Adyar—Home of the TS

We screen this 59 mins video to commemorate Adyar Day which falls on 17 February.

Shot on location in Chennai (Madras), India, this beautifully illustrated documentary looks at the history, life, and work of the international headquarters of the Theosophical Society.

The Founders Go to India

Our VP, Tang Kwok Choon, continues his talk on the early days of the TS.

Following instructions from the Masters the founders go to India and were immediately plunged into a flurry of activities. The talk will cover the role of of new personalities and the impact on the TS. There will be a virtual tour of Adyar.

Chinese New Year

The lodge will be closed on this 3rd day of the Chinese New Year. The Executive Committee wishes all our Chinese members and their families a very Happy and Prosperous New Year. 新年进步万事如意! May all other members share the joys of the festivities.

The Restoration of the Mysteries

Choong Chi Pin gives the second of a two-part talk based on the lecture of the same title delivered by Annie Besant in London on 8th June 1913.

On the lecture, Annie Besant says,

“As science grew stronger and stronger, it grew strong by first-hand knowledge of the physical world to which its researches were limited, but the Knowers of the other worlds, those who ought to have been the experts of spiritual science, those were not found among us, and so we could not meet experiment with experiment, knowledge with knowledge. The one could speak positively, the other could speak only hopefully. The one could bring experiment to verify, the other could only point to the experiments of the past. And it was no wonder that exoteric religion, failing the esoteric knowledge, gave way before the advances of science; that science itself became materialistic, and has had to begin to pass away from materialism without the assistance of religion…..”