Dear friends of Theosophy,
the response on the first independent "Theosopy-World-News"-Newsletter were all very positive (see on the right side section Statements). That makes me happy and motivated and today, a little bit late, but not to late, the second issue is published.
And a lot has happened in the past three months, nationwide theosophical events took place worldwide in Russia, Germany, America, Italy and Netherland. There were some voices, mainly on facebook, demanding justice on W.Q. Judge (see here or here about this case), of course we all celebrated the "White Lotus Day" and a new International President of the TS-Adyar was elected. And that is again the theme of the quater, because the election was considered by some people critically and a lot has been written about it.
In England a Mondrian exhibition takes place and in such a case, even with other famous by theosophie inspired artists, there is always a reference to Theosophy on large non-theosophical newspapers and websites, a good thing and positive association. That there is another way, show us some articles, that wish to place Theosophy in conjunction with racism, an ugly theme, which I have dedicated myself in an article or a pleading, that we Theosophists take more care of our reputation, means that we should more fight against the lies about theosophy and it's protagonists.
Please share your thoughts with us about that or other articles and write me your opinion and I'll publish it within the next newsletter in the statement-section.
But much more has been written about Theosophy within the last three month worldwide (and even more on non-english-language sites), a lot of theosophical ideas and thoughts, new and old aspects of Theosophy about science, philosophy, spirituality and brotherhood and a hopefully full range of articles and news, magazines and videos about that you can find on this page.
And now thank you for your attention and enjoy reading.
With kind regards from Munich, Germany
Steven Otto
Editor of Theosophy World News
You will find the following sections below:
Topic of the quarter | Upcoming (int. or nationwide) events | News from Theosophical Societies | Articles from Theosophical sites | Theosophical Magazines | Press about Theosophy | Twitter | Facebook | Videos | New Books | Letter to the editor | Comments
Some official News and Articles (TS)
TS Adyar
It is a great honour to be here with all of you.
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The Theosophical Society in England
The lectures of the symposium ‘How our consciousness changes our brain’ on May 17-18 will be broadcast live on the internet in three languages.
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TS Adyar in America
On Sunday, April 27, the votes were counted for the election of the new International President of the Theosophical Society. Tim Boyd was elected.
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TS in Australia
This Newsletter includes some extracts of articles by Tim Boyd from the collection of periodicals held at the Campbell Theosophical Research Library.
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The Singapore Lodge Theosophical Society
The Great Wesak Blessing, White Lotus Day, 37th Edition of A Course in Theosophy & Meditation, Wesak Celebration, Study Class on The Voice of the Silence
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And some critical News and Articles
Modern Theosophy
by Katinka Hesselink: I've moved on from the Theosophical Movement and many of the concerns expressed by the author of the below seem unreal to me these days. However, in a way that merely means I agree. I am publishing this for two reasons:
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Daves's Theosophy News Board
The General Council was confronted with considerable evidence that the election was bent but just stood there and let it go ahead.
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Daves's Theosophy News Board
Rubber Stamped by General Council.
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Daves's Theosophy News Board
It becomes clear that the election committee had valid evidence for misconduct but ignored it
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Daves's Theosophy News Board
About the Conduct of the 2014 Presidential Election
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Daves's Theosophy News Board
Because if CVK Maithreya had been allowed to campaign then members would have realised how good he is.
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Dave’s Theosophy News Board
So a result has been announced and the officially stated figures are that CVK Maithreya polled 4,242 votes and Tim Boyd was the winner with 7,190 votes.
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Dave’s Theosophy News Board
The members cast their votes and have the right to proof that they are counted properly. If there are doubts then the election should be declared null and void.
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Dave’s Theosophy News Board
The General Council’s collaboration with the Adyar ruling elite’s self serving agenda is resulting in an electoral outcome which is widely mistrusted.
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And also some News and Articles from non-Theosophy-related Sites
The Times of India
"I'm the most recent of them to bring my particular set of imperfections to the world of the Theosophical Society, but I promise you I will try (to do my best)," said Tim Boyd, the 8th elected global president of Theosophical Society since its inception in 1875.
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The Hindu
Tim Boyd is the new president of the international Theosophical Society headquartered in Adyar.
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FinancalTimes.com
A show that explores the significance of the artist’s space
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The Hindu
The Theosophical Society headquartered in Adyar will focus on building an online presence, Tim Boyd, international president of the society, said here on Thursday.
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History of the Adepts
Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950), born Aurobindo Ghose in Calcutta, is the Indian spiritual teacher of greatest relevance to the Church of Light due to his long partnership with Mirra Alfassa Richard (1878-1973), “the Mother,” who had been a disciple and student of Max Theon.
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MontrealGazette.com
I’ve said all I can say about the laws in Brunei that have drawn international protest.
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Swans.com
I’ve said all I can say about the laws in Brunei that have drawn international protest.
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FreePressJournal.in
What is death? Death is the final withdrawal of consciousness from its outermost form, the physical body.
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FreePressJournal.in
What is death? Death is the final withdrawal of consciousness from its outermost form, the physical body.
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The Spectator
At Margate's Turner Contemporary, you can see the surprising beginnings of his style.
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GetWestLondon.co.uk
Music reviewer Kevin Bryan recommends another helping of great music from yesteryear that readers make like to download for the first time or listen to again.
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The Guardian
Some years after he had renounced figurative painting for good, Piet Mondrian had a momentary lapse with a startling self-portrait made in 1918.
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Wassily Kandinsky described painting as a "thundering collision" of worlds in conflict.
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artlyst.com
Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) was one of the most important contributors to the development of abstract art in the early part of the 20th century.
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And some (partly unjustified) critical News and Articles
Socialistalternative.org
Kneale is more muddled when he attempts to equate Nazism with religion. He describes how in 1875 Madame Blavatsky, a Ukrainian aristocrat, announced the Theosophy Movement, a mishmash of ‘alternative’ religion, spiritualism and racism.
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gilmer.fetchyournews.com
The story is told of a pastor of a large church who had a dream one night that really opened his eyes.
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newswithviews.com
Only if we desire to know the truth and desire it fervently can we stand to be told that we the people are public enemy number one.
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theglobaldispatch.com
Yet there is another “front” group that the Jesuits control. It is the Freemasons..
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brooklynrail.org
Allow me to beg your indulgence as I don a shawl and, disguising myself as Madame Blavatksy, summon a ghost.
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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.
The TS in Australia (Adyar)
The TS in New Zealand Inc. (Adyar)
TS Adyar
FOTA
Theosophy Conferences, Inc.
TS in Germany e.V. (Adyar)
The European Federation of the TS and the TS in France
TS (Adyar) in America
TS Adyar in Southern Africa
I shall begin with a problem that Scholastic philosophers have discussed for centuries. Imagine there are two exactly similar objects.
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TS Point Loma - Blavatskyhouse The Hague
The lectures of the symposium ‘How our consciousness changes our brain’ on May 17-18 will be broadcast live on the internet in three languages.
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TS of Canada (Adyar)
In 1986 Adam Warcup delivered a twelve part lecture based on his book "Cyclic Evolution" at the European School of Theosophy.
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Northwest Branch of the TS (Pasadena)
Easter Dates and Virgin Births
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TS Adyar in America
The Henry S. Olcott Memorial Library was recently awarded a “Back to Books” grant in the amount of $4,250.00 for a project entitled “Creativity as a Spiritual Path.”
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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.
United Lodge of Theosophists (ULT)
The TS Point Loma - Blavatskyhouse The Hague
TS Adyar
Sons of Fire
Have I heard correctly? Theosophists are Liars, Racists, Satanists, Antisemites and Nazis? Yes, you have, but that's not all!
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Book of Dzyan Research (David Reigle)
Book of Dzyan Research
The Secret Doctrine Würzburg Manuscript book in digital or electronic format can now be downloaded free of charge from the Eastern Tradition Research Institute website
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Book of Dzyan Research
The Vaiśeṣika system, one of the six Hindu darśanas (worldviews or schools of philosophy), is not known for its cosmogony. It is known as an ancient Indian system of atomism.
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Book of Dzyan Research
The Secret Doctrine Würzburg Manuscript has now been published. It includes H. P. Blavatsky’s first translations of stanzas from the Book of Dzyan with her unrevised commentaries on them.
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Erica Georgiades
Erica Georgiades
This is an excerpt of the ‘Blavatsky Lecture’ I delivered in 2012. The Title of the lecture was ‘The Olympian Ideal of Universal Brotherhood’.
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Erica Georgiades
HPB was perhaps one of the most misunderstood women of the 19th century. I make this claim based on the biographies written about her.
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Erica Georgiades
Could you tell me how and when your great-grand-father met HPB and Olcott; and how did he help them to find and buy the Adyar state?
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Erica Georgiades
The perennial philosophy is a concept that refers to the idea that all religions and esoteric traditions, regardless their background, express the same fundamental everlasting truths because their core points out to a primal unity.
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Blavatsky News
Blavatsky News
Dublin’s Hugh Lane Gallery announces the opening of a new exhibition influenced by Blavatsky. Titled A Modern Panarion - Glimpses of Occultism in Dublin.
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Blavatsky News
The online edition of London’s Financial Times for June 15 reviews the exhibition “Mondrian and his Studios” at the Tate Liverpool.
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Blavatsky News
The Jamaica Gleaner of Kingston, Jamaica, carries an extended look at the subject of reincarnation.
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Blavatsky News
The San Diego Reader of April 2 looks at the San Diego response to the establishment of Katherine Tingley’s Theosophical community at Point Loma, California.
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Blavatsky News
The name of Christian Waller may not be a well-known one outside Australia, but, with her husband, Napier Waller, the couple made an impressive contribution to Australian art history.
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Blavatsky News
David and Nancy Reigle announce the publication of an early surviving draft of Blavatsky’s The Secret Doctrine. The Theosophy Company of Los Angeles has announced the publication of The Secret Doctrine Dialogues, “taken from the same stenographic notes as The Transactions of the Blavatsky Lodge.”
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Blavatsky News
The Los Angeles Neighborhoods and Real Estate guide, Curbed LA, looks at “The Creation of Beachwood Canyon’s Theosophist ‘Dreamland’” that lasted from 1912 to 1924 when the community moved to Ojai, California, where they still reside.
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Blavatsky Theosophy Group UK
Blavatsky Theosophy Group UK
“Theosophy is no new candidate for the world’s attention, but only the restatement of principles which have been recognised from the very infancy of mankind.”
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Blavatsky Theosophy Group UK
No-one will argue or attempt to deny that it was through H.P. Blavatsky andHelena Petrovna Blavatsky the Theosophical Movement that the concept and teaching of reincarnation was introduced to the Western world in modern times.
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Blavatsky Theosophy Group UK
Many have found the teachings and writings of H.P. Blavatsky too complex or difficult to begin with and have wished for something simpler, clearer, and more comprehensible, as their introduction to Theosophy.
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Blavatsky Theosophy Group UK
The famous and highly revered Anagarika Dharmapala (1864-1933) has been described as “the leading Buddhist missionary of our time” and “a towering figure in the work for the spiritual resurgence of Asia.”
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Blavatsky Theosophy Group UK
The name Robert Crosbie is entirely unknown to the vast majority of AdyarRobert Crosbie, Founder of the United Lodge of Theosophists Theosophists.
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Blavatsky Theosophy Group UK
Sometimes when we use different meanings and applications of certain words and terms, we come to forget their original and real meaning.
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Blavatsky Theosophy Group UK
Many mistaken conceptions exist in the minds of Theosophists and others regarding who or what is the “Planetary Spirit” of our Earth.
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TheosophyWatch.com
TheosophyWatch.com
“Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious,” H. P. Blavatsky writes, “is endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception.”
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TheosophyWatch.com
The anxiety illness known as Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is believed, according to Wikipedia, to be “caused by the experience of a wide range of traumatic events.”
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TheosophyWatch.com
Every child is a spark of God the higher mind. This knowledge put forward by Theosophy on early childhood education is in line with very ancient philosophies.
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TheosophyWatch.com
Western science is growing every year more intolerant, as H. P. Blavatsky once declared in the article Occult or Exact Science
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TheosophyWatch.com
When the Theosophical Society was founded in 1875, the First and foremost of its Three Objects was Universal Brotherhood.
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TheosophyWatch.com
Astronaut Edgar Mitchell’s epiphany struck when he looked out the window of his spacecraft at the Earth, Moon and Sun, surrounded by an infinitely vast universe..
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TheosophyWatch.com
Gaia the Greek Goddess of the Earth, was mother to all the Gods according to the ancient Greeks. In the beginning there was only Chaos, out of which there appeared Gaia they taught, and she gave birth to more than fifty symbolic deities.
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TheosophyWatch.com
Embarrassment is hard to hide and is even more embarrassing if it is noticed by others around you.
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TheosophyWatch.com
“The most intelligent being in the universe, man, has never been without a friend, but has a line of elder brothers who continually watch over the progress of the less progressed.
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TheosophyWatch.com
“There is a kind of conscious telegraphic communication going on incessantly, day and night, between our physical brain and our ever-awake inner consciousness.
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TheosophyWatch.com
“Eleven years old and “willing to help” was how Olivia Bouler described herself to the Audubon Society when she contacted them about the infamous oil spill tragedy in the Gulf.
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TheosophyWatch.com
“There would be no glorious bursting forth of nature at Easter-time without the cyclic journey of the Sun. The Sun-cycle ushers springtime into the world above the equator, and the ancients regarded this as the reincarnation season of the year.
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TheosophyWatch.com
“From earliest times, among all but modern western people, the teacher was accorded the greatest reverence.
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Esoteric-Philosophy.com
Esoteric-Philosophy.com
The inner light which guides men to greatness, and makes them noble, is a mystery through all time and must remain so while Time lasts for us;
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Esoteric-Philosophy.com
The German Thinker Did Not Believe in Ethics or Eastern Wisdom
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Esoteric-Philosophy.com
Observing the Sacredness of Daily Life
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Esoteric-Philosophy.com
Eating With Discernment Helps Inner Purification by B. P. Wadia
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Esoteric-Philosophy.com
Does there truly exist an insuperable contradiction between religion and science? Can religion be superseded by science? by Albert Einstein
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Esoteric-Philosophy.com
Human Being Is the Key to the Mystery of Knowledge and of Existence
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Esoteric-Philosophy.com
The Theosophical Movement After Radha Burnier
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Esoteric-Philosophy.com
The Importance of Returning to a Proper Appreciation of Blavatsky-Masters Theosophy.
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Esoteric-Philosophy.com
Attention Implies the Absence Of Any Distraction or Distortion
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Esoteric-Philosophy.com
A List of Articles on Right Vision, Pseudo-Theosophy, and Discernment.
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Esoteric-Philosophy.com
Understanding the Psychology of Illusion by Blaise Pascal
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Esoteric-Philosophy.com
The Eastern Tradition About Women Initiates by D. K. Mavalankar
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Esoteric-Philosophy.com
A Letter Examines the Relation of the Theosophical Movement to Masonic Orders by Robert Crosbie
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Esoteric-Philosophy.com
Positive Feelings and Actions Emerge From a Wider Notion of Space and Time
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Esoteric Philosophy
We, human-beings, have “vision”. Eye is the sense organ. Vision has many meanings but is commonly understood as seeing. The total vision has broader and too wider connotations.
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Daves's Theosophy News Board
Daves's Theosophy News Board
Over a month has elapsed since former Adyar accountant Mr M Kannan made public his complaints about his suffering at the hands of Adyar Estate Manager, Mr S Harihara Raghavan.
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Daves's Theosophy News Board
Admit it General Council, being the governing body of the Adyar Theosophical Society is too difficult for you.
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Daves's Theosophy News Board
Tim Boyd airbrushes his rushed inauguration from history.
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Daves's Theosophy News Board
Relating to the conduct of the 2014 Presidential Election, submitted to Chittaranjan Satapathy by South African
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Daves's Theosophy News Board
Indian General Secretary tells the Indian Section Council that he is nominating Tim Boyd – no discussion – no consultation
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Daves's Theosophy News Board
The only option is to Go Back & Do It Again With proper safeguards this time
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Daves's Theosophy News Board
D V Subramaniam’s Posthumous Letter of Complaint
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Daves's Theosophy News Board
Yet another source of information regarding staff bullying at Adyar.
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Daves's Theosophy News Board
Tim Boyd's failure to deal with serious allegations will mean that the fear of being banged up in police cells will henceforth haunt visitors to Adyar.
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Daves's Theosophy News Board
There's no way that a president, who couldn't even secure for himself a proper inauguration, can fight for the interests of the paying Theosophical Society members, that he is supposed to represent.
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Daves's Theosophy News Board
In October 2013, Adyar Accountant, Mr M Kannan was threatened with police action by Adyar Estate General Manager, Mr S Harihara Raghavan if he did not move a car that was parked outside his quarters on the Adyar Estate, even though the car wasn’t his.
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Daves's Theosophy News Board
Tim Boyd nominates only one candidate for International Vice-President and expects the General Council members to vote for him.
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Daves's Theosophy News Board
Allegations against Adyar Estate General Manager, Mr S Harihara Raghavan over staff bullying and threats of imprisonment are not new.
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Daves's Theosophy News Board
Below is a copy of a letter of May 15th 2014 sent to new International President, Tim Boyd by Mr M Kannan outlining his horrendous treatment, during his period of employment at the Adyar Theosophical Society, by General Manager of the Adyar Estate, Mr S Harihara Raghavan.
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Daves's Theosophy News Board
Adyar Estate General Manager reports former Theosophical Society Accountant to the police, resulting in detention and two days of interrogation
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Daves's Theosophy News Board
A two job president will produce a massive conflict of interest that will divide the American Section
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Daves's Theosophy News Board
Threats of influencing police to coerce people into submission are common
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Daves's Theosophy News Board
Serious allegations about a reign of terror at Adyar are lodged with the International President.
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Dave’s Theosophy News Board
The exclusion of Mr Maithreya from the rushed inauguration was an insult to him and his supporters.
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Dave’s Theosophy News Board
By its silence policy and failure to clear up doubts about the result of the 2014 presidential election, the leadership has declared itself unaccountable.
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Dave’s Theosophy News Board
Anybody thinking that Adyar ruling elite’s policy of not telling the members anything would end after the presidential election, were massively over optimistic.
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Dave’s Theosophy News Board
Having dutifully done as he was told by the ruling elite by maintaining silence during the now disputed 2014 election, the new president is obliging his masters by silently creeping into office to avoid angry crowds.
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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.
