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Regarding Cyril Scott and David Anrias

Cyril Scott and David Anrias were two gifted friends who published the earliest, and maybe still most important, critical Theosophical evaluations of Krishnamurti's post-1929 teachings. These include:

1) Scott's two chapters on Krishnamurti in his The Initiate in the Dark Cycle: a) Krishnamurti: A Problem and b) The Truth about Krishnamurti;

2) Cyril Scott's Introduction to Anrias' Through the Eyes of the Masters, containing some explanations of why the Masters thought it wise to give some feedback on Krishnamurti. The book also has some biographical information on David Anrias;

3) At least three messages from Masters in the Anrias' book address the Krishnamurti issue: a) Message from The Rishi of the Nilgiri Hills, b) Message from Master Koot Hoomi and, last but not least, c) Message from Lord Maitreya, all containing critical remarks regarding Krishnamurti. The book contains also Nine Portraits of the Masters by David Anrias.

4) some paragraphs in David Anrias' The Adepts of the Five Elements.

Scott's and Anrias' chronological place as messengers for the Mahatmas can be found in The Masters and Their Emissaries: From H.P.B. to Guru Ma and Beyond.

David Tame wrote in his The Secret Power of Music a short study on Cyril Scott: 'The Father of British Modern Music' and Jean Overton Fuller wrote Cyril Scott and a Hidden School: Towards the Peeling of an Onion, available from Theosophical History Journal. 

The real identity behind Scott's character of Justin Moreward Haig, or 'J.M.H.' (the initiate in his "Initiate" trilogy), is still a mystery.  But many, like John Laidlaw, are pointing a finger at Dr. Pierre Arnold Bernard, a very interesting man if one reads the material gathered at the above Web site. 

Jean Overton Fuller and myself had a little correspondence regarding Scott's and Anrias' views on Krishnamurti.

In her biography of Krishnamurti, Krishnamurti and the Wind, she addressed the issue further, especially in the chapter "Scott and Anrias: Wood and the Blind Rishi." In it she identifies the main source of Anrias' ideas, the "Rishi of the Nilgiri Hills," as the Indian yogi Nagaratnaswami, who was a friend of theosophist Ernest Wood. Wood dedicated a chpater, An Indian Yogi, to Nagaratnaswami in his Is this Theosophy …?

I analyzed Fuller's chapter on the Rishi in the article "Jean Overton Fuller, Master Narayan and the Krishnamurti-Scott-Anrias Issue," in which I make the case that Fuller mis-identified the Rishi. As a part of the paper I also wrote a little history of my personal involvement in the Krishnamurti-Scott-Anrias issue, titled "The Scott and Anrias Material in my Historical Situatedness."

Unfortunately in 2009 Jean Overton Fuller died.

Meanwhile the Scott-Anrias material was also used by writers like Peter Michel in his Krishnamurti: Love and Freedom, of which I wrote a review, and Phillip Lindsay's The Initiations of Krishnamurti: An Astrological Biography.

The Krishnamurti-Scott-Anrias issue is far from over.

 

 

 

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