Theos-Talk Archives (February 2006 Message tt00639)

Until the book "Is This Theosophy?" was reprinted by Kessinger, it was one
of the rarest books one can find in any theosophical library - most
libraries did not have a copy, whether they did not purchase or they were
not available for public use/circulation. In about four decades, I saw only
two copies of the original publication. For any one interested in
theosophical history, it has very valuable first hand information.

mkr

On 2/26/06, carlosaveline cardoso aveline <carlosaveline@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Dear Friends,
>
>
> Ernest Wood, former international Secretary of the Theosophical Society
> (Adyar),
> and ex-secretary to C. W. Leadbeater, reveals some astonighing facts about
> the false
> contacts both C. W. Leadbeater and Annie Besant had with the Masters.  One
> of them is reproduced below.
>
> Mr. Wood writes in his book "Is This Theosophy?":
>
> "In 1930 I acted as Treasurer as well as Secretary (...). In
> correspondence
> with Dr. Besant, who went to Europe, I conducted the business of the
> Society, held meetings and editted the 'Adyar Theosophist'."
>
> "The 'Theosophist' had been removed to America, because it could be
> carried
> on better from there; but shortly afterwards the 'Adyar Theosophist' was
> started to replace it at Adyar (...)"
>
> "When Bishop Leadbeater returned to live again at Adyar at the end of
> 1930,
> not knowing that Dr. Besant had said in Chicago that the magazine had been
> transferred to America by Master's orders, he brought forth a statement
> from
> the Masters that it should be returned to Adyar, as it had never been
> their
> desire that it should be removed from there."
>
>
> That is, the names of the Masters were being freely misused as a source of
> political authority,   and those who used their names did not even consult
> each other in order to give some outer consistency to their fancies.
>
>
> Best regards,   Carlos.
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>
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> NOTE:
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> See "Is This Theosophy?", by Ernest Egerton Wood, published by Rider &
> Co.,
> Paternoster House, E.C. London, 1936, 318 pp., and republished by
> Kessinger
> Publishing LLC, Kila, MT, USA. The quotation comes from page 310.
>
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