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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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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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