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.

This is a longer text taking about 9 minutes to read – for your better understanding and practice / alignment. At the beginning, there are the “technical details”.

“The month of Virgo is considered to be the month of protection through purity. Lord Ganesha the Lord of Cosmic Wisdom is said to be born on the 4th ascending moon phase in Virgo.
May the Cosmic Jupiter restitute the principle of purity to the personalities of the aspirants.” (Master KPK)

Ganesha is worshipped as the son of the World Mother, and his birthday is celebrated in the fourth waxing moon phase of Virgo as Ganesha Festival. This year, it starts 26 August 2025 at 10:26 am CEST (01:56 pm IST) , end: 27 Aug.12:15 pm CEST (03:45 pm IST).
26 Aug. 2025 00:20 am CEST (03:50 am IST) until 27 Aug.,02:35 pm CEST (06:05 am IST), Moon is also in the Hasta constellation which is particularly linked to Ganesha.

Here is an extract from the book of Sri Kumar, “Jupiter”, chap. 10, “The Cosmic Jupiter”, on the importance of the Hasta constellation, the 4th asc. moon phase for relating to Ganesha and Master Jupiter.

THE HASTA CONSTELLATION

The arrangement of sounds into groups to form words and sentences is governed by the cosmic intelligence located in the Hasta constellation. According to the solar understanding Hasta is the constellation relating to Jupiter. There is a particular ritual in the month of Virgo related to the worship of Ganesha, when the moon is in the Hasta constellation. The cosmic principle Ganapati, ‘the Lord of Groupings’ is also called Ganesha. The constellation is in the form of a head of an elephant. This elephant-headed deity is worshipped as the Lord of wealth and wisdom. He influences our Earth through Jupiter. When there are serious afflictions to Jupiter, either in the birth chart or in the progressive chart, one can avoid the evil effects by meditating upon Ganapati, the elephant-headed deity.

If we look at the Hasta constellation from the earth, we find that the stars in the sky have the form of a head and a trunk of an elephant. When the moon is in this constellation, especially the crescent moon, it looks as though it is the tusk of the elephant. The tusk is the crescent moon that walks into it once in a year. It happens on the fourth ascending moon phase in the month of Virgo. The fourth ascending moon phase of Virgo completes the elephant headed figure. That day is considered special to invoke the Jupiterian energies. All those who aspire to walk into wisdom are recommended to orient to the Jupiterian energy on that day. An elaborate ritual is done about Ganesha on that day, so that he lifts us up into wisdom, re-arranging our energy patterns.

You might also read below chap 11 on the symbolism of Ganesha. PDF of the book. Order book.

GANESHA

Traditionally it is believed that by worshipping Ganesha on that day, we will have no obstacles in our life. He is said to be ‘the Lord of Obstacles’! He creates obstacles, and he eliminates obstacles. It is believed that he creates obstacles to our unhealthy thoughts, speeches and actions, and eliminates the obstacles to our healthy patterns. Obstacles are self-made. When our thoughts are not right, we are halted as we manifest them. We also get halted when we have right thoughts springing up at the wrong time. Many times we face an impasse. This is because the timing of the thought and the procedure relating to it has gone wrong somewhere. If we have the right thought at the right time, it proceeds as a flow, unhindered or unimpeded. A good Jupiterian is one whose thoughts occur in the right time and the procedure relating to it also occurs properly.

A good Jupiterian is one who has Jupiter very well aspected in the horoscope. There are some people, when they give an idea, the idea works out by itself, and there are some others, when they give an idea, it is only to break our head. Even at the very first step, we will face the wall.

Thus, a good Jupiterian is one who gets the right idea at the right time and who proceeds with the right procedure. That means, the arrangement in him is very good, and there is a clean flow – like a magnet, which conducts magnetism without hindrance. It is a good re-arrangement for the current to flow, and the flow is unimpeded. The impediments are in us only, not outside. The inner impediments are seen as outer obstacles. Our thinking pattern needs to be re-arranged to overcome the obstacles in the outer. The key is held by Jupiter, and the cosmic Lord of Jupiter is Ganesha. When we worship his symbol or form with his sound (mantram), there is the re-arrangement happening in our being. Contemplating upon the sound GAM is recommended to those who have a confused mind, who have a mind that complicates themselves and others.

The transformation happens with the sound of Ganesha. Whenever people embark upon projects and plans, first Ganesha is worshipped, so that the right detail is received in the right moment. Otherwise, after accomplishing a part of the project, we start getting better ideas. We dig the foundations and build some part of the house, and then we get some better ideas about the plan of the building. We neither destroy that which is built nor we progress with full heart with that which is already started. We are not so free. The best thing is to worship Ganesha, invoking his energies, then we have the right pattern of mind, so that the project flows through us according to a good plan. We will not miss details and later repent. The details that we forget will become the future obstacles, and all changes will be very costly.

Even the Devas when they function in creation, the first thing they do is to invoke this energy of Ganesha. The rituals commence with him. The divine projects commence with him. Any beginning is a beginning with Ganesha. As we think of a beginning, it is inevitable that we think of Ganesha. When we think of him, our head transforms into the elephant head, which functions better! Imagine that Ganesha has descended into our head through our invocation, so that the day progresses well and we come out without many mistakes. It is functioning with wisdom and love. When we do it in that way, in creation there is almost no impediment. The students invoke him to get better educated. At the time of marriage ritual he is invoked, so that the married life is not confronted with trouble. The first sexual act between man and woman is done after invoking Ganesha. He is everywhere! He is inevitable in Indian tradition. At every important event he is the one to be invoked first. If he gives presence, all other Devas present in an order, they classify themselves, group well and approach us.

This is an advantage conceived by the seers of the ancient times through the worship of the cosmic Jupiter Ganesha. The simplest sound you can utter of him is:

OM GAM GANAPATAYE NAMAHA Listen

In so far as it is done in sets of 12, it is better, because the number 12 is the number of Jupiter. It can be 12 times, its can be 24 times, it can be 36 times etc.

Astrologically, Thursday is a good day to invoke the Ganesha energies. He is the Lord of wisdom, which is called Jupiter. He is the permeating consciousness, which is also called Jupiter. So, worshipping Ganesha is done more on Thursdays. Ganesha is worshipped in all those months where Jupiter is the Lord of the month like Cancer, Sagittarius and Pisces. In those months, Thursdays have special importance, they are considered very special to invoke the energies of Ganesha.

The symbol of Jupiter is the triangle within the circle, the centre and the triangle around the centre and a circle around the triangle, the sound is GAM, the number is three, the colour is cream, honey-yellow, and the stone is topaz.

MASTER JUPITER

Ganesha is the cosmic Jupiterian intelligence. For the systemic existence, he is present as Master Jupiter. The Master Jupiter is the Avatar of Synthesis who presides over the Aquarian Age. He conducts himself with the triangular force of Neptune, Mercury and Jupiter. He is called the Master of the Nilagiri Hills (Blue Mountains) in the Theosophical Society. He is called the great Sage Agastya in the Vedic tradition. He is the Master whose abode is in Sirius, whose functioning place for our earth is the Blue Mountains of South India. Agastya is the great sage and is the counterpart of the 7 seers of the Great Bear. While the Great Bear plays the role of Father to our systemic existence, Agastya, Master Jupiter plays the role of Guru, Teacher to our system. For further details of Master Jupiter the reader may look to the book Aquarian Master by the same composer and the book Esoteric Astrology of A.A.Bailey.

See also the book on “The Wisdom of Nakshatras” about the Hasta constellation.

Birthday of Sripada Srivallabha

Sripada Srivallabha is the first Avatar of Lord Dattatreya in the present age. He was born 1320 AD in the 4th ascending moon phase of Virgo, Hasta constellation, and therefore, we celebrate his birthday in this constellation. Read more about Sripada’s birth here.
It is an extraordinary incarnation and the story of how it came to light in the beginning of this century is also extraordinary.
Read more in the Sripada biography, which is published by WTT editions in English, German, French and Spanish.

You find here the story of the miraculous birth of the German Sripada book. Or see the video.

It is good to remember the birthdays of great souls – this inspires us and gives us strength and orientation in the times of crises.
And the birthdays of this blogpost remind me of the profound impact in my life – unfolding and growing very slowly over 4-5 decades since I first heard of them. It took me a long time to sense a bit of the greatness of these messengers of Spiritual Hierarchy. It might take you 5-7 minutes to read the text – and how long to sense their impact?

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 Indian counting and the 99th as per Western 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, in the night hours about 2:00 am. According to ancient tradition the day starts at sunrise , and we therefore, commemorate their birthdays together.
Both of them keep on enlightening humanity through their teachings and their fiery aspiration.

Below is first an extract of Master KPK speaking at the May Call celebration 2011 about Master EK, telling some profound wisdom anecdotes. And afterwards some extracts from Master KPK’s talk at Master EK’s and Madam HPB’s birthday celebrations 2015.
Master KPK concluded the talk with the following words which might guide our relating to these birthday celebrations:
“So by reading or listening to such incidents, we gain the presence of the Masters and Madam HPB. There is a lot that one can know about her. Reading the books she wrote is very difficult but knowing about her is easier. Let us go into sleep today by remaining in the presence of Master EK and Madam HPB. Entering into Divinity should be our aim and we should try to strive towards it relentlessly. May we all move in that direction.”

Teaching through stories: Master KPK speaking about Master EK at the May Call celebration 2011

At one time Master EK wanted to write a book on Tantra. There is an encyclopaedia of Tantra with thousands of slokas. He taught it to students, they lost interest. He stopped teaching them.
When he taught he also prepared the notes for the whole text. After 15, 20 years someone asked him, “Why did you not complete?” – “It was only demanded to that extend, and therefore it only came to that extend.” People asked, “Would it not be nice to add the 960 and make a book?” – “Whatever is taught is ignored; still to me it is nice. I am not worried. Those who receive forget, I am not worried.”

That is how neutrality teaches us detachment. You do with full intent every little act you do. Either fruition or non-fruition, you leave it to Brahman, it is His will. “Father, thy will be done.”
When students ask for wisdom, keep it as the Will of the Divine. When students disappeared, he took it as the Will of the Divine. Students are generally too enthusiastic. They drop away half of the way.

Once I saw him teaching to 3 or 4 old ladies who did not understand anything. I saw him teaching to them like to a crowd. I asked him, “Master why do you do it?”
He said, “Young men asked me to teach this, they left. Now, there are left these three old ladies, but for me it is the will of the divine.”

All his interactions are related to the divine, not to him. How beautiful it is: “Even if there is just one, I will teach. If the one is not there, the divine says, No thank you.”

To be available is the program of the yogi. It is the will of the divine that motivates him. The second principle is the essence of the whole wisdom.

Why am I saying it? We don’t have to create consequences when they come to us. We have to learn. We learn tolerance, patience, poise, and we remain equally poised.

Once he went to the seaside in Visakhapatnam. We were engaged in some conversation. On the seaside there were some people selling food. Normally we don’t eat, but one vendor came up to us and said, “Why don’t you buy some of these eatables?” I asked the Master, “Can we buy?” He said, “Yes we do. Not that we need food, but he needs money.”
So he bought something. As we were sitting and eating, a dog came; he was looking at us.
The Master said, “Let us feed the dog, the dog asks us.”
The divine used the yogi to feed the dog who needed food.

Extracts from Master KPK’s talk at the Master EK’s and Madam HPB’s Birthday Celebrations 2015

If we look at the writings of Master EK, it seems amazing because he never planned to write a book on his own. He just wrote what he received from higher circles. Sometimes he used to look at a wall and dictate. When I asked Master, what was there, he replied “There are two ways of impressional writings. One is, I see a script before me and I just read it out and a copy is made. The other is, a scene may appear and I describe it.”

When the wisdom used to come is unknown. It used to even come suddenly and he used to find a person to take the dictation. He used to tell, “It is not Krishnamacharya writing. If Krishnamacharya is writing, he would have written many books by now. I am just a medium to what I receive from higher circles. I stopped writing on my own from the time I came in touch with the Grand Masters.” Such books remain for centuries together with no expiry.

They were all impressional teachings. It is possible because they remain in alignment with the Divine at all times. Madam HPB and Madam Bailey too wrote and taught in a similar manner. It comes fresh then and there. The higher prevails over the lower and the teaching happens.

When Master EK wrote a book for the first time, he asked for an opinion from some eminent people in the society. Later, Master EK wrote in his book a word from his Master “This is the first and last warning. Never ask for an opinion on what you write. These are not written by you. They came through you.” Master EK wrote on a wide range of topics of wisdom in both Telugu and English.

There are more than 3000 groups which follow the teachings of Madam HPB in the world at present. In future, her greatness will be known better and her work will come more into light. She is the gateway for the wisdom required for the new age. Due to Master EK, we came to know of her and many other Grand Masters. We have the pictures of Lord Maitreya, Master Maruvu (Master Morya) and Master Devapi (Master Koot Hoomi) and they were introduced to us by Master EK. He introduced them to us on his birthday in 1971 for the first time and showed us their pictures. He gave details about them and said that WTT was established to take part in their work to some extent. From 1972 Gurupujas, their pictures were being placed on the altar.

So by reading or listening to such incidents, we gain the presence of the Masters and Madam HPB. There is a lot that one can know about her. Reading the books she wrote is very difficult but knowing about her is easier. Let us go into sleep today by remaining in the presence of Master EK and Madam HPB. Entering into Divinity should be our aim and we should try to strive towards it relentlessly. May we all move in that direction.

An easy introduction to the life of Master EK – a story book in cartoon format (PDF):

“Master EK – He inspired lives with wisdom, healing and love”, available in English, Telugu and Kannada languages: English, Telugu, Kannada.

P.S., 11 August 2025: Please find here the program of the Master EK Birth Centenary Celebrations 2025-26 – an overview of the global activities – published today.

3 weeks ago, I received an e-mail from a priest of the Mahasamsthanam, the temple at the birth place of Sripada Srivallabha in Pithapuram, India. Sripada is the first avatar of Lord Dattatreya in this time, called the dark age.
The priest wrote that in the biography of Sripada, the “Sripada Srivallabha Charitamrutam“, written in mid-14th century AD, there is a mention of a prophecy that the book will be translated into German language in the future.
He had come to know that I had done this German translation.

He mentioned that the temple team is now collecting proofs of “what has happened as said by Sripada swamy in the Charitramrutha”. He further mentioned that “some people are creating some disturbances about Charitramrutha”, and he asked me to connect with him.

Beginning of December, we had a Zoom call. I invited my friend Srikanth from California, for a better understanding of the matter, and he also speaks Telugu.
In the talk, I came to know that in Bharat (another name of India) the government is now putting the Hindu temples under their rule and protection, with the idea of protecting the old Hindu culture from foreign influences.
Some political groups promote this. Muslim mosques and also non-orthodox Indian temples are not seen as coming under the protection of the Indian government and thus, are perceived as “foreign”.
And this goes also for the Mahasamsthanam and the book Sripada Srivallabha Charitamrutam, which people consider as a fake and not Vedic / Hindu culture, since the Telugu version only came to light in 2001, after having been kept secret for 33 generations.

The temple team now wants to submit proof that the book and the prophecies contained therein are a genuine revelation by collecting proofs and submitting them to a committe of the religious authority of the Hindu religious centre of Vedic learning Kanchi in Tamil Nadu to help them gain the government acceptance. The German version is of special interest for them, since it was was published in 2016 – no one could know in earlier times that this would happen – the Telugu book came out in 2001. So the German version is considered a proof of the genuine truth of the Sripada biography.
It is planned to prepare a room at the Mahasamsthanam containing the proofs. For this, they would like to have a copy of the German Charitamrutam and a video.
I have one last free copy from the book publication and said that I will send it to the temple when coming to India end of the year.

I asked the priest what they want from the video. The priest told me:

“I want you to include how your experience of writing Sripada Srivallabha Charitramrutha. Include what experience and miracles you had with Sripada Srivallabha swamy.”
I witnessed a number of mysterious things which happened while translating the book and beyond. So I created the following video last Thursday, 12 December 24; it was edited by a friend in Spain yesterday night (I informed the priest late last night). And it is published today, on the birthday of Lord Dattatreya, “Dattatreya Jayanti”, here in the blog and on YouTube. You can also download it here.

In the video, I also speak about how Master KPK / Dr. K. Parvathi Kumar supported the work very much, how a 5 languages website of the World Teacher Trust (WTT) on Sripada and Lord Dattatreya has been published in 2016 and how now the book has been published by WTT in 4 languages, besides German an edited English version and, on this basis, Spanish and French versions.

The video is called “The Miraculous Birth of the German Sripada Srivallabha Charitamrutam” – and it was indeed miraculous how this work happened. Here you find the YouTube version

The Anima Channel has published a video interview on “The Mystery of Dattatreya” in May 2023, where we speak about how I came into contact with the theme of Lord Dattatreya beginning of the 1980s and with Sripada 10 years ago.

Not all in the West know who Lord Krishna is and much less is known about his spiritual significance. Although he lived about 5300 years ago, his energy keeps on expressing on the planet. I read about Krishna in the 1970s and felt much fascinated.

27 years ago, Master Kumar inaugurated a Krishna statue in Wermelskirchen, Germany during a celebration of Krishna’s birthday in August 1997. The Master has gifted Krishna statues to group members from different countries around the globe and personally installed and consecrated them. It was a great program to anchor and strengthen the presence of Lord Krishna in the lives of those who came in contact.

I came with a group from Switzerland to Wermelskirchen; it was my first physical contact with Master Kumar and the World Teacher Trust.

It was a beautiful inauguration ceremony and ritual through which I came in touch with the magic of Lord Krishna’s soul music. And this touch of His presence was anchored in me. I felt drawn to the Krishna statue whenever I saw it again. It is not stone, but a living presence.

The inauguration was embedded in a seminar, where Sri Kumar spoke about the book “The Music of the Soul” by Master EK – the soul music with which Lord Krishna transformed people. The book and the soul music also left a lasting impact in my life.

Now, the statue was given to Sabine and Manfred to find a new permanent place at their home in Heiligenberg (meaning, the Holy Mountain) – in the rose garden that Manfred has cultured with much love and devotion. 10 days ago, a group of 9 members brought the statue from Northern Germany to the south. It was installed with a little ceremony and some more members joint the celebration.

I could not participate in this inauguration but I was involved in preparation work when I visited Manfred and Sabine for some days beginning of July. Inwardly, I was much there at the celebration and I received photos and video-clips of the beautiful inauguration: Klim Krishnaya, Govindaya, Gopijana Vallabhaya Namaha – the sacred sounds of mantras were blessing the atmosphere of the whole area and beyond.

4 weeks ago, I had given an envelope with a symbol and a little glass jewel for the place of the statue to a friend from Germany to send it to Heiligenberg. The envelope, however, did first a tour through southern France and now finally arrived in Heiligenberg. I was thrilled to see the new photos of the statue yesterday.

I share here the pics with you so that you too can feel the magnetism of the Presence of Lord Krishna.

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 fade 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.

A new book of Blavatsky or a wrong claim? I was several times asked about this. Here are some explanations why Franz Hartmann should be considered the real author, not H.P.B. You also find fascinating information about Hartmann and the letters he received from Master Morya and Master Koot Hoomi.

A year ago, a friend informed me about a newly published book said to be of H.P. Blavatsky: “The Land of the Gods. The Long-Hidden Story of Visiting the Masters of Wisdom in Shambala” (Radiant Books 2022). Then, other friends also told me enthusiastically about the book.

I thought it would be a good travel reading for my journey to India in December 22 / January 23 and mentioned the book in the blog-post “On the Verge to India“. So, I bought it plus three additional copies as gifts for friends in India. However, too many other things kept me busy during the journey and afterwards that I didn’t read more of the book than the first 39 pages, the glossary at the end and scrolled through the book.

I saw that it is about journeys into inner dimensions with encounters of masters / adepts but I didn’t find any mention about Shambala inside the original text, only in the Publisher’s Note, the glossary at the end and the presentation of the editors. Although the story seemed to be interesting, I didn’t feel “drawn into the book” . Looking back, something didn’t make sense, and it didn’t really feel that this should be from Blavatsky.

For a group, I had translated to German (unpublished manuscript) two thirds of HPB’s book “From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan” containing stories which were of a different energy than the text of this Shambala book. Moreover, the two original versions of this latter book also weren’t published in HPB’s name but by Franz Hartmann:

In the ‘Publisher’s Note’ of the Shambala book it says: “This book was originally published anonymously by a mysterious ‘Student of Occultism’ in 1887 under the title An Adventure Among the Rosicrucians, yet with copyright in the name of Franz Hartmann. Helena Blavatsky reviewed it, describing it as: ‘A strange and original little story, charmingly fantastic, but full of poetic feeling and, what is more, of deep philosophical and occult truths, for those who can perceive the groundwork it is built upon.’
Those notes were originally written by H. P. Blavatsky because only she could gain access to the Holy of Holies on the Earth — the secret Abode of the Masters of Wisdom, known as Shambhala. In 1939, Helena Roerich, who continued Blavatsky’s mission in the 20th century, also confirmed her authorship: ‘This reporting about the inner life of the Brotherhood was recorded by Franz Hartmann, undoubtedly from the words of H. P. Blavatsky, conveyed with some changes in literary form.’
The Chief Stronghold of Shambhala is located in the heart of the Himalayas. However, the network of its Abodes is also spread within other mountainous and remote locations around the world, in the most inaccessible places. The notes that Madame Blavatsky prepared were, in fact, different stories that occurred both in the Himalayas and the Alps at various times, yet were later tied into one single story narrating the secret order of the Rosicrucians.”

Why should HPB not give her name for these stories or publish them with a pen name, like she had also done before? She never hesitated to give out occult stories. However, it definitely sells better when the new book is published in her name and as a rare new discovery.

What makes me more suspicious is the claim of the sub-title: “The Long-Hidden Story of Visiting the Masters of Wisdom in Shambala”. In esoteric folklore, there are quite a number of stories about a secret valley in the Eastern or Western mountains, be it Himalaya, Alps, or somewhere else, like Shangri-La or Lost Horizon, where adventurers have mystic experiences and meet sages like the figure of the Imperator in the said Shambala book, a mysterious world.

However, these stories have nothing to do with Shambala as described in the wisdom teachings. They are in a way distorted reflections of the reality of Sravasti, also called Shigatse or Tashi Lhunpo. The Roerichs, who had indeed come into contact with Shambala, through tremendous service, sacrifice, and self-offering, kept, as far as possible, silent about their visit.

Nicholas Roerich, however, did a number of paintings, like the last paintings of his life on “Order of Rigden Jyepo” a name of Sanat Kumara, the ruler of Shambala, or his painting ‘King of Shambhala‘ in the Zanabazar Art Museum in Ulaan Bataar, Mongolia. Shambala is a very different reality than what has been given now in ‘The Land of the Gods’. See here.

I put the book aside. During a talk in August 23, a friend from Berlin mentioned the book and said that he had read the text of Hartmann (see here the PDF of “An Adventure Among the Rosicrucians” by Franz Hartmann, 1887) and that he is sure that this text is from Hartmann and not from Blavatsky. The editors of the ‘Land of the Gods’ had done various omissions and adaptations one of the omissions he found of particular interest in the original text:

On page 175f of ‘An Adventure…’, the author speaks about the sexual encounter with the Queen of the Nymphs: “A voluptuous sensation pervades my whole being…” and then he falls out of the subtle dimension and finds himself back on the physical plane, asking himself if all he experienced had merely been an illusion of his brain. Did the publishers omit this scene because they found it objectionable for giving the story in the name of HPB and as book about visiting the Masters of Wisdom in Shambala?

Last September, a friend from Miami asked me if I think that this book is from Blavatsky. I answered, I don’t know but I am sceptical. However, I didn’t know much about Franz Hartmann and wanted to know more about him. I searched the web and found information which fascinated me very much.

There is an article “Franz Hartmann: A Pioneer of the Theosophical Movement” by Susanne Hoepfl-Wellenhofer published in the Quest magazine in winter 2022 (you can download it here as a PDF). You get very interesting information about the life of Hartmann, who grew up in Bavaria. He spend the last years of his life in contact with an esoteric group of Rosicrucians in the pre-Alps, where you meet scenes as described in the said Shambala book.

Another article from a blog touched me even more: Franz Hartmann, ‘Correspondence with the Masters’ (see PDF here), a compilation of information about letters Hartmann received from Master Morya and Master Koot Hoomi. They give very interesting insights in why the Masters chose to work with Hartmann and what difficulties he faced. I don’t want to go more into this here but the texts are worth reading.

To close this article, I would like to give you here an extract from the biography “HPB. The Extraordinary Life and Influence of Helena Blavatsky, Founder of the Modern Theosophical Movement” (PDF) mentioning Hartmann at various places. Although HPB was sceptical towards Hartmann at the beginning, until Master Morya told her to trust him, they quickly became very good friends. And Hartmann stayed true and loyal towards her and the wisdom teachings of the Masters she had given out. He stood as a stronghold of defence against all attacks brought forward by the ignorants.

Read the last passage and think of how the book ‘An Adventure Among the Rosicrucians’, published by Franz Hartmann and now re-edited in a re-worked form as ‘The Land of the Gods’ under the name of H.P. Blavatsky might have come into existence.

Read more about Franz Hartmann, the forgotten mystic, and the Franz Hartmann Collection.

It was 1st of January 2020 in Visakhapatnam, India. In a talk with Master KPK, I spoke to him about the need of creating a digital archive to collect all video and audio material, publications and transcriptions and relevant photo material related to the World Teacher Trust, meaning mainly the work of Master EK and Master KPK. At that time, the material was dispersed on various personal computers and hard-disks. He agreed and found it an important idea.

9 months later, the archive project was started with a team of 7 members – highly qualified, living in different corners of the globe. In the meanwhile, it was Corona time. The need for digital collaboration had highly increased – and there was time for these members to come together – their jobs were on “home office”. For about 2 years, we followed an intense rhythm of meetings, of concept-discussions and of building up a cloud-based archive structure. And then we collected many terabytes of material, mainly saving video recordings from seminars and teachings in various languages.

I asked Master KPK to give a name to this archive. He said “Kombo Cave”. I didn’t understand what it means; and I didn’t find anything on the web. So, I asked again. He answered: “Kombo Cave is the name of the cave where the scrolls of wisdom of Pythagoras were stored – but don’t ask me more.” I understood. We named the cloud archives Kombo Cave. And: “Inspired by the lives and teachings of the great Teachers of Eternal Wisdom”.

It is non-public, just for those who work with the material. Later, an area is planned to be made accessible to interested seekers – but we are not yet there. The cloud space, however, gives possibilities for certain group collaborations.

When Corona started to recede, the personal job work load of the team members increased again. It became more difficult to continue with the pace of the free goodwill work for the archives. We did some re-structuring. Video editing – in a team work – takes a lot of time; qualified members capable of doing such work are very rare (video consumers are plenty….).

We searched for other ways. We wanted high quality, not quick “social media friendly video spots” but videos with wisdom teachings for seekers. It is a different level.

It took quite some time to create the intro and outro templates for the videos, with the motive “sunrise and sunset at the Master Mountain in the Nilagiris“, for the titles, with the right music. We finally found a very experienced Indian bamboo flute player to give some sequences from the “Maitreya song”.

For bringing out these videos, we just prepared a YouTube video channel for the WTT-Global and have taken over another channel, where several videos about Master KPK’s teachings etc. had been published already previously. We did a re-branding to give it a new outlook. The address of the new channel is https://www.youtube.com/@WTT-Global.

Now, in time for Libra Equinox, the video “Autumn Equinox Discourse” by Master KPK, September 21 2020, (59 min.) has just been published on YouTube. It is the first video publication with the new design. Other videos are soon ready to be published.

The Anima Channel has just published an interview with me about “The Mystery of Dattatreya” on YouTube.

I gave this talk in the form of a personal story, not to spread my personal story (I don’t just speak about my private life in public and only share details publicly in a very specific way).

I chose this story form to convey the complex content, in order to make the experiences and underlying wisdom teachings more vivid in this way than speaking in a more impersonal lecture style. And the course of events was partly also dramatic.

Since I came into contact with the theme of Lord Dattatreya beginning of the 1980s, I experienced a deep, mysterious fascination that I could not understand exactly. Several times I spoke to Sri Kumar about this and also once asked him why he had not written anything about the avatars of Lord Dattatreya in his book on Dattatreya. He replied, “Dattatreya is the sum and essence of the cosmic principle of the Teacher. It is too mystical for the West, and therefore we tread the path of Maitreya.” And this made me curious.

I have often experienced that seekers became confused when they encountered the subject of Dattatreya and his avatars, and even got into crises – like me. Through my experiences, together with the teachings and the help of Master Kumar, I have come to a deeper realization.

And sharing such understanding might be helpful to others. For a deeper understanding gives joy and a great expansion of consciousness.

In the interview with the Anima channel, I spoke about how I came in contact with the theme of Dattatreya when meeting Sathya Sai Baba in India in the early 80s. A few facets were told in this blog on the occasion of the passing of Sathya Sai.

I mentioned details about Dattatreya in my blogposts since 2008, how I came into contact with the biography of Sripada Srivallabha and translated the book into German. Later, the adventures went on when publishing an edited version of the book in English (published by Master Kumar at Mount Shasta in 2919) and creating a website about Lord Dattatreya and Sripada.

Master Kumar had supported me very much in these efforts and revealed that since his early childhood he had been initiated into the path of Dattatreya. He even agreed to publish the biography on Sripada in Dhanishta Editions, which are bringing out his teachings.

All this has become the deepest impact in my life, except and on par with the encounter with Master CVV and the path of the World Teacher Trust. In a way, you cannot separate these two, Dattatreya being the cosmic teacher principle and the World Teacher, Lord Maitreya, the embodiment of the teacher principle for our planet – in essence it is but One.

On YouTube, there is a German talk I gave for friends from the German speaking community of the WTT about “The Avatars of Lord Dattatreya – A Small Approach to a Mystery“.

About the creation of the Salon and of our triangle of Ludger (Switzerland), Alexis & Risa (Oklahoma/USA).

I have known Risa D’Angeles from a long time ago. Our interest in the wisdom teachings brought us together and we became friends in the context of the World Teacher Trust. I once even met her; it was in 2019 during a meeting with Master Kumar at Mount Shasta, California. Risa is a writer and teacher, and she is the founder and director of the Esoteric & Astrological Studies & Research Institute & College / Night Light News.

Over 18 years, we mainly had contact through written exchanges in various projects, and during nearly 9 years she silently participated, without camera, in the bi-weekly online study groups on wisdom teachings. At the beginning of February 2023, we met for an exchange via Zoom. I had invited her with the idea to see how our collaboration could further develop. Her partner, Alexis, participated sitting in the background. During the start of our conversation, Risa asked if I was interested in an explanation of my astrology chart which I gratefully accepted.

Listening to Risa and Alexis explore my chart was like a dam breaking within and the start of a totally unexpected level of development. They both commented “in stereo” on various dimensions of my chart. They told me how they had been observing me over years giving profound answers to questions concerning the wisdom teachings. They said there are strong aspects in my chart relating to being a teacher. They proposed that I begin to share, offer and present the knowledge I had gathered over decades and that my “Images of Synthesis” paintings, full of profound symbolism, should be the means.

I hesitated and said that I don’t see myself talking and people just listening. That there are already many other things going on in my life and that, in case, I would prefer a more interactive form. They suggested that we can cooperate as a triangle. They intensely encouraged me to start teaching on a larger scale than I am doing up to now and they would strongly support me. I was touched by their inner presence; they both have a profound astrological and psychological background and experience in working with people. Our discussion went into many depths and the ideas were thrilling. But there were many questions and I needed time to digest the idea.

We began our discussions with weekly exchanges. When Risa proposed to start a salon, I replied that it reminded me of the salons in France about art and culture in the pre-revolutionary times and of the auto-mobile salon of Geneva – but that the term salon sounds a bit old-fashioned. She replied, “No – an Aquarian Salon“. I was thrilled. She said, about “Art, Astrology and Wisdom Teachings” and added “A conversation“.

That’s it. The fire was on. We agreed to open a public virtual salon four times a year on a Saturday during the signs of the fixed cross – Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius, but to start at 0 degree Gemini, on Sunday, 21 May 2023. It will be presented by the “Circle of Good Will” and by “Night Light News“. Details will be shared later.

The idea was warmly welcomed by friends. Some friends are also willing to help, with music and other forms of art. The project started sprouting.

For more information see the PDF about the Aquarian Salon.