Leadbeater
pretended to have his clairvoyance very developed and he affirmed that with his
clairvoyance he had visited Mars and Mercury, and in his book "The Inner Life" Vol 2 (1912) he related
what he discovered:
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MARS AND ITS INHABITANTS
The present condition of the planet Mars is by no means unpleasant. It
is a smaller planet than the Earth and more advanced in age. I do not mean that
it is actually older in years, for the whole chain of worlds came into
existence — not simultaneously indeed — but within a certain definite area of
time. But being smaller it lives its life as a planet more quickly.
Mars cooled more rapidly from the nebulous condition, and it has passed
through its other stages with corresponding celerity.
When humanity occupied it in the third round it was in much the same
condition as is the Earth at the present time — that is to say, there was much
more water than land on its surface. Now it has passed into comparative old
age, and the water surface is far less than that of the land.
(We
know that this asseveration is false because orbital spacecrafts have discovered
that there is NO water on the surface of Mars outside the frozen water at the
poles.
And
it is also false that in the past the terrestrial humanity had lived on Mars
and that in the future we are going to live on Mercury. This falsehood was
invented by Leadbeater based on the error that Mr. Sinnett wrote, who assured
that the terrestrial planetary chain is also composed by Mars and Mercury. But
this assertion is false because that would be tantamount to affirming that we
are composed of three physical bodies, which is totally absurd!!!
Furthermore,
the Masters pointed out that all the evolution of humanity through the seven
rounds takes place on Earth and that humanity only emerged on the physical
plane in the fourth round, see link.
This
means that Leadbeater has no idea what the Masters really taught and he is only
inventing on the falsehood that his friend Mr. Sinnett said.
But
let's proceed with the supposed "clairvoyants discoveries" that
Leadbeater claimed to have revealed.)
Large areas of it are at present desert, covered with a bright orange
sand which gives the planet the peculiar hue by which we so readily recognise
it. Like that of many of our own deserts, the soil is probably fertile enough
if the great irrigation system were extended to it, as it no doubt would have
been if humanity had remained upon it until now.
The present population, consisting practically of members of the inner
round, is but a small one, and they find plenty of room for themselves to live without
great effort, in the equatorial lands, where the temperature is highest and
there is no difficulty as to water.
(At
the beginning of the 20th century, when Leadbeater wrote this text, people
believed that the other planets of the solar system were also physically
inhabited as Earth, and based on that erroneous belief, Leadbeater narrated all
his "clairvoyance".)
THE MARS CHANNELS
The great system of canals which has been observed by terrestrial
astronomers was constructed by the second order of moon-men when they last
occupied the planet, and its general scheme is to take advantage of the annual
melting of enormous masses of ice at the outer fringe of the polar snow-caps.
It has been observed that some of the canals are double, but the double
line is only occasionally apparent; that is due to the fore-thought of the
Martian engineers. The country is on the whole level, and they had great dread
of inundations.
(This
is false since Mars has a relief much more pronounced than Earth, with several
mountains that duplicate and even triplicate the height of Everest.)
And wherever these the Martian engineers thought there was reason to
fear too great an outrush of water under exceptional circumstances the second
parallel canal was constructed to receive any possible overflow and carry it
away safely.
The actual canals themselves are not visible to terrestrial telescopes;
what is seen is the belt of verdure which appears in a tract of country on each
side of the canal only at the time when the water pours in. Just as Egypt
exists only because of the Nile, so do large districts on Mars exist only
because of these canals.
From each of them radiate at intervals water-ways, which run some miles
into the surrounding country and are then subdivided into thousands of tiny
streamlets, so that a strip of country a hundred miles in width is thoroughly
irrigated.
In this area are forests and cultivated fields, and vegetation of all
sorts stands forth in the greatest profusion, making upon the surface of the
planet a dark belt which is visible to us even forty million miles away when
the planet is at its nearest and favourably situated.
(The
first astronomers who observed Mars through their telescopes perceived dark
lines, and the prestigious American astronomer Percival Lowell came to the
conclusion that these lines were channels that had been built by intelligent
beings to carry water from the polar ice caps towards the equatorial regions.
Map of Mars drawn by Percival Lowell
And
Leadbeater relied on that idea to elaborate his own narrative, but later it was
discovered that those dark lines had their origin in an optical effect produced
by the imperfections of the telescope lenses of that time, showing with that
one more time the profound charlatanism of Leadbeater.)
HOW ARE THE MARTIANS?
Mars is much farther from the centre of the system than we are, and
consequently the sun appears to its inhabitants scarcely more than half the
size that it does to us. Nevertheless the climate of the inhabited portions of
the planet is very good, the temperature during the day at the equator being
usually about 70 degrees Fahrenheit, although there are not many nights of the
year when there is not a touch of frost.
Clouds are almost unknown, the sky being for most of the year entirely
clear. The country is therefore to a large extent free from the unpleasantness
of rain or snow. The Martian day is a few minutes longer than out own and their
year is nearly twice as long as ours, and the variation of the seasons in the
inhabited part is but slight.
In physical appearance the Martians are not unlike ourselves, except
that they are considerably smaller. The tallest men are not above five feet in
height and the majority are two or three inches shorter.
According to our ideas they are somewhat broad in proportion, having
very great chest capacity - a fact which may possibly be due to the rarity of
the air and the consequent necessity of deep breathing in order fully to
oxygenate the blood.
The whole civilised population of Mars is one race, and there is
practically no difference in features or complexion, except that, just as among
ourselves, there are blondes and brunettes, some of the people having a faintly
yellowish skin and black hair, while the majority have yellow hair and blue or
violet eyes — somewhat Norwegian in appearance.
They dress mostly in brilliant colours, and both sexes wear an almost
shapeless garment of some very soft material which falls straight down from the
shoulders down to the feet. Generally the feet are bare, though they sometimes
use a sort of metal sandal or slipper, with a thong round the ankle.
THE HOUSES OF THE MARTIANS
They are very fond of flowers, of which there is a great variety, and
their towns are built on the general plan of the garden-city, the houses
usually being one-storeyed only, but built round inner courtyards and straggling
over a great deal of ground.
These houses look exteriorly as though built of coloured glass, and
indeed the material which is used is transparent, but it is somehow so fluted
that while the persons inside enjoy an almost unimpeded view of their gardens,
no one from outside can see what is going on in the house.
The houses are not built up in blocks, but the material is melted and
poured into moulds; if a house is to be built, a sort of double mould is first
made in metal faced with cement, and then the curious glass-like substance is
melted and poured into this mould, and when it is cold and hardened the moulds
are taken away, and the house is finished except for a certain amount of
polishing of the surface.
The doors are not exactly like ours, since they have no hinges or bolts,
and are opened and shut by treading on certain spots in the ground, either
without or within. They do not swing on hinges, but run back into the walls on
each side. All these doors and all furniture and fittings are of metal. Wood seems
to be used scarcely at all.
THE LANGUAGE OF MARTIANS
There is only one language in use over the whole planet, except for the
few savage tribes, and this language, like everything in their world, has not
grown up as ours have done, but has been constructed to save time and trouble.
It has been simplified to the last possible extent, and it has no
irregularities of any sort.
They have two methods of recording their thoughts. One is to speak into
a small box with a mouthpiece on one side of it, something like that of a
telephone. Each word so spoken is by the mechanism expressed as a kind of
complicated sign upon a little plate of metal, and when the message has been
spoken the plate falls out and is found to be marked in crimson characters,
which can easily be read by those who are familiar with the scheme.
The other plan is actually to write by hand, but that is an enormously
more difficult acquirement, for the script is a very complicated kind of
shorthand which can be written as rapidly as one can speak. It is in this
latter script that all their books are printed, and these latter are usually in
the shape of rolls made of very thin flexible metal.
The engraving of them is extremely minute, and it is customary to read
it through a magnifier, which is fixed conveniently upon a stand. In the stand
there is machinery which unrolls the scroll before the magnifier at any desired
rate, so that one read without needing to touch the book at all.
HOW IS MARS SOCIETY?
On every hand one sees signs of a very old civilization, for the
inhabitants have preserved the tradition of all that was known when the great
life-wave of humanity occupied the planet, and have since added to it many
other discoveries.
Electricity seems to be practically the sole motive power, and all sorts
of labour-saving machines are universally employed.
The people are on the whole distinctly indolent, especially after they
have passed their first youth. But the comparatively small size of the
population enables them to live very easily.
They have trained various kinds of domestic animals to a far higher
condition of intelligent co-operation than has yet been achieved upon earth, so
that a great deal of servant's and gardener's work is done by these creatures
with comparatively little direction.
One autocratic ruler governs the whole planet, but the monarchy is not
hereditary. Polygamy is practised, but it is the custom to hand over all
children to the State at a very early age to be reared and educated, so that
among the vast majority of the people there is no family tradition whatever,
and no one knows who is his father and mother.
There is no law compelling this, but it is considered so decidedly the
right thing to do and the best for the children that the few families who
choose to live somewhat more as we do, and to educate their children at home,
are always regarded as selfishly injuring their prospects for the sake of what
is considered mere animal affection.
The state is thus in the position of universal guardian and
schoolmaster, and the school authorities of each district are instructed
carefully to sort the children according to the aptitudes they display, and
their line of life is decided for them in this manner.
A very wide range of choice, however, being allowed the individual child
as he approaches years of discretion. But children who show at the same time
great intellect and wide general capacity are set apart from the rest, and
trained with a view of becoming members of the ruling class.
HOW IS MARS GOVERNMENT?
The King has under him what may be called viceroys of large districts,
and they in turn have under them governors of smaller districts, and so on down
to what would be equivalent here to the head man of a village.
All these officials are chosen by the King from this group of specially
educated children, and when the time of his own death is considered to be
approaching it is from them or from among the already appointed officials that
he chooses his successor.
They have brought their scientific medical studies to such perfection
that disease has been eliminated, and even the ordinary signs of the approach
of old age have been to a large extent got rid of. Practically no one appears
old, and it would seem that they hardly feel old; but, after a life somewhat
longer than our own the desire to live gradually fades away, and the man dies.
It is quite customary for a man who is losing interest and feels that
death is approaching (this corresponds to what we would call a centenarian) to
apply to a certain scientific department which corresponds to what we might
call a school of surgery, and ask to be put painlessly to death — a request which is always granted.
All these rulers are autocratic, each within his own sphere, but appeal
to a higher official is always possible, though the right is not frequently
exercised, because the people usually prefer to acquiesce in any fairly
reasonable decision rather than take the trouble involved in an appeal.
The rulers on the whole seem to perform their duties fairly well, but
again one gets the impression that they do so not so much from any pre-eminent
sense of right or justice as to avoid the trouble that would certainly ensue
from a fragrantly unjust decision.
HOW IS MARS RELIGION?
One of the most remarkable things about this people is that they have
absolutely no religion. There are no churches, no temple, no places of worship
of any sort whatever, no priest, no ecclesiastical power. The accepted belief
of the people is what we should call scientific materialism.
Nothing is true but what can be scientifically demonstrated, and to
believe anything which cannot be so demonstrated is regarded as not only the
height of folly, but even as a positive crime, because it is considered a
danger to the public peace.
Martian history in the remote past was not unlike our own, and there are
stories of religious persecutions, and of peoples whose beliefs were of so
uncomfortable a nature that they forced them not only into feverish energy for
themselves, but also into perpetual interference with the liberty of thought of
other people.
Martian public opinion is quite determined that there shall never again
be any opportunity for the introduction of disturbing factors of that sort, and
that physical science and the lower reason shall reign supreme; and though
there, as here, events have occurred which material science cannot explain,
people find it best to say nothing about them.
THE MARTIAN OCCULTISTS
Nevertheless on Mars, as in other places, there are a certain number of
people who know better than this, and many centuries ago a few of these joined
themselves together in a secret brotherhood to meet and discuss these matters.
Very gradually and with infinite precaution, they took other recruits
into this charmed circle, and so came into existence, in this most
materialistic of worlds, a secret society which not only believed in super-physical
worlds but knew practically of their existence, for its members took up the
study of mesmerism and spiritualism, and many of them developed a good deal of
power.
At the present time this secret society is very widely spread, and at
the head of it at this moment is a pupil of one of our Masters. Even now after
all these centuries its existence is not officially known to the authorities,
but as a matter of fact they something more than a suspicion of it, and they
have learned to fear it.
None of its members are actually identified as such, but many are
strongly suspected, and it seems to have been observed that when any of these
strongly suspected people have in the past been injured or unjustly put to
death, the persons who were concerned in bringing about that result have
invariably died prematurely and mysteriously, though never in any case has
their death been traceable to any physical-plane action on the part of the
suspected member.
Consequently, although such a belief is no doubt somewhat of an
infringement of the principles of pure reason by which everything is supposed
to be governed, it has come to be generally understood that it is safest not to
pry too closely into the beliefs of people who seem to differ in some degree
from the majority, so long as they do not openly make profession of anything
which would be considered subversive of the good morals of materialism.
Finally I must point out that driven far away from the pleasant equatorial
regions into inhospitable lands and impenetrable forests, there still exist
some remnants of the savage tribes who are descended from those left behind
when the great life-wave left Mars for the earth.
These are primitive savages at a lower stage than any now living on the
exterior of our earth, though bearing some resemblance to one of our interior
evolutions. Some at least of the members of the secret society have learnt how
to cross without great difficulty the space which separates us from Mars, and
have therefore at various times tried to manifest themselves through mediums at
spiritualist séances, or have been able, by the methods which they have learnt,
to impress their ideas upon poets and novelists.
(All
these descriptions are pure fantasies of Leadbeater, who had a big imagination,
but these asseverations catalog him as a science fiction writer and NOT as an
esoteric researcher.
And
Leadbeater ended cynically saying)
The
information which I have given above is based upon observation and inquiry
during various visits to the planet; yet nearly all of it might be found in the
works of various writers within the last thirty or forty years, and in all such
cases it has been impressed by someone from Mars, although the very fact of
such impression was (at least in some cases) quite unknown to the physical
writer. »
(This
text is found at the end of the sixth section.)
OBSERVATIONS
In the beginning
of the past century, Leadbeater was able to cajole the public because space
exploration had not yet taken place. But with the scientific discoveries, the
statements that Leadbeater made were demolished, demonstrating with that his
enormous charlatanism.
But the
Adyar Theosophical Society, taking a tremendously hypocritical attitude,
instead of confronting the reality that Leadbeater had been a very deceitful man,
this organization preferred to remain silent and remove this text from the
following editions to try to hide the charlatanism of Leadbeater.
However, the
old editions are still a proof of how big deceitful Leadbeater was, and you can
see in this link the second edition published by Adyar in 1923, and
you can download the facsimile of this text in this other link.
And so,
check for yourself that Leadbeater really wrote all those lies demonstrating
his immense charlatanism.
Even in his preface (p.3) Leadbeater
praised himself that he was revealing exclusive information, since he wrote: "many
of the chapters contain facts which have not been published before, such as Mars and Its Inhabitants".
But besides,
it was not necessary to wait until science confirmed it, to realize that
Leadbeater was a liar, because anyone who had studied real Theosophy would have
noticed that Leadbeater was inventing falsehoods, because in the Secret Doctrine one of the
Transhimalayan Masters specified that Mars is currently in a state of pralaya ("death"), since he
wrote:
« It is quite correct that Mars is in a state
of obscuration at present. »
(SD I, p.165)
And this means that since for many millions of years
ago, there is NO life on Mars, neither on its physical plane, nor on its subtle
planes.
And keep in
mind that this assertion was assured by the Master in 1888, and it took 83
years for the Russian Mars 2 space probe confirm what the Master had long ago affirmed.
And also keep in mind that he said this assertion at a time when people were
deeply convinced that the other planets of the solar system were also inhabited
like Earth is.
And this
shows the great difference in quality that exists between the Original
Theosophy and the all-disfigured version full of errors and lies that later elaborated
Leadbeater and Annie Besant.
