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...Jiddu Krishnamurti, the model of a modern-day philosopher king and once proclaimed Messiah, spoke in Lowell House yesterday about the necessity of "a total mutation of the mind" to cope with the challenge and misery of today...
...Krishnamurti, who had been identified as the Messiah by a Mrs. Annie Besant, has repudiated the distinction...
Miller somehow creates the impression of mixing up Christ and Krishnamurti, Huysmans and Mme. Blavatsky. He can write an outburst such as this-"I would like to penetrate up to the eyes to make them waggle ferociously, dear crazy metallurgical eyes ... the radiating light that carries off the fecundating seeds of the stars"-and mean it as a hymn to Dostoevsky. Actually, it has as much to do with the Russian's tragic art and exact moral theorems as it has with lepidopterology or philately; the only thing it says is that Miller is excited in the presence...
...knowledge that when anything of a finer nature, or loftier thoughts, is presented to a small-souled person it is met with hostility and contempt. Your Dec. 30 reviewer of Candles in the Sun is no exception. He can no more understand theosophy, the works of Annie Besant and Krishnamurti, than a primitive man could understand Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essays. As for the author of the book, the less said about her the better...
...World Mother. Krishnamurti, then 14, seems to have been merely an amiable, moderately well-behaved schoolboy of the Indian middle class. He was a little slow in school, and for his slowness he was often caned, but he had a wonderful "aura"-the multicolored emanation that Theosophists saw gleaming about each other. Krishnamurti displayed big black eyes and a set of irrefutable (because unstatable) notions of a vaguely ethical tinge; e.g., "Truth being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized." He lived on vegetables, and on the front page, and the wonder is that he managed...