London Lodge
London Lodge ( German: London Lodge ) was the name given to an English Lodge of the Theosophical Society. Your full name was London Lodge of the Theosophical Society, later renamed The Eleusinian Society. Until the 1910s, she held a prominent position within the theosophical organization.
History
The London Lodge was founded on 27 June 1878 in London by Charles Carleton Massey ( 1838-1905 ) under the name of British Theosophical Society of the Arya Samaj of Aryavart. According to the unofficial, without foundation charter of the parent company that is launched TG- lodges in Liverpool as well as on Corfu, it was the first official lodge of the Theosophical Society since its inception on November 17, 1875 in New York. Massey had been authorized to its founding by Henry Steel Olcott in 1876 by the president of the Theosophical Society, issued Deed. The new company, usually abbreviated only British or British Theosophical Society TS, resulted in her name Arya Samaj the addition is because the Theosophical Society had joined on 22 May 1878 the Hindu reform movement Arya Samaj. The new organization adapted the name of the Theosophical Society was changed to the Theosophical Society of the Arya Samaj. It was planned that all of the following boxes should also result in the addition of Arya Samaj in their name, actually this happened but only in this case. After it had come in March 1882 to the final separation of the Arya Samaj and the Theosophical Society, now the original abbreviated name of British Theosophical Society was used. On June 3, 1883, there was a recent name change to London Lodge of the Theosophical Society, usually called London Lodge TS or just London Lodge. On February 20, 1909, was a temporary separation of the reorganized Theosophical Society Adyar ( Adyar -TG), which is now an independent company called The Eleusinian Society. Spring of 1911 was followed by the reunification with the theosophists under the former name London Lodge.
The goals of the organization were:
Paragraph 3 of that formulated by Charles Carleton Massey enumeration, the Theosophical Society for a hitherto completely new formulation of the Brotherhood was (german brotherhood ) or universal brotherhood, a direct product of contact with the Arya Samaj. This term was taken up by Henry Steel Olcott and used in the modified objective to the effect for the entire Theosophical Society. These switches position was a big eye-opener for the Theosophical Society in Hindu India, and in Buddhist Sri Lanka and paved the Theosophical spread over the whole world.
The first president of the then British TS was 27 June 1878 to January 6, 1883 Charles Carleton Massey. Successor was posted on January 7, 1883 Anna Kingsford. Under her leadership on June 3, 1883, renaming London Lodge. Kingsford was looking for a coined by Western Mystery Tradition theosophical perspective to convey. In April / May 1883 Alfred Percy Sinnett joined the London Lodge and polarized in brief what is happening in the lodge by its centered on the Masters of Wisdom beliefs. In the fall of 1883, the London Lodge followers Sinnett, all the new theosophical cult split into two competing camps, on the one hand to the Tibetan "Master " wink. On the other hand, a smaller part still sympathized with King Ford in European history rooted beliefs. The dispute resulted in the beginning of April 1884 a new election. As a compromise candidate Gerard B. Finch was elected as the new president. Sinnett, as a contact person to the " masters ", the most important person remained inside the London Lodge. In theosophical circles was accordingly often of " Sinnett's London Lodge " is mentioned. In the 1880s, Sinnett became president.
14 members of the London Lodge founded on May 19, 1887, the Blavatsky Lodge, the second official Theosophical Lodge of England and the third in Europe, after the lodge Germania in Germany. In December 1888, Henry Steel Olcott came by establishing a separate British Section of the Theosophical Society, the British Section of the Theosophical Society, in all of these lodges were summarized in the UK. However, the London Lodge remained autonomous outside the British section. When Helena Blavatsky in 1890 a European section, the European Section of the Theosophical Society called into being, the London Lodge was merely nominal whose member. In the cleavage of the Theosophical Society as a result of Judge Case in 1895, the London Lodge of the Theosophical Society Adyar followed ( Adyar -TG).
Charles Webster Leadbeater was born on 21 November 1883 became a member of the London Lodge, and thus joined the Theosophical Society. On 16 May 1906, the Council of the British section Leadbeater closed for alleged homosexual relations of his students from the Adyar -TG. After Annie Besant was in June 1907 became the new president of the Adyar -TG, she sat through the resumption Leadbeater. This led, among other things, in the London Lodge to inconsistencies and on 20 February 1909, emerging from the Adyar -TG. The now independent organization called The Eleusinian Society. In the spring of 1911 was followed, guaranteed under a special status of the degree of independence, reunification with the Adyar -TG under the former name London Lodge.
The special importance of the London Lodge of the Theosophical Society in Adyar and later -TG resulted primarily from the fact, to be ever been the first official Theosophical Lodge. The distribution of the theosophical teaching in Europe began here, several lodges ups in other European countries were carried out by members of the London Lodge. Member or later Alfred Percy Sinnett's presidency marked another significant point. Sinnett's books about the Masters of Wisdom were for their respective publication from 1881 to the canon of theosophical literature and its author, accordingly, to the most important representatives of the theosophical idea. According to their special status, Sinnett led the London Lodge largely autonomous and went their own ways in the curriculum that were sometimes completely contrary to the views of the parent company. At times, the London Lodge was under Sinnett in open conflict with Blavatsky and Olcott. This factor also highlighted the London Lodge from compared to other Theosophical lodges.
From about the mid- 1910s tear off the information on the London Lodge, it is unclear whether and in what form the Lodge continued to exist.