Theos-Talk Archives (February 2006 Message tt00412)

Dear Carlos,

I request permission to post this message on another list where it is of 
interest as an early example of the etraterrestrial life debate.

I await your reply and hopefully permission.

Kind regards,

Theo

carlosaveline cardoso aveline wrote:

> Tell NASA about that
> THE RED PLANET REVEALED
>
> Dear Friends,
>
> 	The paragraphs below, by C. W. Leadbeater, may illustrate the  
> extraordinary gift he had  as  a clairvoyant.
> 	In the early 20th century, Leadbeater used his many occult talents to 
> announce to the world that Jiddu Krishnamurti was,  in fact, “Lord Christ”, 
> and that he would end all wars and establish peace on earth. The Second 
> Coming of Christ  was the reason for the “theosophical” creation of the 
> Liberal Catholic Church. Such a Church is even now especially influential 
> among Adyar theosophists in the USA.
> 	An imaginative clairvoyant, Mr. C. W. Leadbeater is the main responsible – 
> together with his protégé Annie Besant – for the many other clairvoyant 
> descriptions and informations which were the basis and foundation for the 
> creation of a shadow, unofficial, ritualistic power-structure in the 
> theosophical Society, Adyar.  These “inner” structures try to materialize a 
> masonic order, besides sustaining a “liberal” Catholic Church, etcetara.  I 
> will leave the discussion  of “etcetara” for some future occasion.
> 	I  put before you now a description of things that the NASA never saw. (The 
> title of the text belongs to its clairvoyant author.)
>
>
> oooooooooooooo
>
> MARS AND ITS INHABITANTS
>
> By Charles W. Leadbeater
>
>
> 	The present  condition of the planet Mars is by no means unpleasant (...).
> 	The present population (...) find plenty of room for themselves to live 
> without  great effort, in the equatorial lands, where the temperature is 
> highest and there is no difficulty as to water.  The great  system of canals 
> which has been observed by terrestrial astronomers was constructed  by the 
> second order of moon-men when they last occupied the planet, and its general 
> scheme is to take advantage of the annual melting of enormous masses of ice 
> at the outer fringe of the polar snow-caps.  It has been observed that some 
> of the canals are double, but the double line is only occasionally apparent; 
> that is due to the f ore-thought of the Martian engineers. The country is on 
> the whole level, and they had great dread of inundations; and wherever they 
> thought  that there was reason to fear too great an outrush of water under 
> exceptional circumstances the second parallel canal was  constructed to 
> receive  any possible overflow and carry it away safely.
> 	The actual canals are not visible to terrestrial telescopes; what is seen 
> is the belt of verdure which appears in a tract of  country on each side of  
> the canal only at the time when the  water pours in.  Just as Egypt exists 
> just because of the Nile, so do large districts  on Mars exist only because 
> of t hese canals. (...)
> 	(...) 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 proportions, 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.  (...)
>
> (Bibliographical commentaries: This is from the book “Inner Life”, by C. W. 
> Leadbeater, Section Ten. Published  by the magazine “Theosophical History”, 
> London, January 1988, see pages 143-144 for the sentences quoted above. The 
> text takes several pages. I also have the same text in the Spanish edition 
> of “Inner Life”, by CWL,  published in Buenos Aires by Editorial Glem. A 
> Brazilian edition of the book “The Solar System”, by Mr. Arthur Powell –  a 
> follower of C.W.L.’s – can still be bought in Brazil with this description 
> of physical life on Mars. Another author and leading Adyar clairvoyant, Mr. 
> Geoffrey Hodson,  followed the same track at least up to the 1950s. Yet in 
> later years the USA TPH editions of the book “Inner Life”, by C.W.L., have 
> silently eliminated this description,  as well as the brief but astonishing 
> description of physical life on Mercury. )
> oooooooooooooooooooooooo
>
> Best regards,  Carlos Cardoso Aveline
>
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