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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 20, 1958 | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

...churches. No exception is Lady Emily Lutyens, who was one of the muddled Marthas of the Theosophical Society, a cult that hoped to mix the occult traditions of Buddhism. Christianity, and the other great religions, and actually succeeded only in unloosing a great Ganges tidal bore of flumduddery and jiggerypook on the superstitious suburbs of the West. Author Lutyens' first book, A Blessed Girl (1954), evoked a pleasant nostalgia for a childhood spent as a member of an aristocratic family of great talent. This book is an equally engaging story evoking years spent in an odd spiritual adventure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Emy & Her Krishna | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

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