THE "NEW MESSIAH"

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 22 January 1926, Page 6

THE "NEW MESSIAH"

THEOSOPHISTS DISAGREE INDIAN GATHERING OPPOSED LONDON. Jan. 12. The Daily Sketch says many English theosophists bitterly oppose the •fathering at Adyar, India, where Begun t. "Bishop" Leadbeater, and other delegates from the Theosophica! Society's branches, await the coming of a world teacher, to he incarnated in the body of Kiishiiainurti. a yoini" Hindu. They consider there is nothing to show that Krishnamurt i is a genuine new Messiah. Mr William Hare, a member of the National Council of English theosophists, declares that Mrs Besant and her fellow-apostles profess to have the ability to travel on the higher '-astral" plane, and arc inducing credulous people to believe them. "Many of us." lie says, "objected to this 'Messiah,' whose advent has been foisted on theosophists by the 'Order of the Star in die East.''Mrs Besant, 'Bishop Leadbeater, and 'Bishop' Wedgwood, are now trying to foist (lie Liberal Catholic Church on Theosophists. "Krishi.ainurti is a very nice, wellmeaning hoy, hut utter receiving a salary of hundreds of pounds a year thenis nothing left for him l<> do except obediently to pretend that he is (he new Messiah and to preach the new religion, which is simply the Liberal Catholic creed, drafted ' long before Krislmamurli's advent."