Libra governs the path of decision-making. We reach points where we are faced with the choice of which values to stand for and thus how we wish to lead our lives. A correct decision needs to be made on the basis of discernment and responsibility, and not on the basis of other considerations – whether something is convenient for us, whether it enhances our reputation or success, or whether we can gain some other advantage for ourselves.

We can decide whether to foster goodwill through right action or whether to hold back, whether to speak or to remain silent. We are to ponder on these ideas, think these through, and not allow complacency to deceive us, but rather follow the promptings of the soul, which is love.

Whenever humanity uses its will too much for selfish ends instead of for the universal good, Shambala strives hard to arrest the deteriorating conditions. For this, Shambala works generally through the Hierarchy of the Masters. The Hierarchy subtly introduces the energy of Shambala – Ray 1, the Will to Good – into humanity causing the needed changes at a global level.

Whenever a particular nation or group is gaining excessive power, the members of Shambala ensure counter balance and thus balance the energies. Shambala ensures that neither the West nor the East gain supremacy to the detriment of the other. Shambala allows wars to happen in order to regulate and arrest distortions to the human mind. Shambala also sees sicknesses and natural calamities as means for course correction.

The image depicts Shambala and the Hierarchy as a white sphere surrounded by a larger pink periphery. Together, they form the fulcrum of a large set of scales. Like two arms, the balance beam extends, with scales hanging at its ends. Within these scales lie two globes representing the western and eastern hemispheres. A reddish-white ray, surrounded by shades of violet, descends from above from the cosmic spheres and passes through all planes along the central axis. It represents the divine Will, which ensures balance. The scales rest on a solid plinth, which, like an island, is surrounded by ocean waves.

The various shades of red in the background symbolise the expression of the Will on different levels. Carmine red is regarded as the colour of Libra for the average person, who is guided by emotions and desires. The globes vibrate within a fiery field.

You can find all the images and their descriptions on the completely revamped website ludgerphilips.org, which was launched in August 2026. The images from the current annual cycle can be found here. This image is also part of the Shambala cycle.

Yesterday, 30 August 2026, we had the Celebration of 43 Years of The World Teacher Trust-Global under the Motto: “Service is Love in Action”. It was globally transmitted via Zoom, with physical and virtual meetings, with up to 90 members participating.

There were three presentations, welcome and closing words by Guru Prasad Kambhampati, President of WTT-Global, India, and a musical by Frank Berger, guitarist from Berlin. I gave an introduction to the theme, “Service is Love in Action” and the presentations.

Sabala is a rather new project at a place which Master EK frequently visited in his childhood. It is the place where Master EK’s maternal grandparents lived. And the project is targeted to preserve and conduct service activities there. There is a homoeopathic dispensary conducted at Sabala.

You find the YouTube recording of the celebration here:

A specially interesting presentation was “The Significance of Mount Shasta and the work entrusted by Master KPK to the Yoga School Friends” by Srikanth Kaligotla, California. We published it as a separate video since it might be of a larger interest. In the video on Mount Shasta, there are manually generated subtitles in en, de, fr, es and automatic subtitles in many other languages.

The third presentation was about “The Lotus Blanc Project” – Transformation of an abandoned place into a space dedicated to nature, personal growth, and spirituality, presented by Helena Fornaris Ferrer, Mallorca, Spain. You find it in the video at 57:50.

Presented by The Circle of Good Will, Switzerland. Prepared and operated by a support group of Friends of the World Teacher Trust. YouTube channel. Just published:

Feedback: “The paintings in the Salon were beautiful & there were great comments. The Salon group is cohesive & everyone does a great job together. It is your group & it is a good group.”

The artworks for the Aquarian Salon are from the “Images of Synthesis” series the “Images of Synthesis”, see also here. Information on further meetings (PDF). Exchanges / Updates on Telegram.

Virgo represents virginal matter. It stands for pure thought, free from any external influences. The light of the World Mother is reflected in this thought. The members of the spiritual hierarchy possess virginal thought so that they may receive and implement the plan of the World Mother. We, too, can use the sun’s rays during the month of Virgo to build light-filled thought-forms with clear thinking. In this way, we can help to offer the solutions needed for the problems facing humanity.

The Images of Synthesis illustrate the related symbolism. You find there in the different cycles all previous Leo paintings with detailed explanations in four languages (en/de/es/fr). You can also download print-versions for free. Find here on teh Good Will website the Images of Synthesis with short extracts from the wisdom teachings. Or subscribe to the Lunar Messenger newsletter giving thoughts from the wisdom teachings to inspire putting them into practice.

In order to incarnate on Earth and gain experience, we need a body with all the equipment required for human life. It is a highly specialised vehicle, shaped according to Eastern wisdom from the five elements, the senses and the mind. We have a body and a personality and we express ourselves through this form. In reality, we are the soul.

We did not create our form ourselves. Out of love for living beings, Mother Nature creates these forms out of the elements. When the purpose of the form has been fulfilled, it is fitting to return it to its source and the elements dissolve back into the earth.

Shambala recommends that we consciously prepare for sleep by gratefully offering the mind and body with its elements to the reservoir of nature, and to do likewise at the end of life. This nightly ritual prepares us for our death.

To depict Nature, the Mother of the World, I used a white statue of Quan Yin, who is revered in the Far East as a deity of mercy. Her head is surrounded by the moon. In her lap she holds a large water lily as a symbol of the unfolding of forms.

The background is designed with a photo of the view from out of a tunnel on the Stockhorn in the Bernese Alps as a symbol of matter. The dots glowing in the darkness are from a field of stars indicating the souls taking on forms and casting them off again.

You can find all the images and their descriptions on the completely revamped website ludgerphilips.org, which was launched in early August 2026. The images from the current annual cycle can be found here. This image is also part of the Shambala cycle.

The website with the images which had come through me https://ludgerphilips.org/ was technically deprecated and in a delicate situation for several years. Around last Easter, my younger son creating a totally new website, migrating all content from the system on the old website with AI.

The new website is done technically for very long stability and arrangements were done to maintain it over longer time. The site has just been launched, again in four languages. You can find it here. Some additions will come in the next time.

The time of Leo offers a special opportunity to experience the light of the soul, Buddhi, by withdrawing into our inner self and contemplating the golden light of the sun. The touch of Buddhi helps to transform our personality, the shadow of Leo. When we align ourselves with the Super-soul and connect with the THAT – THAT I AM – then we are on the path to transforming ourselves from the son of Man into the Son of God. This is called ‘the birth of the Son of the Sun’.

The Images of Synthesis for the month of Leo illustrate the related symbolism. You find there all previous Leo paintings with detailed explanations in four languages (en/de/es/fr). You can also download print-versions for free. Find here the Images of Synthesis with short extracts from the wisdom teachings. Or subscribe to the Lunar Messenger newsletter giving thoughts from the wisdom teachings to inspire putting them into practice.

Last week I spent a one more beautiful time with my friends Manfred and Sabine at their home in Heiligenberg in the north of Lake Constance. A relaxing little group life time filled with exchanges, excursions and meeting friends who came for a visit. Manfred and Sabine are very hospitable, and it’s always a deep pleasure to be able to spend a few days with them.

I arrived from Switzerland just at noon time for the Thursday World Health and Healing prayer together with Manfred, joining the zoom group meditation transmission. Manfred later took me to the Keller-Werft, a little wharf with an Italian restaurant directly at the lake in Überlingen. Sabine joined us coming from her job at a social care organisation, and later two more friends came, living in the surrounding. We were sitting in the open huge hall of the restaurant directly next to the lake – a holiday feeling start. Later in the afternoon, we took a refreshing bath in the lake.

The next morning, before the heat of the day set in, I went for a walk up to Heiligenberg, along a small road. Through the bushes, there was a sweeping view across the countryside and Lake Constance.

In a small grotto, fresh water flowed from the mountain. At the edge stood a painting of a woman with long hair, depicted as the ‘goddess of the spring’, alongside a few painted wooden eggs. A blue wooden banner expressed gratitude for the water of Heiligenberg.

Later, Manfred and I picked a large potful of redcurrants in the garden, and I learnt ‘fish yoga’ – watching the goldfish in the pond, and giving them water and food. A net over the little pond keeps the herons away.

A red kite would often circle above us, using the updraft from the mountain to carry itself upwards.

Friday afternoon, I went to Mettnau with Sabine, where we went for a swim in the beach park. For our evening meditation, we found a shady spot by a seesaw. When we opened our eyes after a quarter of an hour, two girls were looking at us as they waited to jump on the seesaw.

Later, we went to an open-air concert venue, where the Bremen-based band Skupa was playing energetic “Flamenco-Balkan-Fusion” songs (Insta) – music from Eastern Europe and Spain – a thrilling ambiance under the beginning night sky. Here’s an audio clip from another concert.

Sabine and Manfred had organised a summer party in the garden for their group on Saturday afternoon – but many cancelled because of the intense heat. To our great delight, however, a dear old friend of us all arrived by taxi from Munich for two days. We made preparations in the morning, and a few people turned up in the afternoon. With a group meditation and lively conversations with friends and new acquaintances, the party was a ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’.

On Sunday morning, Sabine and I drove to Überlingen. We managed to catch part of the ‘Swedish Procession’. It is a tradition celebrated since centuries still in three towns, commemorating the successful defence against sieges by the Swedes during the Thirty Years’ War. The procession route was beautifully decorated with flowers and small altars, on which prayers for peace had been arranged in the flowers.

Afterwards, Sabine and I strolled along the lake and a park, and I could see where she worked.

In the evening, when the heat of the day had cooled down a bit, we had a second stroll along the lake together with Manfred and our friend from Munich.

Monday, the visit slowly came to close. Before leaving, Sabine wanted to show us an old chapel by the lake, whose murals were only uncovered at the start of the 20th century. We had to walk quite a distance from the car park to the church, but it was a real gem.

The Sylvester Chapel near Goldbach, a district of Überlingen, is a small pre-Romanesque church on the shores of Lake Constance. The chapel is one of the oldest churches in southern Germany.

Of particular significance are its 9th/10th-century wall paintings – an Ottonian pictorial cycle depicting scenes from the life of Jesus Christ and other scenes, created by painters from Reichenau Abbey.

Saying good-bye, starting the way home – up a hill along narrow country lanes, onto the motorway. The heat and heavy traffic transported me back to another world, with a treasure wealth of profound impressions in my heart.

It is prophesied that our present life-wave of humanity would either perish in fire or overcome it. For those who maintain spiritual goodness, or, like Noah’s Ark, they will be saved and overcome the fires. Humanity will be lifted up when the Divine Will prevails over the human will.

Sanat Kumara, the Lord of Shambala, intends to strengthen the Will of the Divine within humanity, so that people may transcend the fire rather than perish in it. Sanat Kumara stimulates the Will of God in those who align themselves by subordinating their personal will to the Divine Will: ‘Father, thy will be done, not mine’.

Within our spinal column there is a vertical subtle channel, called Sushumna, which enables the flow of the energy of will. It is recommended that we orient ourselves to the Divine Will through our morning prayer, either in the Ajna centre in the head, in the heart, or in the higher heart centre in the upper chest region. The sun signs of Aries, Leo and Capricorn are related to the three centres mentioned. Astrological symbols for the Will of God are the ram of Aries, the lion of the sign of Leo and the unicorn of the sign of Capricorn.

The image shows the semi-transparent silhouette of a human figure, surrounded and permeated by the scenery of beach, ocean and sky. At its centre there is the Sushumna energy channel. At its middle is the figure of a lion in the heart centre, designed using a Wikimedia photo by Vitold Muratov of a lion statue in the Thorvaldsen Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark. In the higher heart centre, designed with a photo of a blue diamond and, fused with it, the figure of a unicorn. Above, the head of a ram can be seen.

It is reminiscent of the Puranic tale of Prajapati Daksha, whose head was severed and replaced with that of a ram. The story teaches us to overcome pride in order to humbly reintegrate ourselves into the greater Plan.