Theos-Talk Archives (November 2006 Message tt00874)

Gregory,

Thanks.

I guess your first book ("The Elder Brother") and your more recent  
historical research make a major factor for accelerating the gradual 
sinking of Adyar's Titanic of Illusions. As a consequence of the 
gradual defeat of Denial, the historical need emerges for sincere 
members of the Adyar movement to finally face facts and start 
processing them, even if slowly and step-by-step.

I assure you that quite a few Adyar members have "silently" read 
your book. Many of them accept the facts you show and are more or 
less ready to start reprocessing things, once "political" conditions 
allow them to. 

Historical processes have their own ways to create opportunities for 
changes.  History is not as linear as one often thinks. 


Carlos.  

 

 

 


--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, gregory@... wrote:
>
> There had been calls for a biography of Leadbeater from within the 
(Adyar)
> TS from the time of his death ? Arundale publicly urged that one 
should be
> written ? but nothing eventuated. Jinarajadasa had begun collecting
> material (which is in the TS archives at Adyar).
> Around the time I began work on my biography (but before the 
details of
> the fraudulent early years had been uncovered) I contacted the TPH 
at
> Wheaton to see if they would be interested in publishing a 
biography. I
> was advised that one had been written and was being considered by 
the TPH;
> I was told the author's name, but do not now recall it. I was 
subsequently
> told the proposed biography had been "put on ice" after details of 
what I
> had discovered about Leadbeater became known.
> The British Theosophist and Liberal Catholic priest, Hugh 
Shearman, wrote
> a biographical pamphlet in 1980 which was published by the St 
Alban Press,
> publisher for the Liberal Catholic Church. This was, clearly, a
> "pre-emptive strike" and the material on Leadbeater's birth 
details had
> simply been stolen from my research which I had (against my 
publisher's
> advice) made available to the then President of the (Adyar) TS (and
> Liberal Catholic bishop), John Coats.
> The only other attempt at a biography was that of Peter Michel (in 
German).
> Rumour suggests that an eminent Liberal Catholic is currently 
working on a
> new biography to "vindicate" Leadbeater (presumably against my 
claims).
> I would certainly welcome further biographies of Leadbeater, and 
would be
> disappointed if mine was the only one to be published.
> I propose to work on expanding my thesis once it has been made 
available
> electronically to me by the University of Sydney ? there is a lot 
of
> additional material I have gathered since completing the thesis in 
1986. A
> US publisher (much to my surprise) has expressed interest in 
producing the
> work.
> 
> Dr Gregory Tillett
>