Hargrove later came to disagree with Tingley, and later broke away with roughly 200 other members to form the Theosophical Society in America.
In 1906 or 1907 this branch including Hargrove gave Robert Crosbie a deed of foundation to found a lodge in Los Angeles.
Original members of this branch included: Dr. Archibald Keightley and his wife Julia van der Planck (a.k.a.
A number of branches of the organization existed throughout North America, as well as several in the UK, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, and Venezuela.
The last annual convention of this branch was held in New York in 1943, where the members agreed to formally disband and entered into "indrawal".