The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-16
PLACE AT POINT Iona
Cautious Remarks of Editor Buckley
ON the "Raja Yoga" School.

Cautious emnrk of Editor Buckley
ON the .Raja Yoga" school.
New York Christian Advocate.
Some of our readers wondered why we
spoke so gingerly of the school at Piont
Iona in our letter on San Diego last
year. 1t was not because we had not
heard enough about the school to fill a page.
all Of 1t calculated to excite suspicion that
1t ought to be wound up IL there was any
law TO do 1t, but because when the amount
we positively know is too small to ballast
the boat OF composition, if the sails are
inflated by the wind Of probability, we use
the oars, even If the speed be not so great
or the propelling power sufficient for much
freight. 1t is not pleasant to be sued, and
one would better say less than he can
prove than more. Eleven little Cuban chill
dren, brought here to be put in the Theo-
sophie School at Point Iona, CAL, have
been stopped by the commissioner OF I'M
migration and will be sent back, having
fallen under the notice of the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. They
came from Santiago, Cuba. The average
age of the children was ten years. They
were all thinly clad, and felt the cold
northern air keenly when they arrived.
That school is under the control of Mrs.
c. A. Tingley. She is the oma who mar,
ried Claude Falls Wright to Miss Leonard
in this city in 1896. She then posed as
the Yelled Unknown"
We gave an account of Mrs. Tingley's
getting possession, through the action or
the Chicago convention, of the Theosophical
Society in 1898. That convention resolved
that there should be one supreme office, in
which shall reside paramount authority
regarding all matters which concern the
welfare of the brotherhood, and this officer
shall be leader and official head" Mrs.
Tingley was named in that constitution as
officer for life, with the privilege of naming
her successor. This caused gu a num-
Der who had belonged to the old Theosoph-
ical organization to withdraw. They held
that Mrs. Tingley deceived the convention
by claiming that Mr.. Judge named her as
his successor. In 1897 Mrs. Tingley went
around the world on a crusade which cost
her votaries $4,000. There were six or eight
persons with her, all except one of whom
have repudiated her claims.
Theosophists were grievously disappoint-
ed by the death OF Judge, for they had had
some predictions that his life was to ex-
tend for a long period. The small company
of those who call themselves Theosophists
believe in the existence of an order of men
who have developed powers far beyond
those of the average man. 1t is well known
that whatever power Madam Blavatsky
to ii. The London Society for Psychical
Research, by a careful and painstaking
investigation, put that beyond reasonable
doubt.
AS a system theosophy without the super
natural element is a mere speculation, and
with the supernatural element it is a driv-
cling superstition, so far as the evidence
of such element in its interests is con-
cerned.
Once more we congratulate ourselves and
our readers that there is such an institution
as the Society for the Prevention of Cruel
ty to Children. Whenever il makes a clear
case we rejoice in the punishment which
is inflicted upon the guilty. In this way the
positive influence of the society is a means
TO a greater influence of prevention. The
prevention of cruelty to children, like the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals prevents more crime than ii ex-
poses. Thousands of cruel deeds are not
done to children and beasts that would
be done did not these two societies stand
with both hands outstretched, one to res
cue the suffering, and the other to seize
the offender.