Theos-Talk Archives (February 2006 Message tt00449)

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The Founder of the Liberal Catholic

Church Reports From the Red Planet

C. W. LEADBEATER AND THE  DAILY LIFE ON MARS

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By Carlos Cardoso Aveline

In his book “Inner Life”, Mr. Charles Leadbeater made extraordinary  
revelations about life on the Planet Mars.

At the time these  “revelations” were first published, in 1910, most Adyar 
Theosophists believed them all  to be literally true, as the author 
emphatically claimed. Few dared question him. After all, Leadbeater seemed 
to have frequent personal conversations with “Lord Christ” and other great 
spiritual authorities.

Yet for some undeclared reason between the 1960s and the 1970s the  Adyar TS 
editors got rather timid and   decided to quietly  remove CWL’s Mercurian 
and Martian revelations from any new editions of  his book  “Inner Life”.

During his several personal though fake and imaginary visits to the planet 
Mars, C. W. L. – who was the main founder of the Liberal Catholic Church –  
could see and observe the development of daily life on the red planet.  He 
reports that some  Martians use metal sandals in their feet, and that others 
look like Norwegian people on earth.  See  what he wrote in his book  “Inner 
Life”:

“The whole civilized population of Mars is one  race, and there is 
practically no difference in features or complexion, except that, just as 
among ourselves, there are blondes and brunettes, some of the people having 
a  faintly yellowish  skin and black hair, while the majority have yellow 
hair and blue or violet eyes –  somewhat Norwegian in appearance.  They 
dress mostly in brilliant colours and both sexes wear an almost shapeless 
garment of some very soft material which falls straight from the shoulders 
down to the feet. Generally the feet are bare,  though they sometimes use a 
sort of metal sandal or slipper,  with a thong round  the ankle.”

Perhaps C.W.L. was representing  his Liberal Catholic Church (L.C.C.)  
during his several travels to the neighbour planet –  but we don’t have his 
confirmation  about this. Instead,  Bishop Leadbeater comments on the 
Martian’s  flowers, gardens and city-planning:

“They  are very fond of flowers, of which there is a great variety, and 
their towns are built on the general plan of the garden-city, the houses 
usually being one-storeyed only, but built round inner courtyards and 
straggling over a great deal of ground. These houses look exteriorly as 
though built of coloured glass, and indeed the material which is used is 
transparent, but it is somehow so fluted that while the person inside enjoy 
an almost unimpeded view of their gardens, no one from the outside can see 
what is going on in the house.”

The remarkable clairvoyant does not tell his readers whether he wanted  to 
have his own books published  by the  Martian Publishing Houses.  Yet  it is 
 certain that he got interested in the cultural life of the red planet’s 
inhabitants,  for he writes:

“They have two methods of recording their thoughts.  One is to speak into a 
small box with a mouthpiece on one side of it, something like that of a 
telephone.  Each word so spoken is by the mechanism expressed as a kind of 
complicated sign upon a little plate of metal (...) which can  easily be 
read by those who are familiar with the scheme. The other plan is actually 
to write by hand, but  that is an enormously more difficult acquirement,  
for the script is a very complicated kind of shorthand which can be written 
as  rapidly as one can speak.  It is in this latter script that all their 
books are printed, and  these latter are usually in the shape of rolls made 
of very thin flexible metal.  The engraving of them is exceedingly minute, 
and it is customary to read it through a magnifier, which is  fixed 
conveniently upon a stand. In the stand there is the machinery which unrolls 
the  scroll before the magnifier at any desired rate, so that one reads 
without needing to touch the book at all.”

On the possibility of communication between Martians and terrestrians, the 
somewhat delirious Bishop  writes that this is not difficult.  After 
mentioning that there is a secret society in Mars, he explains, carried on 
by some feverish imagination:

“Some at least of the members of the secret society have learnt how to cross 
without great difficulty the space which separates us from Mars, and have 
therefore  at various times tried to manifest themselves through mediums at 
spiritual seances, or have been able, by the methods which they have learnt, 
to impress their ideas on poets and novelists.”

In the next paragraph, Leadbeater describes the first-hand character of his 
personal  description about physical life on Mars.

“The information which I have given above is based upon observation  and 
enquiry during various visits to the planet; yet nearly all of it might be 
found in the works of various writers within the last thirty or forty years, 
and in all such cases it has be en communicated or impressed by someone from 
Mars, although the very fact  of such impression  was (at least in some 
cases) quite unknown to the physical writer.”

An important aspect of the Bishop’s mission to Mars may refer to religion. 
Mr. Leadbeater, who modestly used to confess that  he had regular talks with 
Lord Christ,  writes about Martians:

“One of the most remarkable things about this people is that they have 
absolutely no religion. There are no churches, no temples, no places of 
worship of any sort whatever, no priests, no ecclesiastical power.”

This leads us to raise a question or two to the Historians of the Adyar 
Society.  We all know Mr. Leadbeater had strong  Christian missionary 
impulses.  Is is possible, then,  that during his several visits to Mars he 
was actually preparing a religious mission to that Planet, a mission  to be 
developed by well-trained  priests of the Liberal Catholic Church?  In  that 
case,  could there be,  right now,  a group of L.C.C. priests celebrating 
Mass and feverishly  preaching the Gospel  among Martians? I leave this 
question  for  Historians to investigate.

In any case, one thing is certain: the degree of “accuracy”  we find in C.W. 
Leadbeaters’  wild  descriptions of life on Mars, is the same degree of 
irresponsible imagination with which he  described his talks with Masters of 
the Wisdom,  and created the several ritualistic schemes even now existing 
behind the scenes of the Adyar Theosophical Society.

For some unknown reason,  it is these ritualistic quarters which seem to be 
most  interested in adopting the 19th century libels against H. P. Blavatsky 
as if they were part of the theosophical literature, something which the 
Adyar President Ms. Radha Burnier does not approve of.  Yet  the Adyar 
President  told me in a 2004 letter  that –  she can’t  do anything  about 
that.



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