Theosophical Society, founded in 1875, is a worldwide body with the aim to advance the ideas of Theosophy in continuation of previous Theosophists, especially the Greek and Alexandrian Neo-Platonic philosophers dating back to 3rd century CE.
| FactSnippet No. 622,017 |
Theosophical Society-Adyar is located at Adyar situated in the Indian city of Chennai.
| FactSnippet No. 622,018 |
Theosophical Society was officially formed in New York City, United States, on 17 November 1875 by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Colonel Henry Steel Olcott, William Quan Judge, and 16 others.
| FactSnippet No. 622,019 |
One of the central philosophical tenets promoted by the Theosophical Society was the complex doctrine of The Intelligent Evolution of All Existence, occurring on a cosmic scale, incorporating both the physical and non-physical aspects of the known and unknown Universe, and affecting all of its constituent parts regardless of apparent size or importance.
| FactSnippet No. 622,020 |
Theosophical Society maintained a Western-oriented course, relatively independent from the Adyar headquarters.
| FactSnippet No. 622,021 |
The Theosophical Society in Ireland [3], based in Pembroke Road, Dublin, is a wholly independent organisation which claims to have received its charter directly from Helena Blavatsky.
| FactSnippet No. 622,022 |
Theosophical Society will find the minds of men prepared for his message, a language ready for him in which to clothe the new truths he brings, an organization awaiting his arrival, which will remove the merely mechanical, material obstacles and difficulties from his path.
| FactSnippet No. 622,023 |
Measure it by comparison with what the Theosophical Society actually has achieved in the last fourteen years, without any of these advantages and surrounded by hosts of hindrances which would not hamper the new leader.
| FactSnippet No. 622,024 |
In 1929 he publicly dissolved the Order of the Star, a worldwide organization created by the leadership of the Theosophical Society to prepare the world for the Coming of the Maitreya, and abandoned his assumed role as the "vehicle" for the World Teacher.
| FactSnippet No. 622,025 |
Theosophical Society eventually left the Theosophical Society altogether, yet remained on friendly terms with individual members of the Society.
| FactSnippet No. 622,026 |
Theosophical Society spent the rest of his life traveling the world as an independent speaker, becoming widely known as an original thinker on spiritual, philosophical, and psychological subjects.
| FactSnippet No. 622,027 |