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  • 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…