The Gnostic Society Inc.
Meetings
Auckland in-person meetings are held every Tuesday and every second Thursday evening. A Sufi Universal Worship Service is held every second Sunday morning. Online meetings alternate between Monday evening one week, Thursday evening the next. Northland meetings are held on Wednesday afternoons. Newcomers are welcome to attend any service or meeting (except Monday). Please contact secretary@gnosticsociety.co.nz for details.
Tuesday Night Meeting
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm every Tuesday evening (in-person). Meeting room, 55 Tramway Rd, Beach Haven, Auckland 0626
Tuesday meetings have an emphasis on psychological work as taught by G.I. Gurdjieff and expanded by Abdullah. Each week a member reports on progress and experience in their own work. This is followed by general questions and a reading from and discussion of one of Abdullah’s books.
Abdullah Dougan, The Glimpse.
https://www.gnosticpress.co.nz/products/gnostic-press-the-glimpse/
13th May 2025 - p. 53. 'The very fact of people...'
Monday Night Meeting
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm every second Monday evening (on-line only)
Meetings begin with a reading from and discussion of one of Abdullah’s works, followed by queries from members, either of a general nature or directly related to their inner work
Abdullah Dougan, Quest Part I: Ideas.
https://www.gnosticpress.co.nz/products/gnostic-press-the-quest-part-i-ideas/
19th May 2025 -'Essence’, p. 236, "Are our parents…"
Sufi meetings
7:30 pm – 8:30 pm alternating Thursday evenings
Weekly Sufi meetings alternate between online discussion of Hazrat Inayat Khan's lectures (attendees are requested to read and ponder the text in advance of the meeting) and an in-person meeting in which the writings of another spiritual teacher are read and discussed.
Hazrat Inayat Khan Thursday meeting (online-only)
Complete Works of Pir-o-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan, Original Texts: Lectures on Sufism 1926.
Pir-O-Murshid-Hazrat-Inayat-Khan-1926-III.pdf
15th May 2025 - Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow—Art p.144
29th May 2025 - Will, Wish and Desire (Lecture only) p.161
12th June 2025 - Psychology (Lecture only) p.187
26th June 2025 - The Prophets p.198
10th July 2025 - Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow—Sculpture p.236
24th July 2025 - Attitude p.255
7th August 2025 - Four Questions of the Thoughtful Mureed p.268
Alternate Thursday meeting (in-person only)
Meeting room, 55 Tramway Rd, Beach Haven, Auckland 0626
Attar, Farid ud-Din, The Conference of the Birds. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974.
https://data.nur.nu/Kutub/English/Attar_Conference-of-the-Birds_tr.C.S.Nott.pdf
22nd May 2025 - p.44. ‘The birds discuss the proposed journey to the Simurgh’
Sufi Universal Worship Service
10:30 am – 11:00 am every second Sunday morning,
Meeting room, 55 Tramway Rd, Beach Haven, Auckland 0626, New Zealand
Universal Worship, the prayer and meditation service of Hazrat Inayat Khan, acknowledges the unity of all spiritual teachings with readings on a chosen topic from Hindu, Buddhist, Zoroastrian, Hebrew, Christian, and Islamic texts, and Hazrat Inayat Khan’s Gayan. The topic is also illustrated with teaching stories. The service and stories are intended to be suitable for families including children.
Topic: Conscious Labour & Intentional Suffering
11th May 2025 - Humility
25th May 2025 - Courage
8th June 2025 - Obedience
22nd June 2025 - Fortitude
6th July 2025 - Selflessness
20th July 2025 - Service
3rd August 2025 - Hope