The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-12-09
BOOMING PHILOSOPHY.
Judges Recent Tour In Which He Ne
Oleott and N Ingenious Poet.

OIeott and N Ingenious Poet.
While various upheavals. physical and polit-
zeal. were disturbing this country during the
autumn days just past the Hon. William Queer
Judge. bearing In his left hand an olive branch
and in his right a flaming torch. issued noise
lessly from his offices at 1872 Nassau street
and made q triumphal tour Of these United
States. week or 30 ago he stepped noise
lessly back to the editorial rooms Of the Path
with his whiskers and the olive branch bit
travel stained. and the torch showing q slight
tendency to sleep and shoulder. The Hon.
William Queer Judge Is the General Secretary
OF the Theosophical Society. HIS mission In
this noiseless tour was partly apostolic and
partly by way OF encouragement to the brethren
already within the theosophical fold.
As one Of his fellow workers In the propa-
ganda OF Blavatskyism wisely observes. this
first missionary tour OF the Hon. William q.
Judge In his present life was. no doubt. tho
last OF o long series Of missionary tours which
Mr.. Judge has made during his countless
incarnations- For 1t must always be remem-
bered that Mr.. Judge. although. to the out
ward eye. quito On ordinary looking man. is in
q spiritual sense q most remarkable person.
Nine. Bavatsky has gone to her throne beside
tho twenty three other great elders who have
trod the heights In blissful immortality for
countless nges. Mr. Judge does not claim to
be an Incarnation Of one Of these; put ne has a
being msnufactured for him.
1t seems that there are now In the United
s TSs9ssss ss sb Of sa Ss Sa
vatsky was the head and to which she, was the
perennial fountain OF wisdom and truth.
country. but are most numerous on the Pacific
coast. Out IN California theosophy has taken
Q strong hold on the people, and they are boom
So. while Mr.. Judge stopped at many places
Theosophy is ali about. 1t appears also that
reSe ana sasi
all sorts OF names and derided in all sorts Of
w s notes. ssn Of ats
pooned Mr. Judge: This eniouS poet made
fudge. and also with pudcc.. lie made some
ssrov wIRd isf nes uddle brain" scattered
But to these detractors the Blayatskian
apost!e paid no more attention than did
BIS yellow robe. Mr., Judge realizes that the
truth can only spread by persecution. and no
It must be said in considering the spread OF
theosonhy; that one need nps De The8,sophist
SfIsns IS BELIEF oa ~
object q the TheosoPhical Society, Is to form
creeds. or Of no creeds at an. may belong. his
may partly explain the spread OF theosophy.
80 that its societies now have almost 5000
PLANTATION in part. Many OF these members.
maIatmas and IN tie twenty.foar theories.
and in tho doctrines Of Karma and Nirvana.
Tacoma. Seattle. Portland, ban Francisco. Oak
land. Alameda, In Salt Lake City. Minneapolis,
Fort Wayne. Jamestown. and few other places
Mr., Judge. found the BRANCHES In a thriving
most remarkable lectures that have ever been
epse. These Lectures are entitled TIeo S nH;
VIA What = and what tth II Is n91h encarn-
stttoh q MAN, some places he d eRS
cred one OF these lectures, In others h" dis
charged the whole brondside. The results Of
these LECTURES are faithfully set down, in the
The most touching incident Of tho whole ex-
pedition was the coming together of Col Olcott-
and MI; Judge at a meeting In San Francisco
ste Judge s' Ssa Not m %st
on public platform since Nine. Blavutsky.
very much In the flesh. was with them. Nine.
blayatsky was represented 10y q crayon por-
t,ait . an, tsars , were in,he eyes Of hothCol.
pointment to many that the portrait gave no
slgn. Even wink at the foxy Colonel would
have been receiyed with applause.
T.. After all these Ioy M eSpsrienees Mr.. Judge
away at the typewriter these days pleasant
smiles wreathe his lace. The Theosophical
General Secretary is busy. too. They have got
together THOUSANDS OF names from the direc-
theosophical tracts to every name. There Il
no telling when O seed will fall into good
ground. and theosophical seeds are cheap