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Jiddu Krishnamurti

The administered child who refused it. Found by Leadbeater in 1909, made Head of the Order by Besant, groomed as the World Teacher.12

Documented core

On 3 August 1929, at Ommen, Krishnamurti dissolved the Order of the Star in the East himself, telling the assembled members “Truth is a pathless land.” The one operational attempt to build an administered divine-child ended when the child dismantled it.

Role in the thesis

Krishnamurti is the articulation testifying against itself — evidence that the World-Teacher idiom was real (an actual institution), and evidence that it was refused. Testimony, not a chain; the dissolution is as documented as the founding.


  1. Krishnamurti's dissolution speech, Ommen, 3 August 1929 — 'Truth is a pathless land' ↩︎

  2. Mary Lutyens, Krishnamurti: The Years of Awakening (1975) — the 1909 identification and the Order years ↩︎