WAR AMONG THEOSOPHISTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10319, 19 December 1896, Page 2 (Supplement)

WAR AMONG THEOSOPHISTS.

MRS. BESANT. DENOUNCING .MRS. ; London, October '-'4 —The hosts of Theosophists are only waiting for the political excitement in fclio United States and Europe to subsido before they f.htow theinaolvca at each - other with • iltiothet crash. Airs. Bosant is announcing, ai* approaching cataclysm In a series of lectures in India. She is telling the faithful there that ilea. Tingley of Now York is falsely claiming to be Mmo, Blavntsky i reiticarnafccd. Mrs. Besaiib la denouncing ' this alleged masquorading «3 a gtdss fraud upotl bheosophy, • ■ . ■ i-.'. > She produces what ought ,to be conclusive proof of her statomont in the shape of Mine. Blavatfky's declaration bo fore lior death that she was nob going to inhabit any such carnal frame as thab'ndw used by Mrs. Tingley. She was going to -have a brand now body, which "was then preparing for hor incarnation." It was nob to be that of a woman or any member of Western races, bub simply the body of an Indian youth, xt ought not to bo necessary to say any tiling more, but Airs. Bosant adds "Many of us who have a personal knowledge of her know this statement of hers to bo true. An adept can tako tho soul of his chela and pub'it into & now body, but nothing can bo more : bsurd than to imagine tiiab lie would choose the worn-oat body of a middle-aged woman for carrying on work which chela's I old body had nob been able to do. Sho lias | always to provide tho body of a young person, because of its greater adaptability to her direction and the longer term of life through which tho work may bo carriod on." Nevertheless this lucid statement from Mrs. Besant has excited tho greatest ire among tho English Theosophists, who aro opposed to hor. Tito president and vico- | president of their society Write beseeching tho British public to givo no weight to Mrs. Besant's words. They say Mrs. Tingley has in their hoariiig expressed tho conviction that Mine. Blavatsky is not reincarnated at all. ' Then they crush Airs. Benant With the declaration that .statement will have no weight with any but the handful of Thoosophists in A..:irica, where those who locognise Mrs, Tingloy as tho leader of the Thoosophical inovoinont aro numbored by thousands as compared with the hundred or so who have elected to follow Mrs. Besant and her Adyar sot •*'/. "