From Friday 19th to Sunday 21st August we were at a group meeting in the spirit of synthesis at the seminar centre HPB in Ingolsheim, Alsace, France. A group of 19 persons – members of WTT – from Belgium, Germany and Switzerland assembled for a weekend of meditation, exchanges, and cooperation for further projects.
Beautiful sunshine enlightened the place, and also inwardly there was a lot of light around. We spoke about the present time, where there are intense transformation processes going on globally, and the impact of the energies on our lives and greater fields of Life.

Here are some pics from the place, as a little inspiration.

Master CVV, whose inspiration is beyond the group work

The entrance of the seminar centre

And by night

Ganesha welcoming us in the garden

Yes, there was also plenty of joy

Durga on the lion in an amethyst crystal – symbol of the month of Leo

And a greater amethyst – our friend is trading with crystals

Master EK, who brought the teachings of synthesis to the West – and some of the members present still knew him.

Buddha meditating in the night

And Krishna playing his flute on his birthday, last Sunday

While Quan Yin, the Chinese form of Maitreya, was blessing the meeting from a corner

Huge lingams centring the energy

Light striving upwards

And Buddha in another form also gives his silent blessings

A turtle family – the turtle being a symbol of creation

A beautiful smiling Durga, the guardian of the threshold

Riding on the Lion, the tamed animal nature

A shining labradorite in the colours of the energy of Aquarius

A video from an Arab TV shows the dance of a beautiful transparent eel larva ballerina (leptocephalus larva).

Wikipedia explains, “A leptocephalus (meaning “slim head”) is the flat and transparent larva of the eel,.. Leptocephali (more than one leptocephalus) all have laterally compressed bodies that contain transparent jelly-like substances on the inside of the body and a thin layer of muscle on the outside. Their body organs are small, and this combination of features results in them being very transparent when they are alive.”

Never seen such a creature – such a delicate, rhythmic movement full of of easiness. Enjoy.

Print Screen photo of the video

Today is summer solstice and the beginning of the month of Cancer. In his booklet, “The Science of Symbolism“, Master EK writes about the symbolism of this sign:

“When the earth begins to tilt back from the highest point of the summer solstice, the Sun appears to travel sidewise from North to South. Hence it is described as a crab while passing through this sign. A branch of symbolism represents it as the beetle which can resurrect a worm into a butterfly. This marks the transformation of matter into mind, the passage to spirit.”

The picture of the month, “Cancer – The Crab, the Tortoise and the Beetle”, illustrates three aspects of the symbolism of this sign.

Today I found on French Wikimedia the page with many pictures of Nicholas Roerich, some of them quite unknown in the West. Great paintings.

Kalki Avatar – the divine incarnation which comes on a white horse to save the world

Extract of the painting Fiat Rex, by Nicholas Roerich. It seems to be inspired by the picture of Master Morya.

She who holds the World

Path to Kailash

Na Visotah Tummo – tummo is the technique with which Yogis withstand the influence of heat or cold.

An Indian friend sent me the link to this sublime video: “Lotus Flower Images – On White“, by photographer Bahman Farzad. Music by Ahmad Farzad, – a father-son production. There is another video by both: Lotus Flower Images. See also the website. Sublime!

Picture by Bahman Farzad, from the video

This morning on the way to my office I saw the spider in front of the Swiss National Bank building (left) and the Government (right) – a work of art entitled “Maman”, by the New York artist Louise Bourgeois, it is there for 10 days…. Quite symbolic. The artist called her work “maman” because her mother was busily engaged in keeping the family together, like a spider.

The spider with the Swiss Government building at the background

I today came over a nice website called “The World Garden“. There are photos from gardens from many countries, you can send them a picture of your garden to be added to the site. On the page there is an nice intro by Barbara Wolf:

“Long ago Mother Earth was a perfect garden. There was a perfect blueprint for her. Then, fragmentation began and today the garden is far from perfect. Let us turn the imperfect to the perfect.
We begin small; each of us making one piece of a world garden of perfection. We overlay our efforts, our tapestry, on the energies of imperfect Mother Earth. That is how we change the imperfect to the perfect.”

The site made me think of the book “Leaves of Morya’s Garden” from 1924. Here is an extract from the aphorism No 229:

Yes, yes, yes, each word of unity is as the seed of
some fair flower.
To cultivate a garden of beauty is permitted to all.
But where are the gardeners who can judge which seed is best?
We shall teach them to gather the fertile stalks.
We shall pluck out the blighting weeds.
And the ground where God has manifested Himself
We shall adorn with flowers.
But where the flowers of unity are—guard their petals.
Yes, yes, yes!

View from out of our living room

Here are three beautiful videos by Terje Sorgjerd. The first is a sublime film done of a sandstorm at El Teide, Spain´s highest mountain (3718m), where he wanted to capture the beautiful Milky Way galaxy, but a large sandstorm from Sahara Desert came over, and the result were incredible photos of night sky.
 

The second is a fantastic film of the Aurora Borealis shot in Alaska at Kirkenes and Pas National Park bordering Russia, temperatures around -25 Celsius. By the way, here is a short extract from H. P. Balvastky’s Secret Doctrine about the Aurora Borealis:
“Sound is the characteristic of Akasa (Ether): it generates air, the property of which is Touch; which (by friction) becomes productive of Colour and Light.” . . . . . . (Vishnu Purana.) Perhaps the above will be regarded as archaic nonsense, but it will be better comprehended, if the reader remembers the Aurora Borealis and Australis, both of which take place at the very centres of terrestrial electric and magnetic forces. The two poles are said to be the store-houses, the receptacles and liberators, at the same time, of Cosmic and terrestrial Vitality (Electricity); from the surplus of which the Earth, had it not been for these two natural “safety-valves,” would have been rent to pieces long ago.

The third is a video of a market in Thailand, where the Maeklong Railway line passes through – 8 times a day. A beautiful flow, also with boats of market people.

A very impressive rap video-clip (in German), by “Thomas D.”: “Gebet an den Planeten 11.0 – Lektionen in Demut” (Prayer to the Planet 11.0 – Lessons in Humbleness). Even if you don’t understand German, there are fantastic scenes with animals and nature. The album was published yesterday.

A very beautiful YouTube video story about a beggar and an unconventional help with the power of words.