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Re:W.Q.Judge's "unpublished" letters

Jan 14, 1998 04:54 PM
by Jerry Hejka-Ekins


Most of the unpublished Judge letters are in the archives of the Adyar TS and in
the archives of the Pasadena TS.  The unpublished Judge letters to Olcott in the
Adyar archives, if published, would  either show that Olcott's accusations
concerning Judge's letters are correct or that they are not.  This is an important
issue concerning the Judge case.  The Pasadena TS archives has the Olcott side of
the correspondence, but these would be of no importance in resolving this
question, unless they were made available along with the Judge side of the
correspondence.  I'm personally aware of several people who have pressured Adyar
to make these letters available since the 60s, and Adyar has so far refused.  One
of the people was the late Boris deZirkoff.  The Pasadena TS has expressed to
Adyar a willingness to publish Olcott side of the correspondence providing Adyar
agrees to publish the Judge side.  Their reasoning is that it would be a manner of
fairness that both sides should be available.

Adyar has given no official reason for being unwilling to make the Judge letters
public.

ECHOES OF THE ORIENT was published by Point Loma Publications.


JJHE





Lmhem111 wrote:

> In a message dated 98-01-12 23:59:52 EST, you write:
>
> << only a very  small sample of Judge's letters have even been made public.
> Most of Judge's  letters remain unpublished and unavailable in TS archives. >>
>
> I find this quite fascinating and at the same time somewhat troubling. What
> would be the purpose in this day and age of not making his letters public,
> particularly since so many are interested in the history of the Theosophical
> Movement and in what the Founders had to say and teach? This is very odd! Has
> any effort been made or has any pressure been put on the TS to make those
> "unavailable" letters public? By the TS, I'm assuming you mean the Adyar TS. I
> had thought that most of his letters had been published by the Theosophy
> Company, the TS (Pasadena) and Point Loma Publications.
>
> I have the following:
>
> LETTERS THAT HAVE HELPED ME by WQJ
> Theosophy Company, 1946
>
> PRACTICAL OCCULTISM, Letters by WQJ
> edited by Arthur L. Conger
> Theosophical University Press, 1951
>
> ECHOES OF THE ORIENT (3 volumes)
> Compliled by Dara Eklund
> TS (Pasadena)
> (Volume 3 has "Answers to Correspondence")
>
> I thought that just about wrapped it up as far as Judges' correspondence is
> concerned. I guess I was wrong.
>
> Lmhem111
>
>







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