Theos-Talk Archives (April 2004 Message tt00434)

Hallo all,

Yeah...
Good.

Gregory is better than Chuck.
(smile...)

from
M. Sufilight with peace and love...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "gregory" <gregory@zeta.org.au>
To: <theos-talk@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 8:45 AM
Subject: Theos-World Leadbeater as Prophet


> While it may be claimed that some of Leadbeater's very general claims
> about the future may bear an approximation to what happened, they hardly
> carry the stamp of originality: read, for example, some of Leadbeater's
> favourite authors like H.G. Wells.
> It is Leadbeater's specific claims to knowledge based on his psychic
> abilities that ought to most carefully assessed. My view is that there is
> not a single piece of information presented by Leadbeater as deriving
> from his clairvoyance that (a) was not known at the time or (b) was not
> so vague as be be untestable or (c) has not subsequently been shown to be
> false. Examples of alleged accurate prophecy would be welcomed!
>
> A few examples:
>
> (i) Life on Mars - a detailed description of the grography, people,
> architecture, etc, of Mars is provided in "The Inner Life" (TPH, Adyar,
> 1917 - one volume edition - pages 275-285). It bears no relation to what
> is now scientifically known of Mars.
>
> (ii) Life on Mercury - "The Inner Life" (TPH, Adyar, 1917 - one volume
> edition - pages 284). Its inhabitants are "much like ourselves", although
> "somewhat smaller." The claims bear no relation to what is now
> scientifically known of Mercury.
>
> (iii) Remains of civilization on the moon - strangely undiscovered as
> yet. "Man: Whence, How and Whither", TPH, Adyar, 1913:48
>
> (iv) Claims about the nature and place of the origin of the Christian
> Gospels, and their dating: "The Inner Life" (TPH, Adyar, 1917 - one
> volume edition - pages 119-20). Leadbeater claims the Gospels were all
> written at one time in a monastery at Alexandria and based on original
> written in Hebrew. The origin of the Gospels has, it might be said, be
> endlessly explored; strangely, no single scholar supports Leadbeater's
> claim.
>
> (v) the cause of cancer: cancer cells were "exactly like the normal cell
> except that it was a looking glass image of it." (quoted in C.
> Jinarajadasa "Occult Investigations" TPH, Adyar, 1938:58)
>
> Finally, some of the prophecies which accompanied those quoted by Mr
> Oliveira (but which he did not cite): the government of Britain will be
> entirely in the hands of the King, parliament will be abolished; India
> will remain part of the British Empire but be divided into several
> kingdoms; Central Africa will be like Switzerland and full of grand
> hotels.
>
> And of the TS? It will become a vast and powerful organization, "a
> distinct department in the world's sciences," and publishing huge
> quantities of literature. It will operate "big establishments and
> universities" in all the major nations of the world. The headquarters at
> Adyar will include a vast "georgeous palace" bigger than the Taj Mahal.
> The TS will own both the Adyar River and the land on both sides of it,
> together with an additional square mile along the ocean. ("Man: Whence,
> How and Whither", TPH, Adyar, 1913:460-466)
>
>
> This, of course, leaves aside Leadbeater's explicit racism. In an article
> reproduced in "The Liberal Catholic" ('The Method of Human Progress'
> XXXIII: June 1, 1961) he writes happily about the "untrammelled savage",
> "an utterly undeveloped human being" who could hope to evole into "the
> highest, the most developed race in the world" - which is the Aryan. He
> notes how vastly superior this race is to the Australian Aboriginal
> people. Perhaps this is Liberal Catholic teaching, since the then
> Presiding Bishop of that Church wrote, in 1994, on the situation in South
> Africa: "Over the years, evolution amongst the Blacks has progressed
> steadily, although by no means fast enough." ("The Liberal Catholic",
> LXIII July 2, 1994:7)
>
> Leadbeater suggested (in "Australian and New Zealand: The Home of a new
> Sub-Race", TPH, Adyar, 1916) that the inferior evolutionary position of
> the Australian Aboriginal people meant they should be "helped" to die out
> (although he was unspecific about the means whereby they might be thus
> "helped"), and that the (then) Australian government's "White Australia"
> policy (keeping Asians, Africans and other "non-white" people out of the
> country) was occultly necessary to prevent inter-racial marriage in the
> Master's plan for the development of a new (white) sub-race. Has the TPH
> recently re-published this interesting work? Perhaps for widespread
> distribution in Australia?
>
> Dr Gregory Tillett
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