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CHARLES LEADBEATER'S DATES EXPOSED BY TRUTH NEWSPAPER



 
On May 21, 1922, the article above appeared in the Australian newspaper Truth and which I transcribe below (and in purple I added my comments).
 
 
 
THEOSOPHICAL SCANDAL
DOINGS OF LEADBEATER AND COMPANY
 
What 'Truth' revealed about the “Bishop”
Shocking Recent Asseverations as to “Arhat” Leadbeater
 
The violent eruption in local occult envies during the week has uncovered to disgusted public the fact that Leadbeater —so-called “Bishop”, who has succeeded in fastening himself like a well whiskered barnacle on the local Theosophical body— was in need of another white-washing, and Annie Besant her come across the oceans to do it.
 
Amid a storm of fierce protest, that old styled patriarch of the so-called “Liberal Catholic Church”, whose public life has been bounded by loathsome sustention and public supervision, was metaphorically embraced by Mrs. Besant. This charlatan surrounds himself always with young boys over whom he exercises much influence. These acolytes become dumb under the influence with which Leadbeater enwraps their boyish minds.
 
 
 
His pseudo-Christian-Theosophical sect
 
The pretentiously-named “Liberal Catholic Church”, possesses quite a multitude of comic-opera-like dressed clergy —including two “Bishops”, Mazel, a retired engineer, who practiced for many years in Java; and Leadbeater— to a mere handful of adherents, Leadbeater rigs himself out like the Archbishop of Canterbury, and surrounded by his ever present galaxy of boys. performs regularly in the shabby interior of a tumble-down ex-church, in Redfern.
 
In 1920, the Lambeth Conference refused to recognize the “Liberal Catholic Church”, though its two bishops are authorized officially to perform marriages in this State.
 
Commenting upon the report of the conference, a monthly issued by St. Laurence Church (Sydney) states:
 
« A.H. Mathew, who obtained consecration through sacrilegious fraud, “consecrated” Frederick Samuel Willoughby who was expelled in discreditable circumstances from the Church of England. The ceremony took place in the banqueting hall of the Bull Inn, Bromley. Church furniture being hired for the occasion.
 
This so-called “Bishop” was obliging enough to “consecrate” James Ingall Wedgewood after he had been refused consecration by Bishop Mathew. While “Bishop” Wedgewood was in Sydney he “consecrated” the Buddhist and Theosophist, Charles Webster Leadbeater of Indian fame (?) as “Bishop of Australia”. »
 
That briefly is the history of the elevation to his “Bishopric” of Leadbeater, elected from a line of so-called bishops of a bogus organization. Previously Willoughby had been unfrocked by the Old Catholic Church (as he had previously been unfrocked by the Anglican Church) because of alleged gross immorality in his life, and was actually unfrocked when he “consecrated” J.I. Wedgewood.
 
The report goes on to say.
 
« While on the question of the impudent assumption of this Leadbeater, so called “Bishop” and proselytizer, an article printed in London Truth in June, 1920, simmers with blood-boiling facts. It is entitled “Bastard Bishops”, and includes:
 
“Recent references to Episcopal developments in connection with the invasion of the Old Catholic Church by the Theosophical fraternity, has brought a good deal of information concerning some of the parties to this attempt to pantheise Christianity or Christianize Theosophy. Much of it is too unsavory to print, and is chiefly instructive to the psychologist as providing examples of the curiously intimate relationship occasionally found between sacerdotalism and perversion of the ordinary moral instincts.
 
The remainder reveals an equally queer phase of mentality, supplying evidence of the continued existence of a belief that some peculiar sanctity can be transmitted by one person to another, altogether apart from the vehicle of transmission . . . and for this reason the manner in which the Apostolic Succession has been acquired by followers of Mrs. Besant Is of some public interest. What is of still more importance from the public point of view is the possibility of persons of doubtful reputation thus acquiring a quasi-ecclesiastical standing which they may use to further their own ends. . . . The whole thing seems to be nothing more than a particularly obnoxious piece of blasphemous humbug resulting in the foundation of a bastard church by a bevy of illegitimate bishops.
 
What is the end in view one can only guess, but that any good end is possible when a man with the reputation of Leadbeater is endowed with the Episcopal rubes . . . seems much too incredible to be believed”. »
 
 
 
Leadbeater's pedophile practices
 
Thus Leadbeater, who by the way is a vegetarian, and a 'poseur' as a believer in the simple life, as he lives like a king in the Manor's mansion and though affording himself the luxury of being shepherded to, and from his bath by a favored acolyte, has been exposed, but bobs up again at the beck of Ancient Annie audaciously stepping into the limelight, and accorded homage by intelligent and wealthy dupes, who firmly ignore his tarnished past, treating him like a modern and repentant St. Augustine.
 
This Leadbeater has vied with Annie in turning out with amazing frequency Theosophical books read with the greatest avidity by the followers of the Sect.
 
When Leadbeater from his lair in Adyar, Madras, India, began to flood the world with the vapors of his mind, eighteen years ago, the popular conception in the minds of the “spiritual universe” was that he was the man to step into Annie Besant's shoes when that lady had winged her way join the departed after a lifetime wasted effort in trying to get in touch with them.
 
It was in the beginning of 1906 that was discovered by some of the American Theosophists to their horror that Leadbeater was teaching boys to a manner most improper. He was subsequently proceeded against by the Society. The charges preferred against Leadbeater by the American Section were:
 
1)   That he is teaching young boys given into his care habits of ____; and demoralizing personal practices.
2)   That he does this with deliberate intent and under the guise of occult training, or with the promise the increase of physical manhood.
3)   That he has demanded, at least in one case, promises of the utmost secrecy.
 
 
We here give excerpts from the official shorthand report of the Theosophical Tribunal that tried Leadbeater, and by which he was, upon his own confession found guilty. There are, of course, some omissions, in order to make the matter at for publication.
 
« A meeting was called by Colonel Olcott; to discuss certain charges against Mr. C.W. Leadbeater, Held at Grosvenor Hotel, London, May 16, 1906, at 5 pm.
 
Colonel Olcott: I have called you together to act as an Advisory Board in the matter before us. It is to listen a charge against Mr. Leadbeater of having systematically taught boys a certain practice. You have read the documents. Among them is a partial confession by Mr. Leadbeater, and rebutting evidence. The Executive Committee of the American Section would have expelled the accused, but he is not a member of the Section, the accused being a member of the London Lodge of the British Section, and holding the office of Presidential Delegate.
 
Leadbeater was then examined as follows:
 
Olcott: Mr. Leadbeater, you admit that it was your practice to teach boys certain things?
 
Leadbeater: (No answer)
 
Olcott: You admit giving advice to more than two boys? You are to take it that the same advice was given to several. How many? Twenty altogether?
 
Leadbeater: No, not so many.
 
Committee member: The second charge reads: “That he does this with deliberate intent and under the guise of occult training; or with the promise of increased physical manhood”, The evidence of these boys says nothing about applying to him for help. I want to ask whether this advice was given on appeal or not.
 
Leadbeater: Sometimes without, some times with I advised it at times as a prophylactic.
 
Olcott: Since he did not want the boys to tell the mothers, he would, I should think, shrink from telling Mrs. Besant.
 
Committee member: I would like to ask Mr. Leadbeater in view of the fact that he is “Compos Mentis”, why he did not inform the fathers before he took any of these boys, what his practices were, that the fathers might have had the opportunity of consulting with the mothers, it has been said to me by every mother, and mothers not in these charges, that If they had known he had taught these practices, he would never have had the boys?
 
Leadbeater: I don't understand all this talk about concealment. If asked about the thing I should not have hesitated in speaking.
 
Committee member: The talk is because all the world condemns it except you Mr. Leadbeater so far as I know.
 
Another committee member: Since Mr. Leadbeater advised this to help them in case of need, considering that men may be in, the same difficulty, has he ever taught into any grown-up men? Has he taught the same thing in the same personal way to grown-up men as to children?
 
Leadbeater: I believe that on two occasions in my life I have given that advice to young men as better than the one generally adopted.
 
Committee member: Since you came into the Theosophical Society?
 
Leadbeater: I think not, but one case might have been»
 
(Note: what Leadbeater taught the boys was to masturbate, but that was just a pretext to see which ones he could deepen his pedophile activities with them.)
 
 
 
Here Leadbeater actually, in order to try to lessen his own guilt, had the effrontery to assert that the vicious acts that he had taught to the boys under his charge were also taught in an organization of a secret character in the Church of England. He also said that he supposed it was taught in the Catholic Church. He refused to give the name of the organization, and was probably lying. He shuffled out of further questions as to how he had obtained the information, as the organization, so he alleged, was pledged to secrecy.
 
Six of those present voted for Leadbeater's expulsion from the Theosophical Society, and six voted for the acceptance of his resignation. On Olcott's casting vote it was agreed to let him resign.
 
Leadbeater's resignation was followed by a letter from Mrs. Besant, in which she strongly condemned Leadbeater's conduct. In spite of all this, Leadbeater received a benediction from Mrs. Besant on her arrival, and has been photographed and fawned on by him.
 
 
 
Leadbeater's perversities
 
Coming to more recent times, last year the following letter to Mrs. Besant, written by a well known and leading Theosophist of Sydney, and for thirty years a member of the Theosophical Society, and close associate of Leadbeater and Besant is pregnant with meaning:
 
« (Private and Confidential)
   May 20th, 1921.
 
Dear Mrs. Besant.
 
Yours of April 4 duly received. This is what I want to tell you.
 
In 1906 I was in London, fighting your cause and Leadbeater's. Police court proceedings against the latter were seriously threatened. One of his boys, in desperate trouble, urged me to try and prevent them being proceeded with, and admitting that the only evidence he could give confirmed Leadbeater's immoral practices. The police proceedings did not eventuate. I went away to Africa soon after, and on returning I tried to forget what this confession involved, to explain it away, and succeeded.
 
In 1914, Leadbeater came to live with us in Sydney. I took him at his own valuation and yours, regarding him as an Arhat: permitted myself to come sympathetically under his influence, and gladly made effective all his plans. As time went on I certainly got many little shocks. He would, for instance, explain in private that you were deluded about your Indian work, and the belief that it was at the wish of the Hierarchy that you should work for Home Rule. He did not hesitate to hint that your actions in India and advice to Indians were disloyal to the Empire, that puzzled us, though always everything said in public was loyal and flattering to you.
 
Meanwhile I was personally favored and I suppose, felt flattered. For many years I had followed your Esoteric School training conscientiously, and results had followed. When you gave concrete expression to my experiences, I tried to live up to a still higher standard; but later on, the casual way in which these over-night ceremonies were regarded after the first occasion or two became very marked. As an instance, on a certain date in July, 1917, five of us were told we had taken certain initiations. No one remembered anything — in the morning some had hardly slept, feeling rather excited. I do not remember at any time anyone remembering any real experience or anything of what happened on any of these occasions. All the same I took all that quite seriously.
 
(These "initiations" were pure inventions by Besant and Leadbeater to continue to manipulate their followers.)
 
By this time (1917) had become intensely unhappy about C.W. Leadbeater in the house. Naked boys were seen in his bed. Other facts had come to my knowledge. I refused to sympathize with these views, and for my sake I kept peace, and I held things together.
 
In 1919 I went to America. Young Van Hook was in New York. He talked freely of C.W. Leadbeater's immorality and about fixing the “lives” of people. In your reviews of some letters sent you by Raja, which reached him from America, things which Van Hook says about the “lives” you credit me with — by the way.
 
 
Now here is the evidence of two Leadbeater boys (my 1906 experience I can give you the name if you want it — and young Van Hook) both subsequent to the 1906 inquiry and subsequent both to the confessions of all the American boys and to C.W. Leadbeater's admissions at the inquiry of 1906.
 
(Which shows that Leabdeater had not been chastened and was continuing with his pedophile activities.)
 
I have put these pieces of evidence together and add to them the compromising facts of life in my house (I am only touching on the fringe of this in this letter), and find staring me in the face the conclusion that Leadbeater is a sex pervert, his mania taking a particular form which I have though only lately — discovered, is a form well known and quite common in the annals of sex criminology. There are some, I know, who think C.W. Leadbeater may have brought over old sex weak nesses and still be chosen by the Masters to do certain work for them. I have found comfort in the possibility up to the time of my last interview with you in London.
 
(That is absurd that the masters would have chosen a sexual pervert to be their agent, because the masters always specified that one of the requirements for discipleship is chastity. In reality no one wanted to confront the fact that Leadbeater was a charlatan manipulator.)
 
 
This brings me to 1919 and my visit to London. A week before you sent for me and gave me your message In October, 1919, I called on a certain lady. She was in great trouble because the police were taking action (so she told me) against four L.C.C. priests. She wanted to warn one in Australia, and did not .know how to do so without incriminating herself by compounding a felony. Another, she told me, she had got out of the country, and she was sure the police would not find him. Another had decided to remain in London and see it out, as one of his companions was out of the way, etc. This lady told me that though one of them seemed to be compromised she herself did not believe him guilty of the charges.
 
(Leadbeater's "church" was also tainted with sex scandals by its pedophile "bishops.")
 
Of course, while in London, I heard of certain charges being made against Wedgewood (by Major Adams and others) and reports about him had also reached me from Sydney. . . . To me you have committed a distinct breach by displaying blind subservience to Leadbeater's every word. . . . When I reached Sydney Raja accepted the message with evident reluctance. . . . The central point with Raja became your denial of Wedgewood's initiation, and I soon saw that the breakdown of Wedgewood involved to him nothing short of the collapse of Leadbeater as an Arhat. . . . I afterwards found that Raja is an echo of C.W. Leadbeater, and that he takes his occultism directly from what the latter says without question. . . . As it is. I have been forced by mere pressure of circumstances to certain conclusions:
 
1)   That Leadbeater is not always reliable.
2)   That you have been relying on C.W. Leadbeater, as sole intermediary between the Hierarchy and yourself for many years.
3)   That you have not been kept fully acquainted by Leadbeater with what the
Hierarchy is doing.
4)   That C.W. Leadbeater's word is final, and his seership infallible to you.
 
The letter concludes saying:
 
Finally, please, my dear friend, do not be so unjust to me as to believe want to make trouble between you and Leadbeater. You hint at some thing of this sort in your Disciple talk. I have no grudge against Leadbeater, nor against Wedgewood, nor against Raja, nor any other person mentioned in this letter: on the other hand I want to believe in them all if the facts will permit me.
 
We have been, told over and over again that occultism is common-sense, and that Buddha taught his disciples to believe nothing because HE said it. My difficulties' summed up seem to arise because I am asked to put all evidence and all reason on one side and believe because someone does say it. So I leave it to you in your wisdom to show me the way out of the tangle, and I will be everlastingly grateful to you if you can it is not easy to go back on the grooves formed by 30 years of thinking and working.
 
Thanking you, etc.
Yours very sincerely»
 
(This letter was written by Mr. T.H. Martyn and originally published by H.N. Stokes, Washington DC 1921, pp. 1-2)
 
 
 
Theosophists seek to oust Leadbeater again
 
From the foregoing facts, it is easy to grasp the internal dissensions that have shaken Local Theosophy in its very foundations. The reason is clearly get out in the above letter, and Leadbeater, even grasping his crosier and wearing the richest of vestment stands a menacing, clever charlatan, still with his acolytes, and all the pomp and flummery of a real Prelate.
 
Is Sydney to leave itself open to the antics of the Occult at the hands of Leadbeater and Co., and so risk its youth imbibing the strange doctrines brought from the Mystic East?
 
Mr. Leadbeater may be sheltering be hind the ramparts of wealth and influence; there are stronger forces of Chastity and Indignation that will hurt him and his kind back to the squalor of the East.
 
 
“IDOLS OF CLAY”
'THEIR FEET ARE GOLD, SILVER AND COPPER'
ANNIE BESANT AND MR. LEADBEATER
 
At the King's Hall, Hunter-street, Sydney, on the night of the 17th of May, a meeting of members of the Theosophical Society gathered to decide whether Mr. Leadbeater was a fit and proper person to remain a member of the Theosophical Society. As the main tenet of the society is, “There is no religion higher than Truth”, the scribe from 'Truth' wended his way to the King's Hall. At the door he was in formed that only members would be admitted, so he used his occult powers, made himself invisible to the scrutineers, doorkeepers, and the keen eyes of the budding Mahatmas, and passed I into the meeting unobserved.
 
I Assuming then his physical shape and form in the packed audience of members of the Theosophical Society, he felt the gathering forces of the occult world (a word, by the way, that carries a wonderful depth of meaning to some individuals). Upon the plat form wore several gentlemen, including three Indians, Senator Reid, Mr. Macroe, the president of the Sydney Lodge. Dr. Bean and Annie Besant.
 
The scribe of 'Truth' unrolled the etheric records, and a scene in India was shown to his .astral eyes. He clearly recognized that one of the Indians seated on the platform was identical and the same person who was heralded in India some years ago, at a special meeting as the great world teacher, by Mrs. Besant and Mr. Leadbeater. Many people present on that occasion fell down upon their knees and worshipped him. Mr. Mackay, the chairman, in opening the meeting, said that he had been very closely associated with Bishop Leadbeater and other priests and bishops of the Liberal Catholic Church. They had stayed at his home, and he had al ways found them loving and kind, and in every way above suspicion. He then called upon Annie Besant to address the meeting. Calm and dignified-looking, the gentle Annie stood and faced her vast audience, knowing full well in her very self that, in that vast gathering,, were men and women of integrity and truth.
 
She also knew there were men and women also present who were subject to the pernicious influence of superstition, form and ceremony, and all the Illusory factors in nature expounded, upheld and taught by Mr. Leadbeater and those associated with him in the Liberal Catholic Church. In all the experiences of Mrs. Besant, in life's battles, she never stood in such a position to uphold the motto of the Theosophical Society. “There is no religion higher than Truth”, as at Wednesday's meeting. But, alas, she signally failed, and her name was coupled with Leadbeater's in resolution put to the meeting later on. She commenced her oration, which dealt with mental gymnastics, and casuistic reasoning, with a good deal of the hypothetical jumble of in visible nothings thrown in. But it was soon recognized that the burden of her one hour's talk was to favor Leadbeater. Her final remarks were pregnant with meaning as regards the fight which is before the loyal members of the Theosophical Society.
 
-         “This is the last time I stand on your platform; I will not speak again in this hall until you change your executive. I am sorry.”
 
After a few other sentences she bade them farewell. Mr. Mackay, the chairman then read the resolution, which was seconded by Mr. Macroe, president of the Sydney Lodge:
 
« We, the members of the Theosophical Society, assembled here in Sydney, desire to put on record our emphatic condemnation of the general campaign of vilification and calumny carried on by certain members of the Sydney Lodge. In particular we condemn the slanderous statements of the members of the so-called Loyalty League and the utterly false charges made in their official magazine. We consider that they have entirely violated all the principles of truth and brotherhood, for which the Theosophical Society stands, and exemplified in the lives of such leaders as the president of our society, and Bishop Leadbeater»
 
Mr. Mackay then vacated the chair, which was taken by Senator Reid who tried to put the resolution while the influence of the gentle Annie in the ascendancy. But Senator Reid was quickly brought to task, and cries of 'the gag' were heard from several parts of the hall. He said:
 
     -   “Don't misunderstand, we are not judging the executive to-night.”
 
After consistent interruption, he said he would take an amendment. One member spoke at length and moved an amendment, “that the resolution should stand as it is”, with the exception that Leadbeater's name should be deleted. This amendment was seconded, and cleared the deck for discussion. There was: a good deal of noise and uproar at this stage, which assisted to clear the atmosphere of gentle Annie's influence. Mr. Barnes, an executive member, in addressing the meeting, took great exception to the remarks of Senator Reid and Annie Besant regarding the judging of the executive, and changing the executive.
 
He emphasized the fact that the executive in power had been duly elected last Easter at the inter-State conference in the very teeth of all the opposition that could be brought to bear by Leadbeater and his followers. He also said that he had listened to the lecture of their revered leader, and it had been difficult for him to control his emotions as against his reason. For Mrs. Besant's whole speech had appealed to the heart or emotions, and when she went out to bend an audience to her will, she generally gained her object. How ever, he must not be blamed or using his reason, as he had gathered from Mrs. Besant's teachings that reason was paramount in all things.
 
Dr. Fraser also spoke at length, and he could not imagine how bishops and priests could appeal to Theosophists, and in a striking sentence said:
 
-         “In the name of common sense how could Wedgewood be made a Bishop? If you placed a mitre on his head as high as St. Paul's it would not make him a Bishop. How can anyone regard him as a Bishop because a staff was placed in his hand in an hotel in London?”
 
Wedgewood begot Leadbeater, and he in turn begot Cooper, and so the dreadful caricature and pantomime goes on.
 
 
Mr. T.H. Martyn, a member of the executive of the Sydney Lodge for 31 years, in the course of his remarks said that he was surprised at the attitude
 
Mrs. Besant had taken, and that she had not spoken fairly. Also in referring to the executive she had made a gross mistake, because the action was taken by the two trustees, who were invested with certain powers, himself being,one, in giving this matter to the public and the press, and that the executive had nothing to do with it.
 
Senator Reid said he would now put the motion. There were cries from all parts of the hall to put the amendment first, but he was adamant. Great up roar ensued, which deterred him, and a member dissented from his ruling. Things now began to get lively indeed. He said:
 
-         “I will take a vote, whether I vacate the chair, and it will give the feeling of the meeting on the resolution.”
 
A vote was taken for and against, and, though the scribe of 'Truth' used all his astral and physical sight, it was difficult to say which side had won. Any how, Senator Reid decided that the show of hands was in his favor, and that as it was getting late lie would now put the resolution. Then pandemonium broke loose, as the members cried in vain for the amendment to be put first. The resolution was put in spite of all opposition, with calls of “Amendment! Amendment!” the hands went up for and against, but it would be impossible with all the clairvoyant faculties of Mrs. Besant and the Arhat Mahatma Leadbeater to say which was successful, the resolution or the amendment.
 
The members were so confused that they did not know whether they voted for the resolution or the amendment. This ended the proceedings, and Annie entered her stately motor car and was driven away from the scene of turmoil and strife.
 
(In this last section the author of this article is being very satirical, but he also exhibits the manipulations that Annie Besant and the followers of Leadbeater did to keep this pedophile charlatan within the Adyar Theosophical Society.)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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