In October 1874, a Russian woman named Madame Blavatsky arrived on a farm in Chittenden, Vermont. It was no ordinary country outing: She had traveled to the Eddy Brothers’ farm, where, for many months ...

She was a massive mountain of a woman, with crinkly brown hair, wide eyes and billowing chins. She lumbered among tier disciples in a dirty wrapper, fumbling endlessly in the tobacco pouch from which ...

Shortly before the turn of the 20th century, Katherine Tingley moved the headquarters of the Universal Brotherhood and Theosophical Society to scrubland on the Point Loma peninsula overlooking the ...

A sprawling lung space in the heart of the city, The Theosophical Society, which houses the famed Adyar Banyan Tree, different religious shrines and the huge Adyar Library and Research Centre, saw its ...

In the days when student dissent took milder forms than it does now and the Death of God had not yet been widely announced, small groups of seminarians from fundamentalist Wheaton College used to ...

The Theosophical Society was founded by Madame Blavatsky and Col. Olcott in 1875 in New York. It was only in 1879, that this ideology gained its roots in the Indian culture and Society. It was ...

A exhibition opening this week at the San Diego History Center explores the surprising artistic legacy and other achievements of the century-old Theosophical community on Point Loma. In 1897, ...

The Theosophical Society in Atlanta is a local chartered lodge of the Theosophical Society in America and the International Theosophical Society (Adyar). The Theosophical Society is a worldwide ...

“Chennai is going through a hot summer and scarcity of water. How has the Theosophical Society fared? How is bird/plant life there?” asked Professor A Chandrasekar, whose pictures of the Theosophical ...

As far back as 125 years ago, a time much before the midday meal scheme was launched in Tamil Nadu, the Olcott school at the Theosophical Society (TS) in Adyar, was serving them regularly. It remains ...