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...Belgrade. Yugoslavia, Adyar Atchiovritch was sent to jail for four and a half years. Reason: he believed his wife was unfaithful, traded her to a soldier for a donkey...
...Jiddu Krishnamurti, doe-eyed Brahmin-born Hindu, was pounced upon in Adyar, Madras 27 years ago by Mrs. Annie Besant and Rev. Charles Lead-beater, famed Theosophists. They declared that the 12-year-old moppet was "the Vehicle of the new World Teacher, the Lord Maitreya," whose last incarnation on earth was Jesus Christ. Calmly accepting this announcement, Krishnamurti grew up under their tutelage, became head of their Order of the Star in the East. In 1929, however, he disappointed his disciples by renouncing the Godship they had imposed upon him. Still a practicing Theosophist seer who affects soft, open...
...reviewed a big two-volume book, The Secret Doctrine by Mme H. P. Blavatsky. It excited her; she went to meet the author, succumbed to Theosophy. Her rise as usual was rapid. Long secretary of the Society, at 60 she was made president. Theosophist headquarters are at Adyar, Madras, India, and there Mrs. Besant has lived off & on for 40 years. Considering herself a Hindu by adoption, she early championed Indian nationalism, at 70 was elected president of the Indian National Congress. Never lazy, at 80 she toured Europe by airplane, visited 13 countries, gave 56 lectures in 21 days...
...adopted him, a pretty, tallow-colored stripling, in 1909. She had him educated privately in England and at the Sorbonne in France. Then she took him out among the Theosophists. At Adyar, India, on December 28th, 1925, he was lecturing to a very large audience under the Banyan Tree. He was concluding his lecture by speaking of the World Teacher, with the words, "He comes to those who want, who desire, who long, and-" a contraction passed over his body and a voice of penetrating sweetness rang through his lips. . . . "I come to those who want sympathy, who want happiness...
...They have four capital cities for their cult-Ommen, Adyar in India, Sydney in New South Wales and Ojai, a small town of Ventura County, Cal., near Los Angeles. †They count approximately 1,250,000 communicants. Catholics count more than 16,000,000, Methodists almost 9,000,000, Baptists 8,400,000, Presbyterians 2,500,000, Lutherans 2,500,000, Disciples of Christ 1,800,000 (TIME, April...