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...Besant when 60 was scarcely "young to Theosophy," as she joined the Theosophical Society in 1889 when she was 42. Mr. Krishnamurti may be "an old story" but he can scarcely be said to "titillate sewing circles." It might interest you to know that men like Bernard Shaw, James Montgomery Flagg and George Lansbury be said to have appointed persons to be apostles, any more than John the Baptist appointed Jesus to be the Christ. You cannot appoint a sunrise nor stop it, though you can throw dust in people's eyes so they...
Holding with Shakespeare, Christian Scientists and prestidigitators that "nothing is but thinking makes it so," Mrs. Annie Besant, 'grand old lady of India" and moving spirit of the Order of the Star in the East (also called the Theosophical Society), wound up the celebration of that Order's 50th anniversary (TIME, Jan. 4) by exhorting a public gathering at Adyar (near Madras) to turn their thought toward the far Himalayan heights and beseech the world's Saviour (for her and her followers the Brahmin, Shri Krishna, of 500 B.C.) to hasten his reincarnation and the worlds salvation...
...also spoke whose mind and body and mortal affairs have been prepared for assumption by the Saviour in the near future-J. Krishnamurti, whom Mrs. Besant brought to England in 1908 to be educated at Oxford and nurtured in pious humility. This Messiah-designate is now 30 and before and after his transfiguration will tour the world with twelve 'apostles" chosen by and including Mrs Besant. A publicity corps will herald his comings, echo his goings. Last week, by way of preparing the world to receive him, he said...
...years passed and the boy grew at Mrs. Besant's and at Oxford, the "Grand Old Lady of India" was confirmed in her first inspiration that Mr. Krishnamurti would be the Second Messiah...
Theosophy itself is an inoffensive cult of universal sweetness, light, passivity. Mrs. Besant is a lady of undoubted kindness and some scholarship. She holds a doctor's degree (Litt. D.) from the University of Benares, India. According to Captain Jones, she now plans to appoint twelve "apostles," including herself and several other ladies, to tour the world with the haloed Krishnamurti. Whether she intends anything more than a superlative theosophic lecture tour, with or without a Messiah, depends upon the accuracy of Captain Jones's information...