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A letter to The Index defending Blavatsky against the Society for Psychical Research report, arguing the inquiry was one-sided and its conclusions unproven.  +
A two-part Q&A column signed "Hadji Erinn" answering readers' questions on resignation, Karma, astral pictures and symbols, cycles, black and white magicians, the practice of occult development and yoga, and the "daily initiation."  +
Using Plato's allegory of the cave, Judge examines the Theosophical meaning of 'subjective' and 'objective' consciousness across the septenary constitution of man.  +
On occult science as a single unified system in which every doctrine of Theosophy coheres with every other, rather than a set of isolated facts.  +
An account by one of the Society's founders of the real basis and philosophy underlying the Theosophical Society's work.  +
The test of Theosophic interest, like that of any other interest, is what one will do to promote it — measured not in absolute amount but as a proportion of one's own time, money, and effort sacrificed for the Society and its work.  +
An editorial account of the Theosophical Society's Congress held as part of the World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago, and reflections on the Society's rapid growth.  +
On the distinction between the Theosophical Movement, as a current of ideas, and any particular Theosophical Society as its organizational vehicle.  +
On the death of H.P. Blavatsky and its effect on the Society: her official positions as Corresponding Secretary and President of the European Section leave no vacancy in the American work, which must now draw its inspiration from her books and from solidarity and Theosophical education among its members.  +
A documented historical and legal case, prepared for the Boston Convention of April 1895, tracing the Society's founding minutes of 1875 and arguing that the original New York organization, not the "General Council" headed by Col. Olcott, holds sole legal continuity and authority.  +
The full text of Judge's open letter "To the Brahmins of India" of April 5, 1893, assuring them that the Theosophical Society favors no religion over another and is not, as some had come to suspect, a vehicle for Buddhist propaganda.  +
A letter to the editor of the New York Sun on the success of the Buddhist schools established by the Theosophical Society in Ceylon, quoting the Ceylon press's reaction.  +
Judge's editorial opening ''The Path''`s third year, stating the magazine's independence from any official standing in the Theosophical Society and its aim to spread knowledge of the Wisdom-Religion.  +
On the three planes on which ordinary people, unlike Adepts, live only partially conscious lives, and what this means for spiritual development.  +
An update on the tract-mailing scheme introduced in "To Theosophists Willing to Work," thanking the 47 participants and proposing that donors who can give both time and money remit about a third of their intended sum for tracts and postage.  +
Judge's defense against charges by Annie Besant that he was fomenting discord between East and West in the Theosophical Society, and his argument for the West's leading role in the Society's work.  +
A story of a Rajput ruler's son, illustrating the turning of karma's wheel across a life's fortunes.  +
An allegorical tale of a skeptic who, seeking absolute truth, developed an unusual occult power in his eye, but whose lingering karma of doubt left him without an answer; after his death the wandering eye continues to roam the legendary Island, forever searching and never finding.  +
A review of seven months of Theosophical work in the American Section since the preceding May.  +
On whether vegetarianism is required of Theosophists, arguing that diet is secondary to mental and moral discipline.  +