Theos-Talk Archives (May 2005 Message tt00601)

Pedro,

Passages given below by you should show you how great Annie Besant 
was. And I would like to see proportionate respect for her in your 
messages and not just HPB song.

Anand Gholap

> 
> When Annie Besant joined the TS in May 1889 and publicly accepted 
HPB 
> as her teacher, her former colleagues were very disappointed and 
> viewed that as step that contradicted her former anti-religious 
> stance. In 1929, soon after Krishnaji dissolved the Order of the 
> Star, a journalist from Reuters asked her opinion about what he had 
> just done, after all she was the one that nourished him, paid for 
his 
> education and announced him to the world as the vehicle of the 
World 
> Teacher. In her reply she said: "I feel inclined to sit and listen 
> rather than pass judgement on the actions of one whom I consider by 
> far my superior." From that time onwards, as the photographs of 
that 
> time show, everytime K. would speak in public Besant would never 
> share the platform with him, but would sit in the audience and 
listen 
> to him.
> 
> Later in life, when he was in his mid-80s, Krishnamurti said to 
some 
> friends that of all the people from that time (1920s) the one who 
was 
> really close to transformation was AB. When asked why he said: "You 
> have no idea what her capacity for love was."
> 
> I am sorry for the reverie. 
> 
> 
> pedro