Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky: Founder of the Theosophical Society; and writer of the controversial "The Secret Doctrine." Most of her life story is shrouded in mystery and controversy. In this story she is the Russian spiritualist who sends Leadbeater and Annie on the journey to find the young Messiah who is to be the avatar of the New Age. Blavatsky was very overweight, smoked cigaretes, swore, and was as brilliantly outrageous as one can get. She covered her bulging large eyes and intense glare by long draping veils and brocade scarves. |
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Charles Leadbeater:
A large man with a patricarchal beard, Charles had the dignified gaze of a Victorian gentleman. One of the World's most famous, and infamous occultists and seers; Charles had a formidable and complex character.He had a great ability to inspire others through his words and writings; some of his books are still on best sellers lists. Yet he was wanted in four countries on charges of pedastry,and, it's been said that his critics could see only the archetypal evil in him, and his desciples only the good. His dramatic looks were enhanced by his impeccable and outrageous style of dressing--often in long robes with a prominent amythest cross around his neck.
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Annie Besant:
Beautiful, willful, articulate, naive, thirty-ish woman with passion and wit. She was a powerful, respected, and highly criticized woman who championed causes way ahead of her time. She lead the first successful working woman's strike in history---for the Match-girls in London and also was the first woman in history to publish a book on birth control--for this she was called an "unfit mother" and had her children taken from her. At one time she was George Bernard Shaw's lover and mentor, and yet as she became Blavatsky's heir to the Theosophical Society, that relationship ended. She adopted Krishnamurti and raised him, partly with the help of Leadbeater, to assume the role of the "Second Coming of Christ." |
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