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...last month wrote the League for the Prohibition of Cruel Sports to the Governing Body of Eton College. Signers of the epistle included three Bishops, many an artist and novelist, Theosophist Annie Besant, Chief Rabbi Joseph Herman Hertz, Secretary for Home Affairs John Robert Clynes, Baron Passfield, Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden. Eton's Governing Body made no haste to send an answer...
Annie Wood Besant (rhymes with either incessant or pleasant) is an old woman (83) popularly associated with occult ritual and mystic robes. She is still president of the Theosophical Society, but perhaps you didn't realize she was once a parson's wife, an atheist, a Socialist, a beautiful spellbinder...
...sent to an Indian regiment (17th Cavalry, Indian Army). But his acquaintance with Indians and Indian culture educated him out of humor with Western civilization. "Very humbly and hopefully'' he went to Benares, holy city of the Hindus, there to sit at the feet of Theosophist Annie Besant, to see her youthful embryo-Messiah Krishnamurti. In between expeditions to Nautch girls and in search of a guru (teacher) he played polo, stuck "pigs" (wild boars). He gives a vivid description of a polo match, a no less vivid account of what it feels like to chase a boar...
...Order of the Star in the East recently established a 1,000-acre colony, one of four world centres, in Krotona, Ojai Valley. It is the U. S. headquarters of 82-year-old Dr. Annie Besant's Theosophical Society, a schismatic offshoot of the Blavatsky-Tingley cult. Constant is the conflict between the two; each is anxious not to be confused with the other. Dr. Besant's teachings are very closely linked with Eastern thought, occult and mystical. She has proclaimed her famed, sloe-eyed Hindu protege, Krishnamurti, to be the vehicle of the World Teacher...
...England," she continued, "tried to muzzle birth control by prosecuting the spread of its knowledge under the obscenity laws. But the famous trial of Mrs. Besant showed that it was legal for any Englishman to obtain contraceptive information, and since that time birth control has been steadily increasing, with clinics throughout the country to disseminate knowledge...