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	With Dora van Gelder (R) and other girls at The Manor.




		Annie Besant, Sydney, 1922



		CWL at a picnic of The Manor residents at Manly, Sydney, circa 1926. The photo includes, on the left side, Erling Roberts, Daisy Heyting, Hannie Vreede, Dick Balfour-Clarke, Lady Emily Lutyens, Mrs Kollerstrom, Mary Lutyens, Helen Knothe, Arthur van Gelder, and Monica Roberts. Those on the right side include, among others, Bishop Hounsfield, Dr Mary Rocke, Theodore St. John, Ruth Roberts, Muriel Beaufoy, David Dear, Lucius van Gelder, Edythe Kollerstrom and Colin Francis.



	In Sydney, circa 1925.



	With a group at Mackay’s residence, Sydney, 1922. The group includes, among others, C. Jinarajadasa, CWL, Annie Besant, J. Krishnamurti, J. Nityananda, A. P. Warrington, Dr Mary Rocke (CWL’s physician), Dorothy Jinarajadasa, J. J. van der Leeuw, Oscar Kollerstrom, Fritz Kunz and a number of CWL’s pupils.

The Manor, in Mosman, Sydney, home of the theosophical community founded by CWL, in a 1925 photograph.

Some of CWL’s pupils, Sydney, 1920. Seated: Dora van Gelder, Hugh F. Noall and Daisy D. Heyting. Standing: Stephen W. Leigh, Oscar Kollerstrom, Walter Hesselman and Will J. Heyting.

A group in The Manor Garden, Sydney, 1925.Standing (L to R): Arthur and Lucius van Gelder, Helen Knothe, Mary Lutyens, Byron Casselberry, CWL, Ruth Roberts, Monica Roberts, Betty Lutyens, Walter Hassall and Harold Morton. Seated: Muriel Beaufoy, Irene White, Doris Gowlland, Edythe and Norna Kollerstrom and Esme White. In front: David Dear, Henri Aldag, Theodore St. John, Hannie Vreede, Colin Francis and Arthur Beaufoy.

Photo by Judith Fletcher, circa 1927.

C. Jinarajadasa, Sydney, circa 1919

Circa 1923

Fritz Kunz,a close associate of CWL. He was the founder in the USA of Main Currents in Modern Thought, a journal that explored the interface between Science and the Ancient Wisdom.

CWL in a photo of 1914

With a group in Sydney, 1925.Standing (L to R): Dr Mary Rocke, Mrs Mabel Mackay, L. W. Burt, Mrs Gertrude Kollerstrom, John Mackay. Seated: Violet Kathleen Maddox, Theodore St. John, CWL, Harold Morton, Bishop David Morton Tweedie. In front: Walter Hassall and Ruth Roberts.

The Rev. C. W. Leadbeater, England, circa 1882.

CWL’s TS membership diploma.

Seated: Major David Graham Pole, CWL, Annie Besant, B. P. Wadia and Jal Rustomji Aria at Adyar, 1913. Among the other Indian members features a young N. Sri Ram seated on the floor (first from the left). He would become the fifth President of the Theosophical Society in 1953.

Bishops Wedgwood, Leadbeater and Mazel, plus a furry friend, Sydney, 1917.



		CWL’s handwriting.



		CWL, circa 1917.


	CWL at Adyar, India, circa 1931.

		CWL in Sydney, circa 1916


CWL’s TS membership application.


	Bishop C. W. Leadbeater, Sydney, circa 1925


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CWL (circa 1916)

C. W. Leadbeater in 1902

Bishop Leadbeater’s ex-libris label. The Latin motto “Semper Paratus” means “Always Ready”

In Masonic attire.