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Jiddu Krishnamurti, Theosophist, "Vehicle of the World Teacher," "Bringer of the Word," "spiritual son" of Mrs. Annie Besant, sailed from the U. S. last week, wearing a grey lounge suit, tan shoes and spats, and reading Elmer Gantry...
Jiddu. About the forest-bound Castle of Eerde, at Ommen in The Netherlands, sat last week the devotees of the Order of the Star in the East (Mrs. Annie Besant's Theosophist cult). The castle had just been donated to them, to be henceforth the capitol* of their faith. About the grounds ran a miniature railway bearing food for the many hundreds who waited in arduous patience to hear a "sweet, penetrating voice" issue from the soft, brown lips of their Jiddu Krishnamurti. In such tones will their "World Teacher" speak when his spirit flitters into Jiddu...
...Annie Besant, expositor of theosophy and its virtues, is so certain that the "world teacher" is soon coming to inhabit the body of her Hindu ward, Jiddu Krishnamurti, that she is taking the young man on tour. Last week they were in Paris. They are expected in the U. S. next month...
...attention has been drawn to several most serious errors which appear in your issue of Jan. 4, pp. 23 and 24. These are of such a nature as to cast most serious discredit upon the Order of the Star in the East, Dr. Annie Besant, Mr. Krishnamurti and myself...
...that Dr. Besant in 1908 carried Mr. Krishnamurti from India to her English home is without foundation. Dr. Besant has been for many years a resident of India, and at that time was permanently residing at the headquarters of the Theosophical Society at Adyar, Madras. Mr. Krishnamurti has been associated with Dr. Besant for many years, but his allegiance and friendship for her have been given as a natural tribute in recognition of her boundless services to the whole of mankind in addition to himself. To say that she carried him to England is to create an entirely false impression...