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Judge's own rendering of an Upanishad passage on the nature of mind, the senses, and Brahman, recast in modern language. +
On the Theosophical teaching regarding the Moon's nature, origin, and relation to the Earth in the planetary chain. +
A caution against accumulating theosophical reading without real reflection, arguing that understanding comes from thought, not quantity of books. +
A series of meditative aphorisms on the inward discipline, trials, and temper of the true Theosophist. +
On a society in India working to revive Vedic learning, and its relation to the work of the Theosophical Society in America. +
On the Bhagavad-Gita's setting at the opening of battle and its teaching of devotion through selfless duty, Karma, reincarnation, and the Self as spectator of life's apparent conflicts. +
An invitation for readers of every belief to send in their unanswered questions, to be answered sincerely but without claim to authority, some to be published in ''The Path'' and the rest answered directly by letter. +
[[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] recommends the October, November and December 1893 instalments of this series in connection with [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s discussion of precipitation. <span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-style: italic;"> (<span style="font-style: italic; border-bottom:1px dotted gray; cursor:help;" title="">[[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Precipitation#121|BCW 6:121]]</span>)</span>
The series comprises four instalments: I–II, “Precipitation” (October–November 1893); III, “Disintegration—Reintegration” (December 1893); and IV, “Some Propositions by [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]” (January 1894). <span style="color: grey; font-size: 90%; font-style: italic;"> (<span style="font-style: italic; border-bottom:1px dotted gray; cursor:help;" title="">[https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/path/path-hp.htm#8 The Path, volume VIII: October 1893–January 1894]</span>)</span> +
On the impropriety of seeking or offering occult knowledge for money or personal gain, comparing it to the money-changers driven from the Temple. +
Against the dabblers and book-makers who treat Occultism as a matter of formulas or sentiment, Judge describes it as a science of vast sweep and infinite detail, governed by exact laws of force and number, to be approached only through purified motive and patient work for humanity. +
Against the fallacies of Mind Cure, Mental Science, and Christian Science — their denial of matter and evil, and their interference with the working-out of Karmic causes through the body — Judge warns of the real danger of insanity from such ignorant practice of occult forces. +
On the Theosophical Society's historical lack of a large central fund or property, and why this relative poverty has been a protection rather than a weakness. +
Against the hope, common even among Theosophists, that the Adepts will intervene to grant occult powers such as clairaudience, Judge quotes a Master's own words that such powers must be self-acquired by each student, and can then only be set in motion — never bestowed — by a Master. +
On what it truly means to study Theosophy — not the mere reading of books but long, careful thought upon doctrines such as reincarnation and Karma — and a list of prejudices the student should first discard. +
On the limits of argument to produce real conviction, which Judge holds must come instead from the inner consciousness absorbing a truth. +
Brief remarks at the Theosophical Congress on why its sessions open without a set religious invocation. +
A lecture explaining the doctrine of karma as the law governing happiness and suffering, delivered to a general audience. +
On America's growing role as a focus of world attention as a sign of the cyclic movement of civilization eastward and westward. +
A reply to a correspondent questioning whether Theosophical open-mindedness amounts to having no firm convictions at all. +
On the mystic doctrine of a "true sun" of which our visible sun is but a reflection, and the limits of modern astronomy's knowledge of solar heat, sunspots, and the sun's place in the galaxy. +