Tag: William Q. Judge
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Blavatsky and Mazzini’s Vision of Progress
Blavatsky and Mazzini adopted the same view towards communism and socialism. Both maintained a unique position in republicanism as a force for the progress of a moralistic and humanitarian syncretic religious vision, “universal brotherhood,” and ethical duty-driven virtue. This vision was divorced from socialism and communist revolutionaries, the emergent “new atheism” of that time (which…
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Olcott’s Strained Relationship with Blavatsky and the Judge Case
STRAINED RELATIONSHIP WITH HELENA BLAVATSKY AFFECTS ADEPT CONNECTIONS TO THEOS. SOC. During a period that The Secret Doctrine was being written, Olcott’s relationship with H.P.B. had become more strained, and it is said K.H. materialized a letter on Olcott’s table saying of H.P.B., that the Adepts have no favorites. K.H. adds, despite H.P.B.’s personality and…
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William Q. Judge on Patriotism and a Nation’s Death: ‘Patriots, in vain…’
“But you know, as any man who has read history, that patriots may burst their hearts in vain if circumstances are against them. Sometimes it has happened that no human power, not even the force and fury of the loftiest patriotism, has been able to bend an iron destiny aside from its fixed course, and…
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William Quan Judge: “The Occultist is reverently and progressively Gnostic”
“The modern scientist is confessedly and boastfully agnostic. The occultist is reverently and progressively gnostic. Modern science recognizes matter as ‘living’ and ‘dead,’ ‘organic’ and ‘inorganic,’ and ‘Life’ as merely a phenomenon of matter. Occult science recognizes, ‘foremost of all, the postulate that there is no such thing in Nature as inorganic substances or bodies.”…
The American Minervan 