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April 09 AQ Supp: 2009 Justice for Judge Report

April 17, 2009 · 1 Comment

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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W Q Judge photo

W Q Judge photo

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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April 09 AQ: Old Diary Leaves – A New Short Play

April 17, 2009 · 6 Comments

 
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
  • new play about the three founders of the TS in 1875 (extract below from page 1)
  • Root Causes ”The Error of Violence” on p 3
  • Experiences of a Chela on p 5
  • Franklin on Humility & the Virtues p 7
  • B.P.Wadia and the early ULT p 8… and don’t miss
  • 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
 
Temple Door

 

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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