Theos-Talk Archives (January 2005 Message tt00402)

Hello Pedro,
All you say is true, the bible had a big influence on the world as
well .....but I still cant ignore all the evidence that seems to show
he was a pedophile and a liar.

Perry


--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "prmoliveira" <prmoliveira@y...> wrote:
> 
> --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Perry Coles" <perrycoles@y...>
wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> > The question you ask regarding the Mahatmas letter to CWL is a very 
> > valid and interesting one I think.
> > 
> > Leadbeater must have shown some potential.
> > Some of his commentaries on the spiritual path in talks on the path 
> > of occultism for example show quite a bit of insight imo. (Albeit a 
> > very Augustinian style) 
> > 
> > It's a shame he lost the plot and got caught up in his own ego and 
> > psychic delusions and then took Annie Besant along with him.(claiming 
> > to be Arhats, second comings, church-iness ect.)
> > 
> > To me the evidence seems pretty conclusive that he was a child 
> > molester and a pathological liar, I can't ignore all the evidence 
> > that clearly shows that.
> > 
> > So why if these tendencies were so strong in his skandas did the 
> > Mahatmas encourage him to become more involved in the TS?
> > 
> > I have to say this is a mystery to me.
> > 
> > Perhaps the Mahatma's saw more than the negative side of him and 
> > wanted to encourage his more harmonious qualities.
> > It is said that as we grow in awareness our shadow grows along side 
> > to our light.
> > 
> > My hope is that one day the Adyar Society will be mature enough to 
> > allow an open critique and comparison of his teachings with those of 
> > Blavatsky and the Mahatma's.... that's all.
> > 
> > The personality Charles Leadbeater was plainly a very human one but 
> > one that had charm and charisma and spun a good yarn but also had 
> > some spiritual insight as well.
> > His lower nature got the better of him and he crashed.
> 
> 
> And what a crash:
> 
> Over 1400 articles published in different theosophical magazines world
> wide in a span of forty six years.
> 
> Active membership in the TS from 1883 to 1906 amd from 1909 to 1934.
> Lectured for the Society in many continents. Almost a hundred books
> and booklets published and many countries.
> 
> His books, translated into many languages, brought the teachings of
> Theosophy to dozens of thousands in many continents. It is simply
> impossible to compute the number of students that proceeded to study
> the original literature of Theosophy after an introductory
> acquaintance through his books.
> 
> He was the theosophical author under the greatest and most
> comprehensive critical and public scrutiny in the past one hundred
> years, and attracted the attention of judicial authorities in India
> and Australia and was investigated upon, but never prosecuted.
> 
> In spite of countless references to him in books, articles and
> postings on the Internet as being a pedophile, child molester,
> sodomist, black magician, monster and rapist, which have assumed for
> some the status of oracular validity, his books continue to sell world
> wide, including at amazon.com.
> 
> His joint work with Annie Besant on Occult Chemistry has received
> renewed attention recently and is due to feature in a biography of the
> Nobel Prize for Chemistry of 1922 (Anston). Information has surfaced
> that Anston used at that time as a name for a newly discovered
> chemical element the same name previously attributed to it by
> Leabeater, without giving the due credit for it.
> 
> His observations on the inner aspect of ceremonies attracted the
> attention of many students, both within and outside the TS.
> 
> His books MAN VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE and THOUGHT FORMS (with Annie
> Besant) had a distinct influence in the works of Kandinski and other
> members of the Modern Art Movement. The original plates of those books
> formed part of an exhibition on Modern Art in Chicago in the 1980s.
> 
> He always saw has his duty to observe the inner realities of existence
> and to report his observations as accurately as possible. He declared,
> more than once, that he did not expect people to believe his
> clairvoyant descriptions of the unseen world, although he said that
> form him they were a reality. 
> 
> 
> His was indeed a mighty crash.
> 
> 
> Pedro