In the 1920s when allegations
against Leadbeater, including a repeat of the 1906 American sex scandal, the 1912 Indian trial, and
fresh investigations by the New South Wales Police, were receiving considerable
local media attention, there were calls for Leadbeater to be declared an
“undesirable alien” and thus expelled from Australia.
Leading those calls was the
Sydney newspaper, the Truth, as
shown in this article from February 28, 1926, p.11:
And below I transcribe the text of the article:
THE MENACE THAT IS LEADBEATER
Federal Government Should Have Prevented His Landing
EVENTS OF HIS PAST THAT CALL FOR ACTION
Charles Webster Leadbeater, “Bishop”
of the pseudo “Liberal Catholic Church,” humbug, and self-confessed perverter of
the morals of youth, is back in Australia.
Why was he allowed to land?
About two months ago he went to
Adyar, near Madras, in India, with numerous Australian followers of his, to
attend a Besantine Conference, when Annie Besant announced the coming of their
“Messiah.”
Prior to that, when “Truth” let light
in on Leadbeater's attempts to catch cash for his “Co-Masonic Order” and
“Liberal Catholic Church,” this paper, in the interests of Australian boys and
public morals, called upon the immigration authorities to refuse to allow him
to land.
He is a menace, a polluter, who preaches
a malicious soul and body destroying doctrine.
His reputation in four countries —America,
England, India, and Australia— is one huge, black, festering blot. Yet he has
been allowed to return lo this country, a land so far happily free from the mental
diseases of the Old World for which Leadbeater stands and which Leadbeaterism
means.
If his teachings had sway the Commonwealth
would be filled with a race of gibbering degenerates within a couple of decades
— heaven only knows how many boys have been ruined now. Yet this aged corrupter
of morals goes free!
It shows how remarkably tolerant we are
— and the Federal Government re fuses to face the facts.
In the Bruce Government's new Crimes
Bill, aimed at unionists, there is not one clause that directly hits at people
of the Leadbeater ilk.
There is something wrong, and “Truth”
demands the reason why. This paper is in possession of facts strong enough to have
him deported a dozen times over — we have shown time and again the type of man he
is, and there has been hardly one part of his past that has not been dealt with
in the columns of this paper.
MENACE AND DEGENERATE
And while there is one piece of
paper in the presses and one drop of ink in the drums we will continue to
denounce him for the menace and degenerate he is.
The Bruce Government spent thousands
of pounds of the taxpayers' money in a futile attempt to deport Walsh and John son
because of their alleged crimes against the industrial peace of the continent. Not one penny has been let out to throw
a spanner in the Leadbeater wheel, nor on his recent return was one question asked
of the infamous old man, a false teacher, a million times worse than either
Walsh or Johnson. At least nothing can be said against their morals.
One needs to go back only to 1912 to
the celebrated case of Narayaniah vs. Annie Besant, out of which Leadbeater
came with anything but a clean reputation. In fact, it was spotted all over. Narayaniah
sued Annie Besant for the custody of his two boys, Nityananda and Krishnamurti —
the latter now boosted and advertised as the new “Messiah.”
Leadbeater was accused of perversion
in the case of the boys, and Lakshman, a servant of Annie Besant, actually complained
that he had seen something of a repulsive nature in which Leadbeater was
implicated. And in his evidence Leadbeater himself admitted a teaching, the facts
of which are absolutely unpublishable.
Some doctors condemned such advice, he
said, and others were in favor of it. He had treated the matter as an absolutely
physiological problem, and his opinions had not changed on the subject, but out
of deference to the wishes of Mrs. Besant he had not repeated the advice since
1906.
- “I have given
such advice to young boys and young men,” he said.
A MAN NOT FIT
Mark that! Out of his own mouth
shall he be Judged; and the Leadbeater of then cannot be any different to the Leadbeater
of to-day. Surely the Federal Government is not blind to these facts!
Something must be done for the protection
of boys and youths. Leadbeater is followed blindly by people who either refuse to
realize the facts, or who must be blind to them.
“Was there any doctor who would give
such advice?” counsel asked during the action. “Could a man capable of giving
such advice be entrusted with the guardianship of the minors? Such a man stands
self-condemned, and is an unsafe person to associate with. He has given such
advice to persons unsolicited, and without appeal. Such a man is not fit to go
near decent society.”
1912 to 1926 — have the years brought any change?
Impossible!
Again, read
what Mr. Justice Bakewell said referring to Leadbeater:
“Mr. Leadbeater admitted in his evidence
that he has held, and even now holds, opinions which I need only describe as certainly
immoral, and such as to unfit him to be the tutor of boys, and, taken in conjunction
with his professed power to detect the approach of impure thoughts, render him
a highly dangerous associate for children. It is true that both he and defend
ant declared that he has promised not to express or practice those opinions,
but no father should be allowed to depend upon a promise of this kind.”
A CORRUPT FOLLOWER
Yet, there are Australian fathers,
despite the learned judge's damning in dictment of this corrupt old man, who are
allowing their boys to be taught by him.
Krishnamurti's brother, Nityananda,
is dead from tuberculosis. Was the disease helped by any lessons that he received
from Leadbeater?
Krishnamurti was more fortunate in lasting
out — perhaps his constitution was the stronger, but, after all, Australians may
not see him here as the “Messiah.” Leadbeater taught him to eschew all
women — but he wants to be married contrary to all Leadbeater's teachings of
celibacy.
That his pernicious teachings have borne
fruit is shown by a case from Holland, an occurrence at a place called De
Duinen, near Huizen.
In December last, a lay brother,
named Kieft, was found guilty and sentenced to six months' imprisonment for offences
that concerned some boys.
Kieft was in charge of choir boys,
who sang at a “Liberal Catholic Church” at De Duinen, and, undoubtedly, his
offences were due to the revolting teaching of the detestable school of
Leadbeater, Wedgwood and others.
Thus has a vicious circle begun from
the source that is Leadbeater. He teaches one, and that person be comes the tutor
of another — even now Leadbeater may be letting loose among the youth of Australia
boys with minds filled with his spurious, detestable, corrupt and horrible
Ideas.
The matter is one that needs
immediate attention. The immigration people delayed at the wharf when Leadbeater
arrived at the head of his followers a week or so ago. But it is not too late
to make him the subject of deportation, proceedings. Here is a man who is not a
men ce industrially, but who is a fiend in human form — who is striking at the
very foundations of morality.
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