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...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...
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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...
...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...