Theos-Talk Archives (February 2005 Message tt00779)

Mrs. Besant responsibility and the Madras Law-suits.

M. Lévy concluding chapter, from which I will now quote, is obviously 
written from the heart. He says that it is his `imperative duty' to 
resign his membership in Mrs. Besan'ts Society, referring to THE PAIN 
CAUSED TO HER OLD FRIENDS by the opinion expressed by the police 
court magistrate in the defamation cases...
"In restoring to Mr. Leadbeater his influence over herself and over 
the destinies of the T.S she has proved her failure in moral 
vigilance and her lack of intellectual discrimination as regards 
methods to which she thus falls the frist victim.... I have come to 
regard the actions of Mrs. Besand and of Mr. Leadbeater as the leaven 
of destruction, of disintegration in the Theosophical Society.
"... further LEGAL PROCEEDINGS HAVE CONFIRMED,, with yet more 
precision, THE INFAMOUS IMMORALITY OF WHICH Mr.LEADBEATER STANDS 
ACCUSED... Mr. Leadbeater's methods have been proved by his own 
admissions as well as by documents before the Court to be subversive 
of morality..."
These facts [I omit the worst detail that M. Lévy feels obliged to 
quote] condemn Mr. Leadbeater without possibility of appeal; they 
reveal to us, with regard to Mrs. Besant, a truly degrading 
complaisance, by reason of her desire to hide a crime as a patent as 
it is abominable... the members of the T.S. are kept in complete 
ignorance regarding these facts.




The Central Hindu College. An Indian Criticism

... J.K. (Alcyone) would be the vehicle of the "coming Christ –
Maitreya-Bodhisattva"
... C.W.Leadbeater, well knew to be almost irresistible baits for 
sensitive and imaginative youths at a highly impressionable age.
... In the summer of 1911 there was started by Mrs. Besant a written 
pledge of absolute obedience to herself.
... Whether Mrs. Besant knows it or not, Mr. Leadbeater undoubtedly 
must be well aware that life and strength can be drawn, on inner 
planes of being, from the blind devotion of a solid body of fanatical 
votaries. "Magicians" of a certain school thus prolong their lives 
through the magnetic and vital emanations of their nearest and most 
devoted followers. In a word, it is Vampirism, pure and simple, on 
the psychic plane... Mr. Leadbeater has done it consciously... in 
a "Letter in reply to Mrs. Besant" which appeared in the Theosophic 
Voice (chicago) November 1908, is written: - "If we are to believe 
the stenographic report of the Inquiry in 1906 we must come to the 
conclusion that Mr. Leadbeater DID THINGS WHICH WOULD HAVE BROUGHT 
HIM THE PALE OFTHE CRIMINAL LAWS FOR THE FOULEST AND MOST INDECENT 
OFFENCE WHICH BRUTA MAN MAY COMMIT. THIS IS OUR LATTER DAY SAINT WHO 
MUST BE RE-ADMITTED INTO THE T.S.