Judge on Theosophical Study and Work

William Quan Judge · Theosophy and Theosophists Series · 34 pages

Thirty-four pages with a contents page of key concepts. Its centrepiece is *a numbered list of seventy-two hints to study and ponder upon, highlighted by Judge from The Secret Doctrine* — which makes this the most practical companion on the site to a book most readers find difficult to begin.

The hints are short, headed and separately paginated, so the list can be worked through a few at a time or consulted for one point. The opening ones give their flavour: A Prophecy; An Archaic Manuscript; Continuity of Plan from One Manvantara to Another; The Basis of Affinity; Each Period of Evolution; A New Element at the End of Our Fourth Round; Akasha and Manas Correspond; Manas in the Fifth Round; Difference between the Effect of Great and Minor Pralaya; a caution that Dhyani-Chohans is not the only term for the highest beings; Each Round; the observation that the Absolute is not understood even by the Dhyani-Chohans; and The Breath of Brahmā. What the list does, in effect, is mark the places in a very long book where the reader should slow down — Judge acting as a guide through material he knew as well as anyone then living, having worked with Blavatsky from the founding of the Society. Read beside "Judge on the True Theosophist's Path", also in this batch, it gives the same teacher in two modes: the systematic exposition there, and here the marginal notes of someone rereading a book he already knows.

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