Theos-Talk Archives (January 2011 Message tt00118)

Dear friends

My views are:

The subject in this thread I have called:
The idolizing within Theosophical Society - Adyar.

The break-away theosophist Rudolf Steiner claimed that the Theosophical Society was failing because of idolizing - of Kirshnamurti and others. And the break-away theosophist Alice A. Bailey also forwarded a similar critic in her books.
And truth or non-truth of this aught to at least be considered within the Theosophical Society as of today. And how to avoid it if possible. That is my view.


On the Adyar website of the Theosophical Society we find the following...

In January 1910, Dr Besant wrote to Leadbeater:
'It is definitely fixed that the Lord Maitreya takes this dear child's body.  It seems a very heavy responsibility to guard and help it, so as to fit it for Him, as He said, and I feel rather overwhelmed'.
http://www.ts-adyar.org/content/j-krishnamurti-1895-1986


Now when we read the court case on J. Krishnamurti the by Annie Besant claimed World Teacher, Maitreya and Christ we find the following:

Thus in the Theosophist for June 1911, Mrs. Besant wrote:
" We await again the coming of its greatest 
Messenger from the great White Lodge, not one of the 
lesser Messengers, not one of the faithful and devoted 
disciples, not one of those who come because bidden by 
their Superiors to go out into the world, but one to whom 
none may say " Go " but whoever breathes " I come", 
the Supreme Teacher, the great Rishi, the Bodhisattava, 
the Lord Maitreya, the blessed Buddha yet to be. We 
who know something of the occult life, we who of our 
own knowledge bear witness that He lives upon the earth, 
are waiting for His coming, and already the steeps of the 
Himalayas are echoing to the footsteps that tread them 
to descend into the world of men."......."Already among the peoples of the world there 
is the hush of expectation, already from many a pulpit 
in the Western world is ringing out the cry for a great 
spiritual teacher, who shall shape the religions of the 
world into one vast synthesis and spread true Brother- 
hood among men."
(Mrs. Besant and the Alcyone Case (1913), p. 29)
http://www.archive.org/details/mrsbesantalcyone00veririch


Mrs. Besant and the Alcyone Case (1913)
"The defendant denies that she named the first 
boy Alcyone; he received that name from another 
person as a mere noin de plume, similar names being 
given to about 220 people, for the purposes of identify- 
ing them through a series of articles ; nor has she 
stated that he is, or is going to be, the Lord Christ 
or the Lord Maitreya ; the boy is not deified, but is a 
happy healthy lad; it is true that respectable people 
have prostrated themselves before him. "
(Mrs. Besant and the Alcyone Case (1913), p. 81)
http://www.archive.org/details/mrsbesantalcyone00veririch


Mrs. Besant and the Alcyone Case (1913)
"I have already denied that any 
.worship has been paid to J. Krishnamurthi as future 
World Teacher or Christ as alleged."
(Mrs. Besant and the Alcyone Case (1913), p. 87)
http://www.archive.org/details/mrsbesantalcyone00veririch


M. Sufilight says:
I repeat from the above statement by Annie Besant:
"nor has she stated that he is, or is going to be, the Lord Christ 
or the Lord Maitreya ; the boy is not deified, but is a 
happy healthy lad; it is true that respectable people 
have prostrated themselves before him."


How very interesting to find her not telling the actual truth on the High Court about 3 years later.



M. Sufilight

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