Using the wide-angle lens of theosophic wisdom,
Judge provided trenchant commentary on a variety of themes: Astral Intoxication;
Christian Fathers on Reincarnation; Spiritualism Old and New; Is Poverty
Bad Karma?; Psychometry; Kali Yuga - the Present Age; Reincarnation of Animals;
Suicide is not Death; Comets; and many, many more. A felicitous by-product
of Judge's broad coverage of subject matter both in The Path and on
his lecture-tours was the popular interest aroused in the study of comparative
religion and in the epics and philosophical scriptures of India. He recognized
in the Bhagavad-Gita and Upanishads, and in the accounts of the life and
mission of the Buddha, a strong affinity with the theosophic ethic and teaching.
To meet the growing demand for explanations of theosophical and Oriental
doctrines a printing press was purchased in 1889 to issue pamphlets, tracts,
and a small 8-page magazine, The Theosophical Forum. The same year
The Path office published an inexpensive pocket edition of Patanjali's Yoga
Aphorisms, followed in 1890 by Judge's Recension of the Bhagavad-Gita, both
with introductions by W. Q. Judge.
