Lives of Alcyone (book)
Star names of some prominent Theosophists
- Alcyone - Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Fides - George S. Arundale
- Helios - Marie Russak Hotchener
- Herakles - Annie Besant
- Phocea - William Quan Judge
- Pisces - Clara Codd
- Selene - C. Jinarājadāsa
- Ulyses - Henry Steel Olcott
- Vajra - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
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]
Online version
- Lives of Alcyone in three parts at Anandgholap.net
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Notes
- ↑ Hugh Shearman, "Clara Codd: Some Impressions" The Theosophist 98.10 (October, 1976), 12.