It was an intense trip for seven days, back to India, after two and a half years of “forced pause”. Though there was only a small time window for me to travel, I felt a strong inner call to go to the 113th Master CVV May Call Group Living. So I flew on 25 May via Dubai to Bengaluru.

26th morning, a gorgeous sunrise with all colours, from dark blue to radiant golden orange and blue-white welcomed me while the plane was crossing Goa. When approaching the goal, desert lands on the ground changed to green fields, little ponds and rivers reflecting light – cut here and there by roads. Then the huge iron bird carrying in two storeys a big load of humans and luggage touched the runway ground.

In Dubai, I had already met a group member coming from Puerto Rico and it was very nice to meet again after some years. She had a much longer journey behind. Soon, we were walking through the corridors to the “guardians of the threshold” – Covid controllers, immigration and customs. Although the queues weren’t long, it took 1.5 hs to cross the controls. It was a little Saturnian patience ritual allowing us to finally enter India.

A taxi driver was waiting for us, and soon we were on the way through the city. Dense noon traffic made me fall asleep for a while, after nearly no sleep in the airplane. A bit refreshed after the nap, I “drank” all the images, smells and colourful impressions –many huge trees along the streets – big banyans plenty of mighty old Ashvatta trees (ficus religiosa), arrays of fiery eucalyptuses behind the walls of a botanic garden. And then, men and women with their helmets driving slalom with their motor-bikes through the quickly changing holes in the traffic stream, people carrying boxes walking in slow steps across a road seemingly unmindful of what was going on around, a small bus coming from the wrong direction on the highway – no problem…. And cows were seeking their way along the roads looking for some green at the sides.

After two hours’ drive we finally arrived at Sadguru Tapovana, the centre of WTT-Bengaluru. Along the main road into Tapovana preparation work for the group living was on the way –820 members came for the celebration, a logistic challenge solved with much calm and an excellent organisation by the Tapovana group.

Along the main street to the “Wisdom Temple”, there were panels with pictures of Nicholas Roerich and teachings about Shambala under the trees. 2 weeks before there had been heavy rain and storm; it had broken branches and even big old trees, but everything was well set up again. And during the May Call days the weather was mainly dry and sunny.

Mr. Joshi, the spiritual head of Tapovana, later told me that during the 2 years of Corona time the group had intensely grown. Twenty new houses had been constructed in the surroundings since I was there the last time, now totalling 69 houses, offering space for some hundred members often comprising 3 generations are living now there, many children – family clusters. Over the last maybe 20 years, the group had grown in this quarter, constructing houses, cultivating plants, organising a social infrastructure. Later, Master Kumar told the Western group that Tapovana group is very radiant and efficient, a strong magnet of light. We witnessed a joyful ambiance during the whole time.

There was a hearty welcome – many Indian friends came greeting and exchanging some words, and also the members which had come from the west – this time mainly from Spain. Most of them already arrived some days before and had spent some days at the WTT retreat centre “Master Mountain” in the Nilagiris, in the area where Master Jupiter is said to reside, a place of serene and silent beauty. I had been there with a group in December 2016.

After the evening prayer, Master Kumar invited Anna and me for an exchange. It was very joyful and he looked good and energetic, in spite of the serious diseases he had gone through the last 2 years. We spoke about the situation in the groups and dealing with emotional devotion. In a casual mood, he told how in the early years of coming to the West it was a challenge for him to see that people projected all kind of things into him which he did not see in himself. He said: “Can you imagine how it is when several people were seriously seeing in me their spiritual husband…”

When looking at the Annual Report 2021, which I had brought in a print form, he remarked that he still likes most having such things in paper though knowing that the future is electronic. And he pointed out that there are members and groups sharing about the service activities they are doing and thus inspire others. “There are people speaking much and doing little, and others who don’t speak and don’t share about what they are doing, but do great work – however, they depriving the other groups of the experience and inspiration: They have to learn to share.” And he then he proposed to collect the names of all members in the West doing service through translation: “People should know about their important silent work.” Other kinds of service and servers would be presented later.

He mentioned that he interacts with the members on a one-to-one basis as per their needs but focuses on the importance of group work while respecting the existing organisational structures – they should not be by-passed.

He further said that during Zoom group meeting, he always asks his son to show him the picture tiles of all the Zoom members – this way he contacts each one individually and something happens as a result. When people do not switch on their cameras or put symbolic pictures instead of their photos, he cannot make contact and they exclude themselves from this energetic interaction.

And he mentioned that he had developed an exercise for himself to make inner contact once a week with all the groups where he had been, starting with the southern-most group in Argentina, then going up through South and North America, then to Europe and India, connecting with all the groups.

The next morning around 10:30 am, all members from the West were invited for a meeting with the Master. The room was crowded with about 40 persons. At the beginning Sri Kumar mentioned that he cannot properly see the members in the last row and so he asked each one to stand up starting from the back line. He welcomed each one with a profound silent exchange.
He spoke about the global situation and the time of transition. There was an intense presence electrifying all.

The May Call celebrations started 27 May in the evening with an introductory discourse. Next morning after meditation, there was an extensive fire ritual dedicated to Lord Dattatreya, followed by the inauguration of a Dattatreya statue in the lecture hall, and again on May Call, 29 May.

During the seminar, the Master spoke a lot about the import of Dattatreya and of Master CVV, explaining profound wisdom aspects. There were also many book presentations, exchanges of gifts and cultural programs of music and dance prepared with the children. But in the centre, there were the prayers / meditations and wisdom teachings.

Here is an extract from Master Kumar’s talk on Sunday evening:

“So much good things happen in Sadguru Tapovana – done for the benefit for all, for the general good, for the group. It happens because of the quality of thought. As you receive it, it is a qualitative thought that is put into action by the will. You come and something new is put into action for the benefit of all, for the benefit of the group, for the enlightenment of the group. Don’t we see the inspiration in the group? It is presented to the group at large. Anything we do with the group as the objective, many things get manifested.

The thought you receive is for the groupal purpose, not for ourselves. In a group, when there are people who think of the group and develop greater facilities for the Master, the thought is gold and your personality is a golden temple. There are outer golden temples but they do not give the transformation given by the golden thoughts. A thought which is good for me is not good for many. A thought which is only good for you is not so for the others.

If the awareness is shifted you think, what can be done for the well-being of the group? That inspiration brings newer thoughts, thoughts that have more light in them, golden thoughts, diamond thoughts, the quality of your thoughts is transformed. When you bring in thoughts of goodwill, meaning thoughts that would benefit others, you receive thoughts and manifest them.

The presence of the Master in you, the awakening of the soul, is the next step. You are not into personal desires as before. You will expand your idea of ‘who is ours’ to the group and include the others. Therefore, the feeling of ‘ours’ extends. Here, there are families and families coming together.

A family means a unit. Today in society, the sense of separation prevails. Here, the unity prevails. When a man gets into yoga, his friends and brothers and sisters join the yoga, and the brothers’ and sisters’ children join the yoga. The presence of the Master is bringing the people together – permeation of the presence of the Master. All together, they try to find a place here, build a place here. To build a Brindavan is the same idea. One man has brought his whole clan here – it is not him but the Presence. It is a cluster of family.”

Time ran quickly by. Monday morning, the group living ended with an extensive question-answer session followed by the final lunch. I had filled my luggage already with many books, new ones and books missing in my store for distribution. All the Western members had been accommodated in the houses of group members.

When in the afternoon, a friend from Spain and me were about to leave the house where many of the Western group had stayed – we were the last ones – we wanted to say thank you to the lady of the house. But instead of leaving, an intense exchange started. Her husband later joined, and still later also their girls. They invited me to stay with them until around midnight, when the taxi would bring me to the airport. We had a lovely evening conversation. When the taxi came at 11 pm, there was heavy rain on this side of the city. The ride to the airport was much faster than on arrival. Soon, I was catapulted back via Dubai to Switzerland, filled with profound and enriching impressions and impulses for next steps ahead on the path.

P.S.: There is a blogpost about “The Essence of the Journey to India” written 10 days after the journey.

Gemini is the sign of duality, which at the same time also contains the key to unity. The symbol of Gemini consists of two vertical columns which are connected to each other. The two columns symbolise subjectivity and objectivity and they form a “doorway”. Every morning, when we awaken, the door opens to the world of objective activity and at night, when we go to sleep, the door to objectivity closes again. Similarly, the door leads to subjective activity at night and is closed again in the morning. When we go to sleep and when we wake up, we can experience both worlds for a moment. The wisdom of Gemini teaches us that we can consciously go through the gate in both directions and thus live simultaneously in the subjective and the objective world.

The Images of Synthesis for the month of Gemini illustrate the related symbolism. You find there detailed explanations of the paintings in four languages (en/de/es/fr). And you can download print-versions (high resolution) for free.

The Masters of the Spiritual Hierarchy are working at spreading the wisdom required to help in the evolution of the beings on the planet. Just as Lord Maitreya and the other great Masters exist, there is also a physical embodiment of the feminine energy in the Himalayas. This grand Master in a female form is called Shaila Putri, the Daughter of the Mountain. She appears as a young woman of eighteen years dressed in garments of tiger skin and holding a trident. She is the Mother of the World for our Planet and the power that assists the Hierarchy, especially in times of crises. She is the guiding star also called “the Exquisite Jewel, the Star of the Sea”. You find her described in the books “The World Teacher” and “Man Sacrifice” written by Master EK.

To illustrate this reality, I worked on images of Shaila Putri and the leading Masters of Hierarchy. To indicate the relation to the Himalayas, I arranged the pictures on a background created with the help of the photo of a crystal.

The symbolism of Gemini is visualised in the thirteen Gemini paintings done between 2010 and 2022. For detailed detailed descriptions please see the ludgerphilips.org website.

The 8th May is celebrated as “White Lotus Day”, in remembrance of Helena P. Blavatsky (1831-1891), who passed over on this day in the year 1891.

In her life, Madam Blavatsky demonstrated the qualities she expressed in “The Golden Stairs”: “A clean life, an open mind, a pure heart, …” (See the book “Golden Stairs” by Sri Kumar)

She was a very pure soul who was prepared by the Hierarchy already at the time of Lord Krishna, as Master EK shows in his book “Music of the Soul.” You find her in the character of Ruta.

In the 19th century, the Masters chose her for bringing out to humanity the new revelation of the teachings of eternal wisdom. Therefore, she is regarded as the White Lotus that unfolds afresh the beauty and fragrance of new age wisdom.

At the White Lotus Day 2021, Sri Kumar paid homage to HPB, as Blavatsky is also lovingly called, with the following words:

“Today happens to be 8th May, the departure day of Madame Blavatsky recognised by the teachers who led her as the White Lotus Day. Today, in the Brotherhood, White Lotus Day is celebrated in memory of Madame Blavatsky who offered herself to the humanity. Her offering was total. The soul, the personality and the body were dedicated to the work of The Great White Brotherhood. More than the humanity, it is the White Brotherhood that lovingly and affectionately honour her for she has unveiled to humanity the Universal Wisdom so that people come out of their very narrow understanding of the energy which is called God and walk into that light which is Omniscient, Omnipotent and Omnipresent.

Since we are all in form, we look to Divinity through form but the Divinity as such is beyond form, beyond name and even beyond time. The Veda contains this wisdom. The ancient theologies contain this wisdom. They try to give out the patterns in which this energy manifests through various laws of the universe such as the Law of Alternation, the Law of Pulsation, the Law of Involution, the Law of Evolution, the Law of Septenary Manifestation and its gradual withdrawal into itself through cycles of time, the related science of utterance, the related science of contemplation and the related science of action in creation to experience, to evolve and then gain fulfilment.

The work of Madam Blavatsky is seen as a stupendous work carried out in the last part of the 19th century which has vibrated the planet. Thousands and thousands of groups have joined till date and it continues to be. All that she contributed to humanity is recognised more by the Brotherhood than the humanity. It will take a long time for humanity to understand the great work that came through Madame Blavatsky.

We fondly remember her. She is the first one in the recent cycles of time that has unveiled the wisdom which is universal. It is not sectarian. It is not based upon limited thoughts about God. In His memory we…we say, ‘His’ because even the Masters recognise her though in a female body, as a grand male that did a lot of work from the soul dimension.”

May HPB’s life and work inspire us to continue striving “to the Ideal of Human Progression and Perfection which the Secret Science Depicts” and to climb the Golden Stairs up to the Temple of Divine Wisdom.

Have a good White Lotus Day

I nearly daily receive beautiful impressions from the Master Mountain, or Durga Mountain, in the Nilagiris, India. A friend living there to take care of the WTT retreat center shares these impressions from this most spiritual place, in the area of which there is the Ashram of Agastya, also called Master Jupiter, in the subtle dimensions.

I could twice go there for a visit – the plans for a 3rd visit were ended by the well-known pandemia… But the pictures and videos give a feeling of being there right now. Have a look at a cloud river flowing over the mountain.

The 1st of May is celebrated as the birthday of Count Saint Germain, also called Master CSG. For this occasion, a team from WTT Spain has realised a beautiful video (16 min) with international support. It has also been prepared in Spanish.

The video presents facets of the biography of the Master, based on the book “Master CSG” by Master KPK (Dr. K. Parvathi Kumar). It highlights the activity of the Master in the field of ritualism that is conducted through the ritualistic temples all over the globe. Master CSG works largely through esoteric ritual and ceremonial magic, being vitally interested in the effects, hitherto unrecognized, of the ceremonial order of the Freemasons, of various fraternities and of churches everywhere. Here is the English PDF of the book. It also exists in German and in Spanish.

Count St. Germain is also called the Master of the Seventh Ray, the Violet Flame. The book “Violet Flame Invocations” (PDF) by Sri Kumar gives profound insights into this sublime energy.

It was a long journey, together with this biography – and it reflected in this blog since November 2014. But now it is out, in French, published in PDF form.

An German version cam in December 2016, an English version in summer 2019. When I first informed the groups of WTT on 22 January 2015, after returning from India, about the “Biography of Sripada Srivallabha, Avatar of Lord Dattatreya”, I wrote:

“According to Master DK, the motto of India is “I hide the Light”. One of the most brilliant lights still very much hidden in India is the knowledge of the Avatars of Lord Dattatreya, the Cosmic Teacher Principle. Sripada Srivallabha (1320-1350) is the first incarnation (avatara) of Lord Dattatreya in this cycle. Only a few years ago appeared the biography of Sripada (“Sreepada Sreevallabha Charitaamrutam”) in English…. 6 January 2015, the group of the WTT-seminar visited Pithapuram, the place where Sripada incarnated about 700 years ago. Master KPK gave an introduction to this visit and after the visit a further explanation…”

And: “A German and Spanish translation are on the way. If you are interested to translate the book to another language, you might contact me….“

The next day, my French friend from New Caledonia contacted me: “Well, so this translation is definitely my plan just after I finish what I translate right now … So let’s say, that I’ll start in ARIES !!!” So he started.

He only told me today, when I sent him the old e-mail, over 7 years later: “Actually, it started way back then, in Dattatreya ashram in Mysore in 2006 I think, where I made first a promise to translate something of Datta in French given to me there, but for some reason, it was always postponed and abandoned. But I finally fulfilled this promise with the KPK booklet about Sri Datta. It was but the first step toward more translation with the biography, preparing myself to meet again Sri Datta. So I stepped into a more daily practise with Him…”

We did not yet know beginning 2015 that in the course of developing the German version the need would come up to develop a new English version. And that after the German version was published in 2016, together with a new website about Sripada and the avatars of Lord Dattatreya , and the first new edition of the English version in 2019, it would take 3 more years for the French version to appear. And many obstacles had to be overcome, with great perseverance.

But this is nothing, compared to the fact that the biography was written during Sripada’s life time in the 14th century AD, but, as decreed by him, the work was kept secret for thirty three generations. It came to light in 2001, first published in Telugu and then translated into several other languages.
It is an extraordinary book about Sripada Srivallabha, the first incarnation of Lord Dattatreya. In an exciting and entertaining way, it gives an insight into the fascinating life of Sripada, his sportive plays, teachings, prophecies and miracles. However, it also demands a will to go into it.

When I asked Sri Kumar, why he did not mention the avatars of Lord Dattatreya in his small book about Sri Dattatreya, he replied: “The West cannot understand”. For years, he waited until Westerners started showing interest. He did not want to push anything which was not requested. But more and more started to request this book and the interest grew.

My friend Sébastien, the translator, will get a few copies printed in New Caledonia in a simple print version, without images – you might contact him. If you are interested in organizing a print on demand version in Europe or America or further diffusion of the book, please contact me.

You can download the book here for free. See also here. On this website of WTT-Global you also find the other language versions.

In the book Sripada says about the book: “I will remain in a subtle form in every place where My biography is devotedly read.” “Don’t think that Sri Charitamrutam book is a mere book. It is a live stream of a glorious consciousness.”

All the last years, we met at Good Friday at the Paracelsus Center of WTT near Einsiedeln, Switzerland, for a “spring-clean” ritual, even during pandemia times. This year, we were just two but we kept up with the ritual, and we enjoyed it. When driving via Einsiedeln to the place at the Devil’s Bridge, we already saw many hikers and pilgrim on the last part of the route. And during the day there were even more – the road is part of the St. James’ Way to the famous pilgrimage centre and monastery in Einsiedeln.

As we entered the house, we noticed that the landlord had totally renovated the staircase and the space in front of the centre at the first floor. Everything was clean and there were new furniture. But the pictures with the sayings of Paracelsus were no longer hanging on the wall. Also the Paracelsus picture needed a better place.

So we thought of having a look at the placements of all images, finding new and better places. But first we started with chanting OM and inner aligning to the energies – an inner cleaning before the outer cleaning:

The landlord came for a chat and gave some help, bringing nails, hammer, yardstick and level.

Like in the last years, we went to Einsiedeln to the Tulipan in front of Einsiedeln Abbey, where we enjoyed lunch and observing the many visitors which had come for Good Friday. It was a hearty view – many heart statues were displayed all over the forecourt and the Marienbrunnen, the fountain of the World Mother in the form of Mary.

We did not see the Black Madonna inside, only the multiple black madonnas outside, in the kiosks along the edge of the forecourt.

On the walk back to the car, Mathilda got some Anise pie in a small cake museum.

After a short walk in nature, we returned to the centre, reading a text on the meaning of Good Friday and on the qualities of Aries.

We enjoyed staying in the serene ambiance of the Paracelsus center and decided to “implant” there a bridge to Shambala: A copy of the Roerich painting “The Song of Shambala” is now waiting already to be placed there at summer equinox.

When we went home after evening meditation, there was a gorgeous sunset with many shades of colour and a rising Aries moon just after full moon.

Each year during the months of Aries, there is a descent of Divine energies from higher circles onto the planet. They stimulate the Lord of the Planet, and the Plan for the year manifests as the Will of Sanat Kumara in Shambala. In Taurus, the Masters of Wisdom pick up that which is descended for further descent. That means, the descent of light onto the planet and the humans is worked out, and during Taurus Full Moon, at the Vaisakh Festival, it is transmitted to the Hierarchy and its collaborators.

The further digestion of the energies is done until the full moon hours of Gemini, where the Plan is transmitted to those disciples of the Hierarchy who work on the physical plane. This fresh descent of light is uplifting to the life on the planet, so that when we enter into denser matter, we enter with a greater measure of light, so that there is also light in darkness.
The Images of Synthesis for the month of Taurus illustrate the related symbolism.

In the process of creation, the One Existence manifests as two. Spirit precipitates down as matter and matter ascends up as spirit. The first aspect is called the path of descent or involution; the second aspect is the path of ascent or evolution. On the path of descent, God comes down as this creation. The spiritual energies descend into matter, and the universal consciousness becomes the individual consciousness. On the path of ascent, we rise again by our spiritual practices and finally merge into God, just as the lesser light merges into the greater light.

The whole cycle of descent and ascent is called the ‘path of the waters’. For this flow of energy, the seers have conceived the sound formula as Narayana. ‘Na’ is the sound of ascent and ‘Ra’ is the sound of descent. The path of waters is ‘Ayana’ and it is immortal. To gain the freedom of the flow of energy, the seers keep singing OM Namo Narayanaya and they keep dancing in joy.

The picture visualises the path of ascent from the mundane to the super-mundane spheres by depicting a person on a path in three different degrees of density. The path leads further up into the blue sky towards the sun, the source of light. On the other side of the cycle, the movement goes via the Moon, the principle of reflection, down into the dense matter. The illustration of the cycle was designed with the help of extracts from a NASA photo of a galaxy.

The symbolism of Taurus is visualised in the thirteen Taurus paintings done between 2010 and 2022. For detailed detailed descriptions please see the ludgerphilips.org website.