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admitted to be in the front rank of living orators. Adyar possesses an
excellent library, with many valuable books and manuscripts relating to
the ancient religions of India; a publishing house, the Vasanta Press,
whence are issued yearly numerous theosophical books, pamphlets and
magazines, for purposes of study and propaganda; a lecture hall which
seats 1500 people, but into which as many as 2300 have found admittance
on special occasions; a Masonic temple; an extensive building for the
housing of resident students; and very beautiful grounds with a
palm-grove and an ancient banyan tree, in whose shade many of the most
important theosophical lectures and conferences are held, and around
which more than 3000 people of all nationalities have often been
gathered to hear the discourses of the President and her colleagues. A
striking feature of the grounds is the massive sculptured trilithons,
about 2000 years old, brought from a ruined temple in southern India,
and erected here in picturesque surroundings.

The colony at Krotona is of more recent origin, and its environment is
similar in some respects to that of Point Loma. Founded in 1912 by A.
P. Warrington, the head of the American section of the Theosophical
Society under Mrs. Besant's leadership, it stands on high ground on the
outskirts of Hollywood, a suburb of Los Angeles, with magnificent views
of the Santa Monica Mountains and of the valley leading to the sea
twelve miles away. This "Institute of Theosophy" takes its name from
the School of Science, Art and Philosophy founded by the great
Pythagoras, and aspires to be to-day what his Krotona was in the
past--a centre of spiritual enlightenment. It is run on co-operative
lines, and on a non-profit basis. There are no "servants" in the
community, and the means of support is from a ground-rent or tax
charged to each house-builder, from the renting of rooms, and from
voluntary donations. The buildings are in picturesque Moorish or
Spanish style, their white walls gleaming amid the brilliant flowers
and luxuriant greenery of this favoured climate. They include a fine
Lending Library and Reference Room, a scientific research laboratory, a
publishing house, an administration building, and many pretty villas
and cottages. There is also a temple, in whose auditorium religious
ceremonies, meetings, lectures and concerts take place, and an open-air
stadium where each year a miracle play is to be produced, t