On 11 August, the date of Master EK’s 100th birthday, Sanath, a friend from Hyderabad, informed me that a video was published on YouTube on the life of Master EK, all done with AI.

There was no reference to the World Teacher Trust and its works on Master EK, although we had published a video series, Music of the Soul, including the story of the life of Master EK, as well as other related books. It seemed that the video followed the storybook on Master EK as well as its imagery.

I found out the address of the producer and more background information on him, and so I wrote him if he used some of the WTT sources and that in case it would be correct to mention the sources.

Today, my friend from Hyderabad, who had realised the storybook on Master EK, informed me that a new video, the second part of the Master EK series, has now been published, also created with AI, now with a disclaimer mentioning the use of material from the World Teacher Trust and others. Sanath: “The entire second edition is built on the storybook with little elaboration. Even the background for the scenes were directly picked from the illustrative guidelines.”

A little later this morning, the producer of the video contacted us, informing about having now included the mention of WTT with the second video, and he gave some explanations:

“Indeed, as you indicated, the WTT storybook had an impact on me. However, I’m not familiar with the videos you mentioned.
My original intention was to create a single video. Unfortunately, though, I had to divide this film into two parts due to the time and material development involved. All these things were supposed to be mentioned at the end. However, even though it separates into two parts, I couldn’t include the thank you note in part 1.
I am leaving the thank-you note at the beginning of the second section and adding it to the disclaimer….
This is my modest attempt to educate the next generation about the great Master EK, not to be produced as a commercial.”
And, “I express my sincere gratitude to your friend from Hyderabad.”

I told him that from my side, this is OK now, and I informed him that there are other storybooks for young people based on the wisdom teachings of Master EK, especially the booklet on “Master Koot Koomi and Master Morya” – its content is from the books of Master EK: ‘Music of the Soul‘, ‘Man Sacrifice‘ and ‘The World Teacher – Advent of Lord Krishna‘ – a grand, profound series of wisdom teachings.

On 11th and 12th of August, we celebrate the birthdays of Master EK and Madame Blavatsky.
This year, it is the 100th Anniversary of Master EK as per Western counting and the 101nd as per Indian counting.

Master EK was born on 11 August 1926 during the evening hours at about 5:30 pm. Madame Blavatsky was born 95 years earlier, on 12 August 1831. Therefore, we commemorate their birthdays together.

“Work leads you through
steps of progress.
Steps neglected will lead
to stumbling.
Every step is to be worked out for success.”

E. Krishnamacharya, 7 – 1 – 1980

It is always inspiring to align to these great messengers of Hierarchy on the occasion of their birthdays – inspiring for ourselves and for keeping our fiery aspiration strong by orienting to these great role models of discipleship. We won’t be able to carry all the wisdom they gave in our awareness but one short saying of these Masters can be a guiding star on our path.

“Constantly perfecting himself in occult mysteries a man becomes truly perfect.”
Helena P. Blavatsky

If you want to read more please see here:

• H.P.B. – Trailblazer for the Aquarian Age (a short biographical sketch)
• Dr. K. Parvathi Kumar: Teachings of Madame HPB
• Master EK – a short overview about his life with further reading links
• The publications of the teachings of Master EK

However, putting one little teaching into practice over a long time is more valuable than any reading.

12 August, there is a rare solar eclipse happening also in parts of Europe. It is spiritually important to align to such times of eclipses. See enclosed a picture of the pathway of the eclipse, from Time and Date. And more information here.

Please find here the booklet of Master KPK on “Wisdom of the Nodes“, see chapter 9. “Eclipse: A discipline for Occult Practice”, p39 – from a talk of Master KPK for a solar eclipse happening during the January 2010 seminar in Visakhapatnam.

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.

Today, August 4th, we commemorate the birthday of Master CVV (1868-1922), the great Master who anchored the Aquarian energy on our planet. As per Indian counting, this year is his 159th birthday; as per Western counting, we now celebrate his 158th birthday.

Master CVV gave out a New Yoga, which gave a new impetus for the evolution of life. This yoga path was given by Master CVV for a faster ascent. It is also called the Yoga of Synthesis. The essence of all his teachings is to focus on the ONE PRESENCE in all that exists. The main goal of this yoga is to transcend death.

Further goals of this path of Yoga are:

• To make groups of people transmitters of light and consciousness,
• To purify the etheric and mental body of man with sound vibrations, by invoking of the sound key “Namaskarams Master CVV”,
• To heal diseases of man through this mantram and to prepare healthy etheric bodies,
• To awaken the kundalini in man, to coordinate it with the kundalini of others and to connect it with the cosmic kundalini.

You find more information about Master CVV, his life and teachings on the WTT website, together with links to related books.

Here is a video in English, from WTT Spain, on Master CVV:

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.

Like in the previous years, we met again on the day of the summer solstice at the the Paracelsus Center of WTT near Einsiedeln, Switzerland. It is the time of one of the four cardinal points of the year and it is important to align during during this time, where the energies of nature take to another direction. We were a small group of seven friends coming from Austria, South Germany and Switzerland. Around 9 am we met on a parking and walked to the fire place on the mountain ridge of the Etzel pass for a little fire ritual and meditation around the exact time of the solstice. There is a gorgeous view over to Einsiedeln and on the other side to Lake Zurich.

Later, we went to the Paracelsus Center near the old “Devil’s Bridge” (Tüfelsbrugg), preparing the room and the room. Then we started with a little ceremony.

We had a planetary healing meditation at 12 am followed by lunch with a hearty exchange. Later we went down to the Sihl river at the old Tüfelsbrugg. It was very hot outside but it cooled down near the water.

The evening meditation and cleaning the place closed this year’s beautiful celebration at the Paracelsus Center.

The sun was coming down already when, on the way back, we had a stop at the Lake Sihl near Einsiedeln for breathing in the peaceful ambiance. On the highway, the sun gave us its gorgeous golden light sharing with us magic moments between mountains and cars.

8th of May, we celebrate the “White Lotus Day”, in remembrance of Helena P. Blavatsky, the great groundbreaker of the Aquarian Age. On this day, Madam HPB passed over in the year 1891 and attained a permanent place in the Ashram of a Grand Master in the Himalayas. Masters themselves declared this day as “White Lotus Day” because she was a highly pure soul and therefore compared to a white lotus. It is said that at the time when she was in a body, there was no other human being as pure as her.

Through her, the Masters brought down grand wisdom which was not available to the public. Until then, the wisdom of cosmogenesis and anthropogenesis was present only in manuscripts in some hidden caves of the planet. HPB told the whole story of how evolution happens, how this planet was formed and how our bodies were formed. She cleared away lot of wrong propaganda and as a result, she faced a lot of opposition and criticism in life but she did not care. She worked towards the establishment of Truth and Divine Wisdom on the planet. It is considered a highly difficult task in the dark age of Kali. People tried to defame her a lot and even kill her, since they couldn’t counter her with their arguments.

Madam HPB used to help many of those who came to her seeking advice. She always worked to fulfil the Plan coming from the Masters of Wisdom. Master Morya called her as “the only white lotus we have in our pond.” It was to indicate how pure, how compassionate and how self-offering she was.

Master EK was greatly inspired by her writings and he himself wrote in his diary, “To the train of my life, Madam HPB is like the engine while Madam Bailey is like the guard.”

Master KPK often spoke about the greatness of HPB and he gave several books about her teachings and the impact of her life:

💠 “The White Lotus“
💠 “The Golden Stairs“
💠 “Teachings of Madame HPB“
💠 “The Theosophical Movement“
💠 3 volumes on “Lectures on Secret Doctrine”, see here:

💠 Here is a biographical sketch about the life and work of Blavatsky

HPB continues to work on this planet even today. We can gain her presence and grace by recollecting her and reading her books. Have a good White Lotus Day.

Journey Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Back from Rajahmundry and Bhadrachalam, the lectures with videos of Master KPK and with Guru Prasad continued.

Thursday, 8 January, the group visited the Balabhanu Vidyalayam school of WTT in an urban area of Visakhapatnam. It imparts spiritual, moral, and social values besides the normal education to  transforms the children into responsible youth, with a sense of direction and constructive contribution to society. It is always inspiring to see the great work which had been started by Master EK in 1977.

Afterwards, the group went to Master EK Samskruthi Sadan,  a service Center for training women in tailoring and other activities to empower them for various kinds of professional activity. During the visit, tailoring machines and certificates were distributed to the women and the accomplishments honored.

9 January was the last lecture of the seminar and, like every year – part of the annual ritual – the group went to the Simhachalam temple outside Vishakhapatnam. Guru Prasad and a priest from the temple explained to us the Varaha Lakshmi Narasimha temple.

In the evening, there was the valedictory celebration in RadhaMadhavam, thanking the Indian brothers for the great organisation and work done for this beautiful group living.

On 10 January afternoon there was the beginning of the 3.5 days Master CVV Guru Puja, this year being dedicated to the Master EK Centenary Celebrations. It is always a time of intense diving into the energies of the huge group while not understanding much – although Guru Prasad partly translated, we were absorbed into the sounds of Telugu language, and the mind has not much to understand. However, some followed a little the talks with Google translator – it worked fairly well with some mobiles, not mine. Must have been a blessing to remain more in the subtler planes of sound immersion. However, there were also many exchanges with group members.

Monday, 12 January, the group of westerners came for meditation on the stage, while the prayer was conducted with an audio-recording of Master KPK – his presence, as well as that of the Masters was strongly felt in this sublime surrounding. At noon time, there was the “Fusion of East and West” session. A German member, together with me, were invited by Guru Prasad to give a talk. I spoke about what had surprised me in Vizag this year – there were many flags and slogans of the communist party around in various parts of the city – and about Master EK’s books Music of the Soul, Man Sacrifice and The World Teacher. Advent of Lord Krishna, where the Master depicts the work of the Hierarchy in against society-undermining ideologies and intrusions and preparing the stronghold of wisdom to stand through the approaching dark age, which today is rampant – you find there a lot of keys for a spiritual understanding of today’s global situation, keys however, which need to be unveiled. We also unpacked the newly released Telugu book of the life of Master Jesus, which Master Kumar had dictated over years to his wife and which had been published in the Navani magazine. The English translation is partly published in the monthly Vaisakh News Letters in a raw translation and is work in progress – a great work, in a way a continuation of the above mentioned books of Master EK.

At the close of the Guru Pujas, there was a beautiful candle ceremony where all the other lights were switched off – the light of wisdom, of the Great Ones, keeps on shining in the darkness.

The next day, many of the Western group members already started their journey back home. We went with a group of 9 to the Planetary Healing Center, which Master Kumar had drafted and inspired in the mid-1990s. He had the vision of a network of planetary healing centers which was inspired by sages in the past, especially the great Greek Master Asclepius. Together with the Master, we had been at the sanctuary of Epidaurus with a statue of Asclepius and a staff, symbolising the ascending kundalini energy. Now, there was a picture of this statue inside the Planetary Healing Center together with a brochure about the structure and meaning of the center, a teaching given by Master KPK, mentioning it without any reference to him. The owner’s ideas went in a little different direction than those of the Master. I had mentioned about some ritualistic revitalisation work we had done during our last visits to the center. Reyes, a ritualist “magician” from Spain, wanted to do some energizing work.

Then he started implanting 12 dynamised crystals in the ground around the Maitreya statue, which he called the spiritual center of the place. He placed a special energy stick directly into a hole at the statue – invisible from the outside, working like an antenna to the planetary network of healing centers.

We sat around the old Maitreya statue and observed.

When he began with a series of invocations, two gardeners approached and watched what we did. We welcomed them, they took photos and later went away again. I had the feeling of the energy of the place linking to the network of planetary healing energy – the purpose of Planetary Healing Center strengthened.

Afterward, we went to the ocean and enjoyed the waves and the vastness of space.

In the evening, we were brought to the new center of the Circle of Good Will India, a multy-storey-building at the place of the former Krishna ashram service center. The house was built by a property developer who uses the lower storeys. In the 4th floor of the future service center, celebrating the first birthday of Murali Nandana, the son of Jayadev and his wife, was the first activity related to WTT, and many group members, family and friends participated. It was celebrated in a grand style – a joyful close of our stay in India.

The next day my German friends and me returned via Hyderabad and Abu Dhabi to Europe.

A video published for the occasion of celebrating today’s 150th anniversary of the Theosophical Society. We honour this great act of the founders for bringing the eternal wisdom teachings out to the world.

November 7th, we celebrate the Day of Goodwill and the 80th anniversary of Master KPK, Sri K. Parvathi Kumar (1945-2022) – it is the 81st anniversary in Indian counting.

Sri Kumar was born on 7th of November 1945 in Vijayawada, a Wednesday at 07:33 am in the month of Scorpio. He did not speak much about himself – he shared the birth date details seemingly casually in the book “Enlightening Encounters” (PDF), episode 10, about his encounter with Sadguru Sree Sivananda Murthy. See below his birth chart.

Master Kumar was a very magnetic person radiating a strong divine presence which was felt by all those who could tune in. For others, he remained a “by-passer” of a journey.

Many members cherish fond memories of encounters with the Master. He was an outstanding role model for them. At the 2019 Anniversary of Master KPK – Day of Goodwill celebration, he recounted several stories about great role models from his youth who had had a profound influence on him. We can learn much about the Master himself from his stories about others. Through such descriptions, he ignited the fire of aspiration in many Here is a short excerpt from his speech.

“I had a friend in childhood who introduced me to activities like Bhajans in praise of the Lord in a Shiva temple on the night of Shiva Rathri. That is also something which I enjoyed a lot. Then I got to stay in the house of my maternal grandfather for 3 years and study because my father used to get transferred regularly in his job. Those years passed away splendorously. I used to see that my grandfather used to lead his life as a ritual filled with Divine alignment and service. He used to worship Lord Dattatreya. He also used to write the name of Lord Rama daily and in 30 years he wrote it 30 million times. He also used to perform a ritual to the Divine within himself based on Sri Suktam. He used to run a furniture making and selling business. It used to export from his shop to many places in the country. He hardly gave any instructions in the shop. He used to just sit in his chair and write Rama’s name while everything happened just like that. I used to visit the shop sometimes by going with him. I closely witnessed his life for almost 3 years and I can never forget the discipline and ritualistic way of life. His vision and speech were also very powerful. They almost made the other person speak the truth even if the other person wanted to lie.

In this manner, I was graced by the Divine throughout my childhood and grew up in a Divine atmosphere. I realised that the Divine is all permeating and the Divine can be related to through different names and forms but it is ONE. This became clear to me at a very young age. I finished my education and was about to start my professional career. That is when I got in touch with Master EK. I told him “I learnt to live life of offering from my father and grandfather. I would like to continue leading such a life under your direction and move even closer to the Divine.” Master EK patted my shoulder and say “we will work together from today.” From then on, my association with Master EK kept growing and he introduced me to many other Masters who have been working on this planet with bodies of light. I came to know that anyone with sincere aspiration can attain a subtle body and keep working with it even after leaving the physical.”

May we follow the teachings Master KPK gave through his life by orienting our lives to the Master and the Great Ones he followed himself. Namaskarams Master KPK.