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Fage A'i Page Eiglit Teacher? Is 3. i ijg World iS hy Krishnamurti, Modest Youth, Expected Supporters Among Theosophists to Usher In Neiv Era Through Teachings From Secret "Masters" A -If': tb i -v-'--' i 5' jjf Mrs. Annie Besant, Supporter of Krishiammrtl It i I Below MaAtmt Blavatsky, Founder of I Theosophtst Movement he said, if it did he was astonished that he was so nice locking. How could one belp being won by such a youthful charm?" As president of the Order of the Star in the East Krishnamurti finds bis time increasingly occupied with meetings and with members who come for personal consultation. He is not an orator, though he speaks with great seriousness, and in small groups, where the atmosphere is intimate, is said to be convincing.

Those who understand his personality best say that bis sensitiveness is so acute that be can immediately detect a hostile presence and on such occasions finds it difficult or impossible to speak. The Theosophical Society was founded in the United States in the year 1875 by Mme. Helena Perrovna Blavatsky and with her were associated CoL H. S. Olcott and others.

Colonel Olcott was the first president and he held the office continuously until bis death in 1908, serving in that capacity nearly thirty-two years. The office thus vacated by death was filled by the election of Dr. Annie Besant One of the chief objects of the Theosophical Society, according to authorities, was to make a comparative study of the various religions of the world. In order to discern differences in various world creeds appeal was made to a "Secret Doctrine" and "Esoteric Teaching" which Madame Blavatsky proclaimed had been held for ages as a sacred possession and trust by certain mysterious adepts, or "Mahatmas" in occultism (secret knowledge), with whom she said she was in psychical as well as in direct physical communication. It is said that if Theosophy were to be judged by the published revelations of this "Secret Doctrine" it would hardly be deserving of serious consideration, for that book is a compilation of vague, contradictory and garbled extracts from various periodicals, books and translations.

Madame Blavatsky was born in Russia in 1831, a member of a well-known Russian family. She married in her seventeenth year a man very much her senior, Nicephore Blavatsky, a Russian official in Caucasia, from for he then wrote English laboriously. These teachings were published in little book entitled 'At the Feet of the Master." It was signed Alcyone, the name he used as a pen name. He was then twelve years old." The boys, growing into young men, were educated privately in England except for a short period with a private tutor to complete their education. It had been Mrs.

Besant's intention to send them to Oxford University, but she later decided that it was best not to do so. she was apprehensive lest- the contact with other boys might prove disadvantageous to his life work. During all these early years of their lives the two brothers grew up together. The younger brother contracted tuberculosis and the two boys went to California, where they lived for two years. Change of climate did not effect the hoped-for cure and the invalid boy died last year.

This was an'overwhelming grief to Krishnamurti. Mr. Krishnamurti is slightly built, of medium height and extremely active. While not giving the impression of frailty he is far from robust He is a good tennis player and a fair golfer. Occasionally he plays cricket.

The more violent games are not much to his liking. The country holds infinite attraction for him. There is nothing of the bookworm or "grind" about him, though he reads and studies a great deal. James Montgomery Flagg, the well-known illustrator, a personal friend of Mr. Krishnamurti, says of him: "Krishnan urti, as was his brother, is slim and boyish, of brown skin and heavy head of straight black hair cut short, large full eyes of singular gentleness, a noticeably aquiline nose with a delicate tip and a sensitive mouth.

He dresses in Occidental fashion, well and harmoniously. And he has a sense of humor! When these two brothers were talking in a room adjoining my studio, bad I not known differently, I would have sworn it was the talk of two cultivated young Englishmen, and most attractive ones too. When he sat for the pencil head I made of him be was as happy and naive about the little incident as an unspoiled and unselfconscious lad. When I showed him the completed drawing he laughed delightedly and asked his brother if it really looked like him, because, the Theosophical Society. She became a devoted pupil of Madame Blavatsky, four Jed schools at Benares, and was elected president of the Theosophical Society in 1907.

She is the author of "The Rel gious Probitm in India." nhich she published in Ifi'i "The report that I have proclaimed Krishnamurti as the Messiah is entirely false," declares Mrs. Besant "Messiah" is a term el Jewish origin and has a special and very limited meaning. The Messiah, from the Jewish point of view, only comes once for the salvation of His "chosen people. whereas the World Teacher, according to Theosophical conceptions, is at the head of every religion, just a if I iW -T J- a widower, and had promised to be responsible for their education and putting out in life, provided that I was given entire control over the boys. The father gladly welcomed my offer and gave over the two boys to my care.

From that year until 1925 I remained their guardian, although they were, of course, legally free on their coming of age." It is rather difficult to give a satisfactory definition of what is meant by the Theosophical use of the term "Master." It is perhaps analogous to what we might speak fill MVS WYf lAYWW I Krishnamurti, the Hinda Mystic. (Oval) As He Appears ui Native Garb. By Helen Herbert Foster. KRISHNAMURTI, the young Hindu mystic, acclaimed by one hundred thousand members of the Order of the Star in the East as the "vehicle" of the "World Teacher," has begun his public mission. He is now thirty years of age the age, it is claimed by Theosophists, when Ihe great religious teachers of all time have started out.

It is reverently believed by the members of the Order ef the Star in the East that "World Teachers" appear from time to time. They believe that God sends a prophet at the beginning of every epoch and that Krishnamurti is the instrument through which the new "World Teacher" will speak and act. At Adjar, India, in 1925, where he ddressed a meeting of six thousand members of the order, they observed the first public manifestation of his "selection." He had been speaking in his customary manner when suddenly his voice changed. He started and stopped. Then another voice, of strange sweetness and power, rang out through his lips.

These manifestations, they believe, will increase as the body, the physical body, is tenanted by the spirit of the "World Teacher." A great deal of mystery surrounds his early history. Wntil his recent public appearances few people had seen him, with the exception of tutors and family friends, although his childhood was spent in England and on the Continent. Krishnamurti was born in India, not far from Benares, and is the eighth child of orthodox Hindu parents. When the boy was about twelve years of age his father made Mrs. Annie Besant the legal guardian of two of his children, Krishnamurti and a younger brother.

This was about the year 1909. "I had been told by a 'Master' that this young lad would, if he grew up into fitness for such honor, be accepted as the physical vehicle of the World Teacher when He visited the earth once more to open the new age," declares Dr. Annie Eesant, international president the Theosophical Socieiy. "I accepted guardianship of Ihe boy and his youncer brother from their father, much that of the Hindu and the Buddhist as the Christian." "A World Teacher," she further points out, "has SO far always chosen an Eastern body for his temporary vehicle when manifesting himself in the ordinary world. When the World Teacher wants a house flesh in the physical morld he takes possession of a body chosen by himself and prepared for his use by one of his pupils, and in this body he performs his appointed ork in our Inter world.

When that ork is over be leaves the body of mhich he has been the temporary tenant and resumes his own glorious body, in which he functions until onco again he ills to descend among mortal men. It should be remeiibered that the Great Teacher has to put aside his on regular work of great magnificence and enormous importa.te in order to come down and teach us and it mould be a sheer waste of his stupendous poser to come and occupy a human body ail through the period of its birth and gr th throuch the earner stages of its life. Therefore one of hv takes all that upon himself; he simply sters into the full gron and fully prepared body of that disciple hen he is ready to do so for the purpose of his ork. "A fine Eastern rvpe possesses an extraordinarily delicate and sensitie nervous inherited through thousands of tars of in meditation and concentration, called in the Fast the practice of Yoga. Krishnamurti is of the pure Brart-tun type of l-J a.

which possesses the inherited trrts of culture and learning the ost wordcrful heredity to be found earth And this briefly is the story of hat the Theo r'msts expect of Mr. Krishnamurti. But com has prt-vipi-ta'ed something of a tempest in their circles There are those among the rf tKe Theoso-h'cai Society ho do not believe Krishnamurti to be endoed with supernatural or extraorJ nary poners. At the headquarters rf the United Lodce of Theosophists in New York City was declaied that they kiu1 no intrust whartxt in his coming. whom she mas separated after a few months.

During the nexf twenty years she traveled widely in Canada, Texas, Mexico and India and at one time crossed the border of Tibet in disguise. She was lost in the desert and after many adventures was conducted back by a party of horsemen. About IS70 she acquired prominence among the spiritualists of the United States, where she lived for six years, becoming a naturalized citizen. Her leisure was occupied with the study of occult and cabalistic literature. Blavat-sky's principal books are "Isis Unveiled," printed in New York in and "The Secret Doctrine." They are said to be a mosaic of unacknowledged quotations from the leading thinkers of that day.

She died in 1891 in London. Dr. Annie Besant, now president of the society and accompanying Krishnamurti on his tour of the United States, was born in London in IS47. She married the Rev. Frank Besant, afierwards vicar, but obtained a separation from her husband in 1S73.

She had become an ardent freethinker. She worked in c'oe association with Charles Bradljuch, EnElish freethinker and publicist, both in politics and free-thought propaganda. After a time they disagreed, Dr. Besant becoming interested in socialism of a revolutionary type. In 1S99 she joined with of as a "communication from God," in the connection in which Mrs.

Besant used it above. Theosophical doctrine is built largely upon occultism, Oriental mysticism, and esoteric or hidden teachings. "Krishnamurti received this teaching while his body was sleeping in Adjar, India, the headquarters of the Theosophical Society," Mrs. Besant further asserts. "He went each night, when he fell asleep, to his 'Master's' dwelling in Tibet and there received in very simple language, being but a child in body though old in soul, his teaching as a disciple.

Each morning he would himself, unassisted, write down what he had been told during the night. "I used sometimes to watch him writing slowly and with difficulty vhat he 'brolght.