Hubert van Hook
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Mrs. Besant saw him again in Chicago in 1909 while she was there to give a public lecture, where "...she was so struck by him that she prevailed on his mother to leave her husband and bring the boy to Europe and India for special training for his marvellous destiny."(Lutyens, "Awakening", Discus p 12) Nethercot states that Anna van Hook "...never saw her husband again." (Nethercot, "Last Four Lives") | Mrs. Besant saw him again in Chicago in 1909 while she was there to give a public lecture, where "...she was so struck by him that she prevailed on his mother to leave her husband and bring the boy to Europe and India for special training for his marvellous destiny."(Lutyens, "Awakening", Discus p 12) Nethercot states that Anna van Hook "...never saw her husband again." (Nethercot, "Last Four Lives") | ||
| − | Leadbetter, between the end of April and June of 1909, discovered Krishnamurti. (Lutyens, "Awakening", Discus p22) This "discovery" created a bit of a problem over the conflicting claims. Hubert's mother had left her husband, bringing Hubert to the Theosophical Headquarters at Adyar, India "...full of expectations...that Hubert was to be trained as the vehicle for the Lord Maitreya". (Lutyens, "Awakening", Discus p 26) "After Krishna was found, Hubert was soon to be dropped."(Lutyens, "Awakening", Discus p 12) | + | Leadbetter, between the end of April and June of 1909, discovered [[Krishnamurti]]. (Lutyens, "Awakening", Discus p22) This "discovery" created a bit of a problem over the conflicting claims. Hubert's mother had left her husband, bringing Hubert to the Theosophical Headquarters at Adyar, India "...full of expectations...that Hubert was to be trained as the vehicle for the Lord Maitreya". (Lutyens, "Awakening", Discus p 26) "After Krishna was found, Hubert was soon to be dropped."(Lutyens, "Awakening", Discus p 12) |
| − | "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 [Krishna and his brother Nitya] 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) |
"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) | "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) | ||
