Theos-Talk Archives (July 2004 Message tt00431)

Well, it doesn't look like this 1851 encounter had happened at all 
but it does make for a great story, doesn't it?

In the same MASTERS IN THE PATH, Leadbeater gives details about a 
ravine where the Masters all live with a diagram of the inside of 
KH's house, their everyday activities at home, etc. I couldn't help 
but be reminded of JRR Tolken. CWL would have made a great fantasy 
writer.

Ariel


--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel H. Caldwell" 
<danielhcaldwell@y...> wrote:
> In the MASTERS AND THE PATH, C.W. Leadbeater
> wrote the following:
> 
> =================================================
> 
> Madame Blavatsky . . . met the Master Morya 
> in Hyde Park, London, in the year 1851. . . . 
> STRANGELY ENOUGH, I myself, then a little child 
> of four, saw Him also. . . . Of course, I knew 
> nothing then [in 1851] of who He was, and I should 
> never have identified Him had it not been for 
> a gracious remark which He made to me many years 
> afterwards. 
> 
> . . . one day in His presence. . . He Himself. . .
> said [to me] ". . . Do you not remember, as a 
> tiny child, watching the Indian horsemen ride 
> past in Hyde Park, and did you not see how even then I 
> singled you out?" I remembered instantly, 
> of course, and said "Oh, Master, was
> that you? But I ought to have known it." 
> 
> =====================================================
> 
> Caps added.
> 
> Speaking of this encounter with the Master Morya in
> 1851, Leadbeater added that "the evidence of so small 
> a child might well be doubted or discounted."
> 
> Yes, many a reader might doubt or discount the
> testimony of a four year old boy. But what greater 
> doubt would such a reader have if he also discovered 
> that the small child in question was not even born 
> until 1854??!!
> 
> In light of (1) the birth record indicating the 1854
> birthdate, (2) the Anglican diocesan records showing
> the same 1854 date, (3) the marriage record showing
> that his parents were married in 1853, (4) that the
> 1854 birthdate is almost 9 months after his parents
> married, what is one to conclude about Leadbeater's
> testimony that in 1851 he (as a small child) saw Master
> Morya in London and that later in life the same Master 
> Morya specifically confirmed (according to Leadbeater)
> the 1851 encounter??
> 
> Daniel
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