Theos-Talk Archives (January 2005 Message tt00485)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Drpsionic@a... wrote:

> In a message dated 1/16/05 9:56:02 AM Central Standard Time, 
> danielhcaldwell@y... writes:
> 
> << 
> Surely after the 1906 scandel Mr. Leadbeater
> should have known the "bad publicity" such behavior
> (even if totally innocent) would have 
> upon himself, Mrs. Besant, the Theosophical
> Society and also on the Masters and Theosophy.


> Second, he had the Supreme Enabler in the person of Mrs. Besant, 
who was 
> pretty much incapable of rational thought and who thought that the 
Evil Bishop was 
> a gift from the Gods. The weight of her influence made any 
effective 
> sanction of the Bishop in the TS virtually impossible.


He resigned in 1906 after violent protests from American and English 
TS members and the meeting of the London Advisory Board, which he 
attended and was treated as a defendant in a court room.


> Third, and this cannot be overestimated, in the crowd that ran the 
TS during 
> the Besant period, Leadbeater was the most likeable (and possibly 
the most 
> sane!) and people genuinely seem to have enjoyed being around 
him. Many 
> seriously revered him. That fact put him a very good defensive 
position because if 
> someone is really liked, it is very difficult to attack him 
without being 
> isolated yourself. The people who disliked the Bishop came across 
as such 
> insufferable fuddie-duddies that no one cared what they had to say.


I would not call G.R.S. Mead, Bertram Keightley and A. P. Sinnett 
fuddie-duddies.


Pedro