culture, subculture and counterculture - Facultatea de Litere

ANITA STASULANE, JANIS PRIEDE
However, contemporary theosophical groups are making accessible some kind
of symbols used in group emblems. It gives us a possibility to explore the
relationship between symbols and group identification. The following notes are
based on examination of symbols used by 35 contemporary theosophical groups
in Eastern Europe: The International Centre of the Roerichs (Moscow, Russia);
The Ivanovo Roerich Society “Light” (Ivanovsk, Russia); The International
Council of the Roerich organizations by the name of S. N. Roerich (Moscow,
Russia); The Siberia Roerich Society (Novosibirsk, Russia); The International
Charity Fund “The Roerich Heritage” (St. Petersburg, Russia); The Roerich
Family Museum and Institute (St. Petersburg, Russia); The Kemerov Roerich
Society “Maitri” (Kemerov, Russia); The International Association “Peace
through Culture” (Moscow, Russia); The Yaroslav Roerich Society “Orion”
(Yaroslav, Russia); The Roerich Center of St. Petersburg State University
(St. Petersburg, Russia); The Ural Roerich Society (Yekaterinburg, Russia); The
Association for the Research of Psychic Energy (Morshansk, Russia); The Union
of Eastern and European Culture “Frizia” (Nikolayevsk, Russia); The
Nizhnynovgorod Theosophy-Roerich Society (Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia); The
Interregional Organization “Zvezda Vostoka” (Vladivostok, Kemerov, Moscow,
Russia); The Group of Independent Researchers (Rostov-na-Donu, Russia); The
Bylorussian Department of the International Centre of the Roerichs (Minsk,
Bylorussia); The International Organization “Zvedy Gor” (Lvov, Ukraine); The
Medical Academy of Spiritual Development “Madra” (Dnepropetrovsk,
Ukraine); The Podilsky Centre of M. K. Roerich (Hmelnick, Ukraine); The
Ukrainian Roerich Society (Kiev, Ukraine); The Podolsk People University
(Litin, Ukraine); The Simferopol City Roerich Society (Simferopol, Ukraine);
The Doneck Spiritual and Cultural Centre “Oriflamma” (Doneck, Ukraine); The
National Roerich Society (Sofia, Bulgaria); The Latvian Department of the
International Centre of the Roerichs (Riga, Latvia); The Daugavpils Group of
the Latvian Department of the International Centre of the Roerichs (Daugavpils,
Latvia); The Latvian Roerich Society (Riga, Latvia); The Lithuanian Roerich
Society (Vilnius, Lithuania); The Living Ethics Scholl (Siauliai, Lithuania); The
The Estonian Roerich Society (Tallinn, Estonia); The Centre of Culture
“Polisvetiye” (Kohtla-Yarve, Estonia); The Roerich Society “Banner of Peace”
(Kishinev, Moldova); The Kazakhstan Roerich Society (Almaty, Kazakhstan);
The Georgian Roerich Society (Tbilisi, Georgia).
The emblem of the International Centre of the Roerichs (Moscow,
Russia) (http://roerich-museum.ru/rus/family/) is composed of a couple of
symbols and a logotype which comprises the name of the group -
Международный Центр Рерихов. They are used together to achieve maximum
impact for identity. The emblem represents a heart (symbol of psychic energy)
with three red spheres surrounded by a red circle (symbol of mahatmas), and an
olive branch (symbol of peace). The significance of the International Centre of
the Roerichs is reinforced through a design of the globe.
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