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Re: Leadbeater, Besant, Tingley, Purucker et al.

Feb 21, 2005 02:14 PM
by Alaya


"..that they played a nice evangelic duet for poor Krishnamurti"
that's what i was trying to say..

Thanks for the contribution on the article Vadimir

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Vladimir <forums@s...> wrote:
> 
> Hi All
> 
> Recently I've stumbled upon a nice compilation from a 
magazine
> "Theosophy" of 1935 entitled "Aftermath":
> 
> http://www.wisdomworld.org/additional/AFTERMATH-10-PartSeries/
> 
> This series is about the horde of HPB's "successors" and tells a 
lot
> about Besant and Leadbeater, Tingley and Purucker, 
Krishnamurti,
> Bailey and some others. The articles are somewhat pretty emotional 
and
> sometimes advertise the United Lodge of Theosophists more 
than
> necessary, but overall this is a very instructive narration 
filled
> with historical references.
> 
> The text clearly shows that Leadbeater _did_ influence Besant a 
lot,
> however free a thinker she might have been (sorry, Konstantin), 
and
> that they played a nice evangelic duet for poor Krishnamurti. 
And
> quotations from Purucker's circular letters dispelled faint traces 
of
> my interest to his voluminous treatises.
> 
> Best regards,
> Vladimir






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