BOOK "THE JUDGE CASE" BY ERNEST PELLETIER

"The Judge Case - A Conspiracy That Ruined the Theosophical Cause" is a book written by Ernest E. Pelletier who was president of the Theosophical Society of Edmonton, Canada.

In this book, Mr. Pelletier compiled the information and documentation about the betrayal that Annie Besant and Colonel Olcott did to William Judge and which caused the split of the Theosophical Society into two separate organizations and in great measure ruined the Theosophical Cause because as Ernest Pelletier himself mentioned in an interview:

« One of the important reasons to take Judge’s involvement in the theosophical Cause seriously is made plain by Blavatky herself. In 1886, commenting on Judge’s magazine, “The Path”, she described it as “pure Buddhi”.

In 1889, speaking in the third person about Judge, she stated: “William Judge is part of herself since several eons” and that he was the link between “American thought & the Indian – or rather the trans-Himalayan Esoteric Knowledge”.

This alone makes it clear Judge was an integral part of the plan.

It was acknowledged among those who knew him intimately that he was never known to have ever lied. Influential business people who defended him claimed that Judge could have anything he wanted from them but asked for nothing, and gave selflessly of himself.

In spite of the persecution he suffered over the false accusations against him, the worst he could say after the years of torment was, when speaking of Annie Besant, “I pity her in her next life”. »

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Personally, this book seems to me a very enlightening investigation about what happened, although I must specify that it is a specialized book for those who are interested in the history of the Theosophical Movement.

• You can download the two volumes here.
• You can read the Ernest Pelletier’s interview here.
• You can read the Katinka Hesselink's review here.
• You can read the Daniel H. Caldwell's review here.
• And you can read the Sarah Belle Dougherty’s review here.