CHARLES LEADBEATER AND THE CATS

Charles Leadbeater liked cats, as shown in the picture above which was taken in Sydney in 1917, and where Leadbeater is seen with his cat, along with  James Wedgwood  and Julian Mazel.

The three of them were then important members of  the Liberal Catholic Church,  which Leadbeater helped to develop so that he could carry out his perversions and fantasies of pretending to be bishops .

But unfortunately, everything Leadbeater meddled in, he distorted with his lies, and cats were no exception; and proof of this is the answer he gave to a woman who wrote to him asking about the condition of her cat after its death.

To which Leadbeater replied:

« Dear Madam:

You need have no anxiety about the departed Tom.  Your affection has brought him to the stage of individualization, and he will therefore not be reborn in feline form.  You will therefore certainly encounter him in the course of evolution, but you must remember that it will only be at a much later stage and therefore in another world than this.

Yours faithfully,

C.W. Leadbeater. »

(Letter to Miss P. Kayser, dated December 2, 1933, is in the Archives of the Theosophical Society, Adyar.)

OBSERVATIONS

But what Leadbeater claims is a lie, firstly because his assertion that animals have group souls is wrong (that is, while each human has their own soul, Leadbeater stated that a group of animals share the same soul).

But even though each animal has its own "soul" (I put it in quotes because an animal's soul is much less developed than a human's soul), animals are still far from reaching the level of humans; what Leadbeater calls: "the stage of individualization".

Leadbeater asserted that domestic animals, through the affection they received from their owners and their desire to imitate them, were already becoming humanized from the fourth round onward. But Master Kuthumi indicated that the humanization of animals would only occur in the seventh round.

« During the seventh round, humans will have become divine beings, and animals will have become intelligent beings. »

(ML 23b, p.177)

That is to say, the most evolved beings of each kingdom, at the end of the planetary evolutionary cycle (which is made up of seven rounds) will have reached the level of the next higher kingdom: the most advanced humans will have reached the level of the angels, and the most advanced animals will have reached the level of the humans.

But even so, these beings will only effect development in this higher realm during the next planet that will be created.

To give you an analogy, at the end of elementary school, the best students will have reached the level of secondary school (in its first stage), but they will only attend secondary school in the following school year.

All of this implies that what Leadbeater taught is false, and that in reality the beloved cat Tom will not be reborn as a human in his next reincarnation (as Leadbeater claimed) but will continue to reincarnate as an animal for a very long time yet.

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And this is yet another example of the degree to which Leadbeater  distorted the original Theosophical teaching.