England until they attained their majority.
The defendant
also wanted the plaintiff to remove from Adyar, which he has
accordingly done.
The defendant has now returned to India,
and has purposely refrained from bringing the boys with her
to India in order to hamper the plaintiff in his efforts to
recover the boys.
9. The plaintiff states that all along the defendant has
been aware of the practices of Leadbeater, and that after she
reached England she took the boys again to Mr. Leadbeater
in Italy.
The plaintiff submits that the conduct of the defen-
dant as aforesaid renders her totally unfit to be in charge of
the boys.
The plaintiff further submits that the defendant
has been stating that the first boy, who is named Alcyone, is,
or is going to be, the Lord Christ, and sometimes that he is
Lord Maitreya, and she has induced a number of persons to
believe in this theory, with the result that the boy is deified,
and that a number of respectable persons prostrate before
him and show other signs of worship.
It is also given out
that the elder boy Wrote a book called Af the Fee! of the
Master, which the plaintiff has reasons to believe to be a
compilation made by Leadbeater.
In any case, the boy who
is not able to write a decent English letter is absolutely
incapable of producing such a work.
The plaintiff submits
that this course of conduct is calculated to warp the moral
nature of the boys and to make them moral degenerates.
The
defendant, beyond putting forward divine claims on
behalf of the boys, has not been taking proper care of their
education.
The first boy has not picked up the rudiments of
the English language
in spite of three years of alleged
tuition by English tutors.
The plaintiff submits that he,
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