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...Cyril, who became a professional soldier, was killed in France in 1915. Vyvyan, now 60, studied law, lives in London, works for the BBC. In 1943 he married Australian-born Thelma Besant, a great-great niece of Theosophist Annie Besant. They have one son, Christopher Merlin Vyvyan, born in 1945. Says Vyvyan Holland (the Holland surname was adopted by Constance Wilde, under strong pressure from her family, after Oscar's conviction): "I was only nine in 1895, and was not even told of my father's difficulties until I was 20. Everything happened so long ago that...
...wellborn Philadelphians. White-haired Robert Restalrig Logan has for 25 years been president of the American Anti-Vivisection Society, is a vegetarian and dislikes to have his guests brush down a spider web or swat a mosquito. His wife, Sara Wetherill Logan, was exhorted by the late Theosophist Annie Besant a decade ago to "try an experiment in character-building" and discharge her servants...
Once hailed by Annie Besant as a "World Teacher" who had in him the same "Christ Force" as did Jesus, Krishnamurti has renounced Theosophy and in fact all systems, dogmas, labels, ties, organizations. Wandering continually about the world, he holds meetings for people who are interested in learning his mystic way of life and thought, as some 3,000 were this summer at the annual camp meeting he holds at Ommen, Holland, on property given him by a Dutch nobleman. His friends-he dislikes the word "disciple" because "one who is a disciple is already bound"-call him "Krishnaji...
...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...
...Calcutta leaders of the international Theosophist Society, headless since the death of Mrs. Annie Besant last year (TIME, Oct. 2), elected as their new president Dr. George Sidney Arundale, 55, rugged onetime bishop of the Liberal Catholic Church in Australia. Long a student of Theosophy which at some points duplicates the occult tenets of Liberal Catholicism, Dr. Arundale has been a pedagog in India, a member of the Worshipful Company of Pewterers, a Freeman of the City of London. He once tutored sallow Jeddu Krishnamurti whom Mrs. Besant hailed as a messiah. Year ago Dr. Arundale brought his pretty Hindu...