Theos-Talk Archives (May 2005 Message tt00608)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "krishtar" <krishtar_a@b...> wrote:

> Excuse me for the ignorance on this subject.
> What is the relation, the link, between Adyar and the L C Church 
nowadays?
> Who presently influence whom today?

They are quite independent from each other and there is no 
administrative or corporate connection between them. The LCC was 
formed in 1916, when a group of theosophists had joined the British 
province of the Old Catholic Church. That was during the "messianic" 
phase of the TS, as its leaders believed Krishnamurti would be the 
vehicle for the World Teacher (the Christ). Therefore, the LCC became 
an integral part of what was referred to as "the Coming". That phase 
was brought to an end by Krishnamurti in 1929, in his 
historical "Truth is a Pathless Land" speech. A dramatic crisis 
ensued, and the TS lost, in the space of four months (August to 
December) over 15,000 members world wide! The Church also had serious 
losses of membership as a result of the same crisis.

Its theology is indebted to Neo-Platonism and also to two prominent 
early Church fathers, Clement of Alexandria and Origen. Over the 
decades after 1929 the Church gained its own identity independent 
from the theosophical discourse, although a number of its clergy are 
members of the TS.

You may find Mary Lutyens' KRISHNAMURTI: YEARS OF AWAKENING an 
interesting reading about the early phase of the LCC.

Abracos,

pedro