Dear Readers
There is a quiet revolution going on in our engagement with schools. The difference one knowledgeable person – a retired School Principal – can make to the life chances of hundreds of pupils is extraordinary. It’s inspired, careful work. Read about it on page 1.
‘Qualifications for Chelaship’ starts on page 2, on “the power of the Adepts over forces of nature… and their goodness and their solicitude for the welfare of the race”.
There’s lots more inside: on growing wheatgrass, the dangers of MSG in our diet and an announcement from a new study group in Toronto Canada – have a look inside and spread the word.
Grateful thanks to you all for your contributions and making the AQ what it is. Why not do a little propaganda of your own – if you feel like it, print it off and pass it around.
The Editors
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A Quiet Revolution
by Ann Colburn, “Once Upon a School” http://onceuponaschool.org/stories/232
[An inspiring account of how one person’s work can affect the life chances of many pupils in the critical teenage years at school. Ed]
I have always been dismayed by the discrepancy between the poor educational opportunities of low-income students in the inner-city in contrast to that of affluent students in private education…
One of the biggest problems for students in inner-city schools is setting goals for after graduation and making a practical plan for reaching those goals.
Far too many students do not make it to graduation and the result is a huge pool of under-educated young people, too many of whom end up stuck in poverty in dead-end jobs or in jail. I wanted to help inner-city students dream a positive future and create a viable plan to achieve their goals.
What we did
The director of the Academy of Finance (AOF) at Manual Arts High School noticed my work with a few of his students who had been chosen for the One Voice Scholars program.
He asked if I would be willing to work with his whole class of seniors to enable them to reach goals similar to the One Voice scholars.
He offered me class time in his block schedule to work with the entire class and encouraged me to meet with students one on one to create a plan tailored to each student’s dreams, needs and individual situation.
Manual Arts High School, 4131 S Vermont Ave a few blocks from the ULT in LA, USA.
Each year for the seven years I have worked with the program, I have expanded my understanding of how to help these students succeed. I now reach out to students beginning in 9th grade to help them to see that college and a better life is in their future…
In the larger school, fewer than half of entering freshmen graduate. Of those who do graduate only 15% or so go to college. In the AOF program, 99% graduate and 90% go on to college.
The remaining students enroll in trade programs. One or two have gone into the military. We have not had to find much funding for our college program, since it is run by volunteers …
In general the AOF students fund-raise constantly for better classroom equipment, textbooks, desks and even a culminating senior trip to Washington DC.
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Venus - the morning and evening star
The Supplement contains the full text of the new play about the three Theosophical Founders in 1875 – in it William Q Judge is given a leading role with a monologue at the end that finishes:
“Brothers and Sisters… this Society must not fail. It will not fail.
As you’ve just heard, we are entering a New Cycle with all the opportunities that it offers! Humanity has a choice; it can either move further down that road to where its goals are wealth, possessions and selfish gratification, or up towards a Golden Age of compassionate love and the true joy that comes from an awareness that none of us are separate but integral parts of the whole of Nature…
So, though many attempts will be made to break our resolve through slander, malice and deliberate distortions of what we are attempting to teach – and, more importantly, to show by the way we live – it is only indifference that can seriously weaken our cause.
To study what The Masters have given us is a privilege. What individually you do with that privilege is up to you.
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Dear Readers
Welcome to the May-June issue of the AQ. It’s full of readers contributions and comment – our thanks to you for them.
This month the layout of the blog has been simplified so it’s not more than a click or two from downloading the PDF.
Inside you will find:
Setting apart a half an hour – on meditation and a “Happy 100th Birthday” to ULT, on p 1.
“Understanding the Human Element in Economic Crisis” is a review of the problem of work and reward, originally from ‘Manas’ 1948, p 2.
47 m Year Old Ancestor or Astral Shell? News and comment on an important fossil find, p 4
The Kogi & how their Shamans see us, native American Indian culture whose roots are perennial, p 5 and more inside.
Wishing you a happy read, the AQ editors
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“Everything that comes for us to do contains a lesson for us. We should not forget that, ever. What comes at any time at any time contains in it the thing we need; so whether it seems hard, troublesome, or pleasant, there is something in it for us.”
from Robert Crosbie’s writings, founder of the ULT, 1909 d. 25th April 1919
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2009 Report on the Letters to Adyar – download PDF
Hello all
You’re invited to read the letters sent in for the April “Justice for Judge” movement in this AQ Supplement.
The devotion and gratitude shown to WQJ is inspiring – do read a few. Some have an elegant, simple sincerity (Letter #16), others go into important historical context (#13) and a remarkable one (#2) is signed by 26 people from Mexico. In all, 44 people signed letters.
To make your voice also count, you may consider joining the campaign in April 2010, and 2011… until justice is done where it’s due.
The AQ Editors
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Justice to Judge
Brasília May 14, 2009
Dear Friends,
This is the 2009 Report on the Letters to Adyar, on Justice to Judge.
It goes to all 2009 letter-senders and to a few more friends of the initiative who may not have sent letters in 2009.
This report includes only the letters whose copies have been sent to us, and which are reproduced below. Other letters have been sent to Adyar whose copies did not arrive to us so far, and therefore are not formally counted here.
We have been sending letters to Mrs. Radha Burnier for four years now. It is just the beginning of a movement to yearly celebrate W.Q. Judge’s life and work for humanity, while also writing about him to our friends in Adyar. Local and national initiatives are important. Each letter is open and should be published, discussed and circulated among students of Theosophy everywhere.
Therefore — besides keeping the chain of yearly letters to Adyar, which is the formal foundation of the movement — there is a number of creative initiatives which may be taken in the future, whenever possible around April 13th.
What has been part of the movement’s rhythm so far?
1) In 2006, six letters were sent from four countries.
2) In 2007, we had ten letters from five countries.
3) In 2008, eleven letters were sent from five countries.
4) In 2009, we have eighteen letters from six countries.
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Hello all
We have been busy setting up the new AQ website and blog, and this month’s AQ comes to you from its new home, where you can read or download the magazine by clicking on the picture below, or on the link at the bottom.
In this edition
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new play about the three founders of the TS in 1875 (extract below from page 1)
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Root Causes ”The Error of Violence” on p 3
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Experiences of a Chela on p 5
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Franklin on Humility & the Virtues p 7
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B.P.Wadia and the early ULT p 8… and don’t miss
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the book review of the excellent “Is there no other way? – The search for a nonviolent future” p 11
Let us know what you think of the articles and new format of the new home for the AQ, we’d love to hear from you - get in touch by email or the comments box on this page.
The AQ Editors and Contributors
on the founding of the TS –
opens with Narrator, H.P.Blavatsky and Col H.S.Olcott
extract from Part 1:
Narrator: … but first, there’s someone else I want to introduce to you all. So if you’d take a seat. Colonel, I would like to call forward (raises voice) Mr. William Quan Judge!
(HSO sits next to HPB as WQJ comes forward, bows to HPB, shakes hands with HSO and turns to face the audience)
Mr. Judge, we think of you now as the third member of the theosophical ‘trinity’, but am I not right in saying that your doctor many years ago would not have believed such a career as yours would be possible.
WQJ: He pronounced me dead.
Narr: Could you elaborate a little, please?
WQJ: Not really. I was dead. The doctor had said to my parents who were at the bedside: “I’m deeply sorry, but your son is dead”.
Narr: (pause) I suspect that everyone in this room feels there’s something more you have to tell us.
WQJ: Well, you can imagine my parents’ surprise when I not only opened my eyes but then started to tell them of having been somewhere else.
Narr: And in the following months this visiting “somewhere else” continued each time you slept?
WQJ: My mother was a strict Methodist and hated any talk about mysticism and things like reincarnation or the religions of the East.
Narr: And your dreams were of places in the East?
WQJ: Yes, in India. But they weren’t dreams. I was there – as a boy – a boy of noble birth. Then - (pause)
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Dear Readers and Correspondents
Some of the items in this month’s edition are a letter calling for your support for the Justice for Judge campaign for 13th April, his birthday. The letter is on p 4 – just send an email to lutbr@terra.com.br to ask about supporting this important action (or use the clickable links which now work in the PDF).
- a frank and honest letter from a serving police officer on the lack of incentive to cure of many of society’s ills. This is the first of a series on root causes which you are invited to contribute suggestions to – just reply to Jerome or me.
- an account by the late Dallas TenBroeck of how B.P.Wadia and others formed the early ULT Lodges in the US, India and Europe
- the lead article on the great feelings of unity and brotherhood that were brought about by the first 10 years of theosophical work of India, such as breaking down caste and race barriers and the formation of the Indian National Congress. Perhaps we can reflect on this to provide context for what are today’s challenges.
Wishing you a fruitful Spring season,
The Editors and Contributors
“If your brain wavers, then give it a long rest and do simple constant acts of kindness for others” - W. Q. Judge, Letters 1:179
The First 10 Years in India & Now?
As a student of theosophy one should know what has been achieved through it’s influence. 
Looking at the years 1879 to 1889 we see the Theosophical Society made a significant impression on the lives of many, not only in America and Europe, but perhaps nowhere more so than in India, Ceylon and the Far East.
In late 1878 Mme H.P.Blavatsky and Col Olcott left the 27 year old William Judge alone in the USA but for General Doubleday and some other figures, all of whom later dropped out of active work.
“Our Three Objects” No.1 on Brotherhood
“When we arrived in India, in February, 1879, there was no unity between the races and sects of the Peninsula, no sense of a common public interest, no disposition to find the mutual relation between the several sects of ancient Hinduism, or that between them and the creeds of Islam, Jainism, Buddhism and Zoroastrianism. [... continued in PDF]
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ONE night in the year 407 B.C., Socrates had a dream.
He saw a graceful white swan flying toward him with a melodious song trilling from its throat. The next morning Plato came to him and asked to become his pupil.
Socrates saw before him a handsome youth of twenty years, with the broad shoulders of an athlete, the noble brow of a philosopher and the limpid eyes of a poet. He knew that Plato belonged to one of the most illustrious families of Greece, being descended, on his mother’s side, from the house of Solon, and with the blood of the ancient Kings of Attica flowing through his veins.
This was the beginning of a tender and intimate relationship which lasted until the day of Socrates’ death. While other pupils formulated one-sided systems which but partially represented the ideas of Socrates, Plato used those ideas as seeds which he planted, nourished and developed in the rich soil of his own superior mind, making the full-blown blossoms a memorial offering to the simple nobility of his teacher.
After the death of Socrates, Plato went to Megara and joined the Socratic School of Euclid (not the famous geometer, who lived in Alexandria in the time of Ptolemy I, but a disciple of Socrates who excelled in logical disputation).
From there he went to Cyrene, where Theodorus instructed him in mathematics. Thence to southern Italy, where he studied the science of numbers under the three most famous Pythagoreans of the day. Then into Egypt, to
receive the instructions of the learned doctors and priests of that ancient land.
Some say that he visited Persia and Babylonia, where he was initiated into the Chaldean Mysteries. Others say that he went as far as India. [... continued]
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