Theos-Talk Archives (November 1997 Message tt00220)

Yes it was a very strange and complex chapter in TS history. The Judge case
is so complicated, and the available documents concerning it so numerous (
not to speak of the unpublished documents in the Adyar and Pasadena archives
that are not available for view) that no one has even published a
definitive and detailed analysis of the case. Theosophical histories
published by the organizations have created sort of official explanations
that serve to justify which ever side of the controversy they take. There
are also the independent histories like Campbell that create their own views
based upon superficial analyses of secondary material.

JJHE


K. Paul Johnson wrote:

> According to Jerry Hejka-Ekins:
> >
> > Because Judge was never proved to have forged Mahatma letters, nor was
> > that really the charge made against him.
>
> Yes, the charge against him was pretty bizarre, actually, in
> the final form in which Besant presented it. That was that the
> messages from the Masters were genuine, but that Judge
> transcribed them in a handwriting designed to mislead her as to
> how they were received.
>
> Besant played a game of "let's you and him fight"-- first
> siding with Judge against Olcott and then vice-versa. Much
> later in life she was still vacillating regarding messages from
> the Masters; alternating between accepting Krishnamurti and
> accepting the accusations of his enemies Wedgwood and Arundale.
>
> Besant is a good example of someone with an *outer locus of
> control*-- always allowing herself to be used by others and not
> having a strong center. But despite this, and the harm to the
> Theosophical movement that resulted, she did a fair amount of
> good in the world and had some admirable qualities.