TThhee AAqquuaarriiaann TThheeoossoopphhiisstt Volume VIII #8 June 17, 2008 SUPPLEMENT p. 1 Email: [email protected] ARCHIVE: http://www.teosofia.com/AT.html IN SUPPORT OF JUSTICE FOR IN SUPPORT OF JUSTICEWILLIAM TO W.Q.J Q JUDGE “A Good Man’s Heart” This Supplement follows the declared aim to bring justice to bear in the ‘Judge Case’. WQJ, ‘the Raja’ as his friends called him, gave his life’s work in support of his teacher Mme Blavatsky and their joint cause, the modern Theosophical TABLE OF CONTENTS Movement, of which he was a champion and prime mover . IN SUPPORT OF JUSTICE FOR W.Q.J 1 LETTERS Contained here are copies of the letters sent MORELOS, MÉXICO 2 to the Theosophical Society in Adyar in April, BERLIN, GERMANY 3 together with reports and summaries of the UNTERLENGENHARDT, GERMANY 4 previous years of this campaign for justice. LONDON ENGLAND [1] 4 LONDON ENGLAND [2] 5 EDMONTON, CANADA 6 “Nothing is gained by worrying… You do not alter people, and… by being BRASILIA, DF, BRAZIL 7 anxious as to things, you put an occult SANTA CATARINA, BRAZIL 8 obstacle in the way of what you want done. BRASÍLIA, BRAZIL 9 FLORIANÓPOLIS, SC, BRAZIL 10 “It is better to acquire a lot of what is called carelessness by the world, but is PORTO ALEGRE, BRAZIL 11 in reality a calm reliance on the Law, BACKGROUND SO FAR and a doing of one’s own duty, satisfied that the results must be right, A SHORT 2007 REPORT ON LETTERS TO ADYAR 12 no matter what they may be.” THE 2006 ACTIONS AND RESULTS 12 William Q Judge A SHORT REPORT ON 2008 LETTERS TO ADYAR 11 The Aquarian Theosophist Vol. VIII #8 June 17, 2008 SUPPLEMENT p.2 For any one concerned with the future of the Letters written in April 2008 Theosophical Movement, these words should be a goal to accomplish, regardless his or her Morelos, México affiliation to any—or none— of the Theosophical organizations. I know that your main preoccupation is to do practical things in the One: From José Ramón Sordo, Mexico present. Well, this is a practical thing that the Movement needs to achieve now. Let us work together to eradicate the “equivocal position” of one of the Founders: Mr. W.Q. Judge. In the same way as HPB was wronged by the LA FUNDACIÓN BLAVATSKY “S.P.R.” and the “Hodgson Report”; W. Q. Judge Fraternidad Teosófica was wronged by the “Judge Case”. The México slanders propagated against HPB by the Hodgson Report are still present in printed matter and in the Internet, but the whole Movement is more or less united from within to defend HPB Tepoztlán, Morelos, México without; whereas W.Q. Judge still divides it, 13 April, 2008 because the smearing of his character came from within. Ms. Radha Burnier As long as we don’t wash our dirty laundry The International President, among ourselves, the Movement will lack The Theosophical Society, spiritual strength. Judge represents HPB within Adyar, Chennai 600 020, the Movement: that was the hidden reason of India. the attacks against him. To acknowledge Judge is to really acknowledge HPB, her mission and Dear Radha her message. I suppose that due to your bad health you had As long as the status of W.Q. Judge as one of the no time to answer my letter of April 13, 2007. main Founders of the TS is not recognized, and Anyhow, the quotation from HPB I gave you in his image restored, the Movement will continue that letter is enough, I think, to dispel the doubts divided. Col Olcott can not redress what he did, of any one in regard to the assertion that William but you can, having his karma as his 7 th Q. Judge was one of the founders of the Parent successor. It is a mater of Cause and Effect , not Theosophical Society. HPB says: a matter of polemics what I propose: a change of attitude on the part of Adyar. “W.Q. Judge. He is one of the three founders of the Theosophical Society, the With my best wishes for a full recovery of your only three who have remained as true as health rock to the Cause.” ( BCW , XII, p. 593) Yours affectionately and truly And being one of the Founders the words of Master Morya in the Mahatma Letters, p. 254, apply to him also: J. Ramón Sordo “‘Can you do anything to help on the Society?’ Want me to speak frankly? La Fundación Blavatsky: Fraternidad Teosófica A.C. Well I say NO: neither yourself nor the Lord Sang-yias Himself—so long as the México. Calle 22 de Febrero, 52, Tepoztlán, equivocal position of the Founders is not Morelos, 62525, México. perfectly and undeniably proven due to fiendish malice and systematic intrigue— could help it on.” The Aquarian Theosophist Vol. VIII #8 June 17, 2008 SUPPLEMENT p.3 “Besides,” a student wonderfully put it, Berlin, Germany “theosophists know that past, present and future belong to one and only continuum of cyclic Two: From Ms. Sieglinde Plocki, Germany time . Due to the doctrine of cycles, they are aware of the fact that, as Ecclesiastes would put it, “that which was is that which will be”. Therefore past events are alive , and have in DIE THEOSOPHISCHE GESELLSCHAFT them the active seeds of the future . It is by duly - ARBEITSKREIS UNTERLENGENHARDT - understanding past events, then, that one learns LOGE SÛRY A how to take lessons from them, and how to be better able to serve the Cause of universal Ltg.: brotherhood in the present time and to plant the Sieglinde Plocki seeds of a brighter future.” 10585 Berlin Schustehrusstr. 25 Let us just recall and let me repeat again: Many Deutschland times during the history have Adyar officials been asked to clear the “Judge Case” openly and to restore William Quan Judge’s reputation. Berlin May I again just remind you and the officials of April 13, 2008 Adyar Society, that you, Mrs. Burnier, are holding the key role in this case. It is in your hands now to make amends for previous mischief. This is highly Ms. Radha Burnier significant in terms of Karma and would definitely President lead to a strengthening of association and International Headquarters better cooperation of all Theosophical Societies, Theosophical Society as it would strengthen the common basis of our Chennai, 600 020 work. I respectfully ask you to bring to your mind India the importance of your responsibility, as well as the great prospects for the future which are in Dear Ms. Burnier, dear Leaders of Adyar Society your hands now. On October 21, 2006, on behalf of the members We are still living in times of frequent upheavals. of our Loge we started sending letters to you in A clear thought and mind, a better the series of which this is now the third. Your understanding of our own history is needed. Let answer last year can be quoted here easily, these changes be for good for the Theosophical because it was quite short: Societies with the help of justice and straightforwardness among Theosophists as well “Dear Mrs. Plocki, as among Theosophical Societies - justice once Thank you for your letter of 12 April 2007. I do not and for all for William Quan Judge, one of our believe that Justice can be established by beloved teachers, whom we are deeply writing letters. Anyhow, I don’t intend to write on indebted with gratitude. the Judge matter after all these years. I think it is time to go ahead with work that needs to be With best regards, hoping for your understanding done. With best wishes, Yours Yours sincerely, Radha Burnier” Of course, we should go ahead with work that needs to be done, you are absolutely right. But one thing, that needs to be done, too, is to clarify the so-called “Judge Case”. He was one Sieglinde Plocki of the Founders of our Society and should not be put aside. The Aquarian Theosophist Vol. VIII #8 June 17, 2008 SUPPLEMENT p.4 Unterlengenhardt, London England [1] Germany Three: From Ralph and Gianina Kammer, Four: From Leslie Price, U.K. Germany [ Leslie Price is an independent historian of the Theosophical Society theosophical movement and a member of the Arbeitskreis Adyar TS, as well as a member of the London Unterlengenhardt SPR. He helped the SPR change its position with Germany regard to its own 1886 false accusations against HPB. L. Price is the founder and former editor of April 13, 2008 the magazine “Theosophical History”. His letter was sent by e-mail to the Secretary of Ms Radha, Ms. Idarmis Rodrigues. CCA ] To the Leaders of the Adyar branch of the Theosophical Movement [ Leslie Price’s letter also included a copy of his One year ago we wrote a letter to you in which review of Ernest Pelletier’s book of ‘The Judge we declared that we were not agreeing with the Case – A Conspiracy Which Ruined the situation about the case around Mr. William Theosophical CAUSE’ as it appeared in the SPR Quan Judge. We expressed our opinion that this Journal October 2007. AT Ed. ] situation appears in the general public and especially to the enemies of our Movement as a weakness in the realization of our noble aims. We are really worried that such a fact is once more April 9, 2008 a smashed brick in the pillars of our movement. Don’t you think that everything must be done to Dear Mrs Burnier consolidate our Society, to show our integrity and seriousness? A dialog about the way how As the birthday of William Judge draws near on we can find a solution in the “Judge- Case” April 13, I thought I would send you a copy of my should be one of these primary things.