Krotona in Hollywood
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The Krotona colony of the American Theosophical Society was established in Hollywood, California in 1912. It was succeeded by the Krotona Institute of Theosophy and the Krotona School of Theosophy that are based in Ojai, California.
Laying of the cornerstone
The Krotona cornerstone was laid on July 2, 1912 in a Co-Masonic rite conducted by Isabelle Holbrook, Marie Poutz, and American Theosophical Society President A. P. Warrington. Local newspapers covered the event.
The procession which formed at the crown of the hill and wound its way to the bottom presented a picturesque appearance. The white robes of the co-masons, men and women alike, wearing the same regalia, with their stoics of red embroidered in gold, or Alcyone blue embossed with silver, their emblems of office held a loft, heads bowed, suggested a medieval procession.[1]
Mr. Warrington said:
We do not come to establish a sect with some limited form of truth, but to take the place of the inner temples of ancient times that held the esoteric side of great truths with key notes and interpretations of the hidden form of the wisdom that was given out in those days only to those who had proved worthy to be entrusted with its custody, but is now proclaimed to all. We seek no converts, for we have no creed to exalt, no church to build up; your creeds are our creeds, your churches our churches. The one religion that unites us all is the religion of Brotherhood, of universal tolerance.[2]
Charles T. Wood wrote an article on the beauty of the ceremony with a horoscope on the auspiciousness of the date.[3]
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Construction and buildings
Move of Krotona to Ojai
In 1924, with Dr. Besant's approval, Mr. Warrington ordered the Hollywood Krotona estates to be sold and the center removed to Ojai Valley where it is now located on a lovely site of a mid-valley hill, or ridge, chosen by Mr. Warrington because of its very great beauty.[4]
Notes
- ↑ Clipping from unidentified newspaper. Theosophical Society in America Archives.
- ↑ Clipping from unidentified newspaper. Theosophical Society in America Archives.
- ↑ Charles T. Wood "The Horoscope" The Theosophic Messenger 13 no.11 (August, 1912), 631-633.
- ↑ "A. P. Warrington." The American Theosophist 27.7 (July, 1939), 149.