Welcome to the AQ for November – January ’11.  There is much of interest inside – among the contributions we especially recommend the articles: 

• “Who are the Nirmanakayas?” on p 1 which throws some light on the “mysterious brotherhood” of Adepts and Masters behind the movement;
• the piece on a remarkable mesmeric healer, the gentle Braco from Croatia on p 7, 
• and an important one “On the Philosophy of Eating” on p 8 about the right attitude to take while preparing food and eating: it is said we are surrounded by a swarm of elemental lives, some good and some antagonistic to man, attracted to us in relation to our attitude… and
• despite the poor conditions and trials they are going through there is good news from Haiti about a group of Freemasons who have started a Theosophy study group on p 13. 

Messages of the Stars ……………………………………………… 4
Wiki article on H P Blavatsky …………………………………. 12
CORRESPONDENCE …………………………………………….. 13
Questions over George Washington’s vision? ……………… 14
Orpheus (Arjuna) visited the Antipodes …………………….. 15

This comes to you with best wishes for the coming year, 

 Yours fraternally,

the AQ Editors in LA USA, London UK and London Canada.

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Who are the Nirmanakayas?

“Master” is a word used by early students in the T.S. to designate their mentors:  members of the Brotherhood of Adepts.   It is not to suggest any abasement, slavery or servitude by an individual student to “authority.”  It was used as a mark of gratitude, and respect for the fact that there are those, who like the professors in a University, have studied, and learned what Nature can teach and these have delayed their advance to present to us the facts they have verified.  

 All that is to be learned or studied is already in Nature.  We have access to its deepest and most remote “secrets” because we are already One with It. 

The service of others, especially those who know less than we do, or have lesser advantages, is a necessary aspect of personal self-evolution.  The “perfection” (or graduation) that can be achieved in any system of Worlds or on any of the “Globes,” depends on a voluntary compliance with evolutionary laws that are the same for all.  

There is a “rebellious spirit” in most humans, which, at this stage, objects to this.  Or, objects to the use of the word “master.”  On analysis, this may be found to arise because the word is known to have been used in a distorted manner, to abuse the innocence of an inquirer.  This psychological fact (of in­stinctive resistance) ought to be examined impartially, just as why it should be that some accept unquestioningly, the imposition of claims of “authority.” 

“The Masters are the great Guardian Wall… They have control over the minor beings and the minor forces of nature and can hold back catastrophes that would crush us, coming on unchecked from the kingdoms below us, visible and invisible, where in our ignorance we have aroused many inimical forces…. They can control climatic conditions and other material interferences, which might badly affect the right side, that They do. 

 ”those guardians of the primitive divine revelation… had solved every problem that is within the grasp of human intellect, were bound together by a universal freemasonry of science and philosophy, which formed one unbroken chain around the globe.”   from Isis Unveiled, Vol. 1, Pages 37-8. 

See also “A Great Master on the TS” p 2, “Tsong-kha-pa’s reforms” on p 2 and A.P.Sinnett “On the Mahatmas” on p 3. 

“The astral life of the earth is young and strong between Christmas and Easter.  Those who form their wishes now will have added strength to fulfill them consistently.” 

A correspondent recently wrote about the challenges so many around the globe are facing, one of which is the medical mystery of why the number of adults and children with mental illness has skyrocketed over the past fifty years:

“There are now more than four million people in the United States who receive a government disability check because of a mental illness, and the number continues to soar… What is going on?”

As students of philosophy and psychology – which in ancient times were one – we strive to fit ourselves to be able to read the hearts of man… and to be able to heal and help them.  It is the road so many of the Great Sages have taken, to practice the healing arts in both physical medicine and also of the source of many of our physical and mental woes, which lie in the soul.  They are healers of mind, soul and body.

Our correspondent suggests the reason for these mental troubles is answered in H.P.Blavatsky’s prediction that, with the end of the Age of Pisces in 1900 (one of the cycles that is “historic and not very long, but very occult, lasting about 2,155 solar years”), would come a period when:

“psychologists will have some extra work to do,  and the psychic idiosyncrasies of humanity will enter on a great change.”  (from The Esoteric Character of the Gospels by H.P.Blavatsky)

So as the dawn of the new sign of Aquarius leads us to ‘new places’ mentally and psychologically, the lead story in this edition looks at one of the perennial battles man must face, the compulsion and addiction of “the gambler”.  In one sense gambling has been the trade mark of 20th c. consumer society, of hoping and pretending the future will never call upon us.  Karma is either a compassionate healer (if we listen) or stern Nemesis to those who consistently refuse.  Having resolved to ‘listen’ the question becomes “What we can do individually - and for our neighbours collectively - to give the 21st c. a new direction and a brighter aspect?”  Perhaps the best way is by teaching the Law of Compassion, Karma, the “law of laws” – after all, isn’t that how we learnt to listen, cutting as short as we can ours and other’s further suffering?

And isn’t this the best reason for us to continue in the search for answers – until we have reached that state where we see the truth and are empowered by it to help others?

In connection with these ideas, we should also announce the commencement of  the YahooGroup “E-THEOSOPHY” which was founded on 7th July 2010, one of its aims being to examine similar questions, such as:

“How to create better mechanisms for the transition towards a civilization actually based on the principle of universal brotherhood.” 

To join it just email lutbr@terra.com.br - the details and aims are in last month’s AQ – link below:

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Bon courage. Read on, practice the way as best you can, abandoning all personal attachments to the results…

Living a Simple Life ……………………………………….2
‘Artificial life’ breakthrough …………………………….3
The Necessity to Form a United Consciousness …..5
ULT letter 2010 …………………………………………….6
Avaaz Victory saves Whales …………………………….6
Open Letter to Adyar on WQJ Case ……………………7
Your old laptop is needed! ……………………………….7
WQJ & The Adyar TS in London UK ……………………7
WISDOM IN ACTION ……………………………………….8
Druid reduces accidents from 6 to zero ………………8

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Rig-Veda On Gambling

The following excellent remarks are probably the oldest in the world upon the vice of gambling.  They are found in Rig Veda, X 34.  It is admitted that these Vedic hymns are anterior to the time of Homer and Hesiod.

The Hindus claim an antiquity for them which carries us back thousands upon thousands of years prior to the oldest date allowed by European Orientalists. Those who have a theosophical acquaintance with the Vedas will incline to the estimate of the Hindus, inasmuch as European opinion is constantly altering on the subject, and besides has not had quite a century of experience in which to form itself. Muir says these hymns were composed certainly 1,000 years before our era, but that is too ridiculously low an estimate and will have ere long to be revised upon further proofs and discoveries. The present hymn is given as showing what was then thought of gambling.

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“THE tumbling airborne products  of the great Vibhidaka tree delight me as they continue to roll upon the diceboard. The exciting dice seem to me like a draught of the soma-plant growing on Mount Miyavat. My wife never quarrelled with me nor despised me; she was kind to me and to my friends. But I for the sake of the partial dice have spurned my devoted spouse. My mother-in-law detests me, my wife rejects me. In my need I find no comforter.

“I cannot discover what is the enjoyment of the gambler any more than I can perceive what is the happiness of a worn-out hack horse. Others pay court to the wife of the man whose wealth is coveted by the impetuous dice. His father, mother, brothers cry out: “We know nothing of him; take him away bound!”

“When I resolve not to be tormented by them because I am abandon

ed by my friends who withdraw from me, yet as soon as the brown dice, when they are thrown, make a rattling sound I hasten to their rendezvous like a woman to her paramour. The gamester comes to the assembly glowing in body, asking himself “Shall I win?”

A 4,500 year old die found in excavations at a Harappan period site (near the Indus Valley), perhaps similar to the ones made from the nut of the Vibhidaka tree?

“The dice inflame his desire by making over his winnings to his opponent. Hooking, piercing, deceitful, vexatious, delighting to torment, the dice dispense transient gifts and again ruin the winner; they appear to the gambler covered with honey. Their troop of fifty-three disports itself, itself disposing men’s destinies like the God Savatri whose ordinances never fail. They bow not before the wrath of the fiercest. The king himself makes obeisance to them. They roll downward, they bound upward. Having no hands they overcome him who has. These celestial coals when thrown on the dice-board scorch the heart though cold themselves.

“The destitute wife of the gamester is distressed, and so too is the mother of a son who goes she knows not whither. In debt and seeking after money the gambler approaches with trepidation the houses of other people at night. It vexes the gamester to see his own wife and then to observe the wives and happy homes of others.

“In the morning he yokes the brown horses – the dice; by the time when the fire goes out he has sunk into a degraded wretch. He who is the general of your board, the first king of your troop, to him I stretch forth my ten fingers to the east in reverence. I do not reject wealth, but I declare that which is right when I say: 

“Never play with dice; practice husbandry; rejoice in thy prosperity, 

esteeming it sufficient. Be satisfied with thy cattle and thy wife, the god advises.

“O dice, be friendly to us and no more bewitch us powerfully with your influence. 

Let your wrath and hostility abate: let others than we be subject to the fetters

of the brown ones, the dice.””

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[Original article by W.Q.Judge, Path, July 1893]

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Leading this month’s AQ is a piece on a new e-study group that is being set up.  Its aim is to use the essential elements of the philosophy to shed light on questions such as how to make a healthier transition towards a wiser civilization, how to assess the vitality of the theosophical movement (whose aim is the right development of humanity in all its aspects – the ethical and intellectual, the psychic and the physical) and ways in which this movement can be revivified.

Have a look and contact lutbr@terra.com.br if you would like to participate.

Now the Editors have a Q for you:

Do you have an old laptop sitting in a cupboard? 

You can put it to good use by donating it - just get in touch with us at tcc@clara.co.uk or the Haiti Lodge haititheosophie@yahoo.fr  – see p 7.

There is plenty more inside – here’s some of it:

Children’s Memories of a Past Life …………………………… 2
William Q Judge – co-founder of the TS ……………………. 2
Philosophy Club is five years young-already? …………… 3
Portraits of W.Q.Judge & HPB …………………………………. 4
The Poetry in Crosbie ……………………………………………. 5
Smart Trees ………………………………………………………… 7
TS & Dalai Lama’s first English language book ……………. 8
People power can work …………………………………………. 9
Other Nestlé boycotts continue ……………………………… 9

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New e-group for study and research

An E-Group Is Being Planned by www.esoteric-philosophy.com

for On-Going Online Research

The blog www.esoteric-philosophy.com and the website www.filosofiaesoterica.com are making preparations to create a new e-group in English language.

The future Yahoo E-group – whose name has not been chosen yet – will be an independent effort in the theosophical movement.  Three of its main goals are:

1) To promote the study of the original teachings of modern theosophy;

2) To stimulate an individual search for eternal wisdom, which must be made by self-devised efforts;

3) To help students understand and fulfil their duties as planetary citizens, especially at the occult or essential levels of reality.  This must be made through a realization of the Higher Self and a profound conviction of Universal Brotherhood.

The e-group will investigate and discuss topics such as:
 
a) The actual difference between theosophy and pseudo-theosophy, or the doctrine of the heart and the doctrine of the eye;

b) Effective mechanisms – as suggested by classical theosophical literature – for a healthier transition towards the wiser civilizations which wait for us in the future;

c) The history and the future of theosophical movement, including its dharma and duty as examined from the viewpoint of the original programme set by the true Founders, through H.P. Blavatsky;

d) A realistic assessment of the theosophical movement’s vitality today; and an impersonal search for ways to increase it with a long term perspective, in different countries and languages.

Every student of Theosophy or Esoteric Philosophy is invited to make his or her subscription to the new e-group. It is enough to write to the Editors of www.esoteric-philosophy.com at e-mail lutbr@terra.com.br

The intention of the organizers is also to build an online mechanism to gather students of theosophy, wherever and however situated, who are inclined to cooperate on the basis of a broad similarity of aim, purpose and teaching.

Students for whom English is a second language are especially invited, as with their participation the experience of the e-group will be more widely international. Questions, commentaries and suggestions are welcome any time.

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[update 16th May - a reader has commented that this tale was written by Master Chuang (Zhuanzi), the early Taoist, not Lao Tzu.]

The Tao of not Judging 

An old and very poor man lived in a village. But even the emperor envied him his white horse.  He was offered large sums of money to sell it, but he always responded: 

“This horse is not really a horse. He is like a man to me.  And who on the earth could sell a man, a friend?  Tell me!”  Though he was so very poor he didn’t sell the horse. 

One morning the horse disappeared from the stable.  All the men from the village gathered saying to the man:  “You poor old fool!  We knew that the horse will be stolen.  It would be better to sell it.  What a misfortune!” 

But the old man responded: “Why such a hurry?  Why couldn’t you just say:  ”There’s no horse in the stable?”  That is the fact; but if it is a misfortune or blessing – I do not know – because it is just a small piece.  Who knows what is going to happen next?” 

And people laughed at the man.  They knew that he was somehow weird.  But – in  two weeks, one evening, all at once the horse returned.  So, it wasn’t stolen.  It just escaped into the wilderness.  And that was not all. It was accompanied with twelve new wild horses… 

Chuang Tzu dreaming of a butterfly (or a butterfly dreaming of Chuang Tzu)

People gathered again, saying: “You were right, old man. It was not a misfortune but a blessing!” 

And the old man responded: ”You are judging again!  Just say: the horse is back… who knows is it a blessing or not?  That is just a small part, you are reading only a word from the whole sentence – how can you judge the whole book?”  People didn’t respond anything, but deep inside, they were sure that the old man was wrong.  But there were twelve more horses given to him – out of nothing! 

The old man had an only son who started to train all those wild horses.  In one week he fell of the horse and both his legs were broken. 

The people gathered again judging:  ”You were right again!  It was a misfortune.  The only son you have can not use his legs any more.  And he was the only hope of your old age.  Now you are more poor then ever.” 

Lao Tzu portrait

Old man responded:  ”You seemed to be obsessed by judging.  Do not walk too far. 
Say just that my son had broken his legs.  None can tell if that was a misfortune or a blessing.   Life takes place in small pieces and we can never know.” 

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Shortly war came to their land.  All the young men had to join the army.  All but the old man’s only son.  He was handicapped.  All the village was in mourning, because it was obvious that the war couldn’t be won.  They knew that many young men would never come home again. 

He who is contented is rich

They visited old man again saying:  ”You were right old man – it came out that it was a blessing for you.  Your son is handicapped, but he is still with you.  Our sons left for ever.” 

And the old man responded again: 

“You just can not stop judging!  Say just, that your sons were sent to the army, and that my son wasn’t taken.  Who can tell if that is a blessing or a misfortune?”

[Story submitted by a student in Slovenia.  AQ Ed.]

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Dear Readers

Welcome to this month’s AQ,  and thank you for all your contributions over the summer months.  We start with “Degrees of realized knowledge” - its simple, direct theosophy speaks to the heart.

Have a look what else is inside:

Contemplating “What is War?”  on p 3 … it comes to mind that the coming together of something good with something bad is a very creative moment.

“Oriental Philosophy & Literature” by H.P.Blavatsky p 3, “since human nature is ever identical and as there is but one Absolute Truth,  it is possible to effect a reciprocal alliance for the research of that basic Truth.”

The rival to the Bible, p 6. The scattered parts of what is probably the oldest known Bible are being reunited for the first time. It is markedly different from its modern equivalent. What’s left out?

Solar Plane flies day & night with no fuel, no pollution, p 6. Swiss adventurer Bertrand Piccard has unveiled a prototype of the solar-powered plane he hopes eventually to fly around the world.

The Financial Crisis and the Role of Managers, p 10, a Correspondent writes from Austria on “Understanding the Human Element in Economic Crisis” and the role managers are playing.

Conference opening panel

On p 11 there a some early pictures from the ULT Conference in LA and a paragraph on ‘The AQ and you’ and other selections.

Wednesday Study class before the conference

Wisdom In Action, p 12, has the timeless advice ’Do not try to open up conscious communication with beings on other planes… danger lies that way and because of the power and disposition of the dark forces to simulate beings of Light.’

If you can, please do print off a copy (double sided, if the printer does it) and leave it out for others.  Spread the word, we may only be a few, but “a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump”, or as science has it, ”the hundredth-monkey effect”.

Happy reading,

The Editors

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Degrees of realized knowledge

“I have found that doing what comes, with all my heart, mind and strength, in time brought me to another place and opportunity and always to a better advantage.

“I have seen in many the attitude, “I don’t like this,” or, “I must have something better”, lead to perpetual change, dissatisfaction and poor results, invariably. 

swan by ancient temple

“On the other hand, I have seen those whom neither sickness nor any other cause could deter, nor diminish their courage and efforts, gain success, the reason being that no opportunity was overlooked and no effort too great for them.  It was really an unconscious fulfilling of karma on their part. 

“Both are interwoven and interblended at every point.  The student should see clearly that his present existence is his opportunity to live and learn as well as learn to live to the best advantage;  it contains and presents the opportunities which, if rejected, will come before us in one form or another until we realize that a step forward can be taken in no other way than by over-coming obstacles and thus, defects.  How wonderfully and perfectly this works.”    (R Crosbie)

Robert Crosbie opened up a way for all students to work for Theosophy and Humanity regardless of conditions or abilities.

He showed us that we do not need to depend on leaders but that each one can take hold of the ideas and begin the journey on the path.  The path of service, study and application.

The platform of U.L.T. is open to all who wish to work in promulgating and understanding the writings of  H.P. Blavatsky and W.Q. Judge. 

From whatever place our karma has put us we prepare for talks or presentations of Theosophy, we study to prepare to facilitate a group meeting, we contemplate the three fundamentals or declaration so as to be better able to answer questions.

This is difficult to do and Robert Crosbie aids the student.

“We can get rid of our hindrances only by following the Path…what we need to do is forget our estimation of ourselves, be that good or bad, and just work on.  We shall find more strength and larger opportunities as we move along that road.”

He knew very well that our karma and our work in Theosophy are not separate and that there is great knowledge and progress when they are interblended.

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Robert Crosbie 1849 - 1919

It is the understanding of Theosophy that opens up the mind to see the truth in all forms and to discern that truth from dogma.  Dogma feeds the personal man and makes him comfortable.  This kind of comfort silences the inner life which depends on an unrelenting search for Truth.

Our evolution, our awakenings will be by individual effort.  U.L.T. gives all students the opportunity to take up this work in earnest. 

It is not about waiting for an adept, great teacher or leader to come in our midst, or to look about for such a being, but it is about each student taking hold of the Ideas presented by H.P.B. and W.Q Judge and working to be the better able to help in the cycles ahead.

It is not an easy path, this path of “self induced and self devised effort”. It  takes into account all lives and beings visible and invisible and cannot exclude anything or anyone.

The weekly meetings and daily work of U.L.T. give a framework for this effort.

All can begin in some small way.  Each one determining the effort for themselves.  This kind of self-determined obligation and the mutual support offered by a group of students gives aid in checking, testing and verifying all the ideas presented in Theosophy.

“…ULT is more closely akin to a journal of ideas than to an organ given over to agreement as to duties, responsibilities, and opportunities.  The ideal aim in ULT is to stir the initiative of anyone who may feel moved to contribute his thoughts to a journal, to seek to serve the ends for which it stands, from his own unique vantage point, just as anyone, likewise, may enter into the work of the ULT,…. 

“To implement this end… had best be a brotherhood symbolized by organically growing objectives, rather than by objectives fixed in constitutional definition.  Just as Judge’s “Path” was an organic growth, a fruition of years of Theosophical study, so it is the aim of ULT to provide a place and an atmosphere conducive to the Theosophical unfoldment…

“This is in truth an “absorbing” and “lofty” work.  Constant vigilance is necessary, but the vigilance of self-examination, not the vigilance practiced by those who feel the weight and destiny of a complicated organization upon their shoulders. 

“Self examination when practiced by working members, serves automatically as encouragement to the pondering of philosophical principles.  One who seeks truth concerning himself, also, learns that something new can be gained each day from a study of…. the Three Fundamental propositions in “The Secret Doctrine”. 

“This sort of meditation – upon one’s own present stance in relation both to degrees of realized knowledge and degrees of self-admitted ignorance, in relation to Theosophy – constitutes the real strength of ULT.”

[from a contributor, with extracts from Theosophy Vol. 46 page 241]

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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.

Remember, when we have gone on, you will be the Society’s advocates; you will be its emissaries.  And remember too that wonderful phrase – our “Inner Abiding Presence”. Draw comfort from the thought of its existence, or – dare I say – from its realisation.”

The play is written by Alan Hughes from the London Adyar TS and its even-handed view of the founders is most warmly welcomed to the AQ. 

Justice for Judge:

The Supplement also contains a so far unreported letter from Canada to the Adyar TS’s International President  from Bruce Mac Donald, that unpicks some of the obstacles at Adyar in restoring Judge’s good name. 

Further it points out the responsibilities of the TS to ‘live the life’ - through impersonal and enlightened leadership which is so clearly needed as an example in these days of drab materialism: in it is asked:

“What is Adyar doing in order to point people in the right direction [not more material progress but a spiritual message]?   William Q. Judge could very well hold the key of a Theosophical Renaissance.”

With best wishes,

The Editors

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• 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

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)

Narr: Yes?

WQJ: Then he – or rather I – that is, the I in India, died too (pause) Well, actually he didn’t die but he became one with me; or I became one with him. (turns to HPB) Please, Madame, can you explain this better?

HPB: Use your intuition, Judge, and try to understand.

WQJ: To this day I’m not really sure why it was but when I recovered after that near death in Ireland, I found I had an intense interest in books on occultism, and mesmerism and such like. Poor Mother. She felt she’d brought some sort of changeling into the world. And it was doubly “poor Mother” as she exhausted herself giving birth to seven children.

HSO: Didn’t you tell me she died soon after that seventh birth?

WQJ: (pause) Yes. (pause) Father decided that perhaps we’d have a better life in America, so to the United States we came.

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 HPB: (still writing) That One religion of Nature from which every dogma has grown and – and become sadly materialised, (pretends to gather up papers, stands up, kisses WQJ and follows HSO, waving as she goes)

         (pause)

 Narr: Our revels now are – almost – ended. To round off the story of the formation of our Society this evening, I would like to ask Mr Judge if he would care to say a few closing words – Mr Judge.

 WQJ: (to Narr.) Thank you, Mr – er – thank you. (faces audience)

 Brothers and Sisters, it is surely unnecessary to say to you – members of the T.S. as you all are – that 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.

We have been assured by The Masters that in this task, as long as The Theosophical Society exists, the link between them and ourselves will be maintained.

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.

Remember, when we have gone on, you will be the Society’s advocates; you will be its emissaries. And remember too that wonderful phrase - our “Inner Abiding Presence”. Draw comfort from the thought of its existence, or – dare I say – from its realisation.

Therefore, dear friends, whatever your achievements or failures; whenever come your times of happiness or sorrow; wherever you go, may your Inner Abiding Presence always guide you.  (puts hands together)  Namaste.

              (turns to Narr:) Namaste.

              Narr: Namaste.

THE END

 Permission to reprint these extracts were kindly given by the author, Alan Hughes, from the Adyar TS in London UK.

The full text will be reprinted in the May Supplement.

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