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/
10th September 2024 - p. 27, "If, then, there be such an Eye..."
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/
9th September -'Earth’, p. 205, 'Q. Does Jupiter have the same relation...’
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.
22nd August 2024 - 'The Art of Personality' p. 430 [pdf p.456].
5th September 2024 - 'Universal Worship: The Great Teachers' p. 449 [pdf p.475]
19th September 2024 - 'Life, an Opportunity' p. 454 [pdf p.480]
3rd October 2024 - 'The Power Within Us' p. 468 [pdf p.494].
17th October 2024 - 'The Spiritual Attainment that is Sought by the People in the East' p. 479 [pdf p.505].
31st October 2024 - 'From Limitation to Perfection' p. 486 [pdf p.512].
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
12th September 2024 - p. 20, '7. The Partridge'
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.
'Sincerity'
1st September 2024 - 'Courage'
15th September 2024 - 'Acceptance'
29th September 2024 - 'Humility'
13th October 2024 - 'Simplicity'
27th October 2024 - 'Integrity'
10th November 2024 - 'Discernment'
24th November 2024 - 'Right Effort'
