INTRODUCTION
Luis S. R. Vas asked in his insightful book Jiddu Krishnamurti, “Great Liberator or Failed Messiah,” about the relations between Jiddu Krishnamurti and the Theosophical Society. This story is about a young boy that became an important philosophical teacher throughout the 20th century, groomed by later leading theosophists Annie Besant and Charles W. Leadbeater to become the living embodiment of Maitreya, a vehicle for the coming Christ as they called it, and a world prophet and savior by an organization that lost sight of its original purpose. By the nineties, the situation seems to have subsided, but Theosophists remained left with the damaged reputation, divisions, and diverse perspectives about Jiddu Krishnamurti.
This effort and history after the death of the main founder, Helena P. Blavatsky represents a subversion and subsequent climatic fall of the Theosophical Society. H.P. Blavatsky was contending with such influences during her time, which is why she coined the term ‘Pseudo-Theosophy.’ This term was not created by what some researchers ignorantly call ‘Orthodox Theosophists.’ How did this promising organization become a messianic cult for Charles W. Leadbeater and Annie Besant’s progressive millennial movement is a question Theosophists and other researchers have investigated and detailed, as will be described.
- INTRODUCTION
- THE RELUCTANT MESSIAH
- ORDER OF THE STAR IN THE EAST CHARADE
- THE WILL OF LEADBEATER IN THE FORM OF A NEW COMING TEACHER
- IMAGINARY “LORD MAITREYA” APPROVES OF C.W.L.’S QUASI-CATHOLICISM!
- THE CASE OF LEADBEATER’S CHARLANTRY AND PSYCHIC ABNORMALITIES
- KRISHNAMURTI ON LEADBEATER
- THE NATURE OF KRISHNAMURTI’S TEACHINGS
- KRISHNAMURTI CRITIQUES OF THEOSOPHISTS
- ISSUES WITH KRISHNAMURTI’S INFLUENCE
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