Spiritual Hierarchy
Encyclopedia
Spiritual Hierarchy is a term often used in Neo-Theosophy
, and the Ascended Master Teachings
, a group of religion
s based on Theosophy. It represents the concept of a group of self-realised Masters of the Ancient Wisdom
, referred to by those adherent to the Ascended Master Teachings as Ascended Masters
, who are ranked at various levels, and their disciples, invisibly helping humanity from behind the scenes on the higher spiritual planes (although according to Alice A. Bailey and Benjamin Creme
, they are now allegedly planning to making their existence more known on the physical plane
).
Another term used for this idea include Great White Brotherhood
; other terms used less often for this concept are: the Communion of Saints
(where the "saints" are thought of as being the Masters), the Elder Brothers of the Race, the Council of Light, the Society of Illumined Minds, the Planetary Center of Love-Wisdom, The Kingdom of the Gods, the Spiritual Kingdom, the Kingdom of [Advanced] Souls, the Secret Chiefs
, or the Mystical Body of Christ, when used in a New Age
sense centering on Maitreya
and not in the Roman Catholic sense). Basically, the Masters are the New Age equivalent of the saints of the Roman Catholic Church
. The Masters will function as such in the New Age world church called the Church Universal which Alice A. Bailey predicted in 1919 would be founded under the auspices of the Masters of the Ancient Wisdom. . The Hierarchy is, according to Benjamin Creme, "... made up of the Masters and Initiates of all degrees and whose purpose is to implement the Plan of God", referred to by Alice A. Bailey as the Plan of the Masters.
Neo-Theosophy and the Ascended Master Teachings are syncretic religions which combine religious concepts from and deities from primarily Christianity
, Hinduism
and Buddhism
and to some degree from other religions, as well their own unique deities.
religions. It was a Theosophist, Alice A. Bailey, who popularized the term New Age. Just about all "New Age" religions believe in reincarnation
. New Age Ancient Wisdom teachings other than Theosophy and the Ascended Master Teachings, such as Anthroposophy
, Rosicrucianism, most UFO religion
s, and the teachings of many New Age independent guru
s assume the existence a spiritual hierarchy similar to the spiritual hierarchy of Theosophy within which human soul
s rise upward as they reincarnate, although the details may differ.
(but not according to Theosophy), beings in the Spiritual Hierarchy can change their positions within the Hierarchy within the brief time span of a few human generation
s. According to the Ascended Master Teachings as given by Elizabeth Clare Prophet
(but not according to Theosophy), Maitreya
, formerly considered to be the World Teacher, now holds the "Office" of "Planetary Buddha" and "Cosmic Christ", while the head of the Spiritual Hierarchy for Earth is the Lord of the World, an "Office" currently believed by those adherent to the Ascended Master Teachings to be held by Gautama Buddha
, and the former Lord of the World, Sanat Kumara
, is believed to now be the "Regent Lord of the World".
However their specific positions in the Hierarchy are described, both Theosophists and those adherent to the Ascended Master Teachings believe that Maitreya, Buddha, and Sanat Kumara, the three highest beings in the Terran
planetary division of the Spiritual Hierarchy, continue to work for the benefit of humanity from their headquarters in Shamballah on the etheric plane
.
Ascended Masters
, or as they are called in Theosophy, the Masters of the Ancient Wisdom
, are beings that have incarnated on Earth
and ascended to a high level of Initiation
on THIS planet. They are defined by Elizabeth Clare Prophet
as those who have balanced at least 51% of their karma
.
Cosmic Beings are defined as those ascended masters who are of extraterrestrial
origin.
A shorthand term used by both Theosophists and those adherent to the Ascended Master Teachings to denote both Masters of the Ancient Wisdom (Ascended Masters), as well as Cosmic Beings (Cosmic Masters) is to refer to them all simply as Masters (with a capital "M").
The lowest level of ascended masters is the common run of ascended masters, that is, those Masters who have attained the fifth level of initiation
. These include such Masters as Enoch
, Elijah (who as an avatar re-embodied as John the Baptist
), Melchizedek, Confucius
, Lord Ling
, Lanello, Lady Master Magda, Kwan Yin, Zoroaster
, the Great Divine Director, Johannes
(Pope John XXIII
), Padre Pio and many dozens more. Elizabeth Clare Prophet has identified, named, and received dictations from at least 200 ascended masters at this level. However, traditional Theosophists do not recognize any of the new beings identified by Elizabeth Clare Prophet as masters of the ancient wisdom.
C.W. Leadbeater named a Master called Master Jupiter who lives in India
, and is involved with overseeing the people, government, and development of India, that is functioning at level five. (In the Ascended Master Teachings, the Master Jupiter is referred to as Chananda.) It is believed by Theosophists that the Master Jupiter directs a side branch of the main Himalayan Lodge of the Great White Brotherhood called the South Indian Lodge ("South" in this usage meaning that part of India
south of the Himalayas
) whose Masters operates openly on the physical plane
(In the Ascended Master Teachings, this organization, said to functioning under Chananda, is called the Indian Council of the Great White Brotherhood. Its Masters that operate on the physical plane are called unascended masters.). Masters associated with this occult Lodge are said to include, among others, Babaji
, a Master purportedly many centuries old who is said to live in the Himalayas, one of Babaji's disciples Paramhansa Yogananda, and Guru Dev
, the guru of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
, who was the guru of the Beatles.
Alice A. Bailey identified as Masters the Master P., who is said to help St. Germain
(referred to by Bailey as The Master Rakoczi or the Master R.) bring about the Age of Aquarius
in the Americas
, and two different English Masters (English Master #1 and English Master #2), one of which is said to have inspired the labor movement. In addition to these three, she identified the three Lords of Liberation--(Lord of Liberation #1, Lord of Liberation #2, and Lord of Liberation #3). According to Alice A. Bailey, the three Lords of Liberation formulated the slogan Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, and this slogan will be the keynote of the New Age. Finally, Alice A. Bailey also identified the three Lords of Karma (Lord of Karma #1, Lord of Karma #2, and Lord of Karma #3). These three beings are said to live in Shamballah and help Sanat Kumara decide where and when soul
s are going to incarnate
in their next life. (In the Ascended Master Teachings, there are seven of these beings, all identified by name, and they are referred to as the Karmic Board.) Benjamin Creme identified two previously unidentified Masters at this level in 2001—he stated that there is a Master in Moscow and a Master in Tokyo, but did not give their personal names.
The middle level of ascended masters (masters of the ancient wisdom), recognized by both traditional Theosophists and those adherent to the Ascended Master Teachings, are those who have attained the sixth level of initiation
. These include the seven "Chohans" ("Lords") of the Seven Rays
- El Morya (1st ray), Kuthumi
(2nd ray), Paul the Venetian
(3rd ray), Serapis Bey
(4th ray), Master Hilarion
(5th ray), Master Jesus
(6th ray), and the Master Rakoczi
(7th ray), referred to in the Ascended Master Teachings as St. Germain
; as well as their coordinator and communications director Djwal Khul
. According to the Ascended Master Teachings, on January 1, 1956, the Master Jesus advanced to the seventh level of initiation and the Lady Master Nada
(a lady Master recognized in the Ascended Master Teachings but not in Theosophy) advanced from the fifth level to the sixth level and replaced the Master Jesus as the chohan of the sixth ray.
The highest level of ascended masters (masters of the ancient wisdom) include the four Masters who in traditional Theosophy are regarded as being at the seventh Level of Initiation
— the Chakshusha Manu (referred to as Lord Himalaya in the Ascended Master Teachings), the Vaivasvatu Manu, the Maha Chohan, and Maitreya
.; and the four Masters at the eighth level of initiation
, Gautama Buddha
himself, and The Three Pratyeka Buddhas (the task of these three Buddhas
is to focus the Seven Rays from Sanat Kumara through Djwal Khul to the chohans of the Seven Rays). In the Ascended Master Teachings, it is believed that on January 1, 1956, Maitreya advanced from the 7th level to the 8th level, and Buddha advanced from the 8th level to the 9th level, becoming co-equal with Sanat Kumara.
who has never incarnated in a human body
. Cosmic beings are believed by adherents of these religions to be ascended masters that are of extraterrestrial
, or even extragalactic or extracosmic origin. The Ascended Master Teachings teacher Joshua David Stone
and George King
of the Aetherius Society
used the term cosmic master to describe a "cosmic being".
, who is said to be at the ninth level of initiation
, is the being that is believed in Theosophy and the Ascended Master Teachings to be the governing deity
of Earth
(ruling from a floating city
called Shamballa on the etheric plane
of Earth about five miles above the Gobi Desert
), is classified by definition as a cosmic being in these belief system
s because he is a Nordic alien regarded as having originated on the etheric plane of Venus
, on which it is believed by Theosophists and those adherent to the Ascended Master Teachings that a civilization exists that is hundreds of millions of years more advanced than our present civilization on Earth. According to the Ascended Master Teachings, Sanat Kumara has a "twin flame" (celestial wife) named Lady Master Venus, as well as a daughter named Lady Master Meta, both functioning at the ninth level, and a grandson named Master Cha Ara who is half mortal and who just recently became a Master, therefore meaning he is functioning at the fifth level.
Coming to visit Sanat Kumara from time to time, it is said in the Ascended Master Teachings, is another cosmic being, Omri-Tas, the Ruler of the Violet Planet.
), and in the mainstream Ascended Master Teachings of Guy Ballard
and Elizabeth Clare Prophet
, no mention is made of UFOs or flying saucers.
However, the Ascended Master Teachings teacher Joshua David Stone
in his teachings began, beginning in 1993, by incorporating the teachings given in the early 1980s by the medium
Tuella into his own teachings, to refer to Ashtar, believed by some UFO enthusiasts to be the commander of a flying saucer fleet that operates near Earth (crewed mostly by Venusians
), as a Master along with the more traditional ascended masters. He continued to include Ashtar on his list of ascended masters that he mentioned he received dictations from when speaking at his yearly Wesak Festival Mount Shasta
gatherings that began to be held in 1996 (Mount Shasta was chosen for these gatherings because it is believed to be one of the Chakras of the Earth). Stone also taught based on the teachings of Tuella that the Master Jesus, under his galactic name Sananda, is the Commander-in-Chief of the Ashtar Galactic Command flying saucer fleetand rides in his own command flying saucer with Lady Master Pallas Athena
(the Vice Commander-in-Chief of the fleet) in addition to the flying saucer of Commander Ashtar, the third ranking being in the fleet command hierarchy. Also flying with the Ashtar Galactic Command flying saucer fleet is Vrillon
, the communications director of the fleet. According to the teachings of the Universe people
, a UFO religion
in the Czech Republic
, Ashtar has a "twin flame" (celestial wife) named Ester. There is a website called "Ashtar Command Crew", established in 2006, which functions as a social networking service where devotees of the Ashtar Galactic Command message can network with each other. According to Joshua David Stone, the Ashtar Galactic Command flying saucer fleet is based on several ovoid-shaped artificial asteroids on the etheric plane about 100 miles in diameter that function as mother ship
s for the flying saucer fleet, with a total population of millions of extraterrestrial
s residing on them, orbiting in the outer reaches of the solar system
in the Kuiper belt
, with smaller space stations for refueling farther out in the Oort cloud
for those flying saucers travelling to and from nearby planetary system
s. The Earth base of the Ashtar Galactic Command is known as the New Jerusalem or Shan Chea, a square rotating space station with artificial gravity in constant orbit around Earth on the etheric plane, with orbit distances varying from approximately 500 miles to 1,500 miles. It is a large space station 1,500 miles on each side with a population of thousands. In the center of this square space station is a sphere connected by four tubes to the square outer ring of the space station. This sphere houses the Inn of Heaven, the command headquarters of Sananda, Lady Master Athena, and Ashtar. There is also a smaller round space station called Schare or Share where the individual flying saucers of the fleet piloted by those at the higher levels of the fleet command hierarchy dock to receive their orders and review their missions.
Lourene Altiery, also known as Karita to her followers, is an Ascended Master Teachings teacher originally from Joliet, Illinois
who now resides in Sun Lakes, Arizona
. She set up her website in 2001. Like Tuella, she teaches that an alternate name used by Commander-in-Chief Sananda to denote the Ashtar Galactic Command flying saucer fleet is The Airborne Division of the Brotherhood of Light. Altiery has revealed the names of and channeled information from some of the cosmic beings in the mid-level command hierarchy of the Ashtar Galactic Command flying saucer fleet—those beings immediately subordinate to Commander-in-Chief Sananda, Lady Master Athena, Commander Ashtar, Ester, and Vrillon. These include Aleph, subcommander of one of the wings of the fleet, whose function is "working towards raising the consciousness of humanity and uplifting the vibrations of planet Earth"; Korton, captain of the flying saucer Rainbow, the fleet communications officer in charge of maintaining subspace communications for the fleet; Esola, captain of the flying saucer Starship #77; Merku, of the planet Alcorn, subcommander of one of the wings of the fleet; Soltec, captain of the geophysics
science survey flying saucer Phoenix; and Voltra, the "space psychologist
", who monitors the "vibratory level of humanity
". While all of the cosmic beings mentioned above are from Venus (except Sananda, Athena, and Merku), two other cosmic beings named Kla-La (from Mars) and Hatonn (from the Pleiades) (Hatonn flies with Soltec in their flying saucer Phoenix) also fly with the Ashtar Galactic Command flying saucer fleet. These two are detailed below in the sections on cosmic beings from Mars and from the Pleiades.
It is believed that on the etheric plane there is a continuous flow of flying saucer traffic of the space brothers between the New Jerusalem and Schare space stations, Shamballa and the etheric retreats of the Masters on Earth, the planets of the solar system (especially Venus), the etheric cities inside the sun, the artificial asteroids in the outer solar system, and nearby planetary systems. Many New Age people including Benjamin Creme believe that the crop circles are caused by flying saucers and thus are coded messages
from the Galactic
Confederation of Planets, while others believe them to be coded messages from the Planetary Logos (Gaia); still others maintain they may be from either source, depending on the design of the specific crop circle in question.
in some other solar system before it incarnated inside our planet at the time of the creation of the world. According to C.W. Leadbeater, the "Planetary Logos" is functioning at the tenth level of initiation
and Sanat Kumara
, in continuous telepathic rapport with the Planetary Logos, functions as its spokes-deity. Since the formulation in the early 1970s by James Lovelock
of the Gaia hypothesis, many Theosophists and those adherent to the Ascended Master Teachings, adopting the Gaia philosophy
, nowadays simply refer to the "Planetary Logos of Earth" as Gaia, the New Age version of what in many religions is called the Earth mother. It is commonly believed that one should show devotion to her by helping to protect the environment
. It is believed in New Age geomancy
that on the surface of Earth there are about 28 Chakras of the Earth, connected by a network of ley line
s to hundreds of power points, the analogue of the acupuncture points on the surface of the human body
.
A term traditionally used in the Ascended Master Teachings to denote the Planetary Logos of Earth, i.e. the Earth mother (Gaia), is Nicholas Roerich
’s term Mother of the World.
are inhabited on the etheric plane only, except Earth which is inhabited on both the physical plane
and the etheric plane. According to Benjamin Creme, the other planets of our solar system are all inhabited by Nordic aliens
, referred to collectively as the space brothers. Each inhabited planet of the solar system has its own Planetary Logos which is an enormous-sized highly evolved deva
that occupies the entire interior volume of the planet on the etheric plane. All the hierarchies of the planets other than Earth are on side branches of the solar hierarchy in relation to the spiritual hierarchy of Earth—each planet is directly connected to the Solar Logos through the head of its own spiritual hierarchy, who in the case of Earth is Sanat Kumara
. According to Joshua David Stone, the organization that governs the planets of the solar system as a whole (including Earth from behind the scenes) is called the Interplanetary Confederation, also known as the Solar Confederation.
According to Theosophy, Vulcan
is a small dwarf planet
that exists only on the etheric plane and that is why it has never been observed by astronomer
s. The Dwarf Planet Logos of Vulcan (to use modern terminology) is the indwelling spirit of the dwarf planet Vulcan. The spiritual hierarchy of Vulcan is called the Vulcanian Masters. Vulcan primarily functions as a school where the Staff Corps of the Solar Logos (the Solar Lords) can instruct the Venusian Masters in techniques of white magic
.
The Planetary Logos of Mercury is the indwelling spirit of the planet Mercury
. Mercury is a sparsely inhabited planet whose spiritual hierarchy is called the Mercurian Masters. The most notable inhabitant of Mercury is actually a visiting Sirian Master who has lived there for many millennia, an androgynous
hermaphrodite
named Thoth
, also known as Hermes Trismegistus
. He authored and fashioned the Emerald Tablet
of Hermes Trismegistus which contains all the secrets of alchemy
and Egyptian magic. He lives in an etheric retreat (a castle composed of etheric matter) in the Wilderness of Hermes Trismegistus, a heavily cratered area in the southeastern quadrant of the western hemisphere of Mercury.
The Planetary Logos of Venus is the indwelling spirit of the planet Venus
. According to both Theosophy and the Ascended Master Teachings, millions of years ago the immortal
Seven Holy Kumaras, the governing council of the Venusians
, chose one from among themselves, Sanat Kumara, to go to Earth and guide its spiritual evolution. That left the Six Holy Kumaras as cosmic beings still residing on Venus as Masters. Then, another being was promoted from lower in the Venusian hierarchy to take the place of Sanat Kumara; thus there are still Seven Holy Kumaras that are the governing council of the Venusian Masters as a whole. So far, no Ascended Master Teachings teachers have identified the personal names of nor channeled any of these seven cosmic beings.
George King
, founder of the Aetherius Society
, the central temple of which is now located on Hollywood Boulevard
in Hollywood, California, believed in the existence of all the traditional Theosophical Masters of the Ancient Wisdom and identified a new Master named the Master Aetherius, who he claimed spoke to him telepathically
from Venus. According to the Aetherius Society, the Master Jesus spends a lot of time on the higher planes of Venus with the Master Aetherius.
Noted Theosophist Benjamin Creme was the vice president of the Aetherius Society between 1957 and 1959. In 1958 Creme personally met George Adamski
and Creme says he can personally vouch for the authenticity of Adamski's close encounter of the third kind with the cosmic being Orthon. According to Benjamin Creme, there are hundreds of thousands if not millions of flying saucers based on the etheric plane of Venus (since Venusian civilization is on the etheric plane of Venus, it is not affected by the heat of the Venusian atmosphere). The Venusians have mother ship
s up to four miles long that can hold multiple individual flying saucers. According to Joshua David Stone, the vast majority of the large number of cosmic beings that function as the crew of the Ashtar Galactic Command flying saucer fleet are from Venus, and thus they are Nordic aliens
as is everyone from Venus.
According to Elizabeth Clare Prophet, there are two cosmic beings from Venus who are androgynous
hermaphrodite
s named Victory, "The tall Master from Venus", and its twin flame (celestial consort) Justina. Devotees can issue decrees toward these two beings and achieve Victory over whatever life circumstances or karma
they need to be victorious over.
According to Joshua David Stone, the Galactic Master Adonis has personally commissioned a now in operation school on Venus to train Planetary Logoi to prepare them to inhabit newly formed planets in stellar nurseries in nearby areas of the galaxy.
Since both Theosophists and those adherent to the Ascended Master Teachings believe that a civilization exists on the etheric plane of Venus that is hundreds of millions of years more advanced than our present civilization on Earth, there must be many more Masters on Venus that have not yet been identified and channeled.
According to Theosophy, some souls that now reincarnate on Earth inhabited the astral plane
of Luna millions of years ago. However, according to Theosophy now Luna is a spiritually dead body so there is no longer any "Natural satellite Logos of Luna" or spiritual hierarchy of "Lunar Masters" (also referred to in the Theosophical literature as the "Lunar Pitris", "Lords of the Moon", or "Barishad Hierarchy")--they went on to other tasks after all souls left Luna. All etheric beings that now live on Luna are from somewhere else. For etheric beings to function on Luna, they have to carry battery packs to store the rose
vitality globules of etheric matter from the Sun that they live on so they can function during the two week long lunar night
.
The Temple of Antinous in Hollywood, California is a Neo-pagan/ascended master religion founded in 2002 that is designed to appeal to gay people. This religion worships the ascended master Antinous
. He is said to have an etheric retreat on Luna. This religion's website has many interesting articles on gay history.
The Planetary Logos of Mars is the indwelling spirit of the planet Mars
. The spiritual hierarchy of Mars is called the Martian Masters. According to Lourene Altiery, Kla-La, a "master of force
dynamics
", is a Master from Mars who pilots one of the flying saucers in the Ashtar Galactic Command flying saucer fleet. It is appropriate that Kla-La is a "master of force dynamics" because according to Benjamin Creme, the Martians are the "master engineer
s" of the Solar System. According to Creme, the Venusians outsource
the construction of their flying saucers to the Martians, and on the etheric plane of Mars, there are enormous underground factories engaged in the construction of flying saucers. According to the Ashtar Command Crew website, the Ashtar Galactic Command flying saucer fleet has numerous bases on Mars and also has extensive weapons factories and backup industrial production facilities there as well as logistics storehouses.
The Planetary Logos of Jupiter is the indwelling spirit of the planet Jupiter
. The spiritual hierarchy of Jupiter is called the Jovian Masters. According to Alice A. Bailey, there is a School of Beneficent Magicians in the Jovian system, and its main hall is called The Palace of Opulence. Benjamin Creme states that the Jovians live on the etheric plane of three of the smaller moons of Jupiter (he doesn't say which three), all three of which are artificial constructions, and identifies these three moons as being where the campuses of the School of Beneficent Magicians are located. This school trains white magic
ians from all over the solar system.
The Planetary Logos of Saturn is the indwelling spirit of the planet Saturn
. The spiritual hierarchy of Saturn is called the Saturnian Masters. One of the Saturnian Masters, Mon-Ka, has been identified as one of the judge
s on the Saturnian Tribunal, the Supreme Court
of the solar system, an organization first identified by the medium Tuella in the early 1980s. Souls whose cases are denied by the Karmic Board can appeal to the "Saturnian Tribunal". According to Lourene Altiery, Mon-Ka in Pre-Columbian
times was forced to land his flying saucer in the Inca Empire
in Cuzco, Peru when he had engine trouble and the Incas thought he was the Sun God Viracocha
.
The Planetary Logos of Uranus is the indwelling spirit of the planet Uranus
. The spiritual hierarchy of Uranus is called the Uranian Masters. So far, no Theosophist or Ascended Master Teachings teacher has idenfified by name, channeled, or received dictations from any of the Uranian Masters.
The Planetary Logos of Neptune is the indwelling spirit of the planet Neptune
. The spiritual hierarchy of Neptune is called the Neptunian Masters. So far, no Theosophist or Ascended Master Teachings teacher has idenfified by name, channeled, or received dictations from any of the Neptunian Masters.
The "Neptunian Masters" also spiritually govern Pluto and Charon, since both Pluto and Charon are part of the Neptune scheme, meaning that souls that reincarnate on the etheric plane of Neptune also reincarnate on the etheric planes of Pluto and Charon.
s (In traditional Theosophy they are also referred to as the seven spirits before the [solar] throne.). The Ascended Master Teachings also add seven additional beings attendant to the Sun called the seven solar elohim
. Each solar archangel and solar elohim transmits one of the seven rays. According to the Ascended Master Teachings, each of these 14 beings has a twin flame (celestial wife), making a total of 28 of these beings in all, all of whom live in the solar corona. It is believed in the Ascended Master Teachings that Hercules
, the elohim of the first ray, helped Helios and Vesta (see below) organize the solar system
from the solar nebula
when it was first forming. According to Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Mary
, the mother of Jesus, became the twin flame of the Archangel Raphael (that solar archangel that transmits the fifth ray) after her assumption
, thus becoming one of the very few examples of a human ascended master who celestially married a cosmic being. Sometimes Mary comes back to Earth to serve with the Master Jesus at the "resurrection temple", a temple on the etheric plane located above Jerusalem. It is believed in the Ascended Master Teachings that all the archangels, elohim, and their twin flames all have android replicas composed of etheric matter that serve at their various etheric retreats scattered over the globe on the etheric plane.
, the intersection of which with the third dimension
we see as the physical Sun
. In terms of the Galaxy as a whole, the Solar Logos is referred to as the "Stellar Logos of Sol".
The Solar Logos, the Sun God, is personified as the cosmic beings Helios
and his "twin flame" (celestial wife) Vesta
, the "God and Goddess of this solar system
", in the Ascended Master Teachings.
In the theosophical teachings of Alice A. Bailey, there is a powerful being living inside the sun serving the Solar Logos called the "Avatar of Synthesis". Its job is to transmit the seven rays from the heart of the sun through the "seven spirits before the throne" to all the life waves of the solar system. According to Benjamin Creme, the "Avatar of Synthesis" is functioning at the 17th level of initiation
. In the Ascended Master Teachings, this being is called "Ray-O-Light". This being directs and supervises the activities of the thousands of Masters originally from all the planets of the Solar System called the "Staff Corps of the Solar Logos that live in etheric cities in the solar core
. In the Ascended Master Teachings, the Staff Corps of the Solar Logos are called the "Solar Lords".
The function of the Staff Corps of the Solar Logos is to orchestrate the activities of the Solar Angels
, swarm
s of millions of "devas
" living inside the Sun who often visit the various planets to direct the evolution of the soul life waves on all the planets of the solar system. (According to both Theosophy and the Ascended Master Teachings, life on all the planets in the solar system except Earth functions only on the etheric plane
.).
in the universe
has its own indwelling spirit, called its Stellar Logos (plural: Stellar Logoi). If a white dwarf
dies and becomes a black dwarf
, its stellar logos reincarnates in another newly formed star, either in this Cosmos or another Cosmos. If a giant star
dies by going supernova
and becoming a black hole
, its sequence of reincarnations is over and its stellar logos goes to Nirvana.
Altho the metaphysical system
of Theosophy was formulated before the discovery of brown dwarves
in the 1990s, since there are Planetary Logoi for all inhabited planets and Stellar Logoi for all stars, there must also be Brown Dwarf Logoi for all brown dwarves.
The being inhabiting the star Sirius
is called in Theosophy the Stellar Logos of Sirius.
The Sirian Masters are said in many New Age teachings to be a large group of cosmic beings from the planetary system
of Sirius that include both Nordic alien humanoid
and dolphinoid
entities. In the Ascended Master Teachings of Paul McCarthy, he claims the ability to channel these entities at his organization the Sirius Temple of Ascension in Brighton, England. McCarthy has identified the Lady Master Isis
as one of the Sirian Masters. He has not yet identified by name any of the dolphinoid Masters. When these dolphinoid Masters travel in space
, they travel submersed in tanks of water inside specially equipped flying saucers piloted by humanoid Masters. (Paul McCarthy took over Joshua David Stone's organization the I AM University after Stone's death in 2005 and moved the headquarters from California
to Austria
).) According to Benjamin Creme, Sai Baba
was an avatar
of one of the Sirian Masters. Also according to Creme, Lao-Tse (technically not a cosmic being since he is from Earth) has now graduated to the status of a Sirian Master. In addition, Creme states that Leonardo da Vinci
was an avatar of one of the Mercurian Masters, but now he has ascended to the status of being one of the Sirian Masters.Robert Anton Wilson
often mentioned the Sirian Masters in his writings. According to Wilson, the Sirian Masters revealed to the Dogon people
the existence of the companion of Sirius. Scientific note: The Sirian planetary system is only 230,000,000 years old and thus there has not been enough time for intelligent life
to have evolved
there. Therefore, any beings that may live in that planetary system must have colonized it from somewhere else.
According to writings of the Ascended Master Teachings teacher Joshua David Stone, this sector of the Milky Way Galaxy--one twelfth of the total volume of the galactic disc—is governed by a cosmic being (Stone uses the term Cosmic Master for Ascended Masters of extraterrestrial origin) named Melchior from the constellation
of the Great Bear
. Working under him and with him on the governing council of this sector of the Galaxy is said to be his junior partner [Local galactic sector cosmic being] Melchizedek (not the same being as the [Earth ascended master] Melchizedek, said to be the being that the Biblical Melchizedek became after his death on Earth).
The spiritual hierarchy of the Pleiades
is called the Pleiadean Masters. It is generally agreed among New Age people due to Billy Meier
's alleged contacts that the Pleiadeans are Nordic aliens
. Paul McCarthy of the Sirius Ascension Center in Brighton, England offers "attunements" with the Pleiadean Masters, the energies from whom McCarthy asserts are ideal for artist
s, musician
s and dancers.One of these "Pleiadean Masters" is Hatonn, an android from the Pleiades
who, working with Soltec on their flying saucer Phoenix, monitors events on Earth for the Galactic Hall of Records at the galactic core as part of his day job as one of the upper echelon officers of the Ashtar Galactic Command flying saucer fleet. However, according to the Ascended Master Teachings teacher Anne Bellringer of Rapid City, South Dakota
, who began teaching in 1990, Hatonn's real job is to function as the liaison officer
between the Pleiadeans and Sanat Kumara
in order to help guide Earth
in 2012
safely thru the photon belt
, which is said to emanate from the Pleiades. Bellringer says she has received a series of dictations from Hatonn called the Phoenix Letters, named after his flying saucer Phoenix--these letters are posted on her website. According to Bellringer, Hatonn is an important deity in his own right, and when worshipped on an altar, he should be addressed by his full name, Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn. It is interesting to note that the worship of "Hatonn" is the first time in the history of religion that religious worship has been directed toward a being identified as being an android.
In traditional Theosophy, the being that governs our Milky Way Galaxy is called the Galactic Logos. In terms of the Cosmos as a whole, the Galactic Logos is referred to as the Galactic Logos of the Milky Way Galaxy.
Sometimes Alice A. Bailey and the Theosophist Douglas Baker
would poetically refer to the Galactic Logos in their writings as The One Whom Naught May Be Said.
In the Ascended Master Teachings of Joshua David Stone
, there is a powerful cosmic being functioning at the galactic core of the Milky Way Galaxy named Averran who is the governing deity
of the Galaxy. This is a personification of the Galactic Logos of Theosophy. Stone uses the term cosmic master to denote what Elizabeth Clare Prophet calls a cosmic being.
According to Stone, working with Averran under his authority are three cosmic beings named Vywamus, the Galactic God of Wisdom; Adonis, the Galactic God of Love; and Atlanto the Galactic God of Time. Another cosmic being named Lenduce is the ambassador to our galaxy from the Great Central Sun.
There is a couple named Patricia Marston-Snow and Halsey Snow who function solely as Vywamus channels. In 1994 they founded the Vywamus Foundation in Cumberland, Maine
.
The Ascended Master Teachings teacher Mussarat Rahman of Bradford, England (originally from Kashmir
), who began teaching in 2005, has identified and channeled an additional seven cosmic beings on the governing council of our galaxy, whom she identifies as Zoltec, Voltar, Vulcun, Valentino, Valcor, Anturion, and Vulcrum. Added to the three cosmic beings above identified by Joshua David Stone, Vywamus, Adonis and Atlanto, this makes a total of ten cosmic beings so far identified on the Galactic Council of our galaxy under Averran. Since important groupings of Theosophy/Ascended Master Teachings deities within the spiritual hierarchy normally come in sets of three, seven, or twelve, this makes it seem highly likely that there are an eleventh cosmic being and a twelfth cosmic being on the Galactic Council , both of whom are as yet unidentified and unchanneled. Presumably all twelve cosmic beings on the "Galactic Council" plus Averran himself all have twin flames (celestial wives), but so far, only one of these twin flames has been identified by Rahman—Valencia, the twin flame of Voltar. The twelve members of the Galactic Council and their twin flames along with Averran himself and his twin flame would make a total of 26 cosmic beings functioning at the top level of the spiritual hierarchy of the Milky Way Galaxy. Rahman has also identified and channeled four additional cosmic beings who are intergalactic ambassadors from other galaxies in the Local Group
to the court of Averran—Karkite, Arkavite, Andromedus, and Malaki. Presumably, Andromedus is the ambassador from the Andromeda Galaxy
. According to Rahman, all of these cosmic beings live on a planet on the etheric plane called Andromeda located in the galactic core that functions as the spiritual capital of the Milky Way Galaxy.
According to Joshua David Stone, the organization that temporally governs the planets of the galaxy as a whole is called the Galactic Confederation of Planets. Other names used are the Galactic Federation (Sheldan Nidle) and the Galactic Federation of Light (Tuella and Sheldan Nidle). According to the Ascended Master Teachings teacher Sheldan Nidle of El Dorado Hills, California
, who began teaching in 1997 when he founded the Planetary Activation Organization, the Galactic Federation of Light was founded over 4.5 million years ago to prevent the dark forces from taking over the galaxy. He states that it has over 200,000 member star nations, confederations or unions and that approximately 40% of its population are humanoids and the rest are varied other forms of bipedal sapient beings such as reptilians
, greys, ursinoids, equinoids, amphibioids, etc.
In traditional Theosophy, the being that governs our own particular Cosmos
is called the Cosmic Logos.
According to Elizabeth Clare Prophet, the woman who was the head of the Church Universal and Triumphant
, the largest of the Ascended Master Teachings religions, the two deities that are the most powerful deities in this Cosmos—personifications of what in Theosophy is called the Cosmic Logos -- are Alpha, the Heavenly Father and Omega, the Heavenly Mother
. Elizabeth Clare Prophet prefaced most of her dictations with the phrase "In the name of Alpha and Omega".
Alpha and Omega are said to live in the Great Central Sun, a hyperspherical
body said to be located in the fourth dimension (i.e., in hyperspace) at a location regarded in the Ascended Master Teachings religions and in some UFO religion
s as being situated at the central point from which the expansion of the universe issued forth and from which the cosmic hologram
is projected.
The term Great Central Sun was originated by Guy Ballard
, taking it from Madame Blavatsky
, who had referred to it as the “Central Sun”.
According to Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Alpha and Omega work with three lesser deities that are their assistants: Maximus, who, in the name of Alpha and Omega and under their careful direction, is said to have issued forth the logos
that created the cosmic egg
from which, in turn, issued forth the big bang
; The Mighty Cosmos, a being who is said to be responsible for the transmission throughout the Cosmos of five additional rays in addition to the usual Seven Rays
(Prophet said that knowledge of the five secret rays will be released on Earth during the Age of Aquarius
), as well as for infusing in mundane beings throughout the Cosmos the Electronic Presence, the means through which they are enabled to contact higher beings; and the Nameless One from Out of the Great Central Sun about whom little is known since Elizabeth Clare Prophet received only one dictation from this being, but it is said he is responsible for “placing a seed of light in the crown chakra
of those who will accomplish the path of mystical union
with God
in this flesh they now wear”.
According to Joshua David Stone, the organization that temporally governs the planets of the cosmos as a whole—a cosmos-wide union of all of the individual Galactic Confederations of Planets of each individual galaxy—is called the Interdimensional Federation of Free Worlds, also known as the Cosmic Confederation of Planets.
s (Buddhism
: pudgala [a bundle of tendencies
that impels one to reincarnate]) go to from all the different cosmoses after the billions or trillions of years of their cycle of incarnation
s is over is called Nirvana
.The conception of Nirvana in Theosophy as described by C.W. Leadbeater is as a place of positive joy very much like the Nirvana of Mahayana Buddhism and Vajrayana Buddhism that closely resembles the Christian Heaven
, not the negative view of Nirvana simply as being the palliative release from pain that is promulgated in Theravada Buddhism.
According to Theosophist Alfred Percy Sinnett
, Nirvana is governed by the Five Dhyani Buddhas. It is believed in Buddhism that all of these five Buddhas and their consorts are originally from cosmoses (called in Buddhism "world systems" or "chiliocosms") other than our own. The highest ranking Dhyani Buddha is Vairocana
(Japanese
: Dainichi Nyorai (9th century CE Image):
(13th century CE Image):)
and under him of equal rank to each other are Akshobhya
, Amitabha
, Ratnasambhava
, and Amoghasiddhi
. Nirvana is divided into different realms called pure land
s, each region supervised by one of these Buddhas.
The tantric consort
(also called shakti
), (“twin flame” in the terminology of the Ascended Master Teachings), associated Dhyani bodhisattva
, pure land, and seed syllable for each of these five buddhas are given in the chart below.
In the Japan
ese Vajrayana Buddhist sect of Shingon Buddhism
, Vajrasattva
is the pupil of Dainichi Nyorai who spreads the Dharma
as taught to him by Dainichi Nyorai and the other four Dhyani Buddhas; likewise, in the Ascended Master Teachings, Vajrasattva is regarded as the spokes-buddha for the Five Dhyani Buddhas--he is metaphorically referred to in these teachings as the sixth Dhyani Buddha. Elizabeth Clare Prophet recorded dictations from Vajrasattva. Devotees of the Ascended Master Teachings are encouraged to chant his mantra
Om Vajrasattva Hum.
It is believed in the Ascended Master Teachings that the buddha Padmasambhava
(technically not a cosmic being since he is from Earth) is the liaison between Nirvana and Earth (teleporting frequently between the two locations), and it is stated that he has formed a special subcommittee within the Ascended Masters called The Fellowship of the Ruby
Ray that deals with Earth-Nirvana affairs--this committee also includes Sanat Kumara, Gautama Buddha, Maitreya, and the Master Jesus. In Nirvana, Padmasambhava's pure land is located on the copper-colored
mountain.
Nirvana must be incredibly vast because it has to accommodate all the souls from all the cosmoses in the multiverse. Furthermore, it must be continually expanding because there is a continuous flow of new souls into it that have finished their cycle of reincarnation.
that governs the entire Omniverse
and all its Multiverse
s is called in Theosophy
the Universal Logos and is regarded as a pantheistic
Deity. Like the early Christian Church
Church Fathers
, based on Ancient Greek philosophy, Theosophists with a Christian
background think of the Universal Logos as having three aspects, the nous
, the logos
, and the pneuma
, identified by the Church Fathers, respectively, with the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. Theosophists with a Hindu
background identify the three aspects with Brahma
, Vishnu
, and Shiva
. Theosophists with a Buddhist background identify the three aspects with the dharmakaya
, the samboghakaya, and the nirmanakaya. Thus, for Theosophists, the nous is equivalent to Brahma and to the dharmakaya, the logos is equivalent to Vishnu and to the samboghakaya, and the pneuma is equivalent to Shiva and to the nirmanakaya.
This Deity is referred to in the Ascended Master Teachings simply as God
and is regarded as a traditional theistic
Deity according to the Nicene creed
, i.e., three in one
, composed of God the Father
(identified with the nous), God the Son
(identified with the logos), and the Holy Ghost (identified with the pneuma). In Hinduism
, Ishvara
(Sanskrit: The Lord) is used as a collective name for the trinity of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva, meaning the personal god
, and thus can also be used, according to Elizabeth Clare Prophet, in the Ascended Master Teachings as a synonym for God.
According to both C.W. Leadbeater (who was a bishop
of the Liberal Catholic Church
as well as a Theosophist) and Elizabeth Clare Prophet
, God the Father’s representative on Earth is regarded as Sanat Kumara
, God the Son’s representatives on Earth are regarded as the Master Jesus
and Maitreya
, and the Holy Ghost’s representative on Earth is regarded as the Maha Chohan.
Neo-Theosophy
The term Neo-Theosophy is a term, originally derogatory, used by the followers of Blavatsky to denominate the system of Theosophical ideas expounded by Annie Besant and Charles Webster Leadbeater following the death of Madame Blavatsky in 1891...
, and the Ascended Master Teachings
Ascended Master Teachings
The students of "Ascended Master Teachings" organizations believe that the Presence of Life/God - Individualizes as the "I AM", and incarnates throughout the created universes until it achieves The Ascension . The "Teachings" as all Religious Teachings.....
, a group of religion
Religion
Religion is a collection of cultural systems, belief systems, and worldviews that establishes symbols that relate humanity to spirituality and, sometimes, to moral values. Many religions have narratives, symbols, traditions and sacred histories that are intended to give meaning to life or to...
s based on Theosophy. It represents the concept of a group of self-realised Masters of the Ancient Wisdom
Masters of the Ancient Wisdom
The Masters of the Ancient Wisdom are reputed to be enlightened beings originally identified by the Theosophists Helena Blavatsky, Henry S. Olcott, Alfred P. Sinnett, and others. These Theosophists claimed to have met some of the so-called Masters during their lifetimes in different parts of the...
, referred to by those adherent to the Ascended Master Teachings as Ascended Masters
Ascended master
Ascended Masters, in the Ascended Master Teachings is derived from the Theosophical concept of Masters of the Ancient Wisdom or "Mahatmas", though they differ in important aspects...
, who are ranked at various levels, and their disciples, invisibly helping humanity from behind the scenes on the higher spiritual planes (although according to Alice A. Bailey and Benjamin Creme
Benjamin Creme
Benjamin Creme is a Scottish artist, author, esotericist, and editor of Share International magazine, a monthly non-profit magazine and website....
, they are now allegedly planning to making their existence more known on the physical plane
Physical plane
The physical plane , physical world, or physical universe, in emanationist metaphysics such as are found in Neoplatonism, Hermeticism, Hinduism and Theosophy, refers to the visible reality of space and time, energy and matter: the physical universe in Occultism and esoteric cosmology is the lowest...
).
Another term used for this idea include Great White Brotherhood
Great White Brotherhood
The Great White Brotherhood, in belief systems akin to Theosophical and New Age, are said to be supernatural beings of great power who spread spiritual teachings through selected humans. The members of the Brotherhood may be known as the Masters of the Ancient Wisdom or the Ascended Masters...
; other terms used less often for this concept are: the Communion of Saints
Communion of Saints
The communion of saints , when referred to persons, is the spiritual union of the members of the Christian Church, living and the dead, those on earth, in heaven, and, for those who believe in purgatory, those also who are in that state of purification.They are all part of a single "mystical body",...
(where the "saints" are thought of as being the Masters), the Elder Brothers of the Race, the Council of Light, the Society of Illumined Minds, the Planetary Center of Love-Wisdom, The Kingdom of the Gods, the Spiritual Kingdom, the Kingdom of [Advanced] Souls, the Secret Chiefs
Secret Chiefs
The Secret Chiefs are said to be transcendent cosmic authorities, a Spiritual Hierarchy responsible for the operation and moral calibre of the cosmos, or for overseeing the operations of an esoteric organization that manifests outwardly in the form of a magical order or lodge system...
, or the Mystical Body of Christ, when used in a New Age
New Age
The New Age movement is a Western spiritual movement that developed in the second half of the 20th century. Its central precepts have been described as "drawing on both Eastern and Western spiritual and metaphysical traditions and then infusing them with influences from self-help and motivational...
sense centering on Maitreya
Maitreya (Theosophy)
Maitreya or Lord Maitreya is described in Theosophical literature of the late 19th-century and subsequent periods as an advanced spiritual entity and high-ranking member of a hidden Spiritual Hierarchy, the so-called Masters of the Ancient Wisdom...
and not in the Roman Catholic sense). Basically, the Masters are the New Age equivalent of the saints of the Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic calendar of saints
The General Roman Calendar indicates the days of the year to which are assigned the liturgical celebrations of saints and of the mysteries of the Lord that are to be observed wherever the Roman Rite is used...
. The Masters will function as such in the New Age world church called the Church Universal which Alice A. Bailey predicted in 1919 would be founded under the auspices of the Masters of the Ancient Wisdom. . The Hierarchy is, according to Benjamin Creme, "... made up of the Masters and Initiates of all degrees and whose purpose is to implement the Plan of God", referred to by Alice A. Bailey as the Plan of the Masters.
Neo-Theosophy and the Ascended Master Teachings are syncretic religions which combine religious concepts from and deities from primarily Christianity
Christianity
Christianity is a monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus as presented in canonical gospels and other New Testament writings...
, Hinduism
Hinduism
Hinduism is the predominant and indigenous religious tradition of the Indian Subcontinent. Hinduism is known to its followers as , amongst many other expressions...
and Buddhism
Buddhism
Buddhism is a religion and philosophy encompassing a variety of traditions, beliefs and practices, largely based on teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as the Buddha . The Buddha lived and taught in the northeastern Indian subcontinent some time between the 6th and 4th...
and to some degree from other religions, as well their own unique deities.
Spiritual hierarchy in comparative religion
The spiritual hierarchy of Theosophy is the basis for many New AgeNew Age
The New Age movement is a Western spiritual movement that developed in the second half of the 20th century. Its central precepts have been described as "drawing on both Eastern and Western spiritual and metaphysical traditions and then infusing them with influences from self-help and motivational...
religions. It was a Theosophist, Alice A. Bailey, who popularized the term New Age. Just about all "New Age" religions believe in reincarnation
Reincarnation
Reincarnation best describes the concept where the soul or spirit, after the death of the body, is believed to return to live in a new human body, or, in some traditions, either as a human being, animal or plant...
. New Age Ancient Wisdom teachings other than Theosophy and the Ascended Master Teachings, such as Anthroposophy
Anthroposophy
Anthroposophy, a philosophy founded by Rudolf Steiner, postulates the existence of an objective, intellectually comprehensible spiritual world accessible to direct experience through inner development...
, Rosicrucianism, most UFO religion
UFO religion
UFO religion is an informal term used to describe a religion that equates UFO occupants with gods or other semi-divine beings. Typically, the UFO occupants are held to be extraterrestials and that humanity either currently is, or eventually will become, part of a preexisting extraterrestrial...
s, and the teachings of many New Age independent guru
Guru
A guru is one who is regarded as having great knowledge, wisdom, and authority in a certain area, and who uses it to guide others . Other forms of manifestation of this principle can include parents, school teachers, non-human objects and even one's own intellectual discipline, if the...
s assume the existence a spiritual hierarchy similar to the spiritual hierarchy of Theosophy within which human soul
Soul
A soul in certain spiritual, philosophical, and psychological traditions is the incorporeal essence of a person or living thing or object. Many philosophical and spiritual systems teach that humans have souls, and others teach that all living things and even inanimate objects have souls. The...
s rise upward as they reincarnate, although the details may differ.
Possibility of changing positions within the hierarchy
According to the Ascended Master TeachingsAscended Master Teachings
The students of "Ascended Master Teachings" organizations believe that the Presence of Life/God - Individualizes as the "I AM", and incarnates throughout the created universes until it achieves The Ascension . The "Teachings" as all Religious Teachings.....
(but not according to Theosophy), beings in the Spiritual Hierarchy can change their positions within the Hierarchy within the brief time span of a few human generation
Generation
Generation , also known as procreation in biological sciences, is the act of producing offspring....
s. According to the Ascended Master Teachings as given by Elizabeth Clare Prophet
Elizabeth Clare Prophet
Elizabeth Clare Prophet was an American spiritual author and lecturer who was the leader of The Summit Lighthouse and Church Universal and Triumphant, a New Age religious movement which gained media attention in the late 1980s and early 1990s while preparing for potential nuclear disaster.During...
(but not according to Theosophy), Maitreya
Maitreya (Theosophy)
Maitreya or Lord Maitreya is described in Theosophical literature of the late 19th-century and subsequent periods as an advanced spiritual entity and high-ranking member of a hidden Spiritual Hierarchy, the so-called Masters of the Ancient Wisdom...
, formerly considered to be the World Teacher, now holds the "Office" of "Planetary Buddha" and "Cosmic Christ", while the head of the Spiritual Hierarchy for Earth is the Lord of the World, an "Office" currently believed by those adherent to the Ascended Master Teachings to be held by Gautama Buddha
Gautama Buddha
Siddhārtha Gautama was a spiritual teacher from the Indian subcontinent, on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. In most Buddhist traditions, he is regarded as the Supreme Buddha Siddhārtha Gautama (Sanskrit: सिद्धार्थ गौतम; Pali: Siddhattha Gotama) was a spiritual teacher from the Indian...
, and the former Lord of the World, Sanat Kumara
Sanat Kumara
According to the post-1900 publications of Theosophy, i.e. the writings of C. W. Leadbeater, Alice A. Bailey, and Benjamin Creme, as well as the Ascended Master Teachings of Guy Ballard, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Geraldine Innocente, Joshua David Stone, and other Ascended Master Teachings teachers,...
, is believed to now be the "Regent Lord of the World".
However their specific positions in the Hierarchy are described, both Theosophists and those adherent to the Ascended Master Teachings believe that Maitreya, Buddha, and Sanat Kumara, the three highest beings in the Terran
Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun, and the densest and fifth-largest of the eight planets in the Solar System. It is also the largest of the Solar System's four terrestrial planets...
planetary division of the Spiritual Hierarchy, continue to work for the benefit of humanity from their headquarters in Shamballah on the etheric plane
Etheric plane
The etheric plane is a term introduced into Theosophy by Charles Webster Leadbeater and Annie Besant to represent one of the planes of existence in neo-Theosophical and Rosicrucian cosmology. It represents the fourth[higher] subplane of the physical plane , the lower three being the states of...
.
Terminology
Within the spiritual hierarchy, it is believed that there are two broad classes of beings within the hierarchy.Ascended Masters
Ascended master
Ascended Masters, in the Ascended Master Teachings is derived from the Theosophical concept of Masters of the Ancient Wisdom or "Mahatmas", though they differ in important aspects...
, or as they are called in Theosophy, the Masters of the Ancient Wisdom
Masters of the Ancient Wisdom
The Masters of the Ancient Wisdom are reputed to be enlightened beings originally identified by the Theosophists Helena Blavatsky, Henry S. Olcott, Alfred P. Sinnett, and others. These Theosophists claimed to have met some of the so-called Masters during their lifetimes in different parts of the...
, are beings that have incarnated on Earth
Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun, and the densest and fifth-largest of the eight planets in the Solar System. It is also the largest of the Solar System's four terrestrial planets...
and ascended to a high level of Initiation
Initiation (Theosophy)
Initiation is a concept in Theosophy that there are nine levels of spiritual development that beings who live on Earth can progress upward through. Within these levels, there are four basic levels of spiritual development that human beings on Earth progress through as they reincarnate, although...
on THIS planet. They are defined by Elizabeth Clare Prophet
Elizabeth Clare Prophet
Elizabeth Clare Prophet was an American spiritual author and lecturer who was the leader of The Summit Lighthouse and Church Universal and Triumphant, a New Age religious movement which gained media attention in the late 1980s and early 1990s while preparing for potential nuclear disaster.During...
as those who have balanced at least 51% of their karma
Karma
Karma in Indian religions is the concept of "action" or "deed", understood as that which causes the entire cycle of cause and effect originating in ancient India and treated in Hindu, Jain, Buddhist and Sikh philosophies....
.
Cosmic Beings are defined as those ascended masters who are of extraterrestrial
Extraterrestrial life
Extraterrestrial life is defined as life that does not originate from Earth...
origin.
A shorthand term used by both Theosophists and those adherent to the Ascended Master Teachings to denote both Masters of the Ancient Wisdom (Ascended Masters), as well as Cosmic Beings (Cosmic Masters) is to refer to them all simply as Masters (with a capital "M").
Ascended masters (masters of the ancient wisdom)
In terms of the solar system as a whole, the Masters of the Ancient Wisdom or Ascended Masters and their leader, the cosmic being Sanat Kumara, are referred to as the Terran Masters.The lowest level of ascended masters is the common run of ascended masters, that is, those Masters who have attained the fifth level of initiation
Initiation (Theosophy)
Initiation is a concept in Theosophy that there are nine levels of spiritual development that beings who live on Earth can progress upward through. Within these levels, there are four basic levels of spiritual development that human beings on Earth progress through as they reincarnate, although...
. These include such Masters as Enoch
Enoch (ancestor of Noah)
Enoch is a figure in the Generations of Adam. Enoch is described as Adam's greatx4 grandson , the son of Jared, the father of Methuselah, and the great-grandfather of Noah...
, Elijah (who as an avatar re-embodied as John the Baptist
John the Baptist
John the Baptist was an itinerant preacher and a major religious figure mentioned in the Canonical gospels. He is described in the Gospel of Luke as a relative of Jesus, who led a movement of baptism at the Jordan River...
), Melchizedek, Confucius
Confucius
Confucius , literally "Master Kong", was a Chinese thinker and social philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period....
, Lord Ling
Lord Ling
In the Ascended Master Teachings, a group of religions based on Theosophy, Lord Ling is regarded as one of the Ascended Masters.-Incarnations:It is believed that Lord Ling’s incarnations were as:* Moses, Hebrew Prophet...
, Lanello, Lady Master Magda, Kwan Yin, Zoroaster
Zoroaster
Zoroaster , also known as Zarathustra , was a prophet and the founder of Zoroastrianism who was either born in North Western or Eastern Iran. He is credited with the authorship of the Yasna Haptanghaiti as well as the Gathas, hymns which are at the liturgical core of Zoroastrianism...
, the Great Divine Director, Johannes
Pope John XXIII
-Papal election:Following the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958, Roncalli was elected Pope, to his great surprise. He had even arrived in the Vatican with a return train ticket to Venice. Many had considered Giovanni Battista Montini, Archbishop of Milan, a possible candidate, but, although archbishop...
(Pope John XXIII
Pope John XXIII
-Papal election:Following the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958, Roncalli was elected Pope, to his great surprise. He had even arrived in the Vatican with a return train ticket to Venice. Many had considered Giovanni Battista Montini, Archbishop of Milan, a possible candidate, but, although archbishop...
), Padre Pio and many dozens more. Elizabeth Clare Prophet has identified, named, and received dictations from at least 200 ascended masters at this level. However, traditional Theosophists do not recognize any of the new beings identified by Elizabeth Clare Prophet as masters of the ancient wisdom.
C.W. Leadbeater named a Master called Master Jupiter who lives in India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, and is involved with overseeing the people, government, and development of India, that is functioning at level five. (In the Ascended Master Teachings, the Master Jupiter is referred to as Chananda.) It is believed by Theosophists that the Master Jupiter directs a side branch of the main Himalayan Lodge of the Great White Brotherhood called the South Indian Lodge ("South" in this usage meaning that part of India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
south of the Himalayas
Himalayas
The Himalaya Range or Himalaya Mountains Sanskrit: Devanagari: हिमालय, literally "abode of snow"), usually called the Himalayas or Himalaya for short, is a mountain range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau...
) whose Masters operates openly on the physical plane
Physical plane
The physical plane , physical world, or physical universe, in emanationist metaphysics such as are found in Neoplatonism, Hermeticism, Hinduism and Theosophy, refers to the visible reality of space and time, energy and matter: the physical universe in Occultism and esoteric cosmology is the lowest...
(In the Ascended Master Teachings, this organization, said to functioning under Chananda, is called the Indian Council of the Great White Brotherhood. Its Masters that operate on the physical plane are called unascended masters.). Masters associated with this occult Lodge are said to include, among others, Babaji
Mahavatar Babaji
Mahavatar Babaji is the name given to an Indian saint by Lahiri Mahasaya and several of his disciples who met Mahavatar Babaji between 1861 and 1935. Some of these meetings were described by Paramhansa Yogananda in his book Autobiography of a Yogi , including a first hand telling of Yogananda’s own...
, a Master purportedly many centuries old who is said to live in the Himalayas, one of Babaji's disciples Paramhansa Yogananda, and Guru Dev
Brahmananda Saraswati
Brahmananda Saraswati was the Shankaracharya of Jyotir Math, a revered Hindu spiritual title in India, from 1941 to 1953.-Early life:...
, the guru of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi , born Mahesh Prasad Varma , developed the Transcendental Meditation technique and was the leader and guru of the TM movement, characterised as a new religious movement and also as non-religious...
, who was the guru of the Beatles.
Alice A. Bailey identified as Masters the Master P., who is said to help St. Germain
St. Germain (Theosophy)
Also see Count of St. Germain for more information.The Count of St. Germain has been variously described in secular histories as a courtier, adventurer, charlatan, inventor, alchemist, pianist, violinist and amateur composer. Under the name "St...
(referred to by Bailey as The Master Rakoczi or the Master R.) bring about the Age of Aquarius
Age of Aquarius
The Age of Aquarius is either the current or new age in the cycle of astrological ages. Each astrological age is approximately 2,150 years long, on average, but there are various methods of calculating this length that may yield longer or shorter time spans depending upon the technique used...
in the Americas
Americas
The Americas, or America , are lands in the Western hemisphere, also known as the New World. In English, the plural form the Americas is often used to refer to the landmasses of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions, while the singular form America is primarily...
, and two different English Masters (English Master #1 and English Master #2), one of which is said to have inspired the labor movement. In addition to these three, she identified the three Lords of Liberation--(Lord of Liberation #1, Lord of Liberation #2, and Lord of Liberation #3). According to Alice A. Bailey, the three Lords of Liberation formulated the slogan Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, and this slogan will be the keynote of the New Age. Finally, Alice A. Bailey also identified the three Lords of Karma (Lord of Karma #1, Lord of Karma #2, and Lord of Karma #3). These three beings are said to live in Shamballah and help Sanat Kumara decide where and when soul
Soul
A soul in certain spiritual, philosophical, and psychological traditions is the incorporeal essence of a person or living thing or object. Many philosophical and spiritual systems teach that humans have souls, and others teach that all living things and even inanimate objects have souls. The...
s are going to incarnate
Reincarnation
Reincarnation best describes the concept where the soul or spirit, after the death of the body, is believed to return to live in a new human body, or, in some traditions, either as a human being, animal or plant...
in their next life. (In the Ascended Master Teachings, there are seven of these beings, all identified by name, and they are referred to as the Karmic Board.) Benjamin Creme identified two previously unidentified Masters at this level in 2001—he stated that there is a Master in Moscow and a Master in Tokyo, but did not give their personal names.
The middle level of ascended masters (masters of the ancient wisdom), recognized by both traditional Theosophists and those adherent to the Ascended Master Teachings, are those who have attained the sixth level of initiation
Initiation (Theosophy)
Initiation is a concept in Theosophy that there are nine levels of spiritual development that beings who live on Earth can progress upward through. Within these levels, there are four basic levels of spiritual development that human beings on Earth progress through as they reincarnate, although...
. These include the seven "Chohans" ("Lords") of the Seven Rays
Seven Rays
The seven rays is an occult concept that has appeared in several religions and esoteric philosophies, since at least the 6th century BCE, of the Aryan peoples in both Western culture and in India...
- El Morya (1st ray), Kuthumi
Kuthumi
The Master Kuthumi, sometimes spelled Koot Hoomi, Kut Humi, rarely Kut-Hu-Mi, Master K.H., or simply K.H. in Theosophy, is regarded as one of the "Masters of the Ancient Wisdom." According to Theosophy, Kuthumi is considered to be one of the members of the Spiritual Hierarchy called the Masters of...
(2nd ray), Paul the Venetian
Paul the Venetian
Paul the Venetian is one of the "Masters of the Ancient Wisdom" in the teachings of Theosophy and is regarded as one of the ascended masters in the Ascended Master Teachings . He is regarded as the Master of the Third Ray...
(3rd ray), Serapis Bey
Serapis Bey
Serapis Bey , sometimes written as Serapis, is regarded in Theosophy as being one of the Masters of the Ancient Wisdom; and in the Ascended Master Teachings is considered to be an Ascended Master and member of the Great White Brotherhood. He is regarded as the Chohan of the Fourth Ray . C.W...
(4th ray), Master Hilarion
Master Hilarion
The Master Hilarion, in the teachings of Theosophy is one of the "Masters of the Ancient Wisdom" and in the Ascended Master Teachings is one of the Ascended Masters . He is considered to be the Chohan of the Fifth Ray...
(5th ray), Master Jesus
Master Jesus
The Master Jesus in Theosophy and the Ascended Master Teachings, refers to the theosophical concept of Jesus as opposed to the Jesus Christ of the Christian religion.-Position in the Hierarchy of Masters of the Ancient Wisdom:...
(6th ray), and the Master Rakoczi
St. Germain (Theosophy)
Also see Count of St. Germain for more information.The Count of St. Germain has been variously described in secular histories as a courtier, adventurer, charlatan, inventor, alchemist, pianist, violinist and amateur composer. Under the name "St...
(7th ray), referred to in the Ascended Master Teachings as St. Germain
St. Germain (Theosophy)
Also see Count of St. Germain for more information.The Count of St. Germain has been variously described in secular histories as a courtier, adventurer, charlatan, inventor, alchemist, pianist, violinist and amateur composer. Under the name "St...
; as well as their coordinator and communications director Djwal Khul
Djwal Khul
Djwal Khul , is believed by some Theosophists and others to be a Tibetan disciple in the tradition of ancient esoteric spirituality known as The Ageless Wisdom tradition...
. According to the Ascended Master Teachings, on January 1, 1956, the Master Jesus advanced to the seventh level of initiation and the Lady Master Nada
Lady Master Nada
In the Ascended Master Teachings, a group of religions based on Theosophy, Lady Master Nada is the "Chohan of the Sixth Ray" , and is the Ascended Lady Master governing humanity's development of the Divine Qualities of Ministration, Service, and Peace. The colors of her Ray are purple and gold, and...
(a lady Master recognized in the Ascended Master Teachings but not in Theosophy) advanced from the fifth level to the sixth level and replaced the Master Jesus as the chohan of the sixth ray.
The highest level of ascended masters (masters of the ancient wisdom) include the four Masters who in traditional Theosophy are regarded as being at the seventh Level of Initiation
Initiation (Theosophy)
Initiation is a concept in Theosophy that there are nine levels of spiritual development that beings who live on Earth can progress upward through. Within these levels, there are four basic levels of spiritual development that human beings on Earth progress through as they reincarnate, although...
— the Chakshusha Manu (referred to as Lord Himalaya in the Ascended Master Teachings), the Vaivasvatu Manu, the Maha Chohan, and Maitreya
Maitreya (Theosophy)
Maitreya or Lord Maitreya is described in Theosophical literature of the late 19th-century and subsequent periods as an advanced spiritual entity and high-ranking member of a hidden Spiritual Hierarchy, the so-called Masters of the Ancient Wisdom...
.; and the four Masters at the eighth level of initiation
Initiation (Theosophy)
Initiation is a concept in Theosophy that there are nine levels of spiritual development that beings who live on Earth can progress upward through. Within these levels, there are four basic levels of spiritual development that human beings on Earth progress through as they reincarnate, although...
, Gautama Buddha
Gautama Buddha
Siddhārtha Gautama was a spiritual teacher from the Indian subcontinent, on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. In most Buddhist traditions, he is regarded as the Supreme Buddha Siddhārtha Gautama (Sanskrit: सिद्धार्थ गौतम; Pali: Siddhattha Gotama) was a spiritual teacher from the Indian...
himself, and The Three Pratyeka Buddhas (the task of these three Buddhas
Buddhahood
In Buddhism, buddhahood is the state of perfect enlightenment attained by a buddha .In Buddhism, the term buddha usually refers to one who has become enlightened...
is to focus the Seven Rays from Sanat Kumara through Djwal Khul to the chohans of the Seven Rays). In the Ascended Master Teachings, it is believed that on January 1, 1956, Maitreya advanced from the 7th level to the 8th level, and Buddha advanced from the 8th level to the 9th level, becoming co-equal with Sanat Kumara.
Cosmic beings
A cosmic being is an Ascended MasterAscended master
Ascended Masters, in the Ascended Master Teachings is derived from the Theosophical concept of Masters of the Ancient Wisdom or "Mahatmas", though they differ in important aspects...
who has never incarnated in a human body
Human Race
Human Race refers to the Human species.Human race may also refer to:*The Human Race, 79th episode of YuYu Hakusho* Human Race Theatre Company of Dayton Ohio* Human Race Machine, a computer graphics device...
. Cosmic beings are believed by adherents of these religions to be ascended masters that are of extraterrestrial
Extraterrestrial life
Extraterrestrial life is defined as life that does not originate from Earth...
, or even extragalactic or extracosmic origin. The Ascended Master Teachings teacher Joshua David Stone
Joshua David Stone
Joshua David Stone was an American author and teacher in the ascension movement. His father was Hal Stone. Joshua had a Ph.D. in Transpersonal Psychology and was a Licensed Marriage, Family and Child Counselor in California....
and George King
George King (Aetherius Society)
George King was Founder-President of The Aetherius Society, a UFO religion. He was also an inventor, author, lecturer and spiritual teacher.-Early years:...
of the Aetherius Society
Aetherius Society
The Aetherius Society was founded by Dr George King , an English-born Master of Yoga, occultist, alleged spiritual healer and UFO Contactee. The society was first established in London in 1955, and later becoming incorporated in America as a not-for-profit organisation in 1960. Its guiding...
used the term cosmic master to describe a "cosmic being".
Cosmic beings stationed at Shamballa
Sanat KumaraSanat Kumara
According to the post-1900 publications of Theosophy, i.e. the writings of C. W. Leadbeater, Alice A. Bailey, and Benjamin Creme, as well as the Ascended Master Teachings of Guy Ballard, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Geraldine Innocente, Joshua David Stone, and other Ascended Master Teachings teachers,...
, who is said to be at the ninth level of initiation
Initiation (Theosophy)
Initiation is a concept in Theosophy that there are nine levels of spiritual development that beings who live on Earth can progress upward through. Within these levels, there are four basic levels of spiritual development that human beings on Earth progress through as they reincarnate, although...
, is the being that is believed in Theosophy and the Ascended Master Teachings to be the governing deity
Deity
A deity is a recognized preternatural or supernatural immortal being, who may be thought of as holy, divine, or sacred, held in high regard, and respected by believers....
of Earth
Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun, and the densest and fifth-largest of the eight planets in the Solar System. It is also the largest of the Solar System's four terrestrial planets...
(ruling from a floating city
Floating city (science fiction)
In science fiction, floating cities are settlements that strictly use buoyancy to remain in the atmosphere of a planet. However the term generally refers to any city that is flying, hovering, or otherwise suspended in the air via any means technological or even magical.-Earth:In Jonathan Swift's...
called Shamballa on the etheric plane
Etheric plane
The etheric plane is a term introduced into Theosophy by Charles Webster Leadbeater and Annie Besant to represent one of the planes of existence in neo-Theosophical and Rosicrucian cosmology. It represents the fourth[higher] subplane of the physical plane , the lower three being the states of...
of Earth about five miles above the Gobi Desert
Gobi Desert
The Gobi is a large desert region in Asia. It covers parts of northern and northwestern China, and of southern Mongolia. The desert basins of the Gobi are bounded by the Altai Mountains and the grasslands and steppes of Mongolia on the north, by the Hexi Corridor and Tibetan Plateau to the...
), is classified by definition as a cosmic being in these belief system
Religious belief
Religious belief is a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny. Such a state may relate to the existence, characteristics and worship of a deity or deities, divine intervention in the universe and human life, or values and practices centered on the teachings of a...
s because he is a Nordic alien regarded as having originated on the etheric plane of Venus
Venus
Venus is the second planet from the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. The planet is named after Venus, the Roman goddess of love and beauty. After the Moon, it is the brightest natural object in the night sky, reaching an apparent magnitude of −4.6, bright enough to cast shadows...
, on which it is believed by Theosophists and those adherent to the Ascended Master Teachings that a civilization exists that is hundreds of millions of years more advanced than our present civilization on Earth. According to the Ascended Master Teachings, Sanat Kumara has a "twin flame" (celestial wife) named Lady Master Venus, as well as a daughter named Lady Master Meta, both functioning at the ninth level, and a grandson named Master Cha Ara who is half mortal and who just recently became a Master, therefore meaning he is functioning at the fifth level.
Coming to visit Sanat Kumara from time to time, it is said in the Ascended Master Teachings, is another cosmic being, Omri-Tas, the Ruler of the Violet Planet.
Cosmic beings said to be patrolling near Earth
In the traditional writings of Theosophy (except for Benjamin CremeBenjamin Creme
Benjamin Creme is a Scottish artist, author, esotericist, and editor of Share International magazine, a monthly non-profit magazine and website....
), and in the mainstream Ascended Master Teachings of Guy Ballard
Guy Ballard
Guy Warren Ballard was an American mining engineer who became, with his wife, Edna Anne Wheeler Ballard, the founder of the "I AM" Activity....
and Elizabeth Clare Prophet
Elizabeth Clare Prophet
Elizabeth Clare Prophet was an American spiritual author and lecturer who was the leader of The Summit Lighthouse and Church Universal and Triumphant, a New Age religious movement which gained media attention in the late 1980s and early 1990s while preparing for potential nuclear disaster.During...
, no mention is made of UFOs or flying saucers.
However, the Ascended Master Teachings teacher Joshua David Stone
Joshua David Stone
Joshua David Stone was an American author and teacher in the ascension movement. His father was Hal Stone. Joshua had a Ph.D. in Transpersonal Psychology and was a Licensed Marriage, Family and Child Counselor in California....
in his teachings began, beginning in 1993, by incorporating the teachings given in the early 1980s by the medium
Mediumship
Mediumship is described as a form of communication with spirits. It is a practice in religious beliefs such as Spiritualism, Spiritism, Espiritismo, Candomblé, Voodoo and Umbanda.- Concept :...
Tuella into his own teachings, to refer to Ashtar, believed by some UFO enthusiasts to be the commander of a flying saucer fleet that operates near Earth (crewed mostly by Venusians
Venusians
In science fiction and ufology, a Venusian is a native inhabitant of the planet Venus.-Etymology:The word "Venusian" is simply a combination of the name of the planet Venus and the suffix -ian, formed on the analogy of "Martian" . It is usually pronounced or...
), as a Master along with the more traditional ascended masters. He continued to include Ashtar on his list of ascended masters that he mentioned he received dictations from when speaking at his yearly Wesak Festival Mount Shasta
Mount Shasta
Mount Shasta is located at the southern end of the Cascade Range in Siskiyou County, California and at is the second highest peak in the Cascades and the fifth highest in California...
gatherings that began to be held in 1996 (Mount Shasta was chosen for these gatherings because it is believed to be one of the Chakras of the Earth). Stone also taught based on the teachings of Tuella that the Master Jesus, under his galactic name Sananda, is the Commander-in-Chief of the Ashtar Galactic Command flying saucer fleetand rides in his own command flying saucer with Lady Master Pallas Athena
Athena
In Greek mythology, Athena, Athenê, or Athene , also referred to as Pallas Athena/Athene , is the goddess of wisdom, courage, inspiration, civilization, warfare, strength, strategy, the arts, crafts, justice, and skill. Minerva, Athena's Roman incarnation, embodies similar attributes. Athena is...
(the Vice Commander-in-Chief of the fleet) in addition to the flying saucer of Commander Ashtar, the third ranking being in the fleet command hierarchy. Also flying with the Ashtar Galactic Command flying saucer fleet is Vrillon
Vrillon
The Southern Television broadcast interruption hoax was a broadcast interruption through the Hannington transmitter of the Independent Broadcasting Authority in the United Kingdom at 5:10 PM on 26 November 1977...
, the communications director of the fleet. According to the teachings of the Universe people
Universe people
Universe People or Cosmic People of Light Powers is a Czech and Slovak religious movement founded in the 1990s and centered around Ivo A. Benda. Their belief system is based upon the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations communicating with Benda and other contactees since October 1997...
, a UFO religion
UFO religion
UFO religion is an informal term used to describe a religion that equates UFO occupants with gods or other semi-divine beings. Typically, the UFO occupants are held to be extraterrestials and that humanity either currently is, or eventually will become, part of a preexisting extraterrestrial...
in the Czech Republic
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....
, Ashtar has a "twin flame" (celestial wife) named Ester. There is a website called "Ashtar Command Crew", established in 2006, which functions as a social networking service where devotees of the Ashtar Galactic Command message can network with each other. According to Joshua David Stone, the Ashtar Galactic Command flying saucer fleet is based on several ovoid-shaped artificial asteroids on the etheric plane about 100 miles in diameter that function as mother ship
Mother ship
A mother ship is a vessel or aircraft that carries a smaller vessel or aircraft that operates independently from it. Examples include bombers converted to carry experimental aircraft to altitudes where they can conduct their research , or ships that carry small submarines to an area of ocean to be...
s for the flying saucer fleet, with a total population of millions of extraterrestrial
Extraterrestrial life
Extraterrestrial life is defined as life that does not originate from Earth...
s residing on them, orbiting in the outer reaches of the solar system
Solar System
The Solar System consists of the Sun and the astronomical objects gravitationally bound in orbit around it, all of which formed from the collapse of a giant molecular cloud approximately 4.6 billion years ago. The vast majority of the system's mass is in the Sun...
in the Kuiper belt
Kuiper belt
The Kuiper belt , sometimes called the Edgeworth–Kuiper belt, is a region of the Solar System beyond the planets extending from the orbit of Neptune to approximately 50 AU from the Sun. It is similar to the asteroid belt, although it is far larger—20 times as wide and 20 to 200 times as massive...
, with smaller space stations for refueling farther out in the Oort cloud
Oort cloud
The Oort cloud , or the Öpik–Oort cloud , is a hypothesized spherical cloud of comets which may lie roughly 50,000 AU, or nearly a light-year, from the Sun. This places the cloud at nearly a quarter of the distance to Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the Sun...
for those flying saucers travelling to and from nearby planetary system
Planetary system
A planetary system consists of the various non-stellar objects orbiting a star such as planets, dwarf planets , asteroids, meteoroids, comets, and cosmic dust...
s. The Earth base of the Ashtar Galactic Command is known as the New Jerusalem or Shan Chea, a square rotating space station with artificial gravity in constant orbit around Earth on the etheric plane, with orbit distances varying from approximately 500 miles to 1,500 miles. It is a large space station 1,500 miles on each side with a population of thousands. In the center of this square space station is a sphere connected by four tubes to the square outer ring of the space station. This sphere houses the Inn of Heaven, the command headquarters of Sananda, Lady Master Athena, and Ashtar. There is also a smaller round space station called Schare or Share where the individual flying saucers of the fleet piloted by those at the higher levels of the fleet command hierarchy dock to receive their orders and review their missions.
Lourene Altiery, also known as Karita to her followers, is an Ascended Master Teachings teacher originally from Joliet, Illinois
Joliet, Illinois
Joliet is a city in Will and Kendall Counties in the U.S. state of Illinois, located southwest of Chicago. It is the county seat of Will County. As of the 2010 census, the city was the fourth-most populated in Illinois, with a population of 147,433. It continues to be Illinois' fastest growing...
who now resides in Sun Lakes, Arizona
Sun Lakes, Arizona
Sun Lakes is a census-designated place in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. The population was 11,936 at the 2000 census. Sun Lakes is an active adult community comprising five active adult country club communities in three homeowner associations...
. She set up her website in 2001. Like Tuella, she teaches that an alternate name used by Commander-in-Chief Sananda to denote the Ashtar Galactic Command flying saucer fleet is The Airborne Division of the Brotherhood of Light. Altiery has revealed the names of and channeled information from some of the cosmic beings in the mid-level command hierarchy of the Ashtar Galactic Command flying saucer fleet—those beings immediately subordinate to Commander-in-Chief Sananda, Lady Master Athena, Commander Ashtar, Ester, and Vrillon. These include Aleph, subcommander of one of the wings of the fleet, whose function is "working towards raising the consciousness of humanity and uplifting the vibrations of planet Earth"; Korton, captain of the flying saucer Rainbow, the fleet communications officer in charge of maintaining subspace communications for the fleet; Esola, captain of the flying saucer Starship #77; Merku, of the planet Alcorn, subcommander of one of the wings of the fleet; Soltec, captain of the geophysics
Geophysics
Geophysics is the physics of the Earth and its environment in space; also the study of the Earth using quantitative physical methods. The term geophysics sometimes refers only to the geological applications: Earth's shape; its gravitational and magnetic fields; its internal structure and...
science survey flying saucer Phoenix; and Voltra, the "space psychologist
Psychologist
Psychologist is a professional or academic title used by individuals who are either:* Clinical professionals who work with patients in a variety of therapeutic contexts .* Scientists conducting psychological research or teaching psychology in a college...
", who monitors the "vibratory level of humanity
Human Race
Human Race refers to the Human species.Human race may also refer to:*The Human Race, 79th episode of YuYu Hakusho* Human Race Theatre Company of Dayton Ohio* Human Race Machine, a computer graphics device...
". While all of the cosmic beings mentioned above are from Venus (except Sananda, Athena, and Merku), two other cosmic beings named Kla-La (from Mars) and Hatonn (from the Pleiades) (Hatonn flies with Soltec in their flying saucer Phoenix) also fly with the Ashtar Galactic Command flying saucer fleet. These two are detailed below in the sections on cosmic beings from Mars and from the Pleiades.
It is believed that on the etheric plane there is a continuous flow of flying saucer traffic of the space brothers between the New Jerusalem and Schare space stations, Shamballa and the etheric retreats of the Masters on Earth, the planets of the solar system (especially Venus), the etheric cities inside the sun, the artificial asteroids in the outer solar system, and nearby planetary systems. Many New Age people including Benjamin Creme believe that the crop circles are caused by flying saucers and thus are coded messages
Cryptography
Cryptography is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of third parties...
from the Galactic
Confederation of Planets, while others believe them to be coded messages from the Planetary Logos (Gaia); still others maintain they may be from either source, depending on the design of the specific crop circle in question.
Cosmic being functioning within Earth
According to Theosophy, there is a cosmic being functioning within Earth called the Planetary Logos or Spirit of the Earth, specifically, the Planetary Logos of Earth. This being is classified as a cosmic being because in order to reach the status of a Planetary Logos, this being would have had to have been a high level Planetary DevaDeva (New Age)
A deva in the New Age movement refers to any of the spiritual forces or beings behind nature. According to Theosophists Charles Webster Leadbeater and Alice A. Bailey, devas represent a separate evolution to that of humanity. The concept of devas as nature-spirits derives from the writings of...
in some other solar system before it incarnated inside our planet at the time of the creation of the world. According to C.W. Leadbeater, the "Planetary Logos" is functioning at the tenth level of initiation
Initiation (Theosophy)
Initiation is a concept in Theosophy that there are nine levels of spiritual development that beings who live on Earth can progress upward through. Within these levels, there are four basic levels of spiritual development that human beings on Earth progress through as they reincarnate, although...
and Sanat Kumara
Sanat Kumara
According to the post-1900 publications of Theosophy, i.e. the writings of C. W. Leadbeater, Alice A. Bailey, and Benjamin Creme, as well as the Ascended Master Teachings of Guy Ballard, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Geraldine Innocente, Joshua David Stone, and other Ascended Master Teachings teachers,...
, in continuous telepathic rapport with the Planetary Logos, functions as its spokes-deity. Since the formulation in the early 1970s by James Lovelock
James Lovelock
James Lovelock, CH, CBE, FRS is an independent scientist, environmentalist and futurologist who lives in Devon, England. He is best known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis, which postulates that the biosphere is a self-regulating entity with the capacity to keep our planet healthy by controlling...
of the Gaia hypothesis, many Theosophists and those adherent to the Ascended Master Teachings, adopting the Gaia philosophy
Gaia philosophy
Gaia philosophy is a broadly inclusive term for related concepts that living organisms on a planet will affect the nature of their environment in order to make the environment more suitable for life. This set of theories holds that all organisms on an extraterrestrial life-giving planet regulate...
, nowadays simply refer to the "Planetary Logos of Earth" as Gaia, the New Age version of what in many religions is called the Earth mother. It is commonly believed that one should show devotion to her by helping to protect the environment
Environmentalism
Environmentalism is a broad philosophy, ideology and social movement regarding concerns for environmental conservation and improvement of the health of the environment, particularly as the measure for this health seeks to incorporate the concerns of non-human elements...
. It is believed in New Age geomancy
Geomancy
Geomancy is a method of divination that interprets markings on the ground or the patterns formed by tossed handfuls of soil, rocks, or sand...
that on the surface of Earth there are about 28 Chakras of the Earth, connected by a network of ley line
Ley line
Ley lines are alleged alignments of a number of places of geographical and historical interest, such as ancient monuments and megaliths, natural ridge-tops and water-fords...
s to hundreds of power points, the analogue of the acupuncture points on the surface of the human body
Human body
The human body is the entire structure of a human organism, and consists of a head, neck, torso, two arms and two legs.By the time the human reaches adulthood, the body consists of close to 100 trillion cells, the basic unit of life...
.
A term traditionally used in the Ascended Master Teachings to denote the Planetary Logos of Earth, i.e. the Earth mother (Gaia), is Nicholas Roerich
Nicholas Roerich
Nicholas Roerich, also known as Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerikh , was a Russian mystic, painter, philosopher, scientist, writer, traveler, and public figure. A prolific artist, he created thousands of paintings and about 30 literary works...
’s term Mother of the World.
Cosmic beings governing extraterrestrial bodies of the solar system
According to Theosophy, all the planets of this solar systemSolar System
The Solar System consists of the Sun and the astronomical objects gravitationally bound in orbit around it, all of which formed from the collapse of a giant molecular cloud approximately 4.6 billion years ago. The vast majority of the system's mass is in the Sun...
are inhabited on the etheric plane only, except Earth which is inhabited on both the physical plane
Physical plane
The physical plane , physical world, or physical universe, in emanationist metaphysics such as are found in Neoplatonism, Hermeticism, Hinduism and Theosophy, refers to the visible reality of space and time, energy and matter: the physical universe in Occultism and esoteric cosmology is the lowest...
and the etheric plane. According to Benjamin Creme, the other planets of our solar system are all inhabited by Nordic aliens
Nordic aliens
Nordic aliens are said by self-described contactees and some UFOlogists to be a group of humanoid extraterrestrials who resemble European racial images, or more specifically Nordic-Scandinavians....
, referred to collectively as the space brothers. Each inhabited planet of the solar system has its own Planetary Logos which is an enormous-sized highly evolved deva
Deva (New Age)
A deva in the New Age movement refers to any of the spiritual forces or beings behind nature. According to Theosophists Charles Webster Leadbeater and Alice A. Bailey, devas represent a separate evolution to that of humanity. The concept of devas as nature-spirits derives from the writings of...
that occupies the entire interior volume of the planet on the etheric plane. All the hierarchies of the planets other than Earth are on side branches of the solar hierarchy in relation to the spiritual hierarchy of Earth—each planet is directly connected to the Solar Logos through the head of its own spiritual hierarchy, who in the case of Earth is Sanat Kumara
Sanat Kumara
According to the post-1900 publications of Theosophy, i.e. the writings of C. W. Leadbeater, Alice A. Bailey, and Benjamin Creme, as well as the Ascended Master Teachings of Guy Ballard, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Geraldine Innocente, Joshua David Stone, and other Ascended Master Teachings teachers,...
. According to Joshua David Stone, the organization that governs the planets of the solar system as a whole (including Earth from behind the scenes) is called the Interplanetary Confederation, also known as the Solar Confederation.
Cosmic beings on Vulcan
According to Theosophy, Vulcan
Vulcan (hypothetical planet)
Vulcan was a small planet proposed to exist in an orbit between Mercury and the Sun. In an attempt to explain peculiarities of Mercury's orbit, in the 19th-century French mathematician Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier hypothesized that they were the result of another planet, which he named Vulcan...
is a small dwarf planet
Dwarf planet
A dwarf planet, as defined by the International Astronomical Union , is a celestial body orbiting the Sun that is massive enough to be spherical as a result of its own gravity but has not cleared its neighboring region of planetesimals and is not a satellite...
that exists only on the etheric plane and that is why it has never been observed by astronomer
Astronomer
An astronomer is a scientist who studies celestial bodies such as planets, stars and galaxies.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using...
s. The Dwarf Planet Logos of Vulcan (to use modern terminology) is the indwelling spirit of the dwarf planet Vulcan. The spiritual hierarchy of Vulcan is called the Vulcanian Masters. Vulcan primarily functions as a school where the Staff Corps of the Solar Logos (the Solar Lords) can instruct the Venusian Masters in techniques of white magic
Magic (paranormal)
Magic is the claimed art of manipulating aspects of reality either by supernatural means or through knowledge of occult laws unknown to science. It is in contrast to science, in that science does not accept anything not subject to either direct or indirect observation, and subject to logical...
.
Cosmic beings on Mercury
The Planetary Logos of Mercury is the indwelling spirit of the planet Mercury
Mercury (planet)
Mercury is the innermost and smallest planet in the Solar System, orbiting the Sun once every 87.969 Earth days. The orbit of Mercury has the highest eccentricity of all the Solar System planets, and it has the smallest axial tilt. It completes three rotations about its axis for every two orbits...
. Mercury is a sparsely inhabited planet whose spiritual hierarchy is called the Mercurian Masters. The most notable inhabitant of Mercury is actually a visiting Sirian Master who has lived there for many millennia, an androgynous
Androgyny
Androgyny is a term derived from the Greek words ανήρ, stem ανδρ- and γυνή , referring to the combination of masculine and feminine characteristics...
hermaphrodite
Hermaphrodite
In biology, a hermaphrodite is an organism that has reproductive organs normally associated with both male and female sexes.Many taxonomic groups of animals do not have separate sexes. In these groups, hermaphroditism is a normal condition, enabling a form of sexual reproduction in which both...
named Thoth
Thoth
Thoth was considered one of the more important deities of the Egyptian pantheon. In art, he was often depicted as a man with the head of an ibis or a baboon, animals sacred to him. His feminine counterpart was Seshat...
, also known as Hermes Trismegistus
Hermes Trismegistus
Hermes Trismegistus is the eponymous author of the Hermetic Corpus, a sacred text belonging to the genre of divine revelation.-Origin and identity:...
. He authored and fashioned the Emerald Tablet
Emerald Tablet
The Emerald Tablet, also known as Smaragdine Table, Tabula Smaragdina, or The Secret of Hermes, is a text purporting to reveal the secret of the primordial substance and its transmutations...
of Hermes Trismegistus which contains all the secrets of alchemy
Alchemy
Alchemy is an influential philosophical tradition whose early practitioners’ claims to profound powers were known from antiquity. The defining objectives of alchemy are varied; these include the creation of the fabled philosopher's stone possessing powers including the capability of turning base...
and Egyptian magic. He lives in an etheric retreat (a castle composed of etheric matter) in the Wilderness of Hermes Trismegistus, a heavily cratered area in the southeastern quadrant of the western hemisphere of Mercury.
Cosmic beings on Venus
The Planetary Logos of Venus is the indwelling spirit of the planet Venus
Venus
Venus is the second planet from the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. The planet is named after Venus, the Roman goddess of love and beauty. After the Moon, it is the brightest natural object in the night sky, reaching an apparent magnitude of −4.6, bright enough to cast shadows...
. According to both Theosophy and the Ascended Master Teachings, millions of years ago the immortal
Immortality
Immortality is the ability to live forever. It is unknown whether human physical immortality is an achievable condition. Biological forms have inherent limitations which may or may not be able to be overcome through medical interventions or engineering...
Seven Holy Kumaras, the governing council of the Venusians
Venusians
In science fiction and ufology, a Venusian is a native inhabitant of the planet Venus.-Etymology:The word "Venusian" is simply a combination of the name of the planet Venus and the suffix -ian, formed on the analogy of "Martian" . It is usually pronounced or...
, chose one from among themselves, Sanat Kumara, to go to Earth and guide its spiritual evolution. That left the Six Holy Kumaras as cosmic beings still residing on Venus as Masters. Then, another being was promoted from lower in the Venusian hierarchy to take the place of Sanat Kumara; thus there are still Seven Holy Kumaras that are the governing council of the Venusian Masters as a whole. So far, no Ascended Master Teachings teachers have identified the personal names of nor channeled any of these seven cosmic beings.
George King
George King (Aetherius Society)
George King was Founder-President of The Aetherius Society, a UFO religion. He was also an inventor, author, lecturer and spiritual teacher.-Early years:...
, founder of the Aetherius Society
Aetherius Society
The Aetherius Society was founded by Dr George King , an English-born Master of Yoga, occultist, alleged spiritual healer and UFO Contactee. The society was first established in London in 1955, and later becoming incorporated in America as a not-for-profit organisation in 1960. Its guiding...
, the central temple of which is now located on Hollywood Boulevard
Hollywood Boulevard
-Revitalization:In recent years successful efforts have been made at cleaning up Hollywood Blvd., as the street had gained a reputation for crime and seediness. Central to these efforts was the construction of the Hollywood and Highland shopping center and adjacent Kodak Theatre in 2001...
in Hollywood, California, believed in the existence of all the traditional Theosophical Masters of the Ancient Wisdom and identified a new Master named the Master Aetherius, who he claimed spoke to him telepathically
Telepathy
Telepathy , is the induction of mental states from one mind to another. The term was coined in 1882 by the classical scholar Fredric W. H. Myers, a founder of the Society for Psychical Research, and has remained more popular than the more-correct expression thought-transference...
from Venus. According to the Aetherius Society, the Master Jesus spends a lot of time on the higher planes of Venus with the Master Aetherius.
Noted Theosophist Benjamin Creme was the vice president of the Aetherius Society between 1957 and 1959. In 1958 Creme personally met George Adamski
George Adamski
George Adamski was a Polish-born American citizen who became widely known in ufology circles, and to some degree in popular culture, after he claimed to have photographed ships from other planets, met with friendly Nordic alien "Space Brothers", and to have taken flights with them...
and Creme says he can personally vouch for the authenticity of Adamski's close encounter of the third kind with the cosmic being Orthon. According to Benjamin Creme, there are hundreds of thousands if not millions of flying saucers based on the etheric plane of Venus (since Venusian civilization is on the etheric plane of Venus, it is not affected by the heat of the Venusian atmosphere). The Venusians have mother ship
Mother ship
A mother ship is a vessel or aircraft that carries a smaller vessel or aircraft that operates independently from it. Examples include bombers converted to carry experimental aircraft to altitudes where they can conduct their research , or ships that carry small submarines to an area of ocean to be...
s up to four miles long that can hold multiple individual flying saucers. According to Joshua David Stone, the vast majority of the large number of cosmic beings that function as the crew of the Ashtar Galactic Command flying saucer fleet are from Venus, and thus they are Nordic aliens
Nordic aliens
Nordic aliens are said by self-described contactees and some UFOlogists to be a group of humanoid extraterrestrials who resemble European racial images, or more specifically Nordic-Scandinavians....
as is everyone from Venus.
According to Elizabeth Clare Prophet, there are two cosmic beings from Venus who are androgynous
Androgyny
Androgyny is a term derived from the Greek words ανήρ, stem ανδρ- and γυνή , referring to the combination of masculine and feminine characteristics...
hermaphrodite
Hermaphrodite
In biology, a hermaphrodite is an organism that has reproductive organs normally associated with both male and female sexes.Many taxonomic groups of animals do not have separate sexes. In these groups, hermaphroditism is a normal condition, enabling a form of sexual reproduction in which both...
s named Victory, "The tall Master from Venus", and its twin flame (celestial consort) Justina. Devotees can issue decrees toward these two beings and achieve Victory over whatever life circumstances or karma
Karma
Karma in Indian religions is the concept of "action" or "deed", understood as that which causes the entire cycle of cause and effect originating in ancient India and treated in Hindu, Jain, Buddhist and Sikh philosophies....
they need to be victorious over.
According to Joshua David Stone, the Galactic Master Adonis has personally commissioned a now in operation school on Venus to train Planetary Logoi to prepare them to inhabit newly formed planets in stellar nurseries in nearby areas of the galaxy.
Since both Theosophists and those adherent to the Ascended Master Teachings believe that a civilization exists on the etheric plane of Venus that is hundreds of millions of years more advanced than our present civilization on Earth, there must be many more Masters on Venus that have not yet been identified and channeled.
Ascended master on Luna
According to Theosophy, some souls that now reincarnate on Earth inhabited the astral plane
Astral plane
The astral plane, also called the astral world, is a plane of existence postulated by classical , medieval, oriental and esoteric philosophies and mystery religions...
of Luna millions of years ago. However, according to Theosophy now Luna is a spiritually dead body so there is no longer any "Natural satellite Logos of Luna" or spiritual hierarchy of "Lunar Masters" (also referred to in the Theosophical literature as the "Lunar Pitris", "Lords of the Moon", or "Barishad Hierarchy")--they went on to other tasks after all souls left Luna. All etheric beings that now live on Luna are from somewhere else. For etheric beings to function on Luna, they have to carry battery packs to store the rose
Rose (color)
Rose is the color halfway between red and magenta on the HSV color wheel, also known as the RGB color wheel, on which it is at hue angle of 330 degrees.Rose is one of the tertiary colors on the HSV color wheel...
vitality globules of etheric matter from the Sun that they live on so they can function during the two week long lunar night
Lunar day
In space exploration, a lunar day is the period of time it takes for the Earth's Moon to complete one full rotation on its axis with respect to the Sun. Equivalently, it is the time it takes the Moon to make one complete orbit around the Earth and come back to the same phase...
.
The Temple of Antinous in Hollywood, California is a Neo-pagan/ascended master religion founded in 2002 that is designed to appeal to gay people. This religion worships the ascended master Antinous
Antinous
Antinoüs or Antinoös was a beautiful Bithynian youth and the favourite of the Roman emperor Hadrian...
. He is said to have an etheric retreat on Luna. This religion's website has many interesting articles on gay history.
Cosmic beings on Mars
The Planetary Logos of Mars is the indwelling spirit of the planet Mars
Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in the Solar System. The planet is named after the Roman god of war, Mars. It is often described as the "Red Planet", as the iron oxide prevalent on its surface gives it a reddish appearance...
. The spiritual hierarchy of Mars is called the Martian Masters. According to Lourene Altiery, Kla-La, a "master of force
Force
In physics, a force is any influence that causes an object to undergo a change in speed, a change in direction, or a change in shape. In other words, a force is that which can cause an object with mass to change its velocity , i.e., to accelerate, or which can cause a flexible object to deform...
dynamics
Dynamics
Dynamics may refer to:-Physics and engineering:* Dynamics , the time evolution of physical processes** Aerodynamics, the study of gases in motion...
", is a Master from Mars who pilots one of the flying saucers in the Ashtar Galactic Command flying saucer fleet. It is appropriate that Kla-La is a "master of force dynamics" because according to Benjamin Creme, the Martians are the "master engineer
Engineer
An engineer is a professional practitioner of engineering, concerned with applying scientific knowledge, mathematics and ingenuity to develop solutions for technical problems. Engineers design materials, structures, machines and systems while considering the limitations imposed by practicality,...
s" of the Solar System. According to Creme, the Venusians outsource
Outsourcing
Outsourcing is the process of contracting a business function to someone else.-Overview:The term outsourcing is used inconsistently but usually involves the contracting out of a business function - commonly one previously performed in-house - to an external provider...
the construction of their flying saucers to the Martians, and on the etheric plane of Mars, there are enormous underground factories engaged in the construction of flying saucers. According to the Ashtar Command Crew website, the Ashtar Galactic Command flying saucer fleet has numerous bases on Mars and also has extensive weapons factories and backup industrial production facilities there as well as logistics storehouses.
Cosmic beings in the Jovian system
The Planetary Logos of Jupiter is the indwelling spirit of the planet Jupiter
Jupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet within the Solar System. It is a gas giant with mass one-thousandth that of the Sun but is two and a half times the mass of all the other planets in our Solar System combined. Jupiter is classified as a gas giant along with Saturn,...
. The spiritual hierarchy of Jupiter is called the Jovian Masters. According to Alice A. Bailey, there is a School of Beneficent Magicians in the Jovian system, and its main hall is called The Palace of Opulence. Benjamin Creme states that the Jovians live on the etheric plane of three of the smaller moons of Jupiter (he doesn't say which three), all three of which are artificial constructions, and identifies these three moons as being where the campuses of the School of Beneficent Magicians are located. This school trains white magic
Magic (paranormal)
Magic is the claimed art of manipulating aspects of reality either by supernatural means or through knowledge of occult laws unknown to science. It is in contrast to science, in that science does not accept anything not subject to either direct or indirect observation, and subject to logical...
ians from all over the solar system.
Cosmic beings on Saturn
The Planetary Logos of Saturn is the indwelling spirit of the planet Saturn
Saturn
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest planet in the Solar System, after Jupiter. Saturn is named after the Roman god Saturn, equated to the Greek Cronus , the Babylonian Ninurta and the Hindu Shani. Saturn's astronomical symbol represents the Roman god's sickle.Saturn,...
. The spiritual hierarchy of Saturn is called the Saturnian Masters. One of the Saturnian Masters, Mon-Ka, has been identified as one of the judge
Judge
A judge is a person who presides over court proceedings, either alone or as part of a panel of judges. The powers, functions, method of appointment, discipline, and training of judges vary widely across different jurisdictions. The judge is supposed to conduct the trial impartially and in an open...
s on the Saturnian Tribunal, the Supreme Court
Supreme court
A supreme court is the highest court within the hierarchy of many legal jurisdictions. Other descriptions for such courts include court of last resort, instance court, judgment court, high court, or apex court...
of the solar system, an organization first identified by the medium Tuella in the early 1980s. Souls whose cases are denied by the Karmic Board can appeal to the "Saturnian Tribunal". According to Lourene Altiery, Mon-Ka in Pre-Columbian
Pre-Columbian
The pre-Columbian era incorporates all period subdivisions in the history and prehistory of the Americas before the appearance of significant European influences on the American continents, spanning the time of the original settlement in the Upper Paleolithic period to European colonization during...
times was forced to land his flying saucer in the Inca Empire
Inca Empire
The Inca Empire, or Inka Empire , was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. The administrative, political and military center of the empire was located in Cusco in modern-day Peru. The Inca civilization arose from the highlands of Peru sometime in the early 13th century...
in Cuzco, Peru when he had engine trouble and the Incas thought he was the Sun God Viracocha
Viracocha
Viracocha is the great creator god in the pre-Inca and Inca mythology in the Andes region of South America. Full name and some spelling alternatives are Apu Qun Tiqsi Wiraqutra and Con-Tici Viracocha...
.
Cosmic beings on Uranus
The Planetary Logos of Uranus is the indwelling spirit of the planet Uranus
Uranus
Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It has the third-largest planetary radius and fourth-largest planetary mass in the Solar System. It is named after the ancient Greek deity of the sky Uranus , the father of Cronus and grandfather of Zeus...
. The spiritual hierarchy of Uranus is called the Uranian Masters. So far, no Theosophist or Ascended Master Teachings teacher has idenfified by name, channeled, or received dictations from any of the Uranian Masters.
Cosmic beings on Neptune
The Planetary Logos of Neptune is the indwelling spirit of the planet Neptune
Neptune
Neptune is the eighth and farthest planet from the Sun in the Solar System. Named for the Roman god of the sea, it is the fourth-largest planet by diameter and the third largest by mass. Neptune is 17 times the mass of Earth and is slightly more massive than its near-twin Uranus, which is 15 times...
. The spiritual hierarchy of Neptune is called the Neptunian Masters. So far, no Theosophist or Ascended Master Teachings teacher has idenfified by name, channeled, or received dictations from any of the Neptunian Masters.
The "Neptunian Masters" also spiritually govern Pluto and Charon, since both Pluto and Charon are part of the Neptune scheme, meaning that souls that reincarnate on the etheric plane of Neptune also reincarnate on the etheric planes of Pluto and Charon.
Cosmic beings attendant to the Sun
According to Theosophy and the Ascended Master Teachings, there are seven solar archangelArchangel
An archangel is an angel of high rank. Archangels are found in a number of religious traditions, including Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Michael and Gabriel are recognized as archangels in Judaism and by most Christians. Michael is the only archangel specifically named in the Protestant Bible...
s (In traditional Theosophy they are also referred to as the seven spirits before the [solar] throne.). The Ascended Master Teachings also add seven additional beings attendant to the Sun called the seven solar elohim
Elohim
Elohim is a grammatically singular or plural noun for "god" or "gods" in both modern and ancient Hebrew language. When used with singular verbs and adjectives elohim is usually singular, "god" or especially, the God. When used with plural verbs and adjectives elohim is usually plural, "gods" or...
. Each solar archangel and solar elohim transmits one of the seven rays. According to the Ascended Master Teachings, each of these 14 beings has a twin flame (celestial wife), making a total of 28 of these beings in all, all of whom live in the solar corona. It is believed in the Ascended Master Teachings that Hercules
Hercules
Hercules is the Roman name for Greek demigod Heracles, son of Zeus , and the mortal Alcmene...
, the elohim of the first ray, helped Helios and Vesta (see below) organize the solar system
Solar System
The Solar System consists of the Sun and the astronomical objects gravitationally bound in orbit around it, all of which formed from the collapse of a giant molecular cloud approximately 4.6 billion years ago. The vast majority of the system's mass is in the Sun...
from the solar nebula
Solar nebula
In cosmogony, the nebular hypothesis is the most widely accepted model explaining the formation and evolution of the Solar System. There is evidence that it was first proposed in 1734 by Emanuel Swedenborg. Originally applied only to our own Solar System, this method of planetary system formation...
when it was first forming. According to Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Mary
Mary (mother of Jesus)
Mary , commonly referred to as "Saint Mary", "Mother Mary", the "Virgin Mary", the "Blessed Virgin Mary", or "Mary, Mother of God", was a Jewish woman of Nazareth in Galilee...
, the mother of Jesus, became the twin flame of the Archangel Raphael (that solar archangel that transmits the fifth ray) after her assumption
Assumption of Mary
According to the belief of Christians of the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, and parts of the Anglican Communion and Continuing Anglicanism, the Assumption of Mary was the bodily taking up of the Virgin Mary into Heaven at the end of her life...
, thus becoming one of the very few examples of a human ascended master who celestially married a cosmic being. Sometimes Mary comes back to Earth to serve with the Master Jesus at the "resurrection temple", a temple on the etheric plane located above Jerusalem. It is believed in the Ascended Master Teachings that all the archangels, elohim, and their twin flames all have android replicas composed of etheric matter that serve at their various etheric retreats scattered over the globe on the etheric plane.
Cosmic beings functioning within the Sun
The being that inhabits the Sun is referred to as the "Solar Logos" in traditional Theosophy. According to Theosophy, the actual body of the Solar Logos is a four dimensional hypersphereHypersphere
In mathematics, an n-sphere is a generalization of the surface of an ordinary sphere to arbitrary dimension. For any natural number n, an n-sphere of radius r is defined as the set of points in -dimensional Euclidean space which are at distance r from a central point, where the radius r may be any...
, the intersection of which with the third dimension
Three-dimensional space
Three-dimensional space is a geometric 3-parameters model of the physical universe in which we live. These three dimensions are commonly called length, width, and depth , although any three directions can be chosen, provided that they do not lie in the same plane.In physics and mathematics, a...
we see as the physical Sun
Sun
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is almost perfectly spherical and consists of hot plasma interwoven with magnetic fields...
. In terms of the Galaxy as a whole, the Solar Logos is referred to as the "Stellar Logos of Sol".
The Solar Logos, the Sun God, is personified as the cosmic beings Helios
Helios
Helios was the personification of the Sun in Greek mythology. Homer often calls him simply Titan or Hyperion, while Hesiod and the Homeric Hymn separate him as a son of the Titans Hyperion and Theia or Euryphaessa and brother of the goddesses Selene, the moon, and Eos, the dawn...
and his "twin flame" (celestial wife) Vesta
Vesta (mythology)
Vesta was the virgin goddess of the hearth, home, and family in Roman religion. Vesta's presence was symbolized by the sacred fire that burned at her hearth and temples...
, the "God and Goddess of this solar system
Solar System
The Solar System consists of the Sun and the astronomical objects gravitationally bound in orbit around it, all of which formed from the collapse of a giant molecular cloud approximately 4.6 billion years ago. The vast majority of the system's mass is in the Sun...
", in the Ascended Master Teachings.
In the theosophical teachings of Alice A. Bailey, there is a powerful being living inside the sun serving the Solar Logos called the "Avatar of Synthesis". Its job is to transmit the seven rays from the heart of the sun through the "seven spirits before the throne" to all the life waves of the solar system. According to Benjamin Creme, the "Avatar of Synthesis" is functioning at the 17th level of initiation
Initiation (Theosophy)
Initiation is a concept in Theosophy that there are nine levels of spiritual development that beings who live on Earth can progress upward through. Within these levels, there are four basic levels of spiritual development that human beings on Earth progress through as they reincarnate, although...
. In the Ascended Master Teachings, this being is called "Ray-O-Light". This being directs and supervises the activities of the thousands of Masters originally from all the planets of the Solar System called the "Staff Corps of the Solar Logos that live in etheric cities in the solar core
Solar core
The core of the Sun is considered to extend from the center to about 0.2 to 0.25 solar radius. It is the hottest part of the Sun and of the Solar System. It has a density of up to 150 g/cm³ and a temperature of close to 15,000,000 kelvin...
. In the Ascended Master Teachings, the Staff Corps of the Solar Logos are called the "Solar Lords".
The function of the Staff Corps of the Solar Logos is to orchestrate the activities of the Solar Angels
Deva (New Age)
A deva in the New Age movement refers to any of the spiritual forces or beings behind nature. According to Theosophists Charles Webster Leadbeater and Alice A. Bailey, devas represent a separate evolution to that of humanity. The concept of devas as nature-spirits derives from the writings of...
, swarm
Swarm
Swarm behaviour, or swarming, is a collective behaviour exhibited by animals of similar size which aggregate together, perhaps milling about the same spot or perhaps moving en masse or migrating in some direction. As a term, swarming is applied particularly to insects, but can also be applied to...
s of millions of "devas
Deva (New Age)
A deva in the New Age movement refers to any of the spiritual forces or beings behind nature. According to Theosophists Charles Webster Leadbeater and Alice A. Bailey, devas represent a separate evolution to that of humanity. The concept of devas as nature-spirits derives from the writings of...
" living inside the Sun who often visit the various planets to direct the evolution of the soul life waves on all the planets of the solar system. (According to both Theosophy and the Ascended Master Teachings, life on all the planets in the solar system except Earth functions only on the etheric plane
Etheric plane
The etheric plane is a term introduced into Theosophy by Charles Webster Leadbeater and Annie Besant to represent one of the planes of existence in neo-Theosophical and Rosicrucian cosmology. It represents the fourth[higher] subplane of the physical plane , the lower three being the states of...
.).
Cosmic beings from nearby stellar systems
It is believed in Theosophy that every starStar
A star is a massive, luminous sphere of plasma held together by gravity. At the end of its lifetime, a star can also contain a proportion of degenerate matter. The nearest star to Earth is the Sun, which is the source of most of the energy on Earth...
in the universe
Universe
The Universe is commonly defined as the totality of everything that exists, including all matter and energy, the planets, stars, galaxies, and the contents of intergalactic space. Definitions and usage vary and similar terms include the cosmos, the world and nature...
has its own indwelling spirit, called its Stellar Logos (plural: Stellar Logoi). If a white dwarf
White dwarf
A white dwarf, also called a degenerate dwarf, is a small star composed mostly of electron-degenerate matter. They are very dense; a white dwarf's mass is comparable to that of the Sun and its volume is comparable to that of the Earth. Its faint luminosity comes from the emission of stored...
dies and becomes a black dwarf
Black dwarf
A black dwarf is a hypothetical stellar remnant, created when a white dwarf becomes sufficiently cool to no longer emit significant heat or light...
, its stellar logos reincarnates in another newly formed star, either in this Cosmos or another Cosmos. If a giant star
Giant star
A giant star is a star with substantially larger radius and luminosity than a main sequence star of the same surface temperature. Typically, giant stars have radii between 10 and 100 solar radii and luminosities between 10 and 1,000 times that of the Sun. Stars still more luminous than giants are...
dies by going supernova
Supernova
A supernova is a stellar explosion that is more energetic than a nova. It is pronounced with the plural supernovae or supernovas. Supernovae are extremely luminous and cause a burst of radiation that often briefly outshines an entire galaxy, before fading from view over several weeks or months...
and becoming a black hole
Black hole
A black hole is a region of spacetime from which nothing, not even light, can escape. The theory of general relativity predicts that a sufficiently compact mass will deform spacetime to form a black hole. Around a black hole there is a mathematically defined surface called an event horizon that...
, its sequence of reincarnations is over and its stellar logos goes to Nirvana.
Altho the metaphysical system
Metaphysics
Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the fundamental nature of being and the world, although the term is not easily defined. Traditionally, metaphysics attempts to answer two basic questions in the broadest possible terms:...
of Theosophy was formulated before the discovery of brown dwarves
Brown dwarf
Brown dwarfs are sub-stellar objects which are too low in mass to sustain hydrogen-1 fusion reactions in their cores, which is characteristic of stars on the main sequence. Brown dwarfs have fully convective surfaces and interiors, with no chemical differentiation by depth...
in the 1990s, since there are Planetary Logoi for all inhabited planets and Stellar Logoi for all stars, there must also be Brown Dwarf Logoi for all brown dwarves.
Cosmic beings from Sirius
The being inhabiting the star Sirius
Sirius
Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky. With a visual apparent magnitude of −1.46, it is almost twice as bright as Canopus, the next brightest star. The name "Sirius" is derived from the Ancient Greek: Seirios . The star has the Bayer designation Alpha Canis Majoris...
is called in Theosophy the Stellar Logos of Sirius.
The Sirian Masters are said in many New Age teachings to be a large group of cosmic beings from the planetary system
Planetary system
A planetary system consists of the various non-stellar objects orbiting a star such as planets, dwarf planets , asteroids, meteoroids, comets, and cosmic dust...
of Sirius that include both Nordic alien humanoid
Humanoid
A humanoid is something that has an appearance resembling a human being. The term first appeared in 1912 to refer to fossils which were morphologically similar to, but not identical with, those of the human skeleton. Although this usage was common in the sciences for much of the 20th century, it...
and dolphinoid
Cetacean intelligence
Cetacean intelligence denotes the cognitive capabilities of the Cetacea order of mammals, which includes whales, porpoises, and dolphins.-Brain size:...
entities. In the Ascended Master Teachings of Paul McCarthy, he claims the ability to channel these entities at his organization the Sirius Temple of Ascension in Brighton, England. McCarthy has identified the Lady Master Isis
Isis
Isis or in original more likely Aset is a goddess in Ancient Egyptian religious beliefs, whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. She was worshipped as the ideal mother and wife as well as the matron of nature and magic...
as one of the Sirian Masters. He has not yet identified by name any of the dolphinoid Masters. When these dolphinoid Masters travel in space
Spacefaring
To be spacefaring is to be capable of and active in the art of space travel or space transport, the operation of spacecraft or spaceplanes. It involves a knowledge of a variety of topics and development of specialised skills including : aeronautics; astronautics; programs to train astronauts; space...
, they travel submersed in tanks of water inside specially equipped flying saucers piloted by humanoid Masters. (Paul McCarthy took over Joshua David Stone's organization the I AM University after Stone's death in 2005 and moved the headquarters from California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
to Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
).) According to Benjamin Creme, Sai Baba
Sathya Sai Baba
Śri Sathya Sai Baba , born as Sathyanarayana Raju was an Indian guru, spiritual figure, mystic, philanthropist, and educator. He claimed to be the reincarnation of Sai Baba of Shirdi, a spiritual saint and miracle worker who died in 1918 and whose teachings were an eclectic blend of Hindu and...
was an avatar
Avatar
In Hinduism, an avatar is a deliberate descent of a deity to earth, or a descent of the Supreme Being and is mostly translated into English as "incarnation," but more accurately as "appearance" or "manifestation"....
of one of the Sirian Masters. Also according to Creme, Lao-Tse (technically not a cosmic being since he is from Earth) has now graduated to the status of a Sirian Master. In addition, Creme states that Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance...
was an avatar of one of the Mercurian Masters, but now he has ascended to the status of being one of the Sirian Masters.Robert Anton Wilson
Robert Anton Wilson
Robert Anton Wilson , known to friends as "Bob", was an American author and polymath who became at various times a novelist, philosopher, psychologist, essayist, editor, playwright, poet, futurist, civil libertarian and self-described agnostic mystic...
often mentioned the Sirian Masters in his writings. According to Wilson, the Sirian Masters revealed to the Dogon people
Dogon people
The Dogon are an ethnic group living in the central plateau region of Mali, south of the Niger bend near the city of Bandiagara in the Mopti region. The population numbers between 400,000 and 800,000 The Dogon are best known for their religious traditions, their mask dances, wooden sculpture and...
the existence of the companion of Sirius. Scientific note: The Sirian planetary system is only 230,000,000 years old and thus there has not been enough time for intelligent life
Extraterrestrial life
Extraterrestrial life is defined as life that does not originate from Earth...
to have evolved
Evolution
Evolution is any change across successive generations in the heritable characteristics of biological populations. Evolutionary processes give rise to diversity at every level of biological organisation, including species, individual organisms and molecules such as DNA and proteins.Life on Earth...
there. Therefore, any beings that may live in that planetary system must have colonized it from somewhere else.
Cosmic beings governing our sector of the galaxy from Ursa Major
According to writings of the Ascended Master Teachings teacher Joshua David Stone, this sector of the Milky Way Galaxy--one twelfth of the total volume of the galactic disc—is governed by a cosmic being (Stone uses the term Cosmic Master for Ascended Masters of extraterrestrial origin) named Melchior from the constellation
Constellation
In modern astronomy, a constellation is an internationally defined area of the celestial sphere. These areas are grouped around asterisms, patterns formed by prominent stars within apparent proximity to one another on Earth's night sky....
of the Great Bear
Ursa Major
Ursa Major , also known as the Great Bear, is a constellation visible throughout the year in most of the northern hemisphere. It can best be seen in April...
. Working under him and with him on the governing council of this sector of the Galaxy is said to be his junior partner [Local galactic sector cosmic being] Melchizedek (not the same being as the [Earth ascended master] Melchizedek, said to be the being that the Biblical Melchizedek became after his death on Earth).
Cosmic beings from the Pleiades
The spiritual hierarchy of the Pleiades
Pleiades
Pleiades can refer to:Astronomy and science*Pleiades , an open cluster of stars in the constellation Taurus**Pleiades in folklore and literature, interpretations and traditional meanings of the star cluster among various human cultures...
is called the Pleiadean Masters. It is generally agreed among New Age people due to Billy Meier
Billy Meier
"Billy" Eduard Albert Meier is a citizen of Switzerland who claims to be a UFO contactee and prophet. He is also the source of many controversial UFO photographs, which he states are evidence of his encounters...
's alleged contacts that the Pleiadeans are Nordic aliens
Nordic aliens
Nordic aliens are said by self-described contactees and some UFOlogists to be a group of humanoid extraterrestrials who resemble European racial images, or more specifically Nordic-Scandinavians....
. Paul McCarthy of the Sirius Ascension Center in Brighton, England offers "attunements" with the Pleiadean Masters, the energies from whom McCarthy asserts are ideal for artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
s, musician
Musician
A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....
s and dancers.One of these "Pleiadean Masters" is Hatonn, an android from the Pleiades
Pleiades
Pleiades can refer to:Astronomy and science*Pleiades , an open cluster of stars in the constellation Taurus**Pleiades in folklore and literature, interpretations and traditional meanings of the star cluster among various human cultures...
who, working with Soltec on their flying saucer Phoenix, monitors events on Earth for the Galactic Hall of Records at the galactic core as part of his day job as one of the upper echelon officers of the Ashtar Galactic Command flying saucer fleet. However, according to the Ascended Master Teachings teacher Anne Bellringer of Rapid City, South Dakota
Rapid City, South Dakota
Rapid City is the second-largest city in the U.S. state of South Dakota, and the county seat of Pennington County. Named after Rapid Creek on which the city is established, it is set against the eastern slope of the Black Hills mountain range. The population was 67,956 as of the 2010 Census. Rapid...
, who began teaching in 1990, Hatonn's real job is to function as the liaison officer
Liaison officer
A liaison officer or LNO is a person that liaises between two organizations to communicate and coordinate their activities. Generally, they are used to achieve the best utilization of resources or employment of services of one organization by another. In the military, liaison officers may...
between the Pleiadeans and Sanat Kumara
Sanat Kumara
According to the post-1900 publications of Theosophy, i.e. the writings of C. W. Leadbeater, Alice A. Bailey, and Benjamin Creme, as well as the Ascended Master Teachings of Guy Ballard, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Geraldine Innocente, Joshua David Stone, and other Ascended Master Teachings teachers,...
in order to help guide Earth
Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun, and the densest and fifth-largest of the eight planets in the Solar System. It is also the largest of the Solar System's four terrestrial planets...
in 2012
2012 phenomenon
The 2012 phenomenon comprises a range of eschatological beliefs that cataclysmic or transformative events will occur on December 21, 2012. This date is regarded as the end-date of a 5,125-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar...
safely thru the photon belt
Photon belt
The Photon Belt is a pseudo-scientific belief, largely linked to some parts of the New Age Movement...
, which is said to emanate from the Pleiades. Bellringer says she has received a series of dictations from Hatonn called the Phoenix Letters, named after his flying saucer Phoenix--these letters are posted on her website. According to Bellringer, Hatonn is an important deity in his own right, and when worshipped on an altar, he should be addressed by his full name, Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn. It is interesting to note that the worship of "Hatonn" is the first time in the history of religion that religious worship has been directed toward a being identified as being an android.
Spiritual hierarchy of the Milky Way Galaxy
In traditional Theosophy, the being that governs our Milky Way Galaxy is called the Galactic Logos. In terms of the Cosmos as a whole, the Galactic Logos is referred to as the Galactic Logos of the Milky Way Galaxy.
Sometimes Alice A. Bailey and the Theosophist Douglas Baker
Douglas Baker
Dr. Douglas Mackley Baker is an author and lecturer, who has written over a hundred books on various esoteric subjects.-Biography:...
would poetically refer to the Galactic Logos in their writings as The One Whom Naught May Be Said.
In the Ascended Master Teachings of Joshua David Stone
Joshua David Stone
Joshua David Stone was an American author and teacher in the ascension movement. His father was Hal Stone. Joshua had a Ph.D. in Transpersonal Psychology and was a Licensed Marriage, Family and Child Counselor in California....
, there is a powerful cosmic being functioning at the galactic core of the Milky Way Galaxy named Averran who is the governing deity
Deity
A deity is a recognized preternatural or supernatural immortal being, who may be thought of as holy, divine, or sacred, held in high regard, and respected by believers....
of the Galaxy. This is a personification of the Galactic Logos of Theosophy. Stone uses the term cosmic master to denote what Elizabeth Clare Prophet calls a cosmic being.
According to Stone, working with Averran under his authority are three cosmic beings named Vywamus, the Galactic God of Wisdom; Adonis, the Galactic God of Love; and Atlanto the Galactic God of Time. Another cosmic being named Lenduce is the ambassador to our galaxy from the Great Central Sun.
There is a couple named Patricia Marston-Snow and Halsey Snow who function solely as Vywamus channels. In 1994 they founded the Vywamus Foundation in Cumberland, Maine
Cumberland, Maine
Cumberland is a town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States. The population was 7,211 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Portland–South Portland–Biddeford, Maine Metropolitan Statistical Area.-History:...
.
The Ascended Master Teachings teacher Mussarat Rahman of Bradford, England (originally from Kashmir
Kashmir
Kashmir is the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent. Until the mid-19th century, the term Kashmir geographically denoted only the valley between the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panjal mountain range...
), who began teaching in 2005, has identified and channeled an additional seven cosmic beings on the governing council of our galaxy, whom she identifies as Zoltec, Voltar, Vulcun, Valentino, Valcor, Anturion, and Vulcrum. Added to the three cosmic beings above identified by Joshua David Stone, Vywamus, Adonis and Atlanto, this makes a total of ten cosmic beings so far identified on the Galactic Council of our galaxy under Averran. Since important groupings of Theosophy/Ascended Master Teachings deities within the spiritual hierarchy normally come in sets of three, seven, or twelve, this makes it seem highly likely that there are an eleventh cosmic being and a twelfth cosmic being on the Galactic Council , both of whom are as yet unidentified and unchanneled. Presumably all twelve cosmic beings on the "Galactic Council" plus Averran himself all have twin flames (celestial wives), but so far, only one of these twin flames has been identified by Rahman—Valencia, the twin flame of Voltar. The twelve members of the Galactic Council and their twin flames along with Averran himself and his twin flame would make a total of 26 cosmic beings functioning at the top level of the spiritual hierarchy of the Milky Way Galaxy. Rahman has also identified and channeled four additional cosmic beings who are intergalactic ambassadors from other galaxies in the Local Group
Local Group
The Local Group is the group of galaxies that includes Earth's galaxy, the Milky Way. The group comprises more than 30 galaxies , with its gravitational center located somewhere between the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy...
to the court of Averran—Karkite, Arkavite, Andromedus, and Malaki. Presumably, Andromedus is the ambassador from the Andromeda Galaxy
Andromeda Galaxy
The Andromeda Galaxy is a spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Andromeda. It is also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224, and is often referred to as the Great Andromeda Nebula in older texts. Andromeda is the nearest spiral galaxy to the...
. According to Rahman, all of these cosmic beings live on a planet on the etheric plane called Andromeda located in the galactic core that functions as the spiritual capital of the Milky Way Galaxy.
Galactic Confederation of Planets
According to Joshua David Stone, the organization that temporally governs the planets of the galaxy as a whole is called the Galactic Confederation of Planets. Other names used are the Galactic Federation (Sheldan Nidle) and the Galactic Federation of Light (Tuella and Sheldan Nidle). According to the Ascended Master Teachings teacher Sheldan Nidle of El Dorado Hills, California
El Dorado Hills, California
El Dorado Hills is an unincorporated census-designated place located in El Dorado County, California, east of the state capital of Sacramento. The population was 42,108 at the 2010 census, up from 18,016 at the 2000 census...
, who began teaching in 1997 when he founded the Planetary Activation Organization, the Galactic Federation of Light was founded over 4.5 million years ago to prevent the dark forces from taking over the galaxy. He states that it has over 200,000 member star nations, confederations or unions and that approximately 40% of its population are humanoids and the rest are varied other forms of bipedal sapient beings such as reptilians
Reptilians
Reptilians are purported reptilian humanoids that play a prominent role in modern ufology and conspiracy theories.-Alien abduction:...
, greys, ursinoids, equinoids, amphibioids, etc.
Spiritual hierarchy of our cosmos
In traditional Theosophy, the being that governs our own particular Cosmos
Cosmos
In the general sense, a cosmos is an orderly or harmonious system. It originates from the Greek term κόσμος , meaning "order" or "ornament" and is antithetical to the concept of chaos. Today, the word is generally used as a synonym of the word Universe . The word cosmos originates from the same root...
is called the Cosmic Logos.
According to Elizabeth Clare Prophet, the woman who was the head of the Church Universal and Triumphant
Church Universal and Triumphant
Church Universal and Triumphant is an international New Age religious organization founded in 1975 by Elizabeth Clare Prophet. It is an outgrowth of The Summit Lighthouse, founded in 1958 by Prophet's husband, Mark L. Prophet...
, the largest of the Ascended Master Teachings religions, the two deities that are the most powerful deities in this Cosmos—personifications of what in Theosophy is called the Cosmic Logos -- are Alpha, the Heavenly Father and Omega, the Heavenly Mother
Heavenly Mother
In Mormonism, Heavenly Mother or the Mother in Heaven is the mother of human spirits and the wife of God the Father. Those who accept the Mother in Heaven doctrine trace its origins to Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement. The doctrine was not widely known, however, until...
. Elizabeth Clare Prophet prefaced most of her dictations with the phrase "In the name of Alpha and Omega".
Alpha and Omega are said to live in the Great Central Sun, a hyperspherical
Hypersphere
In mathematics, an n-sphere is a generalization of the surface of an ordinary sphere to arbitrary dimension. For any natural number n, an n-sphere of radius r is defined as the set of points in -dimensional Euclidean space which are at distance r from a central point, where the radius r may be any...
body said to be located in the fourth dimension (i.e., in hyperspace) at a location regarded in the Ascended Master Teachings religions and in some UFO religion
UFO religion
UFO religion is an informal term used to describe a religion that equates UFO occupants with gods or other semi-divine beings. Typically, the UFO occupants are held to be extraterrestials and that humanity either currently is, or eventually will become, part of a preexisting extraterrestrial...
s as being situated at the central point from which the expansion of the universe issued forth and from which the cosmic hologram
Holographic principle
The holographic principle is a property of quantum gravity and string theories which states that the description of a volume of space can be thought of as encoded on a boundary to the region—preferably a light-like boundary like a gravitational horizon...
is projected.
The term Great Central Sun was originated by Guy Ballard
Guy Ballard
Guy Warren Ballard was an American mining engineer who became, with his wife, Edna Anne Wheeler Ballard, the founder of the "I AM" Activity....
, taking it from Madame Blavatsky
Madame Blavatsky
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky , was a theosophist, writer and traveler. Between 1848 and 1875 Blavatsky had gone around the world three times. In 1875, Blavatsky together with Colonel H. S. Olcott established the Theosophical Society...
, who had referred to it as the “Central Sun”.
According to Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Alpha and Omega work with three lesser deities that are their assistants: Maximus, who, in the name of Alpha and Omega and under their careful direction, is said to have issued forth the logos
Logos
' is an important term in philosophy, psychology, rhetoric and religion. Originally a word meaning "a ground", "a plea", "an opinion", "an expectation", "word," "speech," "account," "reason," it became a technical term in philosophy, beginning with Heraclitus ' is an important term in...
that created the cosmic egg
Cosmic Egg
Cosmic Egg is the second studio album by Australian rock band Wolfmother, released on 23 October 2009. It is the first album by the second lineup of the band, featuring vocalist, songwriter and lead guitarist Andrew Stockdale, bassist and keyboardist Ian Peres, rhythm guitarist Aidan Nemeth and...
from which, in turn, issued forth the big bang
Big Bang
The Big Bang theory is the prevailing cosmological model that explains the early development of the Universe. According to the Big Bang theory, the Universe was once in an extremely hot and dense state which expanded rapidly. This rapid expansion caused the young Universe to cool and resulted in...
; The Mighty Cosmos, a being who is said to be responsible for the transmission throughout the Cosmos of five additional rays in addition to the usual Seven Rays
Seven Rays
The seven rays is an occult concept that has appeared in several religions and esoteric philosophies, since at least the 6th century BCE, of the Aryan peoples in both Western culture and in India...
(Prophet said that knowledge of the five secret rays will be released on Earth during the Age of Aquarius
Age of Aquarius
The Age of Aquarius is either the current or new age in the cycle of astrological ages. Each astrological age is approximately 2,150 years long, on average, but there are various methods of calculating this length that may yield longer or shorter time spans depending upon the technique used...
), as well as for infusing in mundane beings throughout the Cosmos the Electronic Presence, the means through which they are enabled to contact higher beings; and the Nameless One from Out of the Great Central Sun about whom little is known since Elizabeth Clare Prophet received only one dictation from this being, but it is said he is responsible for “placing a seed of light in the crown chakra
Sahasrara
Sahasrara/ Sahastrara is the seventh primary chakra according to Hindu tradition.-Location:Sahasrara is either located at the top of the head in that one area, or a little way above it .-Appearance:Sahasrara is described with 1,000 multi-coloured petals which are arranged in 20 layers each of them...
of those who will accomplish the path of mystical union
Mysticism
Mysticism is the knowledge of, and especially the personal experience of, states of consciousness, i.e. levels of being, beyond normal human perception, including experience and even communion with a supreme being.-Classical origins:...
with God
God
God is the English name given to a singular being in theistic and deistic religions who is either the sole deity in monotheism, or a single deity in polytheism....
in this flesh they now wear”.
Interdimensional Federation of Free Worlds
According to Joshua David Stone, the organization that temporally governs the planets of the cosmos as a whole—a cosmos-wide union of all of the individual Galactic Confederations of Planets of each individual galaxy—is called the Interdimensional Federation of Free Worlds, also known as the Cosmic Confederation of Planets.
Cosmic beings governing Nirvana
In Theosophy is it believed that the final highest heaven that soulSoul
A soul in certain spiritual, philosophical, and psychological traditions is the incorporeal essence of a person or living thing or object. Many philosophical and spiritual systems teach that humans have souls, and others teach that all living things and even inanimate objects have souls. The...
s (Buddhism
Buddhism
Buddhism is a religion and philosophy encompassing a variety of traditions, beliefs and practices, largely based on teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as the Buddha . The Buddha lived and taught in the northeastern Indian subcontinent some time between the 6th and 4th...
: pudgala [a bundle of tendencies
Skandha
In Buddhist phenomenology and soteriology, the skandhas or khandhas are any of five types of phenomena that serve as objects of clinging and bases for a sense of self...
that impels one to reincarnate]) go to from all the different cosmoses after the billions or trillions of years of their cycle of incarnation
Reincarnation
Reincarnation best describes the concept where the soul or spirit, after the death of the body, is believed to return to live in a new human body, or, in some traditions, either as a human being, animal or plant...
s is over is called Nirvana
Nirvana
Nirvāṇa ; ) is a central concept in Indian religions. In sramanic thought, it is the state of being free from suffering. In Hindu philosophy, it is the union with the Supreme being through moksha...
.The conception of Nirvana in Theosophy as described by C.W. Leadbeater is as a place of positive joy very much like the Nirvana of Mahayana Buddhism and Vajrayana Buddhism that closely resembles the Christian Heaven
Heaven
Heaven, the Heavens or Seven Heavens, is a common religious cosmological or metaphysical term for the physical or transcendent place from which heavenly beings originate, are enthroned or inhabit...
, not the negative view of Nirvana simply as being the palliative release from pain that is promulgated in Theravada Buddhism.
According to Theosophist Alfred Percy Sinnett
Alfred Percy Sinnett
Alfred Percy Sinnett was an English author and Theosophist.- Biography :Sinnett's father died while he was young, by 1851 Sinnett is listed as a "Scholar - London University", living with his widowed mother Jane whose occupation is listed as "Periodical Literature", and his older sister Sophia age...
, Nirvana is governed by the Five Dhyani Buddhas. It is believed in Buddhism that all of these five Buddhas and their consorts are originally from cosmoses (called in Buddhism "world systems" or "chiliocosms") other than our own. The highest ranking Dhyani Buddha is Vairocana
Vairocana
Vairocana is a celestial Buddha who is often interpreted as the Bliss Body of the historical Gautama Buddha; he can also be referred to as the dharmakaya Buddha and the great solar Buddha. In Sino-Japanese Buddhism, Vairocana is also seen as the embodiment of the Buddhist concept of shunyata or...
(Japanese
Japanese language
is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
: Dainichi Nyorai (9th century CE Image):
(13th century CE Image):)
and under him of equal rank to each other are Akshobhya
Akshobhya
In Vajrayana Buddhism, Akṣobhya is one of the Five Wisdom Buddhas, a product of the Adibuddha, who represents consciousness as an aspect of reality...
, Amitabha
Amitabha
Amitābha is a celestial buddha described in the scriptures of the Mahāyāna school of Buddhism...
, Ratnasambhava
Ratnasambhava
Ratnasambhava is one of the Five Dhyani Buddhas of Vajrayana or Tantric Buddhism. Ratnasambhava's mandalas and mantras focus on developing equanimity and equality and, in Vajrayana buddhist thought is associated with the attempt to destroy greed and pride. His consort is Lochana and his mount is a...
, and Amoghasiddhi
Amoghasiddhi
Amoghasiddhi is one of the Five Wisdom Buddhas of the Vajrayana tradition of Buddhism. he is associated with the accomplishment of the Buddhist path and of the destruction of the poison of envy. His name means He Whose Accomplishment Is Not In Vain. His Shakti/consort is Tara, meaning Noble...
. Nirvana is divided into different realms called pure land
Pure land
A pure land, in Mahayana Buddhism, is the celestial realm or pure abode of a Buddha or Bodhisattva. The various traditions that focus on Pure Lands have been given the nomenclature Pure Land Buddhism. Pure lands are also evident in the literature and traditions of Taoism and Bön.The notion of 'pure...
s, each region supervised by one of these Buddhas.
The tantric consort
Tantra
Tantra , anglicised tantricism or tantrism or tantram, is the name scholars give to an inter-religious spiritual movement that arose in medieval India, expressed in scriptures ....
(also called shakti
Shakti
Shakti from Sanskrit shak - "to be able," meaning sacred force or empowerment, is the primordial cosmic energy and represents the dynamic forces that are thought to move through the entire universe in Hinduism. Shakti is the concept, or personification, of divine feminine creative power, sometimes...
), (“twin flame” in the terminology of the Ascended Master Teachings), associated Dhyani bodhisattva
Bodhisattva
In Buddhism, a bodhisattva is either an enlightened existence or an enlightenment-being or, given the variant Sanskrit spelling satva rather than sattva, "heroic-minded one for enlightenment ." The Pali term has sometimes been translated as "wisdom-being," although in modern publications, and...
, pure land, and seed syllable for each of these five buddhas are given in the chart below.
| Buddha (Skt) | Consort | Dhyani Bodhisattva | Pure Land Pure land A pure land, in Mahayana Buddhism, is the celestial realm or pure abode of a Buddha or Bodhisattva. The various traditions that focus on Pure Lands have been given the nomenclature Pure Land Buddhism. Pure lands are also evident in the literature and traditions of Taoism and Bön.The notion of 'pure... |
seed syllable |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vairocana Vairocana Vairocana is a celestial Buddha who is often interpreted as the Bliss Body of the historical Gautama Buddha; he can also be referred to as the dharmakaya Buddha and the great solar Buddha. In Sino-Japanese Buddhism, Vairocana is also seen as the embodiment of the Buddhist concept of shunyata or... |
White Tara or Dharmadhatvishvari | Samantabhadra Samantabhadra Samantabhadra , is a bodhisattva in Mahayana Buddhism associated with Buddhist practice and meditation. Together with Shakyamuni Buddha and fellow bodhisattva Manjusri he forms the Shakyamuni trinity in Buddhism... |
central pure land Akanistha Ghanavyuha | Om Om Om is a sacred syllable of Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism.OM and similar may also refer to:-Music:* Om , a stoner metal band* Om , a 1965 album* OM , a 2006 album* Om... |
| Akshobhya Akshobhya In Vajrayana Buddhism, Akṣobhya is one of the Five Wisdom Buddhas, a product of the Adibuddha, who represents consciousness as an aspect of reality... |
Locana | Vajrapani Vajrapani ' is one of the earliest bodhisattvas of Mahayana Buddhism. He is the protector and guide of the Buddha, and rose to symbolize the Buddha's power. Vajrapani was used extensively in Buddhist iconography as one of the three protective deities surrounding the Buddha... |
eastern pure land Abhirati Abhirati Abhirati is the eastern Buddhafield or Pure Land associated with Akshobhya, one of the Five Dhyani Buddhas, in Mahayana Buddhist traditions. It is described in the Akṣobhya-tathāgatasya-vyūha Sūtra. Though emergent in early Mahāyāna, Abhirati is far less widely known than Sukhāvatī, the Pure Land... |
Hum Om mani padme hum is the six syllabled mantra particularly associated with the four-armed Shadakshari form of Avalokiteshvara , the bodhisattva of compassion... |
| Amitabha Amitabha Amitābha is a celestial buddha described in the scriptures of the Mahāyāna school of Buddhism... |
Pandara | Avalokiteshvara | western pure land Sukhavati Pure land A pure land, in Mahayana Buddhism, is the celestial realm or pure abode of a Buddha or Bodhisattva. The various traditions that focus on Pure Lands have been given the nomenclature Pure Land Buddhism. Pure lands are also evident in the literature and traditions of Taoism and Bön.The notion of 'pure... |
Hrih |
| Ratnasambhava Ratnasambhava Ratnasambhava is one of the Five Dhyani Buddhas of Vajrayana or Tantric Buddhism. Ratnasambhava's mandalas and mantras focus on developing equanimity and equality and, in Vajrayana buddhist thought is associated with the attempt to destroy greed and pride. His consort is Lochana and his mount is a... |
Mamaki | Ratnapani | southern pure land Shrimat | Trah |
| Amoghasiddhi Amoghasiddhi Amoghasiddhi is one of the Five Wisdom Buddhas of the Vajrayana tradition of Buddhism. he is associated with the accomplishment of the Buddhist path and of the destruction of the poison of envy. His name means He Whose Accomplishment Is Not In Vain. His Shakti/consort is Tara, meaning Noble... |
Green Tara | Visvapani | northern pure land Prakuta | Ah |
In the Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
ese Vajrayana Buddhist sect of Shingon Buddhism
Shingon Buddhism
is one of the mainstream major schools of Japanese Buddhism and one of the few surviving Esoteric Buddhist lineages that started in the 3rd to 4th century CE that originally spread from India to China through traveling monks such as Vajrabodhi and Amoghavajra...
, Vajrasattva
Vajrasattva
Vajrasattva is a bodhisattva in the Mahayana, Mantrayana and Vajrayana buddhist traditions...
is the pupil of Dainichi Nyorai who spreads the Dharma
Dharma (Buddhism)
Dhamma or Dharma in Buddhism can have the following meanings:* The state of Nature as it is * The Laws of Nature considered collectively....
as taught to him by Dainichi Nyorai and the other four Dhyani Buddhas; likewise, in the Ascended Master Teachings, Vajrasattva is regarded as the spokes-buddha for the Five Dhyani Buddhas--he is metaphorically referred to in these teachings as the sixth Dhyani Buddha. Elizabeth Clare Prophet recorded dictations from Vajrasattva. Devotees of the Ascended Master Teachings are encouraged to chant his mantra
Mantra
A mantra is a sound, syllable, word, or group of words that is considered capable of "creating transformation"...
Om Vajrasattva Hum.
It is believed in the Ascended Master Teachings that the buddha Padmasambhava
Padmasambhava
Padmasambhava ; Mongolian ловон Бадмажунай, lovon Badmajunai, , Means The Lotus-Born, was a sage guru from Oddiyāna who is said to have transmitted Vajrayana Buddhism to Bhutan and Tibet and neighbouring countries in the 8th century...
(technically not a cosmic being since he is from Earth) is the liaison between Nirvana and Earth (teleporting frequently between the two locations), and it is stated that he has formed a special subcommittee within the Ascended Masters called The Fellowship of the Ruby
Ruby (color)
Ruby is a color that is a representation of the color of the cut and polished ruby gemstone. The somewhat deeper color of the uncut, unpolished ruby crystal is called rubelite.The first recorded use of ruby as a color name in English was in 1572...
Ray that deals with Earth-Nirvana affairs--this committee also includes Sanat Kumara, Gautama Buddha, Maitreya, and the Master Jesus. In Nirvana, Padmasambhava's pure land is located on the copper-colored
Copper (color)
Copper is a reddish brown color that resembles the metal copper.At right is displayed the color copper.The first recorded use of copper as a color name in English was in 1594.-Pale copper:...
mountain.
Nirvana must be incredibly vast because it has to accommodate all the souls from all the cosmoses in the multiverse. Furthermore, it must be continually expanding because there is a continuous flow of new souls into it that have finished their cycle of reincarnation.
God
The DeityDeity
A deity is a recognized preternatural or supernatural immortal being, who may be thought of as holy, divine, or sacred, held in high regard, and respected by believers....
that governs the entire Omniverse
Omniverse
The Omniverse is the conceptual ensemble of all possible universes, with all possible laws of physics.In this physical cosmology context, the limitation of the definition of "universe" that it has only one set of "physical laws and constants that govern them," is expanded to include multiple sets...
and all its Multiverse
Multiverse
The multiverse is the hypothetical set of multiple possible universes that together comprise all of reality.Multiverse may also refer to:-In fiction:* Multiverse , the fictional multiverse used by DC Comics...
s is called in Theosophy
Theosophy
Theosophy, in its modern presentation, is a spiritual philosophy developed since the late 19th century. Its major themes were originally described mainly by Helena Blavatsky , co-founder of the Theosophical Society...
the Universal Logos and is regarded as a pantheistic
Pantheism
Pantheism is the view that the Universe and God are identical. Pantheists thus do not believe in a personal, anthropomorphic or creator god. The word derives from the Greek meaning "all" and the Greek meaning "God". As such, Pantheism denotes the idea that "God" is best seen as a process of...
Deity. Like the early Christian Church
Christian Church
The Christian Church is the assembly or association of followers of Jesus Christ. The Greek term ἐκκλησία that in its appearances in the New Testament is usually translated as "church" basically means "assembly"...
Church Fathers
Church Fathers
The Church Fathers, Early Church Fathers, Christian Fathers, or Fathers of the Church were early and influential theologians, eminent Christian teachers and great bishops. Their scholarly works were used as a precedent for centuries to come...
, based on Ancient Greek philosophy, Theosophists with a Christian
Christian
A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...
background think of the Universal Logos as having three aspects, the nous
Nous
Nous , also called intellect or intelligence, is a philosophical term for the faculty of the human mind which is described in classical philosophy as necessary for understanding what is true or real, very close in meaning to intuition...
, the logos
Logos
' is an important term in philosophy, psychology, rhetoric and religion. Originally a word meaning "a ground", "a plea", "an opinion", "an expectation", "word," "speech," "account," "reason," it became a technical term in philosophy, beginning with Heraclitus ' is an important term in...
, and the pneuma
Pneuma
Pneuma is an ancient Greek word for "breath," and in a religious context for "spirit" or "soul." It has various technical meanings for medical writers and philosophers of classical antiquity, particularly in regard to physiology, and is also used in Greek translations of the Hebrew Bible and in...
, identified by the Church Fathers, respectively, with the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. Theosophists with a Hindu
Hindu
Hindu refers to an identity associated with the philosophical, religious and cultural systems that are indigenous to the Indian subcontinent. As used in the Constitution of India, the word "Hindu" is also attributed to all persons professing any Indian religion...
background identify the three aspects with Brahma
Brahma
Brahma is the Hindu god of creation and one of the Trimurti, the others being Vishnu and Shiva. According to the Brahma Purana, he is the father of Mānu, and from Mānu all human beings are descended. In the Ramayana and the...
, Vishnu
Vishnu
Vishnu is the Supreme god in the Vaishnavite tradition of Hinduism. Smarta followers of Adi Shankara, among others, venerate Vishnu as one of the five primary forms of God....
, and Shiva
Shiva
Shiva is a major Hindu deity, and is the destroyer god or transformer among the Trimurti, the Hindu Trinity of the primary aspects of the divine. God Shiva is a yogi who has notice of everything that happens in the world and is the main aspect of life. Yet one with great power lives a life of a...
. Theosophists with a Buddhist background identify the three aspects with the dharmakaya
Dharmakaya
The Dharmakāya is a central idea in Mahayana Buddhism forming part of the Trikaya doctrine that was possibly first expounded in the Aṣṭasāhasrikā prajñā-pāramitā , composed in the 1st century BCE...
, the samboghakaya, and the nirmanakaya. Thus, for Theosophists, the nous is equivalent to Brahma and to the dharmakaya, the logos is equivalent to Vishnu and to the samboghakaya, and the pneuma is equivalent to Shiva and to the nirmanakaya.
This Deity is referred to in the Ascended Master Teachings simply as God
God
God is the English name given to a singular being in theistic and deistic religions who is either the sole deity in monotheism, or a single deity in polytheism....
and is regarded as a traditional theistic
Theism
Theism, in the broadest sense, is the belief that at least one deity exists.In a more specific sense, theism refers to a doctrine concerning the nature of a monotheistic God and God's relationship to the universe....
Deity according to the Nicene creed
Nicene Creed
The Nicene Creed is the creed or profession of faith that is most widely used in Christian liturgy. It is called Nicene because, in its original form, it was adopted in the city of Nicaea by the first ecumenical council, which met there in the year 325.The Nicene Creed has been normative to the...
, i.e., three in one
Trinity
The Christian doctrine of the Trinity defines God as three divine persons : the Father, the Son , and the Holy Spirit. The three persons are distinct yet coexist in unity, and are co-equal, co-eternal and consubstantial . Put another way, the three persons of the Trinity are of one being...
, composed of God the Father
God the Father
God the Father is a gendered title given to God in many monotheistic religions, particularly patriarchal, Abrahamic ones. In Judaism, God is called Father because he is the creator, life-giver, law-giver, and protector...
(identified with the nous), God the Son
God the Son
God the Son is the second person of the Trinity in Christian theology. The doctrine of the Trinity identifies Jesus of Nazareth as God the Son, united in essence but distinct in person with regard to God the Father and God the Holy Spirit...
(identified with the logos), and the Holy Ghost (identified with the pneuma). In Hinduism
Hinduism
Hinduism is the predominant and indigenous religious tradition of the Indian Subcontinent. Hinduism is known to its followers as , amongst many other expressions...
, Ishvara
Ishvara
Ishvara is a philosophical concept in Hinduism, meaning controller or the Supreme controller in a theistic school of thought or the Supreme Being, or as an Ishta-deva of monistic thought.-Etymology:...
(Sanskrit: The Lord) is used as a collective name for the trinity of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva, meaning the personal god
Personal God
A personal god is a deity who can be related to as a person instead of as an "impersonal force", such as the Absolute, "the All", or the "Ground of Being"....
, and thus can also be used, according to Elizabeth Clare Prophet, in the Ascended Master Teachings as a synonym for God.
According to both C.W. Leadbeater (who was a bishop
Bishop
A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...
of the Liberal Catholic Church
Liberal Catholic Church
The Liberal Catholic Church is a form of Christianity open to theosophical ideas and even reincarnation. It is not connected to the Roman Catholic Church, which considers it heretical and schismatic...
as well as a Theosophist) and Elizabeth Clare Prophet
Elizabeth Clare Prophet
Elizabeth Clare Prophet was an American spiritual author and lecturer who was the leader of The Summit Lighthouse and Church Universal and Triumphant, a New Age religious movement which gained media attention in the late 1980s and early 1990s while preparing for potential nuclear disaster.During...
, God the Father’s representative on Earth is regarded as Sanat Kumara
Sanat Kumara
According to the post-1900 publications of Theosophy, i.e. the writings of C. W. Leadbeater, Alice A. Bailey, and Benjamin Creme, as well as the Ascended Master Teachings of Guy Ballard, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Geraldine Innocente, Joshua David Stone, and other Ascended Master Teachings teachers,...
, God the Son’s representatives on Earth are regarded as the Master Jesus
Master Jesus
The Master Jesus in Theosophy and the Ascended Master Teachings, refers to the theosophical concept of Jesus as opposed to the Jesus Christ of the Christian religion.-Position in the Hierarchy of Masters of the Ancient Wisdom:...
and Maitreya
Maitreya (Theosophy)
Maitreya or Lord Maitreya is described in Theosophical literature of the late 19th-century and subsequent periods as an advanced spiritual entity and high-ranking member of a hidden Spiritual Hierarchy, the so-called Masters of the Ancient Wisdom...
, and the Holy Ghost’s representative on Earth is regarded as the Maha Chohan.
| Universal Logos | nous Nous Nous , also called intellect or intelligence, is a philosophical term for the faculty of the human mind which is described in classical philosophy as necessary for understanding what is true or real, very close in meaning to intuition... |
logos Logos ' is an important term in philosophy, psychology, rhetoric and religion. Originally a word meaning "a ground", "a plea", "an opinion", "an expectation", "word," "speech," "account," "reason," it became a technical term in philosophy, beginning with Heraclitus ' is an important term in... |
pneuma Pneuma Pneuma is an ancient Greek word for "breath," and in a religious context for "spirit" or "soul." It has various technical meanings for medical writers and philosophers of classical antiquity, particularly in regard to physiology, and is also used in Greek translations of the Hebrew Bible and in... |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buddhist | dharmakaya Dharmakaya The Dharmakāya is a central idea in Mahayana Buddhism forming part of the Trikaya doctrine that was possibly first expounded in the Aṣṭasāhasrikā prajñā-pāramitā , composed in the 1st century BCE... |
samboghakaya | nirmanakaya |
| Christian Christian A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament... |
Father God the Father God the Father is a gendered title given to God in many monotheistic religions, particularly patriarchal, Abrahamic ones. In Judaism, God is called Father because he is the creator, life-giver, law-giver, and protector... |
Son God the Son God the Son is the second person of the Trinity in Christian theology. The doctrine of the Trinity identifies Jesus of Nazareth as God the Son, united in essence but distinct in person with regard to God the Father and God the Holy Spirit... |
Holy Ghost |
| Hindu Hindu Hindu refers to an identity associated with the philosophical, religious and cultural systems that are indigenous to the Indian subcontinent. As used in the Constitution of India, the word "Hindu" is also attributed to all persons professing any Indian religion... |
Brahma Brahma Brahma is the Hindu god of creation and one of the Trimurti, the others being Vishnu and Shiva. According to the Brahma Purana, he is the father of Mānu, and from Mānu all human beings are descended. In the Ramayana and the... |
Vishnu Vishnu Vishnu is the Supreme god in the Vaishnavite tradition of Hinduism. Smarta followers of Adi Shankara, among others, venerate Vishnu as one of the five primary forms of God.... |
Shiva Shiva Shiva is a major Hindu deity, and is the destroyer god or transformer among the Trimurti, the Hindu Trinity of the primary aspects of the divine. God Shiva is a yogi who has notice of everything that happens in the world and is the main aspect of life. Yet one with great power lives a life of a... |
See also
- Akashic recordsAkashic RecordsThe akashic records is a term used in theosophy to describe a compendium of mystical knowledge encoded in a non-physical plane of existence. These records are described as containing all knowledge of human experience and the history of the cosmos...
- Ascended Master TeachingsAscended Master TeachingsThe students of "Ascended Master Teachings" organizations believe that the Presence of Life/God - Individualizes as the "I AM", and incarnates throughout the created universes until it achieves The Ascension . The "Teachings" as all Religious Teachings.....
- Earth's location in the universeEarth's location in the universeKnowledge of Earth's location in the universe has been shaped by 400 years of telescopic observations, and has expanded radically in the last century. Initially, Earth was believed to be the center of the universe, which consisted only of those planets visible with the naked eye and an outlying...
- Great chain of beingGreat chain of beingThe great chain of being , is a Christian concept detailing a strict, religious hierarchical structure of all matter and life, believed to have been decreed by the Christian God.-Divisions:...
- Great White BrotherhoodGreat White BrotherhoodThe Great White Brotherhood, in belief systems akin to Theosophical and New Age, are said to be supernatural beings of great power who spread spiritual teachings through selected humans. The members of the Brotherhood may be known as the Masters of the Ancient Wisdom or the Ascended Masters...
- HierarchyHierarchyA hierarchy is an arrangement of items in which the items are represented as being "above," "below," or "at the same level as" one another...
- Information capacity of the universe
- Initiation (Theosophy)Initiation (Theosophy)Initiation is a concept in Theosophy that there are nine levels of spiritual development that beings who live on Earth can progress upward through. Within these levels, there are four basic levels of spiritual development that human beings on Earth progress through as they reincarnate, although...
- Kardashev scaleKardashev scaleThe Kardashev scale is a method of measuring an advanced civilization's level of technological advancement. The scale is only theoretical and in terms of an actual civilization highly speculative; however, it puts energy consumption of an entire civilization in a cosmic perspective. It was first...
- Large-scale structure of the cosmos
- Round (Theosophy)Round (Theosophy)A round in the esoteric cosmology of Theosophy, Anthroposophy and Rosicrucianism is a cosmic cycle or sequence by which an evolving reincarnating being passes through the various stages of existence as the Earth, the Solar System or the Cosmos comes into and passes out of manifestation.-The...
- Secret ChiefsSecret ChiefsThe Secret Chiefs are said to be transcendent cosmic authorities, a Spiritual Hierarchy responsible for the operation and moral calibre of the cosmos, or for overseeing the operations of an esoteric organization that manifests outwardly in the form of a magical order or lodge system...
- Seven RaysSeven RaysThe seven rays is an occult concept that has appeared in several religions and esoteric philosophies, since at least the 6th century BCE, of the Aryan peoples in both Western culture and in India...
- ShambhalaShambhalaIn Tibetan Buddhist tradition, Shambhala or Shangri-la is a mythical kingdom hidden somewhere in Inner Asia...
- The AllThe AllThe All is the Hermetic or panentheistic view of God, which is that everything that is, or at least that can be experienced, collectively makes up The All...
Further reading
- Campbell, Bruce F. A History of the Theosophical Movement Berkeley:1980 University of California Press
- Godwin, Joscelyn The Theosophical Enlightenment Albany, New York: 1994 State University of New York Press
- Johnson, K. Paul The Masters Revealed: Madam Blavatsky and Myth of the Great White Brotherhood Albany, New York: 1994 State University of New York Press
- Melton, J. Gordon Encyclopedia of American Religions 5th Edition New York:1996 Gale Research ISBN 0-8103-7714-4 ISSN 1066-1212 Chapter 18--"The Ancient Wisdom Family of Religions" Pages 151-158; see chart on page 154 listing Masters of the Ancient Wisdom; Also see Section 18, Pages 717-757 Descriptions of various Ancient Wisdom religious organizations
External links
- The Saint Germain Foundation , Original publisher of Ascended Master Teachings beginning in 1934
- Theosophical Society, The original source of information about the Masters of the Ancient Wisdom