The story, if it must be summarised further, deals with the narrator visiting his family friend and, with the aid of a piece of paper handed to him by a ghost, they manage to find his friend's ancestor's hidden treasure which will allow the narrator's friend to be able to marry. Just the fact one has just conversed with someone and it has since turned out that someone was a ghost. No ghastly revelation, nothing whatsoever disturbing or incredible. Think of how many times one has seen a variety on "having a conversation with someone who is later revealed, shock of shocks and horror of horrors, to have been dead". The descriptions of his discovery thereof and the protests of his Egyptian acquaitance when he wishes to acquire some of the stuff for his own use work well, but the bulk of the story is actually a dead simple "warning/help offered by a Ghost" story which, in even less refined form, has seen much contempt. The title story "The Perfume of Egypt", details how a man once ran across a most peculiar smell while traveling in Egypt, which is said to be connected to the supernatural. Indeed, this seems to be the only fiction title in Leadbeater's bibliography and as a consequence, the tales presented herein are not very well developed or refined. I do not wish to engage in any sort of psychoanalysis of the man, but will simply state that the summary of his life seems far more interesting then a volume of fiction, written by a man with supposed expert knowledge of the hereafter. Readmitted into the Society a year later, in 1907, he continued to be seen as an important figure of the movement, dying of a heart attack coupled with diabetes in March of 1934. The First item to properly review on the blog is a curious little book, issued in 1911 as a departure from a steady stream of pamphlets and studies on all manner of occult subjects, issued by an author taking a break from writing such books as "Man Visible and Invisible: Examples of Different Types of Men Seen by Means of Trained Clairvoyance" and "The Smaller Buddhist Catechism" to produce a volume of pure fiction.Ĭharles Webster Leadbeater (1854-1934) was a former Church of England priest who was snared up by the Spiritist movement, became convinced of his own clairvoyant abilities and ended up being "fired" from the Theosophical society because he had advised growing boys that masturbation was good for you.
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