Tributes to William Quan Judge

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Charles Johnston, Archibald Keightley, Julia W.L. Keightley and others · Theosophy and Theosophists Series · 47 pages

*Forty-seven pages, and the largest collection of tributes in the library* — nineteen named contributors, including Jerome A. Anderson, Blavatsky herself, J.D. Buck, J.H. Connelly, Robert Crosbie, Thomas Green, Katherine Hillard, Charles Johnston, both Archibald and Julia Keightley, and Claude Falls Wright. Judge's own writings fill several files earlier in this section; this is the section's memorial to him.

It opens with introductory notes from two editors, then Jasper Niemand's biographical notes, whose section headings carry the tone of the whole file: theosophy is a cry of the soul; work, work, work for theosophy; and the sentence that gives the memorial its heading — William Judge cast no one out of the sanctuary of his heart. The part most worth reading is Blavatsky's, headed Madame Blavatsky on her only friend, and it consists largely of what she wrote to him directly. She calls him the knight errant who fought amid the beating of drums and the clash and clamour, the excitement and glory of a princely tournament. She tells him her heart beats only for the cause he represents so well and serves so faithfully. She records that Judge does the Master's work to the best of his ability, and — in the line that is hardest to read without being moved, given what happened to the movement after her death — that nothing he will ever do will be discountenanced by her. A section of prophetic insights follows. Because the tributes come from so many hands, and from people who disagreed with each other about a great deal, the file gives an unusually rounded picture of one man as his contemporaries actually saw him.

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