Archive Journal
February 2026
February 17, 2026
Today is Charles Webster Leadbeater's birthday – possibly. A wonderful occasion to open his new archive.
I put the original archive online exactly one year ago, on his last birthday. At that time, I deliberately chose a design that looked as if the internet had already existed in 1910: black and white, angular, simple, and almost a little rudimentary. However, this design idea was hardly understood. That is why I have now completely revised the archive and given it a contemporary, colorful look.
I have also restored his photographs, improved their quality, and carefully colored them. This makes them appear more vivid and closer – almost present.
I am now making this new archive available to the public. It is the result of many hours of work, research, and care. Ongoing operation also incurs costs. Nevertheless, access should remain free so that this valuable knowledge is available to all interested parties. The archive is therefore financed on a donation basis—and I hope that some visitors will take advantage of this opportunity and support the project.
Happy birthday, Charly.
May your works continue to find their way to people.
February 18, 2026
Wow, 24 hours later, I already have 800 downloads! It seems there are still people interested in CWL.
February 24, 2026
I receive the book Die symbolische Bedeutung des Sterns (“The Symbolic Meaning of the Star”), the German translation of one of his lectures, scan it, and put it online. I also add my scan of the book Denen die Trauern (“To Those Who Mourn”) to the archive. This text was already there, but is now available in better quality.
February 25, 2026
Another rare book by him in German has found its way into my hands: „Gespräche über Zu Füßen des Meisters“ (“Talks on At the Feet of the Master”) However, scanning it will take some time, as the book is quite thick.
February 28, 2026
After only eleven days, the new archive has already reached 5,370 page views and over 5,800 downloads! I am very happy.
March 2026
March 1, 2026
The scan of Gespräche über Zu Füßen des Meisters (“Talks on At the Feet of the Master”) is now complete. I scanned and edited nearly 700 pages of the book! This mammoth work is exactly 100 years old and now available for the world again here in the Archive.
March 9, 2026
Oops—I noticed that due to a technical error, the audiobooks could not be opened. The error has been fixed and the audiobooks are now available.
March 15, 2026
In less than a month, the archive had already been viewed over 10,000 times. Wow!
March 18, 2026
The English version of the archive now features a central overview page where users can quickly check whether a specific title is included in the collection. Given the large number of texts in the English version—numbering several hundred—this addition proved to be a useful addition. You can find it in the section "His works".
March 19, 2026
Leadbeater's books cover a wide range of topics. To make it easier to get started with his work, I have put together a page with recommended reading in the *His Works* section.
March 20, 2026
The German version of the archive now has another book by him in German translation called Das Leben im Jenseits ("Life in the Hereafter"), published in 1914.
March 21, 2026
I have just added five of his early works to the archive: book reviews he published in 1899 in the journal “The Theosophical Review”.
March 22, 2026
The archive now also includes a book by Leadbeater in Polish, called Zasady Teozofji.
March 25, 2026
I've managed to track down another great book by him in German translation: Das Innere Leben, the first volume of his two-volume series “The Inner Life”. It can be found in the German section of the archive.
March 27, 2026
Until now, I only had a verbatim transcript of the book Grundlinien der Theosophie—the German translation of his book “An Outline of Theosophy”—in the archive. As of today, there is also an original scan of this book available here.
March 29, 2026
The archive now includes an additional 15 articles that he published in 1928 and 1929 in the journal “The Australian Theosophist”.
March 30, 2026
Two publications translated into Swedish have been added to *Books in other languages*.
April 2026
April 3, 2026
To give you a quick overview, I've added a timeline highlighting the key stages of his life in the section about him.
April 4, 2026
The German section of the archive now includes the book Der Mensch: Woher, Wie und Wohin, the German translation of his work “Man: Whence, How, and Whither.”
April 5, 2026
Another Serbo-Croatian translation has found its way into the archive, this time of his work “The Devachan Plane.”
April 6, 2026
In the “About Him” section, there's a new interview—this time even with a movie. It's with Freemasons and focuses on his book “The Hidden Life in Freemasonry”.
April 7, 2026
I found four more articles in German and added them to the German section; they are from the 1905 issue of the magazine „Neue Gedanken”.
April 9, 2026
CWL wrote a foreword for Light on the Path, a little book by Mabel Collins in which she wrote down ancient wisdom of the Masters. The German translation from 1926 can now be found alongside his other German works.
April 10, 2026
The “Other Writings” section now includes the text Guardian Angels and Other Unseen Helpers, the published transcript of a lecture he gave in 1903.
April 12, 2026
“The Life After Death” is now available in the archive in an Icelandic translation called Lífið eftir dauðann.
April 14, 2026
His book “The Devachanic Plane” is now also available in translation in the German area called Die Devachan-Ebene, and I have restored the scan of the German booklet Naturgeister.
April 15, 2026
Among his books in other languages, there is now also Ясновидение, the Russian translation of his book “Clairvoyance”.
April 17, 2026
I found a rare translation of one of his articles on the occult side of music. It is called Okultystyczna strona muzyki and is published in the Polish newspaper Przeglad Teozoficzny in 1922, now available in the archive.
April 18, 2026
As of today, one of his most important works is also available in the archive in German translation: Die Chakras, his monograph featuring numerous color plates on the human energy centers.
April 20, 2026
There are now four more Hungarian translations of his books in the archive, for example Élet a halál után, the translation of his book "Life after Death".
April 21, 2026
In just two months, there have already been more than 20,000 downloads of his books and articles from the archive. I am very pleased that his writings are generating such great interest!
April 22, 2026
Another book by him, translated into Icelandic and called Aedri Heimar, is now in the archive, and the four Icelandic articles are now of higher quality.
April 25, 2026
His 1931 book Messages from the Unseen is now available in the Books section.
April 30, 2026
Another German-language translation of one of his books has arrived at the archive: Das verborgene Leben der Freimaurerei (1927), which explores the inner spiritual processes of Masonic ceremonies.
May 2026
May 3, 2026
An article from 1911 from the magazine “The Adyar Bulletin” has been added to the archive.
May 7, 2026
I have added the pamphlet about his 1906 lecture The Unseen World on the subtle worlds to the archive.
May 9, 2026
For the first time, the archive now includes a Finnish translation of one of his books from 1913.
May 11, 2026
The archive now includes the 1911 book Light on the Path and Karma, for which he wrote the foreword.
May 12, 2026
The Finnish article Mestari Jeesus from the 1909 issue of the magazine Tietäjä is now also available in the archive.
May 13, 2026
As I discovered, some downloads were unavailable due to a technical issue. I've fixed the problem, so all downloads should now be working again.
May 14, 2026
The archive now includes a list of all German translations of his works available here on the overview page.
May 15, 2026
His article Small Worries, published in the March 1933 issue of World Theosophy, is now to find in the archive.
May 16, 2026
I purchased another of his works at an antique bookstore in the Netherlands: The Band of Servers, published posthumously in 1941, now available in the archive.
May 17, 2026
This page now features direct links to the works recently added to the archive, so they can be found more quickly.
May 23, 2026
In the 1910 issue of the German journal Neue Metaphysische Rundschau, I found a rare article by him and about him—18 pages long, and it even includes a photo!
May 24, 2026
As of today, the archive contains another German text by him: a article of a magazine from 1918 featuring three chapters from the book "Mensch: Woher, Wie und Wohin" (Man: Whence, How, and Whither), written by him and Annie Besant.
May 28, 2026
I've created a new page for the archive; it's called His rarest work.
May 30, 2026
On the archive's home page, you can now see the latest news at a glance.