A Brief Message Announced the Foundation
of the Independent Lodge of Theosophists
Carlos Cardoso Aveline
Planetary
consciousness is a central topic in authentic theosophy
In September 2016, the
associates of the Portuguese-Brazilian lodge of the United Lodge of
Theosophists decided to declare the independence of their association, completely
detaching it from the ULT on the nominal and organic dimension.
Since the creation of the
Brazilian-Portuguese lodge in 2009, the significant growth of the effort - both
internally and externally - had expanded its international responsibilities in
more than one language.
In 2012, the lodge took on the task of publishing
the monthly journal “The Aquarian Theosophist”, which was founded from Los
Angeles in the year 2000 by Jerome Wheeler.
The publishing of the book “The Fire and
Light of Theosophical Literature”, in October 2013, was another portal of
karma. Seven years after the beginning of the work in 2009, the associates saw
that the time had come to take new steps ahead and founded the Independent
Lodge of Theosophists. On September 16, the pioneers of the new lodge sent to
Los Angeles this message, in English and Portuguese:
“To the General Registrar of the ULT in
Los Angeles,
“Fraternal greetings.
“Two days ago, on 14 September, the
associates of the ULT who are active in the theosophical work in Brazil and
Portugal decided to form an independent lodge of students of theosophy, not
affiliated with the ULT.
“Although the future lodge will have much
in common with the ULT - everything that is essential, in fact - the decision
is to build an association which has no nominal links with Los Angeles.
“We ask you therefore to kindly erase our
name from the List of Lodges of the ULT to be published in the next bulletin of
Los Angeles Lodge, and from any other Lists of ULT Lodges that may exist in
your files and archives.
“We remain true friends of the ULT. We
remain individually associated to it. We are still colleagues and co-workers of
the ULT, and we see with respect and admiration, as always, the work of the ULT
around the world. Our action is specific: we want an absence of nominal
affiliation with the United Lodge of Theosophists - defined as an external
thing - starting 17 September 2016. We will remain open to dialogue as always.
“Fraternally yours, Joana Maria Pinho” [1]
The above message and the fact that the
foundation of the Independent Lodge of Theosophist had taken place were
divulged in public on 17 of September.
NOTE:
[1] In its
Portuguese version, the document was signed by Carlos Cardoso Aveline.
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In our associated
websites, see among others the articles “The
Independent Lodge of Theosophists”, “The
Three Levels of Association”, “Independent
Lodge and the Movement”, “Theosophists
Must Be Independent”, “How to Build
a Theosophical Lodge”, “New York,
September 7th, 1875”, and “Profile
of the Independent Lodge”.
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On 14 September 2016, after examining the state of the
esoteric movement worldwide, a group of students decided to found the Independent Lodge of Theosophists. Two
of the priorities adopted by the ILT
are learning from the past and building a better future.
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