Theos-Talk Archives (January 2005 Message tt00746)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, ringding777@t... wrote:


> Pedro, the letters of Mead about the CWL scandal 
> and Mead's and other prominent Theoosphists 
> decision to leave the Adyar TS have survived up to 
> the 1990'ies in the shelves of the Adyar TS HQ in 
> Den Hagg, The Netherlands. A friend of mine who 
> has an interest in theosophical history (but is 
> not prominent) has dicovered them there. The 
> officials there allowed him to make photocopies of 
> it, but the toner of the copy machine was empty 
> and is was weekend so they agreed that he can make 
> the photocopies on Monday when they have new 
> toner.
> 
> Over weekend the female leader there seems to have 
> get instructions, because when my friend arrived 
> again at the HQ she denied him the access to the 
> letters, telling him that she has phoned with 
> Adyar and they ordered her to send all Mead 
> letters collection to Adyar HQ.
> 
> Now one knows what has become in the meantime of 
> the letters. Perhaps they lay them into the hot 
> sun like the Judge letters to Annie Besant in the 
> hope they will rottten soon. And as it is then the 
> sun and not they themselves (as they think 
> according to Joy Mills) who has destroyed the 
> letters it is not they who earn the bad karma for 
> it but the sun!
> Frank


Frank:

When the first accusations against Leadbeater were made public, in 
February 1906, G.R.S. Mead was co-editor, with Annie Besant, of "The 
Theosophical Review" (the successor to "Lucifer", which was founded 
by HPB in 1887). Because Besant was at that time living in India 
(Benares), Mead was practically its sole editor. The Leadbeater case 
was fully discussed in the TR, and several of the open letters 
circulated at that time (mostly against Leadbeater) were published, 
although statements by Besant published in "The Theosophist" were 
also reprinted, not without strong editorial critique by Mead.

Collections of "The Theosophical Review" have been available in many 
TS libraries around the world for over one hundred years.


Pedro