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Compassion: the Spirit of Truth
7 November 2011
Students, please note that version 5.81 is up now!
Table of Contents new functionality
20 October 2011
Table of Contents entries in long PDF files now double as hyperlinks. When hovering over any such entry, the cursor changes into a hand with an outstretched index finger, suggesting an underlying link that can be activated.
The Theosophical Movement
10 June 2011
We are often asked, “Is there a magazine that has remained true to original vision and vibe of the Theosophical Society, and that can nourish minds with the life-stream of Truth?”
Indeed there is, we answer. It is The Theosophical Movement: a Magazine Devoted to the Living of the Higher Life, http://www.ultindia.org/current_issues.html
Published monthly by the Theosophy Company (India) Private Ltd., Mumbai, since 17 November 1930, it is dedicated (a) to the furthering the objects of the Theosophical Movement, (b) to disseminate fundamental ideas of the philosophy of Theosophy, and (c) to aid students in the understanding of the philosophy and its application to daily life.
Echoes of the Orient: The Writings of William Quan Judge
Compiled by Dara Eklund. Second and Revised Edition. Pasadena: Theosophical University Press, 2009-11 [4 Vols.]: Vols. I and II, 2009; Vol. III, 2010; Cumulative Index Vol. IV, 2011
6 August 2011
Thanks to the hard work and generosity of the Theosophical University Press, PDFs of all volumes are now freely available from http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/wqj-echoes/wqj-echoes-hp.htm
9 May 2011
W.Q. Judge (1851–1896) can be discerned as both a mystic and an occultist. His mystic qualities may be traced to his account of an Irish lad’s terminal illness, in which a Rajah (the real W.Q.J.) took over the body of the dying child. Judge’s tale of “A Borrowed Body” in our Echoes of the Orient series, describes the dual life of Judge; his daily struggle to use the borrowed vehicle, while the Rajah lay asleep in India. His Occult knowledge is evidenced by readers of his Path magazine articles, either under his own name as editor, or under various pseudonyms. Most of these appear in our Echoes series as well as his articles in The Irish Theosophist, Lucifer, The Forum, Vahan, etc.
When Judge matured, well after he came to America and became a co-founder of The Theosophical Society in 1875, H.P. Blavatsky described his truly occult nature. The following excerpt written in October 1886, can be found in the Boris de Zirkoff and Sven Eek biography, presented in our first volume of Echoes of the Orient, p. xxxiv:
The trouble with you is that you do not know the great change that came to pass in you a few years ago. Others have occasionally their astrals changed and replaced by those of Adepts . . . and they influence the outer, and the higher man. With you, it is the NIRMANAKAYA not the “astral” that blended with your astral. Hence dual nature and fighting. [Originally found quoted in The Theosophical Forum, Pt. Loma, Vol. III, August 15, 1932, p. 253.]
The biographical sketch of over 50 pages includes his role as both General Secretary of the T.S. in the United States, his fruitful literary decade from starting his Path magazine in 1886 to the close of his life in 1896. Besides writing tirelessly for his own journal, which H.P.B. called “pure Buddhi,” he produced several Theosophical texts: The Ocean of Theosophy; his own Bhagavad Gita rendition (plus a commentary); The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali; Occult Tales, as well as hundreds of tracts sent to branches across the United States (where he gave lecture tours). Later booklets were drawn from The Path such as Epitome of Theosophy and Theosophy Generally Stated. W.Q.J. was a strong influence on the Irish Literary Renaissance, and AE (George Wm. Russell) wrote of Judge: “I think he only says things he knows.”
Our second edition of the four volume series produced during 2008 through 2011 was updated with more extensive footnotes. This was due to the internet sources not available for the first edition, which was destroyed during the Southern California wild fires in 2007.
Dara Eklund
Compliler
Website Upgrade
23 April 2011
In the run-up to our fourth anniversary online we have upgraded the site’s infrastructure and graphic design. As Study Notes are now split into separate pages to give visitors fast access to their ever-expanding content, old links may no longer have the correct address and will have to be reset.
We take this opportunity to give thanks to our friends for their encouragement and support, and wish them well in their journey towards the Light of Truth.
May we all grow together, tender of heart for others’ woes, strong in mind for our own.
Theosophical Classics CD-ROM x64 Upgrade
14 October 2010
For the benefit of those users of the Theosophical Classics CD-ROM who wish to migrate to any Windows 64-bit operating system, i.e., XP, Vista or Windows 7, we have updated and repackaged the original version of the program as it uses the 16-bit version of MediaViewer and will not work with 64-bit data types and addresses.
The new version, Theosophical Classics.msi, keeps all the original files in a single package but adds the files needed by the 32-bit version of MediaViewer. It will work in any modern Windows operating environment, whether 32-bit or 64-bit. The upgrade is expressly limited to system compatibility and ease of installation. There are no other modifications to the original program.
Theosophical Classics.msi is now available upon request.
