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Cyril Scott and David Anrias were two gifted friends who
published the earliest, and maybe still most important,
critical Theosophical evaluations of Krishnamurti's post-1929
teachings. These include:
1) Scott's two chapters on Krishnamurti in his The Initiate
in the Dark Cycle: a) Krishnamurti:
A Problem and b) The
Truth about Krishnamurti;
2) Cyril
Scott's Introduction to Anrias' Through the Eyes
of the Masters, containing some explanations of why
the Masters thought it wise to give some feedback on Krishnamurti.
The book also has some biographical
information on David Anrias;
3) At least three messages from Masters in the Anrias'
book address the Krishnamurti issue: a) Message
from The Rishi of the Nilgiri Hills, b) Message
from Master Koot Hoomi and, last but not least, c) Message
from Lord Maitreya, all containing critical remarks
regarding Krishnamurti. The book contains also Nine
Portraits of the Masters by David Anrias.
4) some
paragraphs in David Anrias' The Adepts of the Five
Elements.
Scott's and Anrias' chronological place as messengers for
the Mahatmas can be found in The
Masters and Their Emissaries: From H.P.B. to Guru Ma and
Beyond.
David Tame wrote in his The Secret Power of Music
a short study on Cyril
Scott: 'The Father of British Modern Music' and Jean
Overton Fuller wrote Cyril
Scott and a Hidden School: Towards the Peeling of an Onion,
available from Theosophical History Journal.
The real identity behind Scott's character of Justin Moreward
Haig, or 'J.M.H.' (the initiate in his "Initiate"
trilogy), is still a mystery. But many, like John
Laidlaw, are pointing a finger at Dr.
Pierre Arnold Bernard, a very interesting man if one
reads the material gathered at the above Web site.
Jean
Overton Fuller and myself
had a little correspondence regarding Scott's and Anrias'
views on Krishnamurti.
In her biography of Krishnamurti, Krishnamurti and the
Wind, she addressed the issue further, especially in
the chapter "Scott
and Anrias: Wood and the Blind Rishi." In it she
identifies the main source of Anrias' ideas, the "Rishi
of the Nilgiri Hills," as the Indian yogi Nagaratnaswami,
who was a friend of theosophist Ernest Wood. Wood dedicated
a chpater, An
Indian Yogi, to Nagaratnaswami in his Is this Theosophy
…?
I analyzed Fuller's chapter on the Rishi in the article
"Jean Overton Fuller, Master Narayan and the Krishnamurti-Scott-Anrias
Issue," in which I make the case that Fuller mis-identified
the Rishi. As a part of the paper I also wrote a little
history of my personal involvement in the Krishnamurti-Scott-Anrias
issue, titled "The
Scott and Anrias Material in my Historical Situatedness."
Unfortunately in 2009 Jean Overton Fuller died.
Meanwhile the Scott-Anrias material was also used by writers
like Peter Michel in his Krishnamurti: Love and Freedom,
of which I wrote a review,
and Phillip Lindsay's The Initiations of Krishnamurti:
An Astrological Biography.
The Krishnamurti-Scott-Anrias issue is far from over.
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