Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1907-01-05
TRUTH

Mr.. Baker, some singular faith, has
here apparently set up an entirely
new standard Of life." To understand
Point Iona, he asserts, zone must
moi only see the leader, but must un-
derstand something of the philosophy
from which the work draws its breath
of life" We give, first, some quota
tons from Mr.. Bakers words con,
corning the leader, Mrs. Katherine
Tingley:
Il spent whole day at Point Iona
before 1 met Mrs. Katherine Tingley.
And all that time was saying to my
self: To do this or that, leader
must have such quality, or such, or
such; for every institution is the
Heightened shadow of a man.
Here, l said, is certainly a seeing
faith, else the desert would never
have yielded such a product; here,
also, is gift of the constructive i'm
agination; and the training of these
children, many of whom are waits and
orphans, indicates humanity. saw,
also, in the orderly growth of the
work, capacity, somewhere, for ad-
ministration; saw, moreover, a keen
eye for human nature, for selection of
those who were to reside at the insti-
tution-errors that might, through
dissensions, have cost the life of the
institution. And finally, and predomi.
nantly, felt will at work-a des-
potic will, before which every person
in the institution bowed-in love, or
respect, or fear, or all three combined.
May I venture to describe her?
"The first and perhaps the strong
oct i'm nrncciny IN Oiuno ic ~
virility-life. A stout woman of me-
dunn height without a gray hair in
her head, and dark, restless eyes. Her
dress impressed even the unobservant
eyes of a man by it's elegance; her step
was decided; her voice imperative.
She is pre-eminently the power of the
mind. $500.
Il have spoken of Mrs. Tingley as
a strong leader. She is more than
says herself: The government of the
Universal Brotherhood is autocratic
and rests entirely in the hands of the
leader and official head, who has the
privilege of nominating her sue
cessor.'"
The dogmatic basis of the life at
VIM boIhd uOCo hOI VI thC
brotherhood a hard-and-fast subscrip-
ton. "The Universal Brotherhood or
ganization," says one Of it's PAM
phlets, 'is for the purpose of carry
ing to men the message of theosophy
and brotherhood. No assent to dog
ma is, however, required, only a
full acceptance of the principles of
brotherhood, and an honest attempt
to realize 1t in life" Some account of
what theosophists believe is given by
Mr.. Baker as follows:
"Theosophists do not believe in a
supreme spirit" the 'ever-unknowa-
supreme spirit" the 'ever-unknowa-
ble,' who appears throughout the uni
verse as majestic and unchanging
law Christ they follow as one of
the greatest Of the great teachers. He
is divine with the same divinity which
is in all men, only in him in greater
degree. They believe in the divine
and the animal in each of us, and our
power to choose which we will Each
man can be his own savior, can appor-
ton JOY or pain to himself, can at any
moment turn to the divine light with
in himself, and begin, little by little,
in spite of any number Of failings and
failures, to grow nearer to It, They
teach what is called Karma, the law
of relentless Justice And finally,