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Hugh Shearman wrote of the ''Lives'':
Hugh Shearman wrote of the ''Lives'':
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When Bishop Leadbeater gave accounts of the past lives of any of his colleagues and acquaintances, what he decribed oten seemed in some way to fit the individual whom one knew in this life.
When Bishop Leadbeater gave accounts of the past lives of any of his colleagues and acquaintances, what he decribed often seemed in some way to fit the individual whom one knew in this life.


Somewill hold that thiswsevidence ofobjective truth inwhat Bishop Leadbeater described,others that what he wrote embodied at least a sound intuition.
Some will hold that this as evidence of objective truth in what Bishop Leadbeater described,others that what he wrote embodied at least a sound intuition.


The case of Clara Codd is a good example. Amusingly, Bishop Leadbeater allotted to her, as a reinarnating ego, the name of the constellation Pisces, the Fishes,making play of the fact that a cod is a kind of fish. Anybody who cares to trace the lives of Pisces, in the extensive tables given in ''The Lives of Alcyone'',who find that the character with that name always had a different marriage partner in every life. Others might return to former partners, but Pisces always turned each time adventurously to somebody new.
The case of [[Clara Codd]] is a good example. Amusingly, Bishop Leadbeater allotted to her, as a reinarnating ego, the name of the constellation Pisces, the Fishes, making play of the fact that a cod is a kind of fish. Anybody who cares to trace the lives of Pisces, in the extensive tables given in ''The Lives of Alcyone'',who find that the character with that name always had a different marriage partner in every life. Others might return to former partners, but Pisces always turned each time adventurously to somebody new.


This view of her past way of choice which the ''lives'' offer serves admirably to express and symbolize somehtng that was very deep in ClaraCodd's nature. She was nobody's "twin soul".<ref>Hugh Shearman, "Clara Codd: Some Impressions" ''The Theosophist'' 98.10 (October, 1976), 12.</ref>
This view of her past way of choice which the ''lives'' offer serves admirably to express and symbolize something that was very deep in Clara Codd's nature. She was nobody's "twin soul".<ref>Hugh Shearman, "Clara Codd: Some Impressions" ''The Theosophist'' 98.10 (October, 1976), 12.</ref>
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== Online version ==
== Online version ==
* ''Lives of Alcyone'' in three parts at [http://www.anandgholap.net/Lives_of_Alcyone-AB_CWL.htm# Anandgholap.net]
* ''Lives of Alcyone'' in three parts at [http://www.anandgholap.net/Lives_of_Alcyone-AB_CWL.htm# Anandgholap.net]

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Comments by Hugh Shearman

Hugh Shearman wrote of the Lives:

When Bishop Leadbeater gave accounts of the past lives of any of his colleagues and acquaintances, what he decribed often seemed in some way to fit the individual whom one knew in this life.

Some will hold that this as evidence of objective truth in what Bishop Leadbeater described,others that what he wrote embodied at least a sound intuition.

The case of Clara Codd is a good example. Amusingly, Bishop Leadbeater allotted to her, as a reinarnating ego, the name of the constellation Pisces, the Fishes, making play of the fact that a cod is a kind of fish. Anybody who cares to trace the lives of Pisces, in the extensive tables given in The Lives of Alcyone,who find that the character with that name always had a different marriage partner in every life. Others might return to former partners, but Pisces always turned each time adventurously to somebody new.

This view of her past way of choice which the lives offer serves admirably to express and symbolize something that was very deep in Clara Codd's nature. She was nobody's "twin soul".[1]

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  1. Hugh Shearman, "Clara Codd: Some Impressions" The Theosophist 98.10 (October, 1976), 12.