Theos-Talk Archives (January 1997 Message tl00801)

"ARUNDALE, George Sydney                    1.12.1878 - 12.8.1945

Cons. 4 August 1925 at Huizen, Holland, by J.I.WEDGWOOD assisted by
J.A.MAZEL & F.W.PIGOTT, having been ordained priest by Wedgwood on 26
July 1925.  One of the founders of the (Theosophical) Order of the Star
in the East, he became Liberal Catholic Regionary Bishop for India in
1926.  In 1934 he resigned in order to become President of the
Theosophical Society.  The main objective of the Order of the Star in
the East is said to have been to promote the claims made for
J.Krishnamurti by C.W.LEADBEATER and others as the forthcoming "World
Teacher," the "Lord Maitreya" - regarded as a second incarnation of
Christ.  Krishnamurti later repudiated this claim.  Arundale was
Professor of History at the Central Hindu College in Benares, India,
from 1909 to 1913.  In 1920 the government of the Maharajah of Holkar
nominated him Minister of Education."

>From my "Bishops Irregular," 1985.

Alan
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