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JUDGE DAY 20O4 March 21st

Mar 20, 2004 03:59 AM
by Dallas TenBroeck


Re JUDGE DAY March 21st 2004

Dear Friends:

Here are some views of Mr Judge we ought to consider:

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H. P. B. ON W. Q. J.


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H. P. B. to Judge on Nirmanakaya residing within him.


. [ Oct. 3, 1886 ]

Ostende, Oct. 3, 1886

"The trouble with you is that you do not know the great change that came
to pass in you a few years ago. Others have occasionally their astrals
changed and replaced by those of Adepts (as of Elementaries) and they
influence the outer, and the higher man. With you, it is the
NIRMANAKAYA not the 'astral' that is blended with your astral. Hence
the dual nature and fighting."
-- HPB

WQJ BIOGRAPHY, Eek & DE ZIRCOV, p. 19;
B.C.W. Vol. VII, p. xxvii, 138;


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H P B's TRUST & RELIANCE ON JUDGE


24.	[Dec. 14 1888]

On December 14th 1888 HPB issued an ES order stating that Mr. Judge was
to be her "...only channel through whom will be sent and received all
communications between the members of said Section and myself [HPB]."
She did this, as she then also wrote, establishing his 'position' in the
ES "...in virtue of his character as a chela of thirteen years
standing."

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It is plain that HPB reposed a special trust in Judge. She wrote in one
of her letters to him ( # 4, above) that he was "...part of herself for
several aeons...The Esoteric Section and its life in the U.S.A. depends
on W.Q.J. remaining its agent and what he is now. The day W.Q.J.
resigns, H.P.B. will be virtually dead for the Americans. W.Q.J. is the
Antaskarana between the two Manas(es), the American thought and the
Indian--or rather the trans-Himalayan Esoteric Knowledge.

DIXI H.P.B. /\ "

P.S. W.Q.J. had better show, and impress this on the minds of all those
who it may concern." -- (H.P.B. )

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In another letter she added: 

"If knowing that W.Q.J. is the only man in the E.S. in whom I have
confidence enough not to have extracted from him a pledge, he
misunderstands me or doubts my affection for him or gratitude..."


Mr. Judge, as HPB must have seen at one point, had to be told about
events that were potential in the future to come. Looking into that
future, she wrote him from Ostende in July 1886:

-- "Well, sir, and my only friend, the crisis is nearing. I am ending
my S.D. and you are going to replace me, or take my place in
America. I know you will have success if you do not lose heart; but
do, do remain true to the Masters and Their Theosophy and THE NAMES...
May They help you and allow us to send you our best blessings." 
-- HPB { # 15, LETTERS, p. 280 )


And, in another letter, She wrote:-- 

"Take my place in America now and, after I am gone, at Adyar. If you
have no more personal ambition than I have--and I know you have not,
only combativeness--then this will be no more sacrifice for you than it
was for me to have Olcott as my President. ... I am yours truly in the
work forever. Dispose of me. I will ... help you with all my
powers..." 
--HPB	LETTERS p. 282


On the inner planes of the constitution of man there are many mysteries,
some of which Theosophy has made clearer. When one begins to deal with
greater responsibilities, and wider fields of action in a movement which
has the amelioration of the race for its objective and " to change the
manas and buddhi " of that race ( the mental bent and the intuitiveness
), one becomes aware that great personages work side by side with us,
may visit us, even, in our dreams, and speak to us with the whispers of
inspiration.


In HPB's letters to Mr. Judge one may find such an indication. On
October 3rd l886, from Ostende, Belgium, she wrote him: "The trouble
with you is that you do not know the great change that came to pass in
you a few years ago. Others have occasionally their astrals changed and
replaced by those of Adepts (as of Elementaries) and they influence the
outer, and the higher man. With you, it is the NIRMANAKAYA not the
'astral' that is blended with your astral. Hence the dual nature and
fighting." [ #22 ] 
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WQJ APPOINTED VICE-PRESIDENT T .S.


On December 27-29th, 1888 at the Convention held at the Adyar
Headquarters, Col. Olcott PTS nominated Mr. Judge to be Vice-President
of the TS, and this was then done by election.(CWB X, XXVIII). Another
important resolution was also passed then on the policy of reorganizing
the TS on lines of autonomous sections, (see ODL IV 74-83). 
[ The Theosophist, Supplement Yr. Vol. p. ]

We may assume that this was ordered done by Master, HPB having written:
"Master wants Judge to be elected for life, for reasons of his
own--that's God's truth..."; ( see # 12, ) and, writing directly to him,
she says: "...Affairs and events may be turned off by unseen hands into
such a groove that you will be unanimously elected for life -- just as
Olcott and I were--to go on with the work after our deaths." 

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Mr. Judge once wrote of H.P.B.'s having shown him "where the designs for
the work had been hidden," and again of her having laid down "the lines
of force all over the land." It is clear that the methods adopted by
H.P.B. were not empiric but conformed to a plan clearly visualized by
the Masters.	(BPW- T M 25-182)


The implementation of the plan depended primarily upon the work of
H.P.B., but depended and still depends secondarily upon the efforts of
those with sufficient intuition to glimpse something of its outline. Of
those in the public eye, perhaps only two, W. Q. Judge and Damodar K.
Mavalankar, did so immediately, while the remainder were attracted by
one or more of the Three Objects without at first grasping much of
their deeper import. As early as April 1880, in "The Theosophist," it
was stated in the revised Rules and By-Laws that the Society consisted
of three Sections: The first was "exclusively of proficients or
initiates in Esoteric Science or Philosophy," who took a deep interest
in the Society; the second was of Theosophists who had "proved their
fidelity, zeal and courage and their devotion to the Society," that they
had become able to regard all men as equally their brothers, and who
were "ready to defend the life and honor of a brother Theosophist" at
whatever risk to themselves; the third was of Probationers, who
remained such until their purpose to remain in the Society had become
fixed, their usefulness had been shown and their ability to conquer evil
habits and unwarrantable prejudices had been demonstrated."
(Ditto) [B P Wadia, T M, v. 25, p. 182]



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SELECTIONS FROM LETTERS OF H P BLAVATSKY


1. [ Written before 1891 ]

"If W.Q.Judge, the man who has done most for Theosophy in America, who
has worked most unselfishly in your country, and has ever done the
bidding of Master, the best he knew how, is left alone...then I say--let
them go ! They are no Theosophists: and if such a thing should happen,
and Judge be left to fight his battles alone, then I shall bid
all of them an eternal good-bye. I swear on MASTER'S holy name to
shake off the dust of my feet from every one of them ... I am unable to
realize that at the hour of trouble and supreme fight ... any true
Theosophist should hesitate for one moment to back W.Q.J. publicly and
lodge in his or her protest. Let them read Masters' letter in the
preliminary ... All that I said about W.Q.J. was from His words
in His letter to me ... Do with this letter what you like. Show it to
anyone you please as my firm determination ..." --HPB
LETTERS THAT HAVE HELPED ME, (ULT) p. 277 [Theosophy Vol. 3, p.
417]


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2. [ April 3rd. 1888 ] 

"To: William Q. Judge, 
General Secretary of the American Section of the 
Theosophical Society.


MY DEAREST BROTHER AND CO-FOUNDER OF THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY:

In addressing to you this letter, which I request you to read to the
convention summoned for April 22nd, [1888] ... We were several, to call
it to life in 1875. Since then you have remained alone to preserve that
life through good and evil report. It is to you chiefly, if not
entirely, that the Theosophical Society owes its existence in 1888. Let
me then thank you for it, for the first and perhaps the last, time
publicly, and from the bottom of my heart, which beats only for the
cause you represent so well and serve so faithfully. I ask you to
remember that, on this occasion, my voice is but the feeble echo of
other more sacred voices, and the transmitter of the approval
of Those whose presence is alive in more than one true Theosophical
heart, and lives, as I know, pre-eminently in yours. ..."
-- HPB


H.P.B.'s 1st Message to the American Theosophists. April l888.

Proceedings of the Convention,
LETTERS THAT HAVE HELPED ME, p. 276-7 U.L.T.,
Los Angeles, l946

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3.
[ Dec. 14, 1888 ]
KNOW DARE
SAT
WILL SILENCE

ESOTERIC TS SECTION 
Dec 14 l888

"As head of the Esoteric Section of the Theosophical Society I hereby
declare that William Q. Judge, of New York, U.S., in virtue of his
character as a chela of thirteen years' standing, and of the trust and
confidence reposed in him, is my only representative for said Section in
America, and he is the sole channel through whom will be sent and
received all communications between the members of said Section and
myself, and to him full faith, confidence and credit in that regard are
to be given. 

Done at London this fourteenth day in December, 1888, and in the
fourteenth year of the Theosophical Society."

[ SEAL ] H. P. BLAVATSKY 
S A T

THEOSOPHICAL MOVEMENT, Vol. I, p. 17;
WQJ BIOGRAPHY, Eek & de Zircov
p. 16-17;
EST CIRCULAR, May 27, l891, (Pt. Loma)




4. [ Oct. 23, 1889 ]


"He or she, who believes that under any circumstances whatever,
provocations, gossips, slander or anything devised by the enemy, H.P.B.
will ever dream even of going against W.Q.J.--does not know H.P.B.--even
if he or she does know H.P.Blavatsky, or thinks he knows her.

"The idea is absurd & preposterous.

"If W.Q.J. gets riled under any provocation--for more than five minutes
by the city clock, then he is a flap-doodle. H.P.B. would give 7 dozens
of Bridges, 77 dozens of Noyses, the whole esoteric brood in the U.S.A.
for one W.Q.J. who is part of herself for several eons. Those having
ears will hear, those who are deaf & blind, let them provide themselves
with false ears & glass eyes, or--vanish away.

"The Esoteric Section and its life in the U.S.A. depends on W.Q.J.
remaining its agent & what he is now. The day W.Q. J. resigns, H.P.B.
will be virtually dead for the Americans. W.Q.J. is the Antaskarana
between the two Manas (es), the American thought & the Indian--or rather
the trans-Himalayan Esoteric Knowledge. DIXI."

H.P.B. 

P.S. W.Q.J. had better show, & impress this on the minds of all those
whom it may concern."
(H.P.B.)

WQJ BIOGRAPHY, Eek & de Zircov, p. 20-21.
LETTERS THAT HAVE HELPED ME, (ULT), p. 277-8 

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5.

"KEEP THE LINK (the Antaskarana) UNBROKEN ! DO NOT LET MY LAST
INCARNATION BE A FAILURE."
(The last words of HPB)

EST Circular, June 1893 issued by A. Besant;
T. M. HISTY 1875-1950, p. 160;

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6.

"Ingratitude is a crime in Occultism, and I shall illustrate the point
by citing the case of W.Q.Judge. He is one of the three founders of the
Theosophical Society, the only three who have remained as true as rock
to the cause. While others have all turned deserters or enemies, he has
ever remained faithful to his original pledge ... He is the
Resuscitator of Theosophy in the United States, and is working to the
best of his means and ability, and at a great sacrifice, for the spread
of the movement... Brother Judge refuses to defend himself (*)... But
is that a reason why we should let him go undefended ? It is our
bounden duty to support him, in every way... Let our protest be on
merely defensive lines, and not of an aggressive character. For, if the
spirit of Theosophy does not permit aggressiveness being used, yet it
does demand in some cases active defense, and it does impose on everyone
the duty of taking an active interest in the welfare of a brother,
especially of a persecuted brother, as Mr. Judge is now ... "
-- H. P. Blavatsky.

THEOS. MVT., Vol. 5, p. 65
WQJ BIOGRAPHY, Eek & de Zircov, p. 22
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FN, (*) Mr. Judge was being attacked by Dr. Coues.


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7.

"If knowing that W.Q.J. is the only man in the E.S. in whom I have
confidence enough not to have extracted from him a pledge, he
misunderstands me or doubts my affection for him or gratitude, then in
addition to other things he must be a flap-doodle ... There is nothing I
would not do for him and I will stick to him till death through thick
and thin ... He says and writes and prints he is my agent (of the Master
rather, not mine). Therefore it is easy for him to say that any
alterations are as by myself .. And look here, if he does protest ...
against what I say about him in the forthcoming Instructions, then I
will curse him on my death-bed. He does not know what I do. He has to
be defended whether he will or not. He has much to endure and he is
over-worked. But so have I, and if he threatens me with such a thing
[as resignation] then I had better shut up shop ... May our Savior, the
mild Jesus, have him in his keeping."
-- HPB
LETTERS, p. 279

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8.

"He who does all and the best he can and knows how does ENOUGH for Them.
This is a message for Judge. His Path begins to beat The Theosophist
out of sight. It is most excellent ... The Path alone is his
certificate for him in Theosophy." - -HPB

LETTERS , p. 279

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9.

"Oh, my poor crushed chum, what would I give to help him. I try to be
with him as much as I can. I am often watching him. ... He should
gather strength from one who is oftener with him than he knows of." --
HPB
LETTERS p.279


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10.

"Judge ... whom I trusted more perhaps than I did Olcott--or myself."

LETTERS THAT HAVE HELPED ME (ULT) p. 279
IRISH THEOSOPHIST, June 1895.


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11.

"My Co-Founder, W.Q.Judge, General Secretary in America."
-- H. P.
Blavatsky

LETTERS, p. 280


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12.

"Master wants Judge to be elected for life, for reasons of His
own--that's God's truth. ... Less that you would I want to see X---- or
anyone (save Judge) elected for life. ... But if I do not like the idea
it is because I trust no one any longer, save Judge, and Olcott perhaps.
I have lost my faith in mankind and see and smell (rightly, if you
please) Judases everywhere. But with Judge it is different
..."
-- HPB

LETTERS, p. 280

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13.


"My dear W. Q. J....my only friend...Judge has done for me so much
lately, I owe him such gratitude, there is nothing I would not do for
him...pon my word, I never knew I cared so much for him personally...I
will never forget Judge's loyalty and devotion, his unswerving
friendship..."	-- H. P. Blavatsky
LETTERS, p. 280


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14.


"Thanks for all, my dear old chum [W.Q.J.]; may the Masters protect
him. His ever and till and AFTER death." -- HPB

LETTERS THAT HAVE HELPED ME, p. 280;
IRISH THEOSOPHIST, June 1895.

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15. [ July, 1886 ]
Ostende, July 1886

"Well, sir, and my only friend, the crisis is nearing. I am ending my
Secret Doctrine, and you are going to replace me, or take my place in
America. I know you will have success if you do not lose heart; but
do, do remain true to the Masters and Their Theosophy and the names ...
May They help you and allow us to send you our best blessings. "
-- HPB

[letter continued] I am offered any amount of money, an income, board,
lodging, all free to come to America and work without you, i.e.,
against...I rather lose the whole American lot to the last man, X----
included, than YOU. Perhaps soon now, they will know why...Now be so
kind as to write to me plainly (so that I can read) what you expect me
to do and what I must not do. And I give you my word that I shall
follow your instructions. Let us understand each other, mutually. But
till now no one ever said to me a word about you asking to do this or
that. Write to me direct and I will do it. Goodbye my Irish crocodile,
and may Master protect you." -- H. P. Blavatsky

"SHE BEING DEAD YET SPEAKETH"
HPB ARTICLES, (ULT), Vol. I, 121.
LETTERS THAT HAVE HELPED ME, p. 280.
COLLECTED. WORKS of H.P. BLAVATSKY, V. 7, p. xxvii

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16.

... "Affairs and events may be turned off by unseen hands into such a
groove that you will be unanimously elected for life--just as Olcott and
I were--to go on with the work after our deaths. Do you understand what
it means? It means that, unless you consent, you force me to a
miserable life and a MISERABLE DEATH, with the idea preying upon my mind
that there is an end of Theosophy. That for several years I will not be
able to help it on, and steer its course, became I will have to act in a
body which will have to be assimilated to the Nirmanakaya, because even
in occultism there are such things as a failure and a retardment and a
misfit ... Nothing that you will do will ever be discountenanced by me,
my beloved W.Q.J." -- HPB

LETTERS, pp. 280-281

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17.

"If I thought for one moment that Lucifer will 'rub out' Path I would
never consent to be the editor. But listen, then, my good old friend.
Once that the Masters have proclaimed your Path the best, the most
theosophical of all theosophical publications, surely it is not to
allow it to be rubbed out ... One is the fighting combative Manas: the
other (Path) is pure Buddhi ... Lucifer will be Theosophy
militant and Path the shining light, the Star of Peace. If your
intuition does not whisper to you 'IT IS SO,' then that intuition must
be wool-gathering. No, sir, the Path is too well, too theosophically
edited for me to interfere."
-- HPB
LETTERS, p. 281

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18.

"I trust Judge more than anyone in the world ... He has numerous enemies
who work against him underhand and openly too, as --- does. Now I have
to hold in check and counterwork their machinations when they write or
say to Olcott that Judge is a liar, etc. Now this is a ____ lie ... I
am thinking of going to U.S. with Annie Besant when the spirit moveth
me." --HPB

LETTERS THAT HAVE HELPED ME, (ULT), p. 281

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19. [ 1888 ] 

"Well, my only friend, you ought to know better. Look into my life and
try to realize it--in its outer course at least, as the rest is hidden.
I am under the curse of ever writing, as the wandering Jew was under
that of being ever on the move, never stopping one moment to rest.
Three ordinary healthy persons could hardly do what I have to do. I
live an artificial life; I am an automaton running full steam until the
power of generating steam stops, and then--good-bye ! ... 

Night before last I was shown a bird's eye-view of the Theosophical
Societies. I saw a few earnest reliable Theosophists in a death
struggle with the world in general, with other--nominal but
ambitious--Theosophists. The former are greater in number than you may
think, and they prevailed, as you in America will prevail, if you only
remain staunch to the Master's programme and true to yourselves. And
last night I saw /\ and now I feel strong--such as I am in my
body--and ready to fight for Theosophy and the few true ones to my last
breath, The defending forces have to be judiciously--so scanty they
are--distributed over the globe, wherever Theosophy is struggling
against the powers of darkness." --H.
P. Blavatsky
[Letter continued]

"Is Judge ready to help me to carry on the sacrifice--that of accepting
and carrying on the burden of life, which is heavy? My choice is made
and I will not go back on it. I remain in England in the midst of the
howling wolves. Here I am needed and nearer to America; there in Adyar
there are dark plots going on against me and poor Olcott."
-- H. P. Blavatsky


LETTERS THAT HAVE HELPED ME, p. 281-2,
LUCIFER VIII, p. 291,
"YOURS TILL DEATH AND AFTER."
WQJ ARTICLES (ULT), II, p.2



20.


"Take my place in America now and, after I am gone, at Adyar. If you
have no more personal ambition than I have-- and I know you have not,
only combativeness--then this will be no more sacrifice for you than it
was for me to have Olcott as my President. ... I am yours truly in the
work forever. Dispose of me. I will ... help you with all my powers
..." 

"Well, I have raised a 'Frankenstein' [the TS.], and he seeks to devour
me. You alone can save the fiend and make of him a man. Breathe into
him a soul if not the spirit. Be his Savior in the U.S. and may the
blessings of my SUPERIORS and yours descend on you. Yours--the 'old
woman,' but one ready to offer you her inner life if you begin and
proceed with the work ... But as the ranks thin around us, and one by
one our best intellectual forces depart, to turn bitter enemies, I
say--Blessed are the pure-hearted who have only intuition, for intuition
is better than intellect ..." --HPB

LETTERS THAT HAVE HELPED ME, (ULT), p. 281-2

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22. [ Sept. 12, 1889 ]

[ HPB to Mr. R. Harte, Acting Editor, 
THE THEOSOPHIST, Adyar, India.

"...Nevertheless your wicked and untheosophical denunciation of Judge,
which is as false as it is untheosophical falls flat again in its
application to the E.S. Judge has never pledged himself, never signed
anything; for as in the case of Olcott, my confidence in him is
sufficient to trust him without any Pledges. The numerous letters I
receive from really good theosophists such as Buck, Mrs. Ver Planck, do
not show their 'disgust' for Judge. But they show me most decidedly for
your tactless writings in The Theosophist and the showers of letters
you inundate them with. If the American Section breaks with Adyar it
will be your doing."
H. P. Blavatsky
WQJ BIOGRAPHY, Eek & de Zircov, p. 23-4.
THEOS. FORUM, Vol. 5, Jan. 1934


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23. [ Apl. 15, 1891 ]

"To the Fifth Convention of the American Section of 
The Theosophical Society --[ read by
Annie Besant]

BROTHER THEOSOPHISTS:

"I have purposely omitted any mention of my oldest friend and
fellow-worker, W.Q.Judge, in my general address to you, because I think
that his unflagging and self-sacrificing efforts for the building up of
Theosophy in America deserves special mention.

Had it not been for W.Q.Judge, Theosophy would not be where it is today
in the United States. It is he who has mainly built up the movement
among you, and he who has proved in a thousand ways his entire loyalty
to the best interests of Theosophy and the Society.

Mutual admiration should play no part in a Theosophical Convention, but
honour should be given where honour is due, and I gladly take this
opportunity of stating in public, by the mouth of my friend and
colleague, Annie Besant, my deep appreciation of the work of your
General Secretary, and of publicly tendering him my most
sincere thanks and deeply-felt gratitude in the name of Theosophy, and
for the noble work he is doing and has done.

Yours fraternally, 
H.P.Blavatsky /\

Fifth of the FIVE MESSAGES TO AMERICAN THEOSOPHISTS, p. 32

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2 W.Q. .JUDGE ON H.P.B.


THE ESOTERIC SHE N.Y. "SUN" SEPT. 26, 1892
[ WQJ ART II 27 ]

"YOURS TILL DEATH AND AFTER, H.P.B." [ WQJ II 1 ]
LUCIFER, June 1891

H.P.B. -- A LION-HEARTED COLLEAGUE PASSES 
[ WQJ II 5 ] PATH, June 1891

MASTERS, ADEPTS, TEACHERS, AND DISCIPLES 
[ WQJ II 9 ] PATH, June, 1893

"BLAVATSKYANISM' IN AND OUT OF SEASON"
[ WQJ II 19 ?] LUCIFER, December 1893

H.P.B. WAS NOT DESERTED BY THE MASTERS 
[ WQJ II 13 ] PATH, April 1896

[ WQJ's last article ]



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Best wishes, 

Dallas






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