HEY LOOK!
IS BEING SOLD
TO A DEVELOPER
A Spiritual Centre
A Sanctuary for Wildlife
Not for much longer
The Tekels Park Guest House is still taking bookings for spiritual weekends
at this 50 acre woodland estate near Camberley, Surrey, England. Many may still
arrive for a Tekels Park “spiritual” holiday unaware of the cloud hanging over the
park and the wildlife. Amazingly the Tekels Park website still advertises the
park as a sanctuary for wildlife.
The estate is owned by the Theosophical Society (Adyar) in England and has
been a Spritual Centre since 1929. The sale to a developer is surrounded by
secrecy with even many of the Society’s 200 members being kept in the dark.
News is now leaking out and many are outraged. When one considers the
horrendous effects that the sale of Tekels Park will have on the wildlife, it
is easy to see why the sale is being kept quiet.
Some Views of
Tekels Park has no
statutory protection against this happening.
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Church
building paid for in 1930 by Theosophist
and church
member, Josephine Chambres.
Registered
as a place of worship in 1931
St Francis
Church has served the needs of
Christians
within the Theosophical movement for
decades and
church members now feel betrayed
at the loss
of control of their building.
St Francis
Church at
Dedicated to
St Francis of
The
congregation will now have to negotiate permission
to worship
in a church they have been using since 1931.
Ironically
St Francis is the Patron Saint of Animals
and the
Environment but don’t tell the
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Tekels Park is
sanctuary for animal wildlife including deer, foxes, squirrels,
badgers, bats, newts and stoats, and for birdlife including sparrowhawks,
woodpeckers, tawny owls and many more.
Theosophy talks
of a compassionate attitude to animals and the sale of a
sanctuary for wildlife to a developer has caused
serious division in the
Theosophical Society in England
The Deer
Although the law gives protection to deer against cruelty, they are not
in fact a protected species and could be slaughtered. It is difficult to see
how the continued existence of the deer in
Badgers have been residents of
There are fears that development will
destroy
their foraging area on which they depend.
The law gives more protection to badgers than it does to deer. It is
illegal to harm a badger, destroy or obstruct the entrance to badger setts or
to keep one as a pet. Protection against the effects of development is less
clear and badgers depend on a wide foraging area which could be reduced or
destroyed by development.
In the
The Trees
There are many species of trees including 3 types of redwood, ginkgo, eucalyptus,
red oak, tall magnolias and lebanese cedars.
Enjoy before the bulldozers move in
Tekels Park has always
been, and still is, advertised as a “Spiritual Retreat”. The vegetarian guest
house continues to take bookings on this basis and here is a write up for a
Theoversity - The Spiritual
Retreat
23 – 25
April 2010
Most people need a moment or two away
from the general activity of the everyday life whether professionally or a busy
home life with all its pressures and demands. This weekend is an opportunity to
take a break and relax, reassess or prepare for up and coming talks or
presentations. The weekend is also for those who wish to spend time in
meditation and contemplation on their lives, their future and fulfillment.
The surroundings of course form the basis of the spiritual experience
being sold here. One can only speculate on the effect on this experience of the
realization that Tekels Park could soon
be going under the bulldozer with the inevitable disastrous effect on the
wildlife.
It would also be upsetting to find out about the sale after the
spiritual event.
A number of spiritual groups, who have used
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Compassion for Animals
The Compassion
for Animals Issue puts
The Theoversity
on the Defensive
The Theoversity was
established by the Theosophical Society in
The Theoversity held its
courses at
The Theoversity organizers
have remained silent on the issue of the Tekels Park Wildlife and
how this affects the Theosophical teachings that it offers. The issue of the
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Who’s Behind the
The whole deal is
shrouded in so much secrecy that even the majority of the Theosophical
Society’s actual card carrying members don’t appear to know what is happening
but here are some contact points.
The Theosophical Society in
Tel 0207 563 9817
Please note that
there is more than one Theosophical Society. Only the Theosophical Society with
its headquarters at
The Theosophical
Society administers the
The Tekels Park Estate Limited
RH15 9AE,
It doesn’t require a Diploma in
Finance or even a Diploma in Anything to know that this is a bad time economically to sell Tekels Park
Many are unhappy not
only that this is certainly a bad time to get a good price for the Tekels Park Estate but that professional
advice in 2009, not to sell the Park, has been ignored.
Despite the attempt to keep the sale
secret, the
Adyar Theosophical Society leadership,
and
members who have had a long association
with
Tekels Park, are fully aware of what is
being done
to the park and yet are happy to conduct
Theosophical Society events there.
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From the Website Owner:- Dave Marsland
I am dedicated to the
future of the Tekels Park animals and have created this website in support of
saving them.
My main concern in
posting information on this, and related websites, is to draw attention to the
sale of the 50 acre sanctuary for wildlife to a property developer and the
inevitable deaths of the animals by slaughter or habitat destruction.
The killing of the
Tekels Park animals would be an obscenity and as a long standing student of
Theosophy, I cannot turn a blind eye.
I maintain that the
Tekels Park management and the Theosophical Society in England leadership have
attempted to keep the fate of the Park and its wildlife from public attention
and the attention of the Theosophical Society in England members.
Dave Marsland
You may contact me on
davemarsland@uku.co.uk
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A Spiritual Centre
A Sanctuary for Wildlife
Not for much longer
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Concerns about Tekels Park Wildlife
Tekels Park & The Loch Ness Monster
Article
describing Tekels Park and its much
cherished
wildlife by Theosophist and long
term Tekels Park Resident Madeleine Leslie Smith
Future
of Tekels Park Badgers in Doubt
Tekels Park Badgers Were Once Highly Valued
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