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.
California appears among Professor Angell's press cuttings from the period of the 1925 disturbances: a dispatch described a theosophist colony there donning white robes en masse for some "glorious fulfilment" which never arrived.
The item stands in the record beside the other scattered cases of the same period gathered from around the world.
Sources
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