Theos-Talk Archives (February 2005 Message tt00773)

>> First, I ask you to pardon me for the extensive posts.
I cannot put this in any website... and I am much interested to 
promote it...
It is not my intention to create polemic... but to give account on 
the 'other side of history'
We cannot understant, as one once said, the french resistance by 
materials from the Gestapo
The most things we hear about it comes from the socitey which 
supported Leadbeater and made efforts to erase the material against 
him
So my intention is to show another point of view
The opinion of one of Blavatsky's inner pupils.
Who also quotes the opinion of Mr. Kingsland and gives us plenty 
material to think about
I can only ask you to take a look at it, with an open mind
it is the truth that we should seek
not to promulgate only the opinions that fit better with the things 
that are better to us to believe.
I let someone who knew blavatsky and experienced all the problems the 
T.S went trought after her death speak for herself.
Maybe her, being there at that time can explain the situation better.
The comments between << .. >> are mine.
I think the book was publishe in 1924...or something near this date
I quoted parts of it...


H.P.BLAVATSKY - A GREAT BETRAYAL
Alice Cleather


Foreword

This protest has been undertaken at the earnest and repeated request 
of Theosophical friends of long standing. They feel strongly thath 
the time has come for one of H.P.Blavatsky's old pupils, who was a 
member of her Inner Group, to demonstrate as clearly as possible that 
the teachings promulgated for nearly twenty years past by the present 
leaders of the "Theosophical Society" have departed more and more 
from H.P.B's.
Since Mr. G.R.S.Mead, one of my fellow-members of the Inner 
Group, spoke out at the Leadbeater Inquiry of 1906, and resigned, no 
other surviving member has attempetd to stem the awful and ever 
increasing tide of horror and delusion that has engulfed Mrs. 
Besant's Society. If Mr. Mead could say in 1906 "We stand on the 
brink of an abyss", what is to be said now?
... after spending some years on the Continent, and met some of the 
members who had lef Mrs. Besant in more recent years.. I learnt of 
the appaling developments since she became President and installed 
the sex pervert Leadbeater as supreme esoteric teacher.
I feel that I should be failing in my duty, and false to the 
solemn Pledges I have taken, if I did not now do my utmoust to clear 
H.P.B's name from these horrible associations.


Introductory

For the past fifteen years, despite repeated scandals, 
exposures, and even the damning evidence produced in various court 
cases, Mrs. Besant still persist in her blind and fanatical support 
of the sex pervert and pseudo-occultist C.W.Leadbeater...
... I have no personal quarrel with Mrs. Besant... I had 
already been a member of the Society for four years when Mr. Besant 
joined in 1889... I feel I am in a position to review the facts... In 
fact, I can no longer remain silent in the face of so much that is 
abhorrent to every true Theosophist, to every devoted follower of 
H.P.Blavatsky, her Masters and teachings.
... when in 1891 H.P.B passed away nine years before the 
limit of time within which the Masters' help could be given, it was 
because They saw that the T.S. had definitely failed, that it could 
no longer be kept alive
[ "... there remain but a few years to the last our of the term – 
namely, till December the 31st, 1899.. {H.P.Blavatsky in the `Book of 
Rules', E.S.T. 1888)]
Writing of the shameful way in which she was thrown overboard 
by the T.S.Council at Adyar in their cowardly panic during the crisis 
of 1884-85, H.P.B. says: "It was during that time that the seed of 
all future strifes were planted by our enemies.. In a letter received 
from Damodar in 1886 he notified me that the Masters' influence is 
becoming with every day weaker at Adyar". Further on in the letter 
H.P.B refers to Adyar, and to an invitation to return to India 
which "came too late... nor can I, if I would be true to my life-
pledge and vows, now live at the Headquarters from which the Masters 
and Their spirit are virtually banished. The presence of their 
portraits will not help; They are a dead letter." Yet, Mrs. Besant 
ask us to believe that they returned when she was elected President 
in 1907 and even nominated her!
In the same letter H.P.B says that "during the eleven years 
of the existence of the Theosophical Society I have known a lot of 
chelas on probation, hundreds of lay candidates – only three who have 
not hitertho failed, and one only who had a full sucess" Damodar is 
the only chela she ever spoke of as a "full sucess" in her lifetime;
<< where is leadbeater?..-Alaya >>
..In the late spring Mrs. Besant paid a hasty visit to 
Australia... the cause is always the same; scandals inevitably arise, 
and Australia has proved no exception. Mr. Leadbeater is a "bishop" 
of the "Liberal Catholic Church", an anomalous body warmly supported 
and encouraged within the T.S by Mrs. Besant.
... neither Judge nor Besant were in England when H.P.B died. 
The E.S Council decided that they should carry on the Esoteric School 
as joint Outer Heads in place of H.P.B.