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4 unusual facts about Charles Webster Leadbeater


Besant v. Narayaniah

In July 1909, the theosophist Charles Webster Leadbeater chanced upon Krishnamurti on the banks of the Adyar River and allegedly noticed signs of greatness in him.

Charles Webster

Charles Webster Leadbeater (1854–1934), member of the Theosophical Society and author on occult subjects

Ernest Wood

Wood became one of her assistants, working with Besant and Charles Webster Leadbeater, who had arrived in Adyar in 1909.

Mary Lutyens

In the 1920s, she spent some time at The Manor, a centre run by Charles Webster Leadbeater in Mosman, New South Wales, Australia, while Krishnamurti and his brother Nitya stayed at another house nearby.


Alfred Percy Sinnett

Sinnett asked Charles Webster Leadbeater to come back to England to tutor his son Percy and George Arundale.

Liberal Catholic Church

The founding bishops of the Liberal Catholic churches were J. I. Wedgwood of the Wedgwood China family and the Theosophist Charles Webster Leadbeater.

Slievenamon

The mountain is mentioned in the books The Hidden Side of Things (1913) and The Lives of Alcyone (1924, with Annie Besant) written by the theosophist clairvoyant Charles Webster Leadbeater.


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