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ROCKEFELLER HALL. Avatar Meher Baba's 3-Day Birthday Party, Feb. 23-25, 8 p.m., free...
...devout Brahman but an ardent Theosophist as well. When Krishnamurti was only 14 and already a budding mystic, he came to the attention of Annie Besant, onetime intimate of Shaw and then head of the Theosophical Society.* She adopted the young Indian and proclaimed him the incarnation, or avatar, of the "World Teacher," the divine spirit that in Hindu mythology periodically takes human form (as in Buddha) to lead men to truth. She sent him to Oxford for his education and formed around him the Order of the Star in the East. When Krishnamurti dissolved it, the order boasted...
KING-MESSIAH for Jews. Second Coming of Jesus for Christians. Imam Mahdi for Moslems. Kalki Avatar For Hindus. Sosiosh for Zoroastrians. Maitreya Buddha for Buddhists. Others. Helene Petrovna Blavatsky, founder of modern Theosophy, says all these hopes refer to one and the same objective event which will occur...
...year of his 75th birthday-as Baha'u'llah, founder of the Baha'i religion. In North India in 1894, a child was born. He was named Merwan Sheriar Irani and he died in 1969-in the year of his 75th birthday-as Meher Baba, Avatar of the Baba-lovers. In South India in 1895 a child was born. He was named Jiddu Krishnamurti and he still lives-in this, the year of his 75th birthday-as Krishnamurti, bright mystery born of the Theosophists...
...find myself puzzled by much of what I hear about the grading of Spring Term courses. It is said. for instance, that the faculty resolution is ambiguous. There is some confusion in reference here, for the faculty resolution also exists in an expanded avatar which gives numbered alternatives for students and faculty. Of the two documents the latter is considerably more confusing (and, in fact, has been amended, which adds to the confusion) and it is unfortunate that the university has chosen to circulate it rather than the original resolution. Here is the opening of the faculty resolution: "Each instructor...