The Theosophical Path Illustrated Monthly Volume 1, July-December, 1911
Religion
The Theosophical Path Illustrated Monthly Volume 1, July-December, 1911
Theosophy -- Periodicals
Then came the founding of the Râja Yoga system of education, with its
first and chiefest exemplification in the College on Point Loma. Do
all our citizens realize what this has meant for the city? On merely
material lines, for example? Not only from the eastern States, but from
Europe and Asia as well, hundreds have made the pilgrimage to San Diego
to investigate the Râja Yoga College and system on the Point. They
have gone away and filled their own lands with the rumor of the fame
of this wonderful new thing that has its Headquarters--at _San Diego_.
The press of England, of Japan, of Germany, of Holland, of Sweden, have
been made abundantly aware of the fame of this Theosophical Center--at
_San Diego_. A Greek play is given in the open-air theater on Point
Loma, _San Diego_--and we read critiques of it in the morning papers
of Bavaria. We pick up a Tokyo magazine of current date, and find in
it a picture of a group of children who are receiving their education
at Point Loma, _San Diego_. Katherine Tingley landed in Liverpool in
the summer of 1907; and the next morning's London papers teemed with
accounts of her--pages of accounts of her--and of her colossal and
beneficent undertaking at Point Loma, _San Diego_. And so on, and so
on, and so on. With the best facilities in the world and a genius for
advertising, and with the expenditure of millions, San Diego could
hardly have advertised herself in the way that Mrs. Tingley, through
her Theosophical work, has caused her to be advertised; and it has cost
San Diego nothing.
But all this has been merely, or mainly, for the material advantage
of the city. A man (or a place) may acquire a false fame, that he
cannot or will not live up to; and he will be paid with contempt later,
more oppressive than the obscurity he had at first. Mrs. Tingley
has done more than this. She has laid down the lines, and labored
without ceasing, for the real advance and benefit of the city. Is it
nothing that San Diego should have in its core a Center such as this
Theosophical one at Point Loma--a center where the higher life is
being lived, where money is not the motive, where the greatest effort
of the age is being made to uplift humanity? The greatest effort? Yes;
because the one that knows best what must be done to attain success,
and on what foundations in the nature of man this success must be based.
Consider her fame throughout the world; her fame as an orator, that
will crowd the biggest halls in any city in Europe, and bring hundreds
to the doors who cannot gain admission. There _may_ be some other
living Americans of whom as much can be said; but there are not many.
How many visitors are attracted to San Diego yearly by Katherine
Tingley's famous work at Point Loma, and because this world-renowned
orator will certainly be speaking at the Isis Theater twice or three
times, or perhaps more often, in each season? And what will be the
result of these many speeches of hers, that so many thousands have
heard?
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