Theos-Talk Archives (March 2009 Message tt00357)

Yes John, you will have to look into it.  He left the Anglican Church as a curate when he contacted Theosophy.  As a curate he would have taught the doctrines which he later rejected.  He was consecrated into what became the Liberal Catholic Church which for years after had very close links to the TS; the Christian church at Adyar is a Liberal Catholic one.  This does not of itself make his views on Christianity christian or theosophical just his.  He has been vilified and canonised; both equally just matters of someone's belief but we should try to get the facts right before we launch into 'smart' comments such as yours

Brian



--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Augoeides-222@... wrote:
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> Oh really? Hmmm, my memory fails me. I just recalled that I saw him referred to as Bishop Leadbeater. I don't think he was Bishop of Theosophy. I thought it was in the anglican church. Ah me I guess i will have to lookinto it. 
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> From: "butchie122" <brianparry@...> 
> To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com 
> Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 4:20:26 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific 
> Subject: Theos-World Re: C. W. Leadbeater Declares 4 Gospels Not Historical 
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> I promised myself that I wouldn't get involved in the unedifying discussion on Leadbeater BUT we must get actual facts right. He was not consecrated as a bishop in a main stream religion prior to his exposure to Theosophy but many years after, roughly in about 1919 I think. This is well after HPB died and whom he knew quite well. 
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> --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com , Augoeides-222@ wrote: 
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> > I can't help wondering because Leadbeater was a consecrated "Bishop" in a main stream Religion prior to his having exposure to Theosophy. Are we to believe that he also told his "Flock" back then from his Church Pulpit on Sundays the self same proclamations? 
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> > From: "danielhcaldwell" <danielhcaldwell@> 
> > To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com 
> > Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 8:47:18 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific 
> > Subject: Theos-World C. W. Leadbeater Declares 4 Gospels Not Historical 
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> > C.W. Leadbeater tells his readers: 
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> > Certainly the Christian Bible ought NOT to be taken LITERALLY, for 
> > many of its statements are symbolical, and others are simply NOT 
> > true. When we examine clairvoyantly the life of the Founder of 
> > Christianity, for example, we can find NO TRACE of the ALLEGED twelve 
> > apostles, it would seem that as men they NEVER existed, but that they 
> > were introduced into the story for some reason â�" possibly to typify 
> > the twelve signs of the zodiac....THE TRUTH IS that the four gospels 
> > at any rate were NEVER intended to be taken as in any sense HISTORICAL.... 
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