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Next Steps – 2

Tim Boyd - India, USA The author, always observant, this time in black and white Rather than speak in a theoretical manner, I prefer to address the Next Steps from the point of view of my own experience and that of my co-workers at Adyar. Let me give you two quotes that might season our conversation. The first is from the Mahatma…

The Visible and the Invisible: Reflections on the Purpose of the Theosophical Society

Pablo Sender – USA Pablo Sender; this photo was taken in Italy, July-2025 From time to time, it is important to pause in our daily activities and pose certain probing questions to ourselves—questions that, while perhaps uncomfortable, can illuminate the nature of our commitments and motivations. One such question that…

Practical Theosophy

Boris de Zirkoff – USA Unique photo of the author while visiting the Cathedral (Il Duome) of Milan-Italy, accompanied by Axel von Fielitz-Coniar, a former General Secretary of the Adyar TS in Germany. Photo taken on May 26, 1959. (special thanks to Kenneth Small) [Note from the editor. Theosophy Forward regularly publishes articles…

A Challenge to Theosophists

Wesley Amerman – USA 'Theosophists,' either individually or as members of the various Theosophical Societies, have a long history to live down. No one living today, of course, had anything to do with the problems of the early twentieth century, when our predecessors chased after 'Ascended Masters' and made gurus out of brilliant…

MIT finds traces of a lost world deep within planet Earth

MIT scientists have uncovered chemical traces of the original "proto Earth” remnants from before the cataclysmic impact that created our modern planet [The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States] Researchers from MIT…

Embracing Spiritual Wholeness

Deepa Padhi – India Author Deepa Padhi is international Vice-President of the Theosophical Society in Adyar, Chennai, India, and President of the Theosophical Order of Service (TOS), Odisha Region, India Embracing spiritual wholeness is both an ancient and modern state of mind. In Mabel Collins’s The Idyll of the White…

HISTORICAL mini interviews, JON Knebel, first published in 2014

[note from the editor: Jon, a formidable friend and deep student sadly passed away, much too early, in July 2023] 1. What’s your name, where are you from and how long have you been a member of the TS? My label and my story? My name is Jon Knebel and I currently live in the western suburbs of Chicago. I have been…

Next Steps – 1

Tim Boyd - India, USA Tim Boyd accompanied by two beautiful young ladies (daughters of a friend of his) I would like to share a few thoughts about the Theosophical Society’s 150- year history, a history that has been momentous and challenging. Also, we are here to talk about the future and about the moment in which we find…

HISTORICAL mini interviews, JOHN KERN, first published in 2010

1. What’s your name, where are you from and how long have you been a member of the TS? My name is John Kern. My father became a member of TSA in the 1920s; I joined on my return from WW II `in 1946. My wife and I live in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.

HISTORICAL mini interviews BETTY BLAND, first published in 2011

Betty Bland 1. What’s your name, where are you from and how long have you been a member of the TS? My name is Betty Bland; I have been a member for over 41 years and have recently completed a nine year term as national president of the Theosophical Society in America. For retirement my husband David and…