Point Loma

Point Loma or Lomaland was a Theosophical community established in San Diego, California by Katherine Tingley and her followers in the Universal Brotherhood and Theosophical Society.

Establishment of the community

Theosophists from both the United States and abroad were encouraged to move to Point Loma and become part. of a great adventure in Theosophical living.

Facilities at Point Loma

Iverson L. Harris described the range

In addition, however, the community grew to include living quarters for the five hundred or more residents who gathered there, as well as a refectory, bakery, stables, carpenter shop, smithy, machine shop, and facilities for the production of textiles and the tailoring of clothing. Orchards and vegetable gardens produced more than enough fruits and vegetables to supply the needs of the community, and the formerly barren slopes of Point Loma were soon covered with groves of eucalyptus and avocado. Even a publishing house was added to the colony's facilities, with a printing press and a bindery turning out a steady production of Theosophical books and tracts.

Raja Yoga School

A school was indeed started, called the Raja Yoga school, mainly for the children of families living at Point Loma, and it was eventually expanded to include instruction from the primary grades through advanced graduate studies.

Accounts of life at Point Loma

George Cardinal LeGros wrote a poem about Point Loma:

A Point Loma Memory

They tell me that Point Loma is no more,
That all my friends have vanished from the Hill;
But, thinking of its pathways and the shore,
I close my eyes and see Point Loma still.

I hear the winds that cry along the sea,
I know again the skies of morning blue,
The meadows and the blossoms blowing free,
The words we said, the things we used to do.

They tell me all is gone, and yet somehow
The Glory that was Yesterday is there
Triumphant in a bright Eternal Now
That sparkles on the joy-enchanted air

As, one by one, we all go Home to rest
At old Point Loma in the Golden West.