THE CHARLATANISM OF CHARLES LEADBEATER AND ANNIE BESANT EXHIBITED BY JOSE RAMON SORDO

 

 

José Ramón Sordo was one of the most learned theosophists I have ever met and he drew up the following diagram which shows how the original theosophical teaching has been distorted.

 

 

 

 

The genuine Theosophical teaching has been distorted mainly by the liar Charles Leadbeater with the complicity of Annie Besant, who invented many falsehoods, the main ones being the list that José Ramón put above and which I transcribe below:

 

• Spiritist concept of post-mortem states.

• Belief in an anthropomorphic God.

• Alteration of Blavatsky's works.

• Dehumanization and deformation of the Masters.

• Ignorance of the Kabbalah.

• Anthropomorphism of the seven rays.

• Use of sex to awaken clairvoyance.

• Invention of the etheric double.

• Arbitrary change of theosophical terminology.

• Rites and prayers.

• False notion of the Occult Hierarchy.

• Atma (the divine spirit) degraded as a fifth principle.

• Confusion of the superior Self with Manas (the mental).

• Invention of the group soul and yhe permanent atoms.

• Exaltation of the Pratyeka Buddhas (the egoistic Buddhas).

• The misconception that superhuman powers are achievable without ethics.

• Puerile lists of supposed past lives.

• Attempt to deform the Secret Doctrine.

• Wrongly teaching that angels have a line of evolution independent of the humans.

• Confusion of the astral body with the Kama principle (the animal nature of man).

• Null clairvoyance and excessive psychism.

• The false promotion of the soon coming of the Lord Christ-Maitreya.

 

 

 

The disciples of Leadbeater continued to pass on these falsehoods, and among the main followers are:

 

·       George Arundale

·       Clara Codd

·       Scott Elliott

·       C. Jinarajadasa

·       Geoffrey Hodgson

·       P. Pavri

·       Arthur E. Powell

·       J. J. Vander Leew

·       James I. Wedgwood

·       Ernest Wood

 

 

 

And also those falsehoods were taken up by pseudo instructors who gradually appeared.

 

 

José Ramón Sordo mentions:

 

-        Rudolf Steiner

-        Alice Bailey

-        Samael Aun Weor

-        Edna and Guy Ballard

-        Elizabeth and Mark Prophet

-        Connie Mendez

-        Pseudo metaphysicians

-        AMORC

-        The Great Universal Brotherhood

 

 

And I would also add:

 

-        Max Heindel

-        Cyril Scott

-        David Anrias

-        William Walter Atkinson

-        Paul Foster Case

-        Arnold KrummHeller

-        Helena and Nicholas Roerich

-        Jorge Angel Livraga

-        Vicente Beltran Anglada

-        Benjamin Creme

-        The other channelers

-        And many other lesser known individuals