A Letter from E. A. Neresheimer to Alice Cleather: Mrs. Katherine Tingley
Channels the Recently Deceased William Q. Judge (original) (raw)
A Letter from E. A. Neresheimer to Alice Cleather Katherine Tingley Channels the Recently Deceased William Q. Judge
The original of the following letter is in the handwriting of Emil August Neresheimer and is preserved in the Archives of The Theosophical Society, Pasadena, California. The letter is dated March 31, 1896 and was written to Alice Leighton Cleather, a Theosophist (also a member of the English E.S.T. Council) residing in England. Mr. Neresheimer wrote the letter only ten days after Judge's death. E.A. Neresheimer was a close friend of Mr. Judge and executor of Judge's will.
The following excerpts from the letter were first published in the book The Point Loma Community in California: 1897-1942 by Emmett A. Greenwalt (University of California Press, 1955; second & revised ed. with a new title California Utopia: Point Loma: 1897-1942, Point Loma Publications, 1978, pages 16-17).
"[March 31, 1896]
The day after he [W. Q. Judge] died he sent for me through
[Katherine Tingley] with whom he made me acquainted in 1894. . . . Next day early I called, could not connect with him [Judge], all I could get through
Two days afterward I was sent for in the evening. We (Griscom, E.T. H. [Ernest T. Hargrove] and myself) had been engaged all along night after night sorting [Judge's] papers and things; I went [to Mrs. Tingley's home], made notes of what he [Judge] wished me to say to the others, which was mostly retailing my entire connection, introduction by him [Judge] to
[At the 7:45 p.m. meeting] The Rajah [Judge] commenced to talk almost immediately through
[Compare the above 1896 account by Neresheimer with his more detailed account written in 1932.]
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