The horse is a profound spiritual symbol carrying various dimensions. This week, I did a video presentation about this symbolism of the horse. It was the topic of last month’s Lunar Messenger for Sagittarius (PDF), the text is also here on the WTT website.

The video was done with a layout developed for the Friends of the World Teacher Trust, and it was also published on the Friends of WTT YouTube channel. You can download the paintings used in the video on my website ludgerphilips.org. There is also a German and a French version of the video.

Watch the video to learn more about the sublime symbol of the Horse.

The wisdom teachings explain that there is no end to existence. There is a cyclical movement of time in creation. It is like the growth of a seed to a tree bringing forth again new seeds. So, from the background of space, there are periodic emanations of creation. They are seen as cosmic pulsations.

With seven such pulsations, the creation descends and ascends again. From innermost realms, creation comes down to objectivity; and after a while, the direction is changed and there is again an ascent via subtle and causal states to the absolute state.

Our earth is part of a chain of seven globes. There are earths in preparation in three preceding states, we are on this present earth in the fourth state, and there are earths in recession in three succeeding states. Therefore, when a physical form is dissolved, it does not end but continues to exist on subtler planes.

You find these great time cycles in the Eastern wisdom teachings as yugas, manvantaras, kalpas, and years of Brahma, the creator. And you find many details in the teachings of Helena P. Blavatsky. As per human evolution, see also the book of Master KPK on “The Seven Waves of Life“.

You can easily feel dizzy in view of such incredible magnitudes of time pulsations. I depicted a small part of this grand cosmic pulsation in some of my paintings, see for example here and here.

I recently came into contact on Facebook with Elena Merlits, a theosophist from Kiev. I was fascinated to see how Elena was visualising teachings from the Secret Doctrine of HPB about the great time cycles like globe chains, rounds and root races. In her graphics, she worked out aspects of these cycles in great detail and also diagrams about cosmic planes of consciousness.

She is also illustrating other spiritual realities. I give here, without comments, some of her graphics – you can also just contemplate on them without understanding the details.

She also does black and white artwork inspired by inner dimensions – the last picture is from these series. The picture are in a bigger on Facebook (and in a closed FB group in Russian languages to which she gave me access – luckily, there exists automatic translation.)

I started arranging some texts of the Lunar Messenger as video presentations. Here is the latest video on “Sleep and Turiya”.

You know what sleep is – or at least you think you know. However, we are not aware when we are sleeping, so we don’t really know it. At the transition from wakefulness to sleep or vice versa, we pass a threshold that separates both states.

The wisdom teachings emphasize the importance of remembering this point. At this moment, we experience the original state of consciousness and life. It is also called Turiya in Sanskrit, meaning the 4th – the 4th state of consciousness besides waking, sleep and dream states. The new video explains more about it.

There is a new YouTube channel for “Friends of World Teacher Trust”, https://friends.wtt-global.org. It is a platform where people who feel related to the WTT can communicate and teach the essential wisdom teachings of the WTT coming from Master CVV, Master EK and Master KPK. The idea behind: to welcome people who relate to World Teacher Trust teachings and would also like to teach to friends, relatives and like-minded persons.

So, I publish my new videos there, also in German and French.

We are going into the hours of Sagittarius full moon. This full moon is celebrated in the East as the birthday of Lord Dattatreya. Dattatreya is the great teacher or guru principle in the universe. The teachers on the different planes are manifestations of the one teaching principle. A profound wisdom.

You can find more information about Lord Dattatreya on the Sripada Srivallabha website of WTT.

When working on the video presentation on “Creativity and Originality“, a friend gave some help. He showed me how to do the recording on my PC. Thus, I realise the French version as well. I learnt a bit about doing video presentations. So, the idea came to realise the text of the Lunar Messenger Libra 2021 on “Symbolism 7 – The Eagle” as a video, using some of my paintings as illustrations.

And when the English version was ready, a German and a French version followed 🙂 A Spanish version was beyond the scope of my language skills or of knowing friends who could do it…

However, I saw that it is a good way to bring thoughts from the teachings of eternal wisdom into another format – as an inspiration to put them into practice. I need to see in the next weeks how much time remains for continuing such work myself…

I didn’t want to publish them on my YouTube account – since we are working on creating the framework for “Friends of the World Teacher Trust“, a new YouTube channel came about.

I will give a Zoom presentation for the Theosophical Society, Seattle, Washington, USA about “Creativity and Originality. From the Inside to the Outside and Back.” It is on Sunday, 10 October 2021 04:00 pm PDT (US West Coast time, – October 11th, 01:00 am Central European time). You can register for this talk via their website.

There will be the same talk already next Wednesday, 8 September, 07:00 – 08:00 pm Central European time) in German. It is part of a series of lectures of the German-speaking community of the World Teacher Trust on various topics with a spiritual background broadcasted via Zoom. You find here the program with the login details.

On the website of the Theosophical Society, it says about the presentation:
“Ludger will explore different aspects of originality and creativity showing subtle aspects of the creative process and how this manifests through external creations and their affect on us. By discussing a piece of his own art work, he will show the evolution of the creative process that came out of his own inner exploration and realizations. His artwork is dedicated to express occult ideas and themes to convey a visual access to sublime spiritual concepts.”

In case you are doing full moon meditations and you are interested in some deeper aspects, you might continue reading – otherwise just leave it aside.

The last days, there were some discussions about the differences regarding full moon celebrations and differences between the “Western” dates as per the solar calendar and the “Eastern” dates according to the lunar calendar.

I had some exchanges with Master Kumar for clarifications especially in relation to how to celebrate the Vaisakh festival. We write Vaisakh festival and not Wesak (Vesak) festival, as used for the Buddhist festival, the reason for which you find later below.

I am not going to explain any intricacies here – and the Master ended his last, longer letter with the words:
“I wonder how many in our groups have good knowledge of Astrology. Now, we add in slow degrees the magical dimensions of the Moon. In my teachings, when I get deep into Astrology, most of the listeners get drowsy and sleepy 🙂 …
The Path is made simple and is given by Patanjali and Lord Krishna. They too did not dwell into sciences of astrology and astronomy. As an aspirant transforms into a disciple and moves towards the Soul, there are always fresh revelations of wisdom. Excessive dedication towards these sciences may cause a deviation from the Path, which Krishna cautions in the 7th chapter of Bhagavad Gita. To sum up, Vaisakh festival, in its true sense, is fourfold. As one enters and walks the Path, revelations happen, which are called initiations. So much for now. I hope, I have complicated and confused. I know for certain, that you understand, since you have a tremendous hunger for knowledge. But for other simple students of Yoga, it may cause headache. Nevertheless, to satisfy advanced members, you can share to this extent.”

So, here are a few hints, taken from two letters and partly a little adapted – in case, read it with an open heart and a meditative mind – not with a questioning mind ready to jump up.

“The Wesak festival is originally known as Vaisakha Festival. Vaisakha is one of the names of Lord Sanat Kumara. Ever since He assumed to be the Lord of this planet, this festival came to be. It is ages before the advent of Lord Buddha. There is a constellation among the 27 Nakshatra constellations called Vaisakha. It is the 16th constellation. When the full moon happens in this constellation, it is celebrated as Vaisakha Festival.
It is a distortion to call it as Wesak festival and Taurus festival. In the year 2021, in the month of April, on 27th, the full moon point was around 9:52 am IST when moon was in Swathi, 15th constellation. In May 2021, the full moon phase begins on 25th May at 7.51pm IST and concludes on 26 at 5.24 pm. Vaisakha begins at 4.20pm IST on 25th and concludes. The full moon point happens at 5.25 pm IST on 26th. Therefore, it is the night of 25th which is relevant for us to orient to Vaisakha Festival.
A day before a after are also important. Knowledge is unendingly occult. We move into and relate as much as is known. It is important to observe the constellation in which the full moon is happening. Fact is, this festival is on 25th night, our logic and understanding apart. It would be beneficial if our members familiarize with the book on Nakshatras as a preliminary step.

The Lord Sanat Kumara conducts 4 festivals in relation to the Earth during the year.

1. Vaisakh Festival: The first one is introduced as the Vaisakh festival, which relates to the star (constellation) Visakha. The festival can also happen in Anuradha, which is an inseparable associate of Visakha.
2. Scorpio festival: The second festival happens in Scorpio during Scorpio full moon, when the Sun is in Scorpio and Moon is in Krithika (Pleiades). It can also happen in Rohini. Scorpio is known as the month of Karthika, because the full moon mostly happens when the Sun is in Scorpio and Moon is in Karthika. The aspirant in Taurus or Vaisakha tends to be an occult student in the festival of Karthika. His focus shifts from the world to the inner world. He slowly and gradually detaches from the objective world and grows in the subjective world, with regular occult practices into which he gets entry with aid of Nature or a Teacher. He consecrates himself and strenuously the practices within to relate through symbols, colours and sounds. He takes to esoteric study and gradually transforms his life. He lives more in the hidden side of the being than in the pompous and glamour side of the world. It is like a caterpillar withdrawing into a cocoon. He transforms. This is truly a transformation that leads him from personality to Soul.
   In Taurus, he is bound by individuality. In Scorpio, he develops radiant and magnetic personality, relating to the Soul. He tries to function as Soul and expresses through personality. This magical work culminates with a festival of Karthika, which is but Scorpio full moon. This full moon can also happen in Rohini. Rohini, and Krithika are again a pair by character. Krithika is called scissors. Rohini is called Aldebaran (birth star of Krishna).
3. Leo festival: The Hierarchy has a program to lead the New Group of World Servers into the Leo festival and lead the successful ones to the Leo festival, which happens when Sun is in Leo and Moon is in Sravana. The star Sravana comes from the name of the Kumara as Saravana. The purpose of the festival is to enable the disciple to be able to perceive the Plan, through sound and vision and conduct with knowledge and ability coming from the previous festival, Karthika. The star Sravana occultly bestows Mastery over the five senses, the five sense organs and five pulsations. It enables extra sensory perception.
4. Aquarian festival: The Aquarian festival happens when the Sun is in Aquarius and the moon is in Makha (the first constellation of Leo, which is also called Regulus). The disciple becomes a magical worker through Makha and cooperates with the Plan and continues to progress associating with the hierarchy.

Sanat Kumara presides over these four groups of World Servers in collaboration with Hierarchy. It means, the festival of Vaisakh in Taurus, the festival of Karthika in Scorpio and the festival Saravana or Sravana, the festival of Makha in Aquarius are relevant for us, in relation to Sambala and Sanat Kumara. Therefore, the members should know the moon’s placement in relation to the following stars:

• Vaisakha – Visakha, Anuradha
• Karthika – Krithika, Rohini
• Sravana – Sravana, Dhanishta
• Aquarius – Makha

When a full moon happens in these stars, the energies of Sanat Kumara are distributed which our members should know. The other full moons also happen in pairs of Stars (Nakshatra constellations), which I give below:

• Aries – Chitta and Swathi
• Gemini – Jyestha and Moola
• Cancer – Purvashada and Uttarashada
• Virgo – Purvabhadra and Uttarabhadra
• Libra – Aswini and Bharani
• Sagittarius – Mrugashira and Ardra
• Capricorn – Pushyami and Ashlesha
• Pisces – Purvaphalguni and Uttaraphalguni

In Satabhisham, Revathi, Punarvasu, they (full moons) generally do not happen. But, due to Moon’s erratic movements and varying sizes of constellations, exceptionally it may happen. These constellations and related stars have puranic clues to gain additional information relating to Cosmic and Solar intelligences. Wherever it is relevant, we relate to them for our purpose. Bringing lunar based astrology in toto would confuse what is already promoted by Hierarchy via HPB, AAB and EK.

Lastly, the new group of world servers need to move from mutable signs to fixed signs, and fixed signs to cardinal signs. Discipleship is to work with the fixed signs, eliminating the inconsistencies of the mutable signs. Therefore the four festivals are presided over by Sanat Kumara to fix the aspirant on the Path.

“Aquarian Cross” is a book dedicated for this purpose, where I eliminated introduction of the constellation to avoid confusion. It happened in 1993. After 28 years, it is revealed on demand. Teaching is but spoon feeding, but not dumping.

Moon light is magical. It brings in the energies of Venus, Neptune and Soma. Magic has its own, slippery dimension. We get into the Moon, in slow degrees. The book on the Moon itself, was given after all other books on planets. It is followed by constellation. Now this is an addendum to what is recently given on Wisdom of Nakshatras.”

So much for now.

I recently had an exchange with a seeker from the West about various questions relating to the wisdom teachings as given by the World Teacher Trust. – The photos are from morning walks through our neighbourhood and not related to the content.

On one of the first e-mails the lady replied: “Again, many thanks for this, especially to Master Kumar. Maybe there will be an opportunity for me to participate at a meeting with him…”

I answered: “Master Kumar will not travel to the West anymore. In February 2020, Master Kumar became very weak. On April 14, 2020, he was hospitalised with cancer and lost consciousness for 5 days. During this time his wife died. He came back again because his work is not finished yet. After the first chemo, he just let himself be treated with homeopathy for a while, but then a second chemo became necessary…”

She: “I was very much occupied by the reference to the illness of Master Kumar and I asked myself how it can come to such a disbalance in the physical body of a master? Maybe it is a naive thought, but that a person with this spiritual background and the connection to Master CVV falls victim to such an aggressive disease, I would not have suspected and this gives me some puzzles. Was there any explanation on the part of the WTT or maybe even from Master Kumar?
Were or are under these circumstances fundamental assumptions of the theoretical frame of reference of the spiritual background of the WTT again put to the test? Could it be purely theoretically that not all basic assumptions contained in the publications and recommendations derived from them are doubtlessly, correct? I ask for your indulgence, but I would be grateful to learn how this -for Master Kumar unfortunately very sad circumstance- is dealt with in the community.”

Me: “There are often things where we run into the void with our (mental) urge for the ‘why and how something is so’. We also cannot see from our limited view why something is chosen where by a Master. Master Kumar often told how the great Masters Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (Wikipedia: ‘On August 16, 1886 Ramakrishna died of throat cancer in the circle of his disciples.’) and Ramana Maharshi chose to choose a serious disease like cancer. (Wikipedia: ‘In 1949, a cancerous tumour was discovered on his arm. Ramana underwent four operations, but refused to have his arm amputated. When he died on April 14, 1950, he assured those left behind, “That which is me cannot die because it was never born”.’)

I have not attempted to explain Sri Kumar’s illness, nor do I know of any such attempt. However, I am very impressed with the way he deals with it. … For me, due to the illness, the teachings of the WTT are not at all ‘on the test bench’, on the contrary, he shows, as he teaches, that we all use the body as a vehicle, which we will also replace again like a car that has become unusable, in order to get a better model.
I have studied his teachings intensively, but I do not see that even in purely theoretical terms a revision of basic assumptions would result from the present situation. It is very stringent to me. I have, over the years, gone through enough doubts and also chasms, where I had often also received great support through him. I also think there is not ‘one’ way the community deals with the situation, but everyone has their own approach. (I sometimes said it seems to me that there are as many WTTs as there are people in it – because the understanding is in each case that of the person).

She: “Thank you for your extensive explanations, which show me that there are many more aspects to be considered and that the illness of Master Kumar can be seen from completely different angles. I had left unconsidered in my questions and considerations the fact that the ways of a Master can be unfathomable and elude our limited horizon. There seems to be in the connections and the interaction between the 7 bodies of a human being still other connections than those discussed so far. Possibly a disbalance with a Master can be balanced differently than it is possible with a ‘normal mortal’. In my opinion, a cancer illness mostly indicates an imbalance and an unresolved problem in the psyche, which has become somatized. Thereby not ‘redeemed’ and ‘repressed’ aggressive impulses often play a supporting role in this kind of illness. The fact that all Masters mentioned by you have left the incarnated life because of exactly this disease, seems to me to be no coincidence……
Life on earth is complex and the backgrounds and connections are multilayered and often difficult or even impossible to understand. It is important that Master Kumar is in harmony with himself and it is nevertheless so far well for him.
I am very grateful to the WTT that the spiritual teachings have been made accessible to everyone and I thank them again expressly.”

Me: “Yes, there may be other possibilities for the influence of a Master. However, unlike what average people do or would like to do, they do not use their knowledge and abilities for themselves. They allow what happens to them to happen. Often initiates have explained that this is a way they neutralize any remaining physical karma by remaining neutral to it. Whether that is cancer or some other disease, whether it is an accident or even, as often happened, for example with Buddha, a poisoning by a follower, or even, as in the most famous example of Jesus Christ, a crucifixion.
An average person would certainly have quickly found ways to escape this.

The Master is also not concerned with ‘being in harmony with himself’, but with the divine – whether he, as a personality, is doing well, is of no importance to him. In a small booklet about H.B. Blavatsky I once wrote:
‘In spite of great bodily pains, she continued the work on the “Secret Doctrine”. By the end of 1886, her state of health was so critical that she was temporarily in a coma and made a will on the insistence of her friends. However, the “Secret Doctrine” was not yet finished, but after one night where she was near her end and the doctors had already given her up, to the great surprise of her friends, she sat up in her bed with wakeful eyes and said: “Master was here, he gave me the alternative either to die and to be free or to live and finish the ‘Secret Doctrine’. He warned me of further great pains and torments, if I would choose to live. But when I thought of all those serious students, who are waiting for help from me, and of the storm-shaken society, for whom the ‘Secret Doctrine’ could be an anchor…” Then she asked for coffee and her tobacco tin…’
Several times, I have also observed this attitude with Master Kumar.”

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

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

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

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

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

At one point, the correspondence with my young Indian friend touched the question of ethical issues in microdosing psycho-drugs, esp. Psilocybin. The illustrations are from a walk along the Aare river in the municipality where I am living – not related to the content.

My friend wrote: “I don’t remember if I told you this previously but I started researching on microdosing of Psilocybin to see if it can be used to treat psychological problems like postpartum. It’s a very exciting study and with a lot of luck I’ll probably be able to do a clinical trial to study its performance. Please let me know if you sense any ethical issues with the aim of this study.”

My answer: “As per Psilocybin / ‘Magic Mushrooms’: Microdosing might be an interesting field of research. Here in Switzerland a psychiatrist team officially got permission to experiment with microdosing LSD. (I had done self-experiments with LSD, about 10 trips in 1973-74, before starting meditation; for 3 years at that time, I also smoked a lot of hash – I felt attracted to the Hippie movement and ‘expansion of consciousness’.)
It is difficult to understand the long-term impacts. Depression seems to be a problem related to missing soul contact. I do not clearly know about the subtle effects of psycho-drugs but it seems that they have effects of tearing apart subtle etheric veils.

The brain is the instrument for the soul to incarnate through, built by the Lords of Form (Lunar Pitris), and it took very long to develop the right forms for the souls to enter. When these forms are somehow affected, the expression cannot be stable or is seriously hampered.
If microdosing helps to remove blockages must be studied in such experiments – ask for inner guidance the inner team of healers as per such experiments.
I know from the trance work of my wife that she had success to a certain degree with treating depression – in the process, she is ‘taking the place of the soul’, triggering the soul contact of the patient who is not able to hold it him/herself); but in serious cases it needs treatment with psychopharmaka. It is certainly worthwhile researching if psilocybin opens new vistas.
So I don’t see ethical issues as such but try to stay in inner contact with the processes initiated.”

She answered: “For a while, I had the feeling of the presence of an inner guide. It was not the / a Master, maybe an elder helper. In the Tibetan’s books it is described that elder disciples help the younger ones from inside; this reminds me of a message Master KPK sent us recently. He said that seniors help juniors. The way your wife has a team of inner doctors helping, I hope I’ll get a team of pharmacologists, clinical researchers, statisticians and neurologists to help me advance my research on psychedelics.
I was repeatedly thinking of this ‘joke’ in my mind and then a thought came out of nowhere. It said, ‘Wisdom wasn’t given to Madam HPB for free. She had to take a very tough training before becoming capable of receiving all that wisdom’.
This thought felt like a gentle slap in my face. I understood that I should first be worthy of guidance to receive it and this totally makes sense.”