 1 would lee
I ture once week, myself, at nine hun
cred and hfty per. Ine matter seemed
III for investigation ana wor,h sinai
Investment Ana so the next week benelC
, me received on probation INTO the h. )
OF a. u. ). | found the membersh- p to b.
composed of some OF the rich and inf1uen
tial people OF the city Of churcnes-sol.t
and substantial folk who ought to hav
known better. / was the one groveilini
and inquisltive scofer, though 1t Is OF
; my conscience that 1 concea.ed the fact
l We met twice week. one night was de
? voted TO table I'll ing and man.festat ons
I on the other, the tailor-made Mahatm
lectured and told us about the astral bod
= les in our ins des. Her symbolic largo
4 Is beyond my power to reproduce, and s
4 is her beauty Of person. Sucn eyeS-suc
midnight ha.r-such form! She tod u
one evening that she was the daughter Q
a FreECh-Canadian, ana that her last in
: carnation was on Neptune. If she is
sample Of the inhabitants of Neptune,
bespeak the belted planet for my mex
translation.
Let us pass over the lectures wherei
7, she explained TO US the gradual evolutio
of the human soul, from beast up to Ma
!. hatmas. Sufficient ii is to say tnat sh
- led US up by degrees TO the perfect know
edge wherein our astral boL.es might b
liberated from the frat tenement Ot tes
ard soar-and soar. one evening, sh
created a profound sensation by anlounC
ing that the time had come for the mn;
sitting, wherein complete separat o
\, should be achieved. IL would not co:
I much; only faith III the univ ersal unit
and self-abnegatCn and fee Of aboI
four times the usual lecture price. Sic!
80 singer. a retired banker. became so eI
% Unused that he stood treat for the who
society. and handed over the money
once. The Mahatma announced that Il
SURROUNDINGS IN the society : reSuis
rooms were not suffiCiently agre emel
= with the permeating influences of natur
r. we could accomplish complete seIf-su
Al mergation only in her owe apartment
y. where the harmonies were observed.
Behold us. therefore. on the appoints
III night, gathered in her rooms In an "a
to town apartment house. But it was
tailor-made Mahatma who greeted u
Twas a Being in a yellow robe. wi
81 wavy black hair falling over the SO
- stuff. The apartment was uim, mystel
Gus. Before the divan on which she SO
never deigning TO rise as we entere
burned censor. We waited IN silent
.r Presently she spoke. directing the men
.n go 10 the right and the women to thu ie
IN into two small ante-rooms and don rob
a. Ike hers. When we returned and form
IN ! the circle again. a great change had COT
over the appearance of the assemblal
There was a mystic. Orient al air about
The Arabian Nights came TO my mir
The Mahatma arose and faced VIZ. r
light about her was dim and uncertai
Al her left hand stood an ebony tab
bearing hook or two an ivory wal
and jug OF curious Roman pottery.
r. NV friends and pupils" she sa d
"a her rich. drowsy voice we have come
d.. the final test ~ our faith Prepare the
ck. fore. Danish all thought OF cart