Entries tagged as ‘William Quan Judge’
Dear Friends
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!
The Editors
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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 19th 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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October 17, 2009 · 1 Comment
Dear Readers
There is a quiet revolution going on in our engagement with schools. The difference one knowledgeable person – a retired School Principal – can make to the life chances of hundreds of pupils is extraordinary. It’s inspired, careful work. Read about it on page 1.
‘Qualifications for Chelaship’ starts on page 2, on “the power of the Adepts over forces of nature… and their goodness and their solicitude for the welfare of the race”.
There’s lots more inside: on growing wheatgrass, the dangers of MSG in our diet and an announcement from a new study group in Toronto Canada – have a look inside and spread the word.
Grateful thanks to you all for your contributions and making the AQ what it is. Why not do a little propaganda of your own – if you feel like it, print it off and pass it around.
The Editors
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A Quiet Revolution
by Ann Colburn, “Once Upon a School” http://onceuponaschool.org/stories/232
[An inspiring account of how one person’s work can affect the life chances of many pupils in the critical teenage years at school. Ed]
I have always been dismayed by the discrepancy between the poor educational opportunities of low-income students in the inner-city in contrast to that of affluent students in private education…
One of the biggest problems for students in inner-city schools is setting goals for after graduation and making a practical plan for reaching those goals.
Far too many students do not make it to graduation and the result is a huge pool of under-educated young people, too many of whom end up stuck in poverty in dead-end jobs or in jail. I wanted to help inner-city students dream a positive future and create a viable plan to achieve their goals.
What we did
The director of the Academy of Finance (AOF) at Manual Arts High School noticed my work with a few of his students who had been chosen for the One Voice Scholars program.
He asked if I would be willing to work with his whole class of seniors to enable them to reach goals similar to the One Voice scholars.
He offered me class time in his block schedule to work with the entire class and encouraged me to meet with students one on one to create a plan tailored to each student’s dreams, needs and individual situation.
Manual Arts High School, 4131 S Vermont Ave a few blocks from the ULT in LA, USA.
Each year for the seven years I have worked with the program, I have expanded my understanding of how to help these students succeed. I now reach out to students beginning in 9th grade to help them to see that college and a better life is in their future…
In the larger school, fewer than half of entering freshmen graduate. Of those who do graduate only 15% or so go to college. In the AOF program, 99% graduate and 90% go on to college.
The remaining students enroll in trade programs. One or two have gone into the military. We have not had to find much funding for our college program, since it is run by volunteers …
In general the AOF students fund-raise constantly for better classroom equipment, textbooks, desks and even a culminating senior trip to Washington DC.
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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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