[Translation of article written by Elise von Hopffgarten and sent by a Press Bureau to some 250 newspapers in Germany shortly before Katherine Tingley’s Address at Beethoven-Saal, Berlin, Oct. 21, 1925]
THE follwing dispatch has reached us from Berlin: The well-known friend of Germany and champion of international peace, Katherine Tingley, Leader of the Theosophical Movement in America, is at present in Germany and will speak in Berlin on Germany’s Peace-Mission in the world.
Unforgettable is the heartfelt appeal which Katherine Tingley made on behalf of Germany, in the spring of 1919 in Aeolian Hall, New York. There, in the face of strong opposition brought about by the allied propaganda against Germany during the war, she pleaded that a fitheenth point, expressing a deeper spirit of justice and brotherhood in dealing with the German people, should be added to Wilson’s famous fourteen points.
Katherine Tingley’s life-work, however, is entirely non-political in nature. She is pre-eminently a worker for international peace and universal brotherhood. The movement which she has fostered in America and which she represents, is extraordinarily large and constitutes a weighty ethical factor, which statemen and peoples’ representatives have been compelled to take into consideration.
And now Germany, with all its learning and thoroughness, Katherine Tingley believes she can arouse to become a new nation, a beacon-light for the whole world, if the higher perception of divinity slumbering in our people and the control of the lower nature can be further aroused and nurtured.
Katherine Tingley’s book, Theosophy, the Path of the Mystic, is already translated into German, Dutch, Swedish, French, Spanish, and Russian.
E.v.H.
- Source: The Theosophical Path, January 1926, p.89-90. Not included in the online version. Highlights and square brackets are in the original. We added the photo and links.