![]() These can only be found within yourselves. “So you will see how absurd is the whole structure that you have built, looking for external help, depending on others for your comfort, for your happiness, for your strength. That key is your own self, and in the development and the purification and in the incorruptibility of that self alone is the Kingdom of Eternity. No one has the authority to hold that key. “Again, you have the idea that only certain people hold the key to the Kingdom of Happiness. As I said, if there were even one man who had been set free, that were enough. ‘How many followers have you? By their number we shall judge whether what you say is true or false.’ I do not know how many there are. “‘How many members are there in it?’ That is the first question I am asked by all newspaper reporters. But that is what you are doing when organizations become your chief concern. You use a typewriter to write letters, but you do not put it on an altar and worship it. No man from outside can make you free nor can organized worship, nor the immolation of yourselves for a cause, make you free nor can forming yourselves into an organization, nor throwing yourselves into works, make you free. This is an excerpt from his speech declaring this dissolution: ![]() ![]() On August 3, 1929, the opening day of the annual Star Camp at Ommen, Holland, Krishnamurti dissolved the Order before 3000 members. J Krishnamurti, the anticipated and pronounced World Teacher, was made Head of the Order. The Order of the Star in the East was founded in 1911 to proclaim the coming of the World Teacher. ![]()
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