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C.W. Leadbeater ( Feb 16 , 1854 England - 1934 Perth, Western Australia ), English clergyman and Theosophical author, contributed to world thought mostly through his work as an alleged clairvoyant. EARLY LIFE The controversy over his birthdate is here . Notwithstanding certain sources insistence that he was born in 1847, the proof is conclusive that he was born in 1854. His uncle, on his mother's side, was the prominent Anglican clergyman, William Wolfe Capes. Charles himself was ordained an Anglican priest, by his uncle's influence, being ordained in 1879 at Farnham , by the Bishop Of Winchester . JOINS THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY Leadbeater was an Anglican priest when he joined the Theosophical Society in 1883 . The next year he met Helena Petrovna Blavatsky when she came to London . At this time he was the recipient of a few Mahatma letters which influenced him to go to India . In India he claimed to have received visits and training from some of Blavatsky's Masters {Link without Title} . This was the start of a long career in the Theosophical Society. RETURN TO ENGLAND Although he was living at Adyar, and then in Ceylon , by 1889 he was back in England with Jinarajadasa . He became one of the most known speakers in the Theosophical Society for quite a number of years. ( source ) ACCUSED OF PEDERASTY Leadbeater was accused of , Hubert van Hook, Katherine Tingley and Hilda Martyn. It has been speculated that an incriminating letter to a young boy attributed to Leadbeater, advising the youth on Masturbation methods and signed "Thousand kisses darling", was a forgery by Fullerton. It is true however that (before 1906), he recommended the practice of masturbation as a prophylactic in certain cases to young boys. But these were ideas that Charles Leadbeater already had before he joined the Theosophical Society and still was a member of the Church. LEAVES, THEN REJOINS SOCIETY To avoid a scandal within the Society, he resigned in 1906. He avoided some elements of the Society, but others kept him as their friend and educator of their children. While in this position, he also continued his clairvoyant work and writing. After Olcott died in Feb 1907, Annie Besant after a political struggle became President of the Society. By the end of 1908, the International Sections voted for Leadbeater's readmission. He accepted and came to Adyar on Feb 10, 1909. DISCOVERS KRISHNAMURTI His most well-known activity was the discovery, in April, 1909 , of Jiddu Krishnamurti , on the private beach that formed part of the Theosophical headquarters in Adyar , India. Krishnamurti and his family had been living in the headquarters for a few months before this discovery. Krishnamurti was to be the vessel for the indwelling of the coming "World Teacher" that many Theosophists were expecting. This new teacher would, in the pattern of Moses , Buddha , Zarathustra (Zoroaster) , Christ , and Muhammad divulge a new dispensation, a new religious teaching. Theosophists believed that the teacher was a spiritual being who would dwell in the body vessel. Charles Leadbeater stayed in India for some time overseeing the raising of Krishnamurti, but eventually felt that he was being called to go to Australia for the cause. TO AUSTRALIA Annie Besant had come to see Leadbeater as a liability and was relieved when, in 1915 he went to live in Sydney . While in Australia he came in closer contact with James I. Wedgwood who initiated him into Co-Masonry in 1915 and then in 1916 , as a Bishop himself, consecreated Leadbeater into the Liberal Catholic Church . WORK AS A CLAIRVOYANT He remains well known and influential in his work through Clairvoyance with for instance his books ''The Chakras'' and ''Man, Visible and Invisible'' dealing with the human Aura and Chakras , and writing on the function of the Sacraments in the Liberal Catholic Church , to name just a few subjects. Leadbeater's clairvoyance was not without grave errors. In his book ''The Inner Life'' he claims that there is a population of humans on the planet Mars. See Leadbeater's Observations on Mars . For more on his teachings, see Criticisms of C.W. Leadbeater's Teachings . LITERATURE
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For a more complete list of his works, see A Chronological Listing of C.W. Leadbeater's Books and Pamphlets . EXTERNAL LINKS
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