Theos-Talk Archives (July 2001 Message tt00226)

>To Frank: Apparently The Eclectic Theosophist in their Sep. 15, 
>1977, p. 7 issue replied to the comments made in those ULT magazines.
>Frank, do you have a copy of that article?
>Daniel

"Historical Footnote:
To those intersted in knowing the truth concerning certain statements made late in life by Mr. E. A. Neresheimer in his "Reminiscences of William Q. Judge", the following invontrovertible facts are gleaned and quoted from "Minutes of a General Meeting held at Headquarters, 144 Madison Avenue, New York, on Sunday, March 29, 1896 at 12:30 p.m."
Mr. Hargrove read several pages of the memoranda in Judge's handwriting found after his death. Thereafter, each member of the Council expressed his concurrence and acceptance of the documents read by Mr. Hargrove. Mr. Neresheimer's concluding statement was as follows: "I corroborate everything that has been said by Mr. Hargrove. I was present when the papers of Mr. Judge were examined, and I have seen all the documents to which he refers."
For further details, see The Eclectic Theosophist No. 37, November 15, 1976, "A Chapter of Theosophical History Clarified."
In conlusion, I quote the following from Mr. Hargrove's opening address to the members gathered at Headquarters in New York on March 29, 1896:
"This is the Rajah's [Judge's] statement in regard to our new Outer Head: 'This Head is as true as steel, as clear as a diamond, as lasting as Time'."
- Iverson L. Harris"

[[From: The Eclectic Theosophist No. 42, Sept. 15, 1977, p. 7.]]

A complete run of this scholary magazine is still available at Point Loma Publications:
http://www.wisdomtraditions.com/ 

Looking backward, Judge's prediction was right. The new O.H. was eager working for 33 years, taught hundreds of theosophicals children and adults until 1929, when she, like a Hierophant, said to her secretary: "Take good care of this ring [H.P.B.'s occult ring, not the occult duplication she gave to AB]. This time I travel alone, without you. I am going to Germany."

At Osnabruck, Germany, near the border to the Netherlands, she had a car accident and died some days later in Sweden at the Point Loma HQ there. Of interest may be that only 2 years before she suffered from an abortive theosophical enterprise in Germany when she was launching near Nuremburg the second world Headquarter for the Movement in the emty buildings of a philosophic institute. The plans were ready, the city government said OK. KT's only stipulation was that all teh various, hostile theos. lineages would send their students in there for education and would build up a common library. The German Theosophists of all lineages [excerpt the little PL group] rejected aloud and cried: Dictatorship! A Woman? No! A Teacher? She is crazy, since HPB we have no teacher anymore!

7 years later the SS troops were marching there and the Nazi party held their gigantic annual party convention. 10 years later the Theosophists were jailed, the libraries were confiscated. 12 years later World War II broke out and the present O.H. stopped esoteric teaching. 14 years later the first HQ was given up.
Frank







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