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C. W. Leadbeater (1847-1934)

Just as Madame H. P. Blavatsky is regarded as one of the greatest occultists of the 19th Century,C. W. Leadbeater is similarly regarded by many as one of the greatest occultists of the 20th

Century.

Charles Webster Leadbeater joined the Theosophical Society in the company of Sir William

Crookes and Mrs. Crookes in London on November 21, 1883. He left for India with Madame H.

P. Blavatsky at the end of 1884 and dedicated the rest of his life till his death on March 1, 1934,

aged 87, to the service of the Theosophical Society. The sole interest of his life during fifty-one

years was to work for the Society; he has to his credit a magnificent record of service rendered to

mankind through his lectures on Theosophy in many lands, and through his books on many

aspects of the Ancient Wisdom.

Since the early days, many students of theosophy owe a debt of gratitude to CWL, as he was

fondly referred to. His remarkably lucid writings make theosophy more comprehensible. Heexpounded the ancient wisdom in simple language, making the secret doctrines less of a mystery.

Yet, he was cruelly maligned by some of his detractors and unjustly drawn into controversies,

during and even after his lifetime. The monumental work, Occult Chemistry, which he co-

authored with his colleague, Annie Besant, was largely ignored for the past hundred years. Only

now, nuclear and particle physicists are beginning to discover the validity of the occult

investigations of CWL conducted a century ago, on the structure of subatomic particles, and thus

indirectly vindicating him.

CWL was an inspiration and a teacher to many, including both clairvoyants and lesser endowed

members. One of his pupils, C. Jinarajadasa, assumed office as the Fourth International President

of the Theosophical Society on February 17, 1946. It was CWL who discovered J. Krishnamurti

who later went on to become a renowned philosopher in his own right, and also D.Rajagopalacharya, the confidant of Krishnamurti. Arguably, without CWLs clairvoyant power,

the world indeed might not have known of Jinarajadasa, Krishnamurti or Rajagopal.

Geoffrey Hodson, a renowned seer and lecturer, says,

Although not myself privileged to have been a pupil of C. W. Leadbeater, I met him personally

on many occasions and throughout the fifty-six years of my membership of the Theosophical

Society I have benefited very greatly from his writings.

Commenting on the cruel attacks on Annie Besant and C. W. Leadbeater, Geoffrey Hodson

remarked to members of the Theosophical Society,

After H. P. Blavatsky, your great leaders, A. Besant and C. W. Leadbeater, have played a very

great and noble part in the process of unveiling. The world scorns them as was inevitable. We

honour them as amongst the greatest of the servants of the Brotherhood. It was not so much they

who made mistakes but those with whom they were associated, and upon whom their part of the

plan depended. Over and over again the human pens - with which, on behalf of the Brotherhood,

they tried to write - broke like dried reeds in their hands. But they laboured on, forming occult

Centres on the old models and giving the best training they could to those who sat at their feet.

Ignorant, blind, and cruel world not to recognize the stature of those who overtopped by so much

the greatest men and women of their time

The difficulty under which great occultists living out in the world must labour is that their

real power and powers cannot be revealed. Their Initiate faculties can only show in their work

and not in themselves. H.P.B. was granted permission, nay ordered, to use hers to attract human

minds to Theosophy and the T. S. But the variation in the rule was only a partial success and soher successors veiled their powers and let the world misjudge them when often by an act of will

they could have confounded their cruel critics

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On the work done by C. W. Leadbeater and Annie Besant in Occult Chemistry, Stephen M.

Phillips, Ph. D., a particle physicists says,

"Demonstrating knowledge of some supersensory aspect of the world that is confirmed by

advances in science many years later is, arguably, the most convincing type of ESP because this

circumstance permits the sceptic no room for doubt or rational explanation if the correlations

between scientific facts and the psychics observations are so numerous and precise as to makethe possibility of lucky guessing improbable in the extreme. The paper will examine a rare

example of such ESP in which ostensible, paranormal descriptions of atoms and subatomic

particles published a century ago have turned out to be confirmed by facts of nuclear and particle

physics..."

In an autographed gift copy ofVoice of the Silence for Leadbeater, H.P.B. addressed him as my

sincerely appreciated and beloved brother and friend and in another gift, herKey to Theosophy,

she wrote to my old and well-beloved friend. These short notes are indicative of the affection

she had for CWL and perhaps her knowledge of his future role in the society she founded under

the instructions of the Masters.

In the half century he served the Theosophical Society, in addition to giving lectures around the

world, C. W. Leadbeater wrote some 50 books and contributed numerous articles regularly toThe Theosophist. His books include:

The Astral Plane (1894)

The Beginning of the Sixth Root Race (1931)

The Chakras (1927)

The Christian Creed (1899)

Clairvoyance (1899)

The Devachanic Plane (1896)

Dreams (1895)

Glimpses of Masonic History (1926)

The Hidden Life in Freemasonry (1926)

The Hidden Side Of Things (1913)

How Theosophy Came To Me (1930)

The Inner Life, First and Second Series, (1910-11)

The Inner Side Of Christian Festivals (1920)

Invisible Helpers (1896)

The Life After Death (1912)

The Lives of Alcyone, Vol. I and II (1924)

Man Visible And Invisible (1902)

Man: Whence, How And Whither (1913) The Masters And The Path (1925)

The Monad (1917)

The Noble Eightfold Path (1926)

Occult Chemistry (1908)

The Occult History Of Java (ph 1951)

The Other Side Of Death (1903)

Our Relation To Children (ph 1938)

An Outline Of Theosophy (1902)

The Perfume of Egypt (1911)

The Power and Use of Thought (1911)

The Science of the Sacraments (1920)

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The Smaller Buddhist Catechism (1889)

Some Glimpses of Occultism (1903)

Souls Growth Through Reincarnation, Vol. I - II, Lives of Erato and Spica (ph 1941)

Souls Growth Through Reincarnation, Vol. III, Lives of Orion (ph 1946)

Souls Growth Through Reincarnation, Vol. IV - VI, Lives of Ursa, Vega and Eudox (ph

1948)

Souls Growth Through Reincarnation, Vol. VII - X, Lives of Ulysses, Abel, Arcor and

Vale (ph 1950)

Spiritualism And Theosophy (1928)

Starlight (1917)

Talks on At the Feet of the Master (1922)

Talks On The Path Of Occultism (1926)

A Textbook Of Theosophy (1912)

Theosophists Attitude to Death and the Unseen (1927)

Thought-Forms (1901)

To Those Who Mourn (1913)

Vegetarianism and Occultism (1913)

The World-Mother As Symbol And Fact (1928)

How Theosophy Came To Metells us how C. W. Leadbeater found the Theosophical Society and

more importantly, his Master. What was the driving power in his life which made him firm and

faithful to the end? The answer is given in this small book.

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