Theos-Talk Archives (June 2005 Message tt00042)

I wonder if C W Leadbeater ever read this as he actually promoted the 
apostilic succession as being valid, and why did HPB see it as so 
important to expose it as a fraud ? :

"The present volumes have been written to small purpose if they have 
not shown,

"1, that Jesus, the Christ-God, is a myth concocted two centuries after 
the real Hebrew Jesus died;

"2, that, therefore, he never had any authority to give Peter, or 
anyone else, plenary power;

"3, that even if he had given such authority' the word Petra (rock) 
referred to the revealed truths of the Petroma, not to him who thrice 
denied him; and that besides, the apostolic succession is a gross and 
palpable fraud;

"4, that Gospel according to Matthew is a fabrication based upon a 
wholly different manuscript." (Isis Unveiled II, p. 544)



Perry