Theosophy News Worldwide 1st Quarter 2019

This issue was published on 2019-04-02 or 5 years 4 months ago.

Editorial

Steven Otto

Dear friends of Theosophy,

the 21th Issue of "Thesosophy World News" includes again many references to articles and news about theosophical point of views. If You know websites I don't incorporate so far, then send me a hint.

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And now I wish you an interesting reading and a peaceful spring. With kind regards from Germany

Steven Otto
Editor of Theosophy World News

Press outside the movement about Theosophy

Theosophy


The Garden Island published an article about Kauai-born Theosophist Augustus Francis Knudsen who met Olcott, Blavatsky and Besant personally.

One of youthkiawaaz.com's opinions is More Indians Need To Know About Jiddu Krishnamurti. Another article about Krishnamurti and Krishnamurti Foundation of America you can read at religionnews.com

Katherine Tingley is mentioned in an article named History Happenings: March 18, 2019 at newburyportnews.com

Point Loma’s largest Italian Renaissance mansion has a Lomaland-Connection, as the San Diego Reader reported

Bowdoin draws a portrait of Professor Fritz Koelln, a Theosophy.- and Antroposphy-inspired known teacher.

H.P. Blavatsky was nominated for The Bronx’s Hall Of Fame For Great Americans if we believe the AV-Club

In Gandhi and his India The Daily Pioneer mentioned also Theosophy.


Art


The Art Newspaper reports Agnes Pelton was a visionary but little-known Theosophy-inspirated painter, you can see at Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, 9 March–8 September, as also Antiques and the arts reported.

The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra's current program features works — Alexander Scriabin's “Poem of Ecstasy," or fourth symphony, and Gustav Holst's “The Planets” — that have their philosophical underpinnings in the spiritual worlds of theosophy and astrology, means Buffalo News

The Nation asked Where Does Art Belong? and within also Theosopy plays a role. About Klimt and the current Klimt exhibition in New York (we reported in our last issue) also Swarthmore College The Phoenix Online, San Diego Jewish World, The New Republic, The Brooklyn Rail, Artlyst, Highbrowmagazine and Foxlife reported. And the The Vassar College Newspaper means that Klint exhibit discredits patriarchal view of abstractionism

Brooklyn Rails connects the famous painter Mucha to Theosophy and Occultism.

In Elmwood School’s production of The Light Burns Blue also H.P. Blavatsky plays an major role, as Ottawa Citizen reported

And an article about the poet T.S. Eliot mentioned H.P. Blavatsky too.


Other


One of the favorite books of Einstein was Isis Unveiled from HPB, as weforum.org says.

Patheos.com talks about artificial servitor spirit in regard to “Tulpamancy” and therfore also Balavtsky and Theosophy were mentioned, like also in an article about Irish-American Witchcraft: Fairies, Gender Identity, and Sexuality.

 

 

An article at Den of Geek about Kindred Spirits mentioned Blavatsky and Theosophy.

The Indian city Chennai is called the seat of Theosophy in an article at The Hindu.

Quarz India anwsers the question where India’s freedom fighters lived in London and thereby mentioned Theosophy in regard to Gandhi.

Other articles that mentioned Blavatsky or Theosophy by the way are Greenery, genocide AND next generation, Doctor Strange and the Racial History of a Marvel Icon, A YEAR IN MUSIC: 1891, music hall’s boom-de-ay heyday, ‘Trust Your Angels’: Lessons I Learned From a Very Old Artist, On the border, Pagan Community Notes: Reported “Wiccan” accused of human trafficking, COMISS Network, and more!, Get Spooky: Lindsay Bowyer weaves art and the occult


False Allegations


Once more The New American spreads the stupid lie, that Theosophy inspired the (Top-)Nazis in Germany. Theosophy was forbidden during Nazi-Time in Germany! Hitler was no Pagan or Occultist, he was and is (never excommunicated) a "brave" catholic and his hate f.e. against jews is in "tradition" with f.e. Luther and the whole Curch, but for sure not to find in Theosophy.

Cause of the New Age exhibition in Bat Yam The Jerusalem Post mentioned Balavtsky

The article Training Wheels: The Chakras in The Reader is also about Blavatsky and more, Leadbeater

And in The Real United Nations Alice Bailey and therefore Theosophy is a topic for Canada Free Press.


If the ʺspirit,ʺ or the divine portion of the soul, is preëxistent as a distinct being from all eternity, as Origen, Synesius and other Christian fathers and philosophers taught, and if it is the same, and nothing more than the metaphysically‐objective soul, how can it be otherwise than eternal? And what matters it in such a case, whether man leads an animal or a pure life, if, do what he may, he can never lose his individuality? This doctrine is as pernicious in its consequences as that of vicarious atonement. Had the latter dogma, in company with the false idea that we are all immortal, been demonstrated to the world in its true light, humanity would have been bettered by its propagation.

H.P.B in "Isis Unveiled", p. 283.

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News from Theosophical Societies

The Indian Section of the TS Adyar published its Revised Annual Dues for 2017

TS Adyar New Zealand announced the release of the new Geoffrey Hodson book: An Introduction to The Initiate Life and publishes also some video recording of some of the presentations at a Convention in January 2019

TS Adyar Australia invites to spend quality time with the international president as he tours australia

TOS published A Tribute to John C. Kern May 22,1925 –Jan. 20, 2019 Great man, great soul, great server PDF) and information bout the Adyar Theosophical Academy: Starting in June of this year, the Theosophical Society in Adyar will open the Adyar Theosophical Academy (ATA). The latest newsletter of TS Adyar you can read here

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Devachan is the idealized continuation of the terrestrial life just left behind, a period of retributive adjustment, and a reward for unmerited wrongs and sufferings undergone in that special life.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Key to Theosophy (London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1893), p. 90.

Theosophical Magazines

The TS Point Loma (TSPL)

Lucifer - the Lightbringer
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The TS (Pasadena) Australasian Section

Theosophy Downunder
Newsletter of the Theosophical Society (Pasadena) Australasian Section
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The Aquarian Theosophist

The Aquarian Theosophist
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United Lodge of Theosophists (ULT)

The Theosophical Movement Magazine
publisher, January (pdf), February (pdf), March (pdf)

 

The TS Adyar Indian Section

The Indian Theosophist Magazine
publisher, January (pdf), February (pdf), March (pdf)

 

New books

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Theos Talk


The function of Theosophists is to open men's hearts and understandings to charity, justice, and generosity, attributes which belong specifically to the human kingdom and are natural to man when he has developed the qualities of a human being. Theosophy teaches the animal-man to be a human-man; and when people have learnt to think and feel as truly human beings should feel and think, they will act humanely, and works of charity, justice, and generosity will be done spontaneously by all.

H. P. Blavatsky to the American Conventions, letter 1

Letter to the editor

Oct 2018

Ana H.

Thank you so much for this important work for all theosophist

Ana H.

 


Oct 2018

Carlos C. A. via Mail

Dear Steve,

Thank you. Excellent. Shared in various places.

Carlos


Oct 2018

Eric via Mail

Dear Steven,

Just got you new "Theosophy World News" from FB site, nice work! What immediately stood out was the personal pronoun "I" just published... I (we) hope you get some help in future!

Anyway, I just retired from my mundane profession and will be pursuing my Kundalini Laser hypothesis as rudimentarily outlined here. I just applied to membership at ITC and may go to this Summer's convention in the US (if we still exist and idiot president hasn't had a global tantrum). I chose "Idea for Project" because it easily translates... and I would like to follow up on my research by working with a hyperbaric chamber; that was what the Great Pyramid was was made for!

Thanks and Good Luck!

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