Oakland Theosophical Society | Founded on October 1, 1898

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Learn about meditation, prayer healing, telepathy and self realization. Studying the latest scientific research, and teachings of ancient and modern philosophers, psychologist and mystics, in the light of Theosophy.

The Three Objects

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To form a nucleus of the Universal Brotherhood of Humanity, without distinction of race, creed, sex, caste or colour.

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To encourage the study of Comparative religion, Philosophy and Science.

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To investigate unexplained laws of Nature and the powers latent in the human being.

Divine Wisdom

“For many a long year the “great orphan,” Humanity, has been crying aloud in the darkness for guidance and for light. Amid the increasing splendors of a progress purely material, of a science that nourished the intellect but left the spirit to starve, Humanity, dimly feeling its origin and presaging its destiny, has stretched out towards the East empty hands that only a spiritual philosophy can fill. Aching from the divisions, the jealousies, the hatreds, that rend its very life, it has cried for some sure foundation on which to build the solidarity it senses, some metaphysical basis from which its loftiest social ideals may rise secure.”
H.P. Blavatsky, The North American Review, Vol. CLI, No. 405, August, 1890, pp. 173-86
In just the same way as a polished diamond shows the work which gives it value and brilliancy, so the man who has gone through probation and teaching under the Adepts carries upon his person the ineffaceable marks. To the ordinary eye untrained in this department, no such indications are visible; but those who can see describe them as being quite prominent and wholly beyond the control of the bearer. For this reason that one who has progressed, say, three steps along the way, will have three marks, and it is useless to pretend that his rank is a step higher, for, if it were, then the fourth mark would be there, since it grows with the being’s development. Now, as these signatures cannot be imitated or forged, the whole inner fraternity has no need for concealment of signs. No one can commit a fraud upon or extract from them the secrets of higher degrees by having obtained signs and pass-words out of a book or in return for the payment of fees, and none can procure the conferring of any advancement until the whole nature of the man exactly corresponds to the desired point of development.”
– William Q. Judge, Echoes from The Orient, p. 36, 37
Everything that is, was, and will be, eternally IS, even the countless forms, which are finite and perishable only in their objective, not in their ideal Form.
Helena Blavatsky
The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.
- Helena Blavatsky