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Practical Occultism

FROM THE PRIVATE LETTERS OF

William Q. Judge

Edited by ARTHUR L. CONGER

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Contents

Preface

1882, 1884

February 1886 - May 1886

June 1886 - August 1886

September 1886 - December 1887

January 1888 - March 1888

May 1888 - June 1888

July 1888

August 1888 - September 1888

October 1888 - February 1889

March 1889 - November 1889

February 1890 - July 1890

August 1890 - September 1890

October 1890 - November 1890

December 1890

January 1891 - February 1891

March 1891 - April 1891

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PREFACE

As co-founder of the Theosophical Society -- and successor to its first Head, H. P.

Blavatsky -- William Q. Judge sacrificed himself to the cause of those Masters whom he

served that Their message find a rooting place in the West. There he felt the foundations

of an active Universal Brotherhood must be laid for the preservation and growth of future

generations.

Not content with spreading the message his constant counsel to all was to "live the life"

for only thus could the message be fully understood. He was a living expression of

practical occultism. This is apparent nowhere better than in his private correspondence

in which he constantly referred the student to fundamental rules of esotericism, firm

adherence to which was essential for the would-be disciple.

The letters in this volume were taken from his Letterbooks and other private files. It

was recognized from the start that the editorial problem was one of peculiar difficulty.

Not only was the material in many instances almost indecipherable, but the matter of

appropriate selection of the main extracts demanded strict discrimination.

The committee which effectively worked on this assignment consisted of Hazel Minot,

Grace Frances Knoche, A. Studley Hart, Lawrence Merkel and James A. Long. Kirby

Van Mater rendered aid in making available this material from the Archives of the

Theosophical Society.

A. L. C.

Covina, California

September, 1949

Letters from 1882, 1884

71 Broadway, N. Y.

Febry. 13, 1882.

Wm. B. Shelley, Esq.

Dear Sir:

Yours of 11th at hand and carefully read. May I ask whether in the little package

containing Olcotts address I did not put a copy of the By Laws of the Society? I have a

distinct recollection of so doing. My reason for asking is that I have received a request for

another copy from Rochester and as at present I have but few, will refer to you instead of

sending another. Please let me know.

The facts related in your letter about Mrs. Cables are curious, and cannot be explained

fully by me because I have not the necessary knowledge. I am exceedingly glad however

that she has been the means of you and your friends being turned from the pernicious

views which are held by so many estimable Spiritualists, and it will be a cause for

greater rejoicing if through her and you and your friends more converts shall be added in

Rochester to what is truth.

Mrs. Cables in teaching you as you say "philosophy afterwards discovered in Isis" etc,

without actual knowledge on her part of that book, was simply telling the truth, which

being always around us and to be found, was hit upon by her. Why she fell into that

current I cannot explain; for it would take a knowledge of causes which I do not possess

to give the reasons. The more pure minded any person is, the more free from materiality

the more likely is that person to naturally perceive what is the truth.

Many reasons might be adduced for an explanation. First, a natural one that, as I said,

she fell so to speak, into the current of truth which ever encircles us, or Second that some

adepts had projected those ideas into her mind. But aside from herself 'twould take an

adept to determine. Of one thing however I am certain, and that is that the adepts can, if

they will, speak through the minds of persons as far away from them even as Rochester.

But they do not like to do this except with very pure persons. Perhaps, to touch upon

reincarnation, Mrs. Cables's soul may once have made inquiries into this philosophy at

an age when it was widely diffused and much cultivated, and now the strong bonds of

sympathy assert themselves. I would wish that Rochester and NY were nearer or that

some more rapid means of transit were in use so that we might inquire more deeply into

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