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...knows Mrs. Besant as sponsor of Jiddu Krishnamurti, much-touted Theosophist Messiah, who recently went back on his backers by announcing that organization is wrong, individuality best. An apocryphal story (which Biographer Williams does not include) tells how Mrs. Besant tried to get Krishnamurti into Oxford. Applying first to the Warden of New College (the late famed Canon William Archibald Spooner), she described her charge as an incarnation of God. The Warden blenched, categorically refused to admit such a Presence, which might prove embarrassing to the other undergraduates. The Master of Balliol shook his head regretfully, said they...
...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, try to pin it with a lance...
...outright to the work. Another loss of his was in his dissolution of the Order of the Star, because a spiritual or theologic organization conflicted with his contention that walls stopped progress and meant decay. A modern Socrates, he but asks that the world stand out of his sunshine. Krishnamurti is poor...
Sympathize with Saint Ghandi if it so pleases you, and, by all the Gods, even the most uncompromising Englishman respects his piety and idealism, but do not deceive yourself that complex India would ever beatify a Hindu philosopher as California has her Krishnamurti...
...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 (i.e. the divine spirit at times appropriates his physical organism, speaks through him as it spoke through Jesus, Mohammed, etc.). Once an avid tennis-player and tea-drinker at Oxford and on the Riviera, he arrived last week in Krotona to begin...