Theos-Talk Archives (January 2005 Message tt00408)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel H. Caldwell" 
<danielhcaldwell@y...> wrote:

Not really, Daniel. But a question that arises from the Martyn 
testimony posted below is this: if it was part of the Sydney Police 
Investigation - remember, it was made widely public, both in 
Australia and in the US at the time - what caused the judicial 
authorities not to formally charge and prosecute Leadbeater? 

Pedro


> Gregory Tillett: "Why did Leadbeater invariably 
> sleep with a young boy in his bed?"
> 
> Gregory Tillett wrote in THE ELDER BROTHER:
> 
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> T. H. Martyn, a leading
> Australian Theosophist, had invited CWL to live in his home
> after his own son's tutor had gone to war in 1915. CWL stayed
> until 1917. One day, Mrs. Martyn [said]....
> 
> "I saw Oscar [Kollerstrom, an adolescent] in a state of nudity
> in the bed with Mr. Leadbeater and Heyting also naked. He
> walked out of the room naked to his bed which was on the
> verandah...and I saw Mr. Leadbeater getting into bed where
> Oscar was and the light extinguished."(p. 198)
> 
> T.H. Martyn
> concluded from observation of CWL and boys that "Mr. Leadbeater
> as as a motive and apart from any philanthropic purpose the
> gratification of a perverted sex impulse...his relations with
> some boys (probably not all the boys around him) has been for
> his personal sex gratification....
> 
> .....Why did Leadbeater
> invariably sleep with a young boy in his bed? And why did he
> invariably have a boy in the bath with him? It has been argued
> that his weak heart necessitated such companionship for fear he
> might have some sort of attack whilst alone; but does
> companionship require mutual nakedness in close proximity? And
> why did Leadbeater insist on communal bathing for his pupils at
> the Manor, with all of them in the bathroom, naked, at the same
> time? He was given an enema every morning by one or other of
> his pupils, in the presence of the others while they bathed.
> This, said the close associated of Leadbeater's who told of the
> morning ritual, may have given rise to misinterpretations. One
> could understand why."(280)
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