Property:CTD term description
This property has type Text.
J
A newspaper interview with Judge on Indian fakirs and yogis, distinguishing genuine occult phenomena from conjuring tricks. +
On Ireland's ancient mystery and its occult connection, in Theosophical tradition, to the lost continent of Atlantis. +
A reply to a Harper's Magazine article, arguing that Theosophical doctrines of karma and reincarnation resolve what purely material heredity cannot explain. +
In answer to a reader's letter, Judge argues that wealth and happiness are properly called Karmic reward just as misfortune is properly called punishment, and explains how the same person's outer and inner conditions may carry opposite Karmic verdicts at once. +
Arguing against the common assumption that poverty is necessarily a sign of bad karma, and distinguishing moral judgment from karmic law. +
Brief answers to readers' questions on the duration of Kali Yuga and the coming of the sixth sub-race. +
On Karma as the continuance of action across incarnations, the planes — physical, intellectual, emotional, ethical — through which it operates, and how non-attachment and the fixing of the mind on the highest ideal can transmute its effects, showing that Karma is not fatalism. +
A newspaper report of a lecture on karma delivered by Judge in San Francisco, summarizing his exposition of the doctrine and its ethical consequences. +
An exposition of the doctrines of karma and reincarnation together, their causes, fields of operation, and ethical consequences. +
Selections from the Persian prophetic book the Desatir, in the words of "the Prophet Abad," on retributive Karma across human and animal rebirths, and even the punishment visited upon ravenous beasts for the misdeeds of a former life. +
Volume II of the 1905 Radlett, Hertfordshire edition, pp. 110–111, includes an excerpt from a letter in which [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] explains that her statements about [[Judge, William Quan|W. Q. Judge]] were based on the Master’s letter. Its date and further circumstances are unknown. <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]], [[Zirkoff B. - EI. Instruction No.3#594|BCW 12:594]]</span>)</span> +
An editorial response to a defamatory New York Sun article by Dr. Elliott Coues attacking the Theosophical Society. +
A response to a London Lodge pamphlet review, clarifying the Theosophical teaching on the relation of Mars and Mercury to Earth's evolutionary chain. +
On the proper relation of Theosophical students to the Masters, addressed to members who keep H. P. Blavatsky's memory and teaching in mind. +
A letter to the Religio-Philosophical Journal clarifying points raised in correspondence about Theosophy, defending a fellow Theosophist and explaining Theosophical positions on contested topics. +
Against treating Theosophical doctrines as a mechanical system of isolated facts, arguing that its philosophy is one connected, living whole. +
On the distinct meanings of meditation, concentration, and will in Theosophical practice, and how each is properly cultivated. +
Against the Spiritist's narrow sense of "Medium" as a channel for the dead, Judge argues that all men are mediums — for elementals, for their own Higher Self, or for one another's thoughts — and that every true word, work of art, or occult revelation has been the result of mediumship. +
A response to a London book on the 'rationale of Mesmerism', examining the theosophical explanation of mesmeric phenomena in terms of the higher and lower self. +
On members' tendency to look to leaders for guidance instead of acting on their own initiative, and what methods of work are truly needed. +