Theos-Talk Archives (March 2006 Message tt01225)

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WILLIAM  Q. JUDGE,  H.P.B.,  THE  AMERICAS AND THE FUTURE

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Dear Friends,

William Q. Judge, one of the three main founders of the theosophical 
movement, wrote about the role of the Americas in the future of mankind:

“It seems as if some power, deliberately planning, had selected North and 
South America for the place where a new primary root-race should begin.  
These two continents were evidently the seats of ancient races and not the 
habitation of wild undeveloped men. The red man of the Northern one has all  
the appearance and beliefs of a great race. He believes in one God, a 
Devachan of happy hunting after death. Some tribes have diagrams of how the 
world was formed and peopled, that strangely resemble the Hindu cosmogony. 
(...)”

And also:

“Central America is crowded with remains in stone and brick; and so on south 
we will discover similar proofs.”(1)

This ‘prophecy’ about discoveries was written in 1892, and H.P.B. had 
already foreseen that. The prevision was confirmed in 1911, when   Machu 
Picchu, ‘the lost city of the Incas’,  was found in Peru. Since then,  many 
other discoveries were made, though less important.

Referring to the book  “The Secret Doctrine”,  William Judge said:

“Turn to page 444 and onward of the  second volume. Read there that the 
Americans have become in only three hundred years a primary race pro tem.,  
in short, the germs of the sixth sub-race,  to blossom in a few more 
centuries into pioneers of that one which must succeed  to the present 
European fifth sub-race  in all its characteristics.” (2)

As to the importance of North America for the theosophical movement, Mr. 
Judge  wrote, referring to H.P. Blavatsky:

“It was to the United States, observe, that the messenger of the Masters 
came, although Europe was just as acessible for the enterprise set on foot. 
Later, this messenger  went to India and then to Europe, settling down in 
the British Isles. All of this is of importance in our reflections.  For why 
in America at first does she begin the movement, and why end her part of it 
in England? (...) The point where the great energy is  started, the centre 
of force, is the more important, and not the place at which it is ended.” 
(3)

> From the viewpoint of the Esoteric Philosophy, those who stimulate hate in 
general are clearly out of touch with reality.

Yet this is particularly true of those who specifically stimulate hatred 
against one nation, be it an Arab country, the Jewish nation, or the United 
States of America. If this last country now plays a leading role in human 
affairs, it is not without good reasons.  In her Second Message to the 
American TS Convention, in 1889, H. P. Blavatsky wrote:

“But you in America. Your Karma as a nation has brought Theosophy home to 
you. The life of the Soul, the psychic side of nature, is open to many of 
you.”

Thus  HPB clarified that North America attracted Theosophy by its own good 
karma. Immediately after that, she refers to the obviously central 
connection between Theosophy and practical Ethics:

“The life of altruism is not so much a high ideal as a matter of practice. 
Naturally, then, Theosophy finds a home in many hearts and minds, and 
strikes a resounding harmony as soon as it reaches the ears of those who are 
ready to listen. There, then, is a part of your  work; to lift high the 
torch of the liberty of the Soul of Truth that all may see it and benefit by 
its light.”

And then:

“Therefore it is that the Ethics of Theosophy are even more necessary to 
mankind than the scientific aspects of  the psychic facts of nature and 
man.”

In the last few decades, I  have been able to observe how correct this last 
statement is.

You will find people with a precarious vision of the spiritual way at the 
intellectual level, who nevertheless  have a clean life, an open mind, a 
pure heart and an eager intellect.

You will also meet people with an apparently sophisticated command of 
theosophical and even “Blavatskian” concepts at the mental level, but whose 
motives are selfish, confused, or both.

Therefore without Ethics,   the “scientific aspects” are no Theosophy,  at 
all. They  do not lead to universal brotherhood. They are scarcely useful to 
human progress,  in themselves.

We are all Arjunas, as W. Judge wrote. We are  warriors  in the ethical and 
karmic battlefield of our daily lives.

The American continents seem to have a role to play in the moral and ethical 
struggle now taking place  in everyone’s soul, worldwide --  and in the 
human karma as a whole.

For karma is both individual and collective,  and there are no real 
separations between beings in our universe.

Best regards,  Carlos Cardoso Aveline.


NOTES:

(1) “The Heart Doctrine”, by William Q. Judge, The Theosophy Co. (India), 
Bombay, 1977, 211 pp., see pp. 206-207.
(2)  “The Heart Doctrine”, p. 206.
(3)  “The Heart Doctrine”, p. 208.
(4)  “The Collected Writings of H.P. Blavatsky”, TPH/Wheaton, volume XI, p. 
162.

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