Theos-Talk Archives (September 2002 Message tt00181)

A new "sixt sub-race" (not a "real race" as Theosophical apologetics in 
2002 will argue), today still claimed by Theosophists to emerge in 
southern California/USA was also to have a new Messiah. 

Catherine Lowman Wessinger's "Annie Besant and Progressive 
Messianism" thesis is predicated upon the assumption that Krishnamurti 
is to be interpreted solely as a Theosophical messiah. 

The Coming of the Lord Maltreya through the vehicle of a time young 
boy, Krishnamurti (who as soon he became a young adult completely 
distanced himself from it) would mark the formal inauguration of the 
New Age, even it was soon to be followed by two world wars. 

In The Dayspring, the journal of the Order of Service the future 
President of the T.S. George Arundale announced to members that the 
head of the order "wishes to draw your attention to the fact that the 
Order of the Star in the East has the duty of examining all the great 
world problems in the light of its knowledge of the future." 

English theosophists formed leagues for social brotherhood; for the 
abolition of vivisection, vaccination, and inoculation-, and for sociology 
and the social problem. All this activity was self-consciously interpreted 
in the light of the Theosophical Society's role in preparing for the 
emergence of, a New Race. The Theosophical Order of Service 
organizer Elizabeth Severs noted that one of the primary functions of the 
TOS was to do the "'immediate, insistent work' of preparing for the new 
Sub-race, the new Root Race, and the coming of the Christ." 

As Krishnamurti's apostasy from Theosophy became announced 
replacement needed to urgently be found. This time the choice where, 
at once a whole group of Caucasian females. "The Seven Virgins of 
Java," as they were known, had been selected from prominent 
Theosophical families and were accorded singular occult status and 
given a uniform of blue robes.

The girls were trained in various occult disciplines and were admitted to 
the ES, and, despite their youth, created 33 degree Co-Masons. The 
seven girls were: Paula Hamerster, Hilda van der Stok, Eleanora van der 
Stok, Lilie van Thiel, Marietje van Gulik, Leoni van Gulik, and Hannie 
Vreede. 

A new "Egyptian Rite" was designed, just as the failed Coming had 
been, to draw together the powerful occult forces generated. This 
Leadbeater, Bishops Wedgwood, Arundale, and Theosophic Society 
leaders believed, would gather up the various (hierarchical) angels. 
The rituals, were first performed by the Seven Virgins at the newly-
inaugurated Temple on the Adyar (International T.S. Headquarters) 
compound, following the reestablishment of Blavatsky's Esoteric School 
in late 1929. 

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