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Theosophical Order of Service International e-Newsletter
EN 48 - September 2018
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In this issue:
- Fragments of Service-based Theosophy
- TOS-US and TSA Team Up
- Latest News - Highlights from the TOS International Conference at Singapore
- TOS Youth: From the Drumbeats of Tanzania to the Heartbeats of the TOS World
- TOS Around the World: India, Ireland, Ukraine & Italy
- Welcome Helen Sztain-Quintana!
- Theosophical Education - A New Impulse
- Do We Have Your Group’s Updated Contact Info?
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Dear TS and TOS members and friends,
It was so wonderful to see so many of you at the 4th TOS International Conference in Singapore. Those there got to renew old bonds and meet new friends. We learned a few things, had fun and got some business accomplished as well. (See the conference report later in this newsletter). The TS World Congress that preceded our conference was full of interesting speakers, working groups, entertainment and some of the best food I've ever seen at such an event. The highlight for me was when Vic Hao Chin praised the TOS in his presentation calling the TOS "the most important existing avenue for applied theosophy for the public."
We are so excited about our new TOS Youth section. This issue of the TOS e-newsletter contains an article written by the President of the Tanzanian TOS youth group. She tells of her involvement in service work and her feelings about it, those the group serves and the elders who have helped them along. We want to make such articles a regular addition each quarter. Are you a
young TOS worker
? Is there a young TOS worker in your midst or a student you sponsor or work with whom you'd like to recognise? Please send us items written by or about a younger person in your group or with whom your group works. Remember to include their picture.
As always, we want to know what you and your groups are doing. Please send information about your activities with good quality photos, to: [email protected].
Yours in service
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T
he TOS in-touch.online tea
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- David Sztain, Editor
- Nancy Secrest, International Secretary/Editing
- Rozi Ulics, Webmaster/Editing
- Vicki Jerome, Proofreader
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“To live to benefit mankind is the first step.”
HPB, Voice of the Silence
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Fragments of Service-based Theosophy
By Antonio Girardi
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Antonio Girardi is the General Secretary of the Italian Section of the Theosophy Society (TS). He has been a member of the TS since 1980 and the General Secretary of the Italian Section since 1995. He is the chief-editor of the Rivista Italiana di Teosofia. Antonio has written three books on theosophical subjects, and he has also edited the book “La Società Teosofica: storia, valori e realtà attuale”. (Theosophical Society: history, values and current situation”.
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Packing groceries at the Humanitarian Service Project
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In many lodges and study centres, service tends to either not be discussed or may be done, but not mentioned in the work of the centre. As a way to highlight the importance of this “quiet” pillar, the Theosophical of Order in the USA (TOS-US) and the Theosophical Society in America (TSA) teamed up to offer ...
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Highlights from the TOS International Conference at Singapore
By Nancy Secrest
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Every five years, members of the TOS from around the world get together to report the results of their previous Action Plans, let others know what they are doing ...
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Attendees at the 4th TOS International Conference
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From the Drumbeats of Tanzania to the Heartbeats of the TOS World
By Chandni Mehta
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The Theosophical Society, an organization formed to promote brotherhood, and its service arm, the TOS, strives to serve humanity. It is a body that, through countless youths, has imbued virtues like: compassion, patience and the urge to serve.
I am privileged to be a part of a team of enthusiastic youngsters, ...
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TOS camp at Bhowali, India 29-31 May 2018
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Bhowali is a beautiful small hill station located in the Kumaon Hills of the Himalayas, at a height of 5,426 feet above mean sea level. It is in the ...
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TOS camp at Bhowali, India - Building
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Standing extreme left: Catherine Lenehan, President of the Dublin branch of the TS. Seated on left: Marie Harkness, Regional Secretary. Seated right: Diana Dunningham Chapotin
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Former International Secretary, Diana Dunningham Chapotin's visit to Ireland
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“No one can resist Irish Theosophists! Their warmth, wit and charm cast a spell on visiting lecturers!” So declared our former International Secretary, Diana Dunningham Chapotin, after her most recent visit to Dublin as guest speaker of the All Ireland TS Convention.
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The Theosophical Order of Service in Italy - Update
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The Italian TOS provides financial support for several educational projects, such as Qandeel Home Schools in Karachi (Pakistan), Golden Link College in the Philippines, the Olcott School and Social Welfare Centre in Adyar (Chennai), the House of Children in Muttom (India), which was built with the help of donations from the TOS, and ...
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Members of the Ordine Teosofico di Servizio
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An exhibition dedicated to the life and work of H. P. Blavatsky was set up in the large exhibition hall of the National Library of Ukraine in Kiev
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TOS Ukraine 2017-2018 - Update
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From September 5 to September 25, 2017, an exhibition dedicated to the life and work of H. P. Blavatsky was set up. This took place in the large exhibition hall of the National Library of Ukraine in Kiev.
During the opening day the objectives of the exhibition were presented by the vice-president of the Kiev TS Branch in Ukraine, M. Shcherbyna. A speech about the life of H. P. Blavatsky was ...
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Welcome Helen Sztain-Quintana!
by David Sztain, Editor
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After a long, 10-hour wait at the Peter Lougheed hospital in Calgary, Canada, we welcomed Helen Sztain-Quintana into this world at 11:56 pm, on June 7, 2018.
She came in with as much hair as Stella, her older sibling, who's turned 4 years old in July. Luckily both inherited that from Sushila's (my wife) family.
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Shantideva, an actual monk in eighth century India
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Theosophical Education - A New Impulse
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... Madame Blavatsky said, “…Children should above all be taught self-reliance, love for all men, altruism, mutual charity, and more than anything else, to think and reason for themselves. ... We should aim at creating free men and women, free intellectually, free morally, unprejudiced in all respects, and above all things, unselfish.” These are lofty words, but lofty does not mean ...
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Do We Have Your Group’s Updated Contact Info?
Please check your country's TOS information on our
website here
. You'll find it in the yellow, right-hand column on the home page. Click on your country's name and if the info is not correct, let us know. We want to make sure that your TOS group's information is up-to-date for our new website which is being designed.
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"The work of the Theosophical Order of Service is Sacred. It was started to provide theosophical society members with a platform to put theosophical concepts into action, to make those principles concrete. Can there be anything more sacred? It is right action with love and respect, with compassion between the server and served. It is service to the living god within every being."
B.L. Bhattacharyya, President TOS India
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