Theos-Talk Archives (March 2006 Message tt00010)

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CWL’s False Clairvoyance Was Nothing But Imagination

ERNEST WOOD  REVEALS LEADBEATER’S FRAUD

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Mr.  Ernest Wood served for many years as C.W. Leadbeater’s private 
secretary and as the International Secretary, Adyar.

On the false clairvoyance possessed by CWL, Mr. Wood gives us this 
first-hand testimony in his book “Is This Theosophy?”:

“Another friend, an European doctor, quietly severed his connection with Mr. 
Leadbeater altogether.  He was the only person, as far as I know,  who ever 
tried secretly to put Mr. Leadbeater to the test. They were very friendly 
and had been together to a theatre.  This gentleman deliberately pretended  
that he had a vision of two gigantic figures one on each side of the stage, 
standing up there like the guardian genii of Indian temples, or Japanese 
doorways. He described them, and Mr. Leadbeater, he said, told him he was 
correct.”

“There was an explanation for this, however. Mr. Leadbeater always gave 
great credit to imagination as verging to clairvoyance. When you imagine 
something, he would say, there is always something present to cause that 
imagination. He held that the best way for most people to develop 
clairvoyance was to let the imagination play in the first place.”

“A striking conversation took place in my presence on this point. One of our 
prominent members had been through an important ceremony on the astral plane 
  during t he sleep of his physical body, and had thereby become what was 
called ‘an Initiate’.  It happened that he was to be called as a witness in 
a certain case. He was full of anxiety about it.  ‘Whatever shall I say if 
they ask me about my being an Initiate? I do not remember anything at all of 
it’.”

“Mr. Leadbeater’s reply was: ‘But why don’t you remember? You ought to be 
able to remember’.”
“ ‘Well, if I let my imagination play on it,  I can get a sort of impression 
about it’.”

“ ‘That is just what you ought to do. There is a cause for such imaginings. 
How can you expect your clairvoyant power to develop if you destroy its 
delicate beginnings?’ ”

“The member followed this advice and became one of the prominent 
clairvoyants in the Theosophical Society (...)”  (1)

So far, Mr. Ernest Wood, ex-private Secretary to Leadbeater and 
International  of  the Theosophical Society, Adyar.

Thus was Mr. Leadbeater’s “clairvoyance”. There was no objective observation 
involved. It was pure, conscious imagination, and that is tantamount to 
fraud.

It was by this imaginary mechnisms that  he “talked to Lord Christ”, 
personally visited Mars and Mercury and knew the “past lives” of everyone 
around him. He controled the Adyar theosophical movement  with the careful 
distribution of information relating to discipleship status and to false 
Initiations to this and that person.

To consolidate his popish power, he created a ritualistic structure whose 
source was also his feverish but unhealthy imagination.

Since the 1950s, Adyar leaders ceased to renew those fancies. Yet they did 
not have the courage to face truth and to be more strongly loyal to the 
slogan of their organization: “There is no religion higher than truth”.

They do not defend Leadbeater in a direct way,  yet they try to avoid as 
much as possible clarification about  these matters of  decisive importance. 
Thus, consciously or unconsciously, they try to keep Adyar members from 
rediscovering the real teaching given humanity by the Masters through H.P.B.

Yet there is always hope. Things are lost -- and found again in the right 
time. Illusions are created -- and then they dissolve after their energy has 
ended.

Everything is cyclical.  People do change – and they often change for the 
better.

Having people from different groups and institutions here at Theos-talk 
enables us to go beyond the logic of narrow corporate interests and goals.  
Thus truth can emerge through an open debate.

Best regards,  Carlos.

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NOTE:
(1) “Is This Theosophy?”, by Ernesdt Egerton Wood, London: Rider& Co., 
Paternoster House, E.C., 1936, 318 pp., facsimile edition by Kessinger 
Publishing, LLC, Kila, MT, USA.  See p. 141.

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