THEOSOPHICAL JUBILEE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19235, 26 January 1926, Page 7

THEOSOPHICAL JUBILEE.

Sir,—ln answer to Mr. Norman E. Burton, I say that tho real object of the great gathering of the Theosophical Society at Adyar was omitted from your cablegram, viz., to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the society. I have recently returned from a four-months' visit to Auk- , tralia, and know most of the delegates who left for Adyar. I never heard a word about the object of tlieir visit other than to attend tho jubilee. As a member of 26 years' standing, I claim t<> know as much, ' perhaps a little more,, of tho true facts of the case than the "correspondent of the Daily Sketch. The reason why many of the English TheosopEists bitterly oppose the gathering at Adyar is that they oppose Dr. Besant and her views. All claiming to bo Theosophists are not contained within tho Theosophical of which Dr. Annio Besant is tho president, any more than all Christians are not contained within one denominational body. In answer to Mr. Burton's statements regarding Mr. Krishnamurti, Bishop Leadbeator and Dr. Besant, I refer him to the answers given by Mr. 0. Jinarajadasa, Lady Emilv Lutyens and Mr. J. H. Thomson, president of tho H.P.B. Lodge, Auckland, in the columns of tho New Zealand Herald of May and Juno last. I claim that the testimony and evidence of thoso individuals above-mentioned, who have been in close and personal contact with Bishop Leadbeator for over 20, and in two cases 30 years, are worthy of consideration by all lovers of justice. In conclusion, I should like to say that in correcting the ' error in your cables, I had no intention of stirring up a controversy in regard to the advent of a World Teacher. I, with hundreds of other members of the society, endorse Dr. Besant's statements recently mado at Adyar, at the same time recognising that many English Theosophists and others are at perfect liberty t/> reject them. On one point I claim accord with the great bulk of thinkers and lovers of humanity, viz., that the world stands much in need, in its present state, of the coming of a. Brince of Peace. This closes as far as I am ooncemed the correspondence on tho society's jubilee. (Mas.) J. A. Davidson.