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Echoes of the Orient: the Writings of William Quan Judge
ECHOES ORIENTof the VOLUME I The Writings of William Quan Judge Echoes are heard in every age of and their fellow creatures — man and a timeless path that leads to divine beast — out of the thoughtless jog trot wisdom and to knowledge of our pur- of selfish everyday life.” To this end pose in the universal design. Today’s and until he died, Judge wrote about resurgent awareness of our physical the Way spoken of by the sages of old, and spiritual inter dependence on this its signposts and pitfalls, and its rel- grand evolutionary journey affirms evance to the practical affairs of daily those pioneering keynotes set forth in life. HPB called his journal “pure Bud- the writings of H. P. Blavatsky. Her dhi” (awakened insight). task was to re-present the broad This first volume of Echoes of the panorama of the “anciently universal Orient comprises about 170 articles Wisdom-Religion,” to show its under- from The Path magazine, chronologi- lying expression in the world’s myths, cally arranged and supplemented by legends, and spiritual traditions, and his popular “Occult Tales.” A glance to show its scientific basis — with at the contents pages will show the the overarching goal of furthering the wide range of subjects covered. Also cause of universal brotherhood. included are a well-documented 50- Some people, however, have page biography, numerous illustra- found her books diffi cult and ask for tions, photographs, and facsimiles, as something simpler. In the writings of well as a bibliography and index. William Q. Judge, one of the Theosophical Society’s co-founders with HPB and a close personal colleague, many have found a certain William Quan Judge (1851-1896) was human element which, though not born in Dublin, Ireland, and emigrated lacking in HPB’s works, is here more with his family to America in 1864. -
Theosophical Notes No. 6 Winter 2018-19
Volume 2, Issue 2 (6) 17th February 2019 Winter 2018-19 Newsletter 17th February 2019 1 Theosophical Notes No. 6, Winter 2018-19 A home for commentaries & research on the Theosophical Movement There is one thing that should be remembered in the midst of all difficulties, and it is this—“When the lesson is learned, the necessity ceases.” Robert Crosbie, pupil of William Q Judge, ex-President of the Boston Theosophical Society, founder of the United Lodge of Theosophists Please circulate to friends and colleagues who may be interested Quarterly Newsletter from the ULT in London, UK and New York, USA. Winter 2018-19 Newsletter 17th February 2019 2 Editor’s note The aim of these Notes is to give the timeless Perennial Wisdom just as it was when released from its centuries of obscuration, and to show it can help in all departments of life, viz. science, philosophy & religion, or rather psychology. In times of change and difficulty it is natural to seek principles in which we can have confidence; so what can reliably guide us to live wisely and intelligently? Is it to feel a duty to our suffering neighbour? To free ourselves of hypocrisy and injustice? Relieving others of it by example? Reasonable and tolerant debates? A free judiciary and press? Are these not the deep-running strands of social fabric that hold society together on which we ultimately depend? But the inner Path shows these many civil ‘goods’ are consequences of just a few virtues, the paramitas of “The Voice of the Silence.” With them comes the willingness to bravely enter new spaces and deeper ideals, to actively fight for and cultivate balance, patience, and charity and begin a mental renewal. -
Echoes of the Orient: the Writings of William Quan Judge — Vol II
ECHOES ORIENTof the VOLUME II The Writings of William Quan Judge In this second volume readers will we have a soul? Can it be lost? What find a wealth of theosophical teach happens to suicides? Is it possible to ings, history, and guidance. Nearly receive in dreams answers to ques half the book comprises articles from tions about right conduct? Should several magazines, as well as Judge’s psychic powers be developed? Are presentations at the 1893 World’s celibacy and vege tarianism necessary Parliament of Religions in Chicago, to lead a spiritual life? What evidence where he chaired the Theosophical is there for the existence of advanced Congress. The remaining sections humans or maha¯tmas? Why don’t include Hidden Hints in The Secret they make themselves better known? Doctrine; Questions from The Va¯han, How does one enter the spiritual path The Theosophical Forum, and The and “live the life” in a practical way? Path; Abridgement of Discussions; and How can one serve mankind? Faces of Friends. Judge’s responses to these and What is striking about Judge’s scores of other questions and problems writing is his exceptional ability to have timely relevance, providing help condense a powerful line of think ful insight into similar issues arising ing into simple language. If we may in today’s spiritual ferment. characterize the contents of Volume I as coming from the plane of “pure buddhi” or intuition — as H. P. Blav atsky once remarked of Judge’s Path magazine — much of the material in William Quan Judge (1851-1896) was this second volume, while covering a born in Dublin, Ireland, and emigrated broad philosophic territory, brings the with his family to America in 1864. -
55. SECTION Lll William Quan Judge
55. SECTION lll William Quan Judge ….if your discretion and silence are likely to hurt or endanger others, then I add: Speak the truth at all costs, and say, with Annesly, “Consult duty, not events.” There are cases when one is forced to exclaim “Perish discretion, rather than allow it to interfere with duty.” Key to Theosophy, p. 202 Ingratitude is a crime in Occultism and I shall illustrate the point by citing the case of W.Q. Judge. He is one of the three founders of the Theosophical Society, the only three who have remained as true as rock to the cause. While others have all turned deserters or enemies, he has ever remained faithful to his original pledge……He is the Resuscitator of Theosophy in the United States, and is working to the best of his means and ability, and at a great sacrifice, for the spread of the movement……Brother Judge refuses to defend himself…But is that a reason why we should let him go undefended? It is our bounden duty to support him, in every way, with our sympathy and influence, energetically, not in a half-hearted, timid way….Is it the part of “Brother-Fellow” to remain indifferent and inactive when one who has done so much for the noble and sacred CAUSE is vilified for its sake, hence, for that of every Theosophist; when he is selected by the enemy as the mark of all the lying and damaging attacks of those who wish to destroy the Society in order to build on its ruins another, a bogus Body of the same name, and to enshrine therein an idol with feet of clay and a heart full of selfishness and evil, for the admiration and worship of credulous fools? Can we allow them to achieve this object when they seek to ensure success by undermining the character of this most unselfish champion of our T.S. -
Major Trends in Post-Enlightenment Esotericism
Chapter 2 Major Trends in Post-Enlightenment Esotericism The Enlightenment set into motion major societal changes that affected esotericism just as it did a large number of other areas. In Chapter 7 I will go into more detail regarding sociological research concerning the consequences of these changes, but here a cursory discussion of some of the more specific implications for esotericism in general will suffice. Wouter Hanegraaff has highlighted four principal transformations:1 an adaptation to the ideals of rea- son and rationality; a growing influence from non-Western cultures and non-Christian religions, much influenced by the emerging study of religions; the adoption of an evolutionary paradigm to spiritual development; and the re-interpretation of esoteric notions in psychological framesets, in what Hanegraaff calls ‘the psychologization of religion and sacralization of psychol- ogy’.2 All these developments can be directly attributed to emerging hegemony of secularism, through which (conventional) religion was posited as antiquated and belonging to more primitive stages of cultural development. Consequently, esoteric actors attempted to aligne their teachings, practices, rhetoric, and vocabulary more closely to the ‘new scientific worldview’, and the earlier organic model of correspondences was more or less replaced by mechanistic models focused on instrumental causality.3 However, the Enlightenment ethos was not anti-religious per se. It involved a strong faith in the possibility, and indeed inevitability, of obtaining perfect knowledge about the world through reason, rationality, and recourse to essentially unchanging and absolute natural laws. The critique of religion was primarily directed towards the dominant reli- gious institutions of Western society, i.e. -
Tożsamość W Ezoterycznych Nurtach Kultury Tożsamość W Ezoterycznych Nurtach Kultury
tożsamość w ezoterycznych nurtach kultury tożsamość w ezoterycznych nurtach kultury pod redakcją Agaty Świerzowskiej i Izabeli Trzcińskiej © Copyright by Authors Kraków 2016 ISBN 978-83-65705-15-0 Recenzja naukowa: prof. dr hab. Tadeusz Cegielski (UW) prof. dr hab. Zbigniew Pasek (AGH) dr hab. Artur Jocz (UAM) dr hab. Andrzej Kasperek (UŚ) dr hab. Diana Oboleńska (UG) dr hab. Monika Rzeczycka (UG) dr hab. Maria Zowisło (AWF Kraków) dr Anna Olszewska (AGH) Redakcja językowa: Piotr Łozowski Korekta: Sylwia Chojecka Projekt okładki, skład: Joanna Bizior Na okładce wykorzystano fragment strony tytułowej dzieła Roberta Fludda, Utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris […] historia (T. de Bry, 1617) Publikacja dofinansowana ze środków Fundacji Studentów i Absolwentów Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego „Bratniak” Wydawnictwo LIBRON – Filip Lohner al. Daszyńskiego 21/13 31-537 Kraków tel. 12 628 05 12 e-mail: [email protected] www.libron.pl Spis treści Wstęp 7 Maria M. Boużyk Dlaczego mit? Kilka uwag w świetle filozofii klasycznej 9 Tomasz Sebastian Cieślik Tożsamość renesansowego maga w ujęciu Agrippy von Nettesheima 27 Zbigniew Łagosz Aparat represji wobec ezoteryków i ugrupowań ezoterycznych – zarys problematyki 47 Anna Peck Czy Jezus był buddystą? Aspekt kolonialny i dysonans kognitywny w anglosaskiej debacie intelektualnej 59 Bożena Ronowska Proces w Ceynowie według Himmlers Hexenkartothek 83 Małgorzata Sokołowicz „Od dawna marzę, żeby pójść do hammamu”. Marokańska czarna magia a poczucie tożsamości w opowiadaniach Tahara Ben Jellouna 103 Maciej B. Stępień „Wczesny Faivre” czy „pełny Hanegraaff”? Dylematy metodologiczne ezoteryki zachodniej 129 Tomasz Szymański O tożsamości wyznaniowej i duchowej francuskich romantyków: przyczynek do badań nad ideą religii uniwersalnej 145 Agata Świerzowska Joga jako atawistyczne wracanie do raju. -
The Origin of the Knowledge and the Fictions
3 THE ORIGIN OF THE KNOWLEDGE AND THE FICTIONS 3.1 From the Esoteric History 1The questions of how solar systems come into being, how our solar system and our planet were formed, how life evolved on our planet, are passed over. Those interested can study these matters in the existing esoteric literature. The following outline will afford a few facts about mankind’s consciousness development on our planet during the current aeon. The information given will be confined to what is essential to know in order to understand the origin of the knowledge and how this knowledge, which is the heritage of mankind, has come to be replaced with the fictions of ignorance. Of the history of mankind we shall only deal with points necessary to understand the contemporary situation as far as the knowledge is concerned. That is more important than all history. Mankind is groping its way in darkness towards an unknown goal, and its disorientation in life could scarcely be greater. The purpose is to offer to seekers Ariadne’s thread to guide them out of the labyrinth of the ignorance of life. Probably, the only ones interested will be those who have the esoteric knowledge latently in their subconsciousness from previous incarnations. The others will cling, as they have always done, to the “authorities” of the day to public opinion in science, philosophy, or religion. That, to be sure, is safest. 2Mankind consists in all of some 60 thousand million individuals in the physical, emotional, mental, and causal worlds of our planet. Of these, some 24 billion causalized (transmigrated from the animal to the human kingdom by acquiring causal envelopes of their own) in Lemuria beginning in the year 21.686.420 B.C. -
Occult Tales by Judge V
William Quan Judge Twelve Occult Tales Occult Tales by Judge v. 13.11, www.philaletheians.co.uk, 25 December 2017 Page 1 of 42 DOWN TO EARTH SERIES OCCULT TALES BY WQ JUDGE Contents Twelve themes interwoven around the Sacred Island of Destiny 1. A Weird Tale 3 The Great Truth is one, but it can be seen in a thousand different ways. 3 Part 1 3 Part 2 5 2. Papyrus 10 Compassion and Brotherhood are the way to the Temple. 10 3. A Curious Tale 12 The Eternal Fire is never yet known to have gone out. 12 4. The Serpent’s Blood 15 The prophecy of the glorious blaze of light from the Mountain Diamond. 15 5. The Magic Screen of Time 18 Happy are those whose astral sense is not opened and who do not see all the terrible things that are about us. 18 6. The Wandering Eye 21 Ever seeking, ever asking and never waiting for the answer. 21 7. The Tell-tale Picture Gallery 23 Monitoring and recording the disciple’s thoughts and spiritual life. 23 8. The Skin of the Earth 27 Teaming with Elemental beings, formless centres of force. 27 9. The Turn of the Wheel 31 A Little Tale of Karma. 31 Part 1 31 Part 2 31 Part 3 32 10. Where the Rishis were 34 Before the chalk cliffs of Albion rose out of the wave. They were but are not. 34 11. The Persian Students’ Doctrine 37 On the transmigration of life-atoms. 37 12. The Coming of the Serpent 41 Forget no duty, omit no effort, and one day the last drop of that ophidian blood will be altered by thy power and art, will be transmuted into elixir. -
Jesus in Talmud
THE LAST WORDS OF JESUS – WHAT WERE THEY AND WHAT DID THEY MEAN? [Peter Terry, 2015] Introduction In this essay we will not discuss the provenance and meaning of the last words attributed to Jesus of Nazareth by the authors of the Gospels of Luke and John, let alone any of the non-canonical gospels. Luke (23:46) may have had Psalm 31:5 ("Into thy hands I commend my spirit; thou hast redeemed me, O Lord, faithful God.") in mind when he has Jesus say "Father, into your hands I commend my spirit." John (19:30) did not quote any Biblical verse when he has Jesus say “It is finished.” We will confine ourselves in this study to the gospel books whose names bear the names Mark and Matthew. It is alleged that Jesus recited the first verse of Psalm 22 (Psalm 21 in the Septuagint) as his final words, before dying on the cross. We will come back to those words in a moment. Prior to doing so, let us look at how that psalm was alluded to in the Gospels. In all three synoptic gospels (Matthew 27:39; Mark 15:29; Luke 23:35) there is a quote from the 7th verse: “All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head”. In the Gospel of Matthew (27:43) there is a quote from the 8th verse: “He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him”. In the Gospel of John (19:24) there is a quote from the 18th verse which is also alluded to in the synoptic gospels (Matthew 27:35; Mark 15:24; Luke 23:34): “They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture”. -
8. May-June 09 AQUARIAN THEOSOPHIST SUPPLEMENT V2
TThhee AAqquuaarriiaann TThheeoossoopphhiisstt SUPPLEMENT Volume IX # 8, June 17 (incl. May 17) 2009 Blog http://aquariantheosophist.wordpress.com Free by email from the Editors : [email protected] Archive: http://www.teosofia.com/AT.html OLD DIARY LEAVES – FULL VERSION “““OLD“OLD DIARY LEAVESLEAVES” ””” (FULL VERSION OF THE PLAY) A play in 4 Acts by Alan Hughes The formation of the Theosophical Society lasting about 50 minutes A NOTE ABOUT THE PLAY Dramatis Personae in order of appearance I spoke to Alan Hughes about this play just Narr. – the Narrator, and melodramatic “deus after its world premiere (!!?). He has extracted ex machina” for this play. and dramatised this story from “Old Diary HPB – Helena Petrovna Blavatsky – A Russian Leaves” by HS Olcott, which is one of the main noblewoman, domineering, perhaps historical sources about the foundation of the speaking English with a French accent. Society. HSO – Henry Steele Olcott – A lawyer and Colonel from the American Civil War. Alan chose a simple 4 act structure featuring:- WQJ – William Quan Judge – An Irish lawyer. Honto – an American Indian squaw – a first an introduction of the 3 main materialised spirit. characters, Felt – George Felt – an architect and engineer, then the first main meeting between HPB who gave the first talk “The Lost Canon and HSO, of Proportion of the Egyptians". Other materialised spirits may also appear, as then the talk by G Felt which was the first required. time the formation of a society was mentioned, The Audience – ideally of a melodramatic disposition and willing to join in! then, finally, the last scene before the departure of HPB and HSO to Europe and then India. -
Universal Theosophy
UNIVERSAL THEOSOPHY Talks given by Robert Crosbie The Cunningham Press, Alhambra, California, 1963 based on the scanned material curtsey of http://www.phx-ult-lodge.org/AUNITHEO.htm “A man is said to be confirmed in spiritual knowledge when he forsaketh every desire which entereth into his heart, and of himself is happy and content in the Self through the Self. His mind is undisturbed in adversity; he is happy and contented in prosperity, and he is a stranger to anxiety, fear, and anger. Such a man is called a Muni. When in every condition he receives each event, whether favorable or unfavorable, with an equal mind which neither likes nor dislikes, his wisdom is established, and, having met good or evil, neither rejoiceth at the one nor is cast down by the other.” CONTENTS The Eternal Verities: The Foundation of Religion 1 Our God and Other Gods 5 The Kingly Mystery 10 The Recognition of Law 15 The Origin of Evil 19 What Reincarnates? 24 Real Memory 28 The Cause of Sorrow 33 What Survives after Death? 38 Can the Dead Communicate? 42 Sleep and Dreams 48 Instinct and Intuition 53 The Creative Will 57 Man, Visible and Invisible 62 Renunciation of Action 67 The Law of Correspondences 72 Culture of Concentration 78 Mental Healing and Hypnosis 83 The Occult Side of Nature 88 A League of Humanity 93 New Year’s Resolutions 98 Occult Knowledge 102 The Power of Suggestion 108 True Clairvoyance 113 True Morality 119 The Storehouse of Thought 125 The Language of the Soul 130 Theosophy in Daily Life 136 Three Kinds of Faith 140 Planetary Influences 146 (not in the FP) Work for Theosophy: a collation from the letters of Robert Crosbie 151-171 [ All articles except Planetary Influences are in “The Friendly Philosopher.” Page numbers given are at the bottom of the original pages. -
The Metaphysical World of Marie Ogden
Brigham Young University BYU ScholarsArchive Theses and Dissertations 2009-11-24 The Home of Truth: The Metaphysical World of Marie Ogden Stanley J. Thayne Brigham Young University - Provo Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd Part of the History Commons BYU ScholarsArchive Citation Thayne, Stanley J., "The Home of Truth: The Metaphysical World of Marie Ogden" (2009). Theses and Dissertations. 2023. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2023 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. The Home of Truth: The Metaphysical World of Marie Ogden Stanley James Thayne II A thesis submitted to the faculty of Brigham Young University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts Grant Underwood, Chair Brian Q. Cannon J. Spencer Fluhman Eric A. Eliason Department of History Brigham Young University December 2009 Copyright © 2009 Stanley J. Thayne All Rights Reserved ABSTRACT The Home of Truth: The Metaphysical World of Marie Ogden Stanley J. Thayne Department of History Master of Arts Marie Ogden‘s Home of Truth colony—a religious community that was located in southern Utah during the 1930s and 40s—was part of a segment of the American religious landscape that has largely been overlooked. As such, her movement points to a significant gap in the historiography of American religion. In addition to documenting the history of this obscure community, I situate Marie Ogden as part of what I call the early new age of American religion, an underdeveloped part of the broader categories of metaphysical religion or Western esotericism.