W.Q. Judge on the Occult Nature of Man

William Quan Judge · Constitution of Man Series · 12 pages

From a manuscript attributed to Judge, collected in Echoes of the Orient III under the heading Occultism. Its subject is the point of divergence between the left-hand and right-hand paths, which he describes as very subtle, very slight, easily overlooked and swiftly passed — so that each step must be taken with care, questioning the intuition and analysing with the brain: in short, discriminating.

The test he offers is a single one and stated without qualification: if there is one unfailing proof of error, it is to find material advantage of any kind mixed up with spiritual development. The two cannot mix, the very nature of energy forbidding it, and only psychism of the left-hand order can go hand in hand with material gain. He follows the consequences for both parties — victims suffer because causes are blindly set in motion against them, and those causes act by law and cannot be stayed, but their karmic effect is brief compared with what dogs the perpetrators. Of all crimes against humanity, he calls darkest the one that attacks men through their ideals, and holds it would be impossible if men kept those ideals pure and held high like blazing torches. The epigraph states the same thing positively: that truth belongs to God and Nature and is the birthright of man, but flees the touch of anyone who would make merchandise of her.

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