Occult Tales by William Quan Judge

William Quan Judge · Down to Earth Series · 45 pages

Forty-five pages gathering twelve of William Quan Judge's occult tales, with a contents page giving each tale's title and its central idea, and a closing list of further reading. Please note that this file is not linked from the Down to Earth section list at present; it has been given a description page like the rest of the section, but no line has been added to the list, since that is a decision for the publisher.

The twelve tales are arranged as a sequence around what the contents page calls the Sacred Island of Destiny, each carrying a stated theme. A Weird Tale opens on the proposition that the Great Truth is one but can be seen in a thousand different ways. Papyrus takes compassion and brotherhood as the way to the Temple, and A Curious Tale the eternal fire never yet known to have gone out. The Serpent's Blood turns on a prophecy of light from the Mountain Diamond. The Magic Screen of Time carries the observation that those whose astral sense is not opened, and who do not see the terrible things about us, are happy; The Wandering Eye describes the seeker ever asking and never waiting for the answer; and The Tell-tale Picture Gallery the monitoring and recording of a disciple's thoughts and spiritual life. The Skin of the Earth deals with elemental beings as formless centres of force, and The Turn of the Wheel is subtitled a little tale of karma. Where the Rishis were looks back to a time before the chalk cliffs of Albion rose out of the wave. The Persian Students' Doctrine concerns the transmigration of life-atoms, and The Coming of the Serpent closes the sequence on the injunction to forget no duty and omit no effort, until the last drop of the ophidian blood is transmuted into elixir.

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