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General Maximiliano Martinez, the President of El Salvador, turned out to be a theosophist. "He likes to put bottles of colored water out in the sun; once the sun's rays penetrate them, he thinks the water has therapeutic use. . . ." He has also trained himself to stare at the sun without blinking, claims it cures shortsightedness...
...exceedingly gentle, wellborn Philadelphians. White-haired Robert Restalrig Logan has for 25 years been president of the American Anti-Vivisection Society, is a vegetarian and dislikes to have his guests brush down a spider web or swat a mosquito. His wife, Sara Wetherill Logan, was exhorted by the late Theosophist Annie Besant a decade ago to "try an experiment in character-building" and discharge her servants...
...still a practicing Theosophist seer" since he is not a Theosophist and does not claim to be a seer...
...corporation of three Krishnamurti associates. 4) "Huts" are what Krishnamurti calls both the little houses he inhabits near Ojai. 5) Although Krishnamurti's lectures, like the land he lives on and the creed he expounds, are no longer identifiable with the Theosophical Society, yet they manage to remain theosophist "in the broadest sense...
...Jiddu Krishnamurti, doe-eyed Brahmin-born Hindu, was pounced upon in Adyar, Madras 27 years ago by Mrs. Annie Besant and Rev. Charles Lead-beater, famed Theosophists. They declared that the 12-year-old moppet was "the Vehicle of the new World Teacher, the Lord Maitreya," whose last incarnation on earth was Jesus Christ. Calmly accepting this announcement, Krishnamurti grew up under their tutelage, became head of their Order of the Star in the East. In 1929, however, he disappointed his disciples by renouncing the Godship they had imposed upon him. Still a practicing Theosophist seer who affects soft, open...