Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt01731)

Regarding the visions of certain "seers" and
"clairvoyants", K. H. commented:

"Mystery, mystery will you exclaim. IGNORANCE we 
answer; the creation of that we believe in and 
want to see. . . . " 
The Mahatma Letters, 2nd ed., Letter 90.

Does the phrase

"...the creation of that we BELIEVE IN and WANT 
to see....."

apply to C.W. Leadbeater's clairvoyant visions 
of Mars?

See Leadbeater's description at:

http://blavatskyarchives.com/leadbeatermars.htm

Below I give some choice excerpts from the more
detailed text. Leadbeater wrote:

"In physical appearance the Martians are not unlike ourselves, 
except that they are considerably smaller. The tallest men are not 
above five feet in height and the majority are two or three inches 
shorter. According to our ideas they are somewhat broad in 
proportion, having very great chest capacity - a fact which may 
possibly be due to the rarity of the air and the consequent 
necessity of deep breathing in order fully to oxygenate the blood. 
The whole civilised population of Mars is one race, and there is 
practically no difference in features or complexion, except that, 
just as among ourselves, there are blondes and brunettes, some of 
the people having a faintly yellowish skin and black hair, while the 
majority have yellow hair and blue or violet eyes - somewhat 
Norwegian in appearance. They dress mostly in brilliant colours, and 
both sexes wear an almost shapeless garment of some very soft 
material which falls straight down from the shoulders down to the 
feet. Generally the feet are bare, though they sometimes use a sort 
of metal sandal or slipper, with a thong round the ankle."

"They are very fond of flowers, of which there is a great variety, 
and their towns are built on the general plan of the garden-city, 
the houses usually being one-storeyed only, but built round inner 
courtyards and straggling over a great deal of ground. These houses 
look exteriorly as though built of coloured glass, and indeed the 
material which is used is transparent...."

"The information which I have given above is based upon observation 
and inquiry during various visits to the planet; yet nearly all of 
it might be found in the works of various writers within the last 
thirty or forty years, and in all such cases it has been impressed 
by someone from Mars, although the very fact of such impression was 
(at least in some cases) quite unknown to the physical writer."

So are Leadeater's "observations" of life on Mars MERELY the creation
of what Leadbeater believed in and WANTED to see?

Paraphrasing what KH says elsewhere, does the following apply to 
Leadbeater?

"Your vivid creative fancy evokes illusive scenes about Mars and its 
supposed inhabitants which were coined the instant before in the 
mint of your mind, unknown to yourself."

"The false appear as real, as the true, and you have no exact method
of detection since you are yet prone to force your observations to
agree with your preconceptions. " 

Daniel