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/
7th May 2024 - p. 9, "But as for the Infidels..."
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/
6th May 2024 - ‘Soul’, p. 469, 'Q. Does the soul reside in a particular place?’
Sufi meetings
7:30 pm – 8:30 pm alternating Thursday evenings
Meetings focus on the study of a spiritual text, alternating each week between an online format in which the teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan is discussed, and an in-person meeting studying the works of another spiritual teacher.
Hazrat Inayat Khan Thursday meeting (online)
Complete Works of Pir-o-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan, Original Texts: Lectures on Sufism 1926 II.
16th May 2024 - 'Inspiration and the Breath' p. 349 [pdf p.375]
30th May 2024 - 'The Inner Life and Self -Realization' p. 360 [pdf p.386]
13th June 2024 - 'Class for Mureeds' p. 373 [pdf p.399]
27th June 2024 - 'The Purpose of Life' p. 380 [pdf p.406]
11th July 2024 - 'Universal Worship' p. 392 [pdf p.418]
25th July 2024 - 'The Awakening of the Soul' p. 395 [pdf p.421]
8th August 2024 - 'The Sages of the East' p. 407 [pdf p.433]
22nd August 2024 - 'From Limitation to Perfection' p. 419 [pdf p.445]
5th September 2024 - 'The Art of Personality' p. 430 [pdf p.456]
19th September 2024 - 'World Brotherhood, Which is the Object of the Sufi Movement' p. 441 [pdf p.467]
3rd October 2024 - 'Murshid’s Last Words to the Mureeds in Detroit' p. 444 [pdf p.470]
Alternate Thursday meeting (in-person)
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
9th May 2024 - p. 5, 'The Most High replied...'
Sufi Universal Worship Service
10:30 am – 11:00 am every second Sunday morning,
Meeting room, 55 Tramway Rd, Beach Haven, Auckland 0626
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.
'Remembrance'
12th May 2024 - 'Grace'
'The Silence'
26th May 2024 - 'Stilling the Mind'
9th June 2024 - 'Struggle'
23rd June 2024 - 'Ramnam'
7th July 2024 - 'Selflessness'
21st July 2024 - 'Receptivity'
4th August 2024 - 'Grace'
18th August 2024 - 'The Knower and the Known are One'
