Theos-Talk Archives (December 2006 Message tt00064)

Jake,

Thanks a lot.  Although the importance of WQ Judge for the movement is great, it is scarcely recognized in many quarters yet.  Of the several groups which were decisive in preserving the original teachings along the most difficult part of the 20th century,  nearly all resulted from his efforts in the USA.  Judge had a most deep understanding of the movement, and he passed it to others, and they passed it to the present generations.  

Carlos.  


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Data:Sat, 2 Dec 2006 16:02:19 -0800 (PST)

Assunto:Theos-World Quote for Sunday, Dec. 3

> Quote for Sunday, Dec. 3
> 
> 
> "There is a very great difference 
> between the Theosophical Movement and any 
> Theosophical Society. The Movement is 
> moral, ethical, spiritual, universal, 
> invisible save in effect, and continuous. 
> A Society formed for theosophical work 
> is a visible organization, an effect, a 
> machine for conserving energy and putting 
> it to use; it is not nor can it be universal, 
> nor is it continuous. Organized Theosophical 
> bodies are made by men for their better 
> co-operation, but, being mere outer 
> shells, they must change from time to 
> time as human defects come out, as the 
> times change, and as the great underlying 
> spiritual movement compels such alterations 
> . . . One can therefore see that to worship 
> an organization, even though it be the 
> beloved theosophical one, is to fall down 
> before Form, and to become the slave once 
> more of that dogmatism which our portion 
> of the Theosophical Movement, the Theosophical 
> Society, was meant to overthrow . . . 
> H.P.B. herself declared that it were 
> better to do away with the Society rather 
> than to destroy Brotherhood . . ."
> 
> - William Q. Judge, The Path, Vol. V, 
> August, 1885, pp. 137-39.
> 


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