Theos-Talk Archives (November 2006 Message tt01289)

Friends, 
 
As we saw in recent months, grave editorial falsehoods have been constant in the areas of influence of C. W. Leadbeater and his followers and admirers.  
 
Yet there is still another powerful  example of these fake editorial policies which is unknown (or scarcely known),  to many a student around the  world.  
 
The devotional booklet  ?At The Feet of the Master?,  which has been ascribed since 1910 either to Jiddu Krishnamurti or to an Adept --   was, in fact,  written by C. W. Leadbeater.  
 
J. Krishnamurti rejected the idea of being the author of ?At the Feet of the Master?.   
 
The content of  the booklet is in Leadbeater?s unmistakable style. The booklet repeats his dangerous misconceptions about the spiritual path.  As to supposed originals of the booklet,  which would have been written by the young Krishnamurti ?as transcriptions of lessons from his Master? -- in fact they never appeared, as Mary Lutyens informs. Except as typewritten by ?Bishop? Leadbeater
 
The false authorship of  ?At The Feet of the Master? is one of the leading  falsifications in the literary career of Mr. Leadbeater. Among the other  examples are  his imaginary ?autobiographical? events in the book ?The Perfume of  Egypt?, and  his false visits to Mars and Mercury. 
 
Since its first edition, ?At the Feet of the Master? has been put in a very special literary place by leading members of the Adyar TS.  It would have been a kind of ?Catechism? for the would-be Messiah, Lord Krishnamurti, the Second Christ. It should have been used  by Leadbeater?s and Wedgwood?s Liberal Catholic Church. 
 
As Krishnamurti got to the adult life, though, he rejected  both the Leadbeater?s Church and his  ?Catechism?. 
 
Not even this,  however,  could  prevent Adyar Theosophists from piously and blindly believing that ?At the Feet of the Master? was written by J. Krishnamurti.  
 
In an astounding process of denial of reality ? something which perhaps can only be explained by Freud?s concept of ?Taboo? ?  thousands of Adyar theosophists still manage to believe that, even  today. 
 
No Maya or Illusion is eternal, though. 
 
In fact, illusions are but necessary tests for our ability to judge, to discern and to differentiate truth from appearance, Dharma from Adharma, Vidya from Avidya.  
 
Obstacles as illusions and all other forms of personal failure are parts of our learning proccess, therefore.  We grow as we get rid of them. 
 
 
Best regards,   Carlos.   
 
 
 


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