Theos-Talk Archives (December 2006 Message tt00002)

Dear Friends,


In the "At the Feet of the Master" -- a  sort of Liberal Catholic 
catechism -- one can see the word "God" is used a great number of 
times.  

"God has a plan", says the booklet. And more: "If [anyone] is on 
God's side he is one with us", it insists. 

That piece of  theosophical messianism states that "You are God"; 
the conclusion from that being that you should wish only "what God 
wills". (1) 

As we have seen, the real author of the  pamphlet is C. W. 
Leadbeater, who, cleverly ascribed its authorship to the young boy 
Jiddu Krishnamurti and to a certain Master of the Wisdom.  In the 
foreword,  Krishnamurti says, or these words are ascribed  to 
him: "These are not my words; they are the words of the Master who 
taught me." 

Let's see, then,  what did that very same Master who according to 
Leadbeater taught Krishnamurti,  write about God in his 
famous "Letter 10" in the "Mahatma Letters".   

The real Adept  says: 

"Neither our philosophy nor ourselves believe in God, least of all 
in one whose pronoun necessitates a capital H." (2) 

Leadbeater makes his imaginary Master say:  

"For YOU are God, and you will only what God wills" (p. 9).

On the other hand, the real Master teaches in another Letter:  

"A constant sense of  abject dependence upon a Deity which he 
regards as the sole source of power makes a man lose all self-
reliance and the spurs to activity and initiative. Having begun by 
creating a father and guide unto himself, he becomes like a boy and 
remains so to his old age, expecting to be led by  the hand on the 
smallest as well as the greatest events of life." (3) 


Leadbeater  makes  his imaginary Master say: 

"God is Wisdom as well as Love; and the more wisdom you have the 
more you can manifest of Him." (p. 12) 

In the ML Letter 134, one reads this from a Mahatma: 

"Faith in Gods and God, and other superstitions attracts millions of 
foreign influences, living entities and powerful agents around them, 
with which we would have to use more power than ordinary exercised 
power to drive them away. We do not choose to do so." (4) 

The Master was thus explaining that Adepts can hardly get near 
persons who believe in superstitions like "God or Gods".  
In fact, C. W. Leadbeater failed in discipleship  soon after being 
put on probation and receiving a letter and a coçuple of short notes 
from a Master, in the 1880s.  Later on, he was not even admitted to 
HPB's Esoteric School as long as she lived.  

In 1906, he frankly confessed abusing children and was duly expelled 
from the Theosophical Society by H. S. Olcott. Yet by some strange 
coincidence Olcott died a few months later,  and  Leadbeater 
immediately came back to the control the Adyar  movement – with 
Annie Besant's blessings. 

All those who compare Leadbeater's writings with the real teachings 
from the Masters and HPB can see that they say quite the opposite in 
the most decisive topics and issues dealing with the spiritual 
path.  


Regards,  Carlos.  


NOTES: 

(1) "At The Feet of the Master",  by Alcyone, The Theosophical 
Publishing House, Wheaton, IL, USA, Pocketbook edition, 1984, 32 pp. 
See pages  7-9. 

(2) "The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett", T.U.P., Pasadena, CA, 
USA, 1992, 494 pp., see Letter X, p. 52. The quotation is in the 
opening lines of the letter. In the Chronological Edition of 
the "Mahatma Letters" (TPH Philippines), it corresponds to Letter 
number 88. 

(3) "Letters From the Masters of  the Wisdom", 1870-1900, First 
Series, transcribed by C. Jinarajadasa, TPH, Adyar, Madras 
(Chennai), India, 1973, see Letter 43, p. 95.