Theos-Talk Archives (March 2009 Message tt00434)

Dr. Tillet, 
Thanks for the post and information. Thats all quite interesting, I remember quite some time back you posted a good deal that related to Wedgwood 
if I recall correctly. 

>>>Leadbeater was received into the Old Catholic Church in Great Britain by 
Bishop James Wedgwood in Sydney in July, 1915. On July 22, 1916, Wedgwood 
privately consecrated Leadbeater; Leadbeaterâs new status was intended (as 
letters from Wedgwood show) to be kept secret except from a select few. 
Wedgwood wrote: His consecration took place in the presence of a very few 
peopleâ.. 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.<<< 

This sounds very similar to what I have just recently read in Mary Luytens Book about Krishnamurti's "Initiation in Shambhalla officiated by Maitreya with the two vouche safers Besant and Leadbeater standing just behind him and with Khutumi and other Masters voicing their agreements on his entering the Great White Brotherhood and submission to the High Guru and the appearance of the Silver Star . 

The chapter "First Initiation" has the description: 

>>>http://books.google.com/books?id=lhPFWXgxQCkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=mary+lutyen#PPA29,M1<<< 

I have to get around to Googling "Sambhogakaya Realm" i don't quite have a reality on how A Bodhisattva can extend from the realm which mmeans reserved from contact with the physical world unless incarnation matures for the Bodhisatva Maitreya who is I beleive predicted to become a Buddha in a far future time. How they combine in these representations is not in alignment with my past read of the Buddhist Doctrines. When I read Theosophical works of Blavatsky many years ago somehow I missed that part it seems. 

Thanks so much for your kind consideration and helps. 
Regards, 
John 






----- Original Message ----- 
From: gregory@zeta.org.au 
To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 10:59:17 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific 
Subject: Theos-World Leadbeater as Anglican and Bishop 






It is unclear whether Leadbeater actually resigned his appointment as an 
Assistant Curate in the Church of England at Bramshott, which would, under 
ecclesiastical law of the time, have required him to give three months 
notice to the Incumbent (Canon W.W.Capes) and the Bishop, or less notice 
with the permission of the Bishop. It is also unclear whether Leadbeater 
paid Canon Capes the equivalent of the Curateâs stipend for six month, or 
a lesser amount determined by the Bishop as provided for by law. Had he 
done so he would still have remained, for legal purposes, an Anglican 
clergyman unless he executed a Deed of Relinquishment under the Clerical 
Disabilities Act of 1870. Such a Deed of Relinquishment was the only 
means, in the ecclesiastical and civil law of England, whereby a priest 
could divest himself of his orders, although he could be deposed from them 
by his bishop for a sufficiently grave cause and following prescribed 
disciplinary procedure. Theologically, even such a Deed would not have 
changed his status as an ordained Priest, but only have removed the legal 
disabilities (e.g. being disqualified from sitting in the House of 
Commons) to which Anglican clergymen were subjected under English civil 
law. Such a deed could only be executed after the resignation of all 
ecclesiastical appointments. 

There is no record of Leadbeater having ever formally relinquished his 
status as an Anglican clergyman. It appears that he simply informally 
abandoned his Curacy and became in effect an inactive Priest of the Church 
of England. 

According to an announcement made by Olcott in 1890 responding to âthe 
malicious assertion, recently made, that Mr Leadbeater was not an ordained 
clergyman of the Church of Englandâ, documents attesting to his ordination 
had been seen by many people in Colombo. Olcott declared that Leadbeaterâs 
name had been removed from the list of clergy when he became a Buddhist. 
However, in the census return for 1891 Leadbeater described himself as a 
âClerk in Holy Ordersâ. 

The Baptismal Register of St Albanâs Cathedral, Sydney, includes an entry 
recording that Leadbeater, as an Anglican clergyman, had baptized one of 
his male pupils, Walter Hesselman (later Hassall), in 1914, prior to his 
entry into what was then the Old Catholic Church in Great Britain. 

Leadbeater was received into the Old Catholic Church in Great Britain by 
Bishop James Wedgwood in Sydney in July, 1915. On July 22, 1916, Wedgwood 
privately consecrated Leadbeater; Leadbeaterâs new status was intended (as 
letters from Wedgwood show) to be kept secret except from a select few. 
Wedgwood wrote: His consecration took place in the presence of a very few 
peopleâ.. 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. 

Wedgwood had been consecrated a bishop by Frederick Samuel Willoughby, a 
former Anglican clergyman who had relinquished his orders in the Church of 
England following a well-publicized scandal concerning to his sexual 
relations with boys. Willoughby joined the predecessor of the Old Catholic 
Church in Great Britain and was made a bishop. He was dismissed from that 
church when the earlier sexual scandal became known and the synod of the 
church (including Wedgwood) voted to dismiss him. Wedgwood and his new 
church tried to keep the Willoughbyâs identity as Wedgwoodâs consecrator a 
secret but it was quickly made public. 

Dr Gregory Tillett 




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