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...native sari, became the leader of the world wide Theosophist movement (present member ship: 150,000). In 1909 she adopted a twelveyear- old Indian orphan boy, Jiddu Krishnamurti, whom she declared to be a reincarnation of Christ. Today, having renounced his divinity, he is an itinerant lecturer on mystic subjects, some times known as "the messiah in plus fours." In 1929 Mrs. Besant tried to start a Theosophist colony at her Happy Valley ranch in California, to breed super-Americans. She said the Califor nia climate favored such an experiment, but she eventually gave it up. Like all Theosophists...
...them convened in Delhi in a "spiritual parliament" to further world peace. In the tented meeting ground by the Jumna River, teams of holy men in two-hour shifts chanted the names of peaceable deities, and sang hymns interspersed by frequent repetitions of the sacred word "om"-that "mystic sound," according to one swami, "which vibrates and makes luminous and radiant the inner and outer atmospheres." The vibrations, the holy men hoped, would counteract war preparations the world over. The holy men were generally optimistic, except gloomy Swami Puroshottamanand. "I am sorry I ever left my cave," said the swami...
...Artist Boris Artzy-basheff's cover picture of Siam's King Phumiphon last year, she thought it offered a good way to keep her lines related to the increased news on Southeast Asia. So the cover's little men with lanterns, its tiny half-moons and mystic squibbles, became part of a maroon-blue-white design. When a researcher went to buy a TIME tie, she found only one left in stock...
Shaw was a bit of a mystic, she thinks, and doubtless a bit of a revolutionary; but what really made him tick was neither the urgings of the Life Force nor the welfare of mankind, but simply an obsessive need "to write about something or other." His days were "dominated by the fascination of finding words for ideas and sentences for the words"-and the only alternative, Shaw once told her, was "to die for want of something...
...French mystic poet Pierre Emmanuel and Professor John Crowe Ransom of Kenyon College will be among 58 visiting scholars from American and European universities who will teach at the 1951 session of the Harvard Summer School, Director William Yandell Elliot announced yesterday...