Welcome to Bristol Theosophical Lodge
We are open for public talks and bookings for our meeting room.
Please contact us if you have not renewed your membership yet.
Public Talks and Groups
Our regular public talks our held fortnightly and hopefully weekly when we get back up to speed. Our speakers start at 7:30 pm prompt so arrive a little early.
Opening Times
The lodge opens at 6:30 pm for those who want meet up downstairs in the kitchen and the library also for those that want a more quiet time to browse a book.
Please have a look at our current programme and events page for what’s coming up as this changes quarterly with the seasons.
More details will be posted as bookings confirmed.
If you are not a member and would like more information on joining please contact us
email: office@bristheolodge.org
Membership Secretary, Bristol Theosophical Lodge, 14 Tyndalls Rark Rd, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 1PY.
We are also aware that there are friends that regulary attended the lodge that we have no way of contacting us and who we would like to keep in touch with. Please pass on a “Hello” from us and we hope to see them all again.
About Us
THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY Founded in 1875 in New York, and at that time considered startling and revolutionary, the Society now exists worldwide with 51 national sections – each with autonomous local branches (40+ in England). The International Headquarters is at Adyar, Madras, India.
The Society itself has no creed, no obligatory set of belief; however, its members must be in sympathy with the Society’s three ‘Objects’: –
1. To form a nucleus of the Universal brotherhood of humanity, without distinction of race, creed, sex, caste or colour.
2. To encourage the study of comparative religion, philosophy and science.
3. To investigate unexplained laws of nature and the powers latent in man.
While the Society sympathises with various causes and activities, it is not its function to specialise in those fields. Therefore it does not identify itself with any particular religion and is not a religious sect. It does not have specific rituals, ceremonies, practices or methods for physical or spiritual development – except there is an ‘Esoteric’ section which uses Raja yoga.
The Society is not a spiritualistic, healing, nor welfare group, neither is it a vegetarian organization. It is not political in any sense and does not advocate any particular social or financial system.
We make available the teachings of Theosophy (origin Greek, Theos = God, Sophia = wisdom) in both ancient and modern forms. However, ‘Divine Wisdom’ cannot be enclosed within words, and all statements about theosophy are partial and tentative. Members of the Society are free to accept, reject or interpret these teachings according to their own understanding. Freedom of thought and expression is of the utmost importance in the Society, and you are expected to think for yourself!
The Theosophical Society lays no claim to the exclusive possession of Theosophy. It seeks to let people know that such a wisdom exists and to assist those who will find it. Our Motto is… ‘There is no religion higher than Truth’.
Blog
Who am I ?
You are part of the One Existence which men call God. You are divine in your origin and divine in your innermost nature. Your body is mortal; your spirit which is your true Self, is immortal; your soul, which is self which thinks and feels and regards itself as ” I “, may win its immortality if it becomes the servant of spirit, and not otherwise.
Blessings for the year ahead
One of the ongoing themes of our sharing circle over recent months has been the exhaustion, the ongoing sense of being drained. If you resonate with this, I can assure you that you are by no means alone. We can, logically, offer all manner of perfectly good explanations for this: low immunity to infections resulting …
Build The First
“If there be some weaker one, give me strength to help him on: If a blinder soul there be, let me guide him nearer thee.” What is our life ? It is a mission to go into every corner we can reach and reconquer for God’s beatitude his unhappy world back to him. It is …
That Floaty Feeling
Do you get a sense that humanity is at some sort of transition point? Could we indeed have an opportunity now to change direction, to genuinely fulfil our potential; individually and collectively? Of course, that could well mean admitting that many of the goals and directions that have propelled our species this far have outlived …
Contact
Bristol Theosophical Lodge
14 Tyndalls Park Rd, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 1PY.
If would like to book the lodge for a course, seminar, group or general enquires please email office@bristheolodge.org