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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
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)
