Membership Renewal We are truly appreciative of your Significance of Your September 2019 support. You have supported the Singapore Lodge in various ways. Some of you have volunteered as co- Membership Society? Try to recall why you joined the workers of our lodge, helping in the “Think you truth has been T.S. in the first place. What has changed? management and running of the T. S. in shown to you for your sole Certainly not the teachings nor ideals. Singapore. Others have made it a point to advantage? That we have The Singapore Lodge Theosophical come regularly for lodge meetings, thus broken the silence of centuries Society needs all the support it can get to helping to generate beneficent thought for the profit of a handful of carry out its role as a part of the great power with far reaching effects and dreamers only? The converging theosophical movement worldwide. making the lodge a vibrant spiritual centre. lines of your karma have drawn Karma has brought you to the Society for Some have donated generously to our each and all of you into this whatever reason. We hope you will not coffers. Still, a large percentage of Society as to a common focus, sever this karmic link. members have not been able to participate that you may each help to work For those of you who do not wish to be actively in the activities of the lodge for out the results of your bothered with the annual reminders, you one reason or another. Saturday, although interrupted beginnings in the may choose to renew your membership the preferred day for lodge meetings for last birth. None of you can be so automatically by setting up Giro most members, is not the best day for blind as to suppose that this is payments or by standing bank transfer everyone. Unfortunately, some members your first dealing with instructions through your own bank. have other commitments on Saturdays and ? You surely must More than 80 members have already are therefore unable to come for lodge realize that this would be the made such arrangements. You can join meetings. For that very reason, we decided same as to say that effects came this growing group by giving us your to conduct the Study Classes on a weekday without causes. Know then that Giro instructions. Your continued evening. Indeed, we realize that there is no it depends now upon each of membership and financial support will ‘perfect’ day that can suit all members. you whether you shall most certainly make a difference to the Over a period of time, mainly as a result of henceforth struggle alone after lodge’s viability. We are counting on infrequent attendance, some members spiritual wisdom thro’ this and your continued financial support! begin to lose interest or find themselves the next incarnate life, or, in increasingly indifferent to our cause. These company of your present same members are the ones who are associates and greatly helped by prepared to allow their memberships to the mutual sympathy and lapse. We have lost many members this aspiration. Blessing to all— way. deserving them.” We need members for very good reasons, The Master K. H. not least of which is the financial support Annual Dues required. As our only means of subsistence As our financial year ends on is membership subscriptions, the more All of us joined the Theosophical September 30, we need to collect the members we have, the more viable we will Society for pretty much the same reasons annual dues by then. You are kindly become financially. In this respect, I am initially. We had a strong interest in reminded to pay the annual dues of $69, happy to say that we do have many theosophical teachings or we could relate comprising $60 for annual subscription members who remain supportive of our to the ideals and objects of the Society or and $9 HQ dues. Life members would cause. Many of our members, though not we believed in spiritual philanthropy and only have to pay $9. No reminders or active owing to other commitments, have the Society’s cause. All these do not invoices will be sent out. In order not found it worthwhile to continue paying change simply because we do not go to to give the society any undue hardship, their subscriptions year after year. the lodge anymore. Indeed, your support we kindly urge each of you to pay Although we hardly see this group of is required more than ever to ensure the promptly so that we could carry on members—shall we call them the invisible without too much difficulty. Your survival of the lodge for posterity. In continuing support by setting up Giro helpers—we are grateful to them all the order that future generations will payments would greatly help us. same for their continued financial support. continue to be inspired and guided by New members who joined us after That is perhaps the next best thing that we Theosophy, we must all do our part to October 2018 need not pay the full may expect from members—payment of preserve this institution—the amount. You will be emailed regarding subscriptions—if they cannot be with us Theosophical Society. the prorated ‘top-up’ annual dues physically. Should you think about not continuing applicable. Please don’t wait till the end It is that time of the year again— your membership, you may wish to ask of the month. Kindly pay your annual membership renewal time. Those members yourself why not? Just because you don’t dues soonest. You may pay by cheque who have the Society’s interest at heart have time to go to the lodge anymore? to ‘SLTS’. Alternatively, you may pay and those who continue to relate to our We know that is not a good enough by cash in person during our lodge cause will no doubt continue to support the reason, for if we cannot support the T. S. meetings on Saturdays. Please do not Society financially, if not physically, by physically, we can certainly support it send cash through the mail. You may paying their annual subscriptions and financially. Because you cannot afford also pay by PayNow, bank transfer continuing their memberships. Those it? At $69 per annum or less than $6 per through internet or ATM which you members who have not been coming to the month, the subscription is quite a may find the most convenient way to pay your subscription. Contact one of lodge may alas wonder if they should or nominal sum and should not be a should not continue their memberships the committee members to make prior problem for anyone who is gainfully arrangement before doing so. Your with the Society. To those of you, my employed. Even at the sacrifice of other financial support would be a great help friends, who find yourselves in such a things, it is for a noble cause. Consider it to the Society. Thanks, may you be predicament, may I share some thoughts charity if you wish. Because you cannot blessed! with you? relate to the ideals and objects of the

540 Sims Avenue #03-04 Sims Avenue Centre Singapore 387603 Tel: 6732 7727 Fax: 6737 7403 Email: [email protected] PSYCHOLOGISTS Famous People and Roberto Assagioli (1888 - 1974) William James What’s On In the Impact of the Carl Gustav Jung Ian Stevenson Theosophical Society PAINTERS & OTHER ARTISTS September 2019 By Katinka Hesselink Lotus Circle Saturday Activities: Piet Mondriaan (1872 –1944) 3-3:25pm Yoga of Light This list is a tentative inventory of the Beatrice Wood (1893 –1998) 3:25-3:50pm Sharing impact of the Theosophical Society on Paul Gauguin (1848 –1903) Vassily Kandinsky (see singaporelodge.org/programme.htm) the world. It owes a lot to John Algeo's Gutzon Borglum (1867 –1941) work. Some things have been included, even though my source for them is Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868–1926) 7 September, 4:30 p.m. merely the theosophical grapevine. These Paul Klee (1879 –1940) Happiness Workshop I obviously need further study. I have also (1874 –1947) (not yet) included proper source Harris, Lawren (1885 –1970) A talk by our Asst Secretary, Brandon Alex Grey Goh: references. This will hopefully come in time. At the moment the list only MUSICIANS “We go about our daily lives, social Cyril Scott (1879 –1970) rounds, various enjoyments and includes people from the Theosophical Society Adyar. Gustav Mahler (1860 –1911) amusements — to what end? Modern Jean Sibelius (1865 –1957) humanity is more comfortable, pleasured I realize that this is a problematic field of study: what exactly constitutes Alexander Nikolaievitch (1872 –1915) and stimulated than ever, but most Elvis Presley (1935 –1977) importantly, more miserable than ever. So influence? Still I think it is possible to give some sort of answer to the question Ruth Crawford-Seeg many people are on psychiatric medication, Dane Rudhyar while others are reliant on stimulants and of the influence of the Theosophical Society by doing an inventory of Alexander Scriabin drugs. In the midst of this chaotic pursuit of ACTORS sorrowful pleasure, the Ageless Wisdom can prominent cultural innovators who were members of the Theosophical Society. If Florence Farr (1860 –1917) help us recover lost art of happiness and Dana Ivey equanimity, if only we allow it. ” one can find a significant number, it is plausible that the relatively small Shirley MacLaine (b. 1934) 14 September, 4:30 p.m. organization did have a relatively high POLITICIANS influence on East and West. As the list Allan Octavian Hume (1829 –1912) John B. S. Coats Alfred Deakin (1856 –1919) Tang Kwok Choon, our VP, continues shows it isn't always easy to show how the Theosophical Society or its ideals and Hernández Martínez (1882 –1966) his talk on the past International Presidents Henry Wallace (1888 –1965) of the Theosophical Society. This month he teachings made a difference in a certain person’s perspective or method. Still, I Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 –1964) talks about John Balfour Symington Coats. George Lansbury (1859 –1940) John Coats' father, Ernest Coats, was a think it is useful to cultural historians to be aware of memberships of the Mohandas K. Gandhi director of the old Paisley firm of thread FEMINISTS manufacturers J & P Coats now known as Theosophical Society. For Theosophical Society-members it may be interesting to Matilda Joslyn Gage (1815 –1902) the Coats Group PLC. John was well Gloria Steinem (b. 1934) schooled at Eton, in France and Germany. know the contributions Theosophical Society-members have made in the RELIGIOUS FIGURES He was introduced into Theosophy at an Guy Warren Ballard (1878–1939) early age and was a principal assistant to world. WRITERS Alice Ann Bailey (1880–1949) many presidents from G Arundale to N Sri Paul Brunton (1898-1981) Ram, evetually becoming the 6th Lyman Frank Baum (1851 –1919) James Henry Cousins (1873 – 1956) Bhagwan Das (1869 - 1958) International President. From the month of Anagarika Dharmapala (1864 –1933) November during the sixth year of his Robert Duncan (1919 – 1988) William Butler Yeats (1865 –1939) Gerard Encausse (1865-1916) Presidentship, Mr Coats suffered cardiac Violet Mary Firth Evans, born Violet attacks and died on 26 December 1979 on George W. Russell (Æ) (1867 –1935) Talbot Mundy (1879 –1940) Mary Firth (1890 –1946) the opening day of the annual Convention at Manly Palmer Hall (1901 - 1990) Adyar. Sir Edwin Arnold Lewis Carroll (1832 –1898) Max Heindel (born 1865) 21 September, 4:30 p.m.* Kahlil Gibran Alan Leo (1860 - 1917) Forum on Daily Challenges: Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856 –1925) Ven. Balangoda Ananda (1896 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 –1930) - 1998) ‘Worries’ Maurice Maeterlinck (1862 –1949) G.R.S. Mead This is one of a series of forums on the Algernon Blackwood (1869 –1951) Alexandra David-Néel (1868 – 1969) daily challenges faced by each of us, Jack London (1876 –1916) Christmas Humphreys (1901–1983) including worries, fear and anxiety, anger E. M. Forster (1879 –1970) Dr Walter Gorn Old (1864 – 1929) and irritation, self-centredness and James Joyce (1882 –1941) D.T. Suzuki selfishness, greed, pride and delusion, hurt D. H. Lawrence (1885 –1930) Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz (1878– and forgiveness, pain and sorrow, T. S. Eliot (1888 –1965) 1965) depression and nervousness, and other day- Henry Miller (1891 –1980) William Wynn Westcott (1848 –1925) to-day emotions faced by each of us. John Boyton Priestley (1894 –1984) MISCELLANEOUS Life is never short of worries. What is the Thornton Wilder (1897 –1975) Alonzo Decker theosophical viewpoint regarding worries Kurt Vonnegut , Jr.(b. 1922) General Abner Doubleday (1819 –1893) and how do we apply our knowledge to Sir Thomas (Tom) Stoppard (b. 1937) Maria Montessori (1870 –1952) combat this common affliction? Chong ARCHITECTS Controversial / unsubstantiated Sanne will be the moderator. Claude Bragdon (1866 –1946) Franz Kafka, Aldous Huxley, Owen *This programme is for Members only. Walter Burley Griffin (1876 –1937) Barfield, Wallace Stevens, R. Tagore (he 28 September, 4:30 p.m. SCIENTISTS AND INVENTORS was at Adyar). Ken Wilber Necessity for Reincarnation Sir William Crookes (1832 –1919) Thomas Edison (1847 –1931) George Lucas, Elvis Presley, and Choong Chi Pin continues with the Rupert Sheldrake (b. 1942) Einstein are known to have read some second part of his talk on the article of the Alfred Russel Wallace (1823 –1913) books on Theosophy. same title by published as Camille Flammarion (1842 –1925) The above is an extract from Ms Katinka Adyar Pamphlet No.113 in 1920. Baroness Jane Goodall (b. 1934) Hesselink’s publication