As any group therapist can tell you, group work is complicated. The history of the churches too can be read as a continuing story of growing and shrinking congregations. One of the reasons new congregations often grow is not just that they offer an approach that works for the time, but also that they’re simply, [...]
membership
In other words: How should we deal with members of the Theosophical Society Pasadena or the ULT in the TS Adyar? We had this come up in our local lodge the other day. We were talking about the program for next year, and the topic of who should go in the board of the lodge [...]
In order for the Theosophical Society to be relevant to this world today, it needs to be relevant to what people care about. Blavatsky latched onto the big spiritual hype of her day: the spiritualist movement. First she looked like their main defender. Then she turned on them to say: hey, all this may be [...]
Anton has posted the membership details of the Theosophical Society 2007/2008 on his site. I thought I’d go into that a bit more. Total membership of the Theosophical Society Adyar in 2007: 29,014. The largest section is India with 12,444 registered members. There has been some talk about the lagging administration of the Indian section, [...]
A theosophical lodge is a group of people that comes together to discuss theosophy. Usually there are lectures open to the public, a studygroup of some theosophical book, business meetings and a few holiday meetings. To me the lodges are the center of theosophical work. It’s where we can hatch out our ideas, throw them [...]
