William Q. Judge (1851–1896)
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- Syntymäaika
- 1851
1851-04-13 - Kuolinaika
- 1896
1896-03-21 - Sukupuoli
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- Kansalaisuus
- Ireland
USA - Syntymäpaikka
- Dublin, Ireland
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- New York City, New York, USA
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- Theosophical Society
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PREFACE
Secking for freedom, I go to that God
who is the light of his own thoughts. A
man who knows him truly passes over
death: there is no other path to go.
-UPANISHADS
IN the Path for May, 1886, we find these words: "We need
a literature, not solely for highly intellectual persons, but of a
more simple character, which attempts to appeal to ordinary
common-sense minds who are really fainting for such moral and
mental assistance as is not reached by the more pretentious works
The experience of one student is, on the whole, the experience of
all. Details differ, however. Some are made more instantly rich
bey are those who put forth more vigorous and generous
effort: or they have a Karmic store which brings aid. What
Theosophists know as Karma, or the law of spiritual action and
reaction, decides this, as it works on all the planes, physical, moral.
mental, psychical, and spiritual alike. Our Karma may be worked
out on any one of these planes when our life is chietly concentrated
wpon it, no matter apon what other plane any special initiative
than others: plane any special iniciative impulse or branch of
it originated.
The writer, when first he became a Theosophical student, had
the aid of an advanced occultist in his studies. This friend sent
him, among others, the letters which, in the hope that they may
amist others as they have the original recipient, are here published
They are not exhaustive treatises; they are hints given by one who
knew that the frat need of a student is to learn how to think. The
true direction is pointed out, and the student is left to clarify his
ewn percrptions, to draw upon and enlarge his own intuitions,
and to develop, as every created thing mast at last develop, by his
own inward exertions. Soch students have passed the point where
their extermal environment can affect their growth favorably. They
may learn from it, but the time has also come to resist it and turn
to the internal adjustmrnt to higher relations only.
The brevity of these letters abould not mislead the reader. Every
statement in them is a matement of law. Thry point to canses of
which life is an efect: that lide arising from the action of Spirit in...… (lisätietoja)