The website with the images which had come through me https://ludgerphilips.org/ was technically deprecated and in a delicate situation for several years. Around last Easter, my younger son creating a totally new website, migrating all content from the system on the old website with AI.
The new website is done technically for very long stability and arrangements were done to maintain it over longer time. The site has just been launched, again in four languages. You can find it here. Some additions will come in the next time.
Today, August 4th, we commemorate the birthday of Master CVV (1868-1922), the great Master who anchored the Aquarian energy on our planet. As per Indian counting, this year is his 159th birthday; as per Western counting, we now celebrate his 158th birthday.
Master CVV gave out a New Yoga, which gave a new impetus for the evolution of life. This yoga path was given by Master CVV for a faster ascent. It is also called the Yoga of Synthesis. The essence of all his teachings is to focus on the ONE PRESENCE in all that exists. The main goal of this yoga is to transcend death.
Further goals of this path of Yoga are:
To make groups of people transmitters of light and consciousness,
To purify the etheric and mental body of man with sound vibrations, by invoking of the sound key “Namaskarams Master CVV”,
To heal diseases of man through this mantram and to prepare healthy etheric bodies,
To awaken the kundalini in man, to coordinate it with the kundalini of others and to connect it with the cosmic kundalini.
The time of Leo offers a special opportunity to experience the light of the soul, Buddhi, by withdrawing into our inner self and contemplating the golden light of the sun. The touch of Buddhi helps to transform our personality, the shadow of Leo. When we align ourselves with the Super-soul and connect with the THAT – THAT I AM – then we are on the path to transforming ourselves from the son of Man into the Son of God. This is called ‘the birth of the Son of the Sun’.
Last week I spent a one more beautiful time with my friends Manfred and Sabine at their home in Heiligenberg in the north of Lake Constance. A relaxing little group life time filled with exchanges, excursions and meeting friends who came for a visit. Manfred and Sabine are very hospitable, and it’s always a deep pleasure to be able to spend a few days with them.
I arrived from Switzerland just at noon time for the Thursday World Health and Healing prayer together with Manfred, joining the zoom group meditation transmission. Manfred later took me to the Keller-Werft, a little wharf with an Italian restaurant directly at the lake in Überlingen. Sabine joined us coming from her job at a social care organisation, and later two more friends came, living in the surrounding. We were sitting in the open huge hall of the restaurant directly next to the lake – a holiday feeling start. Later in the afternoon, we took a refreshing bath in the lake.
The next morning, before the heat of the day set in, I went for a walk up to Heiligenberg, along a small road. Through the bushes, there was a sweeping view across the countryside and Lake Constance.
In a small grotto, fresh water flowed from the mountain. At the edge stood a painting of a woman with long hair, depicted as the ‘goddess of the spring’, alongside a few painted wooden eggs. A blue wooden banner expressed gratitude for the water of Heiligenberg.
Later, Manfred and I picked a large potful of redcurrants in the garden, and I learnt ‘fish yoga’ – watching the goldfish in the pond, and giving them water and food. A net over the little pond keeps the herons away.
A red kite would often circle above us, using the updraft from the mountain to carry itself upwards.
Friday afternoon, I went to Mettnau with Sabine, where we went for a swim in the beach park. For our evening meditation, we found a shady spot by a seesaw. When we opened our eyes after a quarter of an hour, two girls were looking at us as they waited to jump on the seesaw.
Sabine and Manfred had organised a summer party in the garden for their group on Saturday afternoon – but many cancelled because of the intense heat. To our great delight, however, a dear old friend of us all arrived by taxi from Munich for two days. We made preparations in the morning, and a few people turned up in the afternoon. With a group meditation and lively conversations with friends and new acquaintances, the party was a ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’.
On Sunday morning, Sabine and I drove to Überlingen. We managed to catch part of the ‘Swedish Procession’. It is a tradition celebrated since centuries still in three towns, commemorating the successful defence against sieges by the Swedes during the Thirty Years’ War. The procession route was beautifully decorated with flowers and small altars, on which prayers for peace had been arranged in the flowers.
Altar with flower decorations in the old town
The ‘Swedish Madonna’ and other valuable artefacts are carried by altar servers and Scouts from Überlingen.
Flower decorations at the beach promenade in Überlingen
A couple taking a selfie
Afterwards, Sabine and I strolled along the lake and a park, and I could see where she worked.
A Roman fountain in the park
In the evening, when the heat of the day had cooled down a bit, we had a second stroll along the lake together with Manfred and our friend from Munich.
Monday, the visit slowly came to close. Before leaving, Sabine wanted to show us an old chapel by the lake, whose murals were only uncovered at the start of the 20th century. We had to walk quite a distance from the car park to the church, but it was a real gem.
The Sylvester Chapel near Goldbach, a district of Überlingen, is a small pre-Romanesque church on the shores of Lake Constance. The chapel is one of the oldest churches in southern Germany.
The altar with part of the murals
Of particular significance are its 9th/10th-century wall paintings – an Ottonian pictorial cycle depicting scenes from the life of Jesus Christ and other scenes, created by painters from Reichenau Abbey.
Two saints
Windows of the chapel with pieces of the murals
Saying good-bye, starting the way home – up a hill along narrow country lanes, onto the motorway. The heat and heavy traffic transported me back to another world, with a treasure wealth of profound impressions in my heart.
It is prophesied that our present life-wave of humanity would either perish in fire or overcome it. For those who maintain spiritual goodness, or, like Noah’s Ark, they will be saved and overcome the fires. Humanity will be lifted up when the Divine Will prevails over the human will.
Sanat Kumara, the Lord of Shambala, intends to strengthen the Will of the Divine within humanity, so that people may transcend the fire rather than perish in it. Sanat Kumara stimulates the Will of God in those who align themselves by subordinating their personal will to the Divine Will: ‘Father, thy will be done, not mine’.
Within our spinal column there is a vertical subtle channel, called Sushumna, which enables the flow of the energy of will. It is recommended that we orient ourselves to the Divine Will through our morning prayer, either in the Ajna centre in the head, in the heart, or in the higher heart centre in the upper chest region. The sun signs of Aries, Leo and Capricorn are related to the three centres mentioned. Astrological symbols for the Will of God are the ram of Aries, the lion of the sign of Leo and the unicorn of the sign of Capricorn.
The image shows the semi-transparent silhouette of a human figure, surrounded and permeated by the scenery of beach, ocean and sky. At its centre there is the Sushumna energy channel. At its middle is the figure of a lion in the heart centre, designed using a Wikimedia photo by Vitold Muratov of a lion statue in the Thorvaldsen Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark. In the higher heart centre, designed with a photo of a blue diamond and, fused with it, the figure of a unicorn. Above, the head of a ram can be seen.
It is reminiscent of the Puranic tale of Prajapati Daksha, whose head was severed and replaced with that of a ram. The story teaches us to overcome pride in order to humbly reintegrate ourselves into the greater Plan.
In India, there is a long tradition of picture books depicting stories from the Ramayana, Mahabharata, Puranas, and other epics. They are targeted to children – I have read many such picture books in English language with my then small children, translating the booklets orally. My sons liked them as action stories with a profound spiritual background. Of course, we also read illustrated wisdom books of the Western tradition.
And such books are not only read by children but also by those remained young at heart. The inspiration and impressions gleaned from such picture books during childhood remain with us, either consciously or unconsciously, throughout our lives.
A friend from Hyderabad, India – Sanath Sripathi – has realised up to now 5 story books on the lives of Masters of Wisdom told in picture e-books format. A team of volunteers contributed to scriptwriting, translation, proofreading the books – and so it came that I also got involved and enjoyed the stories very much.
While the first 3 books were illustrated by artist friends mentioned in the books, the last 2 were AI generated – and in the process well refined.
Like in the previous years, we met again on the day of the summer solstice at the the Paracelsus Center of WTT near Einsiedeln, Switzerland. It is the time of one of the four cardinal points of the year and it is important to align during during this time, where the energies of nature take to another direction. We were a small group of seven friends coming from Austria, South Germany and Switzerland. Around 9 am we met on a parking and walked to the fire place on the mountain ridge of the Etzel pass for a little fire ritual and meditation around the exact time of the solstice. There is a gorgeous view over to Einsiedeln and on the other side to Lake Zurich.
On the way
View of the Einsiedeln Monastery and the Mythen behind
Singing the hymns of the fire ritual. Directly behind the place it goes deep down the ridge to Lake Zurich
A fire deva
Offering some wooden sticks into the fire
The summer solstice meditation
View from the fire place
On the way back, with some flowers for the summer solstice altar at the Paracelsus Center
Later, we went to the Paracelsus Center near the old “Devil’s Bridge” (Tüfelsbrugg), preparing the room and the room. Then we started with a little ceremony.
A medal with the bust of Paracelsus, the great healer, fire philosopher and alchemist
A group member brought a Sri Yantra, symbol of the World Mother, Sri, as a gift for the Center.
We had a planetary healing meditation at 12 am followed by lunch with a hearty exchange. Later we went down to the Sihl river at the old Tüfelsbrugg. It was very hot outside but it cooled down near the water.
At the Sihl river
Reading a text of a lecture of Master Kumar about the importance of celebrating the summer solstice.
The evening meditation and cleaning the place closed this year’s beautiful celebration at the Paracelsus Center.
The sun was coming down already when, on the way back, we had a stop at the Lake Sihl near Einsiedeln for breathing in the peaceful ambiance. On the highway, the sun gave us its gorgeous golden light sharing with us magic moments between mountains and cars.
At summer solstice the Sun enters the nurturing and nourishing water sign of Cancer and begins its journey southward towards the Tropic of Capricorn, where at Winter Solstice, the new ascent begins. In astrology, Cancer corresponds to the fourth house or the home, and in our body it is the chamber of the heart. Thus, as the Sun enters Cancer, it also enters into the chamber of our heart. We can use the energy of Cancer to illuminate our personality and thus transmit the light of the soul more fully into our surroundings. As souls, we are the Solar Angel expressing through our personality the light and nurturing of Cancer into a waiting and thirsty humanity.
Shambala is the planetary centre where the Will of God is received from higher circles and expressed on Earth under the guidance of Sanat Kumara. Shambala receives and transmits the energies of the Seven Rays precipitating down through the Sun and the planets, the twelve signs of the zodiac, and the great energy systems of the Pleiades, the Great Bear and Sirius, as well as a multitude of other sources. Shambala receives the energies, synthesizes them and distributes them on the Earth for the well-being of the earthy.
The stupendous work of Shambala and Sanat Kumara is immeasurable and indescribable. Nor can it be adequately depicted. Yet through daily remembrance of Shambala, we strengthen our will to do good, our knowledge and the effectiveness of our actions. The image serves as an aid to contemplative focus.
The earthly sphere is indicated by a view across South Asia and the Himalayas towards the region of Shambala. Shambala is symbolically represented by a large lotus composed of floral elements.
Shambala is surrounded by higher circles in the colours of the Seven Rays. Inserted within this, planetary spheres and the signs of the zodiac are indicated, with Gemini, Cancer and Leo immersed in the earthly sphere and the opposite sign, Capricorn, merging with the light of the solar sphere.
The bluish star in the centre is Sirius. Together with the Great Bear and the Pleiades, it forms an energy triangle. Energies flow into Shambala via the central axis.
This year, the international May Call Day Celebration took place from 27 – 31 May in the Hotel Weissenburg in Billerbeck, Germany. There had been 5 group lives with Master KPK in this hotel. Now Sri Guru Prasad, the son ofMaster KPK, came from India for this year’s May Call celebration together with Ramana, who already had accompanied Sri Kumar during many of his tours to the West.
We drove up from Switzerland one day before the start of the seminar. It was a very hot day with partly heavy traffic. We stayed overnight in the house of good friends in Münster, Doris and Günter. On the way to the seminar centre, I visited with them the St. Ludger Cathedral in Billerbeck. It is at this place that my patron saint died in 809. And 50 years ago, I spend 4 years of my student times 2 villages from Billerbeck away.
St. Ludger Cathedral in Billerbeck seen from near the hotel
The huge hotel and seminar center is beautifully located on a little hill surrounded by old beech woods – very nice for little promenades and exchanges with friends.
There were about 125 group members mainly from Germany and Spain – and some, like me, from Switzerland, Austria, Belgium and France. the group life started with a little thanksgiving candle ceremony in memory of Master Kumar and his wife Kumari.
After welcome greetings, Guru Prasad presented the topic he chose for the seminar, “Transcending of Death” on the basis of the Katha Upanish – a very profound teaching: the story of the child Nachiketa coming to Yama, the Lord of Death and enquiring about reality – the eternal and the transient.
Guru Prasad elaborated the topic very well during the seminar. Especially fascinating were the explanations on working with respiration and pulsation for opening the petals of the inner lotuses and the sounds related to these petals. I decided not to take notes during this seminar, unlike I had done in earlier seminars of Master KPK, but to dive into the teachings.
Guru Prasad during the opening session
Looking back into the hall through the camera & laptop of Ramana during a pause of the zoom transmission of a meeting
Friday morning, 29 May, the day of the May Call Day, there was a fire ritual after the morning prayer / meditation.
Guru Prasad and Ramana during the fire ritual, with an image of Master CVV projected at the background.
Besides of the official program, there was time for plenty of exchanges and networking during the meals or in the free times. Saturday evening, there was a cultural program with musical presentations of some artists and of an ad-hoc choir / band.
Sunday morning after the prayer and closing words, the departures started. We stayed until early afternoon, for the Gemini full moon meditation followed by the global health and healing meditation at noon.
It was a small but very dedicated team of WTT Germany / Executive Group who had made this harmonious and rich May Call celebration possible – very well organised. A warm thank-you to all who participated and contributed. (The pictures used here are partly from Ramana and Guru Prasad.)
