Theos-Talk Archives (October 2003 Message tt00065)

Oct 6 2003

Re HPB and WQJ


Dear Morten and friends:

Please let me know where "baraka" is derived from? What language?
What system? Is it inclusive or exclusive?

Everything written or said in Theosophy has a certain depth of spiritual
knowledge and wisdom associated with it. The reader contributes his
interest and sagacity to study but cannot enforce that on others.. In
other words opinions can be offered -- such as you made yours 

The relations of Judge and HPB were defined by them as 


1	HPB

-- "Well, sir, and my only friend, the crisis is nearing. I am ending
my S.D. and you are going to replace me, or take my place in America. I
know you will have success if you do not lose heart; but do, do remain
true to the Masters and Their Theosophy and THE NAMES... May They help
you and allow us to send you our best blessings." -- HPB { #
15, LETTERS, p. 280 )


"If W.Q.Judge, the man who has done most for Theosophy in America, who
has worked most unselfishly in your country, and has ever done the
bidding of Master, the best he knew how, is left alone...then I say--let
them go ! They are no Theosophists: and if such a thing should happen,
and Judge be left to fight his battles alone, then I shall bid all of
them an eternal good-bye. I swear on MASTER'S holy name to shake off
the dust of my feet from every one of them ... I am unable to realize
that at the hour of trouble and supreme fight ... any true Theosophist
should hesitate for one moment to back W.Q.J. publicly and lodge in his
or her protest. Let them read Masters' letter in the preliminary ...
All that I said about W.Q.J. was from His words in His letter to me ...
Do with this letter what you like. Show it to anyone you please as my
firm determination ..." --HP B	LETTERS, (ULT) p. 277   


MY DEAREST BROTHER AND CO-FOUNDER OF THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY:

In addressing to you this letter, which I request you to read to the
convention summoned for April 22nd, [1888] ... We were several, to call
it to life in 1875. Since then you have remained alone to preserve that
life through good and evil report. It is to you chiefly, if not
entirely, that the Theosophical Society owes its existence in 1888. Let
me then thank you for it, for the first and perhaps the last, time
publicly, and from the bottom of my heart, which beats only for the
cause you represent so well and serve so faithfully. I ask you to
remember that, on this occasion, my voice is but the feeble echo of
other more sacred voices, and the transmitter of the approval of Those
whose presence is alive in more than one true Theosophical heart, and
lives, as I know, pre-eminently in yours. ..."	-- HPB
H.P.B.'s 1st Message to the American Theosophists. April l888.


"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... Let our protest be on
merely defensive lines, and not of an aggressive character. For, if the
spirit of Theosophy does not permit aggressiveness being used, yet it
does demand in some cases active defense, and it does impose on everyone
the duty of taking an active interest in the welfare of a brother,
especially of a persecuted brother, as Mr. Judge is now ... "
-- H. P. Blavatsky.
THEOS. MVT., Vol. 5, p. 65
WQJ BIOGRAPHY, Eek & de Zircov,
p. 22
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"He who does all and the best he can and knows how does ENOUGH for Them.
This is a message for Judge. His Path begins to beat The Theosophist
out of sight. It is most excellent ... The Path alone is his
certificate for him in Theosophy." - -HPB	LETTERS
, p. 279



"If I thought for one moment that Lucifer will 'rub out' Path I would
never consent to be the editor. But listen, then, my good old friend.
Once that the Masters have proclaimed your Path the best, the most
theosophical of all theosophical publications, surely it is not to
allow it to be rubbed out ... One is the fighting combative Manas: the
other (Path) is pure Buddhi ... Lucifer will be Theosophy militant and
Path the shining light, the Star of Peace. If your intuition does not
whisper to you 'IT IS SO,' then that intuition must be wool-gathering.
No, sir, the Path is too well, too theosophically edited for me to
interfere." -- HPB LETTERS, p. 281

     
"Night before last I was shown a bird's eye-view of the Theosophical
Societies. I saw a few earnest reliable Theosophists in a death
struggle with the world in general, with other--nominal but
ambitious--Theosophists. The former are greater in number than you may
think, and they prevailed, as you in America will prevail, if you only
remain staunch to the Master's programme and true to yourselves. And
last night I saw /\ and now I feel strong--such as I am in my
body--and ready to fight for Theosophy and the few true ones to my last
breath, The defending forces have to be judiciously--so scanty they
are--distributed over the globe, wherever Theosophy is struggling
against the powers of darkness... Is Judge ready to help me to
carry on the sacrifice--that of accepting and carrying on the burden of
life, which is heavy? My choice is made and I will not go back on it.
I remain in England in the midst of the howling wolves. Here I am
needed and nearer to America; there in Adyar there are dark plots going
on against me and poor Olcott."
- H. P. Blavatsky
LETTERS THAT HAVE HELPED ME, p. 281-2,
LUCIFER VIII, p. 291,
 

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[ Sept. 12, 1889 ]

[ HPB to Mr. R. Harte, Acting Editor, 
THE THEOSOPHIST, Adyar, India.

"...Nevertheless your wicked and untheosophical denunciation of Judge,
which is as false as it is untheosophical falls flat again in its
application to the E.S. Judge has never pledged himself, never signed
anything; for as in the case of Olcott, my confidence in him is
sufficient to trust him without any Pledges. The numerous letters I
receive from really good theosophists such as Buck, Mrs. Ver Planck, do
not show their 'disgust' for Judge. But they show me most decidedly for
your tactless writings in The Theosophist and the showers of letters
you inundate them with. If the American Section breaks with Adyar it
will be your doing."
H. P. Blavatsky
WQJ BIOGRAPHY, Eek & de Zircov, p.
23-4.
THEOS. FORUM, Vol. 5, Jan.
1934

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[ Apl. 15, 1891 -- 3 weeks before her death ]

"To the Fifth Convention of the American Section of 
The Theosophical Society

BROTHER THEOSOPHISTS:

"I have purposely omitted any mention of my oldest friend and
fellow-worker, W.Q.Judge, in my general address to you, because I think
that his unflagging and self-sacrificing efforts for the building up of
Theosophy in America deserves special mention.

Had it not been for W.Q.Judge, Theosophy would not be where it is today
in the United States. It is he who has mainly built up the movement
among you, and he who has proved in a thousand ways his entire loyalty
to the best interests of Theosophy and the Society.

Mutual admiration should play no part in a Theosophical Convention, but
honour should be given where honour is due, and I gladly take this
opportunity of stating in public, by the mouth of my friend and
colleague, Annie Besant, my deep appreciation of the work of your
General Secretary, and of publicly tendering him my most
sincere thanks and deeply-felt gratitude in the name of Theosophy, and
for the noble work he is doing and has done.

Yours fraternally, 
H.P.Blavatsky *
* *

FIVE MESSAGES TO AMERICAN THEOSOPHISTS, p. 32

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The History of the THEOSOPHICAL MOVEMENT shows that the Esoteric Section
of the THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY had been publicly announced in Oct. 1888 by
HP. She declared that she alone was solely in charge of it, and acted
on behalf of the Masters who were behind it.  

Judge had been pledged in that School directly to the Masters in 1874
(or 14 years before the ES was made public). HPB made him a Teacher in
the ES, and responsible chiefly for its development in America

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[Dec. 14 1888]
On December 14th 1888 HPB issued an ES order stating that Mr. Judge was
to be her "...only channel through whom will be sent and received all
communications between the members of said Section and myself [HPB]."
She did this, as she then also wrote, establishing his 'position' in the
ES "...in virtue of his character as a chela of thirteen years
standing."

It is plain that HPB reposed a special trust in Judge. She wrote in one
of her letters to him that he was "...part of herself for several
aeons...The Esoteric Section and its life in the U.S.A. depends on
W.Q.J. remaining its agent and what he is now. The day W.Q.J. resigns,
H.P.B. will be virtually dead for the Americans. W.Q.J. is the
Antaskarana between the two Manas(es), the American thought and the
Indian--or rather the trans-Himalayan Esoteric Knowledge.

DIXI H.P.B. * 	
* *

P.S. W.Q.J. had better show, and impress this on the minds of all those
who it may concern." -- (H.P.B. )"

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In another letter she added:  


"If knowing that W.Q.J. is the only man in the E.S. in whom I have
confidence enough not to have extracted from him a pledge, he
misunderstands me or doubts my affection for him or gratitude, then in
addition to other things he must be a flap-doodle ... There is nothing I
would not do for him and I will stick to him till death through thick
and thin ... He says and writes and prints he is my agent (of the Master
rather, not mine). Therefore it is easy for him to say that any
alterations are as by myself .. And look here, if he does protest ...
against what I say about him in the forthcoming Instructions, then I
will curse him on my death-bed. He does not know what I do. He has to
be defended whether he will or not. He has much to endure and he is
over-worked. But so have I, and if he threatens me with such a thing
[as resignation] then I had better shut up shop ... May our Savior, the
mild Jesus, have him in his keeping."
-- HPB	LETTERS, p. 279

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. [ Dec. 14, 1888 ]
KNOW DARE
SAT
WILL SILENCE
                   
ESOTERIC TS SECTION         
Dec 14 l888

"As head of the Esoteric Section of the Theosophical Society I hereby
declare that William Q. Judge, of New York, U.S., in virtue of his
character as a chela of thirteen years' standing, and of the trust and
confidence reposed in him, is my only representative for said Section in
America, and he is the sole channel through whom will be sent and
received all communications between the members of said Section and
myself, and to him full faith, confidence and credit in that regard are
to be given. 

Done at London this fourteenth day in December, 1888, and in the
fourteenth year of the Theosophical Society."

[ SEAL ] H. P. BLAVATSKY  
S A T

THEOSOPHICAL MOVEMENT, Vol. I, p. 17;
WQJ BIOGRAPHY, Eek & de Zircov p. 16-17;
	
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2

W Q J on H P B


Mr. Judge once wrote of H.P.B.'s having shown him "where the designs for
the work had been hidden," and again of her having laid down "the lines
of force all over the land." It is clear that the methods adopted by
H.P.B. were not empiric but conformed to a plan clearly visualized by
the Masters.	(BPW- T M 25-182)

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"...In 1887 Mme. Blavatsky returned to England, and there started
another theosophical magazine, called Lucifer, and immediately stirred
up the movement in Europe. 

Day and night there, as in New York and India, she wrote and spoke,
incessantly corresponding with people everywhere, editing Lucifer, and
making more books for her beloved society, and never possessed of means,
never getting from the world at large anything save abuse wholly
undeserved. THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY was written in London, and also THE
SECRET DOCTRINE, which is the great text book for Theosophists. THE
VOICE OF THE SILENCE was written there too, and is meant for devotional
Theosophists....

The aim and object of her life were to strike off the shackles forged by
priestcraft for the mind of man. She wished all men to know that they
are God in fact, and that as men they must bear the burden of their own
sins, for no one else can do it. Hence she brought forward to the West
the old Eastern doctrines of karma and reincarnation. Under the first,
the law of justice, she said each must answer for himself, and under the
second make answer on the earth where all his acts were done. 

She also desired that science should be brought back to the true ground
where life and intelligence are admitted to be within and acting on and
through every atom in the universe. Hence her object was to make
religion scientific and science religious, so that the dogmatism of each
might disappear.

Her life since 1875 was spent in the unremitting endeavor to draw within
the Theosophical Society those who could work unselfishly to propagate
an ethics and philosophy tending to realize the brotherhood of man by
showing the real unity and essential non-separateness of every being.
And her books were written with the declared object of furnishing the
material for intellectual and scientific progress on those lines. 

The theory of man's origin, powers, and destiny brought forward by her,
drawn from ancient Indian sources, places us upon a higher pedestal that
that given by either religion or science, for it gives to each the
possibility of developing the godlike powers within and of at last
becoming a co-worker with nature...

And there are today scores, nay, hundreds, of devout, earnest men and
women intent on purifying their own lives and sweetening the lives of
others, who trace their hopes and aspirations to the wisdom-religion
revived in the West through her efforts, and who gratefully avow that
their dearest possessions are the result of her toilsome and
self-sacrificing life. If they, in turn, live aright and do good, they
will be but illustrating the doctrine which she daily taught and hourly
practised."	WILLIAM Q. JUDGE
			
THE ESOTERIC SHE N.Y. "SUN" SEPT. 26, 1892
[ WQJ ART II 27 ]

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"YOURS TILL DEATH AND AFTER, H.P.B."

Such has been the manner in which our beloved teacher and friend always
concluded her letters to me. And now, though we are all of us committing
to paper some account of that departed friend and teacher, I feel ever
near and ever potent the magic of that resistless power, as of a mighty
rushing river, which those who wholly trusted her always came to
understand. Fortunate indeed is that Karma which, for all the years
since I first met her, in 1875, has kept me faithful to the friend who,
masquerading under the outer mortal garment known as H. P. Blavatsky,
was ever faithful to me, ever kind, ever the teacher and the guide.

In 1874, in the City of New York, I first met H.P.B. in this life. By
her request, sent through Colonel H. S. Olcott, the call was made in her
rooms in Irving Place, when then, as afterwards, through the remainder
of her stormy career, she was surrounded by the anxious, the
intellectual, the bohemian, the rich and the poor. It was her eye that
attracted me, the eye of one whom I must have known in lives long passed
away. 

She looked at me in recognition at that first hour, and never since has
that look changed. Not as a questioner of philosophies did I come before
her, not as one groping in the dark for lights that schools and fanciful
theories had obscured, but as one who, wandering many periods through
the corridors of life, was seeking the friends who could show where the
designs for the work had been hidden. And true to the call she
responded, revealing the plans once again, and speaking no words to
explain, simply pointed them out and went on with the task. 

It was if but the evening before we had parted, leaving yet to be done
some detail of a task taken up with one common end; it was teacher and
pupil, elder brother and younger, both bent on the one single end, but
she with the power and the knowledge that belong but to lions and sages.
So, friends from the first, I felt safe. Others I know have looked with
suspicion on an appearance they could not fathom, and though it is true
they adduce many proofs which, hugged to the breast, would damn sages
and gods, yet it is only through blindness they failed to see the lion's
glance, the diamond heart of H.P.B....

Amid all the turmoil of her life, above the din produced by those who
charged her with deceit and fraud and others who defended, while month
after month, and year after year...there stands a fact we all might
imitate - devotion absolute to her Master. "It was He," she writes, "who
told me to devote myself to this, and I will never disobey and never
turn back."
In 1888 she wrote to me privately: 

"Well, my only friend, you ought to know better. Look into my life and
try to realize it - in its outer course at least, as the rest is hidden.
I am under the curse of ever writing, as the wandering Jew was under
that of being ever on the move, never stopping one moment to rest. Three
ordinary healthy persons could hardly do what I have to do. I live an
artificial life; I am an automaton running full steam until the power of
generating steam stops, and then - good-bye!...Night before last I was
shown a bird's-eye view of the Theosophical Societies. I saw a few
earnest reliable Theosophists in a death struggle with the world in
general, with other - nominal but ambitious - Theosophists. The former
are greater in numbers than you may think, and they prevailed, as you in
America will prevail, if you only remain staunch to the Master's
programme and true to yourselves. And last night I saw ... and now I
feel strong - such as I am in my body - and ready to fight for Theosophy
and the few true ones to my last breath. The defending forces have to be
judiciously - so scanty they are - distributed over the globe, wherever
Theosophy is struggling against the powers of darkness."

Such she ever was; devoted to Theosophy and the Society organized to
carry out a programme embracing the world in its scope... she often
incurred the resentment of many who became her friends but would not
always care for the infant organization as she had sworn to do. And when
they acted as if opposed to the Society, her instant opposition seemed
to them to nullify professions of friendship. Thus she had but few
friends, for it required a keen insight, untinged with personal feeling,
to see even a small part of the real H. P. Blavatsky...

She worked under directors who, operating from behind the scene, knew
that the Theosophical Society was, and was to be, the nucleus from which
help might spread to all the people of the day, without thanks and
without acknowledgment

Once, in London, I asked her what was the chance of drawing the people
into the Society in view of the enormous disproportion between the
number of members and the millions of Europe and America who neither
knew of nor cared for it. Leaning back in her chair, in which she was
sitting before her writing desk, she said: -

"When you consider and remember those days in 1875 and after, in which
you could not find any people interested in your thoughts, and now look
at the wide-spreading influence of theosophical ideas - however labeled
- it is not so bad. We are not working merely that people may call
themselves Theosophists, but that the doctrines we cherish may affect
and leaven the whole mind of this century. This alone can be
accomplished by a small earnest band of workers, who work for no human
reward, no earthly recognition, but who, supported and sustained by a
belief in that Universal Brotherhood of which our Masters are a part,
work steadily, faithfully, in understanding and putting forth for
consideration the doctrines of life and duty that have come down to us
from immemorial time. Falter not so long as a few devoted ones will work
to keep the nucleus existing. You were not directed to found and realise
a Universal Brotherhood, but to form the nucleus for one; for it is only
when the nucleus is formed that the accumulations can begin that will
end in future years, however far, in the formation of that body which we
have in view."

H.P.B. had a lion heart, and on the work traced out for her she had the
lion's grasp; let us, her friends, companions and disciples, sustain
ourselves in carrying out the designs laid down on the trestle-board, by
the memory of her devotion and the consciousness that behind her task
there stood, and still remain, those Elder Brothers who, above the
clatter and the din of our battle, ever see the end and direct the
forces distributed in array for the salvation of "that great orphan -
Humanity."
WILLIAM Q. JUDGE, F.T.S.
		
                
"YOURS TILL DEATH AND AFTER, H.P.B." [ WQJ II 1 ]
LUCIFER, June 1891

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"I met H.P.B. in 1875 in the city of New York where she was living in
Irving Place. There she suggested the formation of the Theosophical
Society, lending to its beginning the power of her individuality and
giving to its President and those who have stood by it ever since the
knowledge of the existence of the Blessed Masters. 

In 1877 she wrote Isis Unveiled in my presence, and helped in the proof
reading by the President of the Society. This book she declared to me
then was intended to aid the cause for the advancement of which the
Theosophical Society was founded. Of this I speak with knowledge, for I
was present and at her request drew up the contract for its publication
between her and her New York publisher. When that document was signed
she said to me in the street, "Now I must go to India."

Much has been said about her "phenomena," some denying them, others
alleging trick and device. Knowing her for so many years so well, and
having seen at her hands in private the production of more and more
varied phenomena than it has been the good fortune of all others of her
friends put together to see, I know for myself that she had control of
hidden powerful laws of nature not known to our science, and I also know
that she never boasted of her powers, never advertised their possession,
never publicly advised anyone to attempt their acquirement, but always
turned the eyes of those who could understand her to a life of altruism
based on a knowledge of true philosophy.

Her aim was to elevate the race. Her method was to deal with the mind of
the century as she found it, by trying to lead it on step by step; to
seek out and educate a few who, appreciating the majesty of the Secret
Science and devoted to "the great orphan Humanity," could carry on her
work with zeal and wisdom; to found a Society whose efforts - however
small itself might be - would inject into the thought of the day the
ideas, the doctrines, the nomenclature of the Wisdom Religion, so that
when the next century shall have seen its 75th year the new messenger
coming again into the world would find the Society still at work, the
ideas sown broadcast, the nomenclature ready to give expression and body
to the immutable truth, and thus to make easy the task which for her
since 1875 was so difficult and so encompassed with obstacles in the
very paucity of the language, - obstacles harder than all else to work
against."

WILLIAM Q. JUDGE

H.P.B. -- A LION-HEARTED COLLEAGUE PASSES  
[ WQJ II 5 ] PATH, June 1891

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"If there is power in a grateful loyalty to H.P. Blavatsky, as for my
part I fully believe, it does not have its effect by being put forward
all the time, or so often as to be too noticeable, but from its depth,
its true basis, its wise foundation, its effect on our work, our act,
and thought. Hence to my mind there is no disloyalty in reserving the
mention of her name and qualities for right and timely occasions. 

No greater illustration of an old and world-wide religion can be found
than that provided by Buddhism, but what did Buddha say to his disciples
when they brought up the question of the honours to be paid to his
remains? He told them not to hinder themselves about it, not to dwell on
it, but to work out their own salvation with diligence... [these were]
views held by H.P. Blavatsky herself ..."	-- William Q. Judge

"BLAVATSKYANISM' IN AND OUT OF SEASON"
[ WQJ II 19 ?] LUCIFER, December 1893

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"... as to H.P.B. personally, these words might possibly be remembered
with advantage: 

"Masters say that Nature's laws have set apart woe for those who spit
back in the face of their teacher, for those who try to belittle her
work and make her out to be part good and part fraud; those who have
started on the path through her must not try to belittle her work and
aim. They do not ask for slavish idolatry of a person, but loyalty is
required. They say that the Ego of that body she uses was and is a great
and brave servant of the Lodge, sent to the West for a mission with full
knowledge of the insult and obloquy to be surely heaped upon that
devoted head; and they add; 'Those who cannot understand her had best
not try to explain her; those who do not find themselves strong enough
for the task she outlined from the very first had best not attempt it'."

William Q. Judge

H.P.B. WAS NOT DESERTED BY THE MASTERS   
[ WQJ II 13 ] PATH, April 1896

[ WQJ's last article ]




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-----Original Message-----
From: Morten 
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 
To: 
Subject: Tony versus Reed on "The Voice of the Silence"

Hi Leon and all of you,

Well, maybe.

What I am thinking of - is a term called "Baraka" - the spiritual
emanation
atmosphere or blessing of the initiated.

I think, that Blavatsky was being - half-way hijacked by W. Q. Judge.
And that is all.

W. Q. Judge did, what you are sort of saying. He translated some of the
texts, so they were more readable.

That was good for several obvious reason.

But it also had a downside. The downside being, that the books and texts
lost some of their valuable "Baraka", which are attached to these books.

cut