For those interested, Krishnamurti may have come to rather strong ideas about education, but he is remembered as a spiritual teacher who rebelled against his Theosophical Masters.

As a child, Krishnamurti, an unknown Indian boy, was chosen by Anne Besant, the successor to Madame Blavatsky, the controversial founder of Theosophy and C.W. Leadbeater, the equally controversial associate of Anne Besant- to be the future messiah. I talk about some of the story in AMORC Unmasked-

When Krishnamurti came of age, he renounced the role to which he was “chosen,” becoming a spiritual leader in his own right, but without the grandiose pretensions for which he was hand-picked by Leadbeater and Besant.

When he renounced his Messianic position in 1929, Krishamurti said-:

“…Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. That is my point of view, and I adhere to that absolutely and unconditionally. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path…”

Further on in this speech, given when he, as the head of a spiritual organization called the Order of the Star, was announcing its dissolution at his command:

Again, you have the idea that only certain people hold the key to the Kingdom of Happiness. No one holds it. No one has the authority to hold that key. That key is your own self, and in the development and the purification and in the incorruptibility of that self alone is the Kingdom of Eternity….

Still, Krishnamurti, who despite his renunciation of his projected role as World Teacher and the spiritual hierarchy that had allegedly beckoned him to leadership, had his own set of spiritual experiences and did become a spiritual teacher of a type. And, yes, he was interested and did involve himself in education.

But would he be a teacher in a school founded by AMORC- or agree with AMORC principles of spirituality? I think not.

I am not agreeing with Krishnamurti’s total position, but I am willing to listen to his story, one that fundamentally rejects the overweening power of a spiritual organization in regards to the fate of an individual Seeker after Truth.