Tacoma Times, 1915
“SEATTLE YOGA SCANDAL GROWS”
“CULT LEADERS BATHED LIKE SEPT. MORN”
#HindooHistory #Yoga
“SEATTLE YOGA SCANDAL GROWS”
“CULT LEADERS BATHED LIKE SEPT. MORN”
#HindooHistory #Yoga
“Lack of drapery appeared today as one of the chief beliefs of the leader of the Christian Yoga cult, Yogi Ralph DeBit, in his trial with Mrs. Dorothy Gerber before Justice Brinker for alleged misconduct”
“Like the character in ‘The Naked Truth,’ it appeared that the mystery of human life was unveiled, and the inner truth revealed to the elect only when earthly and statutory vestments were tossed away”
“Then one day, his utmost suspicions were justified when he walked into the office of the Yogi and found him standing as pure of earthly concealments as when he was born”
“This, said White, was in the presence of Mrs. Gerber, whom Dr. Rudolph Gerber of San Francisco knows as his wife, whom the world knows as DeBit’s wife, and whom the Yogi knows as Isona, a woman of wonderful understanding who was conducted into the society by the ceremonies...”
“B.B. Phillips also testified that he had seen DeBit, undraped, and a woman, who looked like September Morn, bathing in Lake Washington near the select colony, Beaux Arts”
“The husband, Dr. Gerber, is an interested spectator at the trial”
“WHENCE WOMAN CAME”
“An extract from the Christian Yoga Monthly, by which DeBit is editor, gave the following conception...”
“An extract from the Christian Yoga Monthly, by which DeBit is editor, gave the following conception...”
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