. TK and the great work in America ; a defense of the true and ancient school of spiritual light. would otherwise haveremained vacant—$ which would pay for a lot ofhalo polish or cream for his cats. 3. In December, 1914, this Elder Brother or-dered the Book Co. (himself) to pay thesegirls $ per week, but at the same time providedthat out of this sum they should return to him at theend of the year all their savings above actual livingexpense. Briefly reviewing the TKs book Co., we fix inmind the following facts: 1. That the Indo-American Book Co. and TKare one and the same. 2. T
. TK and the great work in America ; a defense of the true and ancient school of spiritual light. would otherwise haveremained vacant—$ which would pay for a lot ofhalo polish or cream for his cats. 3. In December, 1914, this Elder Brother or-dered the Book Co. (himself) to pay thesegirls $ per week, but at the same time providedthat out of this sum they should return to him at theend of the year all their savings above actual livingexpense. Briefly reviewing the TKs book Co., we fix inmind the following facts: 1. That the Indo-American Book Co. and TKare one and the same. 2. That from Jan. 1, 1912, to Jan. 1, 1916, the totalbusiness of this Book Co. amounted to $91, 3. That over $130, worth of the HarmonicSeries were disposed of between 1899 and Jan, 1,1916. 4. That besides profits on his magazine and manythousands of copies of other books, he obtained vastsums of money thru various other—channels. 5. That in one instance alone he secured sumswhich, including interest, amounted to considerablyover $200, 146 TK AND THE GREAT WORK IN AMERICA. My Work is entirely a. G\ brings me no materialreward of ^ny last tenye&rs I have-vvrlttea over tkirty ttiou^niletters to Inquiring menand Women, to the. hc:$t of mu^feiJity, awd in t/ie-very /arrest numberof instances n>ve receive<LS-3 not even sornach as ^posta^*e stampfor re p?u. QUOTED FPOM LIFE AND ACTIONBOUND VOL. I, page 15. THE INDO-AMERICAN BOOK CO. 147 6. That it is simply impossible to estimate howmany hundreds of thousands of dollars he must haveaccumulated. 7. That TKs much advertised charity was ac-tually a source of profit, a dishonest bid for busi-ness and the meanest kind of betrayal of humanconfidence. 8. That from the inception of his Book Co., TKsecured and held all his employees at, and even belowthe barest living wage. And be it remembered thatthe very nature of his work was such that he couldnot employ any but the
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