Theos-Talk Archives (November 2009 Message tt00086)

Good question. Lutyens is not generally very reliable when it comes to old style theosophy, so she probably got it out of the besant leadbeater rumor mill. Perhaps some old article by one or the other.

It's not in the Inner Group Teachings, which means that if Blavatsky did tell some of her students this, it was in an informal setting, not in the setting of a formal studygroup. We're in the same bag on this one as on the Bowen Notes: said to be a report of something Blavatsky said, but we don't have the sources to back it up. Nor are we likely to get to such sources. 

That isn't to say it's certain to be untrue. 

One thing we do know: IF Blavatsky talked about such a teacher, as Besant said, she expected him later than Krishnamurti came. 

Katinka

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Morten Nymann Olesen" <global-theosophy@...> wrote:
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> Dear friends
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> My views are:
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> In Wikipedia we have:
> "As early as 1889, Blavatsky had told a group of Theosophical students that the real purpose of establishing the Society was to prepare humanity for the reception of the World Teacher when he appeared again on earth. This was repeated again more publicly by Besant in 1896, five years after Blavatsky's death."
> (ref: Lutyens, 'Krishnamurti: The Years of Awakening' Page 12)
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> Are any of you able to tell me if this rumour of the past has anything substantial to it, or if it just is a plain and simple lie being circulated so to bolster the J. Krishnamurti Messiah-in-the-flesh-dogmatism?
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> Where did Lutyens get this idea from?
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> M. Sufilight
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