Theos-Talk Archives (May 2003 Message tt00170)

Robert Crosbie: "I BEGAN TO GET BACK THE TOUCH [with W.Q. Judge 
that] I HAD LOST"

In a previous post, I asked:

"Who gave Crosbie in 1909 the authority to ignore the pledge 
of 'inviolable secresy' as regards 'all confidential documents' and 
disseminate to new people the esoteric documents of HPB?" 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theos-talk/message/11961

One ULT correspondent suggests that it was the "deceased" W.Q. Judge 
who gave Crosbie the authority.

BELOW are some selected extracts from Crosbie's bionotes. Notice 
especially Crosbie's words I have put in CAPS. These words show that 
Crosbie believed he was in some form of "communication" with the 
deceased Judge.

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. . . Judge came to Boston soon after; I was introduced to him 
together with other members, and had no other notice from him until 
after the meeting when we had parted at the door, he, going with some 
members to his hotel, and I in another direction. We had got some 
distance apart when I heard him call out "good night Crosbie, I've 
got you on my list", I sad "good night" but was much exercised at the 
rest of his remark. Something however happened then; a veil was 
lifted. A TIE WAS FORMED which has never since been broken. He 
frequently came to Boston and stayed at my house, and I frequently 
went to N.Y. I was made President of the T.S. in Boston. . . .

I think that I have told you that my connection with Judge was 
INTIMATE ON INNER LINES; these cannot be explained, but to me they 
are THE ONLY REAL ONES. . . . 

At the time of the passing of W.Q.J. the members of the T.S., and 
particularly of the E.S., knew that they had been in personal touch 
with the messengers of the Great White Lodge, so that their minds 
were more than ready to receive a successor in that line. . . . The 
idea being in their minds that there must of necessity be an occult 
successor, and concurring in the opinion that Mrs. Tingley was 
indicated, they send out a circular to the E.S. that Judge had 
appointed her as such. The minds of all, being in the receptive 
condition I have mentioned, accepted everything as stated by the few 
in New York, but those at a distance had no inkling of the true state 
of affairs and kept on in full confidence. . . . 

As to my part in it--I was in Boston, and saw no reason to doubt the 
statements made of those in N.Y. whom I believed to be sincere and of 
good training and judgment. I should have known BY OTHER MEANS the 
true state of affairs,--but this had happened--when Judge passed out 
of life, I LOST TOUCH WITH HIM; doubtless I relied on him too much, 
and had not exercised my own intuition; from later events my 
comprehension is, that THIS LOSS OF TOUCH was purposely done in order 
that I might strengthen my weakness in that direction. I went to 
Point Loma at Mrs. Tingley's urgent request to assist in the proposed 
work, and was there for two years, helping to prepare the way for the 
expected developments, BEFORE I BEGAN TO GET BACK THE TOUCH I HAD 
LOST. I am slow to turn back from any task I have set myself, and am 
prone to excuse inconsistencies and deviation in others, so that 
although I had begun to doubt, and to see, it was more than a year 
afterwards before I saw so clearly and unmistakably that I took 
occasion to tell Mrs. T. the facts as I saw them, and to state my 
intention to withdraw from all connection with her. She tried of 
course in every way to change my determination, but finding me 
unchangeable, she let me go, and as I afterwards heard, gave out that 
she had sent me away for "bad conduct"--just what I do not know. . .
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Caps added.
Quoted from:
http://www.katinkahesselink.net/his/dtb_7.htm#bionotes

Daniel H. Caldwell
BLAVATSKY STUDY CENTER/BLAVATSKY ARCHIVES
http://blavatskyarchives.com