Alignment to the cardinal points of the year by celebrating equinoxes and solstices, is of great spiritual importance, to recollect our purpose, thereby recharge ourselves and move forward on the path. Summer solstice is the moment of entry of Sun into Cancer and it is good to inwardly prepare for this moment and orient the personality to the Soul.

Like in previous years, we met again to celebrate the solstice at the Paracelsus Center of WTT near Einsiedeln. We were 6 persons having come from Austria, Germany and two parts of Switzerland – long-time friends. We wanted to start with a fire ritual on the mountain ridge near the Etzel pass. The weather report had announced intense rain. When we approached, we saw heavy dark clouds hanging in the air and it was raining a bit. However, the weather map showed a little area without rain clouds approaching. We asked the devas to wait until after the fire ritual. When we arrived on the pass, the rain stopped.

We walked to the fire place, started singing the mantrams of the fire ritual, and when the flames rose, there was the presence of an uplifting energy.

As soon as the fire ritual ended, I packed the material and told the group to quickly prepare for leaving and that the time window was about to close. However they continued chatting – within 2-3 minutes, wind and rain set. We thanked the devas for having waited until the end of the fire ritual.

It rained most of the day, partly with thunder and lightning – appropriate to the beginning of Cancer, a watery sign.

At the Paracelsus Center, we prepared the room for the celebration and did a solstice alignment contemplation. I then spoke about the energies of the time and the place.

The start of the Paracelsus Center
25 years ago, on 8 June 1999, there was the start of the Paracelsus Center. (Here you find some words about the beginnings spoken during the celebration of 20 years of Paracelsus Center).
The center was started by the then Agni School (Agnischule). The group dissolved in ca. 2005. Later, I think in 2003, the WTT-Global took over running the Paracelsus Center.

You still find the website of the Agni School (it is the very first website I had created in 1999) in the Web Archives, with information about Paracelsus and the Paracelsus Center. The website of the Paracelsus Center is also still available in the Web Archives, I created it in 2000, shortly before leaving the Agni school (the background colours inside don’t show correctly).

Here are some pictures from the start of the Paracelsus Center I recently scanned. We had met with the members of the Agni School and some friends for planting two trees (which did not survive long…) at the start of renting the center. In December 1999, around the birthday of Paracelsus, there was the official inauguration of the center with Master KPK (Sri Kumar) giving a seminar on Paracelsus in Einsiedeln, and all participants coming to visit the center – with much snow outside.

At the summer solstice celebration, we did a walk in nature in the afternoon, continued with aligning to the energies of summer solstice and concluded with a Cancer full moon meditation. We were pleased to see that a month ago, on Vaisakh full moon, Guru Prasad and Ramana had visited the Paracelsus Center at the beginning of their European tour and had left some words of thanks in the guest book. As an expression of our gratitude for being able to meet in this deeply spiritual place, we also wrote some words of thanks in the book.

From Onda, we went further south and arrived in the afternoon at Murcia, reaching finally the place where I wanted to bring my paintings. As we drove around the city on the motorway and approached the area of the farm of Jesus and Ursula, we suddenly saw a huge statue of Christ on a mountain reminding of the Christ on Corcovado mountain in Rio de Janeiro and like blessing the surrounding.

We drove through some small streets and then saw the farmhouse of Ursula and Jesus.

They gave us a warm welcome. There were also a brother of Ursula and a Dutch friend from the office of Jesus.

We parked the car in front of the house and started unpacking.

I felt very happy to see the beautiful space very well suited for the paintings. Jesus showed me the house and the room where the images are now stored. Then we had some hearty talks.

After evening meditation and dinner, Jesus and Ursula showed us the area. There was a great sunrise behind the mount with the statue of the Christ – a sublime moment.

Early next morning, after morning meditation and breakfast, we started towards Cordoba together with Ursula and Jesus.

The next part of the journey began with a surprise: Friday morning, when we arrived at the highway at Girona, I could not speed up the car – the motor was not fully working. I immediately turned to the Girona exit and drove to the nearby petrol station. We invoked Ganesha and whoever might help… And it worked.

A man at the petrol station told us with hands (we don’t speak neither Spanish nor Catalan as it is spoken there) that just around the corner there was a garage – a big one. After short waiting, probably the head of the garage, who spoke a little English, had a look at our car and the spiral alarm light. He then electronically tested the system, did a test ride and gave a little all-clear: The problem had to do with the diesel turbo injection which might return during the journey but we might just restart the car after a small pause. Everything went well with the car during the entire journey – and we gave a big thank-you to Ganesha 🙂

The rain from Girona ended while we drove southwards and it became much warmer. We arrived in Onda in the afternoon. Teresa and Manuel gave us a warm welcome. It is the home of the Muditha group of WTT, and I had visited them already in 2012. (You find more about this group and the others in the Annual Report of WTT-Global, PDF.) In the 1990s, Sri Kumar had installed a Krishna statue in their garden. Two of their sons joined for a group photo with Sri Krishna. We spread some rice grains around as a blessing for the birds – next morning, it was all gone, and some more rice was spread.

Manuel is responsible for the book publications of Ediciones Dhanishtha, the publishing house of WTT-Spain, and they have published plenty of books, also a few new ones this year. I smiled when I saw the Spanish Sripada biography published last year on a shelf in their home. (You find much more about adventures around Sripada and his biography in this blog.)

They have a beautiful meditation room …

… but we sat downstairs for joining the zoom evening meditation of WTT-Global followed by a special prayer of the Great Eagle Garuda, related to reviving the spiritual impulse of Spain.

A hearty evening dinner and talk…

…a morning walk with their beautiful meditative dog through the nearby forest area (while all the dogs of the neighbourhood were wildly barking, he kept quiet, and also during meditation) …

… and then we had to leave for the next stage of the journey. But we met them later in Cordoba again.

On 8th of May, the “White Lotus Day”, we commemorate Helena P. Blavatsky, the great Bringer of Light for the Aquarian Age. We have been doing so since the beginning of our blog 18 years ago. If you would like to know more about the life of the Madam, please find here a biographical sketch about the life and work of HPB.

Master KPK often spoke about the greatness of Madam Blavatsky and what she had done for spirituality. He also gave several books about HPB, her teachings and the impact of her life:

• “The Golden Stairs“
• “Teachings of Madame HPB“
• “The Theosophical Movement“
• 3 volumes on “Lectures on Secret Doctrine”, see here (all books are there available as free PDFs).

May we recollect on the White Lotus Day that Helena Blavatsky brought out the truth about the Masters of Wisdom through her books and that she opened the door for us to link to the Spiritual Hierarchy. We pay homage to her by practically integrating the wisdom into our lives.

See below the words of Master KPK from a discourse on 08th of May 2016 at Visakhapatnam:

“8th May is celebrated as White Lotus Day in the Theosophical Societies. On this day, Madam HPB passed over in the year 1891 and after the departure, she attained a permanent place in the Ashram of a Grand Master in Himalayas. Grand Masters themselves declared this day as “White Lotus Day” because to fulfil their grand Plan, Madam HPB was born. She was a highly pure soul which can be compared to a ‘White lotus’. It is said that there was no other being as pure as her, at the time when she was in a body. She went through lot of hardships in her life and worked towards the establishment of truth and Divine Wisdom on the planet. It is considered a highly difficult task because it is the age of Kali and lot of lies was spreading around and the messengers of Kali were very powerful in their work. Through her, the Divine wisdom spread all over the globe.

So on this day, we should recollect her. She keeps giving her presence to all groups which aspire to learn and practice the path to Divinity. She has a body of light and she is always prepared to grace sincere aspirants. She was given the title “Upasika” by the Grand Masters. It means she was highly devoted to the Divine and his work.

She was born in the early hours of 12th of August and she departed on 8th of May. This day is also celebrated in the Ashrams of Grand Masters because she gained a permanent position in the Ashram through her sincere work. She did not care for the physical body at any point of time. She sustained immense pain in the physical to fulfil the work. She did not leave the body until she completed the book “Secret Doctrine”. She was even suggested by Master Devapi to leave the body prior to that but she did not agree and remained in the body until the work was complete.

The truth that the Hierarchy of Masters exist on the planet and they keep guiding the humanity in the path of ascent, is known to very few. Though it is written in the Indian Scriptures, Indians too did not recognize them. We recognized them only when Madam HPB brought out the truth about them through her books. Only through her, we could get a link to the Hierarchy of Masters. She is the gateway to enter the Ashrams of those Masters. That is why we should recollect her regularly.

She is an embodiment of wisdom and through her we were presented with the knowledge relating to Cosmo-Genesis and Anthropo-Genesis. This knowledge was not available to the mankind earlier, in such detail. So on this day, I took time at the beginning of this discourse to recollect her and her work. She is very much liked by all the Masters of Wisdoms and we gain their blessing by remembering her.”

Have a good White Lotus Day!

Master KPK has given 1 May als the birthday of Master CSG, the Count Saint Germain. It is a date to remembers the one who is the Master of the Violet Flame, the 7th Ray of ritual and ceremonial order.

In 2013, Sri Kumar spoke about Saint Germain during a small group life in Hergiswil, Switzerland. Please find below an extract of the notes from this meeting and also a picture of Master CSG from a group life 2013 in Spain. Master KPK also gave a book about this great Master (PDF). May we align well to the energy of 7th Ray and thus, to the Master by following rhythm in our lives. This way, we gain Swaraj, self-rule, the central quality of the 7th Ray.

“Nature cooperates with self-governed persons. To rule others is not seen as a very divine activity. It is like ruling a group of animals that are together. A group of sheep or cows or other animals requires a leader, man himself doesn’t require a leader. It is the high quality that he governs all that is with him. He governs his mind, his senses and body and keeps the whole system in order. He governs his speech, his thoughts, his movements. He governs will, knowledge and intelligent action. Thus he is the king of his life. The 7th ray is called Svaraj in Sanskrit, meaning self-rule. A Master of Wisdom is working for it specifically. He was here for many centuries and for the moment he is on the American continent; he is called Master Rakoczy or Count Saint Germain. The number is 7, the colour is violet. He enables all to govern themselves, and the method he follows in a ritual.

In the South and North American continent the 7th Ray Master and energies brought liberty from colonisation. All liberty movements conducted in the South and North America were conducted under the guidance of the 7th Ray Master.

Before the French revolution the Master was living for many centuries in Europe, but from the French revolution’s time the dukes and kings got fear. He prophesied for 100 years that they will fall if they don’t listen. And they did not listen. At the time of revolution he went to South America and North America. The ashram of the Master is very etheric, but he has several places in North and South America but the activity is global.

There are so many disciples of the Master functioning on the whole earth. Friday night is very important to walk into the energy of the violet flame. Every Friday the Master meets and gives presence to the groups who gather and follow a code of conduct given by the Master.”

On several occasions, Master KPK had spoken about the importance of celebrating the festivals of Good Friday / Passover and Easter.
On 3 April 2021, during the online lecture to members of “Merry Life” teachings, he had explained the esoteric understanding of the festivals and their times. Please see below the extract on this teaching.
As per this understanding, Good Friday will be this year Friday 5th of April 2024, and Easter Sunday, 7th of April.

With clarifications I did with Sri Kumar for the production of the Astro Diary of WTT, he had explained that in years where Good Friday is at the very end of Aries and the following New Moon is already in Taurus, the third Friday in the month of Aries preceding New Moon might be taken as Good Friday.
For cases, where the new moon is at the very beginning or early days of Aries, the Master gave different indications like celebrating in such years Good Friday in the third week of Aries, not around New Moon. He said that it is not possible to always reconcile lunar and solar rhythms, but that the Good Friday should be in Aries, not Taurus.

“Some of you may have been going through the sublime thought of Good Friday this weekend but the truth is Good Friday is next Friday.

I have given this information in the little book on Good Friday. It is hinted at in the ‘Spiritual Astrology’ of Master EK. It was also hinted at in varieties of ways by Madame Blavatsky in The Secret Doctrine.

Good Friday or the festival of Passover is an age-old tradition. It did not start with Jesus the Christ. It was there before and Jesus Christ, in tune with the time plan, took birth and conducted his work and in tune with the time plan he departed. That is where he is great.

But the tradition of Good Friday emerges from a deeper understanding of astrology which we call esoteric astrology. Later, it developed into exoteric astrology.

Good Friday happens on the Friday which is very near to the New Moon of Aries. It was also so with Jesus the Christ. His crucifixion was on Friday. He went through the Passover on Saturday and successfully ascended on Sunday which we call Easter Sunday.

But this is an annual process for all beings who are on ascent; for all disciples to ascend. This arc is very important because Sun is in exaltation in Aries. Moon recedes towards the Sun. Around the New Moon the mind, the personality, everything joins the soul. The soul escapes from the body into higher realms.
According to the plan, some of them may pass over into higher circles, some of them will come down to serve the humanity.
From Taurus onwards via Gemini and Cancer and some of the others, like aspirants and humanity at large, they go through the cycles again and again and again.

Passover is a function of passing over into higher circles consciously. Passover is a function that enables a disciple to consciously pass over into higher circles. It has to be practised on every Friday night because every weekend is meant for it.

From Friday to Sunday, it is a weekly Passover which we have to relate to.
Instead of visualising the weekends to relate to the practices of Passover, the impact of Kali is such that we, the humanity at large, enters into weekend programmes, picnics, parties, indulgence into senses, into food, into sensuous enjoyments, all kinds of things and returns on Monday to join the work again.
That is a weekend programme which is absolutely the reverse of the Passover. It is on account of Kali that most of the people utilise the weekend to get weakened bodily, sensuously and mentally.

But weekend is meant for strengthening oneself with the like of buddhi, soul and super soul. The reverse is worked out because when we do not have the right knowledge and the right practice, we do not adopt to the time plan.

The Old Testament says that the whole creation is made in seven days. Four days from Thursday night to Monday you move forward and on Friday you return back. Friday, Saturday and Sunday are to return. Friday night, Saturday night Sunday night are meant to return back to your source. From Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday you can expand into objectivity. Weekly activity can also be seen as a movement into objectivity and subjectivity.

Likewise, the monthly activity can also be seen in that manner. From New Moon to Full Moon expand into objective world. From Full Moon to New Moon, you withdraw gradually and by around the New Moon you be with yourself, relating to the personality, relating to the soul, and the soul integrating with the super soul.

These are the rhythms that the time cycles teach us. Time cycles are essentially important for disciples. We have to follow the time cycles and move forward. Because Time is the other name for the Lord in creation and beyond Time it is Absolute God. It is Time and Space, presided over by Absolute God, that conduct the whole creation.

We move forward and backward even on a daily basis. As you awaken, you move with your awareness into objectivity. As you slip back into sleep you withdraw your awareness into your own source. It is a daily happening. Within a day there are quarterly happenings. Within the week there is a movement towards objectivity and subjectivity and within a year also you do that.

Passover is essentially meant for passing over to higher circles specially for those who have fulfilled their obligations in relation to the physical plane. It is a great festival.
Passover is a great festival where man consciously passes over via his forehead and Sahasrara. That is the theme.

In the case of Jesus Christ, it so happened that it was not only nearing the New Moon, it was also a solar eclipse day which confirms that it is a New Moon because solar eclipse happens only during New Moon times and not during Full Moon time.

Full Moon time we have the lunar eclipse. When Jesus Christ passed over, it was a solar eclipse. That is the second dimension.

The third dimension is, which I have been giving you through the teachings of Blavatsky. The lunar phases are different from the solar days. In Secret Doctrine, Madame Blavatsky writes very clearly and these dimensions I have brought out of The Teachings of Madame Blavatsky via Vaisakh Newsletter.

We shall have to separately follow the tithis or the moon phases. Do not mix it up with the dates which are coming from Roman times as solar days. Before solar days there was also prominence for the lunar calendar.
Even the Jewish system follows the lunar calendar. Indian system follows the lunar calendar. While solar calendar is popular, lunar calendar holds certain secrets and we shall get into them when we get into the inner side of our being.

So, when Jesus passed over, around Friday it started. The New Moon was approaching, the solar eclipse had happened and it all happened in the far end of the month of Aries.

Therefore, next week Friday stands greater eligibility to conduct the Good Friday function. …

The Jews conduct this festival of Sabbath every Friday which is very age-old. The Indians relate to Krishna or the World Mother on Friday evenings. Even the latest religion that we have, Islam, they also take Friday as very important. Jumu’ah, they call it. It is a day to return and relate to the Divine more and more. By Sunday, you can experience the soul that you are, in three days’ time.

This is how festivals are conceived in an esoteric manner. But mostly festivals are done putting on new clothes, taking nice showers here and there, putting on lot of ornaments, making social parties, and spending time in dance and song. That is festival of personality. This is a different festival; it is a festival of the soul.”

Since several years now, we have been meeting for “CVV Sharing” group livings around the two equinoxes of the year. Like in the last years, we met springtime at the Seminarhof Drawehn in Kassau, in the Wendland region of northern Germany, for a four-day group living from Monday, 18 March to Thursday, 21 March, 2024.

The seminar place is situated on the edge of a small village and it has grown out of an old farmstead. Its centre is a beautiful 12-angular building with a spiral roof. Its large windows open a wide view over fields and forests. Meeting there physically for the group living itself is, in a way, just the end of a preparation work we did with a team over the last months.

We came from Denmark, Switzerland and different parts of Germany. We were 23 adult persons and a child and we were brought together in the spirit of the One Master Energy.

We followed a rhythm of prayers / meditation times each 3 hours, exchanges and group activities for tuning in to experience the energies at work and for sharing our impressions. “Experiment – Experience – Expression” is the motto of our meetings. And it was giving joy to all who participated, to meet again, to experience the group interactions and to express.

In the welcome round, members brought something from themselves, and the objects and symbols were arranged on a table as the group altar. We exchanged in smaller and bigger groups about what moves us and how we live with the influences of the present time.

There were little inputs and exchanges about “Where am I being unfaithful to myself / Where do I want to be more at peace with myself? / Which inner truth am I (not) living? What truth am I sure of?” And there was a contemplation/group work on “What has inspired me in the last six months?”

There was a concert and a presentation about “The magic of the voice”, and a talk about the Odyssey and qualities of the present time.

Wednesday early morning we met for an equinox meditation around the precise time of the Sun entering Aries (4:06 am). And in the afternoon we did a group walk through the nearby forest.

Thursday morning after meditation, there was a small fire ritual. And in the closing round, we spoke about the experiences during the group living. All felt this year’s meeting as very harmonious and well-balanced.

You can read about the journey to the CVV Sharing in a separate blogpost.

From 14 to 22 March 2024, I was en route in northern Germany, meeting my brother and sisters and WTT group members and participating in the CVV Sharing meeting at Kassau. It was a long drive, but these visits are best means to keep bonds of friendship. There were many exchanges – too much to tell here. But I’d like to share here some impressions from the journey.

In Ahlen:

From there, I did some excursions, visiting brother, sisters and friends in the surrounding – including a quick visit to Münster to meet Doris, Günter and Yavaline. On 16 March, I went to the eldest of my sisters, Birgitt, living on a cottage in Malgarten north of Osnabrück. In the 1990s, she had created beautiful paintings.

Sunday, I visited Christina and Ernst on their farm in Pr. Oldendorf. They had created a spiritual centre , where many group activities of goodwill and healthy living had taken place. Even in their old age, they are still active in the garden, growing vegetables and flowers.

Later, I continued to Bünde, where I stayed overnight at the home of Reiner and Julieta, where meetings of the regional WTT-group take place.

The next day, I went from there to the CVV Sharing group life (see separate blogpost). And after the group life, I first drove to Kassel to stay overnight at the home of Dorle and Dierk – friends, I had often met at WTT seminars in India and elsewhere. The final stage of the journey back to Switzerland began the next day, with some hours stop in Baden-Baden at the home of Brigitta and Paul, both long-term members of WTT. In the early 1080s, Paul had invited Master EK to their home in Munch for the first seminars of the Master in Germany. It was a beautiful close of a very intense journey.

It is now a week ago that I started the journey back home from India and nearly five weeks since the start. Through the fog of inner and outer impressions, the contours of what I experienced slowly become clearer. In this mist, there is a light shining through which becomes stronger when I contemplate on it, and I might call it the essence. It is inside but it is shining into the outer as well. It has been impregnating me and keeps doing so.

The journey itself is like a multi-dimensional cinema experience – I go in and I go out again. And the intensity fades when the cinema show ends. With a cinema show, there is mostly no lasting impact. And it is the same with many things I encounter in India – they are not of relevance for my life in the West and face away again. But each journey is like a “reset” of my life which is not possible when I stay comfortably at home. It is a transformation experience. Such a pilgrimage journey helps me to better align to the purpose of my life. And gain fresh vigour and determination.

There were many exchanges, I saw saw many forms of community/communities and coherence/being together. With the group members and other people I encountered, I perceived an intense striving for divinity, expressing spirituality in daily life. It was much stronger perceivable than in the surroundings of my Western life. And this was very inspiring. Although I cannot and do not want to live and work and express myself in a way I saw in India – and I also saw forms which kept me at a distance and were disgusting – it gave me fresh resolve to express divinity and spirituality in my life and through the ways and forms which are possible in my surroundings. It is a matter of inner attitude. This fresh impulse is most essential for me.

The Triangular Book of Count Saint Germain

At the beginning of the journey, on the very first day, Sri Joshi showed Mark and me photos from a manuscript which he and Shreya had taken at the Getty Research Institute in LA, the Triangular Book of Count Saint Germain (Master CSG). I was very thrilled to see the beautiful drawings and writings in perfect handwriting mostly in cipher language. It was a touch of the great Master who had built a bridge of the wisdom of Hierarchy from the East to the West – although it still remains a mystery. I didn’t know about this book but we are reading in a German study group the “Most Holy Trinosophia” of Master CSG, which Master EK had mentioned, and Sri Joshi wanted to send the photos. I didn’t receive it but the information came in other ways, by sharing with group members and some further search: the entire book is scanned and online; it is translated into English here. There are two manuscripts of the Triangular Book, one dated 1775, the other 1750. There is a very interesting website about it, “The Triangular Book“, by an anonymous author, giving an aura of mystery. He hinted at a book and he might be the author himself, since he writes about “my publication of Triangular Book of St. Germain (Ouroboros Press, 2014). So, it is probably Nick Koss, who produced an exquisite limited edition reproduction published in Seattle, from where my friend Mark Ray came and where he passed over at return of our journey, completing his cycle on earth.

I do not know which is the relevance of all these impressions and all information about the “Triangular Book” of Master CSG for me. But I mention here this story because it shows well how mysteries reveal themselves when the time is ripe, even if it takes centuries. I learn not to rush but let things develop themselves.

And this is, where the end of my blog-posts about the “Journey to Group Livings of WTT in India” touches the beginning. The mystery of the extremely intense experiences of this journey.

Over the last months, Mark Ray and I had developed the plans for our journey to India. Mark was a third generation theosophist from Seattle, USA, in link with the Wisdom teachings since his youth. He studied psychology but preferred to work with his hands, so he specialised on renovating houses. For years, he was very active in the Theosophical Society Seattle, be it as president, be it in development of Indralaya, a theosophical center on Orcas Island committed to community and spiritual development.

Ever since he came into contact with the WTT he increasingly committed himself to build a bridge between theosophy and the World Teacher Trust teachings of Master KPK and Master EK. He met Master KPK at a group living in San Jose, California, in 2018 and again at the May Call 2019 at Mount Shasta, California. There, we shared a room together and very quickly became friends. For me, it was like meeting a brother in a deeper sense of the word.

We had been in regular monthly contact via Zoom. These were intense exchanges about many spiritual topics. And nearly at every exchange, Mark gave me profound astrological insights, be it from the perspective of Western or of Vedic astrology – in both, he was very well versed.

On 22 December early morning, we met at Bengaluru airport, he coming from Seattle via Frankfurt, me from Zurich via Abu Dhabi, arriving by chance at the same moment at the immigration counters.

Next day, we went to the Master Mountain Retreat Center in the Niligiris, the Blue Mountains of South India, the place of the ashram of the great Rishi Agastya, where we spent 4 days. Then we returned to Sadguru Tapovana, the WTT center in Bengaluru, where we participated at the December Call celebrations.

Afterwards we flew to Visakhapatnam and participated in the group living there.

We shared the room together over the entire journey and had intense exchanges. These were very harmonious days and Mark was continuously active speaking with members about their astrological charts. He had a GoPro camera with him and we did a number of video interviews about WTT activities at different places – we planned to do a report. And he recorded a gorgeous sunrise in the Nilagiris and we planned to do a video with an Indian bamboo flute player, Kaliprasad, whom we met in Bengaluru and in Vizag.

On Tuesday, 9 January, he started his return journey. From Vizag airport, he wrote to me at noon time:
“I didn’t get to say goodbye but we will see each other again soon on Zoom. I am at the airport and went through check in a security without problems. Then I found my hat upstairs and something western to eat. No more rice for a while. 🙂
There is now a blizzard warning over the mountains to my home so I may have to stay overnight at my sisters again. India has been very kind to me on this trip. I never felt afraid to walk on the streets and had no problems except for the bronchitis. It is hard to leave so many kind and spiritual people.(…) Now I have to formulate my thoughts on the trip and how to make the World Teacher Trust more universal. Meanwhile I will rest and reconnect with family. Thank you again for this great opportunity!”

About 3 hours later, he wrote: “I am in Bangalore now and at Terminal 2. The plane was about 30 minutes late but that is not a problem for me. My Lufthansa flight leaves at 3:30 am so I have a long wait.”
Then he wrote from Frankfurt: “I caught my last flight and am about to take off. Seattle in nine hours.”

This was the last e-mail. On arrival in Seattle, on the way through the customs, Mark (26 April 1954 – 10 Jan 2024) left the body and took the flight to the subtle planes of Light. It was the time of the new moon of Capricorn -Capricorn being the time of the beginning of the solar ascent symbolizing the ascent of the Soul out of the conditioning of matter. And the time of new moon symbolizes the beginning of a new cycle of further development – a very auspicious time for passing over to continue the path on the subtle planes.

Mark had been absorbing the impressions in India like a dry sponge, also with his video cam – I asked him, “will you find time for viewing all this?” But it was a profound soul experience he had – which also made him a bit careless about his health – not only me had warned him to protect his body better and that the warmth here is rough, carrying the energies of winter and affecting the bodies, esp. those from the West.
He got a bronchitis the last days and a doctor at the seminar and healing practitioners gave him medicine. His body was somehow weakened before the return flight but he seemed to be OK. There must be a deeper reason for his sudden passing. There were signs that his soul knew about the passing already: He told several friends from the group about dreams he had during the last nights where he saw faces, esp. of his mother, staring at him, and he asked a friend of mine, “What do they want to say to me, I do not understand.” She told him, “Ask them to tell you.”

These premonitions show that the veil between the spheres was becoming thinner already and that, though a great surprise on the outer, there was a knowledge in the inner of the coming departure.

Before his departure, he gave me all his video recordings, and we had planned to do some report about the journey He had recorded a most splendorous sunrise in the Nilagiris and I had contacted a very well-known bamboo flute player here who wants to play a morning raga for the sunrise video – in a way, this is for me an expression of the gift of Mark’s inner radiance as an inspiration to others, and as his life had been for many.

Mark, farewell and have a good continuation of your journey!

Early this morning Indian time, I came to know that another dear friend from Germany had passed over exactly the same day as Mark, Renate Vincent from Germany. She was one of the early German translators of the books of Master EK. About 2 years, Master Kumar asked me to keep actively contact with her, so we had a few talks and she joined my English online study group for a short while, but then other tasks made her resign. Renate, also to you a much blessed journey to the subtle spheres of Light!