Theos-Talk Archives (January 2005 Message tt00899)

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Dennis

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From: "Perry Coles" <perrycoles@yahoo.com>
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Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 8:09 PM
Subject: Theos-World Anand and Pedro re Leadbeater


>
>
> Some issues for consideration about Leadbeater and his teachings -
>
> Few of us claim any special spiritual status that Leadbeater did.
> He therefore has put himself as fair game to be put under the
> spotlight of scrutiny for theosophical students as we try and assess
> the veracity of his writings and claims.


> And now, thanks to Anand Gholap's recent "recommendation" to read
> J
> Michael McBride's article from Yale University, we find
> Leadbeater
> and Annie Besant using similar techniques for their work "Occult
> Chemistry".

DK>>>>>>>>>>>
And then there is the passage from Earnest Wood, in "Is This
Theosophy", reprinted by Kessinger. Wood says that CWL didn't have
time to write books, so he, (Wood), took CWL's lecture notes, and
wrote those books himself from the notes. He also claims that he could
imitate the styles of CWL or Annie Besant so well that niether of
them, when they read the result, could tell whether they or Wood had
written the material.

So, who wrote CWL's, and Annie Besant's Occult Chemistry? and might
not similar techniques be blamed on others rather than the "authors"?

Dennis