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TOS in Ukraine Needs Our Support!

Throughout the past three years of the war in Ukraine, TOS Sections from countries around the world have sent financial aid to Ukraine.  In 2024, TOS-USA sent $1,500 to the TS/TOS in Ukraine to be used as they thought best.  Ukrainian TS/TOS members have been busy using those funds to best advantage, trying to

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In St. Petersburg, Compassion is “In the House!”

On June 14, 2025, members of the St. Petersburg (Florida) lodge rolled up their sleeves and made theosophy practical by providing a meal for families of children receiving hospital care for serious illnesses.  Lodge Vice President Cheryl Mitchell reports that the

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The Cosmic Song as a Pathway to Peace

Sometimes we nail it on the first try.  Such was the case in 1955 when Sy Miller and Jill Jackson wrote their much-beloved song, “Let There Be Peace On Earth.”  Within one short set of lyrics, they identified a profound universal truth: that peace on earth is possible only to the extent to which we each feel peace

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Meet Our Latest Recipient!

January 18, 2021

Every year the Theosophical Order of Service provides a scholarship to a second-year nursing student from the Oglala Lakota College. We would like to introduce the latest recipient Bethany Iyotte.

We would also like to thank everyone who donates to this project. It does not just help the student but the whole indigenous community for many generations. Congratulations Bethany and best wishes!

My name is Bethany Iyotte. I am a member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe in Rosebud, South Dakota where I was raised by my parents Paulette (Whiting) and Mark Iyotte Sr. I have two brothers, Pat and Mark, Jr. [node:read-more:link]

Patiently Waiting for Dawn

January 18, 2021

Be of good courage all is before you, and time passed in the difficult is never lost. . . What is required of us is that we live the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.
― Rainer Maria Rilke

In the moments before the light of dawn, one feels as though time is holding its breath in anticipation. Darkness waits silently, patiently before it is dispersed. It has no fear. It does not feel agitation. It rests in the comfort of its role in the cycle of night and day, its dance with the inevitable light, and the inbreath and the outbreath of the universe. [node:read-more:link]

A Man and His Passion

January 18, 2021

The weekend before Thanksgiving found me reorganizing my small library of literature. I came across a folder from the 2017 Summer National Convention on Ecosprituality and found a piece of paper that I had folded in half and stuck in it. The information on that piece of paper was instrumental in helping me reinforce a change I wanted to make in my life. But I was also feeling alone in making that change. All of this was occurring during my first year of membership in the Theosophical Society. Unfolding the paper was like the unfolding of renewed life in the spring. It brought back memories. [node:read-more:link]

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