Master Kumar just gave “A Rhythm for Humble Cooperation” (PDF) for consciously relating to the Shambala energy, especially in the present time of crises (see also here in French, German and Spanish). There, the Master also proposes to use the paintings of Nicholas Roerich to enable better comprehension and to study the teachings of Nicholas Roerich. So you fine some images below – and the information also in a PDF. The sublime paintings in the blog-post are all from Nicholas Roerich.

Master Kumar recently published a book on “Shambala” containing profound teachings for students to relate the dimension of Shambala and to this mystic land. The book is available for free as PDF and in the Ebook formats EZW3, EPUB and in Kindle format mobi.

Shambala was prophesied at the very beginning of the Kali Age, 5000 years ago. It is considered to be the seat of the Lord Sanat Kumara who esoterically rules over this Earth. Shambala contains the energy of deliverance to the beings on the planet and it has been a matter of great interest at all times.

There exists a book by Nicholas Roerich on “Shambhala“. You can buy it online. The content is also available via this link. Years ago, the book was available on the Roerich website as a PDF; you might use it, for personal use only.

The cover picture shows a detail of the painting “Command of Rigden Djapo”. Rigden Djapo is a name of Sanat Kumara.

Here are some more pictures of Roerich related to Shambala.

An Indian friend recently sent me a picture from his journey to Sikkim. He wrote:

“There on the hill top there is a cave temple of a Buddhist called Rigden-jyepo. With much veneration and much struggle we trekked to the cave. The cave was big but the entrance was very small (only one person could fit). There was no particular way to climb into the cave, only some wooden steps. I was thrilled to see the statue which was with a golden colour and in a sitting position.”

I told him that Nicholas Roerich explains that Rigden-jyepo /or Dyapo is a name of the Lord of Shambala, Sanat Kumara.

And in the Agni Yoga glossary (“A Treasury of Terms and Thoughts from the Agni Yoga Teachings”) it says:
“You mentioned to me the sacred call—Kalagiya! When someone hears this imperative call, he must know that the way to Shambhala is open to him. He must remember the year when he was called, because from that time evermore, he is closely assisted by the Blessed Rigden-jyepo. Only you must know and realize the manner in which people are helped, because often people repel the help which is sent.”

Since 1.5 years, I am collaborating with the ANIMA project. ANIMA is a non-profit communication channel aiming to share contents that may uplift our consciousness and raise our vibration. You find here a blogpost about the Spanish launch in August 2020. And this blogpost is now about the launch of the new English branch of activities.

Once a month, I meet with the core team of Anima for discussing strategic questions and the development of the project. It is a small but extremely dedicated team doing all activities as volunteer activities in a highly professional way, and with a tremendous output of communication activities, mainly via YouTube videos. And they are doing a great networking including many different helpers (in case, you would like to help them, you can contact them via the link). I like very much the lively exchanges bringing in plenty of good ideas allowing also me to reflect on the work I am doing in the context of WTT and Circle of Good Will.

Some months ago, the team decided to step up their activities and produce also material in English. So, they adapted their website and created the ANIMA Channel. Recently, they opened an English-Only channel on YouTube.

They have already produced quite a number of English short videos about different topics related to living spirituality in daily life and right living. Have a look and subscribe to their channel or one of their playlists.

Not directly related to ANIMA, but going into the same direction of uplifting consciousness: This morning, I received a mailing about the launch of “Children in the light”, a new activity organised by Latin American sisters and brothers, through Zoom, in Spanish, starting today, Saturday 5 February, at 19:00 (Europe) via Zoom. Join : https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85617974333. Zoom ID: 856 1797 4333, Code: om.

Group energy is of great help for our spiritual progress. In a group meditation there develops a flow of energy. We are recharged and we can more easily experience a higher consciousness and a greater presence of spirit.

The energies always flow from the higher to the lower. The sun rays are streaming from the Sun to the Earth. The higher energies work through us when we feel the needs of others and respond to them. These energies strengthen the group consciousness, and they help manifest acts of goodwill in the world. Group work brings the inner light to the outside and intensifies the connection to the higher circles.

To illustrate this cooperation, I arranged in the lower part of the picture a group gathered around a table by joining pictures of two different groups. For visualising the influx of higher energies, I used a photo of a dahlia, elements of a picture of the earth, created with the software WorldWind.earth, as well as a picture of a star in the upper part of the picture. I designed the downpour of light with photos of a glass crystal held in front of a lamp. The light of the star shines through the earth globe and is reflected in the hearts of the group members.

The symbolism of Aquarius is visualised in the twelve Aquarius paintings done between 2010 and 2021. For detailed detailed descriptions please see the ludgerphilips.org website.

Very often I get questions from spiritual seekers wanting to know something. I like the interactions, especially when I can help people this way. However, there is a danger. Some people tend to behave like little children wanting to be spoon-fed instead of learning how to find answers. There is a proverb saying, “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.”

Sometimes, the questions relate to details of the wisdom teachings, sometimes to doubts, sometimes it is curiosity resulting out of a very active mind (for these, there is no end of asking until the interest goes somewhere else). Often, the questioners are group members who do not find the e-mails they have received from the internal mailing list of WTT which I am operating.

This morning, I received the question from a friend: “How long is the Aquarian age to last? Where is the info about this and Master CVV goals for Aquarian age? 240 years ? 100 is already done ? Starting count from 1912.”

Quite a lot of questions in a short WhatsApp post (and good answering takes much more time than quickly asking). So instead of searching the answer on my PC, which I normally do, I better show here how to find.

Some people think that I know everything they ask for, and some started calling me “Ludgerpedia”. That is a wrong impression. I just have learnt how to search and I do this myself on many occasions. I have started this blog also to find things myself which I have written about. It has a very good search engine which you find at the top left, and I often use it myself. There are currently 1,582 posts.

For my own research I have collected over decades big quantities of book PDFs (mostly converted for better search into Word files; I bought for this the “Abbyy Finereader”.), seminar transcriptions (many of them I did myself because otherwise I quickly forget what has been taught there – and why should I always only forget after taking much effort to go to the seminars?) and other material. With these I have composed newsletters, esp. “Lunar Messengers” since 22 years – you find all topics on the good-will website or on the WTT website. There, easily searchable in full text. The search engine on that site is also powerful, you find it at the top left of nearly all pages. Together with friends, I have worked on this website for many years, to allow seekers to find a great treasure of wisdom teachings, especially with the books of Master EK and Master KPK, most of them available for free download in the download areas.

Coming to the questions of my friend: When you search on the WTT website “Aquarian Age“, you find many results. But at the very top of the page, you find “The Aquarian Age” (in various languages). If you click on this, you come to a page “The Aquarian Age“. You find the same text as PDF on the Good-Will website, download section.

In the beginning of this text, you find the explanation for all the questions my friend has asked for. For some details of the questions you need to read the text until the end.

End of January Benjamin, a friend of mine, sent me a scanned version of a booklet of Master EK (Ekkirala Krishnamacharya) which is no more available in print, at least in the West: “Triangles. An Esoteric Approach”. It is a nice booklet; I had read it about 20 years ago.

I told Benjamin that before putting it online on the WTT website, I would like to speak to Kulapathi Editions, the Indian publisher of Master EK’s books. So I had a hearty Zoom talk with Raju, who takes care of the publications. He agreed that we might organise scans of Master EK’s books which are not digitally available and do as-is reproductions of the print version. And we said that M. EK’s “The Yoga of Patanjali” would be a good starting point, since it also contains the yoga sutras in Sanskrit.

I only had my private copy left; so I sent it to Benjamin. It wasn’t in a good condition. I scanned the cover, cleaned the artefacts and shared it with Benjamin.

Last Sunday we met in an online meeting. There was some noise and someone of the group asked, “Hey, Benjamin, what are you doing?” He replied, “Cutting the Yoga of Patanjali book.” Then he switched his camera on and showed the cover and the pages of the book – apart.

Last Monday, he sent the scanned version, writing:

I did a deep digitizing test with the EK book “The Yoga of Patanjali”. The original book came in a bad quality, but it was the last exemplar you could find. So better than none and a perfect test object for getting a good quality also with heavily used material.
The goal was to find an automated process with a minimum of manual (time intensive) operations and most important: a high quality result.
As predicted the scan without OCR produced huge files much bigger than 100 MB. With Ghostscript compressing techniques I got a 14MB PDF with a nice cover.
I wrote down the complete process for imitation by others. Feel free to distribute the attached PDFs.

Since Benjamin always does things very carefully, he wrote a step-by-step guide to scanning the books. He mainly works on Linux systems, he used free software for the entire process – And the book was very well done; he had cleaned all pages automatically.

So I uploaded the PDFs of the two books – here is the one on Triangles – An Esoteric Approach, and here The Yoga of Patanjali. Profound food for thought. Let me know in case you want to scan another book as proposed – I might send you a copy.

Last Tuesday, I received a parcel from São Paulo, Brazil. It contained several books of Master EK, including a paper version of “The Yoga of Patanjali”. Six years ago, I had sent the books to a friend. She told me she no longer needed them and thus returned them, saying “Certainly someone will be interested”. An incredible coincidence.

End of December 2020, Master KPK (Dr. K. Parvathi Kumar) launched an appeal to form triangles to fight Corona with collective prayers. He informed:
“This work of health and healing is an order from Hierarchy. They have a wing for health service under the order of goodwill. It is for the human kind at large and not for any religion.”
He called for participation in the World Health and Healing Order as an opportunity given by Hierarchy:
“We are given this gift of World Health and Healing Order from the Hierarchy. They released energies through this order and they asked me to be in the centre of it. They have fixed me to it and said, ‘You be the third point of every triangle’.
It is already a challenge to people to find an agreeable person. It is a pity if that is so. Christ said, ‘If three of you are together, I will work with you.’ … Master Djwhal Khul gave the science of triangles.
The existing triangles are not very effective. So, they stepped down and they said, ‘Let at least two persons relate to you (Master KPK) to form a triangle’. Let us fight corona with love and compassion and not with hate. At least we should be neutral if not in love.
You remember, corona is a huge personality without a soul. If you have a huge personality without a soul, it is the phantom that is creating a kind of illusion in all of us. It has to be related to with compassion. We can cure with love, compassion and friendliness. This corona is a huge phantom with no direction other than the direction that we show. The more you fear, the more you attract to you. Therefore, the pandemic approaches you. So, don’t fear and request it to dissolve.
The ‘World Health and Healing Order’ (WHHO) is a higher order which builds the bridge between us and the Hierarchy. Therefore, as many as possible, kindly join. Please only send a message by email and you will all receive a number later confirming your registration. … Do not be lethargic and be alert to join this order.”

He informed that anyone can make a triangle with him and another triangle partner – they should then register the triangle via email to an address which is exclusively conceived for this purpose. For participation, he advised age as 10 years and above.
A friend from Denmark is operating this account – there were so many emails coming in that we installed a mailing list for information to the network of triangle members.

You can read his full appeal and the prayer on the WTT website, with further information, audio and video recordings of the prayer.

The group prayer is to be done on Thursday and Sunday at noon time (12 am) as per the local time:
“If you are at work at that time, you can take a short break, relate to the energy then and later complete the prayer in the evening. It should be done before the sun sets. It is a new way of meeting the world’s needs and serving the world – collective prayer to benefit larger communities. There is no sect in it and we keep working with it. Therefore, we gain the eligibility of being in the presence of the energy of Hierarchy.
Please inform all the members of the group, your like-minded friends and family members, and do this prayer. … If we all pray together at respective local meridian time, you can imagine how much healing energy we can bring down from the higher circles. And then with love and compassion, we can slowly neutralise and even dissolve this pandemic and even other sicknesses prevailing on the planet. So, we need to submit ourselves more and more to the plan of Hierarchy.”

Thursday and Sunday there are joint prayers on Zoom 12 am Central European time zone, at least for the beginning time. Find information on Telegram.

An Indian friend sent me a touching WhatsApp video which I also found on YouTube. The speaker, Radhanath Swami, is an American ex-hippie, a monk of the “International Society for Krishna Consciousness” (Hare Krishna movement) and today a spiritual leader who has done a lot of work in India for the very poor (read the interesting bio-details on Wikipedia).

It is an inspiring talk about Sindhutai Sakpal, an Indian social worker and social activist who has devoted her entire life to orphans. Both, Radhanath and Sinduthai, have made their way out of “nothing” to become great servers.

The video is an extract of a longer lecture at Cambridge University about “Influence without Affluence“.

The formula “E Pluribus Unum” (from many, one) is the traditional motto of the United States used on seals and coins. Its meaning, however, is much more profound than just uniting different ex-colonies to one nation. It is even deeper than what the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus gives as “The one is made up of all things, and all things issue from the one”. The eternal wisdom teachings explain that focussing on diversity, as we do with our analytical minds, makes us lose the sense of oneness. All multiplicity is coming from one source, is being held in existence by the unfathomable background of all and is merging again into the inconceivable oneness – from many to one.

Chris Jordan, a photographer and artist, has created a mandala named “E Pluribus Unum”. In the video project realised in 2010, he visualises the many different “organisations around the world that are devoted to peace, environmental stewardship, social justice and the preservation of diverse and indigenous culture” (from the video) by zooming from a detail structure to a great globe of interconnected lines expressing the beauty created by all the goodwill work done on the globe.
The video contains a million names of such organisations – Chris explains that it would need to include more than twice the number of names to cover all activities.
All these projects seem to be different activities but together they form one unified effort to promote the well-being of earth and of the beings living on it – a great visualisation of oneness done through Chris’ video.
The mandala is constructed around a circle containing 108 equally-spaced points. In Eastern wisdom, the number 108 is explained as containing profound keys to understand time cycles, like 4 x 108 = 432.

In many of his artworks Chris visualises complex realities in photos or movies. See also my 2007 blogpost about his activities or about the trailer to his impressive video “Midway” about plastics polluting the Pacific Ocean.
His works are intended to raise our awareness to understand complicated relationships by visualising with his “environmental art” the effects of pollution, mass consumption or destructive behaviours.

See more on his website or his videos on Vimeo.

Picture (c) Chris Jordan, from the video

A few days ago, I received an e-mail of Fali Engineer, a friend from the Houston Lodge of Theosophical Society, with a video-file of a speech by Valarie Kaur. I found the video online at Scroll.in, and it is worth viewing.

“She spoke of the dark times ahead and how instead of leading to despair, this could be an opportunity for change,” it says on her website. And further: “This speech was actually the message of the Revolutionary Love Project, an initiative she launched in autumn of 2016. This movement and her New Year’s Eve speech, Kaur said, arose from her distress about the increase in hate violence during the US presidential election campaign.”

This moving talk was given on last New Year’s Eve in an African American Church in Washington DC. Though it was helt in the context of the political situation in America, what she is talking about is not an American topic but a universal one – about the basic oneness of humanity and overcoming hate an exclusion.

Valarie Kaur is a powerful woman and a charismatic speaker. Wikipedia says about her that she “is an American documentary filmmaker, a civil rights activist, and a Sikh interfaith leader. After the murder of Balbir Singh Sodhi, she began to document hate crimes against Sikh and Muslim Americans immediately following the attacks of September 11, 2001, which resulted in the 2006 documentary Divided We Fall. … Kaur has given speeches at the White House, the Pentagon, and the Parliament of the World’s Religions.”

:: The 6 minute video “Raising a Brown Boy in Today’s America“.

Valarie Kaur [picture from the video (c) Scroll.in]

Some thoughts about the recent violence and a correspondence with Sri Kumar.

Last Friday morning when I went down to pick up the daily newspaper a thought flashed through my mind: Is there something in the news about a terror attack? The thought quickly passed by and the newspaper didn’t report anything out of the ordinary. Next morning I read about the attacks in Paris. It was only then that I thought again of this “fiery messenger” in my mind: There was something in the air before it manifested “on ground”.

Later I saw the news-wave rising in the few online portals I visited. The following days, the newspapers were full with background stories and analyses.  The politicians and other opinion makers got busy, governments demonstrated determination to counteract. Many showed their sympathy and solidarity: On Facebook, many faces of “friends” appeared in the blue, white and red of the French tricolore…

When I thought of the victims whose lives brutally ended, I felt something in the atmosphere beyond the uproar of indignation and confusion – like cries of other victims not in the limelights of attention fuelling – be it in the middle East, in parts of Africa and elsewhere. Later, I read in the local newspaper about people in Lebanon asking, Why no attention to our victims? And about the many victims of attacks in Nigeria and elsewhere. Rising the attention is one of the prime goals of the terror attacks and if we just focus on their acts, their perverse strategy works out: “mission accomplished”.

Attention is a precious good and often disproportionately distributed. Though sympathy and compassion are important, we need to open up our hearts to all where we feel the suffering. It is an attitude and not a doing. An attitude of inclusion and very much needed now.

Some friends from Spain asked me if Dr. Kumar, our teacher, did say anything about the terror in Paris. I wrote to him and he replied:

“I prefer not to get into the activity of opinionating upon events that have political relevance. I only see the whole violence at that level is but reaction to the past action of Europe in Middle East. We the humanity do not learn the basics. ‘Love thy neighbour’ remains an ideal. We fight with neighbours everywhere on the planet. We say we are developed but not in its true sense.”

And a little later: “Hundreds of thousands are killed in Middle East for believed political ideology, for which no concern is shown. Just a hundred and twenty draw global attention. Don’t you see the fallacy?”

From various sides I received calls for synchronised meditation to help spreading light and peace. One mail reminded that by building powerful thought forms the path of humanity will be energised towards a positive future – bringing Love and Light to counter-balance the fear and shadows, to create an international wall for protection. Meditative invocations are certainly important contributions.

I was reminded of the invocation for European unity given by Dr. Kumar some years ago, which I regularly use. Some friends just asked me about it, and so I share it here. The “East in us” refers to the Ajna centre on the front, the seat of soul consciousness, and the “West in us” to the base centre, the physical anchoring:

We the citizens of Europe strive to stand united.
We endeavour to unite the east and the west in us and in Europe.
We aspire to stand in the fusion of the East and West of Europe
and provide a field for fusion for easterners and westerners of Europe.
May we fulfil the Hierarchical plan of discipleship
standing in the Light, Love, Power and Synthesis of Hierarchical energy.

Having finished the above lines, I thought about the word “catastrophes” used in the title. Terror attacks are not “natural disasters” but purposefully planned atrocities. However, I decided to use this expression to hint at the larger avalanche of destruction caused by the pathological distortions of fanatic ideologies, political or religious.