Theos-Talk Archives (November 2006 Message tt00165)

Friends,

A stinking subject (see below) , and information more than enough to suggest what kind of "magic" Leabeater practiced.   

Our sister Radha Burnier and every Adyar student should seriously consider at least E. L. Gardners' pamphlet  "No Religion Higher then Truth", now half-forgotten. 


No doubt, Gregory Tillett's investigation should also help -- for those who can smell anything and whatever, but the stink of details may be occultly  dangerous.   In an average, Tillett's writings have help a lot in unmasking the real "occult aspect" of Leadbeater's "work". 

What CW Leadbeater confessed to Olcott is more than enough for Adyar people rethink the "occult structures" of the Adyar movement... 



Regards,   Carlos. 


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Data:Fri, 3 Nov 2006 17:30:26 +1100 (EST)

Assunto:Theos-World Wedgwood, Leadbeater, the OTO

> I have yet to read Keith Richmond?s book. I do not recall claiming ? as
> opposed to saying ?it was claimed? ? that Vyvyan Deacon had an OTO
> succession from Reuss. In fact, I think I said it was claimed that he had
> a pre-Crowleyan OTO succession, which is not the same thing. I had access
> to what remained to Deacon?s archives (most were lost during the bombing
> of London in World War II; I have no idea of what happened to them after
> his daughter?s death), but the fragmentary documents provided hints, but
> little more.
> 
> As to any OTO link through Wedgwood, one is again left with hints.
> Wedgwood was a member of the OTO, admitted in 1912 to the ?Holy Grail?
> Lodge in Munich by Reuss himself at the request of John Yarker. Yarker and
> Wedgwood seem to have had something of a close relationship: Yarker
> conferred on Wedgwood a range of the multiplicity of Masonic (or, for the
> benefit of Masonic readers, I might say, quasi-Masonic!) degrees over
> which he had control, and some of them were then fed into Co-Masonry under
> Besant and Leadbeater. Whether Wedgwood was simply the recipient of some
> largely meaningless ?honour? by Reuss, or actually underwent initiation
> and, if so, to what degree, I do not know.
> 
> Deacon?s papers claimed that he and Wedgwood had ?introduced? Leadbeater
> to the OTO. Again, I do not know what this means. Deacon was a member of
> the TS and the ES, and he and his wife became members of the Liberal
> Catholic Church in its first year of existence.
> 
> The Crowleyan OTO existed in Australia under Frank Bennett (the subject of
> Richmond?s book). There is evidence that Deacon has some contact with
> Bennett but he clearly operated an entirely separate organization in
> Sydney and Melbourne: this used various names, including ?Ordo Templi
> Orientis? and ?The Christian Mystics of the Rose Cross?. I have documents
> and some historical details of these. Deacon clearly had groups ? I have
> lists of some of the members ? but the origin of his authority, if any, to
> operate them remains essentially unknown.
> 
> Whether Leadbeater was ever a member of the OTO (presumably not under
> Crowley, given Crowley?s opinion of him) I do not know. That Leadbeater
> employed what might be described as ?tantric? or sex magic practices seems
> to me quite clear. Although in ?The Elder Brother? I only speculate in
> passing on this, in my doctoral thesis I explore the subject in much more
> detail, using documentary sources I did not possess while writing the book
> ? e.g. privately printed pamphlets and correspondence from the eminent
> English Theosophist, E.L. Gardner and his correspondence with Boris de
> Zirkhoff, and some material collected by an eccentric Theosophist who
> lived at the English TS centre, Tekels Park, where Wedgwood spent his
> final years, Rex Dutta. Gardner had concluded that Leadbeater was involved
> in magical experiments using ?the semen of man?. Dutta, who inherited
> Gardner?s papers, commented, in a private circular, on ?The Elder
> Brother?: ?Mr Tillett (pages 283-5) when he guesses at Tantrika Sexual
> Black Magic, doesn?t realize the half of it.? For my thesis, I also made
> use of a ?Private Supplement? produced by F. T. Brooks for his
> ?Neo-Theosophy Exposed? (1914) in which he explored the origins of what he
> claimed to have been Leadbeater?s use of ?amatory sensuality, or erethism?
> and ?deliberate seed-projection?.
> 
> Just how Deacon, the OTO, Yarker, Wedgwood, Leadbeater, sex magic and all
> the rest of it fitted together, if it did at all, I do not know. I think I
> have exhausted most of the sources outside, e.g., the ES archives at Adyar
> (to which I do not anticipate being given access!).
> 
> Dr Gregory Tillett
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