Perhimpunan Teosofi

Perhimpunan Teosofi adalah sebuah organisasi yang dibentuk pada 1875 untuk memajukan Teosofi. Organisasi awal, setelah perpecahan dan penataan kembali, currently^[update] memiliki beberapa penerusnya.^[1]

Sejarah

Pembentukan

Catatan pertemuan yang mengusulkan pembentukan Lembaga Teosofi, Kota New York, 8 September 1875

Perhimpunan Teosofi secara resmi dibentuk di Kota New York, Amerika Serikat, pada 17 November 1875 oleh Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Kolonel Henry Steel Olcott, William Quan Judge, dan lainnya. Ia digambarkan sendiri sebagai "... sebuah perkumpulan nonsektarian dari para pencari Kebenaran, yang berusaha mempromosikan Persaudaraan dan berusaha untuk melayani umat manusia."

Referensi

^ Melton, Gordon J. (Sr. ed.) (1990). "Theosophical Society". New Age Encyclopedia. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale Research. pp. 458–461. ISBN 0-8103-7159-6. "No single organization or movement has contributed so many components to the New Age Movement as the Theosophical Society. ... It has been the major force in the dissemination of occult literature in the West in the twentieth century." In same, see sections "Theosophy" and "Theosophical Offshoots", pp. xxv–xxvi [in "Introductory Essay: An Overview of the New Age Movement"]. Note "Chronology of the New Age Movement" pp. xxxv–xxxviii in same work, starts with the formation of the Theosophical Society in 1875.

[1] Melton, Gordon J. (Sr. ed.) (1990). "Theosophical Society". New Age Encyclopedia. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale Research. pp. 458–461. ISBN 0-8103-7159-6. "No single organization or movement has contributed so many components to the New Age Movement as the Theosophical Society. ... It has been the major force in the dissemination of occult literature in the West in the twentieth century." In same, see sections "Theosophy" and "Theosophical Offshoots", pp. xxv–xxvi [in "Introductory Essay: An Overview of the New Age Movement"]. Note "Chronology of the New Age Movement" pp. xxxv–xxxviii in same work, starts with the formation of the Theosophical Society in 1875.

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