Theos-Talk Archives (January 2005 Message tt00517)

In a message dated 1/17/05 3:09:20 AM Central Standard Time, 
silva_cass@yahoo.com writes:

<< I don't think he is interested in sex at all, with anyone, but that's 
only my opinion and it is often wrong. Leadbeater on the other hand seduced with 
spiritual power. I am currently trying to research the 8th Sphere and all 
that is not said about it in the SD. HPB is always warning us of the two paths, 
and I want to know as much as I can about the other one, so that I don't end 
up on it.
>>

The evidence would seem to be, and of course this is subject to change, that 
Michael Jackson is very much interested in sex. But I think you are right 
about Leadbeater using spiritual power for seduction. His article on talismans 
in one of the old issues of The Theosophist was one of the best on the subject 
I have ever read so his knowledge certainly was genuine.

Of course we have no first-hand information about how far the Bishop actually 
went and with everyone who knew him now dead it is unlikely we are going to 
find out unless someone decides to hold a seance. So we have to admit Bart's 
and Pedro's doubts about his guilt.

On the other hand, Gregory makes a very good case for the Bishop being guilty 
though I think he does not understand the role that political influence plays 
in police activity and Theosophists have a history of finding themselves in 
positions of influence, particularly in that period. (Even later on, William 
Wallace was Vice President of the United States from 1941-1945. Likewise, Lord 
Dowding, who commanded the RAF during the Battle of Britain and who had the 
unique distinction of being the only Theosophist ever to be portrayed by Sir 
Laurence Olivier.) A Christian anti-cult author, Walter Martin, writing of 
Theosophy, referred specifically to "The politically powerful Theosophical Society" 
in his book Kingdom of the Cults published in the early 1970's, long after 
the worldly influence of the TS had waned. That influence certainly was 
sufficient to block any police action against the Bishop in early part of the 20th 
century, thus rendering any official police report worthless. (Such things are 
not to be relied upon in any case, usually they are a pack of lies intended to 
make the cops look good.) Joseph Conrad, in his novel, The Secret Agent, 
gives a very good description of the influences that controlled police activity 
in the late 19th and early 20th century.

So, with the total unreliability of the police reports as well as the 
peculiar personalities of the Bishops contemporary defenders and opponents, it is 
difficult to say what really happened with any certainty, except that whatever 
did happen seems to have been highly unsavory, we think.

Chuck the Heretic