C. W. Leadbeater

The finder. Leadbeater, a leading Theosophist, identified the boy Krishnamurti in 1909.¹

Documented core

At Adyar in 1909 Leadbeater singled out the adolescent Krishnamurti as the likely vehicle for the coming World Teacher — the identification that produced the Order of the Star in the East and the whole World-Teacher episode.

Held-open / discard

Leadbeater’s conduct was the subject of documented scandal inside the Theosophical Society (1906 impropriety allegations). Per the hard sourcing rule, this is included as record — a co-symptom, never softened and never used to route the thesis through a coded collective. The date/specifics carry a VERIFY flag pending a primary check.

Role in the thesis

Articulation, not cause. Leadbeater’s role is to establish the World-Teacher idiom as an operational institution — testimony to the impulse, held apart from the sociology.

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1. Leadbeater's 1909 identification of Krishnamurti as vehicle for the World Teacher; the 1906 impropriety allegations within the Theosophical Society ↩︎