The mysteries of the strange "Great Eleven" cult have been under the scrutiny of the Los Angeles police, following the discovery of the body of Willa Rhoads, "Cult priestess" who was known among its members as the "Tree of Life." Her resurrection was to have deen the proof of a new religion, The head of the cult is said to have seen that her body was preserved in ice and spices, and concealed. The unusual state of affairs might have passed unnoticed but that forest guards in the neighbourhood reported weird dances in the nude by members of some strange cult round the body of two slaughtered mules in the woods. Full details of the police investigations have rot yet come to hand; what follows is a summary of the results of the earlier inquiries, The discovery of the body of a six-ten-year old girl in a specially made box beneath the floor of her foster-parents' bedroom in a Los Angeles house has placed the police of that city upon an investigation of a new and weird religious cult. The discovery was made as a result of charges of embezzlement made by Clifford A. Dabney, a wealthy all operator, against Mrs. May Otis Blackburn, so-called high priestess of the cult. Mrs. Blackburn, her accuser alleged, had obtained over G. $40,000 from him to houses of members of the cult in the suburbs of Venice and Santa Monica, Californian beach tewas bordering on the forests. Smuggled from dwelling to dwelling, the body, packed in spices and ice, finly reached Los Angeles where it was concealed in the spot the polic? discovered it, Members of the cult believed that the power of resurrection was invested in their high priests and Priestesses, and 300 eager followers awaited the day when Willa Rhoads, herself a cult priestess, would tap complete a book she was by "divine inspiration."
Linking the story of this allege embezzlement with reports received rom the Forest Guards of Santa Susanna that members of some restructed home, and confirm—the hopes and creed of those who long~ fed to be sure that when the time came that they, too, should die and he buried, their own resurrection Tigious cult had been seen beneath] would not by far off, were their fu-"the giant redwoods dancing in the] erals conducted with the sine my-nue around the bodies of " two] aterians rites slaughtered mules, police raided Ube home of Mr. and Mrs, Willian Titan Rhoads, to find the body of their] During the years of waiting for ~dauzhter, Willa Rhoads, we this proof of their belief, ritual "died "mors than three yeara more. secret and. mysterious than ying ina cetin. beneath hat of any known religious saciery edvosm, alongside another developed. Converts we ous containing the bodies of Bathered dogs, which, according to her parents, had been Willa Rhoads pets.
The Proof of their Faith The girl, her parents told the Ipolice, had died nearly four years before from diphtheria. Her death: had not been reported and the body was concealed and for fourtech months had been hidden in the Kuomintang with the Comminist *Party as soon a3 a strong foot. hold. was secured. - Matters had Jreached such a stage that a split vas precipitated between the Left fand Right Wings, and the seat of {fhe government was established by the Right Wing members at Nan-King.
Turning back to Dr. Sun's ideas con Socialism we find that the Com-Imunists argue that the late Kuo-Inintang leader was attempting Iyeach a. certain stage of Com-\reniam when, he expounded his principle of iihood for the {People," but other Kuomintang, members interpret this doctrine as an approach to a mild sort of Socialism. Dr. Sun himself dejclated that the principle of "Live-IMihood for the People" is neither: Socialism, Marxism nor Utopianism. Whatever may be said about the doctrines of the man who spent 'a greater part of his life in revolationary work, it is quite evident that he was always opposed to the teachings - of class hatred which are being practised in Russia today: but his leanings toward were a result of circumstances: because just at that time Russi seemed to be the only country that was "friendly" to the. aspirations of China for equality among the nations of the world, In the ceret chamber of the cult, wily enibossed "with gold.
"Second Messiah"
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