Baby Starts 'Immortal' Life in Care of Metaphysicians Pictured with attendants is five-month-old Baby Jean, who has been adopted by a group of metaphysicians, called the Royal Fraternity of Master Metaphysicians, who will attempt to raise the child with immortality as their goal. The child's parents, too poor to bring her up, asked the organization, whose headquarters is the 110-room former Vanderbilt mansion here, to take care of her as they see fit. After the child is taken off her present food formula, she will become a strict vegetarian, following the practice of the organization's members. In the meantime she attends the classes in metaphysics at the mansion known as the Peace Heaven. The followers of the movement are firm believers in reincarnation. With the baby in the photo above, are Charlotte Schmidt, superintendent and House Mother (left); Eleanore Shehr, secretary (center), and nurse Louisa Kerfs.

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