The sun., 1919-05-12
NINE. TINGLEY HERE
MINUS ALL MYSTERY
Head of Universal Brother
hood and TheOsophical So
cicty to Preach.
AIMS TO MAKE CONVERTS
Has Extensive Plan to Save
the World and Establish
a Real Peace.

| rNahucIlHt llHBlty,
director Of the Universal Brotherhood
and Theosophical Society at Point Iona,
Cal, has returned TO New York after
an absence Of many years. She has
come to preach her doctrine of wisdom,
virtue and happiness in the city where
| the mysterious mantle of william Q.
Judge and Blavatsky, the "Mahatmas'
Of mid-Victorian New York fell upon her
shoulders thirty years ago.
But Nine. Tingley has laid aside tho
| atmosphere of mystery which marked
her early manifestations here and else
wnere.
1T is all beautifully simple" she said
In her rooms at the Hotel Belmont last
night. I'VE believe in the divinity of
Man and in the possibility that his bet
ter nature can be taught to prevail.
That Is the brotherhood OF man. l have
| started this lecture tour first Of all
because no permanent peace can ever
be erected without the true spirit of al
| truism in all men,"
Nor is Nine. Tingley a pacifist of the
usual type. She had erected on her
| great estate at Point Iona n building
| which she called the Temple OF Universal
Peace. When the war broke out and her
young men students Joined the army,
she devoted much of her large plant to
the entertainment and elevation of the
| soldiers at near by cantonments and
after the first of them had snickercd at
the temple she changed Its name.
Soldiers Sent Her Many Letters.
She says also that she has received
and answered many letters from soldiers
in all the armies of the world. Their
letters, came to her from the local. CEN
= II. -
Europe.
So she has not the slightest doubt. in
the enthusiasm which makes her so
happy - enthusiasm does make her
happy, she says-that her plan to save
the world and establish a real peace will
succeed where lesser projects like the
League OF Nations, the Amphyctionic
Council. the Roman Empire, &c, have
but scratched the dust.
They said my plan was an imprac-
teal theory" Nine. Tingley explained.
$50 established a school for boys, an
! academy Tor girls and q college. And !
have brought with me to show YOU a
dozen of the girls we have produced.
When YOU see them you will agree that
the system has not been q failure
Despite the fact that children are
taken to the school at Point Iona and
spend all their days there with no va
| NotiShs, says tuht
tier system of perfected details in edu-
cation and training they are always
harry and their progress is remarkable.
, They are not allowed TO spend AN idle
minute the whole year round" she says.
"but they are not forced TO drum the
, plano when they would be out DOORS
among the flowers. and they are not
chased out of doors when they would
raN.er sit by abe piano and improvise, -
, Nor is it all piano and flowers. No
boy can be graduated from the institu-
ton without becoming among other
things n good telegrapher. stenographer
bookkeeper and typewriter. Between
times he is taught all the humanities
and sciences and all the arts, or. at
least, those for which he is shown TO
be capable.
, Nine. Tingley has none OF the male
products OF the system with her, though
E she says she has ample testimony that
3 they are all that they should be. OF
, the girls she says little-for she Is TO
E show them to doubling New York in
the course of the lectures which she is
to give. She is enthusiastic and happy
about the girls.
. Gazing happily. picrcing!y. and APP
! parently with, full knowledge OF what
she was saying at the reporter fol
THE SuN last night she said
You should see those girls. want
!. hne. clean minded young man to see
I them and admire them"
Whereupon the reporter pointed,
shook hands with his left-which bear,
n wedding ring-shouldered the burder
upon his honest shoulders, allowed tn,
7 Charming young person who runs TIL
| information desk ut the Belmont 4
touch the hem OF his garment, ant
, plunged into the Elysian air of the Lex
ington avenue subway with other mer,
mortals who earn their living far from
the delights of Lomaland. >,
Old readers of THE Sun will have n,
l. difficulty in recalling the sensat!ona
e entry OF Nine Tingley into the leader
q ship of her cult. when she appeared a.
3 the mysteriously yelled purple mothe
: who married Claude Falls Wright an,
Il Mary Katherine Leonie Leonard witt
II striking ceremonies for her first publi
II appearance in May of 1896. Following
n this first appearance as the successor o
i the two previous masters of theosophy
William q. Judge and Nine. Blavatsky
i Nine. Tingley headed a crusade aroun,
It the world. establishing centres OF tn
e cult In various countries and choosing
i Point Iona for the fountainhead.
d Rapid Growth OF OrEanizat ton.
y The organization grew rapidly in mum
= bers and the various branches in impor
- tance, which Madame Tingley found &
y be not all good. Disputes arose will
:. various sub-eaders as to the true faith
a and several times the founder was Gale,
: to court to return to their families chill
: dren in her schools, or to defend be
:. quests made to her, or to defend tn,
school itself. She nevertheless had man,
= influential followers. among them Lyman
n j. Gage. who was Secretary Of the Treas
;. ury and A. G. Spaldins, the baseball
magnate. Mrs. Tlngley was invariabl,
n successful In her issues with the law.
But in 1907 she wearied of thes,
troubles. She drafted and had adopted Z
new constitution for the society through
which she became its supreme and abso
Lutte head.
: "A scratch of my pen," she said las
night, "cuts off from our ranks any on,
who uses US for base motives or for hi
D own advancement"
Though Nine. Tingley is said to hav,
started life as a medium and franc,
artist in New York she and her fol
lowers now condemn the practice of tn,
psychic in this manner. though admitting
y the bases of spiritualism.
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