Monuements in Chennai

     Lying on the banks of the Adyar river is the international headquarters of the Theosophical Society. The world Headquarters of the spiritual society found by Madame H.P. Blavatsky, a clairvoyant from Russia and Col. Olcott, a retired US Army officer, was originally formed in USA. On 17th November 1875 Col. Olcott gave his Inaugural Address, and chose this date as the birthday of The Theosophical Society. The Theosophist, the first issue of the journal appeared on 1st October 1879. The international headquarters of the Society was shifted to Bombay in 1879 and then to Madras in 1882.

     The movement looked at every religion as an expression of Divine Wisdom and preferred its study rather than its condemnation and encouraged its practice rather than its proselytisation. It offered a philosophy which made life intelligible and proved that there was a divine order in a seemingly chaotic cosmos. Anyone who was willing to study, reflect, be tolerant and work perseveringly for common human good was welcomed as a member.

     The three declared objectives of the Society are: to form a nucleus of the Universal Brotherhood of Humanity, without distinction of race, creed, sex, caste or colour; to encourage the study of Comparative Religion, Philosophy and Science and to investigate the unexplained laws of Nature and the powers latent in man. Even today one can see on the Headquarters Hall the theosophical motto: "There is no Religion higher than the truth".

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