Theos-Talk Archives (November 2006 Message tt01023)

Gregory,

You write: 

"In 1912, with the help of Mrs.  Marie Russak (1865-1937), Wedgwood founded the Temple of the Rosy Cross."

I would appreciate if you can give us more information on such a "Temple", as it seems to have been the basis for later ritualisms in Adyar, which were occultly and politically used  as a wall against the effects of the Leadbeater/Wedgwood scandals and resulting police investigations  in the early 1920s. 

That helped trigger the "Back to Blavatsky Movement", which Geoffrey Fathing preferred to call "Back to the Masters".   

Carlos. 

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Data:Mon, 20 Nov 2006 07:16:53 +1100 (EST)

Assunto:Theos-World James Wedgwood

> For those who may be interested in Wedgwood, the following is a brief
> summary (!) of biographical material from my draft history of the Liberal
> Catholic Church.
> 
> James Ingall Wedgwood was London on May 24, 1883, in London. He was a
> member of the eminent family of potters. The history of the family can be
> found in Barbara and Hensleigh Wedgwood: The Wedgwood Circle 1730-1897
> Studio Vista, London,1980, in which Wedgwood is mentioned briefly. He was
> the son of Alfred Wedgwood (1842-1892) and Margaret Rosena Ingall
> (1854-1922), daughter of Richard Ingall, who had been a civil engineer of
> Valparaiso, Chile. Alfred and Rosena had married in 1873, without the
> approval of his parents. Wedgwood was the great, great grandson of the
> potter Josiah Wedgwood, the grandson of the spiritualist Hensleigh
> Wedgwood (1803-1891) and the great nephew of Charles Darwin (1809-1882).
> 
> After leaving school he studied chemistry at University College,
> Nottingham, and was for a time employed as an analytical chemist in York,
> where he lodged with the Reverend Patrick John Shaw, the Rector of All
> Saints Church, North Street. He also studied music at the Nottingham
> College of Music and at St Albans, Nottingham under Dr Beckett Gibbs. He
> then spent four years as an articled pupil at York Minister under Dr
> Tertius Noble (1867-1953). Wedgwood also felt he had a vocation to the
> priesthood of the Anglican Church, and began theological studies whilst
> staying with Patrick Shaw despite the opposition of the Wedgwood family.
> 
> In 1904 Wedgwood attended two lectures by Mrs Besant. As a result he
> renounced all thought of a vocation in the Church of England, and devoted
> himself entirely to the work of the Theosophical Society, becoming an
> enthusiastic lecturer. He had a sufficient private income from the family
> business to live independently, and moved to London where he served as
> General Secretary of the Theosophical Society in England from 1911-1913,
> and as General Secretary of the European Federation of the Society from
> 1913-1921.
> 
> By 1910 Wedgwood had joined the Co-Freemasonic Order, and by 1911 had
> risen to become Very Illustrious Supreme Secretary 33' of the British
> Federation of International Co-Freemasonry. Prior to his involvement in
> Co-Freemasonry, Wedgwood had made contact with leading figures within the
> fringes of Freemasonry, and met John Yarker (1833-1913) who, on December
> 22, 1910, made him an honorary member of the Royal Order of the Sat
> B'hai. Through Yarker's influence, in 1912 Wedgwood also became a member
> of the Ordo Templi Orientis. In 1914 Wedgwood received from Yarker the
> thirty-third degree of Sovereign Grand Inspector-General of the Ancient
> and Accepted Scottish Rite (Cerneau), the ninety-fifth degree of Prince
> Patriarch Grand Conservator of the Rite of Memphis and the ninetieth
> degree of Absolute Grand Sovereign of the Rite of Misraim
> 
> In 1912, with the help of Mrs Marie Russak (1865-1937), Wedgwood founded
> the Temple of the Rosy Cross.
> 
> Wedgwood had intended to obtain episcopal consecration from some source -
> presumably one of the episcopi vagantes, or "wandering bishops" - for use
> within an occult group, which would in fact be a continuation of the
> Temple of the Rosy Cross. Wedgwood had contacted Archbishop Arnold Harris
> Mathew (1852-1919), head of a tiny independent church, the Old Catholic
> Church in Great Britain, in 1913. Wedgwood was ordained Priest on July
> 22nd, 1913 in Wedgwood's private oratory in his apartment at 1 Upper
> Woburn Place, London, almost opposite the headquarters of the TS. On
> August 6, 1915, Mathew issued a decree requiring that any clergy or laity
> who were members of either the TS or the OSE must resign from them.
> Wedgwood and many other Theosophists instead resigned from Mathew?s
> church.
> 
> Wedgwood was consecrated as a bishop on February 13, 1916, in the
> Co-Masonic Temple, London by Frederick Willoughby was assisted by Robert
> King and Rupert Gauntlett. On July 22, 1916, Wedgwood privately
> consecrated Leadbeater to the episcopate in Sydney, and claimed that:
> "There were mighty influences present: several Masters came, the Lord
> Maitreya, and the Lord Buddha, and the Star shone out. When he said his
> first Mass afterwards, four Masters came in, and the Master Jesus stood
> there the whole time."
> 
> Wedgood had been elected as Presiding Bishop of the church, which
> eventually became the Liberal Catholic Church, formed after the separation
> from Mathew. Following allegations of homosexual activity Wedgwood
> resigned as Presiding Bishop and withdrew from Co-Masonic and Theosophical
> work in 1923, and was succeeded by Leadbeater as Presiding Bishop.
> Wedgwood lived in France and completed a doctorate at the Sorbonne,
> researching the production of sound in organ pipes. He returned to church,
> Masonic and Theosophical activities after a few years: some details can be
> found in Mary Lutyen?s books on Krishnamurti. A centre was established for
> Wedgwood at Huizen in Holland, but as his health failed he moved to Tekels
> Park in England, where he died 1951. Wedgwood had contracted syphilis as a
> result of his homosexual activities (but refused to seek treatment), and
> had acquired an addiction to cocaine, both of which caused physical and
> psychiatric deterioration in his latter years.
> 
> Dr Gregory Tillett
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