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LIFE ON MARS ACCORDING TO ALFRED SINNETT




1. Alfred Sinnett held the mistaken belief that Mars and Mercury are part of the Earth's planetary chain.

This led Sinnett to conclude that the humanity currently developing on Earth had previously done so on Mars and would do so in the future on Mercury — all in a physical sense.

In other words: terrestrial humans used to reincarnate on Mars, but those who had evolved sufficiently were now reincarnating on Earth, and in the future, the most advanced among them would begin to reincarnate on Mercury.

That is why Sinnett wrote in his book "Esoteric Buddhism" (1883):

« Mars in a state of entire obscuration now as regards the human life-wave. »
(Chapter 7)

This means there is no human life on Mars, though Sinnett implied that animal and plant life do exist there.




2. However, in his book "The Growth of the Soul" (1896), Sinnett changed his claim, stating that humans do live on Mars, but they are the most despicable ones who could not continue their evolution on Earth:

« A large portion of the present human family has actually lived on Mars — where, if we could but visit the planet now, as, indeed, some of our more advanced companions can and do, in the appropriate vehicle of consciousness while out of the physical body, we should still find the least advanced, — the dregs of the family, — still hanging on there. »
(Chapter 10)




3. Sinnett had been using mediums to obtain further "occult information," and starting in 1909, he began utilizing the services of the medium Robert King (who was a charlatan) and who told him lies.

In his "Autobiography," Sinnett recounted:

« One November night [1909], King heard a new voice claiming to be that of Laplace — the astronomer who had given me information about Mars, its inhabitants, and its canals. Up to that point, King did not go into a trance with me, but rather repeated what he heard being said. »
(p. 57)



This led Sinnett to further expand upon his "discoveries" regarding life on Mars, which he set forth in a pamphlet titled "Expanded Theosophical Knowledge" (1919), which later was incorporated into his book "Collected Fruits of Occult Teaching" (1919) where he once again altered his claim, stating that the humans living on Mars were not the most despicable, but rather the most primitive:

« At present we shall find it impossible to understand the conditions of life on the super-physical planets, and we may leave them out of account for the moment; but on the three physical, including Mars behind us and Mercury in advance of us, the human family is now distributed, part of it already established on Mercury, part left behind on Mars.

The explanation is simple. While the great majority swept forward to this earth, the laggard remnant not yet qualified for incarnation here remains on the planet Mars, a superior vanguard already getting forward to the planet in advance.

The retarded condition of the Martian remnant—counted, of course, by a fairly large number of millions—consists of those who have (reverting to my former explanation about consciousness) failed to make the exertions required for the acquisition of superior vehicles.

There is no vehicle of human consciousness on this earth amongst even the lowest savages that is not definitely superior in some important ways to the vehicles of consciousness now inhabiting Mars.

Strange to say, as often happens on the downward arc, some capacities are still active amongst them, which enable them to do things that we ourselves, in spite of our superior development, are unable to accomplish.

The Martian people can handle matter by arts that we, to a certain extent, have lost, though the use of such arts does not represent superior intelligence any more than a spider’s capacity to make a web that no human art could imitate, represents intellectual superiority on the part of the spider.

Morally, the condition of the Martian people is below any level that we can easily comprehend.Their forms are to our more cultivated taste grotesquely ugly, and they practically exemplify a saying applied with less appropriateness to some savage races of our own globe: “manners they have none, and their customs are beastly.”


The animal life on Mars is at a low level, corresponding to that of the people. It is purely reptilian in its character, and the development of taste amongst the people may be imagined from the fact that their food consists of the blood of the reptiles swarming in the vast inland lakes commonly called canals, with which the habitable portions of the planet are covered.

Even amongst the Martians the evolutionary law which presses gradually on the multitude is slowly working. Some Egos —for already the Martians must be thought of as human— gradually establish claims on a better vehicle of consciousness than those around them, and then they become qualified for incarnation on this earth, and are brought over under the guidance of appropriate emissaries from the White Lodge in batches sometimes of fairly considerable number.

I have heard of a recent case in which within the last year or two, a batch of about a hundred thousand Martian Egos were imported into this world, finding incarnation, some of them, in the aborigines, as they are called, of Australia, some in the lowest types of Central Africa, the best of them amongst the populations of Central Asia. »
(p.167-68)




4. Charles Leadbeater was a friend of Sinnett, he claimed to have traveled to Mars via clairvoyance and recorded his discoveries in his book "The Inner Life II" (1912), stating, among other things:

« Signs of a very ancient civilization are visible everywhere, for the inhabitants have preserved the tradition of all that was known when the great life-wave of terrestrial humanity occupied the planet, and since then, they have added many other discoveries.
. . .
The Martians have brought their medical and scientific studies to such a state of perfection that diseases have been eliminated, and even the common signs of old age have largely disappeared. Practically no one looks old, and it seems they hardly feel old; yet, after a life somewhat longer than our own, the desire to live gradually fades, and the Martian comes to desire death. »
(Sixth section)



This contradicted Sinnett’s own assertions; while Sinnett maintained that the Martians were very primitive, Leadbeater claimed they were highly evolved.

To address this dichotomy, Sinnett continued to consult mediums and presented his conclusions in his book "Supra-Physical Science" (1919):

« Misled by the fact, discovered by ordinary astronomy, that that planet [Mars] is remarkable for artificial irrigation works on a colossal scale, hasty thinkers have jumped to the conclusion that the race is more advanced than ourselves, and to make the matter more bewildering some clairvoyant observation of Mars resulted in discovering that it is partly occupied by a highly advanced variety of humanity representing a civilisation in some respects in advance of our own.

How is this view compatible with what I thought I had definitely learned, that the population of Mars were the laggards of the earth’s humanity and at a very ignoble state of development, in a condition which we can only think of as one of profound degradation as compared with our own; though the word degradation is not exactly applicable because the Martian condition merely represents one from which early humanity has not yet emerged?

From our point of view it is really a very ignoble and disgusting stage. At that stage the human form has a gorilla-like aspect, short legs, bulky body, long and powerful arms; and the habits of life prevailing are loathsome to our imagination.

There is but little animal life on Mars resembling our own. All that is not quasi-human is still of the reptilian order, and huge creatures of that kind, inhabiting the enormous “canals” (more properly to be thought of as elongated seas, for they are miles in breadth and in some places a mile deep), provide the human population with the food on which they live.

By slow degrees, as even the laggard Martians become fit for something a shade better than the lives they are leading, they are brought over in great groups to the earth and incarnated in the lowest savage types to be found in Central Africa or the interior of Australia. From those conditions, as time goes on, they may gradually ascend to superior races.


How are we to reconcile the view of the Martian population just given with the results of the clairvoyant research?

The explanation of this apparent confusion is to the effect that both stories are true.The bulk of the Martian population does consist of the laggards already described, and when I was getting information concerning them I was simply endeavouring to get a comprehensive view of the way in which humanity was distributed around the septenary chain.

So it was not necessary to inform me, or at all events I was not informed, that over and above the laggard multitude, Mars was actually the scene of incarnation for a considerable body of egos belonging to the “Inner Round.”

This phrase relates to a department of occult teaching of which very little has hitherto been said in any theosophical writings, although the central idea is referred to in some of my own.

In thinking of human evolution we have, first of all, to contemplate its main stream including the sixty thousand million entities constituting the human family; also that wonderful stream of rapid evolution (rapid relatively to the main stream) described as the Path of Initiation.

But we also have to think of a third stream, intermediate, as it were, between the other two, consisting of egos who, by reason of some special karmic qualifications, become, without treading the Path of Initiation, drifted along the normal path of evolution in advance of the great majority.

These egos constituting what has been called the “inner round” people, flit on from planet to planet of the whole chain and get right round it in periods lying within the whole world period (for the majority) of the world from which they started. That is an abstract statement of the principle.

More definitely, it relates to a possibility of evolution that has never arisen in the earlier history of the planetary chain. Inner Rounds can only be thought of as beginning at the period of this world’s current activity. But anyhow, it seems to be the fact that some qualified egos emerging from the variegated civilisation of the Atlantean period, have actually accomplished an Inner Round progress so nearly complete that they are already incarnate on the planet Mars only just behind our own. There, of course, they are enormously superior to the bulk of the laggard population, thus naturally assuming control of the inferior multitude.

But the complications of the story do not end here.The few who actually accomplished the Inner Round progress were reinforced by a considerable number of Atlantean egos (willingly, of course, accepting the task) who were moved backward against the normal stream of evolution, and incarnated on Mars.

One naturally asks: How did their incarnation begin? What parents, among the laggard population, could possibly have been fit to give them birth?

The answer unveils another interesting chapter in the whole intricate story. A Being of exalted dignity, undertaking a task resembling that performed by the “Manu” of a new race on Earth, made a selection amongst the best of the laggard population, and segregating them from the rest, through a long series of generations, brought them up to a relatively superior condition.They became the parents of the incoming Atlantean egos, whose advent, again of course, gave an enormous impulse to the progress of the improving forms.

Obviously, all this work was done a long while ago, but two or three million years have elapsed since the middle period of the Atlantean race, so there has been time available for many things to happen.

Thus, although it is not true that all of the superior race now dominating Mars are strictly speaking Inner Round people, they may all be conveniently thought of as such.

The few who actually were able to hurry round the whole chain of planets, probably came into incarnation on Mars, after the larger number who came back from Earth, and found bodies available of an already improved type.

It would seem that Mr. Leadbeater’s clairvoyant observations were entirely concerned with some of the Inner Round people whom he was enabled to observe.

And the impression he got that they constituted the main body of the Martian population seems, as I understand the matter now, the only mistake embodied in a description he gives, which, while I merely knew that the main body of the Martian population was certainly of the laggard order, appeared to me bewildering in the most distressful fashion.

The Inner Round people are a small minority compared to the multitude below them, but owing to their superiority in other ways they completely dominate the laggards. Whether, in the progress of time, it may be possible that somehow, independently. of super-physical faculties we shall come to know something concerning the Martian people, is a question I will not venture to deal with confidently; but I do understand that some of the Inner Round Martians are keenly interested in the idea of establishing physical plane relations with the Earth, by utilising the finer forces of nature to serve a telegraphic purpose.

When, hitherto, people have vaguely talked about the possibility of getting communications from Mars, every intelligent thinker must have been struck with the absurdity of supposing that the Martians could make themselves intelligible to us without any common language to work with. But all I have now been explaining really dissipates this difficulty.

The Inner Round Martians are sufficiently advanced in evolution, especially those who have actually made an extra circuit of the planetary chain, to have developed amongst them what may be thought of as a Martian White Lodge, a Martian body of adepts capable, as adepts, of communicating with other worlds.

And the communication on that level is already freely established. That state of things accounts for the fact that such information as I have just been putting forward has filtered through to me.We are within sight of very wonderful changes in the human life of this planet, social and spiritual changes of immense importance. And amongst them it seems more than possible that interplanetary communications may be one of the dazzling achievements of science in the future. »
(Ed. 1924, p.103-108)


In summary, Sinnett stated that although the majority of Martians were very primitive, there were also some who were highly evolved.






OBSERVATION

We now know that what Sinnett and Leadbeater said is false and that there is no physical life on Mars; in fact, there is no subtle life either, since Master Kuthumi revealed that "Mars is in a state of obscuration" (SD I, p. 165).








LIFE ON MERCURY ACCORDING TO ALFRED SINNETT




During Alfred Sinnett's time, there was a mistaken belief that the other planets in the solar system were also physically inhabited, just as Earth is.

This, combined with Sinnett's erroneous concept that Mars and Mercury are part of the Earth's planetary chain, led him to conclude that the humanity currently evolving on Earth had previously done so on Mars and would do so in the future on Mercury—all in a physical sense.

In other words: terrestrial humans used to reincarnate on Mars, but those who had evolved sufficiently were now reincarnating on Earth, and in the future, the most advanced among them would begin to reincarnate on Mercury.

That is why Sinnett wrote in his book "Esoteric Buddhism" (1883):

« Mercury is preparing for its next human period*. »
(Chapter 7)


And to silence those who believed that physical life could not exist on Mercury because this planet orbits too close to the Sun, Sinnett replied:

« * It may be worth while here to remark for the benefit of people who may be disposed, from physical science reading, to object that Mercury is too near the Sun, and consequently too hot to be a suitable place of habitation for man, that in the oficial report of the Astronomical Department of the United States on the recent "Mount Whitney observations" statements will be found that may check too confident criticisms of occult science along that line.

The results of the Mount Whitney observations on selective absorption of solar rays showed, according to the official reporter, that it would no longer be impossible to suggest the conditions of an atmosphere which should render Mercury habitable at the one extreme of the scale, and Saturn at the other.

We have no concern with Saturn at present, nor, if it were necessary to explain on occult principles the habitability of Mercury, should the task be at- tempted with calculations about selective absorption.

The fact is that ordinary science makes at once too much and too little of the Sun, as the storehouse of force for the solar system, —too much in so far as the heat of planets has a great deal to do with another influence quite distinct from the Sun, an influence Avhich will not be thoroughly understood till more is known than at present about the correlations of heat and magnetism, and of the magnetic, meteoric dust, with which interplanetary space is pervaded.

However, it is enough — to rebut any objection that might be raised against the explanations now in progress, from the point of view of loyal devotees of last year's science — to point out that such objections would be already out of date.

Modern science is very progressive, — this is one of its greatest merits, — but it is not a meritorious habit with modern scientists to think, at each stage of its progress, that all conceptions incompatible with that stage must necessarily be absurd. »
(Chapter 7)




Charles Leadbeater was a friend of Sinnett and claimed that through his clairvoyance he had traveled to Mercury, and what he discovered he recorded in his book "The Inner Life II" (1912):

« Of our future home, Mercury, I know much less than of the planet Mars, because visits to this other planet have been hurried and infrequent.

Many people would think it incredible that life like ours could exist on Mercury, with a sun that appears at least seven times larger than here. But in reality, the heat is not as intense as one would suppose it to be, and I was informed that this is due to a layer of gas located at the outer edges of Mercury's atmosphere, which prevents most of the heat from penetrating.
. . .
The inhabitants of Mercury whom I have seen there are very similar to ourselves, although, as with Mars, they are somewhat smaller.

And the influence of gravity on both Mars and Mercury is less than half of what it is on Earth. But while on Mars I didn't notice any particular way in which this lower gravity had been exploited, I did observe that on Mercury the doors of houses are quite high off the ground.

So if those doors were located on Earth, we would need to perform a great feat of gymnastics to reach them, but on Mercury, only a small jump is required.

And another thing that greatly surprised me is that all the inhabitants of this planet are born with their etheric sight already awakened. I remember that this peculiarity caught my attention when I observed a child watching the movements of a crawling creature. I saw that when this creature entered his dwelling, the Mercurian child could still see its movements, even when the creature was already deep underground. »
(Sixth Section)


Sinnett believed what Leadbeater said, and that is why he changed his explanation. Instead of continuing to claim that Mercury "was preparing for its next human period," Sinnett declared that there were already some humans (the most advanced) physically living on Mercury.

And that is why in his book "Collected Fruits of Occult Teaching" (1919) he wrote:

« Humanity is now scattered: one part is already established on Mercury, while another part lags behind on Mars. »
(p.167)





NOTE

We now know that what Sinnett and Leadbeater said is false and that there is no physical life on Mercury, and in fact, there is no subtle life either, since Master Kuthumi revealed that "Mercury is only just beginning to emerge from its state of obscuration" (SD I, p. 165)










RELIGIONS AND HUMAN NATURE: WHAT PLACE DO YOU OCCUPY IN ALL OF THAT?


(This article was written by Alsibar, who has studied spiritual guides extensively, and the original text in Portuguese can be read at this link.)



How does a person choose their religion? What is the relationship between religion and our tendencies and level of intellectual and spiritual development? Where do you stand on this? Let's reflect on this.

To say that we choose religions or paths according to our level of spiritual development may seem absurd at first glance. But spiritualist literature is full of statements that corroborate this thesis.

Gurdjieff said there are seven levels of men, and each person chooses their path according to the level they are at. Thus, there is a religion for so-called "ordinary" men, those at levels 1, 2, and 3.

Gurdjieff explained that the religion of the Level 1 man is based on rituals, sacrifices, and ceremonies. The religion of the Level 2 man is based on emotion, worship, faith, and enthusiasm. The religion of the Level 3 man is based on theory, intellect, arguments, and rhetoric.

Regarding the religion of man at level 4 and above, Gurdjieff explains, taking Christianity as an example:

« In fact, Christian number 1, 2, and 3 are nothing more than a superficial imitation. Only man number 4 strives to become a Christian, and only man number 5 can truly be a Christian.

Because to be a Christian, one must possess the essence of a Christian, that is, live according to the precepts of Christ. Men number 1, 2, and 3 cannot live according to the teachings of Christ because for them everything "just happens." They are driven by chance, adrift. They are not masters of themselves, and consequently, even if they decide to be Christians, they cannot truly be so. » 
(Fragments of an Unknown Teaching, Ouspensky)


Another source that clarifies this is the Bhagavad-Gita. Krishna says that men's faith can be of three types according to the modes of nature that each one acquires: goodness, passion, and ignorance. Krishna states:

« Men in the mode of goodness worship demigods; those in the mode of passion worship demons; and those in the mode of ignorance worship ghosts and spirits.»

Then Krishna explains in detail the devotional practices and paths for each individual, according to their nature.



Leaving aside the quotes from sacred books—which served as an introduction to this study—let us reflect together on the question: religion versus level of spiritual development, always remembering that the objective here is not to defend a radical and absolute position, but rather to contribute to a free and impartial reflection on this topic.

However, it seems to me that there aren't just seven or three types of men according to their spiritual and intellectual level, but rather various types, levels, and sublevels. Obviously, when figures like seven or three are established, there is a clear concern for the simplicity and pedagogy of what is taught.

But when we observe reality and the facts, we realize that just as there are so many different kinds of people, there are also so many different paths and religions. However, the fundamental question is: are these varieties of religions harmful or beneficial to humanity? To what extent can we consider the various paths, movements, sects, and religions as something detrimental to human beings?

It all depends on the point of view and the points of reference adopted. From a more general and superficial perspective, we could say that all religions play an important role in guiding, orienting, and enlightening humanity. And perhaps this explains the existence of so many different paths. But should everyone follow only one path?

As much as we might want to claim that there is only one true path, we know that in practice, this is not the case. All religions and sects say the same thing. All gurus and leaders proclaim the superiority of their paths over others.

So what really happens?

An infinity of routes, of paths, that the layman finds in his search, without knowing for sure where to go.

Let's consider, for example, Pentecostal and Neo-Pentecostal Christian religions. These cater to a specific mindset—a need that, if absent, could leave many people lost and adrift.

Therefore, in general, there is a predominance of former drug addicts, former alcoholics, former drug dealers, former addicts, etc. The path they follow and defend is presented as a lifeline against many evils and vices detrimental to their professional, social, and family lives. Without this "tool," without the support that religion provides, what would become of these people?

Many of them, through a religion that strengthens their faith and self-esteem, manage to give new meaning to their lives and obtain the strength and energy to overcome obstacles, achieve prosperity and be "happy", according to their own conception of happiness.

Similarly, there are other religions and paths that people follow according to what they find convenient and appropriate for their own lives. Thus, when a Pentecostal leaves the Catholic Church, for example, they consider themselves more "evolved" because they have renounced the images, saints, and ecclesiastical authority of the Catholic Church; this gives them a sense of renewal and of truly following Christ "now." And so on.

People follow what they believe will bring them benefits such as peace, tranquility, happiness, renewal, prosperity, meaning in life, and so on. From this perspective, each religion has its own function, serving a niche or segment of people, according to their needs, trends, types, and levels.

Whether we believe it or not, this is what actually happens in the world. We perceive, therefore, that on the path of our spiritual evolution, religions function as stepping stones that propel us to the next level.

So, everything's perfect, right? In some ways, yes. In others, not so much. The thing is, the different paths generally raise your spiritual level. However, they don't usually raise you to a level higher than their own, which leads to a kind of stagnation.

In other words, it's better to be a Pentecostal Christian than a drug dealer. However, if I don't seek to elevate my spiritual level, I risk becoming stuck in readings, sermons, and proselytizing, forgetting inner transformation and the true experience of Christ's teachings.





The framework of religions versus human nature

From this perspective, I created the following scheme, from 1 to 10. Remember that this scheme only seeks to organize things from a subjective and personal perspective. The apparent gradation is not absolute, but simply a way to organize the information, facilitating visualization and understanding.

With this framework, I aim to help those who are searching for themselves but feel lost in this vast array of paths and information. May each person find their own way, and may those who have already found it analyze and reflect upon it.

I accept disagreements, but I want to reiterate that what I publish here does not impose any kind of authority. I don't own the truth, and I believe no one does. However, I advocate for a search based on reflection, research, discovery, and constant learning. May each person find their own light and their own path!


10. Total denial of beliefs, books, gurus, techniques, disciplines and “paths”: focus on meditation, research and self-knowledge: appeals to freedom, independence and total autonomy of man.


9. Following the teachings and practices of ancient esoteric organizations to develop the mind, spirit, and “hidden” powers: they approach an ideal of freedom, but still operate within the sphere of the EGO, of the known.


8. The practice of techniques and the following of gurus appeal to psychological dependence and the search for security and inner stability.


7. Religions that advocate practice combined with actions, such as charity, appeal to hope, to practice allied with rational faith through the cultivation of virtues.


6. Religions that defend proselytism, the authority of sacred texts and blind faith: they appeal to belief, blind faith and material and spiritual ambition.


5. Religions that advocate the worship of saints, images, and obedience to the hierarchy appeal to fear, obedience, and spiritual authority.


4. Monism, for example Christianity, advocates for the unification of beliefs and practices under the rule of a single God.


3. Polytheism (e.g., pagan religions) appeals to human passions.


2. Animal sacrifices, for example, in ancient Brahmanism, appeal to superstition and fear.


1. Human sacrifices, for example, in pre-Columbian tribal religions. It appeals to fear.








THE STORY OF THE BOOK "THE MASTERS AND THE PATH" WRITTEN BY CHARLES LEADBEATER




One of Leadbeater’s most controversial – if to his disciples, most exciting – works was The Masters and the Path, originally published by the Theosophical Publishing House, Adyar, 1925, with a “Second Edition – Revised and Enlarged” published in 1927, and a number of later editions, usually (especially after the failure of The Coming) carefully edited.

The text had been originally published in private journals of the Esoteric Section (ES) of the Theosophical Society, and it was only (as Annie Besant wrote in her Foreword to the 2nd edition) because of “The rapid changes in the world of thought, arising from the nearness of the Coming of the World-Teacher” that is was considered to make the material publicly available.


Josephine Ransom (the principal biographer of the Theosophical Society of Adyar) claimed that “The Masters and the Path” “was based on teachings given by the Master K.H. to a group of pupils about 1897.” (A Short History of the Theosophical Society, 1875-1937 Theosophical Publishing House, Adyar, 1938, p.472).

(Cid's note: That's a huge lie because the book "The Masters and the Path" is full of falsehoods.)

This, presumably, refers to teachings allegedly given through Leadbeater to an esoteric group founded by A.P. Sinnett within the London Lodge of the Theosophical Society.

In 1882, in the midst of the period in which he was receiving letters from the Masters (1880-1885). Sinnett had worked on a proposal for a grade structure for the Third Section of the Theosophical Society, and received Mahatmic advice on this subject (see Mahatma Letter No XXXV).

The Master advised that, because of the limited education of many “Asiatics”, it was virtually impossible to create a system of grades which would be suitable to both easterners and westerners, but nevertheless gave encouragement for the development of a “scheme of ‘Degrees’”. Sinnett’s proposal appears to have been of seven degrees, but nothing seems to have come of it.

The Inner Group of the London Lodge eventually included Sinnett, William Scott-Elliot, Francesca Arundale, Mr and Mrs Varley, and Leadbeater. Sinnett published Transactions of the London Lodge on the basis of papers prepared for the group, and which he claimed included material deriving from contact with KH through various psychics, including Laura Holloway, but most notably through “Mary” (i.e. Maude Travers).

The use of “Mary” declined after her marriage in 1893 and ended in 1898. From 1889 to 1894 Sinnett used Leadbeater as a medium through whom messages from the Masters could be obtained. In June, 1894, Annie Besant was admitted to the Inner Group of the London Lodge.

(Even genuine mediums are deceived by deceitful astral entities, but Leadbeater was not a medium; he only pretended to be one so that Sinnett would continue to help him, and he deceived Sinnett by transmitting incorrect but pleasing teachings, such as assuring him that Blavatsky had been wrong and that he was correct when he stated that Mars and Mercury also belong to the terrestrial chain.)

Leadbeater’s involvement with the Inner Group ceased when he moved into the Avenue Road, London, house which was occupied by Besant and other Theosophical workers; he was then financially supported by Besant, and by his own Theosophical publications.


Jinarajadasa published some of the teachings received through Leadbeater in a number of (now very rare) Esoteric Section pamphlets: for example, C.W. Leadbeater Some Fundamental Teachings Outer Head of the ES, Adyar, 1937.






THE TESTIMONY OF JINARAJADASA

Of this work, Jinarajadasa wrote in his foreword:

« The papers in this compilation were all written by Brother C. W. Leadbeater about the years 1892-95, in London. The manuscript book, from which the papers which follow are reprinted, is in my own handwriting.

Brother Lead­beater used to write first on small pieces of paper, usually the inside of envelopes received with letters; from them I copied into manuscript books. It is from the papers in this manuscript book in my handwriting that later he compiled the larger work The Masters and the Path.

(Mr. Ernest Wood assisted greatly in compiling this work; he was an excellent amanuensis, and Brother Leadbeater often relied on him to shape unrevised manuscripts, reports of lectures, etc., into literary form for publication.)

At this period which I mention, there existed in London two groups of occult students who were dedicated to the work of the Masters. The first group was that which had gathered round H. P. B. at the London Headquarters, and after her death continued as the Inner Circle of the E. S. T. (Esoteric Section of Theosophy) with Brother Annie Besant as the head.

The second group was that which had gathered round Mr. A. P. Sinnett since 1883. On the arrival of Brother Lead­beater and myself in London at the end of 1889, we became members of the second group, as both of us were guests, of Mr. Sinnett, and lived with him for two years.

In 1894, Sister Besant too became a member. Later, some of us of this London Lodge Group were admitted by her into the E. S. T. into its highest grade.

(By that time, the EST had already deteriorated because Besant had increasingly replaced Blavatsky's teachings with Leadbeater's pseudo-teachings.)

The members of this group of Mr. Sinnett numbered at this time about twenty. They met fairly frequently, and took up various aspects of Theosophical teachings for study and discus­sion.

After several such discussions, some member of the group would be charged with the work of gathering what material he could from Theosophical works, The Secret Doctrine in particular; it was his task then to for­mulate the topic in a paper to be read to the group for further discussion. Thus, for instance, during several meetings much time was spent in trying to understand the subject of root races and sub-races.

The material in The Secret Doctrine was not adequate; the principal defect was the lack of definition as to what constitutes the difference between one root race and another, and how a new root race arose out of the old.

One member was instructed to read as many works as he could on Ethno­logy, and to report what they conveyed regarding the various races. This work was done by Mr. John Varley, who after three months’ study read a paper. The value of this paper lay in pointing out the great contradictions and gaps in the theories of the ethnologists.

Questions on the races were then formulated by the group, to be presented to the Masters. The questions were presented by Brother Lead­beater to the Master K. H. The Master, how­ever, did not answer them, but passed them on to the Master M., saying that they appertained to the department of His Brother.

It was also the Master M. who answered the questions regarding the formation of the Solar System. The answers of the Master M. were written down by Brother Leadbeater as accurately as he could recollect, and as mentioned above, I my­self copied them down into a manuscript book.

Regarding the subject of the Rays, for several years there had existed with him a small memorandum, with a table of the Rays, but there were no explanations; I recollect his saying frequently that it was a very secret memo­randum of the teachings given at Adyar by the Master D. K. in 1885-6, concerning matters not revealed to the world.

The other papers contain teachings which Brother Leadbeater had received at various times from the Master K. H. and His senior pupils; here and there he has added to them explanations of his own, in order to make the subject clearer. The paper on the Aura was the result of his own investigations. »

(It is false that Masters Kuthumi, Morya, and their most advanced disciples transmitted these teachings to Leadbeater; he claimed this only to deceive his followers.)






THE TESTIMONY OF ERNEST WOOD

Ernest Wood assisted Leadbeater on several of his books and was called to Sydney in 1924 to help Leadbeater with various writing projects and stayed with him at the large residence where Leadbeater lived like a king: The Manor.

And regarding the writing of the book "The Masters and the Path," Ernest Wood wrote the following: 

« I found Bishop Leadbeater in bed. He had been suffering for a long time from rheumatic fever, and his hands, which lay outside the bed-cover were terribly twisted. My sympathy flamed up. I did not know how to express myself.
After a little time our conversation turned to the subject of his books. He told me that he did not know whether he had much longer to live. He would like to have all his latest discoveries and thoughts put into books, that they might be correctly stated and recorded before he passed away.

He had given many talks, and there were reports of these which would serve as a basis for books. During the eleven years he had written only three books – only one of real importance, The Science of the Sacraments, a study of the church rituals, describing what was clairvoyantly seen in connection with them.

(Leadbeater's clairvoyance was nonexistent; what he put in his book was a product of his imagination.)

I remarked that there were some twenty or thirty fine-looking people in the community, and no doubt as soon as he was a little better they would rally round and help him to bring his literary works up to date.

“No,” he sadly replied. “If you do not stay they will never be done. Several people have tried, without success.”

So I stayed, for over four years – with some small interludes of travel.


The first book we selected was intended to publish all he knew about the Masters and discipleship to them. It was called The Masters and the Path. Some material had already been gathered together. I collected all the reports of Bishop Leadbeater’s talks touching on these subjects, and then every day sat at his bedside and read what I had written up from these and from notes of our conversations.

One of my little accomplishments acquired at Adyar was the ability to write in the style of either Mr. Leadbeater or Mrs. Besant, and neither of them could tell that paragraphs written by me had not been written by themselves. Then there would be questions, discussions, and alterations and additions where necessary.

In all my work with Mr. Leadbeater at Adyar there had seldom been any actual dictation, except in The Lives of Alcyone and in the last rescension of The Beginnings of the Sixth Root Race. Now there was no dictation at all. I must have written about half of The Masters and the Path, some parts of it containing my own ideas, as well as language, submitted to him for incorporation.

A new thing was his statement that, surprising at it might seem, he had seen God (the Solar Logos) in personal form; I wrote it up suitably and put it in the book.

(That was another Leadbeater lie.)


A curious thing happened a few days after we had started work. I was sitting near his bed one afternoon when I suddenly felt something break open (like the bursting of a seed pod) in my head, and from it a cold current flooded my whole body, passing down the spine in waves and radiating from every part of the body.

It seemed to me that this was not my own force, but was coming into me through my head, and that it was going out from me direct to Bishop Leadbeater. I was also aware that it was a healing current of some kind. After several minutes it died away, and I never mentioned it to Bishop Leadbeater, nor to others, except in a letter to Mrs. Besant.

I do not know anything more about this phenomenon, which occurred quite outside my will. But it did coincide with an abrupt change in Bishop Leadbeater’s condition. In a few days he was able to move about, and then it was only a matter of weeks until he had straightened himself up, and even his hands assumed their normal form.


When we were about half-way through the preparation of The Masters and the Path Bishop Leadbeater one day showed me a document which he said had been given to him by a Master at Adyar many years before. It was simply a table of the rays or types of humanity. He thought it might be incorporated into the book, but there were some points he could not understand – he indicated three items in particular. I looked at the diagram, and at once exclaimed: “But I can explain these items.”

I gave him my explanations of the points in question. He was much astonished and asked me where I got this knowledge of a rather obscure subject. I told him that before leaving India I had been now and then receiving what seemed to me like internal communications on this subject of the rays or types of men.

Sometimes there had been a voice, but generally ideas had been, as it were, insinuated into my mind, quite distinctly with the feeling of the presence of an intelligence other than my own. In this way I had accumulated a quantity of notes on the subject.

I had been speaking on it occasionally at theosophical gatherings in America, without saying anything about occult experiences in connection with it, if such they could be called. It happened in Chicago that some of the members, particularly one, Dr. Beckwith, a leader there, had taken my information very seriously, and I was consequently much troubled, as I had no wish to lead others where I was myself somewhat blind.

Late one night, as I was travelling along in an otherwise empty carriage on the elevated railway in Chicago, and I was brooding in a troubled way over this point, something electrical in my immediate atmosphere caused me to look up and I saw, or thought I saw, the Master standing there; and he said: “Do not be troubled about that information about the rays. It is quite correct. I gave it to you.”

(Ernest Wood most likely imagined that.) 

When I had recounted this to Bishop Leadbeater, he said: “Well, we will not do any more of my work until you have written a book of your own on the seven rays.”

He put his work aside. I set to work on my own book. Early every morning I made notes for the day’s dictation. During the day I dictated. In eight days my book was ready for the press. I gave the manuscript to Bishop Leadbeater with the request to paint out any errors or defects, but after a few days he returned it to me saying: “I should not like to interfere with anything coming from that source.”

The book was duly published, and created quite a sensation among the Theosophists, who translated it into several languages, but no mention was made of the history I have recounted above. Afterwards, whenever I raised my voice against “authority” in the theosophical movement, Bishop Leadbeater would say to me: “But we regard you as our authority on the rays!”

I could not, however, agree with him. Such experiences as I had had might very well be the work of the subconscious mind. »

(Ernest Wood, Is This Theosophy? London, Rider and Co., 1936, p.288-291)


Source:
https://cwledbeater.wordpress.com/2016/06/10/origins-of-the-masters-and-the-path/
https://cwledbeater.wordpress.com/2016/06/11/ernest-wood-on-the-masters-and-the-path/









THE DEDICATIONS THAT BLAVATSKY WROTE TO CHARLES LEADBEATER

 




At the end of the book "Letters from KH to CW Leadbeater" written by C. Jinarajadasa, he included several dedications that Blavatsky wrote to Leadbeater.



Jinarajadasa first posted the following:


HPB ON CW LEADBEATER IN 1886

In the magazine "The Theosophist", August 1886, page 686, there appears an article by CW Leadbeater entitled "Anuradhapura and Mihintale".

And Blavatsky, in the copy of this volume of the journal that she owned, and which is here in Adyar, marked with a blue pencil referring to Leadbeater:

« A brave heart!

HPB. » 







Then Jinarajadasa displayed facsimiles of two dedications that Blavatsky wrote to Leadbeater when she or someone else gave him two of her books.



FIRST DEDICATION

The following image is a reproduction of the words written by Blavatsky in a copy of her book "The Voice of the Silence" given to Leadbeater

« To my sincerely appreciated and beloved brother and friend WC Leadbeater.

HP Blavatsky. » 








SECOND DEDICATION

The following image is a reproduction of words written by Blavatsky in a copy of her book "The Key to Theosophy," given to Leadbeater a few months before Blavatsky's death:

« To my old and well-loved friend Charles Leadbeater, fraternally.
HP Blavatsky.

London
1891. »








OBSERVATIONS

Jinarajadasa published these dedications to make readers believe that Blavatsky had a great appreciation for Leadbeater.

In 1886 Blavatsky did value Leadbeater because he had become a Buddhist and was working for the development of Buddhism in Ceylon.

But later Blavatsky changed her mind and grew to dislike Leadbeater more and more, so she wrote those dedications only out of mere courtesy.

And there are even those who suggest that in the first dedication Blavatsky was not wrong when she reversed Leadbeater's initials.

Leadbeater's full name is: Charles Webster Leadbeater, so she should have written: CW Leadbeater.

But Blavatsky wrote: WC Leadbeater.

And "WC" is short for Water Closet, so Blavatsky subtly told Leadbeater that he was a piece of shit.

And given the pernicious activities that Leadbeater carried out in Ceylon before returning to London (spiritualist séances and rumors of pederasty), I wouldn't be surprised if Blavatsky intentionally reversed these initials.

And considering all the pedophilia, quackery, and fraud scandals that Leadbeater caused later in his life, he was indeed a very harmful individual.