Theos-Talk Archives (July 2005 Message tt00125)

Konstantin,

I think you are forgetting that the birthdate is
not the only problem. I will simply quote what
Gregory Tillett wrote not long ago on this forum
in response to comments by Anand:

"Anand also misses the point that it was not 
only the birthdate about which Leadbeater lied.
For example, Leadbeater said he was a student at 
Oxford (or in some accounts, Cambridge): neither 
University has any record of him being a student 
or even applying to be a student. Mistake?
Leadbeater said his father was the chairman 
of a railway company: but Leadbeater himself 
described his father as a book-keeper when 
reporting his death. Leadbeater described a 
rebellion in Brazil (ignoring the fact that 
he was not there) which did not happen, involving 
a General unknown to Brazilian history.
Here, of course, brother Gerald (of whose 
birth and death no records exists)supposedly died, 
prior to being reincarnated as Jinarajadasa."

"Being the son of a railway company chairman, 
born in the impressive sounding(but non-existent) 
Lea Green Hall, who had adventures in Brazil, 
who went to Oxford but had to leave when the family 
fortune was lost.....much more exciting than being 
the poorly educated son of an impoverished and fairly
itinerant book-keeper."

Daniel
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