Theos-Talk Archives (April 2004 Message tt00369)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Drpsionic@a... wrote:


> Sir John Woodruff (I think I got the spelling right) made hash of 
Leadbeater 
> in The Serpent Power. Motoyama is in the minority. The consensus 
among 
> modern researchers into the chakras is that Leadbeater was talking 
through his hat.
> 
> Chuck the Heretic


The preface to the first edition of "The Serpent Power" by Arthur 
Avalon, the pseudonym of John Woodroffe, is dated September 20, 1918. 
The Note to the second edition is dated October, 1922. "The Chakras" 
by C.W. Leadbeater was published originally in 1927. In it, 
Leadbeater quotes several passages of Woodroffe's "magnificent work". 

There is only one reference to Leadbeater in "The Serpent Power" 
(Introduction):

"There are other points of difference which the reader will discover 
for himself, but into which I do not enter, as my object in comparing 
the two accounts has been to establish a contrast between this modern 
account and that of the Indian schools. I may, however, add that the 
differences are not only as to details. The style of thought differs 
in a way not easy shortly to describe, but which will be quickly 
recognized by those who have some familiarity with the Indian 
Scriptures and modes of thought. The latter is ever disposed to 
interpret all processes and their results from a subjective point of 
view, though for the purposes of Sadhana the objective aspect is not 
ignored. The Indian theory is highly philosophical. Thus, to take but 
one instance, whilst the Rt. Rev. Leadbeater attributes the power of 
becoming large and small at will (Anima and Mahima Siddhi) to a 
flexible tube or "microscopic snake" in the forehead, the Hindu says 
that all powers (Siddhi) are the attributes (Aishvarya) of the Lord 
Ishvara, or Creative Consciousness, and that in the degree that the 
Jiva realizes that consciousness he shares the powers inherent in the 
degree of his attainment." 

Pedro