The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1905-05-20
USE OF A NAME
IS IN DISPUTE
Religious Cult Adopts the
Title Mounts armel-by-
the-Sea' for It's Settlement
ACTION TO BE BROUGHT
Monterey County Promoters
Claim They We're Damaged
by Resulting Confusion

An action of more than ordinary in
terest will be filed in the Superior Court
to-day by Attorney Frank H Powers for
the Carmel Development Company
against the Mount Carmel-by- the-Sea, a
corporation The Carmel DEVELOPMENT
Company is engaged in promoting a town
in Monterey County known as Carmel
by-the-Sea which name it acquired in
I'LL. when the franciscan Faith
ers. under Father Junipero Sierra
established mission there. TIE
defendants are members of re-
Iigious cult known as Gnostics
and their seat of operation is near the
town of Hermosa in Los Angeles County
The plaintiffs allege that they have been
and will be damaged by reason Of the
use of their town name by the defendants
and the aid of the law will be invoked
to adjust the matter.
Carmel by-the in Monterey County
is resort spot well known throughout
California and is patronized and settled
by a large number of professional and
cultured people not connected collective
ly with any religious cult. The plaintiffs
compose a corporation, the stock of which
is not for sale the public market,
and already thousands of dollars have
been spent in laying out the townsite,
improving streets, building waterworks,
a
town of homes.
The Carmel-by -the-Sea in Los Angeles
County was recently located on a level
stretch of beach land without even a
mountain in sight and is best described
by the language of the complaint to be
filed as follows:
That the said defendant claims that it is
pices; that 1t is Mt. Carmel blythe Sea, the
White City of the Mystic Initiates, and that
under the direction of the masters Abba
gurur, Christopathian Gnostc. was chosen
as the exoteric interpreter Of the esoteric de-
signS and instructed to purchase Mt. Carmel
by-the-Sea, in Southern California, and to lay
temple; and the said defendant issued and
circulated among the general public in Cali
the name of Mt. Carme-by-the- Sea, which
contains various other similar peculiarly word
ed religious doctrines which exceedingly
uncommon and not usual to the general pub
lie and which tend to make the general pub
lie believe that the promoters of the town OF
Carmel-by-the-Sea were people of peculiar re-
ligous beliefs and not such people as neigh
bors; that defendant corporation has aban-
doned the use of the ordinary words for sacred
personages and has adopted peculiar names
of their own claims that the right word God
by whom millions. of people recognize the All
part of the eternal 1t claims that the
Gnostics know the infinite as the "All in ALL
Yahveh- Yod-He-vaw- He embraces every at
tribute-force love and fntelligence-is both
masculine and feminine, and therefore the
Gnostics call the supreme not God, Our
Father in heaven, but Yahveh, our Father
Mother in heaven.
| The pamphlets issued by the defend
ants advertise stock in the corporation
at $40 share and confusion has arisen
and caused the original claimants of the
title much annoyance and distress Mail
has gone astray and the large amount
of money expended in Monterey County
| in establishing the place reverts to the
benefit of the Gnostics. Wherefore the
plaintiffs pray that the defendants be re-
strained from using any name similar to
Carmel-by -the-Sea, and that a restrain
ing order to that effect be made perma-
nent