The American Minervan

Tag: Charles Leadbeater

  • Helena Blavatsky and the Mahatmas on the Historicity of Jesus

    Helena Blavatsky and the Mahatmas on the Historicity of Jesus

    NOTES ON MESSIANISM, APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION, THE TOLEDOT YESHU AND SUBVERSIVE FIXATIONS WITH CHRISTIANIZING THEOSOPHY “I write in every letter that a divine Christ (or Christos) has never existed under a human form outside the imagination of blasphemers who have carnalized a universal and entirely impersonal principle.” (Helena P. Blavatsky, Reply to the Mistaken Conceptions of the Abbe Roca concerning my…

  • The Reluctant Messiah: Truth about Jiddu Krishnamurti and Theosophy

    The Reluctant Messiah: Truth about Jiddu Krishnamurti and Theosophy

    INTRODUCTION Jiddu Krishnamurti, “Great Liberator or Failed Messiah,” asks Luis S. R. Vas in his highly insightful book 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 theosophists, Annie Besant and Charles W. Leadbeater to…