Theos-Talk Archives (March 2006 Message tt00723)

	Can you point me in the direction of some documentation for that?

	Bart

krsanna wrote:

> Abolishing the parent society at Adyar and creating the Esoteric 
> Section to guide the TS is are key events in Theosophical history that 
> explains much of the Besant-Leadbeater era.  HPB created the Esoteric 
> Section with W. Q. Judge almost simultaneously with abolishing the 
> parent society under Olcott's control in 1887-88.  Olcott continued at 
> Adyar as a theosophical society with no authority over other lodges 
> while HPB placed much hope in the Esoteric Section and appointed Judge 
> her agent in the ES at the time of her death.
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> Shortly after HPB's death, Annie Besant attacked Judge and recalled 
> materials for the Esoteric Section that HPB had distributed for a 
> classic palace revolt.  HPB had placed considerable power in the 
> Esoteric Section and Besant needed only to dismantle the Esoteric 
> Section entrusted to Judge to gather back the forces of authority at 
> Adyar. After attacking Judge, Besant recalled materials HPB 
> distributed to members of the Esoteric Section and took control of the 
> new section with her own version of the World Mother and World Teacher 
> to await "The Coming" with Leadbeater discoursing with The Christ.  
> The only documentation I have not seen with my own eyes is the 
> correspondence where Annie Besant recalled the materials HPB had 
> issued to the Esoteric Section.  I have seen HPB's references to the 
> materials she distributed to members she selected to join the Esoteric 
> Section.    
> These events are documented in correspondence and documents of the 
> era.  It was a classic palace revolt conducted by an experienced 
> political activist in Annie Besant.
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> Best regards,
> Krsanna Duran
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