The Founder of the Liberal
Catholic
Church Reports From the Red
Planet
Carlos Cardoso Aveline
Although Mrs. Annie Besant (left) did not travel herself to the planet Mars
(right
side photos), she was also a self-styled
clairvoyant. She therefore fully supported and
confirmed Mr. Leadbeater’s reports about the physical plane civilization
on that planet.
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2012 Editorial Note:
Falsehood is doomed to imitate
truth, and
ignorance often hides itself
under the outer forms
of wisdom. The greatest absurdities can be said
and done under the appearance
of, and in the name
of, theosophy. As to life on Mars, for instance,
Helena Blavatsky wrote in
“The Secret Doctrine”:
“When the present work was
commenced, the writer,
feeling sure that the
speculation about Mars and Mercury
was a mistake, applied to the
Teachers by letter for explanation
and an authoritative version.
Both came in due time, and
verbatim extracts from these
are now given. ‘… It is quite
correct
that Mars is in a state of obscuration at present’ (…)” [1]
The
words are clear enough. Yet Annie Besant and Charles
Leadbeater
thought, thanks to their imaginary talks
to false Masters,
that
they knew much better than that. A few years after H.P.B.’s
death,
the “theosophical” visits to the planets
Mars and Mercury started.
(C.C.A.)
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Charles
W. Leadbeater’s “clairvoyance” is responsible for the entire ritualistic and
“esoteric” structure still governing behind the scenes most of life in the
Adyar Theosophical Society. And he made extraordinary statements about life on
the Planet Mars. Presented in the first
editions of his book “Inner Life” [2],
his Martian discoveries serve the
purpose of indicating the true quality
of his clairvoyance.
“Inner Life” was first published in 1910. By then nearly all Adyar Theosophists believed the
Martian Expeditions to be true, as the author emphatically claimed.
His words were the words of a divinely inspired being: few dared
question him. After all, besides travelling to other planets, Leadbeater had frequent
personal conversations with the “Lord Christ” the “King of the World” and other great
spiritual authorities whom he himself
had invented, with the political and clairvoyant help of Mrs. Annie Besant. No
one could even think, therefore, that the
bishop belonged to the Pinocchio family.
It was only between the 1960s and the 1970s that the Adyar T.S. editors seemed to lose their faith, so to say, in his
Martian revelations.
They did not say anything about it to the public, though. The editors tried
to keep the fraud of Leadbeater’s “theosophy” still circulating. They only made
an effort to hide his Martian trips, for this part of the fraud was clearly unsustainable
already. From that time on, they quietly removed C.W.L.’s Mercurian and Martian
revelations from any new editions of his
book “Inner Life”.
Profoundly Christian in a Jesuitic sense, Mr. Leadbeater was the main founder of the
Liberal Catholic Church. During his several personal visits to the
planet Mars, he saw and observed the development of daily life on the red
planet. Deeply concerned with spiritual matters, he reports that some Martians use metal sandals in their feet, while others look like Norwegian
citizens.
He writes in “Inner Life”:
“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 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.”
Almost obsessed about physical plane imaginary facts, the Liberal Bishop
writes about the flowers, gardens and cities of Martian citizens:
“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 the outside
can see what is going on in the house.”
Out of modesty perhaps, the remarkable seer does not tell his readers
whether his own books are being published already by the Martian Publishing
Houses. Yet it is certain that he has an
interest in the cultural life of the red planet’s inhabitants, for he writes:
“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 (…..)
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 exceedingly 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 reads without needing to touch the book at all.”
After saying that there is a secret society in Mars, the wise
bishop gets carried on by his own feverish imagination - and perhaps by his Pinocchian
tendencies. He says:
“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 spiritual seances, or have been able, by
the methods which they have learnt, to impress their ideas upon poets and
novelists.”
At this point, Leadbeater confirms the first-hand character of
his personal description of physical life on Mars.
“The information which I have given above is based upon observation and enquiry 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
communicated or impressed by someone from Mars, although the very fact of such impression was (at least in some
cases) quite unknown to the physical writer.”
An important aspect of this liberal Bishop’s mission to Mars had to do
necessarily with religion. He must have travelled there with a clear purpose.
And he wrote:
“One of the most remarkable things about this people is that they have
absolutely no religion. There are no churches, no temples, no places of worship
of any sort whatever, no priests, no ecclesiastical power.”
This inevitably raises a question or two.
Is it possible that during his several visits to Mars Mr. Leadbeater was
secretly preparing a religious mission to that Planet, a mission to be developed by well-trained priests of the Liberal Catholic Church?
In that case, could there be, right now, a group of L.C.C. priests enthusiastically celebrating
Mass and preaching the Holy Gospel to the good Martian citizens?
While there has been no confirmation about that, it is certain that the
degree of accuracy and nonsense one can find in C.W. Leadbeaters’ descriptions
of life on Mars is approximately the same as one will find in his descriptions
of talks with Masters of the Wisdom. And
there is one more thought-provoking fact: it is entirely on the basis of such
clairvoyant baloney that he and Mrs. Besant created the several ritualistic
schemes - “Masonic” and “Catholic”, and the so-called “Egyptian Rite” (E.R.) - which
even now exist behind the scenes in the Adyar Theosophical Society.
Who is going to firmly pronounce the mantra of truth and thus compassionately
dismantle such traps, built to capture good-willing and well-intentioned souls?
The question remains open.
In spite of the homeopathical efforts made by Mrs. Radha Burnier to
distance the Society from the nightmare of harmful ritualisms, the same old portrait-adoring and form-worshipping schemes still keep many
an influential leader of the Adyar Society miles away from the real teaching of
universal ethics and Eastern wisdom.
Mrs. Burnier did what she thought
she could. Since 1978, she simplified the “Martian” structure of “promotions”
and “degrees” in the so-called Egyptian Rite, which is secretly situated above
the Esoteric School. At the same time, she widely promulgated the teachings of Jiddu Krishnamurti.
Being but a new age thinker, Krishnamurti did not know and did not teach
real esoteric philosophy. But at least he vigorously denounced ritualism,
churches, bureaucracy and blind belief.
By adopting Krishnamurti as her main reference, Mrs. Burnier did take a
first step. There could be others. She is
an honest, deep and idealistic thinker.
She may yet take stronger measures to fully follow her leader and liberate
Adyar from those comically dysfunctional remains belonging to the “clairvoyant”
atmosphere of the 1900-1934 period.
One small example should be mentioned. Out of the seven portraits of
Masters used in meetings of the Adyar Esoteric School, five are fake portraits
fabricated by the very Martian “clairvoyant”, or under his instructions. Mrs.
Burnier will understand that this is certainly not the best way to show respect
for the two true Masters and
founders of the theosophical movement.
Being in charge of the E.S. since 1978, Mrs. Burnier might consider
doing something about it. After all, she knows that respect for the teachers is
the first step. On the “origin” of such portraits, she can refer to C.
Jinarajadasa’s text on them, which usually circulates among third degree
Pledged members of the Adyar School.
Life is cyclic. After winter, springtime comes. No falsehood is eternal.
A few courageous steps toward the regeneration of respect for truth and for
facts can smoothly pave the way for a second and deeper stage in the renaissance
of classic theosophy that is already taking place within the Adyar Theosophical
Society.
NOTES:
[1] “The Secret Doctrine”, H. P. Blavatsky, Theosophy Company, Los
Angeles, vol I., p. 165.
[2] All the quotations
in the present article which contain the Leadbeaterian views on Mars are reproduced
from the book “Inner Life”, by C. W.
Leadbeater, Section 10. The text was published
by the magazine “Theosophical History”, London, January 1988; see pages
144-148 for the sentences quoted. I have the same text in the Spanish edition of
“Inner Life”, by C.W.L., published in
Buenos Aires by Editorial Glem (pp. 389-394). In later years, the USA T.P.H. editions of the
book “Inner Life” have silently eliminated this description, as well as the
brief but astonishing description of physical life on Mercury. Yet a Brazilian edition of the book “The Solar System”,
by Mr. Arthur Powell - a follower of C.W.L.’s -
can still be bought in Brazil with this description of physical life on
Mars.
Another author and leading Adyar clairvoyant, Mr. Geoffrey Hodson, followed
the same track at least up to the 1950s. In 1954-1955, Mr. Hodson delivered a
series of talks and classes to students in the international headquarters of
the Adyar Society, in Madras/Chennai, southern India. It was part of the “School of the Wisdom”. The content of his
lectures was published by the T.P.H. in India, in 1955, in two large volumes
under the title of “Lecture Notes - The
School of the Wisdom”, with 616 pages in the volume I and 582 pages in
volume II. On pages 445-442 of volume I, Mr. Geoffrey Hodson quotes and adopts, though in a somewhat cautious way, the same vividly absurd description made by
Mr. Leadbeater about a physical plane civilization on the red planet. (C. C.
A.)
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