The Role of Adepts in the Great American Revolution

William Quan Judge, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky · Buddhas and Initiates Series · 16 pages

The whole exchange in four parts. Part one is W.Q. Judge's article on the Adepts in America in 1776, whose argument turns on what the Declaration of Independence leaves out: that dogmatic theology has no foundation in any part of it, and that all reference to religion, Christianity and God's commands is absent. Part two is the letter of objection from Chhabigram Dolatram (Dikshita), also issued separately in this section, questioning whether the Adepts can be said to have guided Washington and the other leaders of the Revolution.

Part three is Blavatsky's editorial reply, and it concedes a good deal. If any Adepts influenced Washington or brought about the Revolution, she writes, it was the Brothers of the Rosie Cross and not the Indian or Tibetan initiates, and the inferences her imaginative correspondent has drawn from Judge's article are too far-fetched. What she does affirm confidently is a different case: that the French Revolution was greatly influenced by the Count de Saint-Germain, who has a file of his own in this section. Part four is Judge's own response to Dolatram. The frontispiece is Jean Leon Gerome Ferris's painting of the writing of the Declaration, with Jefferson, Franklin and Adams at Jefferson's Philadelphia lodgings.

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