Celebrating 72 Years of Continuous Activity In The Central Florida Community

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1 UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD--FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE----Wisdom Is Knowing That We Are All One----Love Is What It Feels Like----Compassion Is What It Acts Like Forwarded message From: (THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY) To: Date: Wed, 28 Feb :53: Subject: Theosophy Today #32 = ~~~ THEOSOPHY TODAY ~~~ The Theosophical Society In Orlando, School of Theosophy, Orlando. Celebrating 72 Years of Continuous Activity In The Central Florida Community 1935 == 72 == ~ INTERNET NEWSLETTER ~ March--April--May Send all comments and literary contributions to: Editor: Theosophy Today Theosophist@webtv.net ~~STUDY~~MEDITATION~~SERVICE~~ The Theosophical Society Welcomes you to it's 72nd season of continuous activity in Central Florida... Theosophical Meetings are held on the 1st & 3rd Friday each month 8:00

2 to 9:30 P.M. Healing Group on the 4th Friday at 8:00 P.M THEOSOPHICAL MEETINGS March... 2nd...Meditation On Life...N. Sri Ram Meditation & Discussion Forum 16th...The Ancient Wisdom...Dr. Annie Besant 23rd...Healing Circle...Learn & Practice The Art of Spiritual Healing. April... 6th...Meditation On Life...N.Sri Ram Meditation & Discussion Forum 20th...Annual Lodge Corporate Business Meeting. 27th...Healing Circle...Learn & Practice The Art of Spiritual Healing. May... 4th...White Lotus Day Observance 18th...Installation of Officers.. The Ancient Wisdom...Dr. Annie Besant 25th...Healing Circle...Learn & Practice The Art of Spiritual Healing Summer Schedule Traditionally, Orlando Lodge does not schedule any programs for the Months of June, July, August. We resume our regular program schedule on the first Friday of September. The Healing Circle will continue to meet on the 4th Friday of June, July, August. at 8:00 P.M. ===

3 == ~ A MEDITATION FOR THE LODGE ~ Grant, O Loving Kindness within us all, that those who work and study in the Lodge may never mistake numbers, praise, or publicity for success; may never strive for position when all service is valued and all are equal; may never seek for self; may preserve a kindly humor and go their way content to serve. May such a Spirit of Fellowship abide as to silence all gossip and destructive criticism, so that all who enter find enduring peace, true kindliness and understanding. So May It Be! = LODGE OF THE AIR Home Study Program While nothing can replace the value of personal interaction, discussion & dialogue experienced at a Theosophical Meeting we realize that sometimes circumstances prevent one from being physically present with us. In these cases you can still derive a benefit of Theosophical Study with us by participating in our Lodge Of The Air Program. If you would like to participate in this seasons study of Annie Besant's ANCIENT WISDOM and cannot attend our meetings, we have included the online version of this classic Theosophical text for your convenience. All that is required is that you send us your name and address so that we can include you in our thoughts. As a participant in the Lodge Of The Air Program you can send us your questions and discussion ideas to share with the meetings. THE ANCIENT WISDOM by Dr. Annie Besant Online Version [click link] ==

4 == == ~ ORLANDO LODGE ~ Orlando Lodge is an intentional community of Theosophical Students serving the objectives of the Theosophical Society, and is dedicated to the creation and maintainance of a Spiritual Center where the Theosophical Philosophy, the Ancient Wisdom, may be studied and lived. == == == THE RIVER OF BECOMING By Christmas Humphreys "It is odd," said Max Born in The Restless Universe, "to think that there is a word for something which, strictly speaking, does not exist, namely, rest." Rest, in fact, is merely slightly less activity, for even that which is to the senses "still" is moving at tremendous speed in space. Sabbe sankhara anicca, said Gotama the Buddha. Truly all compounded things, all "aggregates" - and science has yet found nothing "pure" - are subject to anicca, change. Our senses tell us that our bodies change each moment of the day from birth to death. So do our clothes and furniture, our friends and habits and our means of livelihood. So do our larger selves, our clubs and circles and societies; so does the nation and the race to which we belong. Even the "everlasting hills" are subject to anicca, and the world we live in and the sun which gives it life had sometime a beginning and will ultimately die. No less does the law of change embrace comparatively immaterial things. Our loves and hates, our joys and fears are as changing as the weather, and thoughts, when analyzed in terms of consciousness, are found to be more fleeting still. The Indian philosophers who developed the message of the Buddha into a system of philosophy carried the process of self-analysis to extremes, but they certainly proved, two thousand years before the Western science of psychology was born, that that which alone entitles man to say of himself `I am, his consciousness, is itself impermanent. The process of thought is a process in all its parts. Just as the

5 countless pictures which comprise a film are thrown on the screen by a powerful light, so consciousness makes visible the endless stream of thoughts which pass at immense speed through the mind. Yet this projecting light itself arises from successive flashes of life, in this case known as electricity, which alternates between the poles which in the East are called the Pairs of Opposites. Again, just as the personality, including consciousness, is a changing aggregate of changing parts, so is the soul, or character, the elusive factor which gives meaning to the whole. As Emerson wrote, "the soul of man may not sleep but must live incessant. Not in his goals but in his transitions Man is great; and the truest state of mind rested in, becomes false." In truth, "there is no abiding principle in man." The metaphysical basis of anicca lies in that primordial Duality which is the highest conceivable aspect of the ONENESS which it is foolish to attempt to name. As H.P. Blavatsky points out in The Secret Doctrine, this "Beness" can be symbolized under two aspects, absolute abstract Space, the father of all form, and absolute abstract Motion, which is unconditioned Consciousness. Hence the essence of Life is movement, and form is but the robe of life. These primal ultimates, Life and Form, are the warp and weft of the changing pattern of existence, and the complexity of their relationship informs the littlest aspect of the daily round. The movement of form is circular; the form of life is perpendicular, and these two symbols are the parents of all others yet devised by man. The cycle of form is invariable, moving from birth through growth to maturity, and thence through decay to death. Life on the other hand, has only two directions, up and down, moving either to More or Less, towards its periodic Source, or from it. These two symbols, the circle and the line, respectively female and male, are the two nodes of manifestation. Inspired by the upward direction of the line, the circle strives to rise, and its efforts form a spiral, the symbol of progress. The interrelation of these symbols reveals an infinitely complex flux of becoming, in which Life, the immortal, ceaselessly builds and uses, discards and destroys the forms essential to its self expression. For the Life-force is the manifestation of that absolute, abstract Motion which is the creative aspect of the Absolute, even as absolute abstract Space is reflected downwards in the matter which is spirit's complement. These two, which yet are one, are thus the first and last of the Pairs of Opposites.

6 Life, the superabundant passionless, relentless onward flow, is meaningless, unmanifest, invisible without the resisting and therefore molding limitations of its other aspect, form. Yet because Life is movement and movement involves change, it is rightly said that Life is a Becoming and progress a becoming More. Wherefore the wise man welcomes life with open arms, and cries to himself and all awakened to their destiny - "Walk On" and then, "Walk On," and then again "Walk On!" The law of change implies that no man is the owner of anything. At the most he can possess, yet is it truer to say that by certain articles and thoughts he is possessed. All this is foolishness. As the Tibetans say: "Seeing that when we die we must depart empty-handed, and the morrow after our death our corpse is expelled from our own house, it is useless to labor and to suffer privations in order to make for oneself a home in this world." All of which the Chinese express more pithily in saying: "Life is a bridge. Pass over it, but build no house on it." But just as it is futile to covet or over-value personal possessions, whether wealth or titles, knowledge or ideals, so is it futile to attempt to preserve unchanged existing forms, whether of art or social structure, education or the interrelations of mankind. He who refuses to swim with the stream will be flung on the shore, from which with helpless, angry eyes he will watch the stream of life flow by. Life moves from what it is to what it wills to be. All that exists must die, by reason of the fact that it has come to being. Hence the truism; the cause of death is birth. Life is limitless and therefore fills all forms. It fills and uses alike an atom or a solar system, and goes on fulfilling itself within that form, and thereby filling that form, until the moment of repletion bursts the form, and while the life is released to inform a new and larger vehicle the older form, as form, forever dies. Thus life is the cause of death, and in its killing builds anew. But the paradox remains that form is inconceivable apart from life. The very form when dead is still alive, and expressing the same life in another form; hence the truth of the tremendous principle - There is no death. Life, the resistless, works through an infinite complexity of forms, one of the most potent being principles. A principle is as much a force

7 as the Niagara Falls, and far more dangerous, for the latter can only crush men's bodies, while the former can slay men's minds. Yet a man of principle is a man alive, atuned to the flow of life and not its forms. The principle of Truth, for example, is the Absolute made manifest subjectively; the principle of Good is the Absolute in its objective form, while Beauty is the principle of true relationship, the invisible third factor which enables the mind to perceive and understand duality. To the man of form the relationship between the parts of "things" is meaningless, without significance. To the man of principle the correspondence of the form's design to the pattern of the Universe produces Beauty, which is Life made manifest in the design of form. Thus Life and Form, the ultimate antitheses, unthinkable, apart, are unified in Beauty, their relationship. To the aggregation of such forms there is no end. A cathedral, for example, is the product of a dozen arts, each perfect in themselves. In the same way a humble eggshell is composed of forms of life of delicate perfection, and these in turn consist of countless atoms, each elaborately built about a central focus which, in the last analysis, is only a form of force. Thus form, when driven to the wall, reveals itself as life, even as life, in the subtlest guise we know it, radiation, is the subject of unvarying laws of wave-length, range and potency, which are in fact the attributes of form. All man's material productions are the child of thought, the creative because life-process of the mind, even as the forms of Nature are the product of the Universal Mind. As the Patriarch Wei Lang proclaimed: "The essence of Mind is intrinsically pure; all things, good or evil, are only its manifestations, and good deeds and evil deeds are only the result of good thoughts and evil thoughts respectively." One of the oldest Buddhist Scriptures opens with the words: "All that we are is the result of what we have thought; it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts," and recently Sir James Jeans wrote: "Mind no longer appears as an accidental intruder into the realm of matter; we are beginning to suspect that it is the creator and governor of matter." Thus every act, which is of the realm of matter, was born of an idea. It is therefore a thought-form, that is to say, a life-form. All facts are equally mind-begotten, and alike have no importance. What

8 matters is their significance, and this pertains to the realm of spirit, which is Life. The world of life is the world of causes; facts, events and circumstances are effects. The wise man, therefore, pays immense attention to all causes, basing them on principle, and leaves with confidence the law of Karma to take care of the effects. These effects are subject to the laws of form, and one is the law of Cycles, of periodicity, of flux and reflux, ebb and flow. These Cycles do not move in circles, but themselves obey the law of progress, which uplifts the circle into a spiral, as already explained. It has been noted that a given point in a wheel, after making a complete revolution of descent and ascent, moves on again from its starting point, but the next revolution takes it so much further along the road. Men and movements, empires and ideas are born and die and are then reborn again according to the cyclic law which brings them back, not to the same point on the circle but to a point above it, or below, for though the pendulum of form swings evenly, Life has its own ideal, and steadily raises the whole towards its own essential mystery. For the purpose of Life is becoming, a re-becoming of itself, with something gathered from the process of becoming which was not manifest before. Obeying, without understanding it, this inner law, man climbs the mountain step by step, content, if he is wise, with an ever receding ideal, for an end achieved is dust and ashes in the mouth; only the climbing is worth while. Achievement is at the best a pause for breath on the upward climb, for Life allows no halting, and ever cries from higher up the hill - "Walk On!" Thus Life is a relentless movement, blending its everchanging forms in a vast kaleidoscope. Through all three planes of body, mind, and spiritual becoming, in three dimensions and the illusion we call time, Life moves unceasingly, and every form exists or perishes according to its sovereign will. The fool resists the process of becoming, but the wise man plunges into the river joyously, abandoning the foolish quest for certainty in a restless world of change. He would say with the late Mr. Edmond Holmes in one of his Sonnets to the Universe, I find life's treasure in this endless quest, And peace of mind in infinite unrest.

9 The fearful man objects that life is merciless. It is, and rightly so, for mercy is a quality invented by the human mind to supply the deficiencies of human judgment and of man-made law. The laws of Life are perfect, and dispassionately just. Life reeks not of the individual, who either obeys its laws and moves to the ever More, or resists the flow and is smashed accordingly. If the whole of self be opened with a willingness and yearning to be filled, Life the superabundant will reply unstintingly, but if the gates of self be closed, the pressure at the gates will rise and rise until the resister yields at last to the Beauty-Wisdom-Love that seeks to enter in. Then will Life so fill the form that it will shatter it, only to build a palace more commodious, and when its gates in turn are closed with selfishness, lay siege to them anew. Not until no self remains that can be filled does the individual cease from suffering; only when the resistant self has died for ever can the true Self welcome Life with joyous heart, and ride the River of Becoming onward to the Shoreless Sea Read More About The Life of Christmas Humphries; Distinguished British Jurist, Theosophist, Buddhist... (click links) Special Feature: Noted Modern Philosopher Ken Wilbur Challenges us... "SO WHO ARE YOU?' Explore his question... (click link)

10 =============================== ALL RELIGIONS HAVE PURPOSE Each Religion has its own mission in the world, is suited to the nations to which it was given,and to the type of civilization it is to permeate. The failure to see this leads to unjust criticism and, we may add, to worse: to ostracism and to persecution,psychological and even physical. What elements did the different religions have in common ( and which were later lost in part)? We might summarize these as follows: 1...One divine origin,ruler,and sustainer, one divine Life, or it may be, one ideal: The God of monotheistic religions (Jehovah,God,Allah): but also Parabrahma in Hinduism; in Taoism the Tao; in Buddhism Nirvana, the one shining sea into which the dewdrop melts, or which the dewdrop becomes; in Mahayana Buddhism the ideal of the Bodhisattva, renouncing Nirvana to help others. 2...A Founder or Teacher; Moses and the Prophets, and Muhammad are relevant in the Middle East; in the West in general Jesus Christ; in much of India and the East Krshna, Mahavira, the Buddha, Guru Nanak and others. 3...Saintly beings living a holy life, helping others by their lives, by their teachings, even by their silence, like Ramana Maharshi. 4...The possibility of becoming like such saintly beings, leading a holy life in a monastery, hermitage, or in daily life. 5...The existence of a spiritual path, for example, the way of the Kabbalah, the Christian Mystic Path, the Noble Eightfold Path of Buddhism, the Path of Raja Yoga according to Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, the paths of Bhakti, Jnana, and Karma Yoga in Hinduism, and the Sufi path in Islam. 6...As a preparation for living such a life, an ethical code, often involving "dos" and "don'ts", "thou shalt" and "thou shalt not", such as the Ten Commandments in Judaism and Christianity, the Panchasila in Buddhism, Yama and Niyama in Hinduism. These teachings, if put into practice tend to reduce selfishness and foster love and understanding. What happened to these great teachings, propagated in order to help mankind and all beings? Are they not being misunderstood, misinterpreted and misused? Thus the original meaning of Jihad in Islam was a holy war not against any enemy outside us, but against the enemy within, against our own selfishness, fanaticism and cruelty. Here we have an interesting

11 parallel in the Bhagavadgita, Arjuna on the battlefield is confronted with a hostile army to which belong his relatives, friends and teachrs, meaning that Arjuna had to wage a war against his own selfish and negative tendencies. Why and how have these teachings, originally pure and of divine source, degenerated and distanced themselves from their basic meaning and purpose? Due to ignorance leading to misunderstandings, due to greed, for example, the power of wealth. Religions have been corrupted by superstitions, and by dogmatism. ~~~ Dr. Annie Besant =============================== THE BUILDING OF TEMPLES - By Robert M. Millard Its massive pillars, its stately walls Are a tribute to craftsmen's skill It stands in majestic form complete, Its place in the world to fill, It compensates for the years delayed For the toil and the sacrifice, And to all who helped to build it comes As a wondrous and well earned prize. Ah! yes, we have builded a temple grand, We are fraught with the thrill of pride, The art to achieve in a noble cause Brings comfort that will abide. The architect's approval is had, It is good work, true and square Each small detail in the splendid whole Has been tempered with skill and care. Then I wonder--what of the temple of God That is hidden within my heart? Am I building this with lofty tools, Am I moulding its every part With brotherly love and faith and truth, With justice to every man, Am I building into this sacred thing

12 The very best that I can? For temples of stone shall crumble to dust, Their memory fade with the days, But the temple I rear in my heart of hearts Nor time nor death can efface. And whether for weal or whether for woe I proclaim myself at the shrine Of God or mammon, of heights or of depths, As I work on this temple of mine. It is not given that I should know The time allotted me here, But the highways and byways are well defined, The paths I may travel are clear. And when at last the darkness ensues And the things of the world become dim, All that shall matter is, will God approve The temple I've builded to HIM? ============================== Special Feature: Noted Esoteric Writer Dane Rudhyar Takes Us on an Exploration of THE HIDDEN SIDE OF MUSIC AND THE MAGIC OF TONE... Take this interesting tour with Dane.. (click link) ================================ NATURE SANCTUARY In October of 1996 Members of Orlando Lodge dedicated our current campus as a "Designated Nature Sanctuary." We felt that is was important that in the midst of busy "city life" people should have the opportunity to "step away" for a while and deeply relax and attune to Mother Nature in a Spiritual way, to Enter The Silence and just "BE" with Nature. Every year on the second Sunday in October we observe "Nature Sanctuary Day" with a special program to reconfirm our committment to Nature Awareness & Appreciation.

13 It is a pleasure at this time to introduce you to one of our beloved residents... The Sacred Parijath Tree. The Parijath is native to Asia & India. The small tree was gifted to us in 1990, and has since become a towering beautiful greeter to all who approach the front of our Lodge Buinding, blessing the air with its perfumed fragrance. We are indebted to Srimati Kamala Jagannathan and her wonder ful husband "C.R." of Chennai, for this treasure. The following links will introduce you to the history and sacred legend of the Parijath Tree Being thus prepared for us in all ways, and made beautiful, and good for food, and for building, and for instruments of our hands, this race of plants, deserving boundless affection and admiration from us, becomes, in proportion to their obtaining it, a nearly perfect test of our being in right temper of mind and way of life; so that no one can be far wrong in either who loves trees enough, and everyone is assuredly wrong in both who does not love them, if his life has brought them in his way. - John Ruskin, , Modern Painters VI The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see Nature all ridicule and deformity, and some scarce see Nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, Nature is Imagination itself. - William Blake, 1799, The Letters ================================

14 A MEDITATION ON LIFE Arranged by N. Sri Ram [Late International President of The Theosophical Society] At the heart of the Cosmos there is One. That One has its sanctuary and shrine in the heart of every human being. Man's first spiritual discovery in consciousness is of this Divine Presence within him, the Inner Ruler Immortal seated in the hearts of all beings. Thereafter, identity with the One Alone, fully conscious absorption "like water in water, space in space, light in light," for evermore in the eternal, self-existent ALL is achieved. This is man's ultimate goal. Regular wisely directed meditation can hasten its attainment. The first object in meditation is to discover one's own Spiritual Selfhood as distinct from the personal vehicle, physical, emotional,mental, and the consciousness active within them. So we begin with an exercise in dissociation seeking both to realize the distinction between the Immortal Spiritual Self and the mortal changing personality. We then come to realize that the Spiritual Self of man is forever an integral part of the Spiritual Self of the universe, the All-Pervading Supreme Lord. Man is One with God and through THAT with All that lives. We discover that the Godhood within us is One with the Godhood in All, that Man-Spirit and God-Spirit are One Spirit. Meditation: Preparation.. Body relaxed. Emotions harmonized Mind alert and charged with will. Dissociation.. Mentally affirm and realize;

15 I am not the Physical body...i AM the Spiritual Self. I am not the Emotons,...I AM the Spiritual Self I am not the Mind,...I AM the Spiritual Self Let us first meditate on Life in it's innumerable forms and its ever-varying expression; then on consciousness, which is one with life, and its nature as we can understand it in ourselves and in others; then on sympathy, not so much by thinking as by feeling, as though one is blending one's own consciousness with that in another, whether a human being, or an animal or a plant; and lastly the love that arises from such blending. Imagine all Life as a vast ocean, of which each individual life is a drop --- life in plants, in animals and birds, in human beings of all races, man, woman, and child, of all ages. Meditate on Life as conscious and active evolving through every form, Life as divine energy pouring through forms of every sort, omnipresent, surging, asleep in the minerals, dreaming in the plant, partly awake in the animals, fully awake and self-conscious in man. Let us think of consciousness as awareness of whatever is before us or around us, as sensation and thought. Let us think of consciousness in plants dimly experiencing, sensing, just beginning to stir; then in animals, with keener more varied sensations, aware of their surroundings, just beginning to think; then of the consciousness of our fellow human beings, experiencing sensation, getting attached to it, thinking with hopes and fears, longings of various sorts, and imagination. Let us think of those known to us, identifying ourselves inwardly with them, trying to see as they see, feel as they feel. Then extending the thought to others unknown to us personally, try to feel a universal sympathy, with boundless good-will, a longing that every life may find the happiness it seeks, the happiness which we seek for ourselves. Try to regard all men and women as brothers and sisters, the learned and the simple. Think of Those who are the flowers of humanity, the finished products of evolution --the Masters, the Christ, the Buddha. Think of their nature

16 as extraordinarily sensitive, pure and compassionate; trying to feel that love and reverence which is naturally evoked as we lift our eyes and hearts to the beauty of what They are. Try to look upon All Life as They look upon it, feeling Their love and tenderness to All and Their sense of Unity with All. Dwell in this Unity. Voluntairly imprisioned within You as Light is an Omnipotent Power. Set it Free, Let the Light Shine! == AN OCCULT DYNAMIC Modern science has come to the understanding that matter is only condensed energy - which, moreover, was known by alchemists and Hermeticists thousands of years ago. Sooner or later science will also discover the fact that what it calls 'energy' is only condensed psychic force - which discovery will lead in the end to the establishment of the fact that all psychic force is the 'condensation', purely and simply, of consciousness, i.e. spirit. Thus, it will be known for certain that we walk not thanks to the existence of legs, but rather that legs exist thanks to the will for movement, i.e. that it is the will for movement which has fashioned the legs so as to serve as its instrument. Similarly, it will be known that the brain does not engender consciousness but that it is the latter's instrument of action." ~~ Anonymous ================================ REINCARNATION You know, it does not matter in the least who you may or may not have been in some past incarnation. The only thing that matters is what you have done today. You may have been the greatest, most studly, wisest, most powerful high priest of Egypt a few thousand years ago but if you are a worthless parasite today it really does not mean a lot.

17 So what if you channel a 20,000 year old Atlantian warrior. If you can't pick up your sword TODAY and step into the sand pit with me and show me a few moves that I haven't seen before, your claims are meaningless. Don't tell me how much wisdom you have accumulated in the last several incarnations, tell me how many hungry people you have fed this week. Don't tell me how the world would be better off if people would only follow, your teaching because you are the reincarnation of somebody very special, tell me how many people with broken hearts you have comforted, how many homeless people you have sheltered, how many people you have taught to read, how many jobs you have helped to find. There are no special people. There are however special actions. Don't tell me who you were, show me who you are. ~~ Wassalaam, = THE STUDY CORNER We Invite You To Discover.."Theosophy." *Some Basic Concepts with Veteran Theosophists Eunice & Felix Layton.. (click link) *Exploring Theosophy with David Pratt (click link) * To Light A Thousand Lamps A Theosophic Vision By Grace Knoche (Click Link) ================================

18 ================================ THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY IN ORLANDO, FLORIDA ( Orlando Lodge) The Theosophical Society In Orlando was chartered in January 1935 and has been active in the Central Florida community since that time. Theosophical Meetings are held on the first and third Fridays at 8:00 P.M. September thru May. The Society maintains a lending library, Nature Sanctuary, and Meditation Room open weekly to the public, September thru May. The School of Theosophy,Orlando presents classes in Basic Theosophy and Meditation twice a year, in the Spring and Fall Semesters. A school catalog and class syllabus are available upon request. Theosophy is the Perennial Wisdom which lies at the root of all religion, yet is the exclusive possession of none. Members of the Society seek to promote a sense of tolerance, understanding, and universal brotherhood among all people. The aims and objectives of the Society are purely altruistic in the highest sense. The Society does not involve itself in sectarian or political causes whatever. Theosophy is non-dogmatic and does not promote any creed or specific belief. Rather, through Study, Meditation, and Service members attempt to gain a greater understanding of themselves and their purpose in the universe. The Society is not authoritarian and has no clergy or leaders, other than democratically elected officers. It promotes complete individual freedom of thought and conscience, and refers the individual back to his own conscience as the only ultimate authority in regard to spiritual and moral decisions. The Theosophical Society In Orlando is a local branch of a national and international organization with headquarters in Chennai, India. We invite your interest and participation in our programs. ORLANDO FLORIDA LODGE Theosophical Society In Orlando 1606 New York Ave.

19 Orlando, Florida, ~~ THE SCHOOL OF THEOSOPHY, ORLANDO We Invite You To Visit & Join Our Online Discussion Group T_S_THEOSOPHIST (click link) THE INTERFAITH MESSENGER The School Of Theosophy,Orlando, also publishes a monthly E-Zine, THE INTERFAITH MESSENGER, addressing Interfaith Affairs, It is seen each month by over 2,570 of Florida's Top Faith,Cultural & Business Leaders, For your free subscription send request to: InterfaithMessenger@webtv.net, Also visit and join the INTERFAITH COMMUNITY message board. = THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY ( Adyar) LINKS Further Detailed Information about Theosophy, and/or The Theosophical Society... International Headquarters, Adyar, Chennai, (Madras) India National Headquarters,

20 Theosophical Society In America, Wheaton, Illinois = ~THEOSOPHICAL LIBRARY ONLINE ~ [ Open 24 Hours ] You now have immediate and free access to many classic Theosophical writings. We hope that you will take advantage of this feature to explore the continent of thought known as "Theosophy." ~~~ We invite you to Discover Theosophy. ~~~ Our Theosophical On-line Documents Canadian Theosophical Association ~ On Line documents from other sites ~ ~ Theosophical University Press Online ~ Index of Theosophical Texts Available Online ~ Theosophical Society in America: Online Books ~ TPH Twilight Archive ~ RELIGIOUS STUDIES LINK PAGE: ~ ~~~

21 The Online Library is a project in continual development. New links to Theosophical literature will be added as we come across them. We also invite you to send us additional links you may know of. Our object is to provide you with an extensive selection of genuine Theosophical reading. = UNTIL NEXT TIME... We hope that you have enjoyed this issue of Theosophy Today and always invite your inquiries, comments and suggestions. And We THANK YOU for helping to Light The Candle of Theosophy by forwarding Theosophy Today to your online friends. Visit and Join our online Theosophy Discussion Group..T_S_THEOSOPHIST ( click link) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Address all corropsondence to: Editor, THEOSOPHY TODAY Theosophist@webtv.net Postal: The Theosophical Society In Orlando 1606 New York Ave. Orlando, Florida, U.S.A Phone Theosophist@webtv.net Locate us: Use Mapquest zip code ~~ THEOSOPHY TODAY ~~

22 The Emblem of The Theosophical Society. A description of the perennial Spiritual significance of this emblem.