GIFT OF 
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Katherine Tingley 
 
 on MARRIAGE 
 and the HOME 
 
 An Interview 
 By CLAIRE MERTON 
 
 The Theosophical Publishing Company 
 Point Loma, California 
 
!ffiS LIBIUHY, 
 
 [ 1 UHIV3R3ITY OF CALIFORNIA 
 BKHX3L3 Y , C*LI FOR1TD. 
 
 
 
 
Katherine Tingley 
 
 on 
 
 Marriage and the Home 
 
 \ 
 
 An Interview 
 with the Theosophical Leader 
 
 4-e. 
 
 By Claire Merton 
 
 Published by 
 
 The Theosophical Publishing Co. 
 
 Point Loma, California 
 
 1921 
 
Copyright, 1921, by Katherine Tingley 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 Katharine Tingley on Marriage and the Home: 
 
 An Interview By Claire Merton 7 
 
 Katherine Tingley: Theosophist 
 
 By Iverson L. Harris Jr. 21 
 
 Lomaland The Home of Theosophy 
 
 By Kenneth Morris 27 
 
 Brief Chronology of some Important Events in the 
 
 History of the Theosphiocal Movement 41 
 
 484191 
 
There should be in all things one single devotion, 
 one motive, one desire and aspiration. Differences 
 of nature and mind are inevitable; each should there- 
 fore accord to all the same toleration he asks for himself, 
 and then the single thread of devotion will unite all 
 into one Universal Brotherhood. The poiver would 
 be immense; if this were put into operation it would 
 send to all, along the invisible but real currents, a 
 stream of help for mind, soul, and body, uniting all 
 on the inner plane, and thus show the world the real 
 power of co-operation on all the planes of force and 
 consciousness. KATHERINE TINGLEY 
 
To feel the fire of Theosophy with its stimulative 
 redemptive power in your lives, your .minds must 
 become as free and receptive as the flowers to the 
 sunlight. - KATHERINE TINGLEY 
 
Lotnaland Photo & Engraving Dcf>t. 
 
 THE THREE LEADERS OF THE THEOSOPHICAL 
 MOVEMENT 
 
 Helena Petrovna Blavatsky 
 Katherine Tingley William Q. Judge 
 
Katherine Tingley: 
 
 An Interview with the Theosophical Leader 
 Her Views on Marriage and the Home 
 
 By Claire Merton 
 
 IT was the lovely climate of Southern California, and 
 particularly of San Diego, that attracted me to the 
 Golden State and the Silver Gate city to escape the rigors 
 of an eastern winter. I knew nothing about Theosophy, and 
 all I knew about Madame Katherine Tingley was derived 
 from reading a sensational article about the Theosophical 
 Leader and its subsequent retraction made some few years 
 ago in a large eastern paper. I could not help but admire 
 the spirit of justice, not merely to herself and in defence of 
 her own reputation, but to the Society of which she is the 
 head, and in defence of its principles and beliefs, which 
 seemed to actuate the Theosophical Leader's insistence on 
 the publication of the retraction. It was a moral victory, 
 but knowing nothing of the Theosophjcal teachings I was 
 satisfied at the time with the feeling of gratification that a 
 woman had had the courage to stand by her womanhood and 
 had won out. 
 
 From that day however I learned that while many were 
 indifferent, the people whom I met were, generally speaking, 
 divided into two camps, those in the one great admirers of 
 Madame Tingley, and even if not in any sense Theosophists, 
 recognising her as one of the humanitarian and educational 
 leaders of today; those in the other, holding just the opposite, 
 and as I took pains to inform myself, often entirely ignorant 
 of the facts of Madame Tingley's life and work and teachings, 
 
8 > t iXATKERiNE TINQLEY: AN INTERVIEW 
 
 often governed by prejudice or accepting mere hearsay and 
 gossip. 
 
 It was with considerable interest therefore that I found 
 myself in San Diego so near to the International Theosophical 
 Headquarters on Point Loma. It is not however the 
 place itself, the charm of Lomaland as the members call 
 their Headquarters, the remarkable buildings, the chaste 
 classic beauty of the open-air Greek Theater, the wonderful 
 atmosphere of the place, its orderliness and serenity, or the 
 world-wide activities that center there, that constitute my 
 theme. Many noted writers have written of these, but so far 
 as I know, not one of such writers, though perhaps incidental- 
 ly referring to it, has sought to bring to the public attention 
 Katherine Tingley's views and teachings in respect to mar- 
 riage and the home. 
 
 Before I go further let me give my reason for selecting 
 this subject. Fate, or chance Theosophists would say 
 ' Karma ' decreed that I should find myself immediately 
 on my arrival in San Diego in one of the two camps I referred 
 to above, the camp of the unfriendly and, as I discovered later, 
 the uninformed critical gossipers. My first thought was, 
 is it true then that 'a prophet is without honor in his own 
 country' - an adopted country in this case, yet nevertheless 
 considering all that Katherine Tingley has done for the 
 material prosperity of California and especially of San Diego, 
 not to mention the existence of Lomaland within the boun- 
 daries of the city as one of its greatest educational and moral 
 assets, and notwithstanding the fact that Madame Tingley 
 is pre-eminently cosmopolitan and at home in all countries, 
 it may truly be said that Lomaland is in a peculiar sense 
 her own country. Furthermore, it did not require much 
 investigation to learn that the best and most influential 
 residents of San Diego and of the State recognise Madame 
 Tingley as one of their most distinguished citizens, and hold 
 her in the highest esteem. 
 
 But to return to my reason for the selection of this subject. 
 Speaking to some casual acquaintances at the hotel where 
 I was staying, I was interested to learn that they had recently 
 
KATHERINE TINGLEY: AN INTERVIEW 9 
 
 paid a visit to the Theosophical Headquarters grounds at 
 Point Loma, when, to my amazement, one of them remarked 
 that strange stories were afloat among certain gossipers as to 
 the views held by 'the people on the hill,' as she described 
 them, regarding marriage and home-life. For her part she 
 did not believe them but that is what she had heard. I cer- 
 tainly didn 't believe them either, but as I do believe in going 
 whenever possible to the fountain-source for information, 
 I sought an opportunity for an interview with Madame 
 Tingley herself. 
 
 I first made my inquiries at the Theosophical Information 
 Bureau and Book-store in the Isis Theater Building, which 
 by the way is owned by Madame Tingley. There I was put 
 into telephone communication with Madame Tingley's private 
 secretary, who very courteously invited me to attend the 
 usual Sunday evening service at Isis Theater on the morrow, 
 when Madame Tingley expected to speak, saying that possibly 
 I might have an opportunity of a few minutes' conversation 
 with her at the close of the service. I accepted the invita- 
 tion gladly, and went. 
 
 Again I must pass over much I would like to write about - 
 the service itself and Madame Tingley's marvellous eloquence, 
 her presence, her musical voice, now ringing and forceful, now 
 sympathetic and tender, as she spoke of the heart-cry of the 
 world's children; the sweet singing of the young maidens' 
 chorus; and, too, the beautiful little ceremony at the end - 
 the seven silvery tones of a bell sounding far away and the 
 moment's perfect silence in which one's whole heart was 
 lifted up in spiritual aspiration. Never before was I so 
 impressed with what I can only call the true religious feeling 
 that pervaded all. 
 
 Was it fate again, or 'Karma,' that Madame Tingley in 
 her address briefly touched upon the subject about which 
 I wished to ask her? To me it seemed indeed a strange 
 coincidence. Taking as her subject, 'The Relation of Theo- 
 sophy to Present World-Problems,' she made the following 
 reference to the part that home-life must play in the now 
 rapidly unfolding drama of world reconstruction: 
 
10 KATHERINE TINGLEY: AN INTERVIEW 
 
 "Family life built up of the unselfish efforts of parents and 
 children alike will redeem the world. It will make of the home 
 the spiritual center it should be. It is for this that families 
 should work, and in this they will find their happiness and 
 fullest development. Parents who have the interests of their 
 children and of humanity at heart will seek for the means to 
 follow this course with their own loved ones. 
 
 "Let the coming generations see the preciousness of human 
 life and the splendor and royalty of it. Imbue the children 
 with a love for the higher harmonies and a distaste for any- 
 thing that would mar the charm of the home, or its real 
 advancement. Make the home the center of the true and 
 ennobling life. Make it beautiful and attractive, even though 
 it be simple. Cultivate love, justice and truth, and a clean 
 life above all; foster a love of art, literature, and music. 
 Make these active factors in the home-life. Parents living in 
 such an atmosphere would guard the home-life, and would 
 realize more fully the sacred ties of marriage and the responsi- 
 bilities belonging thereto. 
 
 "As I have often said before, when woman finds her true 
 place in life, man will find his. When woman realizes the true 
 power of womanhood and wifehood, and their responsibilities, 
 then man will also awaken to his own duties. Then we can 
 see the possibility that home-life can be built on such a solid 
 foundation that it will bring a higher and a richer expression 
 of joy than we have ever dreamed of. And it will be proven 
 in such case, that true marriage is an eternal courtship." 
 
 At the close of the service throngs of interested people 
 gathered about the Theosophical Leader for a word with her 
 or to clasp her hand. At last my opportunity came and 
 Mr. Fussell, her private secretary, who had met me when 
 I entered the theater said, "Madame Tingley, Miss Claire 
 Merton asks to have just a moment's conversation with you." 
 
 "What is it you are most interested in?" asked Madame 
 Tingley. "I hope you enjoyed our simple service, though 
 I fear I sometimes startle my audience, and especially any 
 who have only limited views of life." 
 
 "I am seeking the Truth," I replied, "wherever I can 
 
KATHERINE TINGLEY: AN INTERVIEW 11 
 
 find it, though I am a firm believer in the words and life 
 of Jesus." 
 
 "So too is every true Theosophist," added Madame 
 Tingley. "Have you ever heard what Madame Blavatsky 
 once said, that no true Theosophist has ever spoken against 
 Jesus? We all revere him as one of the great Teachers of 
 Humanity though we hold he is not the only great teacher, 
 but that every race, every people has had its Savior. But 
 what is it interests you most?" 
 
 "At the present time, my interest and the real object of 
 my wishing to interview you, is to get an expression of your 
 views regarding marriage and home-life, and I would like to 
 quote what you have just said on the subject in your ad- 
 dress this evening." 
 
 "Indeed you may, and I have spoken on the subject many 
 times. The home is the foundation of national life, and 
 I hold that if we are ever to have a golden age of happiness 
 and peace we must begin in the home right now. The children 
 of today will be the men and women of tomorrow, the law- 
 makers and home-builders of the future." 
 
 "But how dare anyone so misinterpret your teachings, as 
 was done only recently in my presence, Madame Tingley, 
 if you will permit the question?" 
 
 "Perhaps some do not wish to understand them," she 
 answered, smiling. "There are some very dear people who 
 appear absolutely satisfied with their limited knowledge of 
 religious thought, accepting but the one life of seventy or a 
 hundred years, and looking upon Theosophy as something 
 strange and uncanny and even wicked. If they would study 
 for themselves they would find it is none of these, but that it 
 sheds a light upon all religions. Unfortunately the majority 
 do not read or think for themselves but accept some others' 
 say-so, even if those others be avowed enemies of Theosophy." 
 
 "That is true," I rejoined, "and every teacher and re- 
 former has had to meet misunderstanding and even persecu- 
 tion. But may I not quote you more fully as to your teachings 
 on marriage and the home?" 
 
 Madame Tingley graciously invited me to visit the Theo- 
 
12 KATHERINE TINGLEY: AN INTERVIEW 
 
 sophical Headquarters at Point Loma, and in response to my 
 request, said that she would instruct her secretary to give me 
 excerpts from stenographic reports of her lectures and writings 
 bearing on the subject. 
 
 Of my delightful visit and the people I met I shall write 
 another time. It was a never-to-be-forgotten day. Now 
 however I must keep to my present purpose. I availed 
 myself of taking notes from Madame Tingley's addresses and 
 writings, and have selected the following, all bearing on 
 Marriage and the Home. 
 
 In an interview accorded a representative of the London 
 Daily Telegraph, while in London on a lecture-tour in 1907, 
 Madame Tingley said: 
 
 "We have very strong views as to the sanctity of the 
 marriage- tie. We believe that the home is the altar of 
 spiritual life." 
 
 The following are mostly taken from addresses given by 
 Katherine Tingley in I sis Theater, San Diego: 
 
 "Where there is one marriage that has been entered into 
 understandingly and sacredly, how many are there that have 
 been consummated for selfish reasons or to gratify the am- 
 bition of parents or friends, or for the gratification of- ! 
 Through the lack of knowledge of the laws of human life, 
 how many have taken temporary physical attraction for the 
 real thing; and have entered into matrimony in anticipation 
 of what they deem to be pleasures, based on selfish and 
 passionate desires. So we find a large number on the wrong 
 path, the downward path, not taking part in the building up 
 of the human race, not realizing or accepting the responsi- 
 bilities of parenthood, but daring in their ignorance and 
 selfishness to open the way for souls to come to this earth- 
 plane on the basis of emotion and physical magnetism, or 
 self-interest, or social dictates demanded by the false standards 
 of today all without preparation. 
 
 "Therefore it is quite natural that we should have deplor- 
 able conditions in the world today disharmony in the home, 
 unhappiness, sickly children, divorces; and also see our 
 
KATHERINE TINGLE Y: AN INTERVIEW 13 
 
 courts crowded by criminals. Truly they are the result of the 
 false conception of marriage. They are the progeny of those 
 who go into marriage hurriedly, without preparation, not 
 conscious of their divine responsibilities, with no sense of 
 the obligations of parentage." 
 
 "Theosophy teaches that if we would build the nation 
 righteously we must build our homes sacredly; the sacredness 
 of fatherhood, motherhood, and brotherhood must be better 
 understood and appreciated." 
 
 "Place the homes of a nation upon the right basis and the 
 nation itself will have nothing to hold it back, nothing to 
 thwart the purposes of its collective life, and nothing to 
 regret." 
 
 "Hundieds of men are on the downward track today 
 because woman has failed to recognise her true position in life. 
 Oh! ye women of our modern time, establish new life in the 
 home; build altars of royal service there, and let the influence 
 going out from these brood over all who suffer; let the shining 
 example of the purity of your lives and your loving charity for 
 those women who live in the shadows of their mistakes uplift 
 your fallen sisters. Seek to prevent vice as well as to cor- 
 rect it." 
 
 "Home is the school of experience. It is the place of 
 affection, the center where children should be born and bred in 
 harmony with all that is noble and sweet and pure. We have 
 looked too long for help outside of ourselves, and not enough 
 to the Christos spirit which is within, and which is a part of 
 the Eternal Law." 
 
 "However far-fetched it may seem, it must be presently 
 recognised that there is a psychological force stronger than 
 
14 KATHERINE TINGLEYI AN INTERVIEW 
 
 words can paint. How carefully children are guarded against 
 physical ills, and yet how they are exposed to psychological 
 influences a hundred times more fatal because these destroy 
 character and breed moral and mental disease. One of these 
 days a new 'X-Ray' will be turned upon these psychological 
 forces. Then how quickly fathers and mothers will run from 
 some of the people whom they now enthusiastically entertain. 
 Think of the ruined homes which result from the un- wisdom 
 of the day, of the wives who are martyred from their false 
 sense of duty to men who are wholly unworthy! Think of 
 the children born under such conditions, children who must 
 be and are simply moral abortions! Shocking and startling 
 as it may seem, it is well sometimes to be thus shocked and 
 startled, and if human words can prevent such travesties and 
 abortions, these words must be spoken throughout the land. 
 Is there any one who dares to say such things are not facts? 
 Is it not time to begin to apply the Christ-principles to the 
 home, to build an altar in that sacred place and thus protect 
 the innocence of the children of the present and all future 
 generations?" 
 
 "Oh ye women, if you only knew your power in your 
 homes, your power with your husbands! Men today cannot 
 rise, they cannot become what their souls are urging them to 
 become until women find the inner life, this inner knowledge, 
 this higher aspiration, and make their homes something 
 quite new." 
 
 "She whose hand rocks the cradle can rule the destiny of 
 the world would she but take her place. And for the woman 
 of this age and this time never was there anything so splendid, 
 so helpful, as Theosophy - - Theosophy in the heart, in the 
 mind, in the life, and in the home." 
 
 "The human family is moving towards the realization of 
 great truths. We should begin to build, therefore, on broader 
 and more unselfish lines of effort, and we should begin in the 
 
KATHERINE TINGLEY: AN INTERVIEW 15 
 
 home, with a sacred comprehension of and a consequent pure 
 living in the married state. We should make the home the 
 Altar of Purity and endeavor to accentuate what Theosophy 
 teaches: that where two are joined together in the sacred 
 ties of true marriage, no power on earth can separate them. 
 Home-temples, under the benign teachings of Theosophy, 
 will become schools of the highest education for the parents 
 as well as for the children." 
 
 "The mission of woman is to discover herself, to find her 
 true place in life and the dignity of her calling. The greatest 
 work that she can do is to become so sweetly feminine, so 
 sweetly spiritual and strong, so grandly compassionate and 
 helpful, that she will hold the whole human family in her 
 keeping. She will make the home her altar, her kingdom; 
 and from that kingdom shall be sent out the gospel of life 
 to all people." 
 
 "The question naturally arises: What remedies must be 
 applied to bring about a change for the better in the home-life? 
 What factors can be introduced to readjust it and bring it 
 nearer to perfection? Theosophy answers that the parents 
 should begin to study the science of life, self-evolution, and 
 the great responsibilities of fatherhood and motherhood even 
 before marriage. Home should be acclaimed as the center 
 from which the higher life of the nations should spring." 
 
 "I believe in the equality of the sexes; but I hold that 
 man has his mission and that woman has also her mission, 
 and that these missions are not the same. If woman is to 
 understand the duties of real wifehood and motherhood, and 
 to reach the dignity of ideal womanhood, she must cultivate 
 her femininity. She was born a woman and she must be a 
 woman, in the truest sense; and the existing, natural contrasts 
 between man and woman are an indispensable factor without 
 which home-life would not be complete. For these contrasts 
 
16 KATHERINE TINGLEY: AN INTERVIEW 
 
 hold within themselves, in the very undercurrent of human 
 life, a superb and glorious harmony. Woman in her true 
 place, her true position, hand in hand with man in his true 
 place, would bring about such a new order of things that we 
 can hardly speak of, much less realize, the resulting pos- 
 sibilities." 
 
 "If we are to serve humanity rightly, we must begin our 
 preparatory and remedial work right in the home." 
 
 "Theosophy teaches that marriage is most sacred, but it is 
 nevertheless the case that there are many so-called marriages 
 in which the true life has no place, as the records of the divorce- 
 courts show. Yet if we take the Theosophical interpretation 
 of the marriage-tie we shall find it absolutely true that 
 'whom God hath joined together no man can put asunder.' " 
 
 "Theosophy teaches the necessity of a truer understanding 
 and a closer relationship between parents and children, and 
 it calls upon parents to realize more fully the sacredness of 
 their responsibility. Theosophy calls for a higher home-life, 
 that the children may have high examples to guide them." 
 
 "Indifferent motherhood is a hereditary taint, and it is 
 being passed on to an alarming degree through the blood and 
 marrow of our civilization." 
 
 "Much as I love my sex, I know from personal contact with 
 many mothers that there are many states or degrees of in- 
 different motherhood and that in many homes the young are 
 growing up all wrong because of weaknesses along this line." 
 
 "Homes should be schools of spiritual instruction, temples 
 of love and unselfish service." 
 
KATHERINE TINGLEYI AN INTERVIEW 17 
 
 " If all homes were founded upon a true appreciation of the 
 sacredness of marriage and its responsibilities, there would 
 be no need of Raj a- Yoga Schools." 
 
 "Children who are trained to face their dual nature, to 
 recognise the strength of their Divinity and to exercise self- 
 control, will bring to the home an influence that is beneficent. 
 They will inspire their parents and carry out in deeds their 
 highest aspirations." 
 
 "The home-life of the world must be reformed, but we do 
 not want brain-mind work in such a reformation. We want 
 the heart-life, the Divine Fire, the Divine life, and the splen- 
 did, royal warriorship of men and women working together 
 for this great end." 
 
 "I have studied unfortunate home-conditions most thor- 
 oughly, and I know that Theosophy is the panacea for these 
 ills. It will bless human life and sweeten it; it will bring 
 men and women together in a united home-life; it will bring 
 happiness to families in which there is disharmony, health 
 where there now is sickness, and love and trust where now 
 there is indifference and despair. It is my conviction of this 
 that makes me bold, daring, indifferent to criticism, if I 
 can only help." 
 
 "I hold that woman should stand to man as the inspirer 
 and the helper; but I hold that when she leaves the duties 
 of her domestic life and gives too much of the best of herself 
 to doing what she considers her part in public life, she is 
 leaving the home open to influences that ultimately she 
 cannot control." 
 
 " I should like to see women shine in the twentieth century. 
 I think that they have a great deal to do." 
 
18 KATHERINE TINGLEY: AN INTERVIEW 
 
 "O ye fathers and mothers, who are ever aiming to give 
 to your children the best and who would sacrifice for them at 
 any time, remember that it is your example, that it is the 
 dignity and compassion of your soul-life, that will enable you 
 to give them your best. If we can carry the meaning of 
 brotherhood and Theosophy into the family-life of the world ; 
 if we *can go into homes of discord and readjust them and 
 bring about understanding and peace, then the sacredness of 
 life and the sacredness of parentage will be better understood." 
 
 "Humanity must take a new view of marriage. Though 
 the subject has been studied all down the ages, yet rarely do 
 we hear of a marriage that in later years carries with it that 
 sacred atmosphere that should be there. True it is that the 
 parents of the present day cherish high ideals and have their 
 hopes, their dreams and their prayers; yet how can two 
 souls expect to go through life, doing their full duty to the 
 sacred obligations of marriage, when all unacquainted with 
 the divine laws that should fashion their lives, when spiritual 
 discrimination is sleeping?" 
 
 I could quote many more of Madame Tingley's utterances 
 on Marriage and the Home, for it is a favorite subject of hers 
 which she often refers to in her public addresses. Her views 
 and teachings on the subject are unmistakable, and more 
 than that, one has only to come into her presence to be 
 convinced of her absolute sincerity. 
 
 Further, one has only to visit Lomaland as the members 
 affectionately call the International Theosophical Headquar- 
 ters at Point Loma and meet the members of the Universal 
 Brotherhood and Theosophical Society residing there, to 
 realize that these teachings are being actually put into prac- 
 tice in the daily life of the young and the old. Lomaland is a 
 Homeland, its very atmosphere betokens high ideals, purity 
 and sweetness, and the keynote of Lomaland life is helpful 
 service. Yet the people are not by any means paragons, but 
 just wholesome, wholehearted, energetic workers. The world 
 could easily do with more like them. 
 
DONATED BY 
 KATHER1NE TINGLEY 
 
Lomaland Photo & Engraving Dept. 
 
 KATHERINE TINGLEY IN HER OFFICE 
 
Katherine Tingley: 
 Theosophist 
 
 By Iverson L. Harris, Jr. 
 
 "How terribly malicious and revengeful some of these enemies of 
 Theosophy are, is evidenced by the fact that certain of them do not hesitate 
 ... to slay their own reputations for truthfulness for the pleasure of hitting 
 hard or trying, at all events, to hit those whom they hate." 
 
 H. P. BLAVATSKY 
 
 RAY STANNARD BAKER, Lilian Whiting, Gertrude Steven- 
 son, John Hubert Greusel, Joseph Grady, and 'Yorick' 
 - not to mention other well-known journalists in this country 
 and abroad, have written appreciative sketches of the Theo- 
 sophical Leader, Madame Katherine Tingley. Mr. Baker, 
 in The American Magazine, referred to virility, life, as being 
 her most noticeable characteristic. "The brilliant and re- 
 markable achievements of one of the most gifted and dis- 
 tinguished daughters of New England" was Lilian Whiting's 
 characterization of Madame Tingley's career. Writing in 
 The Boston Herald, Gertrude Stevenson said that Madame 
 Tingley was above all things sincere. Mr. Greusel in The 
 Detroit Free Press spoke of "her sovereign ease in large affairs," 
 and said that she seemed to combine in herself "the con- 
 structive imagination of Catherine of Russia" with "the 
 idealism of a modernized Joan of Arc." Mr. Grady 's appre- 
 ciation, written for The Denver Post, spoke of her cosmopolitan 
 culture, and chose the adjective 'protean' as best describing 
 her. Madame Tingley's name of course will be associated 
 for all time with what the brilliant Western editorial writer, 
 'Yorick,' calls "that wonderful institution over there on 
 Point Loma, compact of art, beauty, erudition, and the 
 
22 KATHERINE TINGLEY: THEOSOPHIST 
 
 humanity that classifies mankind not in the categories of 
 the merely material, but upon the broad basis of a spiritual 
 force and law, of which the material is only one incomplete 
 manifestation." 
 
 All these expressions concerning the Theosophical Leader 
 emanated from high-minded, thoughtful people, who sensed 
 the greatness of her character and sought to render honor 
 where honor was due. But they were not, I believe, very 
 deep students of Theosophy, and therefore hardly in a position 
 to write about her as a Theosophist. The present writer can 
 claim some advantage in having been brought up from child- 
 hood in Madame Tingley 's wonderful Raj a- Yoga School and 
 College, in having served her daily for years in the intimate 
 relationship of amanuensis, and in having traveled with her 
 as private secretary over many parts of this country and 
 Europe. It is as a Teacher of Theosophy that this sketch 
 aims to portray her. 
 
 With Katherine Tingley, the fundamental teachings of 
 Theosophy, the ancient ' Wisdom- Religion, ' are not merely 
 intellectual theories concerning the great problems of life, 
 death, and immortality, not solely invaluable aids in meeting 
 the trials and difficulties of mundane existence: they are all 
 these and something besides. They are the daily path, with 
 its myriad ramifications, upon which every thought and act 
 finds its way to serve, to cheer, to chasten or to inspire those 
 whom Karma has brought within the sphere of her influence. 
 These range from the youngest children in her school to men 
 and women of international repute. 
 
 To illustrate: so axiomatic with Katherine Tingley is the 
 doctrine of the divinity and the perfectibility of man, that 
 she regards as failures only those who cease their efforts to 
 reach this goal, as successes only those who ever strive there- 
 after. Thus she has aided those who loyally accept her 
 guidance to taste that peace which passeth understanding, 
 at the same time keeping alive within them that divine 
 dissatisfaction with things as they are not- as they are on 
 account of other peoples' doings, but as they are within our- 
 selves, with our imperfections and undeveloped potentialities 
 
KATHERINE T1NGLEYI THEOSOPHIST 23 
 
 for good. So she is in the truest sense of the word an educator 
 - one who draws out the very best in her students and keeps 
 ever before them the vista of infinite spiritual growth. 
 
 She holds that the end of education is the attainment of 
 "a perfect balance of all the faculties, physical, mental, and 
 spiritual," which is the meaning she gives to the term * Raja- 
 Yoga' - literally 'Kingly Union' - chosen by her from the 
 Sanskrit for the name of her school as best expressing its aim. 
 
 It is to be noted that she starts out with the common- 
 sense basis of a proper physical development clean habits, 
 right living, good food, fresh air, proper exercise. She does 
 not believe in torturing the flesh still less in indulging it; 
 but she does insist upon the necessity of a strong, healthy, 
 clean body as a fitting temple for the immortal spirit, a well- 
 tuned instrument for the soul's use. Even Paderewski cannot 
 make divine music on a dilapidated piano. Neither can a 
 human soul perform its highest mission in this world in a 
 broken-down house of flesh. 
 
 So true to our Teacher of Theosophy are the doctrines of 
 Karma and Reincarnation that they enter into nearly every 
 remedy prescribed by her from her spiritual pharmacopoeia - 
 remedies which always give relief and encouragement. Are 
 you suffering from ill health? After doing everything for you 
 that the medical fraternity can suggest, she will tell you that 
 it is Karma the results of your own sowing, if not in this, 
 then in some former life. Take courage. "This may be 
 Nature's only way of teaching you not to break her laws. 
 At any rate, you can borrow strength from the Stoic philo- 
 sophers and meet your suffering bravely. It will then not 
 have been in vain. The enemies you slay in this life will not 
 be yours in the next. Moreover, these conditions cannot last 
 forever. You have always another chance. Make the most 
 of this suffering as an opportunity to learn a lesson possibly 
 the lesson of compassion. No matter what the cause of the 
 suffering, some lesson can always be learned from it. 
 
 When death takes your loved ones from you for a time, 
 fortunate indeed may you consider yourself if you can count 
 Katherine Tingley as a friend. It is to be doubted if ever 
 
24 KATHERINE TINGLEY: THEOSOPHIST 
 
 there lived one who could paint death's bright angel as she can. 
 Her extemporaneous utterances at the memorial services of 
 those whom she has loved and helped and who have loved 
 and served her are not only full of comfort and helpfulness 
 for those who are left behind, but one sometimes imagines 
 they must also help the departed souls on their journey to 
 the brighter realms beyond. 
 
 Perhaps the greatest secret of her success as chief executive 
 of the Theosophical Organization is her deep-seated com- 
 passion a compassion that takes heroic measures at times, 
 like that of the surgeon who will amputate in order to save - 
 a compassion that demands courage and is willing to be 
 misunderstood. No feature of the Theosophical activities 
 is too insignificant for her personal attention. Her students 
 have often marveled at the pains she takes to see that every- 
 thing goes right. She is never satisfied to let things take 
 their course, unless she is confident they will take the right one. 
 She always extends a helping hand to those who seek it and 
 will aid them as far as they will permit it. And the great 
 secret of her success is that she generally helps them to help 
 themselves and never encourages them to shirk their own 
 responsibilities. 
 
 These few suggestions may serve as index fingers pointing 
 to the real explanation for the devoted loyalty of Katherine 
 Tingley's followers. The principal cord that binds her stu- 
 dents and workers to her is that of gratitude. Most of them 
 know what her guidance has meant to them and feel it a 
 privilege to serve her and the Cause she so ably represents. 
 This they do without money and without price. 
 
 Like all great Leaders, she is far-seeing and knows human 
 nature. She quickly recognises a person of character and 
 gives to each one under her guidance responsibilities com- 
 mensurate with his capabilities and earnestness. 'Self- 
 directed evolution ' is one of her pet themes. Again and again 
 does she declare that real progress in character-building must 
 be attained by each student putting his own mental and 
 moral house in order, and then spiritual progress follows. 
 The real secret, she says, is for each one to conduct himself 
 
KATHERINE TINGLEYI THEOSOPHIST 25 
 
 honorably, to strive to live each day more worthily than the 
 day before. And with the wonderful ideals and ethical teach- 
 ings of Theosophy as sign-posts, she shows that the great 
 secret of universal peace and happiness is for each one to 
 strive to carry out the injunction of Jesus: "Be ye therefore 
 perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." 
 
 With all her idealism, she is not austere. "Life is Joy" 
 is a slogan not only of the youngest pupils of the Raj a- Yoga 
 School but of all the residents at the International Theo- 
 sophical Headquarters at Point Loma. Then too, being a 
 lover of the beautiful and a patron of art, she naturally finds 
 in the humanities many expressions of man's higher nature. 
 Thus in the realms of music, drama, literature, and painting, 
 she has always upheld for her students the highest standards 
 with most gratifying results. The Greek ideal of the good, the 
 true, and the beautiful holds an important place in all her work. 
 
 While wealthy people from all over the world send their 
 children to her school, her humanitarian instincts have been 
 evidenced in her freely caring for and educating scores of 
 homeless children, in working for the amelioration of the 
 condition of prisoners and the abolition of capital punish- 
 ment, in opposing vivisection, in giving a moral uplift and 
 affording entertainment and social pleasures to our soldiers 
 and sailors, in relieving distress wherever she could, and 
 whenever her means permitted. 
 
 "Theosophy," according to Madame Tingley, "must be 
 applied to every department of life," and "Raja- Yoga," she 
 declares, "is Theosophy applied to education." This does not 
 mean, however, that in the Raj a- Yoga School the minds of 
 the young are burdened with any specific religious doctrines, 
 but that they are taught to be clean in mind and body, to be 
 unselfish, kindly, and obedient to properly constituted authori- 
 ty; and best of all, their tastes are directed along sane, 
 wholesome, serviceable channels. With these fundamentals, 
 when they arrive at an age of discretion, their minds are 
 open to the truth; a knowledge of the different languages, 
 which they began to acquire in their childhood, has inbred 
 in them a cosmopolitan culture and interest in international 
 
26 KATHERINE TINGLEY: THEOSOPHIST 
 
 history; their acquaintance with the master-minds in the 
 realms of literature, music, art, philosophy, and the drama 
 has given them high standards; and their association with 
 Katherine Tingley as Teacher, Friend and Guide has inspired 
 their lives and has imbued them with that deep sense of duty 
 to humanity upon which all true morality must rest, and 
 which is so well expressed in her injunction to them: " Children 
 of Light, as ye go forth into the world, seek to render noble 
 service to all that lives." 
 
 This is the monument that Katherine Tingley has erected 
 in the hearts of her students, and it is one which neither 
 time nor the elements can efface; for it is graven on the 
 tablets of the human soul. It is the divine flame which 
 will flow through the veins of future generations, stirring 
 them to deeds of courage, of wisdom, and of compassion, 
 worthy of the better world to come. 
 
Lomaland- -the Home of 
 Theosophy 
 
 By Kenneth Morris 
 
 THE great institution which has made the name of Point 
 Loma famous throughout the world is the International 
 Headquarters of the Universal Brotherhood and Theosophical 
 Society, an organization which was founded in 1875 by 
 Madame H. P. Blavatsky, which after her death was led by 
 William Q. Judge, and is now under the direction of his 
 successor, Katherine Tingley. 
 
 There are men there who have been in the front rank as 
 business organizers, as artists; in science, in medicine, in 
 journalism and in the law; as well as many skilful and success- 
 ful craftsmen. They are all, be it understood, members of 
 the Society, and have worked as such for years in various 
 parts of Europe, North America and elsewhere; thus, in a 
 measure, earning the right to come to Point Loma and learn 
 what is to be learned only there. Their object is to gain 
 power and strength and ability to go out and help mankind. 
 
 For the studies and labors carried on there are, it should 
 be said, of a deeper and more far-reaching character than you 
 shall find elsewhere. There is work in the Arts; there is 
 scientific research : one has but to read The Theosophical Path 
 to realize what importance is attached to this latter, and that 
 it is carried on by students well qualified for the work; but 
 there is also research into the deeper side of life: into what 
 may be called the science of the human soul, the real Occult- 
 ism. We must divest that word of the hideous associations 
 which the trickery of charlatans and the priests of Mammon 
 have woven around it; and understand that it means insight 
 
28 LOMALAND THE HOME OF THEOSOPHY 
 
 into human nature and the power to call forth the best 
 from every man. 
 
 Ancient legends tell of a Golden Age far away beyond the 
 horizon of antiquity, when the sun was always shining, and 
 there was no selfishness nor misery anywhere in the world. 
 Some of the poets and romanticists have scooped up dippersful 
 of the glimmering waters of it, and given us to taste of mys- 
 teries and marvels: insight into those delicate yet heroic 
 worlds which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. When we were 
 children, nearly all of us had dreams of such sunbright realms : 
 dreams which fell away from us, slowly or at once, with the 
 coarsening touch of the world and the growth of our own 
 passions. As we grew up we lost our scatheless faith in the 
 things of joy and beauty; and whatever appeared most 
 excellent, sooner or later we found the trail of some serpent 
 over it all. 
 
 But you come to believe in the Golden Age again when 
 you have seen something of Lomaland. Beautiful places do 
 not attract by their mere beauty; that is, their loveliness 
 does not consist merely in the things that the eye sees in them. 
 There must be something else inwoven in the visible: an 
 inward and spiritual grace, a significance. Men must have 
 done noble deeds there, to link the outer beauty with the 
 heart of man. Thus Greece and Italy are haunted with 
 Homer and the heroes, Rome and the Renaissance; the Alps 
 have William Tell and the indomitable history of Switzerland ; 
 the Andes, their memories of the Incas and the Conquest. 
 These airy nothings that hold and uplift men's souls are 
 generally, though unseen, the most potent somethings in the 
 world. Their presence is strong at the Theosophical Head- 
 quarters: an inner atmosphere that thrills; as if exalted 
 human activity had unlocked some door into the arcana; 
 or smitten with prophet's power on the rock of externalities, 
 and set free compelling and life-giving waters. All the wealth 
 of color and all the sparkle of the sea, and the noble flow and 
 sweep of the hill lines, and the gray and violet and aroma of 
 the southernwood and yerba santa, and the mystery of the 
 winding canyons, and the sun-awakened loveliness of the 
 
KATHER1NE T1NGLEV 
 
 LOMALAND THE HOME OF THEOSOPHY 29 
 
 slopes and the bounty of the sun himself, will not account for 
 the spirit of joy and buoyancy that broods and nestles down 
 over the place: a spirit and feeling that grow and grow upon 
 you, and never surfeit. Twenty years or so only has Katherine 
 Tingley been at work at Lomaland; but what years they 
 have been, if the story were all told! The wilderness that 
 she found is blossoming like a rose, like fairyland, like the 
 Garden of the Hesperides, or the Islands of the Blest in 
 the West of the World. 
 
 Certainly Nature did all that she could for the place, to 
 begin with. She raised her delectable mountains to the east 
 of it, and colored them with jewel tints; so that you could 
 only paint them, and the sky and the herded clouds above 
 them (when there are clouds), with the hues of mother-of- 
 pearl and rare shells, with amethysts, topaz and opal. And 
 the wizard mountains that they are, the long line of them! 
 from the snows of San Gorgonio in the north, always touched 
 with faint orange and rose and salmon, with dim forgetmenots 
 and such gray as you might find in a pale iris, to the Table 
 Mountain southward in Old Mexico: the whole horizon one 
 great arc magically upflaming, upbillowing with them, and 
 haunted with a certain life that one feels; as if they were 
 palaces of the Gods of some ancient Western Golden Age: 
 Gods calm, inscrutable, with many plumes and jewels of fire, 
 who might awake from their mountain-hidden slumbers at 
 any time to astonish the world indeed, perhaps, as your 
 fancy tells you, who are awaking even now. 
 
 And then westward are the sea and the sunset; and it is 
 an abode of mystery and glory when the two are together. 
 You must ask the scientists why it is that the sun elects those 
 strange shapes for his setting. A Chinese lantern, orange and 
 crimson, burning low in the purple and ashen rim of the sky: 
 a pyramid of fire upon the horizon; a long, oval sun; a little, 
 squat and luminous pagoda; the breastplate of a dragon, 
 whose cloud-wings and glory are flung out from the north 
 to the south ; no, no ! by no means ask the scientists ; 
 instead, let your imagination for once run riot in fairyland, 
 and be medicined with the waters of the Golden Age. There 
 
30 LOMALAND THE HOME OF THEOSOPHY 
 
 are flaming and beautiful beings out at festival over the water ; 
 forget your personality in the glamor of it, and taste the 
 grand life of Nature; be baptized in a fountain that laves 
 away our aches and cares and troubles. Self is the thief that 
 stole from us bur ancient titanism and fairy-haunted youth ; 
 personality and passion robbed the world of its grandeur and 
 magic. Here they are again, my masters, here they are all 
 the beauty and glory that poets and little children have ever 
 dreamed! Ah, she is voluminous and persistent, is Nature 
 here; flashing before the eyes of the dwellers there always the 
 secrets of her impersonal splendor. She is as one with a 
 with a magic wand: Voila! and out before you is the core of 
 the beauty of the world. 
 
 She does that everywhere, indeed, to a greater or less 
 extent; but somehow, when she and greedy man come into 
 contact, it is generally man that is the victor for the time. 
 He fills her sky with smoke, and strews her hills and valleys 
 with old tin cans and corrugated iron iniquities. But man has 
 made his home in Lomaland, and carries on all the business 
 of life here; and yet Nature has nothing to regret, and very 
 much indeed to rejoice over. 
 
 Those buildings at the top of the hill, for instance: the 
 Raj a- Yoga Academy and the Temple of Peace she surely 
 does rejoice over them. You cannot classify them as belong- 
 ing to any known style of architecture, for they are of a style 
 by themselves: with their perfect pillars, their wonderful 
 harmony of lines and curves, their two great domes, the one 
 pale sea-green and the other dark purple. Katherine Tingley 
 was the architect who designed them. Perhaps the last 
 criterion of beauty in architecture is the degree in which a 
 building harmonizes with its surroundings : not that it should 
 be merely beautiful in itself, like a Gothic cathedral; but 
 that it should adorn the landscape around it, and be as 
 necessary to that as beautiful eyes in a beautiful face. Beauti- 
 ful these buildings are in themselves, certainly; but still more 
 beautiful as the eyes of beautiful Lomaland, as the crown 
 jewels of the hill. One must esteem the genius that planned 
 them something beyond the ordinary: our greatest builders 
 
LOMALAND THE HOME OF THEOSOPHY 31 
 
 do not so know what Nature needs. Art requires to have a 
 certain wisdom behind it, or it will be less than perfect; here 
 is the teaching of Theosophy exemplified again. So the 
 builders of the Pyramids knew how to treat the desert; so 
 the architects of the Parthenon perceived the requirements 
 of the Acropolis. These buildings fit the hills of Lomaland 
 as the sweet-aromaed southernwood and the California poppies 
 fit them; they harmonize with the landscape as the heart of 
 the pansy harmonizes with its petals. You can hardly imagine 
 the place without them. And the homes of the students, 
 and whatever buildings are set up, if only ever so temporary, 
 are equally fitting; not one of them seems out of place, nor 
 suggests a foreign body; they all appear to be native and 
 intimate blooms. 
 
 Here are some words of Katherine Tingley's, which ap- 
 peared recently in one of the principal magazines of North 
 America: 
 
 "Point Loma, fourteen years ago, was a wilderness of 
 sagebrush and cactus where rattlesnakes and wild rabbits 
 had their haunts. ... It was eight miles from the town of 
 San Diego, hardly accessible by road and only to be reached 
 with difficulty by water. In point of scenery, location and 
 climate, it was the ideal spot of the world, and most admirably 
 adapted for the educational institution for which it was 
 purchased." 
 
 (Access to Point Loma is very easy now: there are splendid 
 roads and electric car-lines; it is but a matter of half an hour 
 between the Theosophical Headquarters and the city.) 
 
 "The knowledge that on Point Loma was to be the world- 
 center of the Universal Brotherhood and Theosophical Society, 
 which has for its supreme object the elevation of the race, 
 created great enthusiasm among the members throughout 
 the world. The further fact that the government of the 
 Universal Brotherhood and Theosophical Society as provided 
 by the Constitution of the Society, rests entirely with the 
 Leader and Official Head, who holds her office for life and who 
 
32 LOMALAND THE HOME OF THEOSOPHY 
 
 has the privilege of appointing her successor, gave me the 
 power to carry out some of the plans I had long cherished. 
 Among these was the erection of the great Homestead Build- 
 ing, now the Raja- Yoga Academy. This I carefully designed 
 that it might not stand apart from the beautiful nature about 
 it, but in a sense harmonize with the sky, the distant moun- 
 tains, the broad blue Pacific and the glorious light of the sun. 
 
 "No one dominated by selfish aims and ambitions was 
 invited to take part in this pioneer work. Although there 
 were scores of workers from various parts of the world uniting 
 their efforts with mine for the upbuilding of this world-center, 
 yet there was no disharmony. Each took the duty allotted 
 to him and worked trustingly and cheerfully. A visitor notes 
 with surprise that 'the cooking, the carpentering, the road- 
 making, as well as the teaching and the music, are done 
 freely; that the doctor, the dentist and the plumber, the 
 monotype operator in the printing-shop, and the engineer 
 in the power plant, were all working without wages, working 
 hard, and as far as I could see, very happy at their tasks/ 
 By organized efforts the troublesome household tasks are 
 made easy, and not only are these carried on, but the students 
 make most of their own clothing and much of their furniture. 
 Many of the world's ways these workers gladly left behind 
 them. They seemed reborn with an enthusiasm that knew 
 no defeat. The work was done for the love of it, and this is 
 the secret of a large part of the success that has come to the 
 Theosophical Movement. 
 
 "Not long after the establishment of the International 
 Theosophical Headquarters at Point Loma, it was plain to 
 see that the Society was advancing along all lines by leaps 
 and bounds. Letters of inquiry were pouring in from different 
 countries, which led to my establishing the Theosophical 
 Propaganda Bureau. This is one of the greatest factors we 
 have in disseminating our teachings. The International 
 Brotherhood League then opened its offices and has ever been 
 active in its special humanitarian work: for orphan children, 
 prisoners, the unfortunate, and in the relief of suffering. 
 From the beginning the Aryan Theosophical Press has yearly 
 
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LOMALAND THE HOME OF THEOSOPHY 35 
 
 enlarged its facilities in answer to the demand made upon it 
 through the publication of Theosophical literature. . . . There 
 is the Isis Conservatory of Music and Drama, the Department 
 of Arts and Crafts, the Industrial Department, includ- 
 ing Forestry, Agriculture, Road-building, Photo- Engraving, 
 Chemical laboratory, Carpentry and Plumbing, Landscape 
 Gardening and many other crafts." 
 
 Of this list of activities, a chapter might be written on 
 every item; one must however, take a glance at the wonderful 
 Raja- Yoga System of Education, one of Katherine Tingley's 
 many revelations to the world. Fifty years ago we used to 
 imagine that if society were run by scientists it would be 
 perfect; now we incline to the idea that a general direction of 
 affairs by business men is the desideratum. The truth is that 
 every department of life, all sorts and conditions of men, 
 are necessary; so long as they are men, and not caricatures 
 or slanders on humanity. The supreme touch comes not in 
 mere proficiency in any one profession, nor in any mental 
 qualification; but in the soul itself, the submerged divinity 
 within us all. We train our children for this or that business 
 or profession; and too often omit to train them to be men 
 and women, gloriously human, masters of themselves. 
 
 But at this International Theosophical Center the whole 
 aim of education is towards this soulhood. The work of 
 teaching is carried on from that standpoint. All the faculties 
 are developed, but only as a means to the end that the real 
 manhood may be developed. It is not great artists or great 
 business men or great scientists that the world is crying out 
 for; but men and women who hold the balance of things 
 within themselves, and can meet all situations and turn the 
 wrong they meet into right. Katherine Tingley's Raja- Yoga 
 System is meeting this need. The ordinary schools look on 
 the problems of life, which their scholars are to face, as being 
 chiefly concerned with matters of bread and butter and the 
 like. But the real problems are those within. If a man is 
 master of himself, dispassionate and compassionate; if he 
 can lord it over his wandering mind, concentrating that 
 entirely on the present duty; the bread and butter question 
 
36 LOMALAND THE HOME OF THEOSOPHY 
 
 will never appear before him as a problem at all. His problems 
 will be: to stop vice, to rescue the fallen, to better the life of 
 the world; and he will find himself capable of solving them. 
 In the article above quoted, Katherine Tingley explains 
 the educational ideals she has brought into actuality thus: 
 
 "In the Raj a- Yoga College and School the term education 
 has a much wider signification than is usually given it. The 
 basis of this whole education is the essential divinity of man 
 and the necessity for transmuting everything in his nature 
 which is not divine. To do this, no part can be neglected and 
 the physical nature must share to the full in the care and 
 attention which are required. Neither can the most assiduous 
 training of the intellect be passed over; it must be made 
 subservient however to the forces of the heart. The intellect 
 must be the servant, not the master, if order and equilibrium 
 are to be attained and maintained. In such a system as this, 
 it is necessary that all service be voluntary, and therefore no 
 salaries whatever are paid. The aim of true education is not 
 to acquire a store of facts. For this a retentive memory is 
 alone the requisite, and we find all too often in the world 
 that memory and knowledge are accredited with an identity 
 they in no way deserve. True education is the power to live 
 in harmony with our environment and power to draw out from 
 the recesses of our own nature all the potentialities of character 
 and divine life. 
 
 "The education in the Raj a- Yoga system, therefore, is 
 not confined to the receipt of information at certain stated 
 hours of the day, and in a specified manner. In fact, the 
 whole life here may be regarded as education. A well-known 
 writer has recorded with surprise the reply of the oldest living 
 worker in the community to the question why he lived there: 
 'I am a student, I am learning/ At the International Theo- 
 sophical Headquarters, all are students. Every hour of the 
 day, every activity of body or mind, is part of the educa- 
 tional process. It consists of the regulation of the whole life 
 upon the highest ideal, which must govern the most hidden 
 thought as effectually as it does the mutual relationship 
 
LOMALAND THE HOME OF THEOSOPHY 37 
 
 of the students. Theosophy is not a metaphysical abstraction 
 nor a system of intellectual gymnastics. This is proved by 
 the success which attends the broad application of its philo- 
 sophy to the needs of human life." 
 
 Therein lies the secret of Lomaland ; therein the secret of 
 Katherine Tingley's own ever- victorious career. One can but 
 be convinced, when one has seen a little of the life there, that 
 there is something at work in Lomaland, more real than 
 anything known in modern times; some principle, some 
 method of living discovered, of which the world knows nothing, 
 or which it has forgotten long since. One side of life, and that 
 the noisiest, the foremost, the most insistent everywhere - 
 the wilfully selfish side, to wit is entirely absent; hence 
 there is room for all splendid things in human nature to grow 
 and blossom. Do but look at these children, and say if they 
 are not to out-distance all competitors in whatever line of life 
 they may pursue. And yet they have not, and will not have, 
 any idea of competing; nor desire to do so. Say if there are 
 not great poets and artists, great lawyers and professional 
 and business men, in their ranks. Why, you do not doubt it. 
 With that absence of self-consciousness, that alertness and 
 concentration, that grace and dignity, it could not be other- 
 wise. Many of them have been in the school since the time 
 of their birth; always under watchful eyes; always under the 
 influence of the highest, most impersonal, wisest love. They 
 are not allowed to go wrong; they are brought to study the 
 divinity of their real nature, and how to win battles against 
 the lower part of themselves. They are manly, boyish, or 
 womanly, girlish, and unspoiled: eager after self-mastery. 
 If all children were so trained and guarded, genius would be 
 the rule, not the exception. You see them, and your pes- 
 simism falls away from you; for you realize that a new race 
 is coming into being, that will do something real towards the 
 uplifting of the world. It is a new and practical exemplifica- 
 tion of the truth that whoso seeketh first the kingdom of 
 Heaven, all things else shall be added unto him. 
 
 Another department at the International Theosophical 
 
38 LOMALAND THE HOME OF THEOSOPHY 
 
 Headquarters at Point Loma that must be mentioned is the 
 Aryan Theosophical Press. Besides many books on Theo- 
 sophy yearly, no less than four magazines are issued here: 
 The Theosophical Path, the official organ of the Universal 
 Brotherhood and Theosophical Society; El Sender o Teosofico, 
 which has won for itself so high a place among the magazines 
 of the Iberian world; the Raj a- Yoga Messenger, written and 
 edited by young students of the Raj a- Yoga College, girls 
 and boys, and dedicated to the children of the world; and 
 The New Way, "for prisoners and others, whether behind the 
 bars or not," designed to give a simple, optimistic philosophy 
 of life distributed gratis in most of the state prisons in the 
 U. S. A., also in hospitals, and a special edition being pub- 
 lished for soldiers and sailors. The Aryan Theosophical Press, 
 truly, is a marvel of productiveness and efficiency; but in 
 other respects, what a contrast it affords to the great printing 
 establishments of the land ! There is the clank of machinery, 
 the palpitating of engines, the perpetual click and clatter of 
 the monotype and casting machine; but there is also the 
 magical canyon winding down from before the wide windows 
 to the Pacific; there is the croon of the waves from afar, and 
 the song of the mocking-bird, the blooming of innumerable 
 flowers, the scent of aromatic acres. And the magazines that 
 are produced, with their carefully written articles and ex- 
 quisite illustrations in themselves they are a proof that 
 there is nothing slipshod about Theosophy; that it is the 
 gospel of perfect work, of the taking of infinite pains. The 
 cliches for the pictures, whose excellence has so often been 
 commented on in the press of two continents, are all the work 
 of the Photographic and Engraving Department at Point 
 Loma, which is in charge of one of the young graduates of 
 the Raj a- Yoga College. 
 
 Some of the students at the International Theosophical 
 Headquarters at Point Loma worked under Madame H. P. 
 Blavatsky, who founded the Theosophical Society in 1875, 
 and remained its Leader until her death in 1891. They knew 
 her personally, and were brought into daily contact with the 
 power and genius that so startled and aroused the world some 
 
LOMALAND THE HOME OF THEOSOPHY 39 
 
 thirty or forty years ago. Others again were associated with 
 William Quan Judge, whose strong hands held the reins of the 
 Movement during the five years that elapsed between Madame 
 Blavatsky 's death and his own; and still others have come 
 into the ranks, attracted by the teachings of Katherine 
 Tingley herself. They all, and especially the more advanced 
 of them, the ones nearest to the Leader, realize that it is a 
 true World Teacher that they have in their midst: one who 
 can teach the deeper mysteries of life; one "not as the 
 scribes and Pharisees." There were many teachings left by 
 Madame Blavatsky in the sole possession of Mr. Judge, to 
 be given out by him to such of the students as might fit 
 themselves to receive them, and as they fitted themselves. 
 Many of these teachings Katherine Tingley has given out; 
 and many teachings of her own. For Theosophy is not a 
 limited dogma, but a progressive unveilment of the deeper 
 knowledge of the Soul, and it is true, now as ever, that 
 "whoso doeth the will shall know of the doctrine." As one 
 advances in purity of life and motive, and in understanding, 
 so he becomes fitted to receive deeper and deeper knowledge. 
 And it is the possession of such knowledge, and the ability 
 to give it out at the right time and to the right persons, that 
 constitute in part the power of a World Teacher. 
 
 Those who knew H. P. Blavatsky recognise in Katherine 
 Tingley the same depth of knowledge and insight; the same 
 power to guide the lives and studies of seekers after the 
 higher things. There are many so-called teachers in the world 
 today, and many who claim to have spiritual knowledge, who 
 have strange doctrine to dole out to the gullible for money; 
 and some of them have great intellect, and some deep learning, 
 and some a wondrous flow of words. But to be a world teacher 
 requires something more than brilliant intellect, or the power 
 to stir the emotions of the crowd. It is not an affair of the 
 brain-mind, but comes through long preparation, through 
 many trials, through living entirely to benefit mankind. 
 True Teachers do not confound God with Mammon; they 
 know that all the money in the world would not suffice to buy 
 for any a single ounce of Truth or Wisdom. 
 
40 LOMALAND THE HOME OF THEOSOPHY 
 
 And further, Katherine Tingley has always been a philan- 
 thropist. She had been such long before she became known 
 to the world as the Head of the Theosophical Movement: 
 a worker in prisons, a rescuer of the fallen, a lover and helper 
 of children. Since then she has turned, as one might say, one 
 hand of the Theosophical Society to philanthropic work; and 
 the other to that which must stand behind philanthropy, 
 unless the latter is to be a mere plowing of the sands: the work 
 of teaching the true philosophy of life, in whose light men 
 can come to live uprightly, beneficially for the race. Turn 
 to the record of her visit to Santiago de Cuba at the close of 
 the Spanish- American War, when she fed thousands that were 
 starving, and tended thousands that were sick. 
 
 Should you look into the lives of the many wordy claimants 
 to spiritual wisdom who advertise and advertise themselves 
 these days, you would find, it is likely, innumerable inconsis- 
 tencies, rampant selfishness; often viler things still. But at 
 Lomaland, under Katherine Tingley, this rule is applied: 
 the first essential condition on which real spiritual advance- 
 ment depends is absolute purity of life and unselfishness of 
 purpose. Go up and down there, and search where you will, 
 you shall not find that which rings untrue. Katherine Tingley 
 makes a challenge to every member of her organization, and 
 particularly to those who come to Point Loma, to make their 
 lives shining examples, letting no dark corners remain in 
 them: to fit themselves by study, and by the utmost purity of 
 mind, body and motive, to become potent helpers of mankind. 
 
Brief Chronology 
 
 of some 
 
 Important Events in the History of the 
 Theosophical Movement 
 
 1831 July 31. Birth, at Ekaterinoslaff, southern Russia, of Helena 
 Petrovna Harm, daughter of Colonel Peter Harm and Helena Fadeyef. 
 
 1845 Taken by her father to Paris and London. 
 
 1848 July 7. Married N. Blavatsky, Councillor of State. Later, 
 traveled (at her father's expense) in Europe, Canada (1851), North and 
 Central America, England, India (1852), Java, England (1853), North 
 America, India (1855), Cashmere, Leli in Ladakh (1856) Tibet, India (1857; , 
 the East, Egypt, Greece, Palestine (1867-1872), Paris, and New York, 
 arriving July 7, 1873. 
 
 1874 She met William Q. Judge, who at once became her pupil, and 
 at her death succeeded her as Leader of the Theosophical Movement. 
 
 1875 September 8. Formation of the Theosophical Society at H. P. 
 Blavatsky 's rooms. Present: H. P. Blavatsky, W. Q. Judge, and fourteen 
 others. 
 
 1877 Publication of Isis Unveiled, H. P. Blavatsky's first book. 
 
 1878 December 18. H. P. Blavatsky left New York for India, to 
 enlarge the work of her Society. 
 
 1879 The magazine The Theosophist founded and edited in India 
 by H. P. Blavatsky. 
 
 1880 H. P. Blavatsky visited Ceylon. 
 
 1881 H. P. Blavatsky delivered the celebrated message to the Brah- 
 mans of Allahabad, known as the 'Prayag Theosophical Society Letter,' se- 
 verely criticizing certain Brahmanical practices, particularly child-marriage. 
 
 1883 Formation of the Aryan Theosophical Society at New York, 
 by William Q. Judge, who was elected its President and remained such until 
 his death in 1896. Into this Society the Parent Theosophical Society 
 merged itself. 
 
 1884 April 7. H. P. Blavatsky left India for Europe, returning to 
 India later in connexion with false charges made against her. (See Incidents 
 in the History of the Theosophical Movement.) 
 
 1885 H. P. Blavatsky returned to Europe Wiirzburg, Ostend, 
 Paris. W. Q. Judge returned to America from a visit to India. The Secret 
 Doctrine begun by H. P. Blavatsky. 
 
 1886 April. W. Q. Judge founded The Path magazine, and became 
 
42 CHRONOLOGY OF IMPORTANT EVENTS 
 
 its editor. Lodge formed in Boston. The Society established in Ireland. 
 
 1887 H. P. Blavatsky took up residence in London, founding and 
 editing the magazine Lucifer. First Convention of the American Section. 
 
 1888 Blavatsky Lodge formed. British Section formed, and other 
 English Lodges established. Publication of The Secret Doctrine by H. P. 
 Blavatsky. Establishment by H. P. Blavatsky of the ' Esoteric Section, ' 
 afterwards the 'Eastern and Esoteric School of Theosophy.' The Universal 
 Brotherhood Organization, founded in 1898, of which the Theosophical 
 Society became an integral part, is the expansion of the Eastern and Eso- 
 teric School. 
 
 1889 Aryan Press established by W. Q. Judge in New York. The Key 
 to Theosophy and The Voice of the Silence written and published by H. P. 
 Blavatsky. Formation of the Theosophical Society in Sweden, February 10, 
 with Dr. Gustav Zander as President. 
 
 1890 March 26. Incorporation of the Aryan Theosophical Society 
 of New York, at New York City. 
 
 1891 May 8. Death of H. P. Blavatsky at 19 Avenue Road, London. 
 European Section formed. Dutch-Belgian branch formed. Purchase of 
 144 Madison Avenue, New York, by the Aryan Theosophical Society, and 
 establishment there of the International Headquarters. Publication of 
 Echoes from the Orient (W. Q. Judge). 
 
 1893 W. Q. Judge spoke, at the Parliament of Religions, Chicago, 
 to enormous meeting-s, on 'Theosophy in the Bible,' 'Universal Brotherhood 
 a Fact in Nature,' 'The Unsectarian Nature of the Society,' and 'Education.' 
 Publication of The Ocean of Theosophy (W. Q. Judge). 
 
 1894 April 22. Eighth Annual American Convention, at San Fran- 
 cisco, representing eighty-seven Branches, declared, in answer to certain 
 attacks, its unanimous and unswerving belief in the integrity and uprightness 
 of William Q. Judge. 
 
 November 3. W. Q. Judge took control of 'The Esoteric Section' 
 throughout the world. 
 
 1895 April. Ninth Convention of the American Section, when it was 
 resolved by an overwhelming majority of delegates to reorganize, changing 
 the name to 'The Theosophical Society in America,' and electing W. Q. 
 Judge President for life. The other World-Sections immediately followed 
 this example. 
 
 1896 March 21. Death of W. Q. Judge. Katherine Tingley, ap- 
 pointed by W. Q. Judge as his successor, became Leader of the Movement 
 throughout the world. 
 
 June 7. Katherine Tingley organized and conducted the great Crusade 
 of American Theosophists around the world, ending April 4, 1897. 
 
 1897 February 23. Corner-stone of the School of Antiquity laid at 
 Point Loma, by Katherine Tingley. Lotus Groups organized. International 
 Brotherhood League formed by Katherine Tingley. Summer Home in 
 New Jersey established by Katherine Tingley for children of the crowded 
 
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 CHRONOLOGY OF IMPORTANT EVENTS 43 
 
 districts of the East Side of New York City. Wayfare Home established 
 by Katherine Tingley at Buffalo, New York, for destitute women. The 
 New Century, a weekly paper, established and edited by Katherine Tingley. 
 The name was afterwards changed to Century Path. 
 
 1898 January 13. Formation in New York City of the Universal 
 Brotherhood, by Katherine Tingley. 
 
 February 18. The Convention of the Theosophical Society in America, 
 in Chicago, resolved, through its delegates, to enter a larger arena and widen 
 its scope, by uniting with the Universal Brotherhood Organization, in which 
 the parent Theosophical Society, founded by H. P. Blavatsky and others, 
 was merged. Katherine Tingley was officially recognised as Leader and 
 Official Head of the Universal Brotherhood and Theosophical Society, 
 for life. 
 
 February 23. The Theosophical Society in Europe took the same action; 
 quickly followed by the Theosophical Societies in other parts of the world. 
 
 June. The I sis League of Art, Music and Drama, established in New 
 York by Katherine Tingley. 
 
 August. Emergency hospital established at Montauk, Long Island, by 
 Katherine Tingley, where thousands of sick soldiers of the American Army 
 returning from the Cuban campaign were given relief by nursing, medicines, 
 clothing, etc. Boys' Brotherhood Clubs established throughout the world 
 by Katherine Tingley. 
 
 1899 February. Expedition for relief work in Cuba organized by 
 Katherine Tingley, in pursuance of International Brotherhood League work. 
 
 April 13. Congress of the Universal Brotherhood and Theosophical 
 Society opened at Point Loma, California, and attended by members from 
 all parts of the world. 
 
 September 13. Congress in Stockholm, Sweden, organized by Katherine 
 Tingley. A reception given by the members of the Organization was 
 attended by King Oscar of Sweden and his suite. 
 
 October 6. European Congress of the Organization at Brighton, England. 
 
 1900 February 13. Katherine Tingley took up her permanent resi- 
 dence at Point Loma, California, after having purchased large property at 
 that place for the World-Center and Headquarters of the Universal Brother- 
 hood and Theosophical Society and all its Departments. 
 
 November 11. Dedication of the Aryan Memorial Temple by the 
 students of Lomaland. 
 
 1901 July 1. Building of the Open-Air Greek Theater commenced 
 at the International Theosophical Headquarters, Point Loma; completed 
 in November; the first one built in the U. S. A. 
 
 1902 March 7. Purchase of Opera House, San Diego, California, for 
 the public exposition of Theosophy, dramatic and other work, by Katherine 
 Tingley. Re-named as the Isis Theater on May 18. 
 
 November. A number of orphan Cuban children, on their way to 
 Point Loma, were detained at New York through the efforts of the Gerry 
 
44 CHRONOLOGY OF IMPORTANT EVENTS 
 
 Society. Pursuant to an appeal made to the Government by Katherine 
 Tingley, Commissioner-General Sargent of the Immigration Office, visited 
 Point Loma, and, after a thorough investigation, reported most favorably 
 to the Government; and in December the children reached Point Loma 
 safely. 
 
 1903 Katherine Tingley gained her libel suit against the Los Angeles 
 Times, which was forced to pay heavy damages for its slanderous attack 
 upon her. 
 
 November. Raj a- Yoga Schools opened in Santiago, Cuba, and San 
 Diego, California. Katherine Tingley visited France, Italy, Egypt, Ceylon, 
 China, and Japan. 
 
 1904 December. First number of The Raja- Yoga Messenger, an illus- 
 trated magazine devoted to the higher education of youth, conducted by 
 pupils of the Raja- Yoga College, Point Loma, California. 
 
 1906 July. The Woman's International Theosophical League es- 
 tablished by Katherine Tingley. 
 
 September. Raj a- Yoga School opened in Pinar del Rio, Cuba. 
 
 1908 November 29. Corner-stone of the Cuban International Theo- 
 sophical Headquarters laid on the San Juan Hill property, Cuba, purchased 
 by Katherine Tingley in 1907. 
 
 1909 February. Opening of Raja- Yoga School in Santa Clara, Cuba. 
 
 1911 March 17. First performance, in the Isis Theater, of The 
 Aroma of Athens, arranged by Katherine Tingley. 
 
 July. The illustrated monthly magazines of the Universal Brotherhood 
 and Theosophical. Society, viz., The Theosophical Path (U. S. A.) edited by 
 Katherine Tingley, and the magazines published under her direction in 
 England, Sweden, Germany, and Holland, were simultaneously enlarged, 
 and appeared for the first time with a color reproduction, on the cover, 
 of the symbolic painting entitled The Path, now in Lomaland. The new 
 Spanish magazine, El Sendero Teosofico, edited by Katherine Tingley, 
 appeared at the same time. 
 
 October 27. Establishment by Katherine Tingley of the Men's Inter- 
 national Theosophical League of Humanity. 
 
 The Key to Theosophy published in Japanese, in Japan. 
 
 November. The New Way, a monthly magazine ' For prisoners and others 
 whether behind the bars or not,' established by Katherine Tingley. Several 
 thousand copies of this magazine are distributed monthly, free, among 
 prisoners. 
 
 1912 November-December. Katherine Tingley in Sweden and Den- 
 mark; and in Italy, where she laid the foundation of extensive Theo- 
 sophical work. 
 
 1913 March 13. Public announcement made by Katherine Tingley 
 of an International Theosophical Peace Congress, to be held at Visingso, 
 Sweden, in June of that year. 
 
 May 4. In an address at Isis Theater, Katherine Tingley called upon 
 
CHRONOLOGY OF IMPORTANT EVENTS 45 
 
 U. S. A. to take its place as the first nation in the world for Peace. 
 
 June 22-29. The International Theosophical Peace Congress convoked 
 by Katherine Tingley was held on the historic island of Visingso, Sweden. 
 Among numerous other activities a historical play, The Forerunners, was 
 presented; also The Aroma of Athens; and a special cantata, The Peace Pipe, 
 was rendered. A Greek temple was erected containing a fine exhibition of 
 pictures by Swedish and foreign artists, including a splendid collection 
 donated permanently by Sweden's premier artist, Julius Kronberg. 
 
 August. Katherine Tingley with her party of Peace Delegates, held 
 public meetings in several cities in the Netherlands, and attended the 
 Twentieth Peace Congress at The Hague, where the Raja- Yoga Students 
 sang at the opening session. Some of the delegates also held a public 
 meeting in Niirnberg, Germany. Other public meetings were held in 
 London and Boston. 
 
 1914 June 16. Public announcement by Katherine Tingley of the 
 Parliament of Peace and Universal Brotherhood to assemble in the Greek 
 Theater, Lomaland, during 1915. 
 
 July. Raja- Yoga Free Summer School for Poor Children of London, 
 established by Katherine Tingley at Fleet, Hants, England. 
 
 September 3. September 28 suggested by Katherine Tingley to the 
 President of the U. S. A., as a Sacred Peace Day for the Nations. 
 
 September 7. Resolutions presented by Katherine Tingley to Sacred 
 Peace Day Committee telegraphed to President Wilson urging him to call 
 upon all neutral Powers to call a halt in the war and hold a council of all 
 Powers in the Peace Palace at The Hague. 
 
 September 28. Sacred Peace Day for the Nations celebrated in San 
 Diego by a grand pageant and by public meetings held in the Isis Theater. 
 
 October. Katherine Tingley and party held public meetings in several 
 cities of Arizona, in aid of Governor Hunt's efforts for the abolition of 
 capital punishment in that State. 
 
 1915 June 22. Katherine Tingley opens the International Parliament 
 of Peace and Universal Brotherhood in the Greek Theater, at the Inter- 
 national Theosophical Headquarters, Point Loma, California. 
 
 June 23. Public Meeting of the Parliament of Peace and Universal 
 Brotherhood at Isis Theater, San Diego. 
 
 June 25. Re-dedication by Katherine Tingley of the Aryan Memo- 
 rial Temple at the International Theosophical Headquarters as ' The Tem- 
 ple of Peace.' 
 
 July 6. Katherine Tingley speaks at the International Congress of 
 Women Workers to promote Permanent Peace, at San Francisco. 
 
 August 11. The Archaeological Institute of America on invitation from 
 Katherine Tingley holds an adjourned session of its Annual Meeting (which 
 began in San Francisco), in the Greek Theater, School of Antiquity, Inter- 
 national Theosophical Headquarters, Point Loma, California. 
 
 October 6. Katherine Tingley establishes, in San Diego, University 
 
46 ^CHRONOLOGY OF ' IMPORTANT EVENTS 
 
 Extension Lectures in connexion with the School of Antiquity. These 
 
 lectures have since been published as Papers of the School of Antiquity. 
 
 October 11. Theosophical Defense League formed by Katherine Tingley. 
 
 1916 January 24. Special performance of As You Like It by students 
 of the Raja- Yoga College under direction of Katherine Tingley at the 
 I sis Theater, San Diego, in aid of Flood Sufferers. 
 
 February 13. Special performance of Twelfth Night by students of the 
 Raj a- Yoga College under direction of Katherine Tingley at her I sis Theater, 
 San Diego, in aid of Jewish Relief Fund. 
 
 June 17. Katherine Tingley visits New York to force retraction by the 
 New York World of certain libelous statements embodied in an article 
 previously published by it, such statements being in the main taken from 
 previous newspaper publications and repeated at intervals for several years 
 past. 
 
 July 9. Retraction published by the New York World under the head- 
 ing 'The Truth About Katherine Tingley; a Statement of Facts Published 
 in justice to the Universal Brotherhood and Theosophical Society, and of 
 its Leader and Official Head.' Similar retractions were also afterwards 
 published by the Oakland Tribune (Oakland, Calif.), and the Salt Lake 
 Telegram (Salt Lake City, Utah). 
 
 1917 March 26. Katherine Tingley visits Sacramento to appeal to 
 the Legislature Committee against the passage of the Prendergast Bill 
 which provided for the use of unclaimed animals for vivisection. The Bill 
 was vetoed by Governor Wm. D. Stephens. 
 
 June 13. Katherine Tingley opens large hall in her Isis Theater Build- 
 ing, San Diego, as a Recreation Center for Soldiers and Sailors, afterwards 
 acquiring one of the Exposition buildings in Balboa Park, San Diego, for 
 the same purpose, and also giving entertainments at Fort Rosecrans, 
 Point Loma, and entertaining a large number of soldiers and sailors every 
 Sunday at the International Theosophical Headquarters, many times 
 giving special programs for the enlisted men in the Greek Theater, Inter- 
 national Theosophical Headquarters, Point Loma, and in her Isis Theater 
 in San Diego. 
 
 1919 March 24. Publicity Department for Theosophy established 
 by Katherine Tingley for special propaganda work. 
 
 April 25. Katherine Tingley, accompanied by twelve Raja- Yoga stu- 
 dents, starts on a iecture-tour, lecturing in New York, Boston, Washington, 
 Chicago, Minneapolis and other cities. 
 
 September 14. Katherine Tingley again starts on a lecture-tour, 
 speaking in several cities of the eastern states. 
 
 December. Katherine Tingley acquires possession of her childhood home, 
 Laurel Crest, Newburyport, Mass., on the banks of the Merrimac River, 
 immortalized by the poet, John Greenleaf Whittier. 
 
 December 23. Founding and Incorporation of the Theosophical Uni- 
 versity, at the International Theosophical Headquarters, Point Loma. 
 
Established for the benefit oj the people of the earth and all creatures 
 The Universal Brotherhood and Theosophical Society 
 
 OBJECTS 
 
 This BROTHERHOOD is part of a great and universal movement 
 which has been active in all ages. 
 
 This Organization declares that Brotherhood is a fact. Its principal 
 purpose is to teach Brotherhood, demonstrate that it is a fact in nature 
 and make it a living power in the life of humanity. 
 
 Its subsidiary purpose is to study ancient and modern religions, science, 
 philosophy and art; to investigate the laws of nature and the divine powers 
 
 in man. 
 
 * * * 
 
 THE UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD AND THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, founded 
 by H. P. Blavatsky at New York, 1875, continued after her death under 
 the leadership of the co-founder William Q. Judge, and now under the 
 leadership of their successor, Katherine Tingley, has its Headquarters at 
 the International Theosophical Center, Point Loma, California. 
 
 This Organization is not in any way connected with nor does it endorse 
 any other societies using the name of Theosophy. 
 
 THE UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD AND THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY welcomes 
 to membership all who truly love their fellow-men and desire the eradication 
 of the evils caused by the barriers of race, creed, caste or color, which have 
 so long impeded human progress. To all sincere lovers of truth, and to all 
 who aspire to higher and better things than the mere pleasures and interests 
 of a worldly life, and are prepared to do all in their power to make Brother- 
 hood a living energy in the life of humanity, its various departments offer 
 unlimited opportunities. 
 
 The whole work of the Organization is under the direction of the Leader 
 and Official Head, Katherine Tingley, as outlined in the Constitution. 
 
 Do not fail to profit by the following: 
 
 It is a regrettable fact that many people use the name of Theosophy 
 and of our Organization for self-interest, as also that of H. P. Blavatsky, 
 the Foundress, to attract attention to themselves and to gain public support. 
 This they do in private and public speech and in publications, also by 
 lecturing throughout the country. Without being in any way connected 
 with the UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD AND THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, in many 
 cases they permit it to be inferred that they are, thus misleading the public, 
 and many honest inquirers are hence led away from the truths of Theosophy 
 as presented by H. P. Blavatsky and her successors, William Q. Judge and 
 Katherine Tingley, and practically exemplified in their Theosophical work 
 for the uplifting of humanity. 
 
The International Brotherhood League 
 
 Founded in 1897 by Katherine Tingley 
 ITS OBJECTS ARE: 
 
 1. To help men and women to realize the nobility of their calling 
 and their true position in life. 
 
 2. To educate children of all nations on the broadest lines of Universal 
 Brotherhood, and to prepare destitute and homeless children to become 
 workers for humanity. 
 
 3. To ameliorate the condition of unfortunate women, and assist them 
 to a higher life. 
 
 4. To assist those who are, or have been, in prisons to establish them- 
 selves in honorable positions in life. 
 
 5. To abolish capital punishment. 
 
 6. To bring about a better understanding between so-called savage 
 and civilized races, by promoting a closer and more sympathetic relationship 
 between them. 
 
 7. To relieve human suffering resulting from flood, famine, war, and 
 other calamities; and, generally, to extend aid, help, and comfort to suffering 
 humanity throughout the world. 
 
 For further information regarding the above Notices, address 
 
 KATHERINE TINGLEY 
 
 INTERNATIONAL THEOSOPHICAL HEADQUARTERS 
 
 POINT LOMA, CALIFORNIA 
 
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 The Mystical Christ, by Katherine Tingley 
 
 Katherine Tingley and her Raja-Yoga System of Education, 
 
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 Katherine Tingley: Theosophist and Humanitarian, by Lilian Whiting 
 Some of the Errors of Christian Science, by H. P. Blavatsky and W. Q. Judge 
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 5. Man after Death - 15. Theosophy: The Mother of 
 
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 the Astral Plane 17. Earth: Its Parentage, its 
 
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