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==Mystical beliefs==
==Mystical beliefs==
Wallace was interested in mysticism,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ClaySHbUEogC&pg=RA2-PA63 Introduction to New and Alternative Religions in America: African diaspora traditions and other American innovations]</ref> and joined the [[Theosophical Society]] on June 6, 1925.<ref>[http://www.theosophical.org/publications/1606 Theosophy on War and Peace]</ref> His early life was in the Presbyterian Church, at college he became skeptical for a brief interval, but turned again to what he called "the necessity of believing in God, imminent as well as transcendental." He began attending the Roman Catholic Church, but later switched to the High Episcopal Church.
Wallace was interested in mysticism,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ClaySHbUEogC&pg=RA2-PA63 Introduction to New and Alternative Religions in America: African diaspora traditions and other American innovations]</ref> and joined Madame Blavatsky's [[Theosophical Society]] on June 6, 1925.<ref>[http://www.theosophical.org/publications/1606 Theosophy on War and Peace]</ref> His early life was in the Presbyterian Church, at college he became skeptical for a brief interval, but turned again to what he called "the necessity of believing in God, imminent as well as transcendental." He began attending the Roman Catholic Church, but later switched to the High Episcopal Church.
Several journalists have written about him say that he had probed into Buddhism, Confucianism and other mysteries and beliefs of the Orient, and that he studied [[astrology]] and knew how horoscopes were drawn.
Several journalists have written about him say that he had probed into Buddhism, Confucianism and other mysteries and beliefs of the Orient, and that he studied [[astrology]] and knew how horoscopes were drawn.