Theos-Talk Archives (February 2005 Message tt00761)

The fantasies are running strong!

Hodson was a General or something high in the British Army and lived on a 
pension. Right. Shame about the (unpublished) biography of Hodson (by one 
of his disciples): John Robertson "Aquarian Occultist" (1971) which fails 
to mention this exalted status and indicates that Hodson worked during 
World War I for the YMCA. I'm not sure about YMCA pensions - perhaps they 
are even better than those of British Generals?

Hodson is confirmed by Mead in his silly theory that Jesus lived 100BC? 
Well, this misses the point that Mead's theory was based on Leadbeater's 
claivoyant visions. Thus Leadbeater confirms Mead who is confirmed by 
Leadbeater who confirms Hodson who is confirmed by Mead.

The 100BC theory has been done to death and not a single piece of 
archaeological or documentary evidence has been produced to give it a 
shread of support. The approximate date of the life and death of Jesus 
has been subjected to endless scholarly investigation. Even militantly 
un- or anti-Christian scholars do not now dispute the accepted dates, 
given a year or two. The "scholarly source" on which Mead places such 
emphasis (since he avoids mentioning clairvoyance or Leadbeater) is the 
"Toldoth Jeschu" - known and accepted to be a ninth century forgery by 
both Christian and Jewish scholars.

Apologists for the 100BC theory (I have a massive unpublished manuscript 
by G.N. Drinkwater struggling to sustain the illusion) have yet to 
provide a single item of contemporary Biblical scholarship to support 
them.

I'm still interested to know how Hodson could "see" the Cottingly fairies 
which were a fraud. Perhaps there were real fairieis standing behind the 
paper cutouts?

I'll leave it to someone from the LCC to offer an explanation for 
Hodson's departure from the ranks of the active clergy.

Dr Gregory Tillett