PHOTOS AND VIDEOS SHOWING JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI, CHARLES LEADBEATER AND ANNIE BESANT

Here I'm going to regroup the photos and short films that were taken featuring  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Charles Leadbeater and Annie Besant, when Leadbeater and Besant were promoting Krishnamurti as the new messiah. The videos are silent.

During Krishnamurti's adolescence

Charles Leadbeater met Krishnamurti in 1909 when Krishnamurti was fourteen years old, and Leadbeater stated that the boy had the potential to become the vehicle of Lord Christ Maitreya, and that he therefore needed to be trained for this purpose. Some photographs from that time exist.

Krishnamurti and Leadbeater.

Here appear Krishnamurti, his younger brother Nitya, and Leadbeater; this photo was taken in 1910 in Adyar.

Another photo shows the three of them, and the gentleman on the right is Russel Balfour Clarke, who was the boys' first tutor.

In this photo Krishnamurti is seen riding a bicycle and Leadbeater is seen in the background.

Annie Besant was then the president of the Theosophical Society Adyar; she completely believed this story invented by Leadbeater and worked hard to promote Krishnamurti.

This photo was taken in 1911 and from left to right are Nitya, Besant, Krishnamurti and George Arundale who was one of Besant's main assistants.

Here we see Leadbeater, Besant, Krishnamurti and below is Jinarajadasa who was Leadbeater's protégé.

This photo was taken in 1911 at the headquarters of the Theosophical Society located in Adyar where a group of members pose around the bust of Colonel Olcott; in the middle from left to right are Leadbeater, Krishnamurti, Nitya and Besant.

Another group photo, in the center are Krishnamurti, Besant and Nitya.

This photo was taken during the 1911 convention that the Theosophical Society held in Benares.

Zoom: in the middle appear Besant, Krishnamurti and Leadbeater, and Nitya is below Besant.

This photo shows Jinarajadasa, Nitya, Krishnamurti and Leadbeater swimming in a river, probably the one next to the headquarters of the Theosophical Society in Adyar.

In this photo standing are George Arundale (who was also Krishnamurti and Nitya's tutor) and Jinarajadasa; seated are Krishnamurti (who already looks like a young adult), Besant, Leadbeater and Nitya.

Another photo in Taormina, from left to right are Krishnamurti, a gentleman, Leadbeater, Nitya, and Jinarajadasa.

Leadbeater, Krishnamurti, and Nitya can be seen in this photo.

Videos

Annie Besant sent  Krishnamurti and Nitya to Europe to be educated in the West.

1) This is a short film from 1926 when Annie Besant went to visit Krishnamurti in Wimbledon, England, where he resided.

 

2) This short film shows when Annie Besant and Krishnamurti arrived in New York in 1926.

 

3) The following short film shows Besant and Krishnamurti; it was made during the 40th Annual Convention of the Theosophical Society of America in Chicago and Wheaton, Illinois, from August 28 to September 1926.

4) This is a short film that was produced by the Theosophical Society of Adyar to promote Krishnamurti.

5) In the following video you can see a compilation of short films that  were filmed in the 1920s and are located in the archives of the International Theosophical Centre, Naarden, in the Netherlands.

Among the short films are:  a Selleger family home movie, filmed around 1927, with Jiddu Krishnamurti at the Eerde estate;  Annie Besant arriving by plane in the Netherlands and on Tolstraat, Amsterdam; footage of one of the camps in Ommen; Leadbeater giving a lecture; Corrie Dijkgraaf; Koos van der Leeuw; and others.

 

 

 

6) This is a short film that promotes the meetings that took place in Ommen, a town in the Netherlands, where Krishnamurti's followers in Europe met every year.

 

7) This is the first part of the short film that was shot during the meeting at the Ommen camp in 1926. From minute 20:45 onwards, a meeting held in Adyar in 1925 appears. And from minute 34 onwards, a short film of the meeting held in Ommen in 1924 appears.

8) This is the second part of the short film that was shot during the meeting at the Ommen camp in 1926.

9) This short film was shot in the Alps where Krishnamurti and Besant were resting for a month.

Ommen

From 1924 onwards, Krishnamurti's followers met every year at a camp that was organized near the town of Ommen in the Netherlands.

The following photo is a group shot taken at one of those meetings where Annie Besant is in the middle.

Zoom in, to the left of Annie Besant is George Arundale, and behind him appears to be Charles Leadbeater.

Photo where Annie Besant lights a bonfire and Krishnamurti is behind her:

Zoom:

Tours

The following photos show Krishnamurti next to Annie Besant and were taken during the tours in which Besant accompanied Krishnamurti through the United States, Europe and India, promoting him as the new messiah.

In the city of Arnhem, in the Netherlands, in 1924.

Arrival in Bombay of Nitya, Besant and Krishnamurti in November 1924.

In Ommen in 1928.

These photos appear to have been taken at that meeting as well.

In New York in 1928.

The following photos appear to have been taken when they disembarked in New York from Europe.

I'm not sure if the next photo was also taken that same day, or when they took the train to travel to California, or if it was when they returned from their tour in the United States.

In this video you can see a short interview he gave on that occasion:

Latest photos

Photo taken at one of the conventions to promote "the imminent arrival of Lord Christ-Maitreya", and in the front row you can see Krishnamurti, Leadbeater, Besant and Jinarajadasa.

This photo was taken at that meeting; Leadbeater and Besant already look very old.

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Shortly afterwards Krishnamurti renounced this farce of being the next messiah, he distanced himself from the Theosophical Society, shortly afterwards Besant died and shortly afterwards Leadbeater also died.