Re: Theos-World Leadbeater's Testimony concerning two encounters with the Master Morya
Jul 29, 2004 09:05 AM
by Morten N. Olesen
Hallo all,
Maybe 1851 is an esoteric number or a spelling error.
The true year is 1861 or...?
from
M. Sufilight
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel H. Caldwell" <danielhcaldwell@yahoo.com>
To: <theos-talk@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 7:05 AM
Subject: Theos-World Leadbeater's Testimony concerning two encounters with
the Master Morya
> In the MASTERS AND THE PATH, C.W. Leadbeater
> wrote the following:
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> 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.
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> . . . 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."
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> Caps added.
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> 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."
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> 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??!!
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> 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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