According to the post-1900 publications of theosophy, Sanat Kumara is an "Advanced Being" at the Cosmic level of initiation who is regarded as the "Lord" or "Regent" of Earth and of humanity. He is thought to be the head of the Spiritual Hierarchy of Earth who dwells in Shamballah (also known as 'The City of Enoch'). According to the adherents to the Ascended Master Teachings, Shamballah is a floating city manifested on the

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somewhere above the Gobi Desert in the borderlands of

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. Sanat Kumara is a mythical religious figure often referred to as an advanced human master with a consciousness far evolved from a human master as a master human is from an animal. His consciousness, age and experience of cosmic and interplanetary life and deity far exceeds that of a human master. In Theosophy, the Great White Brotherhood is a spiritual "fraternity" of Ascended Beings, which was founded by and is still directed by Sanat Kumara. Presently he is supported in his role as the head of planet Earth and of Shamballah by a number of Avatars, most notably Buddha and Maitreya. According to Elizabeth Van Buren, the Brotherhood once maintained (earthly) headquarters hidden in a remote valley near a

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in old Tibet, until relatively recently, when, possibly due to the surmised threat of Communist China, they withdrew, allegedly through tunnels to an alternative earthly location in

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, where they are still reported as having an earth base (circa 1985). These authors believe that Sanat Kumara is the founder of this Great White Brotherhood, which is composed of

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(called in the Ascended Master Teachings Ascended Masters) and volunteers from other worlds who have joined to advance spiritual evolution on Earth.

In Hinduism

Sanat Kumara appears as a rishi in the

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the Chandogya Upanishad. A shrine to Sanat Kumara which attracts and unites people of all religions and faiths is situated in the town of

Kataragama Kataragama ( si, කතරගම, translit=Kataragama , ta, கதிர்காமம், translit=Katirkrāmam) is a pilgrimage town sacred to Hindu, Buddhist and indigenous Vedda people of Sri Lanka. People from South India also go there to ...

, Sri Lanka. In Sanskrit, "Sanat Kumara" is "Eternal Youth" (from

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"eternal", Ku "with difficulty" and Mara "mortal").

Shamballa in Buddhism – home of the King of the World

''Shambhala'' ( Tib. ''bde 'byung'') in

Vajrayana Buddhism Vajrayāna ( sa, वज्रयान, "thunderbolt vehicle", "diamond vehicle", or "indestructible vehicle"), along with Mantrayāna, Guhyamantrayāna, Tantrayāna, Secret Mantra, Tantric Buddhism, and Esoteric Buddhism, are names referring t ...

(the religion of

Tibet Tibet (; ''Böd''; ) is a region in East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about . It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people. Also resident on the plateau are some other ethnic groups such as Monpa, Taman ...

) is a

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term meaning "place of peace/tranquility/happiness".

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is said by Vajrayana Buddhists to have taught the

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on request of King Suchandra of Shambhala; the teachings are also said to be preserved in Shamballa. The Stanzas of Dzyan from which Madame Blavatsky claimed to have gotten the information in

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are believed by some scholars to have been a mistranslation of words ''Kalachakra tantra'' (''rGyud-sde'' in Tibetan).

In Theosophy

Sanat Kumara was mentioned briefly by the

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. She claimed he belonged to a group of beings, the "Lords of the Flame", whom Christian tradition has presented as

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and the fallen angels. Sanat Kumara gained greater prominence when Blavatsky's close friend and colleague Charles W. Leadbeater wrote that Sanat Kumara was the "King" or ''Lord of the World'', and the head of the Great White Brotherhood of

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s who had revealed the principles of theosophy. Later authors who draw from Theosophical teachings such as

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and

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have added to the story with further details. He is usually depicted as having the appearance of a 16-year-old boy, said to be the incarnation of the Will of the Logos, and purportedly possesses an unaging body not born of mortal woman.

The Descent of Sanat Kumara and the Lords of the Living Flame from Venus

C.W. Leadbeater and later adherents of

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such as Alice A. Bailey believe that Sanat Kumara descended from the

of the planet

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to Earth 18,500,000 years ago (A.E. Powell gives a figure of 16,500,000 years ago;

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does not give a specific date but says it was a minimum of 2,500,000 years ago). In

, the beings that helped Sanat Kumara organize the expedition from

are called the "Lords of the Flame". C.W. Leadbeater and Annie Besant said that Sanat Kumara brought 30 "Lords of the Flame" with him from Venus to help him set up his colony. It is maintained in most of these versions of

that

, the 'Planet of Love', is the most spiritually advanced

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of the

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. The beings living on the

are said to be hundreds of millions of years ahead of us in their spiritual evolution. It is said that the governing council of

– the ''Seven Holy Kumars'' – sent one of themselves, Sanat Kumara, here to guide us.

City plan of Shamballa

The main temple of Shamballa is claimed to be topped with a golden dome and is surrounded by seven smaller temples—one for each of the seven rays. These temples are located on a number of wide

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s resembling the Champs-Elysees.

Appellations (titles) of Sanat Kumara

The most common title attributed to Sanat Kumara in the Theosophical religious tradition is "Lord of the World".

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also states that an important duty of Sanat Kumara is to participate in an elaborate ritual every

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(the Full Moon of May) led by

, and also participated in by the Maitreya (the being Theosophists identify as

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), in which cosmic energy is focused from the "Solar Logos" to Earth in order to keep our planet's cosmic energy in balance. The ritual is said to take place in a ravine in southern

(the Frontispiece of Leadbeater's book ''The Masters and the Path'' has a picture of the ritual taking place) and, it is stated by Leadbeater, can be viewed by in the

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or in the

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by those who have etheric sight. Sanat Kumara's symbol of the authority of his office as ''Lord of the World'' is a ,

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called the ''Rod of Power'' made of the metal

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, with cone-shaped

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s on each end.

Lady Master Venus

The Bridge to Freedom,

and all other " Ascended Master Teachings" organizations believe that Sanat Kumara has a ''Divine Complement'' (''Twin Flame'') (i.e., a ''celestial wife'') – Lady Master Venus – the

New Age New Age is a range of spiritual or religious practices and beliefs which rapidly grew in Western society during the early 1970s. Its highly eclectic and unsystematic structure makes a precise definition difficult. Although many scholars consi ...

" Goddess of Love".

Lady Master Meta

According to the Ascended Master Teachings, Sanat Kumara and the Lady Master Venus have a daughter named the Lady Master Meta who they brought with them from Venus. She is said to have incarnated as an

Avatar Avatar (, ; ), is a concept within Hinduism that in Sanskrit literally means "descent". It signifies the material appearance or incarnation of a powerful deity, goddess or spirit on Earth. The relative verb to "alight, to make one's appeara ...

in Atlantis (where she served as the

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at the ''Temple of Healing'') and in Sassanian Persia, where she married a mortal and had three children. In the Ascended Master Teachings, she is revered as the ''Goddess of Healing'' and is the patron deity of

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s and

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Master Cha Ara

According to the Ascended Master Teachings, the Master Cha Ara was originally one of the three children of Lady Master Meta when she incarnated as an Avatar in Sassanian Persia. He became a master alchemist who formulated an

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made from rose petals, tea leaves from McLeod Ganj and other ingredients. This enabled him to quickly achieve ascended masterhood. He uses small amounts of the elixir to heal people. He is the protector of all Zoroastrians. He works with St. Germain to bring about the

in the West

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. Lady Master Meta's husband and her other two children from her descent as an Avatar to Sassanian Persia have also become ascended masters but their names have not yet been revealed.

Lady Master Nada

In the Ascended Master Teachings, a group of religions based on

, Lady Master Nada is the "Chohan of the Sixth Ray" (see Seven Rays), 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

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and

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, and also

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.Luk, A.D.K.. ''Law of Life – Book II''. Pueblo, Colorado: A.D.K. Luk Publications 1989, Listing of Ascended Masters by The I AM Activity and The Bridge to Freedom She is also considered a Member of the Karmic Board; she handles the appeals of those on the third ray. She is believed by those adherent to the Ascended Master Teachings to have succeeded the previous Chohan, the Master Jesus / Sananda Buddha, on January 1, 1956, when she is said to have fully taken on the Office of Chohan of the Sixth Ray., thus advancing from the fifth to the sixth level of initiation. She primarily serves at ''Arabian Retreat'' in the Arabian Peninsula, northeast of the

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. Nada serves there with the Brothers and Sisters of the

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Cape, as well as with

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, his

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and El Samyam, the Chief of the Arabian Council. She also serves at ''The

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Temple'', located on the

above New Bedford, Massachusetts. Designed after the pattern of a

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, with each "petal" being a room, this Retreat is the etheric counterpart of the "Temple of Love" on

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where Nada once served as a High Priestess. In another human incarnate life in Atlantis, she was a lawyer. She was described as having raised her body and Ascended approximately 2,776 years ago.

Masters of the Ancient Wisdom

According to the "I AM" Activity, the

and others, the Ascended Masters (The great beings the original Theosophists called the "

"), such as the

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, Saint Germain, Megha Alcorn aka Megan Sebastian on Earth, Kuthumi, Hatton, Gopal Das and others are working for the Spiritual Hierarchy of our planet, under the leadership of Sanat Kumara,

, and Maitreya. Many theosophists believe the "Masters" utilize the cosmic power of the Seven Rays to advance the ''Plan of the Masters'' to encourage the continual advance of

civilization A civilization (or civilisation) is any complex society characterized by the development of a state, social stratification, urbanization, and symbolic systems of communication beyond natural spoken language (namely, a writing system). ...

on Earth toward higher levels of consciousness. One of the beliefs of adherents of these belief systems is that the Masters of Wisdom have united together in an organization called the '' Great White Brotherhood''.

Referred to as the manifestation of the 'Solar Logos'

The Theosophist A.E. Powell stated that Sanat Kumara (whom he refers to as the ''Lord of the World'') is in continuous telepathic rapport with ANNA / Gaia, the ''Spirit of the Earth'' (i.e., the ''Planetary Logos'' – equivalent to the goddess known in some religions as Gaia or as Prithivi in Hinduism).

The council chamber of the Lord of the World

According to the '' Alice A. Bailey material'', Sanat Kumara conducts business in an enormous room in his palace called ''The Council Chamber of the Lord of the World''. It is here that he regularly meets with Maitreya, the Maha Chohan, Djwal Khul, St. Germain, the

and the other

, of which it is said there are 24 principal council members, to assess the progress being made in implementing ''The Plan of the Masters'' to bring the

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to higher levels of consciousness. According to C.W. Leadbeater, it is also here that he periodically personally receives ambassadors from other solar systems.Leadbeater, C.W. ''The Masters and the Path'' Adyar, Madras, India: 1925 – Theosophical Publishing House

Sanat Kumara's cosmic bureaucracy

According to the '' Alice A. Bailey material'', Sanat Kumara has many assistants who help him in his arduous task of spiritually governing Earth as its presiding Regent. These include The Watcher (also called the ''Silent Watcher'' or the ''Great Silent Watcher''), whose function it is to continually watch the Akashic records and download daily all the

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on them relevant to the life waves of Earth and forward it to the ''Custodian of the Hall of Records''. (the Watcher is part of a special race of beings who fulfill this function that are posted on planets throughout the

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); the Lords of Karma – Alice A. Bailey mentioned three ''Lords of Karma'' but did not name them; they are called in the Ascended Master Teachings the Karmic Board and they are stated to number seven and each of them is identified by name: The Great Divine Director (1st ray), The Goddess of Liberty (2nd ray), Lady Master Nada (3rd ray), Cyclopea (4th ray),

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(5th ray), Lady Master Portia (6th ray), and Kwan Yin (7th ray).

Omri-Tas, Ruler of the Violet Planet

Omri-Tas, the ''Ruler of the Violet Planet'', is a

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level Ascended Master ( Spiritual Hierarchy, Cosmic Beings) who with his celestial mate, Irmo-Sat, is Sanat Kumara's violet flame supplier. The violet flame is composed of a special type of etheric matter particles, which may plausibly be called ''violetrons'', that are capable of cleansing bad

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. ''Omri-Tas'' rules a planet on the

called the Violet Planet, which is apparently several dozen to several hundred light years from Earth. The Violet Planet is one of many throughout the Cosmos that serve as reservoirs for the violet flame. Omri-Tas is the ruler of the Violet Planet that is closest to Earth and which is responsible for transmitting the violet flame from the Great Central Sun of the Cosmos via the Galactic Logos to planets in Ursa Major (Our sector is reputedly 'Sector Nine' of the 48 Sectors in this spiral Galaxy). Omri-Tas or one of his representatives periodically teleports from the Violet Planet to Shamballa with canisters of violet flame to replenish the violet flame in the large circular pool in the ''Temple of the Violet Flame'' in Shamballa (In return for the violet flame. Sanat Kumara assigns to his care and tutelage worthy initiated Adepts/Chelas for etheric transport to their next assignments.

Benjamin Creme's views

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subscribes to the modern esoteric view that

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(like those mentioned by

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– Creme accepts Adamski's sightings as valid.) pilot

flying saucer A flying saucer (also referred to as "a flying disc") is a descriptive term for a type of flying craft having a disc or saucer-shaped body, commonly used generically to refer to an anomalous flying object. The term was coined in 1947 but has g ...

s from the Way-Station on Venus that is thought to exist on the

(Esotericists believe that since the Venusians' civilization is on the ''etheric plane'', the planet's

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doesn't affect them) and are capable of stepping down the level of vibration of themselves and their craft to the slower level of vibration of the atoms of the physical plane. Creme's disciples believe that there is regular flying saucer traffic between Venus and Shamballa as well as other locations on Earth, especially areas where crop circles appear. Creme's acolytes believe that Shamballa is equipped with an astrodrome as well as with numerous flying saucer landing pads attached to the tops or the sides of the buildings to accommodate the heavy flying saucer traffic from Venus. Since Shamballa is envisioned as a floating city about five miles above the surface of the earth on the etheric plane, there are also numerous entrances in the basements of the buildings, where flying saucers can enter from the bottom of the city and park in spacious flying saucer parking garages provided in the basement levels of the buildings. In addition, says Creme, the Venusians have cigar-shaped

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s up to four miles long to accommodate the transport of multiple individual flying saucers to and from Venus. According to Creme, sometimes flying saucers from places more distant than Venus, such as from

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, the

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, the

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, and beyond, fly in to pay a visit at Shamballa. Since, according to Creme, the Venusians flying saucer designers outsource the actual construction of their flying saucers to the

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(who are said to dwell on the etheric plane of Mars), whom he describes as the "master engineers of the

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Ashtar Galactic Command Flying Saucer Fleet

The Master Ashtar was first incorporated into the Ascended Master Teachings by Joshua David Stone in the early 1990s, based on his incorporation of the early 1980s revelations of the medium Tuella into his own teachings. Stone had already begun teaching in 1993, based on the early 1980s revelations of Tuella, that the

, under his

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name Sananda (the name, Stone stated, he adopted after his resurrection), works with Commander Ashtar, flying with

in their own flying saucer within the Ashtar Galactic Command flying saucer fleet as its ''Commander-in-Chief''. According to Stone, another name used by ''Commander Ashtar'' to denote his flying saucer fleet is ''The Airborne Division of the Great White Brotherhood''. Although the Ashtar Command is ultimately under the titular authority of Sanat Kumara, the Master Jesus in consultation with Pallas Athena and Ashtar, make all the day to day command decisions. According to some, The Ashtar Command is simply a modern concept of the Sumerian/Babylonian goddess and deity

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and her entourage whose assigned function is to protect an evolving mankind from the Satanic forces, then extant, on this planet, that sought to usurp the Earthly Regency of the local Ascended Masters in their role of protecting and engendering Divine Law upon the Earth until the arrival, at 'The Meridian of Time' of 'The Son of God'... Jesus/Sananda and his incarnation of 'The Christ Being'. Lourene Altiery, also known as ''Karita'' to her followers, is an Ascended Master Teachings teacher originally from

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who now resides in Sun Lakes, Arizona – she set up her website in 2001. According to Altiery, there are four Masters originally from the Spiritual Hierarchy Cosmic beings said to be patrolling near Ashtar Galactic Command Flying Saucer Fleet who are now permanently stationed on Shamballa. These are the Masters Ballerian, who is the proprietor of a flying saucer repair facility in Shamballa called ''God's Garage''; Kumad, an expert

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who helps the Keeper of the Scrolls decipher and interpret ancient manuscripts; Ashlem, a Tibetan Master who resides at the Hall of Records and helps people decipher their past lives by assisting them in accessing the Akashic records; and Sutko, the "space detective", who helps the Master K-17 solve unusually difficult cases. Elements of the '' Ashtar Galactic Command Flying Saucer Fleet'' sometimes dock at Shamballa so the flying saucer crews can go on '

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Theosophical reply to Christian criticism

In the glossary of in the back of the book ''Alchemy'', which

claims was dictated to her by Kuthumi, Satan and Sanat Kumara are clearly distinguished as two different and opposed beings—Satan working for evil and Sanat Kumara for good.

Skeptical view

The scholar K. Paul Johnson maintains that the "Masters" that Madame Blavatsky wrote about and produced letters from were actually idealizations of people who were her

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s. However, ''Sanat Kumara'', although mentioned in passing by Madame Blavatsky, was never mentioned by her as an important "Master" that Blavatsky claimed to have met. He was first presented, under the name ''Lord of the World'', as the head of the "Masters" by

in his 1925 book ''The Masters and the Path''.Leadbeater, C.W. ''The Masters and the Path''. Adyar, India: Theosophical Publishing House, 1925 (Reprint: Kessinger Publishing, 1997)

Notes

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

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