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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 13^th.

 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.

 

The 2009 countries are:

Argentina – one letter;
England – one letter;
Mexico – two letters;
Portugal – two letters;
Germany – two letters;
Brazil – ten letters.         [18 in total]

Ms. Sieglinde Plocki, Berlin, reports that besides the letters copied to us, independent letters have been yearly sent to Ms. Radha Burnier since 2007 from Germany by Dr. Cécile Leclercq and by Ms. Eva Jahn. Unfortunately, copies of these letters are not present in our files so far, and therefore are not formally included in our reports. We have a sense that other letters may have been sent to Adyar and not reported to us. This is OK, although our archives are considered useful as an exercise of longer term, historical memory.

One of the 2009 letters, from Mexico, was signed by 26 theosophists of Merida city. Another one, from Germany, was signed by two theosophists. We have ten letters from different cities in Brazil this year. Brazil has grown in the number of letters; Mexico has grown in the number of people signing the letters, which is, no doubt, an improvement for the initiative. Canada did not write this year. But we have two letters from Portugal and one letter from Argentina, so the number of countries gets to six, while in 2008 we had five countries.

We can see that 44 people signed and sent 18 air mail letters to Adyar from six countries, asking for justice to William Judge. One idea, present in one of the letters reproduced below, seems to deserve a special place in this report. It’s in a letter from the German theosophist Sieglinde Plocki:

“Theosophy teaches (…) that it is our duty never to give up when we are striving for justice, especially if it is for somebody, who cannot defend himself. We will therefore never give up to request justice for William Quan Judge.”

Indeed, it seems that long-term time is of the essence in theosophical matters.

You will see below all of the 2009 letters and their senders. After that, we reproduce the short reports of previous years.

Remember you can see more about Letters to Adyar: Justice to Judge, in English language, in the corresponding section at our site www.filosofiaesoterica.com Its direct link is http://www.filosofiaesoterica.com/lettersadyar

Commentaries, suggestions and corrections to the present report are most welcome.

Thanks and greetings to you all, Carlos

 

 6. April 09 AQUARIAN THEOSOPHIST SUPPLEMENT v1  (the letters start on p. 2)