Theos-Talk Archives (November 2006 Message tt00934)

Have a break'
Give me the life on Venus.
Christina











-- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "carlosaveline" 
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> Dear Friends,
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> In his book "Inner Life", Mr. Charles Leadbeater made 
extraordinary  revelations about life on the Planet Mars. 
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> At the time these  "revelations" were first published, in 1910, 
most Adyar Theosophists believed them all  to be literally true, as 
the author emphatically claimed. Few dared question him. After all, 
Leadbeater seemed to have frequent personal conversations with "Lord 
Christ" and other great spiritual authorities.   
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> Yet for some undeclared reason between the 1960s and the 1970s 
the  Adyar TS editors got rather timid and   decided to quietly  
remove CWL's Mercurian and Martian revelations from any new editions 
of  his book  "Inner Life".  
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> During his several personal though fake and imaginary visits to 
the planet Mars, C. W. L. ? who was the main founder of the Liberal 
Catholic Church ?  could see and observe the development of daily 
life on the red planet.  He reports that some  Martians use metal 
sandals in their feet, and that others look like Norwegian people on 
earth.  See  what he wrote in his book  "Inner Life": 
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> "The whole civilized population of Mars is one  race, and there is 
practically no difference in features or complexion, except that, 
just as among ourselves, there are blondes and brunettes, some of 
the people having a  faintly yellowish  skin and black hair, while 
the majority have yellow hair and blue or violet eyes ?  somewhat 
Norwegian in appearance.  They dress mostly in brilliant colours and 
both sexes wear an almost shapeless garment of some very soft 
material which falls straight from the shoulders down to the feet. 
Generally the feet are bare,  though they sometimes use a sort of 
metal sandal or slipper,  with a thong round  the ankle." 
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> Perhaps C.W.L. was representing  his Liberal Catholic Church 
(L.C.C.)  during his several travels to the neighbour planet ?  but 
we don't have his confirmation  about this. Instead,  Bishop 
Leadbeater comments on the Martian's  flowers, gardens and city-
planning: 
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> "They  are very fond of flowers, of which there is a great 
variety, and their towns are built on the general plan of the garden-
city, the houses usually being one-storeyed only, but built round 
inner courtyards and straggling over a great deal of ground. These 
houses look exteriorly as though built of coloured glass, and indeed 
the material which is used is transparent, but it is somehow so 
fluted that while the person inside enjoy an almost unimpeded view 
of their gardens, no one from the outside can see what is going on 
in the house." 
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> The remarkable clairvoyant does not tell his readers whether he 
wanted  to have his own books published  by the  Martian Publishing 
Houses.  Yet  it is  certain that he got interested in the cultural 
life of the red planet's inhabitants,  for he writes:
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> "They have two methods of recording their thoughts.  One is to 
speak into a small box with a mouthpiece on one side of it, 
something like that of a telephone.  Each word so spoken is by the 
mechanism expressed as a kind of complicated sign upon a little 
plate of metal (...) which can  easily be read by those who are 
familiar with the scheme. The other plan is actually to write by 
hand, but  that is an enormously more difficult acquirement,  for 
the script is a very complicated kind of shorthand which can be 
written as  rapidly as one can speak.  It is in this latter script 
that all their books are printed, and  these latter are usually in 
the shape of rolls made of very thin flexible metal.  The engraving 
of them is exceedingly minute, and it is customary to read it 
through a magnifier, which is  fixed conveniently upon a stand. In 
the stand there is the machinery which unrolls the  scroll before 
the magnifier at any desired rate, so that one reads without needing 
to touch the book at all." 
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> On the possibility of communication between Martians and 
terrestrians, the somewhat delirious Bishop  writes that this is not 
difficult.  After mentioning that there is a secret society in Mars, 
he explains, carried on by some feverish imagination: 
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> "Some at least of the members of the secret society have learnt 
how to cross without great difficulty the space which separates us 
from Mars, and have therefore  at various times tried to manifest 
themselves through mediums at spiritual seances, or have been able, 
by the methods which they have learnt, to impress their ideas on 
poets and novelists."
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> In the next paragraph, Leadbeater describes the first-hand 
character of his personal  description about physical life on 
Mars.   
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> "The information which I have given above is based upon 
observation  and enquiry during various visits to the planet; yet 
nearly all of it might be found in the works of various writers 
within the last thirty or forty years, and in all such cases it has 
be en communicated or impressed by someone from Mars, although the 
very fact  of such impression  was (at least in some cases) quite 
unknown to the physical writer." 
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> An important aspect of the Bishop's mission to Mars may refer to 
religion. Mr. Leadbeater, who modestly used to confess that  he had 
regular talks with Lord Christ,  writes about Martians:  
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> "One of the most remarkable things about this people is that they 
have absolutely no religion. There are no churches, no temples, no 
places of worship of any sort whatever, no priests, no 
ecclesiastical power." 
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> This leads us to raise a question or two to the Historians of the 
Adyar Society.  We all know Mr. Leadbeater had strong  Christian 
missionary impulses.  Is is possible, then,  that during his several 
visits to Mars he was actually preparing a religious mission to that 
Planet, a mission  to be developed by well-trained  priests of the 
Liberal Catholic Church?  In  that case,  could there be,  right 
now,  a group of L.C.C. priests celebrating Mass and feverishly  
preaching the Gospel  among Martians? I leave this question  for  
Historians to investigate.  
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> In any case, one thing is certain: the degree of "accuracy"  we 
find in C.W. Leadbeaters'  wild  descriptions of life on Mars, is 
the same degree of irresponsible imagination with which he  
described his talks with Masters of the Wisdom,  and created the 
several ritualistic schemes even now existing behind the scenes of 
the Adyar Theosophical Society.  
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> For some unknown reason,  it is these ritualistic quarters which 
seem to be most  interested in adopting the 19th century libels 
against H. P. Blavatsky as if they were part of the theosophical 
literature, something which the Adyar President Ms. Radha Burnier 
does not approve of.  Yet  the Adyar President  told me in a 2004 
letter  that ?  she can't  do anything  about that.   
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>  (See the bibliographical note below) 
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>  Best regards,    Carlos.    
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> A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE : 
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> All the paragraphs quoted above are from the book "Inner Life", by 
C. W. Leadbeater, Section Ten.  The text was published  by the 
magazine "Theosophical History", London, January 1988; see pages 144-
148 for the sentences quoted above.  I have the same text in the 
Spanish edition of "Inner Life", by CWL,  published in Buenos Aires 
by Editorial Glem (pp. 389-394). In  later years the USA T.P.H. 
editions of the book "Inner Life" have silently eliminated this 
description,  as well as the brief but astonishing description of 
physical life on Mercury. Yet a  Brazilian edition of the book "The 
Solar System", by Mr. Arthur Powell ? a follower of C.W.L.'s ?  can 
still be bought in Brazil with this description of physical life on 
Mars.  
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> Another author and leading Adyar clairvoyant, Mr. Geoffrey 
Hodson,  followed the same track at least up to the 1950s. In 1954-
1955, Mr. Hodson delivered a series of talks and classes to students 
in the international headquarters of the Adyar Society, in 
Madras/Chennai, southern India. It was part of the  "School of the 
Wisdom". The content of his lectures was published by the T.P.H. in 
India, in 1955, in two large volumes under the title of "Lecture 
Notes -- The  School of the Wisdom", with 616 pp. in the volume I 
and 582 pp. in volume II.  On pages 445-442 of  volume I, Mr. 
Geoffrey Hodson quotes and adopts, though  in a somewhat cautious 
way,  the same vividly absurd  description made by Mr. Leadbeater 
about a civilization on the red planet.    (CCA)
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