Theos-Talk Archives (October 2003 Message tt00317)

In 1901 as well as 1902, Robert Crosbie said:

". . . Katherine Tingley . . . was appointed by William Q. Judge as 
his successor." [1901]

". . . We feel that he [Judge] knows of the self-sacrificing efforts 
made by the faithful ones, and that those efforts have been called 
forth by his chosen successor [Mrs. Tingley], of whom he said, 'she 
is true as steel, as clear as diamond, and as lasting as time.' " 
[1902]

C.F. Willard in the 1930s wrote:

"I know now that Judge never designated Katherine Tingley as his 
successor, although Robert Crosbie assured me that he [Judge] had and 
[Crosbie] also told me he had seen Judge's occult diary in which it 
was so stated. I know now from the custodian of that diary and who 
now has it, that he [Judge] designated some one by the symbol of the 
three-barred cross as his successor and she [Tingley] claimed that 
[sign] meant her." 

"Later Crosbie came to me after he had left Point Loma [1904] and 
said that she never had been appointed by Judge. I recalled to him 
that he had said after Judge's death when he returned to Boston that 
he had and he denied it, and I told him either he was lying then or 
had been lying in Boston." 

We know that after he left Mrs. Tingley's organization in 1904 that 
Crosbie changed his mind and denied that WQJ had appointed KT.

But my question is: 

Did Crosbie ever deny that he had ever said what he did in the above 
statements from 1901 and 1902? Or did he simply say he once believed 
those statements but later came to the conclusion that they were not 
true?

Daniel