The PDF version of our Jan-Feb 2017 schedule is available in this post, and on our website’s home page for viewing, downloading or printing. All programs and Library Nights are free and open to all.

Highlights for January are: Leonard Jackson’s talk on “A Theosophical View of America’s Destiny”,  “Magick 101” by Robert Randle, and the first part of a review of Annie Besant’s Esoteric Christianity with Ann Ford.

February highlights are: “Magickal Accoutrements” by Robert Randle, the documentary “Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief”, and the second part of Esoteric Christianity.

We resume Library Night this Wednesday after a holiday break. It’s free and open to all – browse among our esoteric books, or join in informal conversation on whatever topics come up!

There will be no program this Sunday afternoon. Sunday programs from 1-3 pm resume on January 8th with an Open Discussion session. Free. All welcome. Bring in a book or article, review a movie or play – anything that appealed to your interest in the esoteric or metaphysical.

The January-February 2017 Program Schedule will be posted to our website and Facebook page on or before this coming Friday.

Manzar Rassouli invites you to join her and five other artists for live music and refreshments this Wednesday, December 21st, 12 – 5 pm at The Watermark Gallery. The other artists are Schroeder Cherry, Minas Konsolas, Maria Mendoza, Bridget Sullivan and Maxine Taylor.

The theme of the event is “Embrace Diversity, Create Peace, Celebrate Life!”

It seems there will also be a holiday bazaar hosted by the musical group Limestone Connection.

Watermark Gallery is on the 2nd Floor of the Bank of America Building. 100 S Charles St in the Inner Harbor District, across from the Convention Center.  Street parking is available on Charles St, Lombard St, and Hanover St. The phone number there is (385) 312-0547.

For more information, find Manzar on Facebook.

The show is up now until January 2. Hours 11am – 3pm. Text Manzar for an appointment 443-716-6155.

Join us at the lodge (523 N Charles St, 2nd floor above the Grimaldi Gallery) for a half hour talk tracing the changing attitudes in Christianity from its earliest days through the late Medieval period, towards the relationship between the spiritual and the physical, the soul and the body.

We then walk half a block to the Walters Art Museum to take a self-guided tour of the exhibit, “A Feast for the Senses: Art and Experience in Medieval Europe.” We can discuss our reactions in the cafe area afterwards. The exhibit features rare tapestries, gold statues, illuminated manuscripts and other objects of art and devotion, that give us a glimpse into the medieval understanding of the sacred and the profane.

This program is free, open to all. The Walters has free admission to the museum and the exhibit.

Join members and non-members for free ranging discussion around our table, or to browse and read books in our large esoteric library. A free activity, held almost every Wednesday evening. Free parking on Charles Street after 6 pm. All are welcome!

This Sunday, December 18th, 1-3 pm, will be a program entitled “Spirit and the Flesh: Changing Christian Attitudes about the Relationship between the Physical and the Spiritual”. Ann Ford will give a short talk at our lodge on the history of these attitudes, up through Medieval times. Then we walk to the Walters Museum, half a block away, to visit their exhibit “A Feast for the Senses: Art and Experience in Medieval Europe”, where art in many forms reflects those attitudes. The talk and admission to the museum and exhibit are free.

Kimberly and her work, from Baltimore City Paper (2015)

On Saturday, Dec 17, 2016, at Light Street Presbyterian Church, 809 Light St, Baltimore, artist Kimberly Sheridan will hold a meet-and-greet. A group of portrait paintings from her show, The Million Gun Victims’ March, will be on display. The first printing of the 2017 calendar for the Million Gun Victims March, featuring a portrait for every month, will be for sale. Purchase a calendar and the artist will autograph it for you.

This presentation by Carole J. Pressnall, M.F.A. will challenge the standard concepts surrounding UFOs (unidentified flying objects). She speaks from personal experiences she had with others present. As always, this Sunday program is free and open to the public.

Craig Newton’s talk “UFOs-Part IV”, originally on the agenda for this Sunday, had to be rescheduled. We will announce the new date as soon as it is available.

UFOs: Do UFOs really need to be 3-D bodies or spaceships? Carole Pressnall says of her presentation: “Are UFOs of Terrestrial or Extra-Terrestrial origin? Photos from books  On the Slide of Light and UFO Contact from the Pleiades (author Billy Meier) will be used to raise questions about ‘Inner-space’ as compared to ‘Outer-space’. This slide presentation will introduce the concept of possible UFO contact – through the ‘mind-machine’ and meditations in like-minded groups.

In 1993, Carl Sagan said in Parade magazine that we are hallucinating [on flying saucers and spaceships] due to sleep deprivation, fasting, drugs and media hype. Those of us who have seen what we believe to be a sighting, are often scoffed at, maligned and/or avoided. My sighting was on the island of Bimini during a 1980’s A.R.E. tour, 50 miles off the coast of Florida.”

This program is free and open to the public. There will be time for questions and discussion.

Treat yourself this Sunday afternoon to fun and refreshments in a relaxed atmosphere at the Theosophical Society. Play our “remember when” games and impromptu creative activities.  Experience some of what it was like to live in Baltimore in 1916, the year our charter signed.

This is a free event, open to all.