Hubert van Hook
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"Mrs. van Hook and Hubert had arrived by the middle of November. Mrs. van Hook took an immediate liking to the two Indian boys and began teaching them with Hubert, who was a year younger than Krishna but much taller and infinitely more advanced intellectually."(Lutyens, "Awakening", Discus p 28) | "Mrs. van Hook and Hubert had arrived by the middle of November. Mrs. van Hook took an immediate liking to the two Indian boys and began teaching them with Hubert, who was a year younger than Krishna but much taller and infinitely more advanced intellectually."(Lutyens, "Awakening", Discus p 28) | ||
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| + | "Apart from Nitya, Hubert seems to have been the only boy Krishna was allowed to see....Mrs van Hook evidently accepted Hubert's inferior position with a very, good grace and so, it seemed, did Dr van Hook back in Chicago."(Lutyens, "Awakening", Discus p33) | ||
Hubert was later to accuse Leadbeater of inappropriate actions. On the denunciation, Mary Lutyens states: "Hubert later swore to Mrs Besant that Leadbeater had 'misused' him, but as he was extremely vindictive by that time, his testimony, though unshaken, was perhaps not altogether reliable.' (Lutyens, "Awakening", Discus p 45n) | Hubert was later to accuse Leadbeater of inappropriate actions. On the denunciation, Mary Lutyens states: "Hubert later swore to Mrs Besant that Leadbeater had 'misused' him, but as he was extremely vindictive by that time, his testimony, though unshaken, was perhaps not altogether reliable.' (Lutyens, "Awakening", Discus p 45n) | ||
