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"We need a literature, not solely for highly intellectual persons, but of a more simple character, which attempts to appeal to ordinary common-sense minds who are really fainting for such moral and mental assistance as is not reached by the more pretentious works."
Any exploration of Theosophy is vastly incomplete without the astute and efficacious presence of William Quan Judge. Yet many Theosophists have been kept ignorant of his life, work, and writings. Judge was the only Theosophist who H.P. Blavatsky ever permitted to enter the Esoteric Section of the Society without taking the pledge, as she had so much trust and unshakeable confidence in him. In fact, he was in a sense the co-founder of the Esoteric Section. Recognized by her and others to be inwardly an Indian initiate, he was – in Blavatsky’s swords – the connecting link between the esoteric knowledge of the Trans-Himalayan Brotherhood and America, where he lived and worked as the head of the American Section of the Theosophical Society and the Vice-President of the Theosophical Society at large.
Blavatsky was the perfect Teacher; Judge was the perfect Student. And he endeavored to render this great Teaching more accessible to the world at large.
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"William Q. Judge was the nearest approach to my ideal of a MAN that I have known. He was what I want to be. H. P. B. was something more than human: she was a cosmic power. W. Q. J. was splendidly human: and he manifested in a way delightfully refreshing and all his own that most rare of human characteristics -- genuineness. His influence is continually present and powerful, an influence tending steadily, as ever, in one direction -- work for the Masters' Cause." -- THOS. GREEN. "His last message to us was this 'There should be calmness. Hold fast. Go slow.' And if you take down those words and remember them, you will find that they contain an epitome of his whole life struggle. He believed in Theosophy and lived it. He believed because he knew that the great Self of which he so often spoke was the eternal Self, was himself. Therefore he was always calm. He held fast with unwavering tenacity to his purpose and to his ideal. He went slow, and never allowed himself to act hastily. He made time his own, and he was justice itself on that account. And he had the power to act with the rapidity of lightning when the time for action came. We can now afford to console ourselves because of the life he lived, and should also remember that this man, William Quan Judge, had more devoted friends, I believe, than any other living man; more friends who would literally have died for him at a moment's notice, would have gone to any part of the world on the strength of a hint from him. And never once did he use that power and influence for his own personal ends; -- never once did he use that power, great as it was not only in America, but in Europe, Australasia and elsewhere as well, for anything but the good of the Theosophical movement. "Poor Judge. It was not the charges that stung him, they were too untrue to hurt. It was the fact that those who had once most loudly proclaimed themselves his debtors and his friends were among the first to turn against him. He had the heart of a little child and his tenderness was only equalled by his strength. . . . He never cared what people thought of him or his work so long as they would work for brotherhood. . . . His wife has said that she never knew him to tell a lie, and those most closely connected with him theosophically agree that he was the most truthful man they ever knew." -- E. T. H.
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- PublisherCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1502319381
- ISBN 13 9781502319388
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages118
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