Tag: Jiddu Krishnamurti

  • 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…

  • Jiddu Krishnamurti: “There Is Only One Revolution!”

    Jiddu Krishnamurti: “There Is Only One Revolution!”

    “We want to escape. . .because man has lived like this for thousands and thousands of years, with sorrow, confusion, and great misery and mischief. And without changing all that, completely, radically. . .mere outward revolution. . .changing a particular system for another system does not solve this aching agony. There’s only one revolution —…

  • Bhagavan Das on the Evils Of Nationalism

    Bhagavan Das on the Evils Of Nationalism

    Liberals used to be nationalists too, but these nationalists were also cosmopolitans, internationalists, patriotic, lovers of antiquity, who romanticized the Golden Ages of ancient civilizations. In our day, liberals have conceded to give these qualities alone to their adversaries, who exploit by perpetually putting into question their love for their country. Articles read Nationalism, or…

  • U.G. Krishnamurti: Recollects the Second-Generation Theosophical Society

    U.G. Krishnamurti: Recollects the Second-Generation Theosophical Society

    Second Generation refers to a shifted leadership in the Theosophical Society, with international headquarters in Adyar, Madras, post-1890’s, and led by Annie Besant in 1907 til her death. The second generation Theosophists drift from a teaching of progressive evolution to a program of “progressive millenialism,” says Catherine Wessinger, in her The Second Generation Leaders of…

  • Jiddu Krishnamurti repudiates the Convergence of Theosophy and his Teaching

    Jiddu Krishnamurti repudiates the Convergence of Theosophy and his Teaching

    The most comprehensive collection of Krishnamurti’s true thoughts on Theosophy. Gathered by the Rishi Valley Study Centre (Working Paper #4, May 1995, Revised October 1996 by Hans and Radhika Herzberger). Jiddu Krishnamurti utterly rejected the convergence of his thought and Theosophy, and his wishes should be respected. Contemporary Theosophists have to let go of Jiddu Krishnamurti, and trying to…

  • The Young Indiana Jones meets Krishnamurti and the Theosophical Society in “Journey of Radiance”

    The Young Indiana Jones meets Krishnamurti and the Theosophical Society in “Journey of Radiance”

    THE YOUNG INDIANA JONES MEETS YOUNG JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI, CHARLES LEADBEATER AND ANNIE BESANT Created by George Lucas, this is the first part of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles 5. In January, 1910, the Jones family attends a meeting of the Theosophical movement in Benares, India. There young Indy befriends the young Jiddu Krishnamurti, and meets Charles…

  • Theosophy and Freemasonry: Esoteric Schools within the Theosophical Society

    Theosophy and Freemasonry: Esoteric Schools within the Theosophical Society

    HISTORY OF ESOTERIC SCHOOLS WITHIN THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY The Theosophical Society did not become a secret, or occult fraternity, but it is true that the ideal for the Society was not to be a mere intellectual or literary society. The current condition of the Theosophical Society and its divided branches survive, though like a shell.…