The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-09-08
DIVINE MOTHER
| HOME WRECKER
Clubman Lured Away from
His Wife by Mystical
Priestess.
AFTER us THE DELUGE

Atlantic Highlands, N. J.-If you
were wealthy, of enviable social and
cultural position, exclusive clubman,
member of big publishing firm, mar
ried to a rich wife, would you give it
all up to starve for mystic idealism
A. Houghton Pratt says you would
if only you understood.
He has done so, and in the Sanctuary
of the Divine Mother, the home of the
Life Religion at Atlantic Highlands, he
told me of the coming cataclysm about
to engulf the world. Here he is pre-
pairing himself to meet it-a modern
Noah.
at is no mere social upheaval, world
wide war or revolution, but real cat
aclysm like the great deluge," said
Pratt. "God has told me the rush
ing of waters, the trembling of the
earth, will mark the new upheaval
which is very near at hand.
fNo, it is not the end of the earth
not at ALT might be said to be the
beg inning"
Madame Parma.
On a couch by Pratt's side, clad in a
white satin robe embroidered in mystic
symbols, was Nine. Parma, the teacher
who introduced him into the mystic
revelations which now guide his life.
She is a beautiful young. woman, who
was student of Rodin, the sculptor.
Since the revelations Pratt's wife has
divorced him. His mother-all his fam
ily-have been estranged from him.
"These ties are nothing compared to
the greater ones," said Pratt. "If you
are willing to trust to the Supreme,
even when you don't know where your
next meal is coming from, you have
reached the highest.
Woman's Era.
"The new era, which will follow the
readjustment after the cataclysm, will
be the woman's era. And the great
fight will be against accepting the
Mother God-the Divine Mother.
Gwen now the signs of the Divine
Mothers approach to the earth for
judgment may be seen in woman's ava
kening and emancipation.
Good is both male and female. Here
tofore man has refused to recognize
the woman element in the Divine. But
she is the great element"
Pratt's Altar.
Before the artistic Pratt bungalow
which is an aesthetics dream of ex-
quisite color and line, stretches the gar
den toward the sea. In the foreground
is Korean altar, with a lion and palm
tree in relief. ~
"The Mother Gods altar" explained
Pratt. "We found it at Vantin's, but
it had been waiting for us through the
ages-just as this spot, the most desir-
able location so near New York. was
passed by until we were guided here.
"It was predestined thousands of
years ago that we would make this the
sanctuary of the Divine Mother-the
temple of the Life Religion. Why,
this promontory here is part of the sub
merged Atlantis.
"Our religion is a happy religion. It
is beautiful religion. God desires to
be expressed only through beauty
And what a sense of humor the Divine
Mother has!
"She has appeared to me through
Nine. Parma but once, though I have
many messages"
Deeply Sincere.
Pratt and Nine. Parma say they be-
lieve in recognizable God. Pratt has
an intense sincerity.
eve have withstood all tests-hun-
ger, social ostracism," he said. "Be-
cause we know we are the mouthpieces
through whom the Divine Mother Is
speaking"
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