Judge writings

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Letters of WQJ, compiled by Dara Eklund

William Quan Judge was one of the principal Founders of the Theosophical Society. His writings are among the clearest explications of the principles of Theosophy.

Periodicals

Judge served as editor of the periodical, The Path, from 1886-1896. After the American Section of the Theosophical Society was formed on October 30, 1886, The Path became its official journal. Quoting from the first issue, April 1886, Judge gives a reason for producing the publication:

to try on the one hand to point out to their fellows a Path in which they have found hope for man, and on the other to investigate all systems of ethics and philosophy claiming to lead directly to such a path, regardless of the possibility that the highway may, after all, be in another direction from the one in which they are looking.

In 1889 Judge inaugurated a magazine for inquirers – The Theosophical Forum – in which he exhibited a deep understanding of the technicalities of Theosophy.

Index to articles in Theosophical periodicals

The Union Index of Theosophical Periodicals lists numerous articles by or about Mr. Judge, under several names:

174 articles by William Quan Judge

333 articles by WQ Judge

1098 articles by William Q Judge

24 articles by Wm Q Judge

553 articles by WQJ

7 articles by Judge, William Q

11 articles by William Brehon

20 articles by Hadji Erinn

50 articles by Eusebio Urban

10 articles by An American Mystic

10 articles by Rodriguez Undiano

101 articles about about William Quan Judge

142 articles about WQ Judge

201 articles about William Q Judge

18 articles about Wm Q Judge

92 articles about WQJ

  

2 articles about William Brehon

1 article about Hadji Erinn

2 articles about Eusebio Urban

Articles appeared in The Theosophist, Lucifer, The Irish Theosophist, The Pacific Theosophist, The Vahan, and the Proceedings of various Theosophical congresses. Many articles have been reprinted in dozens of other publications.

Available online

• Over 250 articles and speeches are available from Theosophical University Press Online.

Russian edition of WQJ Collected Writings

Books and pamphlets

• An Epitome of Theosophy. South Shields, England: J. W. Brown, 1888. Tookaram Tatya of Bombay reprinted 1000 copies. Numerous editions have appeared since. 27 pages.

• The Yoga Aphorisms of Patañjali. New York: The Path, 1889. Produced with the assistance of James Henderson Connelly. 64 pages. Preface by Judge. Appendix has text of the aphorisms as printed in the Bombay edition of 1885. A fourth edition was printed in New York, 1893, followed by many subsequent reprints.

• "Light on the Path" and Mabel Collins. 8-page pamphlete issued about June, 1889. It deals with the real authorship of Mabel Collins' books, and includes letters of Elliott Coues and H.P.B.

• Dr. Elliott Coues in his Letters. 12-page pamphlet issued June 14, 1889. Contains letters of Coues to H.P.B. and Judge, with H.P.B.'s reply. Abbreviated eidtion dated July 28, 1890.

• Echoes from the Orient. 1890. A broad outline of Theosophical tenets that originally appeared in Kate Field's Washington, a (then) new weekly journal published in Washington, D.C., under the pseudonym Occultus.

• The Bhagavad Gita with Essays on the Gita, 1890. It was based on the translation of J. Cockburn Thomson, and is known as the W. Q. Judge recension for its valuable commentaries presented in footnotes. "He also wrote further Notes or Commentaries in The Path, and these were published later in book form." Available at Theosophical University Press Online.

• Letters That Have Helped Me. 1891. Available at Theosophical University Press Online. This is a series of letters written by him in response to questions posed by "Jasper Niemand," Mrs. Julia Ver Planck Keightley in The Path. A second series of letters was published in 1905 by Jasper Niemand and Thomas Green. Available at Theosophical University Press Online.

• The Ocean of Theosophy, 1893. Available at Theosophical University Press Online.

• Practical Occultism: From the Private Letters of William Q. Judge, edited by Arthur L. Conger. Available at Theosophical University Press Online.

• Echoes of the Orient: the Writings of William Quan Judge in 4 volumes, edited by Dara Eklund. Available at Theosophical University Press Online.

• Vernal Blooms. Los Angeles, London and Bombay: The Theosophy Company, 1946. A collection of Judge's articles.

• The Heart Doctrine. Los Angeles, London and Bombay: The Theosophy Company, 1951. A collection of Judge's articles.

Online versions of most of Judge's writings at Universal Theosophy website.

Use of pseudonyms

In the style of the day, he employed several pseudonyms in writing his articles in Theosophical journals: Eusebio Urban, Rodriguez Undiano, Hadji Erinn, Willam Brehon, An American Mystic, an others.

He appeared as Occultus in Kate Field's Washington for his Echoes from the Orient series.

In Letters That Have Helped Me, he was designated by the letter Z, and his correspondent had the pseudonym Jasper Niemand.