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, with Tuesday and Thursday evenings the next week. Northland meetings are held on Wednesday afternoons. Newcomers are welcome to attend any service or meeting. (Zoom access to Tuesday meetings is for members only). Please contact secretary@gnosticsociety.co.nz for details.
Monday Night Meeting
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm every second Monday evening (online 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/
23rd February 2026 - 'Suggestion’, p. 498 ‘As we overcome identification...’
Tuesday Night Meeting
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm every Tuesday evening (in-person). Meeting room, 55 Tramway Rd, Beach Haven, Auckland 0626.
Every second meeting is also online.
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. All welcome in-person.
Abdullah Dougan, Who is the Potter.
https://www.gnosticpress.co.nz/products/gnostic-press-who-is-the-potter/
24th February 2026 - p. 9 'You fill the cup of your soul...' [in-person only this week]
Thursday Night 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
19th February 2026 - The Expansion of Consciousness (Q&A only) p.10
5th March 2026 - Collective Interview - Contact with Murshid p.229
19th March 2026 - Collective Interview - The Sufi Point of View p.405
2nd April 2026 - The Message - Rumi p.458
16th April 2026 - Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow - Architecture (lecture only) p.489
30th April 2026 - Sunday Public Lecture - Friendship p.521
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
26th February 2026 - p.100. 'Story of Abū Sa'id Mahnah'.
Sunday 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: An Inner Life
1st February 2026 - Stillness
15th February 2026 - Hope
1st March 2026 - Choice
15th March 2026 - Objectivity
29th March 2026 - Prayer
12th April 2026 - Acceptance
26th April 2026 - Silence
