LEADBEATER, Charles Webster.

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Photographic portrait. An intense portrait of the occultist, Theosophist, and Freemason. An Anglican priest and the co-founder of the Liberal Catholic Church, Leadbeater is depicted wearing a jewelled pectoral cross - denoting his 1916 consecration as a bishop of the latter - and the lapel pin of his Order of the Star in the East. His writings combined Christianity with esotericism; the Order was founded to prepare the world for the imminent arrival of a new messianic entity.Leadbeater (1854-1934) believed that Theosophy could explain and enrich all religions, but that for Christianity in particular it could serve as a route by which the unnecessary elements that clouded the theology of the early church could be stripped away. "There is nothing in Theosophy which is in any way in opposition to true primitive Christianity, though it may not always be possible to agree with the interpretations put upon that truth by modern dogmatic theology, which is quite another matter" (Occultism, p. 14). His writings covered topics such as the love of God, the immortality of the human soul, karma, clairvoyance, vegetarianism, dreams, and what happens after death. Along with being a prolific author of spiritual works, Leadbeater was one of the best-known public speakers on Theosophy. He "discovered" Jiddu Krishnamurti and was a close associate of the feminist Annie Besant, with whom he founded the Order of the Star in the East. The Order was dissolved in 1927.

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