The Elder Brother

Gregory Tillett

Preface and acknowledgements; A note on sources; 1. The man and the myth 2. A life of manifold adventures: mysterious beginnings 3. The High Church curate: Anglicanism and psychic research 4. Through spiritualism to Theosophy: Spirit guides, Masters and Mr Sinnett 5. ‘A nice occultist’: Madame Blavatsky startles the curate 6. Buddhism in passing and Adyar at last 7. The Masters and the Path: the rising star 8. The ‘astral plane’: the inner side of things 9. Serious charges preferred: the fallen prophet 10. A disciple reinstated: the prodigal returns 11. Many candles in the sun: Krishnamurti and the new vision 12. ‘In the lives, in the lives…’ in which everyone is reincarnated 13. Eggs, English and exercises: the preparation of the Vehicle 14. The rising star: the emerging Arhat and a question of custody 15. Masonry, the war and a new sub-race: preparation for the Coming 16. The priesthood recovered: Leadbeater and the Liberal Catholic Church 17. ‘Where Leadbeater bishes’: the Sydney police investigation 18. ‘Amid the Stygian darkness’ – towards the sunrise 19. A star sets suddenly: the abdication of the Messiah 20. The elderly patriarch: the final years 21. ‘To those who mourn’: the judgment after death; Notes; Bibliography; Index