M. Sufilight wrote:
On Steiner I would definitely say no, although he had some influence.
Bailey was not really an influential member when she got thrown out was
she?
I was considering influential on an absolute, world-wide basis.
Bart wrote:
There is nobody in the Theosophical Society today who has a position
that even remotely compares to the position that Leadbeater had.
My answer:
Perhaps. But, How do you know? -
Perhaps the fact that the TS is NOT promoting the books of any current,
living writer?
One sign against this view is, that They havn't aborted promoting his
books
in TS. Books, which beginners read and when they do - they because of
that
connects their minds with the authors mind (including his shadow), and
sometimes the authors mind at the time he wrote the book they read.
It also depends on, what kind of position you are talking about.
I just looked at the Theosophical Society in America website, and the
Adyar website. Leadbeater is not recommended at all as a beginners'
source, and barely mentioned at all. In the Adyar site, I admit that in
the recommended reading list, there are two books by him out of about
14. I hardly call that "promoting his books." Can you document such
promotion as you describe?
Bart
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