With the changes around the world – from the struggle for self-determination and freedom of thought of the ‘Arab Spring’ revolts to the climatic and geographic upheavals – we perhaps forget that children will make our future as much as we theirs.  On our return we’ll inherit the results of those intervening generations, for better or for worse.

So this quarter’s AQ starts with a review of the plight too many of the world’s children, the possible causes, and gives practical advice on overcoming them… and p 10 finishes with the new French film ‘BABIES’, a documentary about four babies’ lives on four continents – well worth a look at the trailer.

We are pleased to report on the ever-swelling ‘Justice for Judge’ annual letter writing protest, on p 4 – if you aren’t one of those who wrote this year, do think about it – we’ll send out reminders March next.  We remain convinced of the need for mutual recognition of the work of WQJ by all parts of the movement if it is to regain its vitality and coherence.

For those living in the US, researcher Dr Sheldrake has launched a new mobile phone Telepathy Test on p 7 and is looking for volunteers – if you have someone you share a close link with do try it… and you get paid for your work!

There are many other items of interest – happy browsing,

The AQ Editors 

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The Pollution of the Soul & its Cure          p 1
‘Sunshine vitamin’ for cancer patients      p 3
The 2011 Letters to India                                p 4
Alchemy in Agriculture                                    p 5
Water remembers… but only for certain people p 6
Keely’s discovery depended on his ‘ether’   p 6
Mobile Phone Telepathy Test                           p 7
Publishing news from TS Pasadena                p 7
Internet and the Movement                               p 7
Parallels Between Rome and America           p 8
Building Global Democracy?                             p 9
The History of the TS in Canada                      p 9
Theosophy Conference 2011                             p 9
WISDOM IN ACTION                                          p 10
Born to Four Different Worlds                          p 10

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May ’11 AQ: The Pollution of the Soul & its Cure

From a correspondent in Vienna, Austria

“Let us roll back the stone of matter from the door of our own inner sanctuary and resurrect the Spirit crucified in us!”

I have just read the Unicef Report from March 2011 and have been shocked about the information therein. 
*  There are 143 million underweight children under five years old;
*  About 100 million children do not attend the elementary school;

*  About 9 million children are fugitives in their homelands because of armed conflicts;
*  About 2 million children are HIV infected.

 An enormous quantity of goods and medicaments are necessary to provide the children with the most needed things: tablets against water pollution, mosquito nets, pencils, exercise books, blankets, sugar-salt mixtures against diarrhoea, peanut butter for deficiency diseases, vaccine against measles etc. This is only an excerpt from a long list of needed goods.

 It must be done all we can to improve the life conditions of those children and their families. There are many international organizations for emergency aid.  Especially we theosophists are responsible that we hear every cry of help.

In The Voice of Silence, 14, we can read, 

“Let thy Soul lend its ear to every cry of pain like as the lotus bares its heart to drink the morning sun.”

However, if we want to wipe out the roots of the misery we must try to find out the main causes for it.

Presently autonomy of the man is the mainstream in the Western World.  The life is short and he should have as much as he can in his life. He has to do all he can to reach this goal. Nobody else is allowed to prevent him from satisfying his passions and desires. As long as we have stored such thoughts in our “thinking machine”, nothing can really be changed.
However, we have the power to choose, to make changes, to weed out these selfish ideas and to store ideas in the fields of charity, justice and harmony. In Raja-Yoga or Occultism, 59, we find the following statement,

“This ‹Mind› is manas, or rather its lower reflection, which whenever disconnects itself, for the time being, with kama, becomes the guide of the highest mental faculties, and is the organ of the free-will in physical man.”

Theosophy makes a point of the fact that Kama (Principle of Passions and Desires) is not caused by the body but is a principle in itself. It is the balance principle from which the ways go up or down.

Marriage is one of the cornerstones of the society of the Western World. However, the legislation is treating more and more marriage as equivalent with other forms of living together. Therefore, marriage is increasingly devalued.

To be married is a decision for the whole life.  Many people are not willing to make such a decision today. To have a happy marriage for the whole life is only possible if there is true love between both partners.
Presently we are differentiating between sexuality and reproductive instinct. The sexuality is separated of the soul. The man wishes to satisfy his sexual desires and no one is speaking of true love.  He considers marriage as an obstacle for fulfilling his sexual desires.  To have a child is considered as a reduction of his personal freedom.

Thy striving of the autonomous man is the cause that he is saying, “I do not want to be loved.”  To be loved means to be dependent on somebody.

In the U.L.T. Pamphlet No. 35, Title Page, we find the following words,
“Educate! Educate! The children are our salvation. Just as the student of occult nature can imbue the new atoms of his body which momentarily replace the old ones, with less vicious tendencies, and thus regenerate himself by moral alchemy and attain the  ›Elixir of Life‹, so can a nation work its own regeneration by educating the new atoms of its national body, its children.”

 
In the Western World, we are crusading against the pollution of the environment. This is understandable and we are entitled to do that. However, we do not admit the pollution of the soul. We defend with a completely wrong meaning of liberty everything of our animal nature.

As long as we do not fight against the pollution of the soul the pollution of the environment will go on and on. The man must recognize that he must control the principle of passions and desires with all his power. If he does not understand the importance of the soul’s ecology he will not be able to stop the pollution of the earth.

We are living in a cycle of transition. Everything in religion, philosophy, science and society is changing rapidly. The humanity must learn to manage these changes. Theosophy can help that we do not lose orientation. We only have to apply the Ancient Wisdom in our daily life. The wounds of our souls and Earth can be healed when we are using the Doctrine of Theosophy.

“Theosophy gives a clear and well-defined object, an ideal to live for, to every sincere man or woman belonging to whatever station in Society and whatever Culture and degree of intellect. Practical Theosophy is not one Science, but embraces every science in life, moral and physical.”  (U.L.T. Pamphlet No. 1, 7)

 
There is only the importance of the market in the economics of the Western World. The states are spending more and more money but are going systematically bankrupt. We are living in a network of fictions. This process cannot go further on.

If we want to correct this process, it will be necessary to develop the ability of reducing our desires. This ability cannot be prescribed from governments. Each of us has to learn that we cannot have all materials things. Therefore, it will be necessary to reduce our present standard of life.  The material desires will have to stay more and more in the background of our lives.

We have to root out our selfishness.  Charity and universal brotherhood is the only solution for our own future and the future of the humankind.  To realize this goal will be the challenge of the Western World.
In The Key to Theosophy, 229, by H.P.Blavatsky, we can read,

“To seek to achieve political reforms before we have affected a reform in human nature, is like putting new wine into old bottles. Make men feel and recognize in their innermost hearts what is their real, true due to all men, and every old abuse of power, every iniquitous law in the national policy, based on human, social or political selfishness, will disappear of itself.”

 
It is evident in the Western World that many have experienced a return of interest in spiritual knowledge, in studies of the inner nature. The bookshops are full of esoteric literature. This is undoubtedly the return of a cycle of interest that has brought back individuals who in past lives took part in these studies or in the Theosophical Movement or some related work.  This interest should not be ignored, as the “right time” may not come again for a long time.

These are only some of the most important problems we have in the Western World. Worldwide we have the problems of drug trade, prostitution of children and slavery trade in the development countries and especially in Africa we have the use of children for soldiers. How can we help to solve all these problems? Each of us has not to go to one of the development countries. Let us observe the cycles of our own little world, planting and harvesting at the proper time.
In The Esoteric Character of the Gospels, 2, we find the statement,

“Christ – the true esoteric SAVIOUR – is no man, but the DIVINE PRINCIPLE in every human being. He who strives to resurrect the Spirit crucified in him by his own terrestrial passions, and buried deep in the ‹sepulchre› of his sinful flesh; he who has the strength to roll back the stone of matter from the door of his own inner sanctuary, ha has the risen Christ in him.”
“Let us roll back the stone of matter from the door of our own inner sanctuary and resurrect the Spirit crucified in us! Let us start our work helping and teaching our neighbours friends and others Theosophy. Let us try to lead them on the right path. Let us do our duty as we see it and resign all personal interest in results. The motive marks the line between black and white. Good motive and ancient wisdom might go hand in hand.”

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As we come to the season of Easter – named after Ostara, the Scandinavian goddess of spring or rebirth of the Solar forces in us and Nature – we follow up last month’s theme on the vitality of the theosophical movement, why it’s waning and what may have caused this.

It is said that unless the study of both HPB and WQJ are restored the movement will remain divided and weak.  They are analogous to Buddhi, the “potentiality of intelligence”, and Manas, the active power of the mind: to effect a change both must be brought together into close union.

The lead article is in support of the annual call for “Justice to Judge” – see also “Documents that would clear WQJ’s name” on p 3, which investigates the evidence that would put an end to this long running injustice.

You can also read about the marvellous work of the associates at the Jacmel Lodge in Haiti.  They lost their building in the earthquake on January 12th but managed to open a new one in time for W.Q.Judge Day on 21st March.  They were thankful for assistance from fellow theosophists locally and from Paris, Philadelphia, New York, London and elsewhere.   These few extracts from their emails gives a brief, moving insight to conditions there. 

- “News from Haiti” on p.7 and “Jacmel: a Preliminary Report” on p.8.

It’s said if we believe in something, do it wholeheartedly, if not stay well away from it.   We commend this issue to you and leave the rest to the good Law!

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Justice to Judge 

Letters to Adyar – the Fifth Year

For the fifth time since April 2006,  independent students from various countries will be sending on 13 April 2010 a number of open letters to Ms. Radha Burnier, President  of the Adyar Theosophical Society.

They will be asking Ms. Burnier to think of stopping a century old, on-going  injustice by  re-examining  the Adyar “Case” against Mr. William Q. Judge.

Such a decision would be a demonstration that the Adyar Society actually cares about Ethics and Truth. It would give a large portion of the theosophical movement a better chance to benefit from the practical example of Judge’s altruistic life, and from the theosophical wisdom present in his books. 

The open letters campaign has no expectations of great short term results. Karma  may take time, although it always produces results – often by invisible ways. As any social institution, the Adyar T.S. is accountable for what it does or doesn’t do.  Just  like the executive officers of any private corporation or government officers around the world,  Adyar leaders must be willing to accept the truth and to admit the mistakes of  their organization in a public way, especially if  such mistakes create a public, long term illusion.

The 19^th century process of persecution against Judge within the Adyar Theosophical Society is extensively documented in the book The Judge Case, by Ernest Pelletier (published by the Edmonton Theosophical Society, Canada, in June 2004) and in other books.

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The accusations were based on a campaign of rumours. They seem to have been used as a tool by those who aimed at attaining political power within the organization. No actual, valid proofs were ever presented against Judge. The Judicial Committee appointed to examine the matter declared it could not decide on the issue (on the basis that there was little evidence against WQJ, AQ Eds). Yet  Judge was never declared innocent by Annie Besant’s Society.  It is felt by some that the 21^st century may be a nice occasion for truth to be restored. 

Although 2010 is only the fifth year since the yearly letters began, organizers say that there has been growing sympathy for the cause among members of the Adyar Theosophical Society, in the United Kingdom and elsewhere. According to the organizers, it is easy to see that the Adyar Society has only to gain from accepting the truth, in this and in other matters as well.

Every letter in defence of William Q. Judge has been and should be open. It should also be as widely circulated as possible among one’s friends and co-students, or in publications in one’s local language, so that the vindication of Judge takes place at the grass-roots level, as long as the international leaders of the Adyar Society are unable or unwilling to act.  These letters are also a way of celebrating Mr. Judge’s life and work for the cause of humanity.  They stimulate the movement’s ability to learn from its own mistakes.  They  help people realize not only  that the Founders deserve Respect, but also that it is a duty and a privilege for anyone to actively defend them every time they are unjustly attacked, whether from within or from without the theosophical movement. 

Each in his or her own way, style and words, students will suggest for the fifth time next April 13^th that Adyar should publicly admit that Judge was innocent of any wrongdoing – or else open the Adyar Archives and show any existing proofs of his mistakes. 

The letter-effort is also a celebration: April 13^th has been chosen for it is Judge’s birthday.

E-mail messages and phone calls to Adyar are good ideas as additional means of expression; but  it is felt that the efficiency of an air mail letter is greater.

Envelopes must be addressed to

Mrs. Radha Burnier, President, The Theosophical Society, Adyar, Chennai 600 020, India.

Whenever possible, signed copies of the letters to Adyar should be sent to the air mail address indicated below. Mrs. Radha Burnier – the president of the Adyar Society since 1980 – has sent  kind answers to some of the letters, and the correspondence to Adyar has been discussed in previous editions of “The Aquarian Theosophist” and other theosophical magazines.

More information on the subject – including the first reactions from Mrs. Burnier to the Letters – will be found at

www.esoteric-philosophy.com

Those interested in taking part of the chain of letters may also write to  lutbr@terra.com.br

… or by air mail to:  C.C.Aveline, Caixa Postal 5111, Ag. Brazlândia,

CEP 72.701-970, Brasília, DF, Brazil

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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.

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“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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