The Elder Brother: A Biography of Charles Webster Leadbeater

ISBN-13: 9781138120129 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 338 str.

Gregory Tillett

Opis

For all his influence Charles Leadbeater remains largely unknown as a man. This biography, first published in 1982, dispels many of the mysteries surrounding his life, and Leadbeater emerges as neither evil degenerate or infallible saint, but as a complex and eccentric adventurer into the realm of the occult. This title will be of particular interest to students of history and theology.

Spis treści

Preface and acknowledgements;  A note on sources;  1. The man and the myth  2. A life of manifold adventures: mysterious beginnings  3. The High Church curate: Anglicanism and psychic research  4. Through spiritualism to Theosophy: Spirit guides, Masters and Mr Sinnett  5. ‘A nice occultist’: Madame Blavatsky startles the curate  6. Buddhism in passing and Adyar at last  7. The Masters and the Path: the rising star  8. The ‘astral plane’: the inner side of things  9. Serious charges preferred: the fallen prophet  10. A disciple reinstated: the prodigal returns  11. Many candles in the sun: Krishnamurti and the new vision  12. ‘In the lives, in the lives…’ in which everyone is reincarnated  13. Eggs, English and exercises: the preparation of the Vehicle  14. The rising star: the emerging Arhat and a question of custody  15. Masonry, the war and a new sub-race: preparation for the Coming  16. The priesthood recovered: Leadbeater and the Liberal Catholic Church  17. ‘Where Leadbeater bishes’: the Sydney police investigation  18. ‘Amid the Stygian darkness’ – towards the sunrise  19. A star sets suddenly: the abdication of the Messiah  20. The elderly patriarch: the final years  21. ‘To those who mourn’: the judgment after death;  Notes;  Bibliography;  Index

O autorze

Gregory Tillett