Theos-Talk Archives (January 2005 Message tt00769)

Pedro, thanks for your information. That means 
there is no reason for Adyar authorities to 
suppress the Mead letter collection to any 
researcher who comes to the Adyar archives.
Next time I hear of an acquaintance travelling to 
Adyar I will instruct him/her to have a look on 
it.
It would increase the reputation of Theosophy, as 
many German scholars which whom I spoke about 
Theosophy consider it not as serious as access to 
the archives is not allowed.
Frank


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "prmoliveira" <prmoliveira@yahoo.com>
To: <theos-talk@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 9:36 PM
Subject: Theos-World Re: Alice Bailey is a 
Problem! And so Leadbeatter...




--- 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