Charles Webster Leadbeater
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.
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
The Theosophical Society is the organizational body of Theosophy, an esoteric new religious movement. It was founded in New York City, U.S. in 1875. Among its founders were Helena Blavatsky, a Russian mystic and the principal thinker of the Theosophy movement, and Henry Steel Olcott, the society's first president. It draws upon a wide array of influences among them older European philosophies and movements such as Neoplatonism and occultism, as well as parts of Asian religious traditions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam.
Notes of the meeting proposing the formation of the Theosophical Society, New York City, 8 September 1875
Seal of the Theosophical Society, Budapest, Hungary
Main building of the Theosophical Society in Adyar, India, 1890
Theosophical Society, Basavanagudi, Bangalore