Ananda College is a prestigious buddhist school in Colombo, Sri Lanka. It is the largest national Buddhist school for boys in Sri Lanka, with a student population exceeding 7500 across 13 grades. It w
School grounds in 1920.
Colonel H.S. Olcott, founder of Ananda College
Charles Webster Leadbeater was a member of the Theosophical Society, Co-Freemasonry, an author on occult subjects, and the co-initiator, with J. I. Wedgwood, of the Liberal Catholic Church.
Ananda College
…Buddhist Theosophical Society. The 1st session was attended by 37 students. In 1888, when about 130 boys were attending, it moved to 61 Maliban Street. Charles Webster Leadbeater was appointed the first principal of the school. By the time the school was officially registered in March 1889, there were 120 students. That same…
Leadbeater in 1914 (age 60)
"Seeing" of music: a piece by Gounod (from a book Thought-Forms by Annie Besant and C. W. Leadbeater).
"Ultramicroscopic seeing" of matter: the "ultimate" physical atom (from Occult Chemistry by A. Besant and C. W. Leadbeater).
The Manor, Sydney, Australia, where Leadbeater stayed from 1922 to 1929