Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-26
PR|ESTESS NO MORE
Teacher of Perpetual Life Is
Nine. Diss De Bar.
PROPHET DAVID GOES, TOO
Mahatma School Disrupted by Rev.
Citations of Identity.
AND MRS. FRENCH is ANGRY
Allows Her Former Co-Workers
but Twenty Minutes to Clear.
They Take Fifteen.
PROPHET DAVID GOES, TOO
AND MRS. FRENCH IS ANGRY

NEW YORK. August 26.-There was
disruption yesterday in the SCHOOL of the
Mahatmas," at No. 80 East sd stree,
when Mrs. Lillian Hobart French. founder
of the school of physical and spiritual
perpetual life," and lessee of its temple.
confronted her co-working mahatmas, "A
Diva Veed-ya" and David Initiate 80,
with the assertion that they were, in fact,
Ann ODelia Diss De Bar and an accom-
plce, who is known as David Livingston
Mackay
There was a time of stormy denials and
accusations, but Nine. Diss De Bar,
speaking softly at last said. well. per-
haps we had better dissolve our partner
ship and go away" Mrs. French there
upon gave them twenty minutes in which
to pack up and go.
They were gone in fifteen said Mrs.
French yesterday.
Mrs. French said she had first met the
man under the name of David Mackay at
the New Thought Church, in Carnegie
Hall. He had learned she was contem-
plating the founding of a new school of
religion, and soon learned that as cor
rolary to one of its articles of belief the
reincarnation of David is set to occur IN
this 1.-The last day of creation. Mackay
at once confided to Mrs. French that not
now reveal to her what he had heretofore
kept dark-that the prophecy was al
ready fulfilled-that David was himself.
How Initiate 90 came to be added
Mrs French did not explain.
David's Earthly Mother.
Then David. knowing | should want
| teachers said Mrs. French. brought to
me the woman he said was his earthly
mot he". A-Diva Veedya. / found her
| learned in the law. the prophets and all
| the words and teachings voiced by
Buddha. Christ and all the learned ones
| of earth. / was taken in. She certainly
was wonder. l can understand now
how Luther Marsh. with his millions, was
as child in her hands. | never asked
as TO their antecedents; I did not know
where they were living and do not know
now where they have gone
/ The front parlor of the old brownstone
residence Miss French has converted into
an Office. In a roll-top desk. classified
with businesslike methods. were letter
| files indexed under the names Of the
| leading mahatmas of all the world. :
/ There are not many of them explained
Miss French, who declared it to be true
| that the number of those chosen for per-
petual life is only $4,000.
| When it was pointed out that the iden-
! tity of this article of creed with one
! promulgated by the queen of the Flying
Rollers. in Detroit was one of the things
that had set investigation on foot Miss
| French said:
| the teachings of several schools of new
| thought. 1t did not originate with them.
| 1t is founded on direct statements in the
| Bible and we shall continue to teach it
| On the piano in the reception room was
a large photograph of F. Augustus
| Heinze.
| Just friend" said Mrs French, mot
| a disciple of our church"
The Mahatma Home.
| The back parlor had been the shrine of
A-Diva Veed-ya. Altar and throne were
all in white and between the two rear
windows were the white covered throne of
the late priestess. From the supports of
its canopy still hung shreds of diaphan-
Gus silk veil which Nine. Diss De Bar
| had said would be necessary to shield
her prospective pupils when about to ex-
perience the full power of her influence.
In the sudden leaving after the confer
ence of the morning the magic veil had
been snatched from the abandoned throne
and torn in the dismantlng.
II knew they were without much
money! said Mrs. French, land now see
why in spite Of my protest they were so
anxious to advertise our first meeting in
| the way they did. The way they domi-
mated the work of that meeting was also
| a surprise to me. and the result Of it all
| is. ! fear, financial ruin
| Here Mrs. Frencl's sister and fellow
teacher, Mrs. Bedding, interpolated, NO
| it does not. We will continue to teach
the truth whatever happens. and besides
there is one friend. financial power in
Wall street. who believes in us. and in
| days to come we shall be richer than even
| Christian Science with all its millions
| Neither Mrs. French nor Mrs. Belding
would tell the name % their Wall street
! friend
| Mr. Heinze last night said that both lie
and William j. Robinson. a broker, with
/ whom he was in conversation in the Wal
| dorf-A storia, were old friends of Mrs.
French, and held her in high esteem.
! Mr.. Heinze said he had never looked
! into the tenets of the, new religion and
| had never met '.A-Diva Veld-ya." Mr..
Robinson, however. said he had
In the first number of the Mahatma
Magazine and signed wv. r. are verses
dedicated to ADiva Veld-ya, in part as
/ follows:
! Ten thousand days and nights. and moons and
! Have waved and waned:
Some power YET all unknown To human sense.
| But simple the daisy in the dell
Doth keep her young in heart and sweet of
tongue.
| Career of Diss de Bar.
| Nine. Diss De Bar. one of the most
l of y.;t l;cti r,ip In