In the 20th century, Theosophy was further developed by Annie Besant and Charles Webster Leadbeater, while people like Alice Bailey, Rudolf Steiner and many others, became the source for a whole range of post-theosophical movements such as The Summit Lighthouse.

He was subsequently raised under the tutelage of Annie Besant and Leadbeater, leaders of the Society at the time, who believed him to be a " vehicle " for an expected World Teacher.

His new direction reached a climax in 1929, when he rebuffed attempts by Leadbeater and Besant to continue with the Order of the Star.

Mary Lutyens stated that starting in 1895 Leadbeater and Annie Besant reputedly made "... occult investigations together into the cosmos, the beginnings of mankind, chemistry and the constitution of the elements, as well as frequently visiting the Masters together in their astral bodies ".

" On the nature of the accusation itself, Leadbeater wrote to Annie Besant:

Of this accusation, Mary Lutyens states: " Hubert later swore to Mrs Besant that Leadbeater had ' misused ' him, but as he was extremely vindictive by that time, his testimony, though unshaken, was perhaps not altogether reliable.

Leadbeater was not interested in defending his position, but in a letter to Annie Besant wrote: " a natural function exists, which in itself is no more wrong than eating or drinking.

A judge in a related custody case in India ( Naranian vs. Besant, regarding the legal guardianship of Jiddu Krishnamurti and his brother Nityananda ) remarked in his ruling that Leadbeater held " immoral ideas " – this prompted Annie Besant to support Leadbeater in a letter regarding the facts of the case and its coverage by The Times of London.

Thought-form of the Music of Charles Gounod | Gounod, according to Annie Besant and Charles Webster Leadbeater | C. W.

Leadbeater and Annie Besant.

Leadbeater and Annie Besant ( Theosophical Society Adyar ), equated it with Blavatsky's Kama ( desire ) principle and called it the Emotional body.

Leadbeater and Annie Besant said that Sanat Kumara brought 30 " Lords of the Flame " with him from Venus to help him set up his colony.

* Besant, Annie ; Leadbeater, Charles Webster.

After Madame Blavatsky's death in 1891, the concept of the Mahatmas was developed by her successors in the Theosophical Society leadership, Annie Besant and Charles W. Leadbeater, who described them in great detail and added Jesus and Maitreya.

Neo-Theosophy, as developed by Annie Besant, C. W. Leadbeater, and later Alice Bailey, makes the astral finer than the etheric plane but " denser " than the mental plane.

Leadbeater and Annie Besant.

A detailed description of the mental plane, along with the mental body, is provided by Arthur E. Powell, who has compiled information in the works of Besant and Leadbeater in a series of books on each of the subtle bodies.

Both Besant and Scott-Elliot relied on information from Charles Webster Leadbeater obtained by " astral clairvoyance ".

Indy also encounters ( in no particular order ) Edgar Degas, Giacomo Puccini, George Patton, Pablo Picasso ( same episode as Degas ), Eliot Ness, Charles Nungesser, Al Capone, Manfred von Richthofen, Annie Besant, Charles Webster Leadbeater, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, Norman Rockwell ( same episode as Degas and Picasso ), Louis Armstrong, George Gershwin, Sean O ' Casey, Siegfried Sassoon, Patrick Pearse, Winston Churchill, Carl Jung, and Sigmund Freud ; at one point, he competes against a young Ernest Hemingway for the affections of a girl, is nursed back to health by Albert Schweitzer, has a passionate tryst with Mata Hari, and goes on a safari with Theodore Roosevelt.

Leadbeater and Annie Besant ( Adyar School of Theosophy ), and later Alice Bailey, the mental body is equivalent to the " Lower Manas " of Blavatsky's original seven principles of man.

Leadbeater and Annie Besant due to the elimination of Hindu terminology from the system of seven planes and bodies.

The etheric plane ( see also Etheric body ) is a term introduced into Theosophy by Charles Webster Leadbeater and Annie Besant to represent one of the planes of existence in neo-Theosophical and Rosicrucian cosmology.

In early adolescence, he had a chance encounter with prominent occultist and high-ranking theosophist Charles Webster Leadbeater in the grounds of the Theosophical Society headquarters at Adyar in Madras ( now Chennai ).

Leadbeater had noticed Krishnamurti, who frequented the same beach on the Adyar river, and was amazed by the " most wonderful aura he had ever seen, without a particle of selfishness in it.

In 1909 Leadbeater " discovered " fourteen-year-old Jiddu Krishnamurti at Adyar.

During 1910, Leadbeater conducted additional research into the so-called akashic records, which he stated that he clairvoyantly inspected at the Theosophical Society headquarters in Adyar.

Leadbeater and Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa, who were all members of the Theosophical Society ( based at Adyar, India ).

Leadbeater ( from, the source states, their research into the " akashic records " at the Theosophical Society headquarters in Adyar ( Tamil Nadu ), India conducted in the summer of 1910 ) as having been the Emperor of Atlantis in 220, 000 BC, ruling from his palace in the capital city, the City of the Golden Gates.

According to the post-1900 publications of Theosophy, i. e. the writings of C. W. Leadbeater, Alice A. Bailey, and Benjamin Creme, as well as the Ascended Master Teachings of Guy Ballard, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Geraldine Innocente, Joshua David Stone, and other Ascended Master Teachings teachers, Sanat Kumara is an " advanced being " at the ninth level of initiation who is regarded as the Lord or Regent of Earth and of humanity, and the head of the Spiritual Hierarchy of Earth who dwells in Shamballah, a city said by Theosophists and those adherent to the Ascended Master Teachings to be a floating city the on the etheric plane above the Gobi Desert.

Leadbeater and later adherents of Theosophy such as Alice A. Bailey believe that Sanat Kumara came to Earth 18, 500, 000 years ago ( A. E.

According to the post-1900 publications of Theosophy ( specifically, the writings of Charles W. Leadbeater, Alice A. Bailey, and Benjamin Creme, as well as the Ascended Master Teachings of Guy Ballard, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Geraldine Innocente, Joshua David Stone, and other Ascended Master Teachings teachers ), Sanat Kumara is an " advanced being " of the Ninth Initiation ( the highest Initiation possible on planet Earth ) who is regarded as the Lord or Regent of Earth and of humanity, and the head of the Spiritual Hierarchy of Earth who dwells in Shamballah, a city said by Theosophists and those adherent to the Ascended Master Teachings to be a floating city the on the etheric plane above the Gobi Desert.

Charles Webster Leadbeater fundamentally described and incorporated his comprehension of intangible beings for Theosophy.

Leadbeater reinterpreted the seven principles so they equate with the seven planes ; this interpretation since became standard everywhere but original or orthodox Blavatskyian Theosophy ).

" About this time, after reading about the séances of medium Daniel Dunglas Home ( 1833 – 1886 ), Leadbeater developed an active interest in spiritualism.

During 1885, Leadbeater traveled with Henry Steel Olcott ( 1832 – 1907 ), first President of the Theosophical Society, to Burma, and Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka ).

The other twelve regulars were Yardley ( captain ), Hutton, Lowson, Lester, Watson, Wilson, Halliday, Sutcliffe, Brennan, Wardle, Leadbeater and Appleyard.

Leadbeater also states that an important duty of Sanat Kumara is to participate in an elaborate ritual every Wesak ( the Full Moon of May ) led by Gautama Buddha, and also participated in by the Maitreya ( the being Theosophists identify as Christ ), in which cosmic energy is focused from the " Solar Logos " to Earth in order to keep our planet's cosmic energy in balance.

A detailed account of The Mental Plane and the Mental Body and their associated phenomena, as described by Leadbeater and his co-worker Annie Besant ( who succeeded Blavatsky as head of the Theosophical Society ), can be found in Arthur E. Powell's The Mental Body.

* Peace ( 2010 ), featuring Benedict Philipp, Joshua Madine, Tom Cully, Stefan Leadbeater, James Threadgill, Jakob De Menezes-Wood, Daniel Fontannaz, James Mordaunt and Ralph Skan as vocal soloists.

This book is extremely detailed and complex, and later the ideas were developed into the predominant Western view of the chakras by C. W. Leadbeater in his book The Chakras.

Often, he was " asked in later life what he thought would have happened to him if he had not been ' discovered ' by Leadbeater.

A similar accusation was made later by Hubert van Hook of Chicago, who at age 11 was selected by Leadbeater as a candidate for the " vehicle " of an expected " World Teacher ".

Archbishop Wedgwood then consecrated another former Anglican Priest, Charles W. Leadbeater, later that same year, with Bishop Leadbeater going on to become the 2nd Presiding Bishop of the Church in later years.

The works of Leadbeater were later developed by Palamidessi and others.