Vernal Blooms by William Quan Judge

William Quan Judge · Theosophy and Theosophists Series · 147 pages

*One hundred and forty-seven pages, the largest file in this batch and one of the largest in the section* — a complete book rather than an extract, first published in 1946 by the Theosophy Company of Bombay and Los Angeles. It carries a foreword by the publishers and an introduction by Robert Crosbie, described as a friend of old time and of the future.

Vernal Blooms collects Judge's shorter pieces, and the contents page lists every one of them with its page number, so a reader can go straight to a single article without opening the whole book. The first section opens with the piece headed with Blavatsky's own signature to him — Yours till death and after, H.P.B. — followed by articles with titles that show the range: Advantages and disadvantages in life; Friends or enemies in the future; Reflections. The register is the one that made Judge the most read of the early theosophical writers in America: short pieces, written for a magazine, addressed to someone trying to live by the teaching rather than to a scholar studying it. Because the file is a photographic-quality reproduction of a printed book with a full contents list, it works both ways — as something to read straight through, and as a place to find one remembered article. Judge's other writings are held separately in this section, but this is the volume that gathers the incidental ones.

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