Lotus Circles
Lotus Circles were a form of Theosophical Sunday School in the early 1890s. The term was used by American Section of the Theosophical Society from 1891 to 1885, then by the Theosophical Society in America of William Quan Judge and its successor, the Universal Brotherhood and Theosophical Society.
The first Lotus Circle was established at the Aryan Theosophical Society of New York. At the 1897 convention, the membership of the Theosophical Society decided establish the Lotus Circles as a separate organization under the International Brotherhood League or IBL, changing the name to Lotus Groups. "By 1899, according to [Elizabeth] Spalding, between thirty-two hundred and forty-six hundred children participated in Lotus Groups Nationwide.[1]
Notes
- ↑ W. Michael Ashcraft, The Dawn of the New Cycle: Point Loma Theosophists and American Culture (Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 2002), 91.