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Cancer is the fourth sign of the zodiac. Sun in Cancer is said to be at home in the heart chamber, the home of the Divine. He comes out of compassion and remains for a month. It is like a Master of Wisdom visiting our home. We can relate to him, seek his guidance, listen to his advice and establish a cordial relationship. He gives us the impact of his light and love and conducts the needed rectifications. May we re-orient ourselves afresh to the divine messengers, the Teachers of Wisdom. They are commemorated during Cancer Full Moon, Guru Purnima, the full moon of the Teacher.
Summer Solstice – already more than a week has passed by. Like in previous years, we wanted to celebrate the beginning of summer at the Paracelsus centre and start with a solstice fire ritual on the mountain ridge near the Etzel Pass at a place with a grand view towards Einsiedeln, the surrounding mountains and, on the other side, the Zurich lake.
You find in the following some impressions – but please see also the report of the “Anima” team about their visit to the Paracelsus centre end of May at the end of this blogpost.
Inn and chapel in the Etzel Pass
On the way
View down to the Zurich lake
During the fire ritual, there was very sublime ambiance and we could feel the presence of the Devas, subtile intelligences. At the very end of the ritual, a short spray of raindrops gave us their blessing touch for 1-2 minutes.
Preparing the ritual
View from the place of the fire ritual
Around the solstice time of the entrance of the Sun into Cancer, we did a meditation in alignment with the many groups celebrating solstice globally. Afterwards we went down into the valley to the Paracelsus centre, where we prepared a little altar and aligned to the solstice energies with some mantram chanting and reading a text on the importance of summer solstice.
We had brought a copy of the painting of Nicholas Roerich ‘Song of Shambala’ for relating to the Shambala energy together with those of Paracelsus, the great Master, alchemist and fire philosopher.
In the afternoon, we did a walk in the surrounding and down to the Sihl river flowing through the valley.
The house at the birthplace of Paracelsus, where is the Paracelsus centre, and the “Devil’s Bridge”
“Day and Night” swimming in the Sihl river
The Devil’s bridge across the Sihl river
Footbath in a little brook
A blue dragonfly
The way up to the centre
We concluded the celebration with some exchange and the evening meditation. Since the direct road to Einsiedeln for the way back was closed due to repair, we had to make a little detour which brought us along the Sihl lake – and gave an excellent close with a foot bath.
The next morning, at the monthly Zoom exchange with the Anima team, they told about their experiences at the Paracelsus centre during their visit around May Call (29 May) to do some videos. I would like to share here the inspiring text they wrote about their visit:
Four WTT members from Argentina, Belgium and Spain felt the call to visit Paracelsus House in Switzerland. One of us came from Bristol (England) by plane, another one also from Bristol by car via Brussels (more than 1.200 km overcoming a long blockage in the Eurotunnel) and the last two of us by car from Barcelona covering about 2.200 km including both ways in an interval of 60 hours.
The effort was worth by far. From the moment when stepped in the Paracelsus House we felt an extraordinary embracing and welcoming sense of peace. A silence, not only external, but above all subtle.
This small group received the cooperation of a non-WTT member living in Zurich who joined the work. Those 5 people performed a ritual regarding to each element: a fire ritual in a safe place near a water stream that goes to river Sihl, a water ritual in the house, a ritual for the air on the top of a mountain and a silent ritual about the earth on the crypt of Einsiedeln Abbey with the presence of the Black Madonna.
In all these places we could feel the presence of the mother nature that rules over the valley and was the background force that allowed Paracelsus to connect with the elements and the elementals.
We also felt that to visit Paracelsus house, inner fire and will must be activated. The presence of Paracelsus energy is sublime, but silent and concealed and it is bestowed to those who do the required work and approach in poise, with simplicity and humbleness. At the end we understood that it was not only an experience but also a test of readiness and will.
As a result of the visit, as members of ANIMA team (a communication project that intends to spread useful wisdom), the group produced several videos about the life of Paracelsus, the energy of the valley, the meaning of alchemy and the group of fire philosophers. The videos will be publishing once a week during the next 3 months.
Each day, we experience the apparent movement of the Sun rising in the East, coming to the midheaven at noon and then setting in the West. At midnight, the Sun reaches the bottom point. These four points constitute the cardinal cross of the day. On the horizontal plane, they form the four directions of East, South, West, and North. They only exist in relation to a being standing on Earth.
The year has the same four cardinal points namely the two solstices and the two equinoxes. They form the cardinal cross with the cardinal signs of Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn. The full moon and the new moon, together with the two crescent moons, are the four cardinal points of the month. The four cardinal points signify the secrets of birth, life, and death and the smaller and larger cycles of time.
To depict this profound wisdom, I constructed the four cardinal points of the day by arranging pictures of the Sun taken in India and in Switzerland: sunrise, noon and sunset, and a daylight photo digitally transformed into a “midnight sun”. The background is designed with the help of a pre-sunrise picture taken on a flight over India.
The subtle shades of the sky needed special attention to modulate the colours. Rendering them for print on aquarelle paper, then drawing on paper, and scanning the image always changes the colours a lot, until the final version is ready for digital publishing and photo print. In each form of appearance the colours change, this being part of the creative process.
The symbolism of Cancer is visualised in the thirteen Cancer paintings done between 2010 and 2022. For detailed detailed descriptions please see the ludgerphilips.org website.
Looking back to the journey to India 10 days after returning, the impact of the experiences slowly become clearer. The memories of details recede; exchanges with close friends or with my wife have given shape to certain moments by telling about them. But there is more to it, and it needs time to digest. It is one thing to be under the direct impact of situations and exchanges and it is another to observe transformations happening inside and to perceive how the trip was enriching to the inner growth of awareness. There were moments and observations which have contributed to it.
Entrance to the hall
I have been at many group lives and seminars with Master Kumar over the last 25 years – journeys to India, in Europe, to North and South America. I have been keen on absorbing the teachings, on digesting them by intense taking notes, on developing a network of like-minded people. Friendships developed or were deepened. There were incidences and encounters which moved and partly challenged me – health issues, digesting situations and impressions, re-stabilizing in everyday life after some climax experiences. There were ideas for projects or service activities coming up which needed to be developed through months and years. This has been much enriching for my life. It was and is an unfoldment to many dimensions.
The last journey has been special – short but again very intense: two days of travelling, five days of group living, long hours of meditation, of rituals, of long lectures of the Master full of energy and with great presence, where he was surmounting all physical disabilities, radiating joyfulness, uplifting the large group present in the hall and outside and also participating online somewhere on the planet. Intense talks; eating in the hall with the other Westerners, where mindful and cheerful Indian ladies, group members, took lovingly care of serving us food; being accommodated as a group in the houses of group members in the surrounding. Sleeping on a mattress on the floor, short nights, getting up at a quarter to four, having time for bathroom and doing asanas before going to the morning prayers. Witnessing much attention of many helpers looking to the many details of organising – arrivals and departures of the participants, housing, transports – in an unexcited and efficient way… A strong presence of group consciousness with a pleasant absence of a commercial attitude. An experience of brotherhood.
A reflection of fire ritual in an image of Master M.
After the journey, I try to distil what I should integrate into my way of life and add to my daily or weekly practices. This part goes more to the core and has a long lasting influence. There were hints of Sri Kumar which impressed me – on the importance of one-to-one relations in group building; on sharing one’s knowledge about the Hierarchy and the wisdom teachings and letting friends and relatives participate; on the inner strength needed for conducting ritualistic work and its magnetism; on the power of inner relating and visualising; on feeling the Master consciousness existing as ourselves and recollecting the presence of the Master. Not much can be mentioned here. But applying such hints is the essence of experience and development. Otherwise, things are quickly forgotten, and the journey would just have been an entertaining adventure.
Sunrise over the Arabian Sea during the flight back
It was an intense trip for seven days, back to India, after two and a half years of “forced pause”. Though there was only a small time window for me to travel, I felt a strong inner call to go to the 113th Master CVV May Call Group Living. So I flew on 25 May via Dubai to Bengaluru.
26th morning, a gorgeous sunrise with all colours, from dark blue to radiant golden orange and blue-white welcomed me while the plane was crossing Goa. When approaching the goal, desert lands on the ground changed to green fields, little ponds and rivers reflecting light – cut here and there by roads. Then the huge iron bird carrying in two storeys a big load of humans and luggage touched the runway ground.
In Dubai, I had already met a group member coming from Puerto Rico and it was very nice to meet again after some years. She had a much longer journey behind. Soon, we were walking through the corridors to the “guardians of the threshold” – Covid controllers, immigration and customs. Although the queues weren’t long, it took 1.5 hs to cross the controls. It was a little Saturnian patience ritual allowing us to finally enter India.
A taxi driver was waiting for us, and soon we were on the way through the city. Dense noon traffic made me fall asleep for a while, after nearly no sleep in the airplane. A bit refreshed after the nap, I “drank” all the images, smells and colourful impressions –many huge trees along the streets – big banyans plenty of mighty old Ashvatta trees (ficus religiosa), arrays of fiery eucalyptuses behind the walls of a botanic garden. And then, men and women with their helmets driving slalom with their motor-bikes through the quickly changing holes in the traffic stream, people carrying boxes walking in slow steps across a road seemingly unmindful of what was going on around, a small bus coming from the wrong direction on the highway – no problem…. And cows were seeking their way along the roads looking for some green at the sides.
After two hours’ drive we finally arrived at Sadguru Tapovana, the centre of WTT-Bengaluru. Along the main road into Tapovana preparation work for the group living was on the way –820 members came for the celebration, a logistic challenge solved with much calm and an excellent organisation by the Tapovana group.
Along the main street to the “Wisdom Temple”, there were panels with pictures of Nicholas Roerich and teachings about Shambala under the trees. 2 weeks before there had been heavy rain and storm; it had broken branches and even big old trees, but everything was well set up again. And during the May Call days the weather was mainly dry and sunny.
Mr. Joshi, the spiritual head of Tapovana, later told me that during the 2 years of Corona time the group had intensely grown. Twenty new houses had been constructed in the surroundings since I was there the last time, now totalling 69 houses, offering space for some hundred members often comprising 3 generations are living now there, many children – family clusters. Over the last maybe 20 years, the group had grown in this quarter, constructing houses, cultivating plants, organising a social infrastructure. Later, Master Kumar told the Western group that Tapovana group is very radiant and efficient, a strong magnet of light. We witnessed a joyful ambiance during the whole time.
There was a hearty welcome – many Indian friends came greeting and exchanging some words, and also the members which had come from the west – this time mainly from Spain. Most of them already arrived some days before and had spent some days at the WTT retreat centre “Master Mountain” in the Nilagiris, in the area where Master Jupiter is said to reside, a place of serene and silent beauty. I had been there with a group in December 2016.
After the evening prayer, Master Kumar invited Anna and me for an exchange. It was very joyful and he looked good and energetic, in spite of the serious diseases he had gone through the last 2 years. We spoke about the situation in the groups and dealing with emotional devotion. In a casual mood, he told how in the early years of coming to the West it was a challenge for him to see that people projected all kind of things into him which he did not see in himself. He said: “Can you imagine how it is when several people were seriously seeing in me their spiritual husband…”
When looking at the Annual Report 2021, which I had brought in a print form, he remarked that he still likes most having such things in paper though knowing that the future is electronic. And he pointed out that there are members and groups sharing about the service activities they are doing and thus inspire others. “There are people speaking much and doing little, and others who don’t speak and don’t share about what they are doing, but do great work – however, they depriving the other groups of the experience and inspiration: They have to learn to share.” And he then he proposed to collect the names of all members in the West doing service through translation: “People should know about their important silent work.” Other kinds of service and servers would be presented later.
He mentioned that he interacts with the members on a one-to-one basis as per their needs but focuses on the importance of group work while respecting the existing organisational structures – they should not be by-passed.
He further said that during Zoom group meeting, he always asks his son to show him the picture tiles of all the Zoom members – this way he contacts each one individually and something happens as a result. When people do not switch on their cameras or put symbolic pictures instead of their photos, he cannot make contact and they exclude themselves from this energetic interaction.
And he mentioned that he had developed an exercise for himself to make inner contact once a week with all the groups where he had been, starting with the southern-most group in Argentina, then going up through South and North America, then to Europe and India, connecting with all the groups.
The next morning around 10:30 am, all members from the West were invited for a meeting with the Master. The room was crowded with about 40 persons. At the beginning Sri Kumar mentioned that he cannot properly see the members in the last row and so he asked each one to stand up starting from the back line. He welcomed each one with a profound silent exchange. He spoke about the global situation and the time of transition. There was an intense presence electrifying all.
The May Call celebrations started 27 May in the evening with an introductory discourse. Next morning after meditation, there was an extensive fire ritual dedicated to Lord Dattatreya, followed by the inauguration of a Dattatreya statue in the lecture hall, and again on May Call, 29 May.
During the seminar, the Master spoke a lot about the import of Dattatreya and of Master CVV, explaining profound wisdom aspects. There were also many book presentations, exchanges of gifts and cultural programs of music and dance prepared with the children. But in the centre, there were the prayers / meditations and wisdom teachings.
Here is an extract from Master Kumar’s talk on Sunday evening:
“So much good things happen in Sadguru Tapovana – done for the benefit for all, for the general good, for the group. It happens because of the quality of thought. As you receive it, it is a qualitative thought that is put into action by the will. You come and something new is put into action for the benefit of all, for the benefit of the group, for the enlightenment of the group. Don’t we see the inspiration in the group? It is presented to the group at large. Anything we do with the group as the objective, many things get manifested.
The thought you receive is for the groupal purpose, not for ourselves. In a group, when there are people who think of the group and develop greater facilities for the Master, the thought is gold and your personality is a golden temple. There are outer golden temples but they do not give the transformation given by the golden thoughts. A thought which is good for me is not good for many. A thought which is only good for you is not so for the others.
If the awareness is shifted you think, what can be done for the well-being of the group? That inspiration brings newer thoughts, thoughts that have more light in them, golden thoughts, diamond thoughts, the quality of your thoughts is transformed. When you bring in thoughts of goodwill, meaning thoughts that would benefit others, you receive thoughts and manifest them.
The presence of the Master in you, the awakening of the soul, is the next step. You are not into personal desires as before. You will expand your idea of ‘who is ours’ to the group and include the others. Therefore, the feeling of ‘ours’ extends. Here, there are families and families coming together.
A family means a unit. Today in society, the sense of separation prevails. Here, the unity prevails. When a man gets into yoga, his friends and brothers and sisters join the yoga, and the brothers’ and sisters’ children join the yoga. The presence of the Master is bringing the people together – permeation of the presence of the Master. All together, they try to find a place here, build a place here. To build a Brindavan is the same idea. One man has brought his whole clan here – it is not him but the Presence. It is a cluster of family.”
Time ran quickly by. Monday morning, the group living ended with an extensive question-answer session followed by the final lunch. I had filled my luggage already with many books, new ones and books missing in my store for distribution. All the Western members had been accommodated in the houses of group members.
When in the afternoon, a friend from Spain and me were about to leave the house where many of the Western group had stayed – we were the last ones – we wanted to say thank you to the lady of the house. But instead of leaving, an intense exchange started. Her husband later joined, and still later also their girls. They invited me to stay with them until around midnight, when the taxi would bring me to the airport. We had a lovely evening conversation. When the taxi came at 11 pm, there was heavy rain on this side of the city. The ride to the airport was much faster than on arrival. Soon, I was catapulted back via Dubai to Switzerland, filled with profound and enriching impressions and impulses for next steps ahead on the path.
Gemini is the sign of duality, which at the same time also contains the key to unity. The symbol of Gemini consists of two vertical columns which are connected to each other. The two columns symbolise subjectivity and objectivity and they form a “doorway”. Every morning, when we awaken, the door opens to the world of objective activity and at night, when we go to sleep, the door to objectivity closes again. Similarly, the door leads to subjective activity at night and is closed again in the morning. When we go to sleep and when we wake up, we can experience both worlds for a moment. The wisdom of Gemini teaches us that we can consciously go through the gate in both directions and thus live simultaneously in the subjective and the objective world.
The Masters of the Spiritual Hierarchy are working at spreading the wisdom required to help in the evolution of the beings on the planet. Just as Lord Maitreya and the other great Masters exist, there is also a physical embodiment of the feminine energy in the Himalayas. This grand Master in a female form is called Shaila Putri, the Daughter of the Mountain. She appears as a young woman of eighteen years dressed in garments of tiger skin and holding a trident. She is the Mother of the World for our Planet and the power that assists the Hierarchy, especially in times of crises. She is the guiding star also called “the Exquisite Jewel, the Star of the Sea”. You find her described in the books “The World Teacher” and “Man Sacrifice” written by Master EK.
To illustrate this reality, I worked on images of Shaila Putri and the leading Masters of Hierarchy. To indicate the relation to the Himalayas, I arranged the pictures on a background created with the help of the photo of a crystal.
The symbolism of Gemini is visualised in the thirteen Gemini paintings done between 2010 and 2022. For detailed detailed descriptions please see the ludgerphilips.org website.
She was a very pure soul who was prepared by the Hierarchy already at the time of Lord Krishna, as Master EK shows in his book “Music of the Soul.” You find her in the character of Ruta.
In the 19th century, the Masters chose her for bringing out to humanity the new revelation of the teachings of eternal wisdom. Therefore, she is regarded as the White Lotus that unfolds afresh the beauty and fragrance of new age wisdom.
At the White Lotus Day 2021, Sri Kumar paid homage to HPB, as Blavatsky is also lovingly called, with the following words:
“Today happens to be 8th May, the departure day of Madame Blavatsky recognised by the teachers who led her as the White Lotus Day. Today, in the Brotherhood, White Lotus Day is celebrated in memory of Madame Blavatsky who offered herself to the humanity. Her offering was total. The soul, the personality and the body were dedicated to the work of The Great White Brotherhood. More than the humanity, it is the White Brotherhood that lovingly and affectionately honour her for she has unveiled to humanity the Universal Wisdom so that people come out of their very narrow understanding of the energy which is called God and walk into that light which is Omniscient, Omnipotent and Omnipresent.
Since we are all in form, we look to Divinity through form but the Divinity as such is beyond form, beyond name and even beyond time. The Veda contains this wisdom. The ancient theologies contain this wisdom. They try to give out the patterns in which this energy manifests through various laws of the universe such as the Law of Alternation, the Law of Pulsation, the Law of Involution, the Law of Evolution, the Law of Septenary Manifestation and its gradual withdrawal into itself through cycles of time, the related science of utterance, the related science of contemplation and the related science of action in creation to experience, to evolve and then gain fulfilment.
The work of Madam Blavatsky is seen as a stupendous work carried out in the last part of the 19th century which has vibrated the planet. Thousands and thousands of groups have joined till date and it continues to be. All that she contributed to humanity is recognised more by the Brotherhood than the humanity. It will take a long time for humanity to understand the great work that came through Madame Blavatsky.
We fondly remember her. She is the first one in the recent cycles of time that has unveiled the wisdom which is universal. It is not sectarian. It is not based upon limited thoughts about God. In His memory we…we say, ‘His’ because even the Masters recognise her though in a female body, as a grand male that did a lot of work from the soul dimension.”
May HPB’s life and work inspire us to continue striving “to the Ideal of Human Progression and Perfection which the Secret Science Depicts” and to climb the Golden Stairs up to the Temple of Divine Wisdom.
I nearly daily receive beautiful impressions from the Master Mountain, or Durga Mountain, in the Nilagiris, India. A friend living there to take care of the WTT retreat center shares these impressions from this most spiritual place, in the area of which there is the Ashram of Agastya, also called Master Jupiter, in the subtle dimensions.
Sunrise on 24 April 2022
I could twice go there for a visit – the plans for a 3rd visit were ended by the well-known pandemia… But the pictures and videos give a feeling of being there right now. Have a look at a cloud river flowing over the mountain.
Sunrise at Master Mountain – click on the picture to expand
The 1st of May is celebrated as the birthday of Count Saint Germain, also called Master CSG. For this occasion, a team from WTT Spain has realised a beautiful video (16 min) with international support. It has also been prepared in Spanish.
The video presents facets of the biography of the Master, based on the book “Master CSG” by Master KPK (Dr. K. Parvathi Kumar). It highlights the activity of the Master in the field of ritualism that is conducted through the ritualistic temples all over the globe. Master CSG works largely through esoteric ritual and ceremonial magic, being vitally interested in the effects, hitherto unrecognized, of the ceremonial order of the Freemasons, of various fraternities and of churches everywhere. Here is the English PDF of the book. It also exists in German and in Spanish.
Count St. Germain is also called the Master of the Seventh Ray, the Violet Flame. The book “Violet Flame Invocations” (PDF) by Sri Kumar gives profound insights into this sublime energy.
