Reply #29: If Jiddu was “absolutely wrong about everything” then he must be the messiah. [View All]

[ironbark]

Potted history-
The Theosophists, embracing the motto/principle- “There is no religion higher than truth”, conducted one of the first major comparative religion investigations into all faiths and traditions.

They concluded, quite rightly, that not only do the major faiths hold core beliefs (Golden Rule) in common but they all also share a body of prophecy regarding the return of a founder.
The Hindu, Zoroastrian, Buddhist, Jewish, Christian and Islamic faiths all have prophecies regarding messianic return and these prophecies interplay, overlap and reference each other.

The research and investigation conducted by the Theosophists was exhaustive, reasoned and fundamentally sound. It did not point towards the world being inundated by contending and conflicting messiah candidates from all faiths but towards a single figure representing all and fulfilling the prophecy of all. A revolutionary and radical reading of religion.

The Theosophists next move was far from reasoned but very human. Having concluded that there would be a single messianic figure, a ‘Great World Teacher’, they set out to find/provide same.
They selected the twelve year old Jiddu Krishnamurti and raised/educated him to fulfil the role.
The ‘Order of the Star’ was established as a vehicle for this world teaching effort and thousands flocked to it.
I believe Jiddu was about 21, standing before some 4-5 thousand members of the Order. When he declared he was not the great world teacher/messiah.

A courageous act for a young man being offered the world.That he subsequently became avidly anti guru aught come as no surprise.

So…no…Jiddu Krishnamurti was not “absolutely wrong about everything”……nor was he wrong in his subsequent examination of the relationship between the ‘observer and the observed’.

The question/clue remains-
on what basis did the Theosophists conclude commonality and singularity regarding return prophecy…

And what might these prior points have to do with it-

Another clue would be William Miller and ‘The Year of the Great Disappointment’.

Both of these matters would appear to be false trails/dead ends to their objective…but perhaps not.

Another clue would be Samuel Morse and his first message dispatched by electric telegraph
“What Hath God Wrought?”.

This was the birth of the technology by which we currently communicate across the planet…and in the very act of doing so…forge a single village.

May 24, 1844.