Theos-Talk Archives (August 2001 Message tt00272)

I'm sorry I can't suggest where you may find a copy of my biography of 
Leadbeater - as far as I know it is long out of print, and difficult to 
obtain even through the major secondhand dealers. I hope, one day, to 
make my PhD thesis on the same topic available - but it runs to some 1200 
pages in 3 volumes and is hardly likely to commend itself to any 
commercial publisher! It would also now require the insertion of 
considerable additional material which I have found since the book (1982) 
and the thesis (1986) were written. The additional material expands the 
original conclusions, but does not change them in any way. For example, I 
know have much more material on the early history of the Liberal Catholic 
Church, on the origins of the Egyptian Rite, on Leadbeater's ES writings 
and the history of Co-Masonry. Plus more biographical details on come of 
the marginal figures in the story. However, I would now consider that my 
work needs to be read in the light of that of my colleague, Dr Brendan 
French, whose PhD thesis (submitted this year) is entitled: "The 
Theosophical Masters: An Investigation into the Conceptual Domains of 
H.P. Blavatsky and C.W. Leadbeater" This outstanding work in the history 
of ideas (which runs to 800+ pages) will (I hope) be published within the 
next year or so.

Dr Gregory Tillett