Theosophical Society Pasadena
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The Theosophical Society (Pasadena) is a successor organization to the original Theosophical Society founded by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and others in 1875. This successor organization, which after several name changes once again now titles itself simply the Theosophical Society, though often with the clarifying statement, "International Headquarters, Pasadena, California," traces its beginnings to 1895 and the Theosophical Society faction led by William Quan Judge as he and most of the Society's American Section withdrew, leaving the faction led by Henry Steel Olcott and Annie Besant, whose organization, based in India, is today known as the Theosophical Society - Adyar.
Judge led the organization arising from his faction for about a year after the split until his death, when its leadership passed to Katherine Tingley, who moved the Society's headquarters from New York City to Point Loma, California. Later leaders include Gottfried de Purucker, and currently Grace Knoche.
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External reference and links
- Greenwalt, Emmett A. (1978). California Utopia: Point Loma, 1897 to 1942. San Diego: Point Loma Publications. ISBN 0913004316.
- Theosophical Society (Pasadena) (http://www.theosociety.org/)
- Online list of Theosophical Society (Pasadena) organizations (http://www.katinkahesselink.net/ts_p.htm)