The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 5, 1900, Page 20

THE SUNDAY CALL ning the Dream City of Esotero # . ““One of your paragraphs dwells on this, you are ‘deeply the methods employed.” .Why that ‘is a my: fathom.” Why E W should "you hesitate over tl Are ) to compromise with evii and countena and abet siander, injust d ail unbrothérl ‘fathom the n do these thi ets the word oma to the fc know in your b the Universal I things are wrong difficuity? Why the doomed city’? terpretation | because told t to K. A. T. s does ev erhood, th one in these £y atio part What is a saved worth, be % “‘Read in ophlst) the com’s Iittle of H. P. B.'s friends and ¢ ‘not true) leve in ‘and he f ““I hav all the U. erature and believe in t d do v hesitaie to d and damned v beca not understand or bec know where else to It if 1 ot known t ir own lit- this »u can ¢ you do not Well, I'd leave ds, or tc Don't stop to 3 c in silence. . B. she will try to gobble library, furniture, ete.. as she is now do- ing at Oakland. Look out for that, for it vou locally, Pui it beyvond her some way. She takes everything gain a cold fac reach i in sight, That thousands the society in the last two y them its most emine members: mmarion, General Abner Dou 1y Professor James of Harvard, Dr. anz Hartman, NATIONAL BROTHER- I«’ATHERIf“‘\E'LEABER oF A TINGLEY oy THE UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD BUILDING THE JECOND HOUSE AT THE INTER HOOD LEAGUE'S CUBAN COLONY, POINT LOMA.}AN DIE Of the thousands of ured int i mem which have p the brotherhc re ther statement brotherhoc from the stut tention to pages of ad one from Jerome of the lows mak enough of s site | beeat manag beloved cau: <O0K what it says about being full of d it is really you ganizau £ —then -i managed. brother. whethe if such a thought com repress it | thoug agement of s does 1 0 shoulders In the absence i THE- LEADER AND CABINET OF THE SR T aace UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD. :zi‘g:fm,. member i —— his way. He wrote e “I do not think you full 1 B r don treet, not to open letters from g 1 ¢ on theosophy have been slaught of the dark N r s: 1 b members of the Universal your best energies to ‘ T 1—books which are an ac- id that you dre rk the gatew » 50 long as the author reshold of the new ¢ € ort Katherine A. Tingley, ..These mys us r g G g he author leaves the society hi i e B + - tu a “‘connecting link system by whic a b 1 must no longer awed Into faithfulness -t It is now but W o = 1 e as the will of a ruler of Esotero . v : z. nporal matters the ise ‘[',‘:':' < e e g ! head is an autocrat; ful to her > A a s <% AR S hly piritual no less than a god. With her avvive 2 s = She Lol¢ ¢l absolute and infallible. city ¥ build = = I R x ¢ ment there is no appeal = ¢ ers it the duty of every o er of $0 to report to her criticisms by other members. » mentior f her name in any meeting o ok x g < tand with bowed heads . Y . minutes. s 5 f Katherine Tingley hap- b ‘ : will.{ Th 4 Chicago n February, 1898, when e, wota PRt ! a phical Society of America held port. An invi " b 4 P e a convention for the election of officers. is at once « res whimsical : there prepa st A well-lald scheme, a committee report oo A - & A r 1 thre \ stampede by the Ting- Trlie, Mrs. Kratzer w v 2k followers and Universal Brotherhoocd but is not the honor of 33 . ; i wvas proclaimed with Katnerine A. Ting- anity enough? Is it pos Sk ot s leader and officlal head and the spiring to devote o T : ; ry and educatior eosopt oclety as a lterary depart- Srgued by X ameves K 5 i preate” ment of the new organization. The stroke terd - the cause who should prevent otero 2 : . oly feet, who should Was @ bold one, but it carried. the selfish purpose 3 t the purple 2 ner waved There was no mincing matters, as the woman s nd the b v night ing icles of the new-made con- P > oo s t rnerste school for the on show took her children from . lost mysteries. For this task ere shall be one supreme office In to Point Loma. Arrivi: idges were chosen. The doctor which shall reside paramount authority ernoon, Mrs. Kratzer w “ ki ive given up a good practice regarding all matters which concern the ner ?Jlll’:!]h}-f»4:(‘(r] > serve a because of alluring promises not y of welfare of t brotherhood. that night, was Mrs. Kratzer's fir % piritual but material benefit. With his “The title of the person filling this of- work done . 2 wife i two children the man moved to fice shall be ‘leader’ and ‘official head.’ This was a fair sample of days to the new-born. city of Esoterc, full of faith “The leader and official head of this Rising at 4 in the morni < and rich with hope ganization is Katherine A. Tingley. . O S Sath Once caught in the meshes of such a “The person filling this office shall serve 10 A6 Tight. " She has Bo. priviiepes” o s ystem it is hard to escape. The mind, for life or until her or his resignation. leisure.. She may not atten stherhood and conscience, once bent to the will “The person filling this office shall ap- meetings. She may not ¢ t_table or - = effort. But why do they bend? Ver Continui the constitution provides Hatity o107 the & ¢ause of h 3 the world revels in humbuggery that the leader and official head shall In brotherhood parlance, Mrs. Kratzer - I faith will not stay a man's have sole power to appoint all officers and is said to be undergoing a test to see if e ¢ oth hope w not buy food. At nts, with power to remove any or all she is fitted for ‘;1 higher life—if she is . g 5 . Tingley was c a of them at her discretion; to declare the ]rva_d II)JD“'”}:“;\" _“{:h' f,“,a"k\,,m(,h‘; (e Py - round the world, paving the way for her policy and direct the affairs of the broth- “r',:'-"?,}, oy o2 oty B w P Universal Brotherhood scheme. Perhaps erhood; to cancel or suspend the charter others know ths ch tests as this % /A t ; forgot the little garrison in the lotely of any subordinate lodge, and to suspend applied only to the very poor—a broad ar . - : perhaps she did not care. The man or gissolve the membership of any person. h;:au(lg\‘n principle of brotherhood which Ples x d and woman suffered silence until at That the treasurer shall receive and dls. the ordinary mind fails to grasp. i der .. an hones fess el e g W y ‘pity this woman, while he N s seemed than the city of Esotero .ommijitee, whose acts are void and of the 'bus between Point Loma and San hay s 1 starvati and the pair cast them- . offoct when disapproved by the leader Diego. Abbott Clark. presumed to go to city"8 selves out of paradi and official head: that the leader and of- the sacred city unsummoned. His test is es ¢ pther sort cropped up at the gei| head may call 8 congress at any 3 to drive the 'bus back and forth over the g L A 20 e % i N tiresome, dusty road and ve 2 ome ’ ngress last year at Point Loma. ¢ e and place’ for: the consideration of say. on bread and water. Abbott Clark 1o . attendance at the con- ..o matters connected with the welfare still under the speil - ; TSNS tha. I el head @N- of the brothgrhocd, the leader and official As to the colony. This is in substance I n nounced that those who did .ot - come {0’ have power to prevent the'dlseuss the story lisped by a tot of Six years or gt _dr’rum'(“ Proicgn frmpaie sion of. or action on, any subject which in “We had our dolls. but couldn’t play . Sl . e the S mer jddgment is against the welfare of the with them. We couldn't play at all; Ju » e ection. Many_ balievers migds the triy -3, orhenhobl had to sit in our rooms. We didn’t ha the n they could fll afford it The mino of delegates at the Chi- ring this congress many ned to the truth, Why were meetings held all hours of the night? Why were the people kept enough to eat—only a little mush and tiny piece of cornbread for breakfas slice and a haif of dry bread and a of water, sometimes milk, for lunch cago convention (the committee report < not adopted unanimously, as alleged) d a meeting, declared that’the majori- had abandorned the Theosophical Socle. the Homestead. es and a tongue for tales. ¥ he has at least Homestead is a cts, like sideshow ty Beauti- going until they fairly slept on their feet Why the vague rumors of strange mys- teries ever about to occur but which never Weak minds become neutral under such strain as this and subject to any influ- ence. To 1resign or be dismissed means turn- ing from the White Lodge; the only al- ternative is the Black Lodge. Then it is that the true spirit of the leader shows itself. From the central office are sent letters with charges against the disloyal member. ILoyal members are instructed 1o declare 4 general boycott against these “black magiclans,” not to speak to them ty in America. filled vacancies on the ex- ecutive committee and the society con- tinued as before the convention. The president of this society, J. D. Buck of Cincinnati, who was a delégate to the convention, recently wrote a stinging let- ter to a doubting Thomas, who could no longer follow Mrs. Tingley, but who could not see clearly his duty to himself. The letter read in part: 1f T did not make the mistake so many made at Chicago # was because I had more ample opportunity of judging and knowing what was being done, and how false it was to every principie of the- osophy and_deliberately unjust and un- brotherly. I did not leave the platform at Chicago till this fact had been demon- strated. Basil Crump and a long list of others— does not turn the Leader to a different course. The leader and official head blandly states that this is a “weeding-out time'’; that under the strain of the end of the LET ALL BOW THEIR HEADS TO THE SUPREME RULER. OF THE URNIVERSAL BROTHERWOOD century many could not get bevond the door, which was closed upon them, thus retarding their development. Again it is sald that they “got too close to_the center”—which none will gainsay. Bit by bit the pedestal upon which Katherine A. Tingley poses as a goddess is crumbling away. It remains to be seen Whether she can rebuild it; whether new members will take the places of the old. If not, and the goddess topples. there is no doubt that she will find a soft spot on butter or sugar, except on Sunday: somo vegetables for dinner. but no meat or des- sert. “We all slept in an attic, divided rooms with blankets. The rats and mica scared us awful. The lady was not Kind to us; she spanked some of the childr P']nll made others go without their break- ast. “We didn’t have much at school but ercises with our hands and feet. We had some reading, writing and spelling. The Msger ones had to help the little ones and didn’t learn much. “We had to make our own beds. dres ourselves, comb our hair and do our u* washing and ironing. When I didn’t kn how to do things I was told it was ti for me to learn. I didn’t like being a from my mamma and was glad to como home.™