ESOTERIC: THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF CHARLES LEADBEATER

The oldest known photograph of Charles Leadbeater is this one where he appears as a child with his mother.

And this is from when he was a teenager.

The following photos were taken in England around 1882 when Charles Leadbeater was a young Anglican priest.

LEADBEATER BECOMES INVOLVED IN THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

This photo was taken in 1885 in Adyar when Charles Leadbeater traveled to the Headquarters of the Theosophical Society.

Photo of the meeting that the Buddhists of Ceylon had with Colonel Olcott in 1889.

Zoom in showing Charles Leadbeater standing in the middle, the boy next to him is Jiranarajadasa who became his protégé, and Colonel Olcott is sitting on the right.

This photo was taken in the United States in 1900.

This photo was taken in the United States in 1901.

This photo was taken in London in 1901. Charles Leadbeater is standing behind Annie Besant, watching what she is writing.

In 1902

In 1903

In 1904

This photo was taken in 1904 in New Jersey. Leadbeater appears with a group of American members, including Alexander Fullerton, who at that time was the General Secretary of the Theosophical Society of Adyar in America, Kate B. Davis, Henry Hotchener, Basil Hodgson-Smith (from England), Mrs. Knothe, Aleck Knothe, and Frank R. Knothe (holding Helen; she would later become one of Leadbeater's students at The Manor in Sydney).

1905

This photo was taken in September 1905, in Chicago, United States. From left to right are: EW Dennis, C. Jinarajadasa, Robert Dennis (standing), Frank F. Knoche, Leadbeater, Donald Dennis (in front) and Basil Hodgson-Smith.

This photo was taken in 1905 in Melbourne, Australia; two of Leadbeater's students appear in the back row: Fritz Kunz on the far right, and Basil Hodgson-Smith is the young man in the middle.

This photo was taken in Adyar during the Convention held in December 1905, showing Colonel Olcott, Annie Besant and Charles Leadbeater.

LEADBEATER PROMOTES ITS NEW MESSIAH

Leadbeater met Krishnamurti in Adyar in 1909 when Krishnamurti was fourteen years old, and Leadbeater claimed that Krishnamurti was going to be the vehicle of Lord Christ-Maitreya (a fictional character invented by Leadbeater).

Krishnamurti and Leadbeater appear here.

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

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

In this photo Krishnamurti is seen riding one of those bicycles and Leadbeater can be seen in the background.

Annie Besant was then the president of the Theosophical Society; she completely believed that lie invented by Leadbeater, and acted intensely in that direction.

Here we see Leadbeater, Besant, Krishnamurti and below is Jinarajadasa.

This photo was taken in 1911 in Adyar where Dick Balfour Clarke, Irving Cooper, Fabrizio Ruspoli and Charles Leadbeater can be seen working on Krishnamurti's past lives (Alcyone).

This photo was taken in 1911 in Adyar, showing Leadbeater sitting on the terrace of the Theosophical Society Headquarters.

This photo was taken in 1911 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. Irving Cooper is standing on the right.

This photo was taken in late 1911 during the annual convention of the Theosophical Society of Adyar, but on that occasion it was held in Benares.

I zoom in on them; 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; they already look more grown up.

Annie Besant sent Krishnamurti and Nitya to Europe to study there.

This photo was taken in the Sicilian city of Taormina, Italy, in 1912; standing are George Arundale (who was also one of Krishnamurti and Nitya's tutors) 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.

Another photo taken in 1912,

Possibly taken around that time.

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

This photo was taken in 1913 in Adyar. Seated from left to right are Major David Graham Pole, Leadbeater, Annie Besant, BP Wadia, and Jal Rustomji Aria. Sri Ram is seated on the ground, first from the left.

This photo was taken in 1914.

LEADBEATER IN AUSTRALIA

Leadbeater detested India because of its stifling heat, poverty, lack of hygiene, and dark-skinned population; so in February 1914 he went to live in Australia where he felt more at ease surrounded by white Anglophones.

In this photo, from left to right, are: Ernest Wood, Gertrude Kerr, Leadbeater, Dorothy Jirarajadasa ( who married Jirarajadasa in 1916) , and Dr. Raimond van Marle. Leadbeater and his followers are very happy to display a long genealogical banner of past lives clairvoyantly discovered by Leadbeater.

This photo was taken in Sydney in 1916.

c.1917

In Sydney, Leadbeater developed a taste for Freemasonry.

In these photos, Leadbeater is in Sydney with children Oscar Kollerstrom and Tom Marty.

There, Leadbeater established his headquarters in Sydney in a large mansion known as "The Manor" where he lived like a king.

Leadbeater in his studio.

This photograph was taken in 1825 at the Manor and shows Leadbeater surrounded by several of his followers. In the front row, from left to right, are Walter Hassall and Ruth Roberts. In the second row are Violet Kathleen Maddox, Theodore St. John, Charles Leadbeater, Harold Morton, and David Morton Tweedie. And in the third row are Dr. Mary Rocke (Leadbeater's personal physician), Mabel Mackay, L.W. Burt, Gertrude Kollerstrom, and John Mackay.

Meeting of members of the Order of the Star of the East held at the Manor in February 1923.

Photo taken in the Manor garden in June 1925. Standing from left to right are: Arthur and Lucius van Gelder, Helen Knothe, Mary Lutyens, Byron Casselberry, Leadbeater, Ruth Roberts, Monica Roberts, Betty Lutyens, Walter Hassall, and Harold Morton. Seated: Muriel Beaufoy, Irene White, Doris Gowlland, Edythe and Norna Kollerstrom, and Esme White. In front: David Dear, Henri Aldag, Theodore St. John, Hannie Vreede, Colin Francis, and Arthur Beaufoy.

Photo taken in 1922 at the Mackey residence in Sydney; in the second row from left to right are: (first one unknown), Nitya, Jinarajadasa, Besant, Leadbeater, Krishnamurti. Also pictured are AP Warrington, Dr. Mary Rocke (standing between Leadbeater and Besant), Dorothy Jinarajadasa, JJ van der Leeuw, Oscar Kollerstrom, Fritz Kunz, and several of Leadbeater's followers.

Leadbeater at a picnic with the residents of the Manor around 1926. The photo includes, from left, Erling Roberts, Daisy Heyting, Hannie Vreede, Dick Balfour-Clarke, Lady Emily Lutyens, Mrs. Kollerstrom, Mary Lutyens, Helen Knothe, Arthur van Gelder, and Monica Roberts. From right, among others, are Bishop Hounsfield, Dr. Mary Rocke, Theodore St. John, Ruth Roberts, Muriel Beaufoy, David Dear, Lucius van Gelder, Edythe Kollerstrom, and Colin Francis.

This photo was taken on December 21, 1928. Leadbeater is with "the Virgins of Java."

In this photo Leadbeater is wearing the same outfit.

THE LIBERAL CATHOLIC CHURCH

James Wedgwood was a pervert who came up with the idea of founding a pseudo-theosophical-Christian sect to satisfy his ecclesiastical ambitions and pedophilic desires. And Charles Leadbeater, who was of the same ilk, was delighted to help him develop this "church."

Leadbeater and Wedgwood

Leadbeater and his henchmen Wedgwood and Mazel, pretending to be reverends; this photo was taken in Sydney in 1917.

Here is "Reverend" Leadbeater surrounded by girls to give a more affable appearance (the girl on the right is Dora van Gelder).

Leadbeater and his henchmen disguised as bishops

c. 1925

1925

Mazel, Wedgwood, and Leadbeater appear in this photo.

Leadbeater even bought a cathedral that was originally built as a Methodist Church, but in 1918 he acquired it because in his delusions Leadbeater claimed that his new congregation was going to become the most important in the world.

In this photo you can see the altar of St Alban's Cathedral in Sydney, with the portrait of Lord Christ-Maitreya at the top, and there you can see Leadbeater sitting in the background on the left already Jinarajadasa preaching.

This photo was taken on July 13, 1919, and shows the false bishops Charles Leadbeater, Irving Steiger Cooper, James Ingall Wedgwood and Julian Adriaan Mazel.

In this photo, Besant and Leadbeater appear on the left during one of the liturgies of the Liberal Catholic Church.

This photo shows Leadbeater and Jinarajadasa during a ritual.

In this photo, Leadbeater is seen leaving the cathedral, very pleased with his new acquisition.

This photo was taken in the late 1920s when Leadbeater and Arundale visited Perth, the city on the other side of Australia, because they wanted to bring in not only their Sydney henchmen, but also their henchmen from the rest of Australia.

In this photo you can see Leadbeater and Wedgwood in Holland where they " consecrated more bishops" because they wanted to bring in not only their henchmen from Australia, but also their henchmen from Europe.

And who paid for all that?

The answer is: the Theosophical Society of Adyar.

And in fact, it still does...

LEADBEATER ALREADY AN OLD MAN

This photo was taken at the Manor.

On some occasions, Charles Leadbeater still accompanied Annie Besant and was present at some of the meetings to promote Krishnamurti as the new messiah.

This photo features Annie Besant, Jinarajadasa, and Charles Leadbeater.

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.