The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-09-15
neW Ycrk'S Religions.
Any Number of Fads in the Metropolis.

her sceptre is claimed by both Mrs. An
ME Besant and Mrs. Katherine A. Ting
ley, each of whom calls the other an
imposter.
Nine. Blavatsky asserted that every
individual is permitted to come back
TO the earth after he dies and inhabit
another body. People come back again
and again, ii is claimed. until their ex-
perience in the world is completed.
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The one who is poor in his present life
Will be rich in his next incarnation
and the one who is rich will be poor.
RMS is called the doctrine of "Karma.'
T~heosophists also believe in a race OF
wise spiritual beings called "Mahat-
mas They each that human beings
when they ave lived on earth again
and again for many thousands of wears
will ripen into Mahatmas and become
pure spirits.
There are about 5000 T~heosophists in
America, and reading rooms are still
maintained in New York. Chicago and
Boston.
Mrs. Tingley has transferred her
headquarters to Point Iona. Cal.
where h has undertaken to combine
business with her spiritual labors. A
year g she founded a School for the
Revival of the Lost Mysteries Of An
tiquity" and recently she has organ
lied a SILK Farm corporation for the
purpose Of introducing the silkworm
in California.
Mr.. N-eresheimer, the leader of the
New York Th~eosophists, has invested
money in the Point Iona silk farm.
and several thousand mulberry trees
have already been planted TO provide
rood FOR the delicate little caterpillars
from China.
Perhaps the most turbulent of the
new religions is that founded by John
Alex der Dowie in Chicago. The
mem-ers OF this sect-the Zionists-get
into trouble with their neighbors with
the patient regularity of Peck's Bad
Boy.
Dowie. who in appearance and man.
ner resembles a b-ad-tempered Santa
Claus, wins converts By healing the
sick and by assailing established
He holds forth to a congregation of
5000 C-hicagOans every Sunday and
during the week races up and down
the country on missionary tours.
1t is exactly seventy years since the
Fox sisters attracted attention by the
mysterious table ~rappings in their
home.
Today there are hundreds of Spirit
uaiist mediums and several scores of
publications devoted to their interests.
There is not a city in America where
their n are not held, and in Eu-
NHEI ADAAlo ~ LCA AACIA " AAL1L-
national reputation. such as Camille
Flammarion and Alfred Russell Wal
lace.
The Spiritualist does not lay much
emphasis on forms of belief. He is con-
cerned with one thing only-the evil
dences of a future life.
He believes that those whom we call
dead are lowering around US, invisible
but still concerned in our welfare.
For fifty years a little church has
been standing at No. 103 First street,
New York City. The unique sect that
uses it as q place of worship is called
the Christian Israelites.'
The creed which this little band of
devOtees clings to is half Christian and
half Jewish. bat they have added some
peculiar features of their own.
They regard the barber shop as ven
more Ubiquitous than the pool room.
The membe who INDUCES in the luxury
of a hair cut or a shave is promptly
expelled.
The Christian Israelites'' are bound