Theos-Talk Archives (November 2006 Message tt00743)

Hi Gregory,
My mother was ill for several years before she passed.  My experience was that every time I visited I left feeling totally drained and exhausted.  This I believe is because my mother more or less vampirised my energy (unconsciously) because her life energy was very low.  I had no problem with this as I was fully recuperated after a good night's sleep.  

Why would Leadbeater need to revive his life energy if he was a perfectly healthy man.  I believe he used the teaching to justify his lust.  Nasty,Nasty individual.
Cass

----- Original Message ----
From: "gregory@zeta.org.au" <gregory@zeta.org.au>
To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 3:11:44 PM
Subject: Theos-World Leadbeater and shunamism









  


    
            Further to John?s comment that ?The use of youth as a battery to supply

necessary vital energy is objectionable to say the least?, the following

extract from my thesis may provide additional information about

Leadbeater?s relationship with his pupils:



?There was a strange relationship between Leadbeater and his close pupils

which seemed to many to have unhealthy implications. In his article ?A

Modern Socrates? (a biographical article praising Leadbeater), A.J.

Hamerster recalled that the pupil-teacher relationship often employed

?spiritual induction? whereby the pupils not only receive something from

their teacher but also give ?something from their vital energy whereby the

ancient Teacher was enabled to recuperate some of his failing strength.?

In his own copy of this articles, bound in with his ?Collected Writings?

in the TS Library at Adyar, Hamerster has noted, in handwriting: ?Often

was this phenomena observed by me in C.W. Leadbeater?s latter days in

Adyar had many times have I heard from the lips of his young disciples how

they actually felt their strength being drained from them.?



This practice had a long religious and occult tradition. It was known as

?shunamism? (or ?shunamitism?) , so-called after the girl who rejuvenated

King David in his old age. The practice, which involved bringing a

healthy, active young person into contact with one who needed

rejuvenation, was based on the belief that the breath, body heat physical

contact and ?vibrations? of the young person can restore the vitality of

the aged?.?



Leadbeater habitually bathed with and often slept with naked boys, and was

frequently administered an enemy by one of the naked boys in the bathroom

in the mornings..



For those who may be interested, the University of Sydney is about to

?digitize? the thesis and make it available on the web through the

University?s library website. I am told this will take several months (it

will probably not be available until early in 2007). I will post details

when it is available. I am also being provided with working electronic

copies on DVD and this will enable me, over time, to update and expand the

work in the light of material acquired after it was written.



Dr Gregory Tillett





    
  

    
    




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