Theos-Talk Archives (January 2005 Message tt00426)

With reference to the below excerpts from the writings of C. W. Leadbeater... 

A trusted friend of mine told me he met an "Adept" who claimed to be a former 
Chela of Morya, who told him that CWL was an impostor and confidence man who 
latched onto Annie Besant when G. B. Shaw threw her out after CWL duped her 
into abandoning her militant socialism. According to this account, he needed 
her help to take over the leadership of the Theosophical Society in order to 
transform it into a new Christianized religion -- with his protégée, J. 
Krishnamurti, as their returned Christ-Messiah... His purpose, apparently, was to 
attract more members from the Christian community that could create a vast new 
audience for his writings, make him famous, and bolster his egomaniacal and 
probably homosexual desires. The supposed Adept also said that Besant was astrong 
willed and brilliant woman with a good heart in her own right, but who was also 
burdened with a powerfully controlling father/guilt fixation (as her father 
died when she was 5 years old, this was most probably based on her mother's 
projected images) that eventually twisted her psyche and made her completely 
subservient to certain types of men of similar dominant character and appearance.  
 

Of course, in spite of trust in my friend's veracity and judgment, I took all 
that with a grain of salt... Although, on further thought, judging from the 
obvious discrepancies between the teachings of Leadbeater (and parroted by 
Besant) versus the teachings of metaphysical reality in the SD, as well as 
compared to my own long and deep studies of ancient occultism and Masonic lore -- I 
believe there are good reasons to consider that CWL could very well have been 
an impostor who used his powers of persuasion over Besant to infiltrate the 
Theosophical Society, and, through his self serving writings, take on the 
fabricated role of a direct student of the Masters (which they apparently denied) 
and, through such supposed sanction, bias the original objects of the 
Theosophical Movement toward the formation of a new messianic religion modeled on 
Catholicism with a modern liberal socialist twist ... That Besant -- considering her 
earlier work for the socialist movement in England prior to her joining the 
TS, and earlier turning away from church organized Christianity as practiced in 
Britain -- was easily persuaded to go along with.  

It was only through the wisdom of Krishnamurti that both CWL and AB were 
thwarted in this purpose -- which, incidentally, as I see it, was later picked up 
by Foster and Alice Bailey -- both of whom also played similar ego games that 
required distortion of the original teachings and, to gain credibility, clever 
fabrication of their personal linkage to the Masters (who reportedly 
informed HPB) by means of supposed telepathic communication with the ChohanDwal Kul. 
In my study of these writings in comparison to the previous theosophical 
literature, this dialogue, none of it having any more originality than the 
channelings of Seth or Rampa, could have been completely made up out of oldsalt.

It's obvious that the current Lucis Trust, based on the teachings of AAB 
which parrot CWL, and preying on the gullibility based on blindly accepted 
messianic religious beliefs of its members, has effectively used this misinformation 
to infiltrate the United Nations as its spiritual councilor and religious 
guide. Unfortunately, in my view, this UN foray appears to be an attempt to 
promote the idea that the only solution to world problems is a dictatorial world 
governance by a hierarchy of descended Masters led by a Christlike Maitreya-- 
which is in direct opposition to the theosophical idea taken up by America's 
founding fathers and sanctioned by HPB and the masters... i.,e.; That each of us 
must take personal responsibility for our own governance, and that leadership 
through organized government should be based solely on true democratic 
principles effectively carried out "of the people, by the people, and for the 
people" -- without influence by any religion or religious system based on blind 
belief or faith in a personal god, gods or Masters (who have repeatedly reiterated 
that they take no part in political activities or interference in personal 
karma of individual personalities or their groups).

However, if any one believes all that without careful thought and detailed 
comparative study and analysis of all the true metaphysical teachings -- they 
are in the same camp of all those who believe, without valid thought or careful 
judgment, that CWL ever met a Master or ever knew anything about the mystical 
reality he spoke about -- which, apparently, he did gather and twist and 
distort for his own purposes from the vast amount of valid public information 
about metaphysics that was around after HPB published the Secret Doctrine and 
revealed all her sources.

In this light, I think any writing of CWL, AB or AAB, that does not agree 
with the fundamental metaphysical teachings, as presented clearly by HPB inthe 
SD and her other writings, as well as by WQJ, should be taken with a double 
grain of salt.

Leonardo



In a message dated 01/12/05 12:54:01 PM, AnandGholap@AnandGholap.org writes:

>
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>" THERE has been among Theosophical students a great deal of vagueness
>and uncertainty about the Masters, so perhaps it may help us to realize
>how natural Their lives are, and how there is an ordinary physical side
>to them, if I say a few words about the daily life and appearance of some
>of Them. There is no one physical characteristic by which an Adept can
>be infallibly distinguished from other men, but He always appears impressive,
>noble, dignified, holy and serene, and anyone meeting Him could hardly
>fail to recognize that he was in the presence of a remarkable man. He is
>the strong but silent man, speaking only when He has a definite object
>in view, to encourage, to help or to warn, yet He is wonderfully benevolent
>and full of a keen sense of humour-- humour always of a kindly order, used
>never to wound, but always to lighten the troubles of life. The Master
>Morya once said that it is impossible to make progress on the occult Path
>without a sense of humour, and certainly all the Adepts whom I have seen
>have possessed that qualification. 
> 48. Most of
>Them are distinctly fine-looking men; Their physical bodies are practically
>perfect, for They live in complete obedience to the laws of health, and
>above all They never worry about anything. All Their evil karma has long
>been exhausted, and thus the physical body is as perfect an expression
>of the Augoeides or glorified body of the ego as the limitations of the
>physical plane will allow, so that not only is the present body of an Adept
>usually splendidly handsome, but also new body that He may take in a 
subsequent
>incarnation is likely to be an almost exact reproduction of the old one,
>allowing for racial and family differences, because there is nothing to
>modify it. This freedom from karma gives Them, when for any reason They
>choose to take new bodies, entire liberty to select a birth in any country
>or race that may be convenient for the work that They have to do, and thus
>the nationality of the particular bodies which They happen to be wearing
>at any given time is not of primary importance. 
>
> 49. To know
>that a certain man is an Adept it would be necessary to see His causal
>body, for in that His development would show by its greatly increased size,
>and by a special arrangement of its colours into concentric spheres, such
>as is indicated to some extent in the illustration of the causal body of
>an Arhat (Plate xxvi) in Man, Visible and Invisible. "
>
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>
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