By Ernest Pelletier
It has long been accepted by theosophists that William Q. Judge, co-Founder of the Theosophical Society (along with H.P. Blavatsky and Colonel H.S. Olcott), died as a result of initially contracting Chagres fever. He died at nine a.m. Saturday, March 21, 1896 with his wife by his side, an attending professional night nurse, his physician, and his devoted pupil, Ernest T. Hargrove. Investigation suggests that Judge did not die from any disease but rather as a result of iatrogenic causes.
Ague is a term used to define the recurring fever and chills of malarial infection. Popularly, the disease was known by names expressive of the locality in which it was prevalent. Chagres fever, sometimes called yellow fever, is a malarial type of disease with manifested periodic attacks of chills, fever and sweating. Chagres fever was also known as “Panama fever.” (1)
The name is derived from Chagres, a port in Panama from which people would reach Panama City on the Pacific Coast by travelling up the Chagres River. Steamships which ran from Boston and New York City to the Caribbean would port at Chagres. (2)
The story of his illness
Judge, a struggling young New York commercial lawyer, “travelled often to the northern part of the South American continent and also to Mexico.” (3)
His travels in the early 1880s took him to Carúpano, Venezuela, where he was doing business with a silver mining company, (4) During one of his trips Judge was infected with Chagres fever, a “febrile disease caused by an arbovirus, transmitted by phlebotomine sandflies.” (5) This malignant type of malarial fever often has a predilection to develop into tuberculosis.
Just a few short years after the Society was formed in New York both Blavatsky and Olcott left for India in December 1878, leaving behind General Abner Doubleday as President ad interim, W.Q. Judge as Counsel to the Society, and his brother, John Judge, in charge of conducting the affairs of the Society in the United States. Judge had been admitted to the State Bar of New York in 1872 and had married Ella Smith in 1874. He was twenty-seven years old when Blavatsky and Olcott left. The young Irish immigrant lawyer, often penniless, was struggling to make a living in a city recovering from the American Civil War. Times were harsh in those days, especially in New York where the Irish were not always looked upon as favourable members of the community, and the populace was not in the least interested in joining a philosophical society. In a letter to Olcott, November 4, 1883, Judge stated that “people are dead here, and it will be uphill work when we begin to ask for dues and so on to cover expenses.” (6)
When Olcott and Blavatsky left America, the Society had been nearly dormant and as Olcott himself later stated, “there were no meetings of the Society for two years before our departure . . . . We made no attempt to revive the meetings — knowing it would be useless.” (7)
Despite this uphill struggle to establish the Theosophical Society in America, and the developing malady within him, Judge managed to establish a network of dedicated students throughout America. By the early 1890s, because of overwork, his health was deteriorating. He needed help — someone he could trust with the responsibilities of communicating the correct keynotes of theosophical ideas across to his fellow countrymen — American and Canadian.
While attending the European Section Convention in London in July 1892, Judge met Ernest T. Hargrove for the first time. Hargrove was a young twenty-one year old member of the Society (8) who had spent time at “the London Headquarters at 19, Avenue Road, writing reviews for Lucifer, lecturing at Branches” (9) and corresponding for the magazine, The Vahan. Although studying law at the time, he devoted more time to Theosophy than he did to his law studies.
Both met again at the 1893 Convention in London. This time Hargrove asked Judge for an autographed copy of his recently published book, The Ocean of Theosophy. Judge wrote in it: “To Ernest Hargrove, from William Q. Judge: The light within is the only light which lighteth every man who cometh in the world; the Mahatmas and the light within are not different.” A few years later he told Hargrove, “I was told to write that.” (10)
Upon first meeting Judge, Hargrove had recognized that he was “an Occultist.” (11) Hargrove had been extremely impressed with “Judge’s simplicity of demeanor . . . felt something great, and had loved it.” His blood began to boil when “the air became thick with rumours adverse and hostile to Judge” (12) and wrote to assure him of his loyalty. A few months later, in October 1893, Hargrove expressed his wish to work with Judge in America. Judge responded:
Certainly if you ever could in justice to all your affairs and to the Theosophical Society come to America, then I should be glad to see you, but am not yet able to say come now. (13)
Judge wrote to Hargrove on February 8, 1894 inviting him to come and participate at the San Francisco Midwinter Fair and to attend the Eighth Convention of The Theosophical Society American Section to be held there as well.
Judge wanted Hargrove to participate at the Fair where two days of talks had been arranged as a religious parliament, a result of the success of the Chicago Congress, Parliament of Religions, at the World’s Fair of 1893. These two days of talks were to be held a few days prior to the April 22 and 23, 1894 American Convention. Judge offered him a choice of topics to speak on and added, “you will meet so many whole souls you will never want to live in London any more.” (14) Judge had spent many weeks in London in early 1884, awaiting the arrival of Blavatsky and Olcott from India, and had felt very uncomfortable the whole time he was there.
Hargrove took advantage of Judge’s offer and arrived in New York on March 31, 1894. He was to represent the European Section and Countess Wachtmeister, who travelled with him on the same ship, had been appointed to represent the Indian Section of the Theosophical Society.
On Thursday, April 5, after the Aryan Theosophical Society meeting, Judge and his wife, Ella M. Judge, Countess Wachtmeister, and E.T. Hargrove, left New York for San Diego. They were joined en route by Dr. J.D. Buck of Cincinnati, Judge’s good friend and one of the doctors who looked after his well-being.
Dr. Buck was a practicing Homeopathic physician who at times travelled with Judge on long trips. After their arrival in Los Angeles at 7 p.m. on April 10, Judge, Dr. Buck and Hargrove went and spoke at a Branch meeting. The others, being too tired to go, stayed behind at the Hollenbuck Hotel. The next day Hargrove and Judge started early for San Diego. They arrived at one o’clock, had lunch, and addressed a large Branch meeting until five. This was followed in the evening by a public lecture in Unity Church. From San Diego they returned to Los Angeles on April 13 th for more lecturing and interviews. Hargrove explained:
So it continued, day after day, without intermission. I was young and sufficiently able-bodied, besides which the experience, for me, was novel, but Judge had been doing the same kind of thing for years, and was already suffering from the premonitory symptoms (wrongly interpreted by doctors as “liver”) of his last illness. How he stood it, is not easy to explain, except on the ground that his intensity of devotion kept his body going without the slightest sign of mental or nervous fatigue. (15)
From there they went on to San Francisco to attend the first session of the Religious Parliament on the 16 where both Judge and Dr. Buck gave talks. The next day Judge addressed the Parliament as the General Secretary of the American Section of the Theosophical Society and Dr. Buck spoke as a representative. A few days later, April 22 and 23, the American Convention assembled in the same building, the new Golden Gate Hall.
"Judge was received with enthusiasm everywhere, either because of, or in spite of, attacks in the newspapers, which naturally made the most of the stories circulated from Adyar against him.” (16)
The charges came out of India, from Olcott and Annie Besant, that Judge was guilty of misuse of the names and handwritings of the Mahatmas. He was accused of falsely pretending to receive and transmit messages from the Masters in order to gain power for himself in the Society. At the time these accusations surfaced Judge tried to shield Besant by not mentioning her by name in public. On February 7, Olcott had written a letter to Judge demanding that he resign his Vice-Presidency or face a Judicial Committee. On March 10, Judge had cabled his reply that the charges were absolutely false, telling Olcott that he could take whatever proceedings he saw fit and anguage at all times ready to clothe his thought, he was at once a leading and informing him that he (Judge) was going to London in July.
After the Convention Dr. Buck left on Friday, April 27 for the East, while Countess Wachtmeister continued on a tour to various cities in California and along the Pacific Coast for the following few months. (17) Judge sent Hargrove to lecture in Santa Cruz and San Jose. Meanwhile Judge visited Oakland, returning to San Francisco before proceeding to Sacramento where Mr. and Mrs. Judge and Hargrove rejoined. They arrived in Portland, Oregon, on May 1 for more meetings and lectures and then on to Seattle. It was there that Hargrove received a telegram from London. He wrote:
In Seattle, to my indescribable disappointment, I was called back to England on account of illness there — needlessly, as it happened. Judge was not at all pleased, and I much regret now that I did not complete the tour with him, as he travelled — meeting members and lecturing wherever he stopped — to Victoria, B.C., Port Townsend, back to Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia, Portland, and so to Chicago and New York by way of Salt Lake City (a large public meeting in the Salt Lake Theatre), Aspen, Denver, and Omaha. (18)
Dr. Jerome A. Anderson, President of the San Francisco Branch, expressed fondness for Hargrove. He wrote:
Mr. Earnest [sic] Hargrove . . . deserves more than a passing mention. . . . . Bro. Hargrove lives and breathes Theosophy as his daily life. Possessing an address as pleasant is rare, and a flow of language at all times ready to clothe his thought,he was at once a leading and strong figure among our speakers, and ably, indeed, represented our brothers of the European Section. (19)
By the time Judge returned home to New York it was time for him to pack up again and go to London to meet his accusers in a trial arranged by the President, Colonel Olcott. The trial or “Judicial Committee” was merely a kangaroo court of sorts to strip Judge of the title of Vice-President of the Theosophical Society and to cast suspicion upon his character. On July 4, Judge and Dr. Buck arrived at Southampton and were greeted at the dock by Hargrove and Dr. Archibald Keightley who took them to London. Judge appeared tired and frail.
Here is what Hargrove had to say on the matter of the trial.
In their haste to give Judge his death-blow, they had lost all sense of the decencies: they had acted as if it were permissible to call a man a liar and a cheat, and then, without furnishing him with any Bill of Particulars, to haul him into Court and demand that he prove the contrary. (20)
Throughout the entire ordeal Judge stayed at the Headquarters facing his accusers daily, instead of residing with friends. Dr. Buck did the same.
After the Judicial Committee Judge left on Saturday, July 21, to return to New York. (21) All this excitement and pressure evidently took its toll on Judge and when he returned home he was ill again. For the next few weeks he rested at the Griscoms near New York. (22) Mr. Griscom wrote the following:
Of the “Row” itself I cannot speak, but upon result of it I know and that is the effect the bitterness and strife had upon the health and vitality of Mr. Judge. Day after day he would come back from the office utterly exhausted in mind and body, and night after night he would lay awake fighting the arrows of suspicion and doubt that would come at him from all over the world. He said they were like shafts of fire piercing him; and in the morning he would come downstairs wan and pale and unrested, and one step nearer the limit of his strength; but still with the same gentle and forgiving spirit. Truly they knew not what they did. (23)
Immediately after this brief rest Judge started “a vigorous ‘campaign for Theosophy’ by lecturing for Branches in Massachusetts, Maine, Rhode Island, Maryland and elsewhere.” (24) After the trial Judge worked even harder than before. Like the Wandering Jew, one wonders if this was not the start of Judge’s constant moving from place to place in order to find peace and repose from his beleaguering assailants.
By late fall of 1894 it became apparent to his friends and acquaintances that Judge’s health needed some serious attention. After a lecture tour to the midwestern States, Judge returned to New York City on January 17, 1895. The next day he wrote to Hargrove, who was still living with his parents in London after returning home in May 1894:
I am so sick just now that I cannot send any letters. My Chicago trip was all right and useful, but this is my ordinary death year, and hence I am just waiting until the Rubicon is passed. (25)
Judge mentioned that he had contracted a cold in Chicago and as a
result had developed a bad cough. Hargrove, concerned about his mentor’s health, decided to consult with his parents for a possible return to America to continue the work he had started with Judge. (26)
By February 1895 Judge’s health had utterly broken down. It was at this time that Katherine Tingley (27) offered to make arrangements for him to get away for rest and treatment. She proposed to go ahead of Judge to Mineral Wells near San Antonio, Texas, to prepare for his arrival. It was “hoped that change of air and relief from work will enable him to rally.” (28) She “rented a small, poorly-furnished house from a German woman.” (29)
On February 13, 1895 Judge left New York for Mineral Wells. Tingley looked after his health as well as “acting as his amanuensis when he was too ill to write himself.” (30)
After a month or so he returned to New York to prepare for the annual Convention, which was held April 28 and 29, 1895 in Boston.
After the Convention Judge returned to New York and then proceeded to Cincinnati where he wrote to a friend, “I am away from home for my health [which is] much hurt by others’ hate.” (31) Judge was referring to Annie Besant and “the conspirators against his Theosophical reputation.” (32)
Hargrove was in Barmouth, England, when he wrote to Judge on July 20, 1895 saying that he had arranged matters with his parents “and was sailing for New York at an early date.” (33)
Hargrove left London on August 24, 1895 (34) and arrived in New York on August 30, 1895. (35)
When he arrived Judge was staying with Dr. Buck in Cincinnati. He wrote to Hargrove, September 2, 1895: “There is no telling where I may go, at this critical point.” Hargrove noted that this was in reference to “Judge’s physical condition,” meaning his health had greatly deteriorated. (36)
Judge told Hargrove to stay with the Griscoms, who lived in Flushing, Long Island, until about September 15 or 25 . He told him to familiarize himself with all the theosophists in the New York area, and instructed him to be careful what he said, who he could trust and who to be on his guard against. He also told him that when the time was right they would meet again and spend time together but that in the meantime they could communicate in ways other than writing. Hargrove mentioned: “Always I carried Judge’s last letter with me in my pocket. It helped me, I believed, to keep in touch with him.” (37)
This was some of the practical occult knowledge which Judge had instructed Hargrove to do in order to “keep the link unbroken” between them. (38) Judge always kept a watchful eye for would-be occultists whom he could tutor in practical occultism. (39)
By early September 1895 Judge was feeling quite optimistic about his recovery. He wrote to Hargrove:
“My health-chances better. I’ve almost paralyzed the bacilli tuber’s.” (40)
By October Judge had travelled to North Carolina and then to Aiken, in South Carolina, where again he was seeking clear fresh air for his health. The following month Judge, still in Aiken, revealed an almost complete list of the prescribed medications he was taking to rebuild his health. He wrote:
Just glance at what I have to do medically:
Water, drink 4 times a day. Carbon pills. Hepar Sulph. and Phos. homeopathic. Oxygen, inhale 3 times.
Lynosulfite, inhale as often as you can. Listerine, gargle to try to stop sore throat. Some d thing after meals.
Hot treatment nightly.
Be in the open air all the time.
Where does the Path, etc. come in. (41)
During this time Hargrove kept his correspondence going with Judge, informing him of all the happenings concerning the Branches’ activities and the people he was meeting. Judge in return was giving Hargrove advice on how to deal with certain members and with Branch affairs. Hargrove was on a three month tour which took him to Boston on September 29th, 1895 then up to Toronto on his way west and south. From Macon, Georgia, where he was December 17 to 22, he went to Aiken for Christmas where he stayed with the Judges in a boarding-house for a two week period. Hargrove left Aiken for Washington to deliver a lecture on January 7, 1896. On January 9, the Judges left for Cincinnati where they stayed for two weeks with the Bucks and then went to visit Dr. Buchman in Fort Wayne, Indiana. They left there on January 31 and arrived at Grand Central Station, New York, at 6 p.m. on February 3, where they went to the Lincoln Hotel on Broadway until a suitable apartment could be found.
Hargrove observed, upon seeing Judge again in New York:
He was far more ill than when I had left him at Aiken some three weeks earlier: he was much weaker, his cough was more frequent, his digestion gave him greater pain, he could barely whisper. But he insisted upon my spending an hour or more with him daily, while he went over details of the Work in its many ramifications. When he could, he whispered his comments or directions; at other times he wrote notes on scraps of paper. . . . (42)
On February 22, the Judges moved to an apartment on the third floor of 325 West 56 Street. “From that day he grew weaker and weaker.” (43) Dr. Rounds, Judge’s physician, “warned him that unless he would consent to give up all work, he would throw away his only chance to recover.” (44)
The day of his death
Early in the morning of the day he died, Judge wished to see Hargrove. He whispered to him to go fetch a doctor, a specialist, who had been called on previous occasions to consult with his regular physician. Hargrove pleaded with this famous (unnamed) New York specialist but he refused to come without the regular physician being present. Upon returning, Hargrove found Judge in the usual manner — sitting upright on the sofa. Shortly afterwards his regular doctor came calling but Judge refused to see him. (45)
For weeks, because of the incessant racking cough, the bad throat which caused aphonia (laryngitis), and the indigestion problems he was having, he could no longer lay down to sleep, only catching a few winks at a time while sitting. He approached death with clarity.
After Judge’s death conflicting reports were recorded. Dr. Rounds “said that the condition of his lungs could not have caused his death; that death had been due to ‘failure of the heart’s action’.” Hargrove wrote that “all the other doctors who had examined him had agreed that his heart was as sound as a bell”. (46)
These are the facts as we know them. These facts will now be analyzed in conjunction with research which will reveal the most likely cause of Judge’s death.
Treatments
In the 1880s most fever-type diseases were quite difficult to accurately diagnose, even by the best of physicians. Chagres fever, sometimes called yellow fever, was no different. Its major characteristics were “fever, jaundice, black vomit, and anuria (absence of urine excretion)”. (47)
One of the treatments for Chagres fever was the use of sulphur baths. Sulphur was used as a potent antiseptic. For instance it had been observed that workers in sulphur mines, though in a malarial district, enjoyed a complete immunity from intermittent fevers and became the picture of health. Judge therefore went to Mineral Wells where he appeared to regain some of his health. (48)
This writer’s personal observation on the matter of Katherine Tingley, a newcomer to the Society whom Judge trusted, was that she accompanied him and assisted him not only as his secretary and nurse, but was also beneficial in protecting him from psychic assailants so that he could let his guard down for periods of much needed rest. (49)
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, “infectious diseases were the most serious threat to health and well being. The most common causes of death were . . . pneumonia and tuberculosis.” Tuberculosis (TB) was “commonly known in the 1800s as consumption, lung sickness, . . . white swelling, the white plague, marasmis, phthisis, wasting disease or tuberculosis of the lungs.” Although TB “most commonly affects the respiratory system . . . [it] may affect other parts of the body [and] may be acute or chronically progressive.” (50) The tuberculosis bacteria is spread throughout the body via the lymphatic system and can rest in any organ.
“In the past, tuberculosis was seldom suspected until severe coughs with expectoration, followed by loss of weight and night sweats, set in The cough is the best-known symptom of tuberculosis. . . .” (51)
The difficulty with diagnosing, at that time, was that:
With tuberculosis, the body is constantly in motion, and the disease is constantly in motion. The disease may be localized or spread throughout the body; the state or general condition of the body and of the person’s life enters into the treatment regime, which may take months and historically has taken years or a lifetime. . . . Tuberculosis is a moving target. (52)
Judge revisited his physician some time after returning to New York on January 17 , 1895 following the Chicago lecture tour, during which he had developed a bad cough. It was likely at about this time that he was diagnosed as having pulmonary tuberculosis. He was told he needed fresh air and was given some special remedies to ease his cough. In a letter to Katherine Tingley on January 5 he had mentioned some of the treatments he had been taking up to that point: “I forgot that small bottle for gargle — as usual. But I have the white oil. Nasty”. (53)
The cause and prevention of tuberculosis were fairly well understood as early as the 1700s but the cure, on the other hand, remained a mystery. The idea for the sanatorium cure seems to have originated with Hermann Brehmer, a Silesian botany student suffering from tuberculosis.
[Brehmer] was instructed by his doctor to seek out a healthier climate. He travelled to the Himalayan mountains where he could pursue his botanical studies while trying to rid himself of the disease. He returned home cured and began to study medicine. In 1854, he presented his doctoral dissertation bearing the auspicious title, Tuberculosis is a Curable Disease. In the same year, he built an institution in Gorbersdorf where, in the midst of fir trees, and with good nutrition, patients were exposed on their balconies to continuous fresh air. This setup became the blueprint for the subsequent development of sanatoria, a powerful weapon in the battle against an insidious opponent. (54)
Brehmer is thus credited with instituting rest therapy. (55) Today “from a medical point of view, the principle of rest treatment requires as far as possible freedom from anxiety and worry, and . . . helping to alleviate these . . . can help the physical state of the patient.” (56)
Rest therapy was not something Judge could enjoy much of. As Ernest T. Hargrove stated:
But he could have continued to repel that physical attack with ease, as he had done for years, if it had not been for a far worse strain on his vitality, namely, the strain of his resistance to the efforts of the Dark Powers to kill him, — the venomous hatred of his persecutors and slanderers, once his close associates, supplying the lines of contact for the major onslaught. (57)
These astral attacks increased after The Case Against W.Q. Judge was published by Annie Besant, which coincided with the American Convention held in Boston on April 28 and 29, 1895. During his last few months Judge often requested Hargrove to stay with him while he would try to catch an hour or two of sleep. Hargrove, like Tingley, was also quite psychic. He, too, was capable of watching and protecting Judge’s body while Judge would leave it to rest. (58) Ultimately, however, there came a point where death was inevitable.
In the nineteenth century a variety of natural treatments were tried. For loss of appetite the tuberculosis patient was treated with “cod liver oil as an important nutritional supplement or (8 grams each) of the hypophosphite of soda and lime in an ounce of the infusions of cascarilla . . . twice a day after meals.” For the “cough and expectoration of a yellow pus-like sputum of phlegm sometimes with blood (haemoptysis) were treated with a variety of remedies” including “repeated doses of ergot [Rye smut], a drug commonly used to control bleeding.” For fever, the common symptom of tuberculosis, in 1879 a London doctor named William Murrell “recommended the use of Jaborandi and pilocarpine (a salt derived from Jaborandi) a leaf from a South American shrub that produces salivation, sweating, increased flow of the secretions and lowering of temperature and blood pressure.” (59)
On his return to Bavaria, Dr. Franz Hartmann (60) collaborated with Carl Kellner on the development of the “ligno-sulphite” inhalation therapy for tuberculosis. Hartmann established a sanatorium near Salzburg to administer this novel treatment technique. Although sanatoriums were one of the recommended treatments for tuberculosis, there were few at the time. (61)
Tuberculosis was a very difficult disease to diagnose as it is a generalized illness and can affect all organ systems. Pulmonary tuberculosis is the most common form.
The main complications are pleurisy, an involvement of the lining of the lung; pleural effusion, in which the chest fills with fluid; tuberculosis laryngitis, the cause of the hoarseness; and pneumothorax, which is rupture of the lungs. A form of tuberculosis called miliary occurs when the infection is spread through the bloodstream to involve any part of the body, including the brain. (62)
If tuberculosis involves the gastro-intestinal system there may be loss of appetite and symptoms of indigestion.
One person commonly known to theosophists at that time was Robert Louis Stevenson. (63) He had suffered from tuberculosis since childhood. In the pursuit for good health he moved to Samoa in the South Seas where it was reported that he died as a result of apoplexy or brain hemorrhage on December 3, 1894 at the age of forty-four.
Another famous individual who also died of tuberculosis was Frederic Francois Chopin (1810-1849), the great French/Polish piano composer. He became very sick in his youth and visited numerous spas as a standard treatment. “In Marseilles Chopin regained strength. Early in March, 1839, he wrote to his friend Fontana, ‘My health is still improving; I begin to play, eat, walk, and speak like other men’.” He died on October 17 , 1849 at age thirty-nine. “He was in pain and gasped and struggled for breath, with less and less success. Cough, expectoration, and wasting of the body are the cardinal symptoms of the disease.” (64) Chopin’s symptoms, like Judge’s, were typical of how this disease, along with the side-effects of its treatment, acted — feeling better one day only to wake up the next feeling weak and lethargic.
Diagnosing tuberculosis in the middle of the 19 century was virtually impossible. The mycobacterium tuberculosis that causes the disease was first discovered by the bacteriologist Robert Koch. He made his first communication concerning his research on tuberculosis in a lecture given on March 24 , 1882 to the Physiological Society of Berlin. This lecture covers scarcely two pages of print, yet in it are given the proofs of the discovery of the tubercle bacillus and the description of its chief characteristics. (65) A few years later, in 1890, this famous bacteriologist “told an international congress in Berlin that gold-cyanide complexes were most effective of all known antiseptics against tuberculosis bacteria . . . when tested in the test tube at high dilution.” (66) This led to “desultory experiments with a variety of gold preparations in the management of pulmonary tuberculosis. . . .” (67)
“Prior to 1950, when effective drugs were found to combat TB, many folk remedies were used to treat the disease [including] potassium cyanide, unusual diets, leeches and cleansing rituals.” (68)
Physicians often used unorthodox methods as remedies. “Yet very often the lure of logic has led to conclusions based on inadequate evidence and to practices more harmful than beneficial to the patient.” Physicians were “inclined . . . to follow uncritically the fads of their time. . . .” One fad which was widely used in America was opium, which “enjoyed an immense vogue during the nineteenth century and was for a time considered as almost a specific for consumption.” (69)
There is no evidence to support that Judge ever took opium but there is sufficient evidence to support the fact that his physicians were prescribing potassium cyanide as an antiseptic against the tuberculosis bacteria.
Before Robert Koch’s announcement, physicians often used potassium cyanide as a folk remedy in order to kill bacteria, which resulted in alleviating pain. “Among poisons, cyanides are classified as supertoxic, that is so poisonous, that even a taste (less than seven drops) can kill a person. At sublethal doses, the cyanide is rapidly detoxified by the body through combination with sulphur, and recovery is usually complete within a few hours, and generally without any lasting effects.” (70)
Cyanide is the name given to metal salts containing a carbon atom linked to a nitrogen atom (CN). “Cyanide ion has a strong tendency to react with metal ions to form stable covalent complexes.” (71)
If we understood the physical body’s reaction when a potassium cyanide solution (at a low concentration level) is absorbed into its system as an antibacterial therapy, we would then be able to recognize the side effects it produces. Judge’s medications included taking “some dCC thing after meals.” (72)
From previous comments we gather that he had to swallow something which he considered very unpalatable to his taste and probably very bitter. This “dCC thing” was most likely a liquid or possibly tablets. Potassium Cyanide (KCN) is a very bitter salt. In conjunction with the symptoms Judge exhibited, we can deduce that he was ingesting KCN as part of his treatment regimen.
A person’s stomach contains a mixture of gastric juices which include muriatic acid or hydrochloric acid (HCl). This is what helps to digest the food we eat. The normal level of acidity in the human stomach is stated as 4 normal or (HCl = 4N). When potassium cyanide (KCN) is introduced into the stomach it reacts with the HCl to form hydrogen cyanide (HCN). The reaction to this ingestion, when repeated, creates a gastro-esophogeal reflux, that is, the mixture in the stomach is regurgitated past the gastric valve or the cardiac orifice, and is backed up into the esophagus. This would account for the discomfort that Judge experienced. This symptom is usually diagnosed as a hiatal hernia, which means that the gastric valve remains open causing irritation or a burning sensation in the esophagus on a regular basis. When this gastro-esophogeal reflux becomes a chronic problem it can affect the larynx. If these gastric juices contain a high level of HCN, then this acid would irritate the larynx to the point where it would result in that person having difficulty speaking. This is what happened to Judge and likely happened to any other person who would have had this so-called medicine prescribed to them for the treatment of tuberculosis.
In order to further understand how cyanide affects the human body when ingested, the following scientific explanation of the chemical process is offered.
Oxygen is transported in the body by the red respiratory proteins — myoglobin and hemoglobin. The technical explanation:
Myoglobin is active in the muscle, where it stores oxygen and releases it when needed. Hemoglobin is contained in red blood cells and facilitates oxygen transport. [Myoglobin contains only one heme as part of the molecule, while hemoglobin contains four. (74)]
The secret of the oxygen-carrying ability of myoglobin and hemoglobin is a special nonpolypeptide unit, called a heme group, attached to the protein. Heme is a cyclic organic ligand (called a porphyrin) made out of four linked, substituted pyrrole units surrounding an iron atom The complex is red, giving blood its characteristic color.
The iron in the heme is attached to four nitrogens but can accommodate two additional groups above and below the plane of the porphyrin ring. In myoglobin, one of these groups is the imidazole ring [a five-membered heterocyclic compound] of a histidine [a basic amino acid in proteins] unit attached to one of the a-helical segments of the protein. The other is most important for the protein’s function: oxygen. Close to the oxygen-binding site, there is a second imidazole of the histidine unit, which appears to protect this side of the heme by steric hindrance. For example, carbon monoxide, which also binds to the iron in the heme group, and thus blocks oxygen transport, is prevented from binding as strongly as it normally would because of the presence the second imidazole group. Consequently, carbon monoxide poisoning can be reversed by administrating oxygen to the patient who was exposed to the gas. (74)
In less technical terms, heme is defined as the oxygen-carrying, color-furnishing constituent of hemoglobin and here is how the heme cycle functions: The Porphine ring is the general framework of a variety of organic molecules, including the hemoglobin molecule. In the centre of the hemoglobin ring is an iron atom (Fe), which bonds with four Nitrogens but the Fe has one free orbital in its makeup.
During blood circulation in the body, hemoglobin goes to the lungs, the free orbital bonds with oxygen (02); as it circulates through the body the oxygen is replaced by a water (H20) molecule and returns to the lungs where it is, in turn, replaced by an 02 molecule. This exchange carries on because oxygen and water molecules have weak bonds. Molecules have bond strength, the result of attraction between positive and negative ions.
When potassium cyanide (KCN) is introduced into the stomach it reacts with the hydrochloric acid (HCl) to form hydrogen cyanide (HCN). The cyanide anion (CN) is now present in the stomach. When it enters the blood stream it becomes available to bond with the Fe in the hemoglobin molecule. Once this happens it creates a strong bond. The anion (a negative ion) displaces (literally ‘dispels’) the H20 and 02 molecules from the Fe orbital thereby resulting in a hemoglobin molecule bonded with cyanide instead.
The Fe/CN bond is much stronger than the Fe/H20 or Fe/02 bonds. The essence of life, that is the H20 and 02 cycle, is thereby disrupted. The body is deprived of oxygen, resulting in paralysis, disorientation, headache and cough.
Judge’s lungs were deprived of oxygen, which led to his death. (75) The prescription, the “d___ thing”, he was taking, contained cyanide which exacerbated his condition in the last few months, to the point where his body could no longer defend itself. He was exhausted but unable to pull himself away from his focus on Theosophy. His choice was clear — he was literally too dedicated to the Theosophical Cause and not enough to his own well-being.
His devotion and his self-sacrificing nature cost him his life. Had he spent a little more time focusing on his health, perhaps a message or two from his Master, he might not have taken this prescription and would have survived and lived on for another forty years or so. His further efforts during these extra years would have changed the whole Theosophical Movement.
Reflexion
The question which likely comes to mind after reading all of this is, so what? So what, if Judge died as a result of ingesting cyanide?
Evidence presented so far seems to indicate that he was so sick he would have died from tuberculosis anyway. But, this may not be as obvious a conclusion as first supposed.
C.A. Griscom stated that in December 1894 Judge had told him “the Judge body was due by its Karma to die the next year and that it would have to be tided over this period by extraordinary means. He then expected this process to be entirely successful and that he would be able to use that body for many years.” (76)
Judge had also suggested in a letter to E.T. Hargrove in January 1895, that, “this is my ordinary death year, and hence I am just waiting until the Rubicon is passed.” (77)
In this instance one may assume that Judge would have been speaking at the personal level. However, perhaps there was yet another Rubicon, “a boundary which once crossed signifies irrevocable commitment” (78) that the members of the Society needed to pass as well. What seems like a paradox may have been his way of stating an occult fact that would have been obvious to those he was close to, and using very few words to say it.
In The Path, April 1890, Judge wrote a short introductory article titled “The Path’s Fifth Year”. In it he predicted that “when the second fifth is reached an important era for theosophists and the world will be at hand, when the result of again being weighed in the balance of events will be more serious than it is now.” This clearly indicated that the years 1894 and 1895 would be very difficult years for the Theosophical Movement, (79) that many changes would occur that would affect the complexity of the whole Society, possibly even more so than the death of H.P. Blavatsky in 1891. A number of issues, including the “Judge Case”, certainly tested the mettle of the members at this time. Perhaps this was the Rubicon, the irrevocable course of action (the test), which the members of the Society needed to pass that Judge was referring to. Perhaps, however, the Rubicon was indeed on a more personal, yet interrelated, level.
A Vedic astrological chart for Judge was drawn up by Dr. Basu. (80) Some specific events which occurred in Judge’s life were presented for Dr. Basu to draw correspondences from. He was given specific written questions to answer, if possible, but no leads as to expectations. One of the questions asked was if there were any signs in Judge’s chart to indicate that he was to die either in 1895 or 1896. Dr. Basu answered that there were absolutely no signs of death in his chart at that time; that he should have lived a much longer life and that had he lived another year (into 1897) he would have entered a period in which sixteen years of Jupiter would have been excellent for him: “He would have done great things for the Theosophical Movement.” Dr. Basu also stated that because there were no possible signs of death in his chart, “foul play had to be involved” in order for him to die at that time.
Dr. Basu then spoke of two similar incidents, which involved now deceased clients who had come to him for astrological advice. Both had seen their respective physicians, had been diagnosed with cancer, and each had been recommenced to take different but immediate medical treatments. Dr. Basu, having studied their astrological charts, indicated that there were no signs of serious illness or death indicated. He stated that both clients had decided to follow their doctors’ recommendations and both died as a result of prescribed new medications and new experimental chemo-therapy. Neither had died from any disease. He stated that a similar situation happened to Judge: “He was taken out.”
Another professional astrologer, Chris McRae, (81) was consulted about the possibility of poison being involved. While describing the transit of Neptune at this point in Judge’s life, she wrote: “This trail leads to the possibility of poison or a drug causing the illness, but it could also be the poison or drug being administered in trying to cure an illness.” (82)
Today, as in the past, many deaths occur at the hands of physicians — doctors who prescribe treatment which kills rather than cures. In an article titled “Doctors Are the Third Leading Cause of Death in the U.S.” Joseph Mercola, D.O., presents statistics provided by Dr. Barbara Starfield of the John Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health who documents that 250'000 deaths per year are caused by medical error, making this the third-largest cause of death in the U.S. following heart disease and cancer. 106,000 are the result of “non-error, negative effects of drugs.” (83)
Because of these frequent occurrences, a new word has been coined to identify this growing problem. “The term iatrogenic is defined as ‘induced in a patient by a physician’s activity, manner, or therapy. Used especially to pertain to a complication of treatment’.” (84)
Dr. Leonard Horowitz, an internationally recognized authority in public health and emerging diseases, has been on a worldwide crusade to stop this ongoing “medically-induced mass murder”, which he terms “iatrogenocide”. (85)
Unfortunately, many questions remain unanswered regarding Judge’s death, and while we cannot change what happened we can, however, change our misconceptions, our perceptions, of what led to it. In fact, had he not been pressured by his assailants to maintain constant vigilance he would not have felt so pressured to work as hard for the Theosophical Cause, which would in turn have allowed him more time to pace his energies and maintain relatively stable health, as he had managed to do for years.
Judge’s task was to prepare and develop for the West that body of Universal Brothers who would promote the ancient Divine Wisdom from the East. This becomes obvious when one notes the high regard and respect the Masters and H.P. Blavatsky had for him. Judge was an agent of the White Brotherhood who performed his duties well and with the greatest of dignity. (86)
One is left to ponder what the Society would be like today had Judge lived another twenty years or more.
NOTES
1. "A Glossary of Old Medical Terms"
http://members.tripod.com/PearlsPad/Medical.htm
2. In 1881, a French company was granted concessions to build a sea level canal through Panama, but its efforts failed" because of a dreadful malaria outbreak. The Americans later succeeded in building the Panama canal, which also changed the flow of the Chagres river which used to flow to both coasts.
3. "A Weird Tale", Theosophy (Path), Vol. XI, August 1896, p. 135.
4. In Judge's article "A Weird Tale", the inference is that his travel to South America were not just for business purposes. In fact Jasper Niemand suggests that he may have gone to South America in search of "The Lodge" which H.P. Blavatsky describe as "a Branch of the Great Lodge" (The Irish Theosophist, Vol.4, May 1896, p. 142). As result of Judge's and his followers' efforts, the Hargrove group started the first Theosophical Society in South America in Caracas, Venezuela, circa 1906.
5. "Quality and Relevance of Research and Related Activities at The Gorgas Memorial Laboratory – A Tecnical Memorandum, August 1983.
6. The Theosophist, Vol. 53, October 1896, pp. 67-68.
7. A Historical Restrospect of the Theosophical Society 1875-1896, pp. 18-19, published by the Society as a 32 pages pamphlet in 1896. Full text in the General Report of the Twenty-Firts Annieversary of the Theosophical Society, pp. 2-33.
8. Hargrove joined the Theosophical Society as a member-at-large in late 1891 without even having made the acquaintance of another member. He joined upon seeing a placard on a wall with the large heading "Theosophy" advertising a lecyure by Annie Besant.
9. Theosophical Quarterly, Vol. 28, April 1931, p. 317.
10. Theosophical Quarterly, Vol. 28, April 1931, p. 318.
11. Theosophical Quarterly, Vol. 28, April 1931, p. 318.
12. Theosophical Quarterly, Vol. 28, April 1931, p. 318.
13. Theosophical Quarterly, Vol. 28, April 1931, p. 321.
14. Theosophical Quarterly, Vol. 28, July 1931, p. 38.
15. Theosophical Quarterly, Vol. 28, July 1931, p. 42.
16. Theosophical Quarterly, Vol. 28, July 1931, pp. 42-43.
17. Mrs. Sara W. cape, a member of the Aryan Branch, New York, who joined the Theosophical Society on June 17, 1890, was included in the Visitors' Register and mentionned as a delegate from New York to the San Francisco Convention. She accompanied Wachtmeister on at least part of her lecture tour. (The Pacific Theosophist, Vol. 4, May 1894, p. 157)
18. Theosophical Quarterly, Vol. 28, July 1931, p. 45.
19. The Pacific Theosophist, Vol. 4, May 1894, p. 156.
20. Theosophical Quarterly, Vol. 29, October 1931, p. 108.
21. The Path, Vol. 9, March 1895, pp. 432-434.
22. Clement Acton Griscom Jr. and his wife, Genevieve Ludlow Griscom, were Judge's best friends. At times Judge would stay there entire weeks, commuting to and from work each day. "Mr. Griscom had a marvelous memory, not for useless figures, but for minute details of events. . . ." (Theosophical Quarterly, Vol. 16, April 1919, p. 319.)
23. Theosophy (Path), Vol. XI, May 1896, pp. 50-51.
24. Theosophical Quarterly, Vol. 29, January 1932, p. 238.
25. Theosophical Quarterly, Vol. 30, July 1932, p. 31. Theosophical Forum New Series, Vol. 1, No. 3, July 1895, p. 48.
26. His father, James Sidney Hargrove, was one of London's best known solicitors and an author of repute. His family heritage had such noted men as the eighteenth century Lieutenant general Hargrove, Governor of Gibraltar, and Sir Martin Frobisher who fought against the Armada. The best known was an Aird, on his mother's side, who was a member of Parliament. It is no wonder that the family tradition would have exacted a heavy burden on the young Hargrove to stay in England.
27. It has never been made clear when Judge actually met Mrs. Tingley. E.A. Neresheimer, a closed friend of Judge, claimed that he was first introduced to Mr. and Mrs. Tingley in fall of 1893 after Judge returned from the Parliament of Religions held at the Chicago World's Fair where he had met Mrs. Tingley. They were introduced on the prospect of a business enterprise. Neresheimer was a businessman and Philo Tingley was an inventor. According to business, Judge was already acquainted with Katherine Tingley by this time. It does lead one to wonder why she didn't join the Theosophical Society until October 13, 1894.
28. The Path, Vol. 9, March 1895, pp. 439.
29. Some Reminiscences of William Q. Judge, a paper by E.A. Neresheimer.
30. William Quan Judge, Theosophical Pioneer, compiled by Sven Eek and Boris de Zirkoff, Whaton, Ilinois, Theosophical Publishing House, 1969, p.34.
31. Letters That have Helped Me, compiled by Jasper Niemand, Los Angeles, California, The Theosophy Company, 1946, p.185.
32. Some Reminiscences of William Q. Judge, a paper by E.A. Neresheimer: While at Mineral Wells, Judge kept a record of his experiences and observations in which an individual nicknamed "Kali" is mentioned, likely in reference to Annie Besant. In The Canadian Theosophist, (Vol. 13, June 1932, p. 125), James Morgan Pryse, admitting taht he didn't read much of the notebook, presumed it to be in reference to Mrs. Judge.
33. Theosophical Quarterly, Vol. 30, July 1932, p. 37.
34. Theosophical Quarterly, Vol. 30, October 1932, p. 122.
35. The Path, Vol. 10, September 1895, p. 199.
36. Theosophical Quarterly, Vol. 30, October 1932, p. 122.
37. Theosophical Quarterly, Vol. 30, October 1932, p. 128.
38. This kind of occult instruction is passed on from Master to Chela in order to facilitate communications. "H.P.B. left us and her last message for the Society was given to Mrs. Oakley the night but one before she died. At three a.m. she suddenly looked up and say 'Isabel, Isabel, keep the link unbrocken, do not let my last incarnation be a failure'." (The Path, Vol. 9, July 1894, p. 124.)
39. It is entirely probable that Judge considered Hargrove as a possible occult successor before he considered Tingley, but Hargrove was still very young at the time. There have been serious suggestions made that Judge contemplated Jasper Niemand as a successor. In a letter dated December 9, 1894, Judge wrote that she "ought not to let herself be too well known at all. She is too sensitive, and it injures her. . . . If J.C.K. got to be too personally and urgently sought after, she would be killed" (Theosophical Quarterly, Vol. 29, January 1932, p. 246.) Her health and her shyness may also have been considerations.
40. Theosophical Quarterly, Vol. 30, October 1932, p. 124.
41. Theosophical Quarterly, Vol. 30, January 1933, p. 210. Judge's first concern was always theosophical work to the point of including his review The Path as part of his medical regimen.
42. Theosophical Quarterly, Vol. 30, January 1935, p. 203.
43. Theosophical Quarterly, Vol. 30, January 1935, p. 204.
44. Theosophical Quarterly, Vol. 30, January 1935, p. 204.
45. Theosophical Quarterly, Vol. 30, January 1935, p. 205; and Theosophy (Path), Vol. XI, May 1896, pp. 36-37.
46. Theosophy (Path), Vol. XI, May 1896, p. 37.
47. “Quality and Relevance of Research and Related Activities at The Gorgas Memorial Laboratory — A Technical Memorandum, August 1983.” Glossary of Terms, p.86. (www.wws.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/byteserv.prl/~ota/disk3/1983/8316/ 831612.PDF).
48. Sulphur - A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by John Henry Clarke, MD. Presented by Dr. Robert Séror. www.homeoint.org/books3/clarke13/clussul.htm.
49. Part of the reason why Judge consented to have Katherine Tingley go with him to Texas was that she had no magnetic ties, at that time, to any member of the Theosophical Society whereby a psychic link could be obtained to find him.
50. Michigan Family History Network (MFHN) Newsletter, January 05, 2001. www.mifamilyhistory.org/mailing_list/archives_ml
/news01-05-01.htm.
51. The New Illustrated Medicaland Health Encyclopedia, edited by Morris Fishbein. New York: H.S. Stuttman Co., 1975, pp.1275, 1278.
52. Of Lungs and Lungers: The Classified Story of Tuberculosis, by Susan Leigh Star and Geoffrey C. Bowker. http://weber.ucsd.edu/%7Egbowker/tb.html.
53. “A Letter from W.Q. Judge to Katherine Tingley”, O.E. Library Critic, Vol. 22, October 1932.
54. “A Brief History of Tuberculosis” , www.umdnj.edu/~ntbcweb/history.htm.
55. Pulmonary Tuberculosis, Pathalogical, Diagnosis, Management and Prevention, by Walter Papel M.D. Oxford University Press, 1953. Hermann Brehmer (1846-1909) had been a patient and later a pupil of Dettweiler (1837-1914).
56. The New Illustrated Medical and Health Encyclopedia, p.1284.
57. Theosophical Quarterly, Vol. 30, July 1932, p.31.
58. In Some Reminiscences of William Q. Judge, E.A. Neresheimer mentioned that Hargrove “had been living with Mr and Mrs Judge for some time previously” (p.4). This in itself was very unusual as there is seldom (if ever) mention of anyone staying at the Judge residence.
59. Healing Tuberculosis in the Woods: Medicine and Science at the End of the Nineteenth Century, by David L. Ellison, 1994, p.55.
60. He was born on November 22, 1838, in Bavaria. After his education as an M.D. he went to America and then to India to meet H.P. Blavatsky. He was at the Theosophical Society Headquarters at Adyar when Judge went there in the summer of 1884. After leaving Adyar in 1885, he became co-founder with Carl Kellner et al., of Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO) — a mystical oriental rite society.
61. The first in Canada was built on Lake Muskoka near the town of Gravenhurst in Ontario after a special Act of Parliament was passed on April 23, 1896. This resulted in the establishment of the National Sanatorium Association (www.lung.ca/tb/tbhistory/timeline/gage.html).
62. The New Illustrated Medical and Health Encyclopedia, p.1276.
63. At the Aryan Hall in New York, after the evening was concluded, the T.S. members would sometimes do readings from unpublished works of Robert Louis Stevenson. Blavatsky said that “he was one of the most powerful of our imaginative writers.” (Lucifer, Vol. 1, October 1887, p.89.)
64. A History of the Therapy of Tuberculosis and the Case of Frederic Chopin, by Esmond R. Long M.D. University of Kansas Press, 1956, pp.15, 32.
65. “Robert Koch (1843-1910), Germany, doctor, director of the Institute for Infectious Diseases in Berlin, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine [in 1905] ‘in recognition of his researches and discoveries about tuberculosis’.” (www.nobel.se/nobel/stamps/1965.html). “What excited the world was not so much the scientific brilliance of Koch’s discovery, but the accompanying certainty that now the fight against humanity’s deadliest enemy could really begin.” “Brief History of Tuberculosis”, www.umdnj.edu/~ntbcweb/history.htm.
66. A forensic article by Dr. Anil Aggrawal which appeared in the February 2000 issue, in the series The Poison Sleuths titled “Death by Gold”, http://members.tripod.com/~Prof_Anil_Aggrawal/poiso036.html.
67. “The History of Tuberculosis Treatment.” Molecular Mycobacteriology Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, www.wits.ac.za/myco/html/h_trtmt.htm.
68. Michigan Family History Network (MFHN) Newsletter, January 5 , 2001 (www.mifamilyhistory.org/mailing_list/archives_ml/
news01-05-01.htm). See also Does “TB” stand for “Time Bomb”?, from the Orlando-Orange County Health Department (www.orchd.com/TB/KillerTB.html).
69. The White Plague, Tuberculosis, Man, and Society, by René and Jean Dubos, 1952, pp.136, 139.
70. “Cyanide - A Friend or Foe?” by Professor A. Samarin FTSE., ATSE Focus, No. 111, Mar/Apr 2000. The Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, www.atse.org.au/publications/focus/focus-samarin4.htm.
At sublethal levels we find cyanide in the pits of non-citrus fruits, particularly in seeds of apricots, and also in cherries and pears. Apricot pits in particular have the substance amygdalin (leatrile) which is a compound that contains cyanide. Laetrile is very well-known today in the unconventional treatment of cancer. Most commercially prepared laetrile is extracted from apricot seeds. Laetrile was pioneered as a cancer treatment in 1950 by Dr. Ernest T. Krebs Jr. See www.second-opinions.co.uk/laetrile.html.
71. “Cyanide - A Friend or Foe?” by Professor A. Samarin FTSE., ATSE Focus, No. 111, Mar/Apr 2000. The Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, www.atse.org.au/publications/focus/focus-samarin4.htm.
72. Theosophical Quarterly, Vol. 30, January 1933, p.210.
73. Stedman’s Medical Dictionary, 24 Edition, 1983, p.920.
74. Organic Chemistry by K. Peter C. Vollhardt. New York: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1987, p.1257.
75. Today scientists are conducting sophisticated experiments on “Cyanide-Inhibited, Human Heme Oxygenase”, or direct oxidase, one of a group of enzymes to bring about direct oxidation, the addition of oxygen, into the Heme — the oxygen-carrying constituent of hemoglobin. (See: Heme Oxygenase at www.sacs.ucsf.edu/home/Ortiz/pubs-all.htm).
76. Theosophy (Path), Vol. XI, May 1896, p.52. “G. Hijo” was a pseudonym for Clement Acton Griscom.
77. Theosophical Quarterly, Vol. 30, July 1932, p.31; Theos. Forum New Series, Vol. 1, No. 3, July 1895, p.48.
78. Illustrated Oxford Dictionary. Dorling Kindersley Limited and Oxford University Press, 1998.
79. At the Boston Convention in April the Americans voted and accepted a new Constitution, with Judge as President for life of The Theosophical Society in America.
80. Dr. A. Basu is a third generation Palmist, Astrologer, Mystic, and Psychic. This exercise was intended to draw on his astrological expertise only. He holds a Doctorate in Biology and worked in this field in Europe, USA and Canada.
81. Chris McRae, PMAFA, CA.NCGR, ISAR.CAP, is the author of such titles as The Geodetic World Map (1988) and Understanding Interceptions (2002), both published by the American Federation of Astrologers, and a contributing author in Astrology of the Macrocosm, published by Llwewllyn Publications in 1990. She is also an internationally recognized lecturer and teacher.
82. The astrological analyses of Dr. Basu and Chris McRae are included in “Appendix J ~ Astrological Observations” in my book, The Judge Case: A Conspiracy Which Ruined the Theosophical Cause, which is soon to be released.
83. “Doctors are the Third-Leading Cause of Death in U.S.”
www.naturodoc.com/library/public_health/doctors_cause_ death.htm.
84. “Doctors are the Third-Leading Cause of Death in U.S.”
www.naturodoc.com/library/public_health/doctors_cause_ death.htm.
85. “Mass Murder in Medicine.”
www.tetrahedron.org/Mass_Murder_in_Medicine.html.
86. Jasper Niemand wrote: “During the twenty years a score of members has grown to thousands, primarily through the zeal and ability of the man who was able to inspire a similar devotion in others; the man whom the Master, writing to H.P. Blavatsky from Thibet and by the post in 1889, called, as she tells us in print and letter, “The Resuscitator of Theosophy.” (Irish Theosophist, Vol. IV, February 1896, p. 144; also see Blavatsky: Collected Writings, Vol. 12, p. 594.)
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