Katherine Tingley and Point Loma

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Articles on Katherine Tingley and Point Loma, links to KT's books online, and to photographs of KT and the Point Loma Community.

Back of the imaginings and hopes and dreams of my childhood and womanhood, deeper than the pain caused by the contrasts I have observed in human life, there is a consciousness of the love of God and the spiritual dignity of man. And it is this consciousness that is needed now to make the world better, to bring man to his own, to give him the key to life's problems, so that he can combat difficulties understandingly, overcome injustice through knowledge, and live in the joy of life in the truest and noblest sense. -- Katherine Tingley

Articles on Katherine Tingley, her books, and Point Loma:

• "Katherine Tingley: A Biographical Sketch" by Grace F. Knoche
• "Katherine Tingley, Her Work and Aims: An Interview" by Gertrude Stevenson
• "A Few Facets of Katherine Tingley" by Raymond Rugland
• "My First Meeting with H. P. Blavatsky's Teacher" by Katherine Tingley
• "The School of Antiquity: Its Meaning, Purpose, and Scope" by J. H. Fussell
• "The S.R.L.M.A." by Alan E. Donant
• "The Raja-Yoga Schools of Point Loma" by Bernard Parsons
• "Childhood Memories of Point Loma" by Ingrid Van Mater
• "'Strong Enough to Stem the Tide': Work in Cuba" by Monica Morris
• "I Never Knew Katherine Tingley" by Eloise Hart
• "A Personal Impact" by I. M. Oderberg
• "A New Light among All: First Crusade Address" by Katherine Tingley
• "Rebirth of the Mysteries" by W. T. S. Thackara
• "Discipline Precedes the Mysteries" by Kirby Van Mater
• "The New Way" by Nancy Coker
• "A Mentor to Me" by Doreen N. Melbrod
• "Candles in the Darkness: Tingley's 'The Gods Await'" by Nancy Coker
• "A Life's Gift: Tingley's 'Wisdom of the Heart'" by Lillian Burke

Books online by Katherine Tingley:

• Theosophy: The Path of the Mystic
• The Wine of Life
• The Gods Await
• The Splendor of the Soul

Photographs of Katherine Tingley and the Point Loma Era

• Katherine Tingley 1896
• Katherine Tingley in Darjeeling, India, 1896
• Katherine Tingley, 1906
• Katherine Tingley, 1920s
• G. de Purucker's Sketch of Point Loma, drawn at Geneva, September 2, 1896
• Laying the Cornerstone of the SRLMA, Point Loma, February 23, 1897
• Raja-Yoga Academy and Temple of Peace, International Theosophical Headquarters, Point Loma, California
• Academy Building, International Theosophical Headquarters, Point Loma, California
• SRLMA Foundation Stones (staked in two columns), Point Loma
• Classroom at Point Loma, about 1900
• Cuban Raja-Yoga Students at Egyptian Gate and Peace Tree, San Juan Hill, Cuba, 1910
• Raja-Yoga Children at Point Loma, about 1928
• Raja-Yoga Symphony Orchestra, Academy Rotunda, 1912
• First Open-air Greek Theater in America, Point Loma, California, built in 1901
• "The Eumenides" Finale, Katherine Tingley's production, Greek Theater, Point Loma, 1922
• A Midsummer Night's Dream, (fairies with Bottom), Greek Theater, Point Loma, 1919
• A Midsummer Night's Dream (child dressed as cobweb), Greek Theater, Point Loma
• "The Path," painting by Reginald Machell
• Detail from R. Machell's "The Path" painting
• Author Talbot Mundy's inscription to Katherine Tingley in her copy of Om: The Secret of Ahbor Valley (1924)
• International Theosophical Peace Congress, Visingso, Sweden, June 1913
• Raja-Yoga College Band, Peace Parade, Balboa Park, September 28, 1914
• Raja-Yoga Chorus, Peace Parade, San Diego, September 28, 1914
• Parliament of Peace Committee, Temple of Peace, Point Loma, 1923 (names given)
• Katherine Tingley and party with Arizona Governor George P. Hunt, who abolished capital punishment in his state.

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