Charles Webster Leadbeater

C(harles) W(ebster) Leadbeater (1854 –1934) was an influential member of the Theosophical Society, author on occult subjects and co-initiator with J. I. Wedgwood of the Liberal Catholic Church. Originally a clergyman of the Church of England, his interest in spiritualism caused him to end his affiliation with the Church of England in favour of the Theosophical Society, where he became an associate of Annie Besant.
He became a high ranking officer of the Society, but resigned during 1906, after accusations that he had been engaging in mutual masturbation with teenage boys in his care. With Besant's assistance he was readmitted a few years later, and although similar rumours occurred throughout his career, Leadbeater's talents as a prolific author on occultism kept him an important presence in Theosophy until his death in 1934.

His interest in occultism was stimulated by A.P. Sinnett's Occult World [1], and he joined the Theosophical Society during 1883. The next year he met Helena Petrovna Blavatsky when she came to London; she accepted him as a pupil and he became a vegetarian.
Around this time he received a number of so-called Mahatma Letters [2] which he stated influenced him to go to India; he arrived at Adyar during 1884. He wrote that while in India, he had received visits and training from some of the "Masters" that according to Blavatsky were the inspiration behind the formation of the Theosophical Society, and were its hidden guides.
Leadbeater assigned the pseudonym Alcyone to Jiddu Krishnamurti and under the title "Rents in the Veil of Time", he published 30 so-called past lives of "Alcyone" in a series in The Theosophist magazine beginning April 1910.
Leadbeater remains well-known and for his books. Leadbeater's reputed clairvoyance, however, was not without grave errors. In his book The Inner Life(1911) he wrote that there is a population of human-like beings on the planet Mars (a popular belief at the time). [And, as everyone in TT knows: Leadbetter didn’t believe in a Sacral Chakra. He taught Dora Kuntz there was Spleen Chakra]

[1]Alfred Percy Sinnett (1840, London - 1921) was an English author and Theosophist. He relates in his book, The Occult World that: "...on the first occasion of my making Madame Blavatsky's acquaintance she became a guest at my home at Allahabad and remained there for six weeks..."
In 1880 Helena Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott visited the Sinnetts at their summer-home in Simla. The Mahatma letters [2], which generated the controversy that later helped lead to the split of the Theosophical Society, were mostly written to Sinnett or his wife, Patience.
[2] The Mahatma Letters are letters that were claimed to be written by the Theosophical Mahatmas or Masters of the Ancient Wisdom to certain Theosophists, especially A. P. Sinnett, A. O. Hume, Henry Steel Olcott, Helena Blavatsky, C. W. Leadbeater and others. Sinnett inquired about messages from the brothers to him while Blavatsky was a guest. He was suddenly inundated with letters. Leadbetter must have been relieved he got one too.
The akashic records is a term used in theosophy to describe a compendium of mystical knowledge encoded in a non-physical plane of existence. The concept was popularized in the theosophical movements of the 19th century and is derived from Hindu philosophy of Samkhya. It is promulgated in the Samkhya philosophy that the Akashic records are automatically recorded in the atoms of akasha (the equivalent of what Aristotle called "ether").
The “I AM” / Ascended Master / Ascension movement of the 30’s and New Age drew heavily from Theosophy. http://pvrguymale.blogspot.com/2011/07/i-am.html