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Dharma

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Sunday Afternoon Public Programs
February 5, 3:00 pm  •  Group Study

Fundamentals of Theosophy: The concept of Dharma can be defined as duty, sometimes law, sometimes morality, and sometimes righteousness. As Annie Besant says in her book on the subject, “Morality is an individual thing and varies with the dharma of the individual.… Hence, what is right for one is wrong for another. There is nothing absolute in a conditioned universe.” And, as Krishna said in the Bhagavad Gita, “Better is one’s own Dharma, though destitute of merit, than the well executed Dharma of another…” Continue reading →

Reincarnation

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CANCELED due to winter storm warnings.

Sunday Afternoon Public Programs
January 8, 3:00 PM  •  Group Study

Fundamentals of Theosophy: Theosophy tells us that reincarnation is the means for the evolution of consciousness, with the ultimate flowering of each individual into a perfected being who graduates from the school of human life. Why don’t we remember our past lives? How do our past lives affect us today? Our group discussion will cover these and other questions.

Karma

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Sunday Afternoon Public Programs
karmaDecember 4, 3:00 pm  •  Group Study

Fundamentals of Theosophy: A study of karma would suggest that nothing happens by chance. Join us for a group discussion of how Theosophy explains karma as the impersonal law of cause and effect in our individual lives as well as at such broader levels as family karma and national karma.

The Theosophical View of Man and His Seven Fields

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Sunday Afternoon Public Programs
first_principles_of_thesophy_066November 6, 3:00 pm  •  Group Study

Interpenetrating the dense matter of our physical world are other “higher” planes or fields composed of finer grades of matter vibrating at higher frequencies. In the same way, man also has “higher” fields composed of these finer grades of matter interpenetrating his dense physical body. Today’s study group discussion will cover man’s seven fields and his vehicles of expression in them.

Introduction to Theosophy

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Sunday Afternoon Public Programs
October 16, 3:00 pm  •  Group Study

Fundamentals of Theosophy: Dedicated to man’s eternal search for the Divine, Theosophy could be described as a synthesis of religion, science, and philosophy. It asserts the fundamental unity of all existence and holds that all things, including both forms and consciousness, are evolving. Topics covered will include a discussion of the Theosophical world view and the objects of the Theosophical Society.