Word: theosophist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Paradoxically, it was a Westerner who first brought Nehru to Hinduism: his Irish tutor was a Theosophist, and such an influence that at the age of 13 Nehru was inducted into the Theosophical Society by Mrs. Annie Besant* in person...
...rather be legally married to you ten times over!" She was converted to Theosophy (a watered-down Western copy of Hinduism) while reviewing a book by its founder, Mme. Blavatsky, went to India where she dressed in the 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...
...left his grandfather's church and the Republicans. In politics, he went left; in religion, he became an Episcopalian, then for a space floundered around in Asiatic mysticism with a Russian theosophist dubbed "Guru...
Among the great fads of the 1920s were Dr. Emile Coué, mah-jongg, and Jiddu Krishnamurti. The most serious of these was Krishnamurti, a long-haired young Indian seer whom Bernard Shaw once called the most beautiful human being he had ever seen. The Theosophist Annie Besant* had adopted Krishnamurti, and was freely predicting that he would be a new messiah. He was more modest. "I may or may not be the second Christ-I don't know," he once said. "I don't want people to look up to me, to worship me. Most people...