Re: Theos-World Who else in TS history caused such disruption?
Jan 16, 2005 12:07 PM
by prmoliveira
--- 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
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