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Annie Besant: Bishop Leadbeater
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Dr. Besant was impatient of these slow methods, while she admired them; she evolved a technique of her own, which was novel to Bishop Leadbeater. She described her process as first looking at the ego of the person, and then as constructing a long tube, and looking through it, when the face of the person in the present incarnation would spring up at her at the other end. It was a rapid method. But he asked her, “How are you sure that you see the right person at the other end?” She laughed; she knew that there was a possibility of error. Probably in 999 cases out of a 1,000 her method would be accurate; as to the one error in 1,000, she was not going to avoid such a possibility by spending the long time necessary with the slow but sure technique of her colleague. She was always for speed, and was never afraid of making mistakes, for she was utterly sure that, though they might bring her much suffering, she would arrive at truth in spite of every obstacle.
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In some respects the difference between Rudhyar's approach to occultism on the one hand, and the Theosophy of Besant and Leadbeater on the other hand, is the difference between Western and Eastern approaches to the occult. Besant and Leadbeater leaned more toward the Eastern ways with their emphasis on altered states of perception. Rudhyar in his writings speaks little of altered states of consciousness and other worlds. Instead, Rudhyar's recognized contribution in occultism is with astrology, a system of symbols to which he gave unique and highly substantial interpretations. As discussed above, this symbolic approach is more characteristic of Western occultism.
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Later on Mr. Mead dissociated himself completely from the work of Dr. Besant and Bishop Leadbeater, and in the end he lost all faith in the veracity of the investigations. But in 1900, when he was engaged in writing the works referred to, his faith was clear and precise, for he has ... put himself on record in The Vahan, the magazine of the English Section, for April, 1900:
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Elementals are essentially astral creatures, that according to Besant and Leadbeater, are something reminiscent of insects. They talk about how these creatures will flock and swarm around human beings, being drawn by the particular moods or emotions a human displays. Again, Annie Besant describes Elementals ...:
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