Wednesday, July 1, 2026

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF SAN FRANCISCO JULY-AUGUST 2026 PROGRAM


Surrender is giving oneself up to the original cause of one's being. Do not delude yourself by imagining this source to be some God outside you. One's source is within oneself. Give yourself up to it. That means that you should seek the source and merge in it.  Because you imagine yourself to be out of it, you raise the question, 'Where is the source'?
- Sri Ramana Maharshi (Talks w/ Sri Ramana Maharshi, Talk #208)

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF SAN FRANCISCO JULY-AUGUST 2026 PROGRAM 

IN-PERSON/ON-LINE: Sunday, 7/19/26, 4 to 6 p.m. - Richard Power presents "Vectors of Reality, Part 4: The Nature of Reality" (ON-LINE via Zoom starts at 5 pm)

ON-LINE: Sunday, 8/2/26, at 6 p.m. - Jeff Curtis presents "Some Recent Science Updates"

IN-PERSON: Sunday, 8/30/26, 4 to 6 p.m. - Elaine Sutton presents "Entering Your Love Era w/ Imagery, Breaking the Bonds of Self-Loathing to Experience Love & Bliss"

For more information Elaine Sutton's work, visit wellnessasart.com

Here is the Zoom registration link for the "Vectors of Reality" series -


You will receive confirmation email, providing further information.

If you missed Parts 1, 2, or 3, you can catch up on YouTube  (videos embedded below) -






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Saturday, June 20, 2026

The Great Wheel Turns: Solstice 6/21/26


#Gaia #Solstice #YinYang #YearoftheFireHorse #Theosophy

In this Year of the Fire Horse (Shoutout Shadowfax, “Lord of All Horses”) -

The first of our two Solstices occurs on 6/21/26 at 08:24 UTC

Which means Summer arrives at 1:24 am (PDT) in San Francisco,10:24 am (CEST) in Paris and 4:24 pm (ULAT) in Ulaanbaatar;

AND Winter arrives at 5:24 am (CLT) in Patagonia, 10:24 am (SAST) in Cape Town and 5:54 pm (ACST) in Uluru

The Great Wheel turns; turn with it.

Feel the planetary polarity.

Waves of light and darkness, each the swirling core of the other.

Lean forward.

Images (clockwise):

1. John Constable - Stonehenge (1835)
2. Antonio Canova - The Three Graces (1814)
3. Mithandir (Gandalf the White) w/ Shadowfax (“Lord of All Horses”), Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (2002)
4. Mandala Depicting Kalachakra and Vishvamata, Tibet, first half 16th Century

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Friday, May 8, 2026

White Lotus Day, May 8th, 2026: "Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious"

On White Lotus Day, May 8th, 2026, We Honor the Legend & Legacy of the Incomparable H.P.B.

"Thou canst not travel on the Path before thou has become that Path itself." - H.P. Blavatsky, Voice of the Silence

“Darkness radiates the light, and light drops one solitary ray into the mother-deep.” - H.P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine

White Lotus Day (May 8th) is the anniversary of the passing of H.P. Blavatsky, the great mystic, adventurer and mother of modern Theosophy. Each year at this time those who carry on celebrate both her remarkable life and her profound contribution to the advance of human evolution. 

Om Mani Padma Hum! 

A few jewels from the writings of H.P. Blavatsky -

"We must prepare and study truth under every aspect, endeavoring to ignore nothing, if we do not wish to fall into the abyss of the unknown when the hour shall strike."

"Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception."

“The wheel of the Good Law moves swiftly on. It grinds by night and day. The worthless husks it drives from out the golden grain, the refuse from the flour. The hand of fate guides the wheel; the revolutions mark the beatings of the heart of manifestation.”

“The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.”

“Nature isn’t, as your scientists seem to believe, an agglomeration of fundamentally different objects and elements; Nature is a whole, and everything in the organism acts and is acted on by every other thing contained therein.”

“We cut these numerous windings in our destinies daily with our own hands, while we imagine that we are pursuing a track on the royal high road of respectability and duty, and then complain of those ways being so intricate and so dark. We stand bewildered before the mystery of our own making, and the riddles of life that we will not solve, and then accuse the great Sphinx of devouring us.”

 “The Universe is the periodical manifestation of this unknown Absolute Essence.”

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Tuesday, May 5, 2026

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF SAN FRANCISCO MAY-JUNE 2026 PROGRAM


"To live to benefit [human]kind is the first step." - H. P. Blavatsky,  The Voice of the Silence
On May 8th, White Lotus Day, Theosophists everywhere celebrate the life & work of the great HPB

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF SAN FRANCISCO MAY-JUNE 2026 PROGRAM 

ON-LINE: Sunday, 5/17/26, at 6 p.m. - Richard Power presents "Vectors of Reality, Part 2: The Gaian Mysteries"

NO MEETING Sunday, 5/24/26 - We Honor Memorial Day

IN-PERSON: Sunday, 6/7/26, 4 to 6 p.m. - Jonathan J. Levine presents "Before & After: The Art of Transfiguration"

ON-LINE: Sunday, 6/21/26, at 6 p.m. - Richard Power presents "Vectors of Reality, Part 3: The True, The Good, The Beautiful"

NO MEETING Sunday, 6/28/26 - We Celebrate San Francisco P-R-I-D-E!

Here is the Zoom registration link for the "Vectors of Reality" series -


You will receive confirmation email, providing further information.

You only have to register once for all four talks.

If you missed Part 1, you can view it on YouTube  (video embedded below) -


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Saturday, April 4, 2026

Vectors of Reality, A Series of 4 Talks on the Mystical Dimensions of Life on Earth


Richard Power - "Vectors of Reality, A Series of 4 Talks on the Mystical Dimensions of Life on Earth" 
  • 4/19/26, 6 pm Pacific - Part 1: Spacetime
  • 5/17/26, 6 pm Pacific - Part 2: Gaian Mysteries
  • 6/21/26, 6 pm Pacific - Part 3: The True, The Good, The Beautiful
  • 7/19/26, 5 pm Pacific - Part 4: The Nature of Reality
This event is the sequel to last year's "Verities of Being."

As with "Verities of Being," the first three talks will be held online via Zoom and the fourth talk will be held both online via Zoom and in-person at the Lodge.

Here is the Zoom registration link for this series of talks:

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/SAZz3cA-TpeYdUTvidColg

You will receive confirmation email, with further information.

After each talk concludes, it will be made available via YouTube and Substack.

Meanwhile, here are links to digital artifacts of the “Verities of Being” series, including full videos on YouTube & full text, slides & embedded video on Substack:

Richard Power - Verities of Being, Part I: Shadow (SFTS Lodge 6/15/25)
 

 Richard Power - Verities of Being, Part 2: Siddha (SFTS Lodge, 7/20/25)  

 Richard Power - "Verities of Being, Part III: Shakta" (SFTS Lodge, 8/17/25)  

 Richard Power presents "Verities of Being, Part IV: Spanda" (SFTS Lodge, 9/21/25)

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Wednesday, March 4, 2026

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF SAN FRANCISCO MARCH-APRIL 2026 PROGRAM

 


This self-originated Clear Light, eternally unborn, is a parentless babe of Wisdom. 
Wondrous is this. Being non-created, it is Natural Wisdom. Wondrous is this. Not having known birth, it knows not death. Wondrous is this. - Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation
Translated & Edited by the great Dr. W.Y. Evans-Wentz

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF SAN FRANCISCO MARCH-APRIL 2026 PROGRAM 

ON-LINE Sunday, 3/22/26, at 6 p.m. - Jeff Curtis presents "New Light on the Nature of 'Self'"

IN PERSON: Sunday, 3/29/26, 4 to 6 p.m. - Conversations in Theosophy

ON-LINE: Sunday, 4/19/26, at 6 p.m. - Richard Power presents "Vectors of Reality, Part 1: Spacetime"

IN-PERSON: Sunday, 4/26/26, 4 to 6 p.m. - Conversations in Theosophy

SPECIAL EVENTS 

Our 2026 Lenten Sutra Readings continue -

Friday 3/6, 6 pm: Great Liberation
Friday 3/13, 6 pm: Diamond Sutra
Friday 3/20, 6 pm: Great Liberation
Friday 3/27, 6 pm: Diamond Sutra
Friday 4/3, 6 pm: Great Liberation

All 2026 Lenten Sutra Readings are both IN-PERSON at the Lodge & ON-LINE via Zoom.

Here is the link to register for attending the Lenten Readings on-line via Zoom:


You will receive a confirmation email with further information


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Saturday, February 28, 2026

"A Homemade American Mystic, Of Purest Ray Serene ..." - 4 Excerpts from Coleman Barks' Foreword to "Great Song: Life & Teaching of Joe Miller"





Four excerpts from "The Tiger's Nest," Coleman Barks' Foreword to "Great Song: Life & Teaching of Joe Miller" (1993)

Bravo & Bon Voyage Great-Hearted Ally!

Next time ...

Coleman Barks (April 23, 1937 - February 23, 2026)

- Richard Power, Theosophical Society of San Francisco 

"Great Song" Cover Photo Credit: Susannah Grover





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