California
regionReal-world: California, United States
The state where, during the 1925 disturbances, a dispatch described a theosophist colony donning white robes en masse for some 'glorious fulfilment' which never arrived.
The state appears as one cutting among many, filed for the pattern it belonged to rather than for itself: a colony putting on white robes together, on a date, for an event that did not come.
The dispatch names neither the colony nor the fulfilment it expected, and the record does not return to California to say what became of either.
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Every fact above traces back to the text.
“A dispatch from California describes a theosophist colony as donning white robes en masse for some "glorious fulfilment" which never arrives, whilst items from India speak guardedly of serious native unrest toward the end of March.”
The Call of Cthulhu (1928) — Chapter 1, The Horror in Clay