The sun., 1909-01-26
CORRESPONDENT ONLY A SOUL
WIFE'S AFFINITY, IN ANOTHER
UORLD. CAUSES SEPARATION.
Poet seeks Divorce From Woman VINO
says lie Drsgs Her Down From
the Heights she AspIres TO-Shcs
Absorbed had Lot OF Isms, lie says.


wife Valerie, joined the Order Of the
Fifteen, that esoterio college body which
Nad its inception in the University OF
PENNSYLVANIA and has spread among the
faculties and students of some big co..
'rges of the East and middle West, William
T.. Mountain, a poet, IL suing her for di-
vorce.
Desertion is the charge brought by Mr.,
Mountain, who declares that after she he'd
shsorbed the mixture Of isms handed
nut by the sosety she would have no
more to do with him
She has discovered soul mate on a
higher plane. The poet says she told him
about II and confessed to having fire.
quently visited this lover. The poet ia
not physically jealous, he says. because
his wife told him that this being dwet
in an entirely different plane from the
earth plane. In another world in fact hut
It made him very jealous spiritually. She
told him also that his very touch inter-
fered with her progress and that she was
ethereal and spiritual, while he was just
animal. This. Mr.. Mountain thought.
was rather hard upon him. considered as
poet; but in his other capacity Of rail-
road mamie is n confidential employee
at Broad Street Station-it might be true.
Teetifying before the court master
Mountain said that his wife il native
~ Vienna and is 80 years old. They have
Two children. He left last September for
trip to Denver. When he got home he
found his wife moving out. She sNid she
wanted TO live without him. lie was
amazed. he says. and went home to his
mother. He was permitted tn see his
children at intervals He then went
ahroad with friend to get away from his
unhappiness.
Last January went on trip abroad"
he testified, thinking to get away from !
nav woes. When | reached Genoa there /
was a letter from my wife, in which she !
said she was 30 glad was gone and that |.
she hoped / would stay abroad for she /
could not develop her spiritual nature |
vith me anywhere around.
She has delusion that / am an unde- !
yeloped sort of person spiritually; that | |
y
he other world. and said repeatedly to |
a'e that her soul mate was on another
uIane.
How long has she been going through |
hat mental prooess?'
She has been going to these meetings |
,bout four years. 1t is the Order of Fiji |
Gen. to which she belongs. that incul-
rated these doctrines"
II was brought out that Mis-. Moui .sain
a consistent in her views and would not
accept any money from her husband.
She made him help support the children.
hut supported herself by teaching in a
Germantown kindergarten.
i have tried to wean her away from the
Fifteen" said Mr.. Mountain. but |
could not When the expose of that order
anne out in the papers last month she
allied me by telephone and asked me il
had seen it, l said yes and asked would
she resign. She said no, that she had set
her face and fopt to the path and would
never return that she had arisen TO
spheres where | could not fly and was
happy with her soul mate. a spiritual
eing who dwelt in another world. She
>al1 that my least touch coarsened her.
The Order Of Fifteen are not believers
m free love It's bosh to say so. How
an man be jealous OF this hazy denizen
If another sphere. communication or
aleged communication with which is {
'MIght by the great white lodge the
nner circle Of The Fifteen but in this
rase the corporeal results are desertion '
Al least'
Mrs Mountain tonight denied that
''e teachings OF The Fifteen had any I
hing TO do with the divorce. She laughed {
over many Of the allegations OF her hus- b
and. She admitted that she had charged f
MN with carnality. She said; e
We have disputed a certain matter a
'or several years and were never able d
70 reach settlement, so thought we had I
etter separate
Mrs Mountain SAYS her husband sends {
or all his new poems and that she enjoys Z
'7em, She thinks they're right good. il
>1e owes it 10 herself and children. she s
-avs, though not to keep on with Mountain. a
One Of Mr., Mountains verses which h
may show the carnality spoken of by L
Nrs Mountain is called the storm Kiss
and runs:
AZ Is dars the waves run high q
'ee wind is singing through the nlgh'
nold you, Love. o wherefore sigh: 4,
Kiss you--can you shake with fright :,
ONE what vill--suppose we diet
we've lived and loved alone 10 might. q
But Mr. Mountain points TO other verses
- proof against il. One reads
Tears, tears tears
Vista Mirroring tears, r
Mystery making tears.
Tears idle tears.
Jpst what this means is not clear. but
Is clearly not carnal. He also knows Of a.
'1rt ovee, he says. as witness this: o
- spirit love has puIeed her heart Of pride 81
'ss poTed her glorious head In holy payer III
NO as Neknelt together. side by side OF
3nc 10" In ha1d and loosened hair In hair ST
< sou rose 10 her lips and fingered there ri
'od made her only then my spirit bride. -.
Mrs Mountain herself opines that this A.
gong some on Pegasus n,
Iho Order of the Fifteen" came into -,
"'rlety month ago when DR.. Charlotte a.
'''ey. 2oi Wcst Washington Square, ~,
u was on its correspondence list sent ey
ONE "f its literature 10 DR.. Edgar +. w
'hNth, vicc.provost of the University or
" pennsylvania. She had previously IN ~
ordered her resignation to the order. ar
eclarinR that ts standards Of morality ds
~ not mept with har anprovaI II 10 an