ABSTRACT
In his eighty years, Charles Webster Leadbeater had risen from an obscure birth in an English industrial town, through a dull curacy in the Church of England. In the biography of Charles Webster Leadbeater there are a number of 'mysteries' that have nothing to do with the Occult Hierarchy. Much of Leadbeater's clairvoyant research yielded material based on his Anglican background, or his spiritualist phase. Krishnamurti had clearly broken from the Theosophical milieu, and was to declare a few years after Leadbeater's death that there was no common ground on which he could meet Theosophy. There are interesting similarities between Kandinsky's idea of the 'language of form and colour' and Leadbeater's theory of astral coloration. Jinarajadasa succeeded Leadbeater as Outer Head of the ES, and, after Arundale's death, was the only candidate for the Presidency of the TS, which he held until the end of 1952.
