“NEW MESSIAH”

Greymouth Evening Star, 25 January 1926, Page 8

“NEW MESSIAH”

THEOSOPH.ISTS DISAGREE

LONDON, January 12.

The Daily Sketch says many English theosophists bitterly oppose the gathering at Adyar, India, where AirsAnnie Besant, “Bishop” Leadbeater, and other delegates from the Theosophical Society’s branches, await the coming of a world teacher, to be incarnated in the body of Krishnamurti, a young Hindu- They consider there is nothing to show that Krishnamurti is a genuine new' Messiah.

Mr. William Hare, a member of the National Council of English Theosophists, declares that Airs. Besant and her fellow-apostles profess to have the ability to travel on the higher “astral” plane, and are inducing credulous people to believe them. “Many of us,” he says, “objected to this ‘Messiah.’ whose advent has been foisted on theosophists by the ‘Order of the Star in the East.’ Mrs. Besant, ’Bishop’ Leadbeater, and ‘Bishop’ Wedgwood, are now trying to foist the Liberal Catholic Church on Theosophists. “Krishnamurti is a very nice, wellmeaning boy. but after receiving a salary of hundreds of pounds a year there is nothing left for him to do except obediently to pretend that he is the new Messiah and to preach the new religion, which is simply the Liberal Catholic' creed, drafted long before Krishnamurti’s advent.”