Ascended master

In the Ascended Master Teachings, Ascended Masters

are believed to be spiritually enlightened beings who in
past incarnations were ordinary humans, but who have
undergone a series of spiritual transformations originally
called initiations.

such as Earth and it will be until the end of the 21st of

December 2012. Sanat Kumara (a Lord of the Flame
originally from the higher-dimensional levels of the planet
Venus) was the original being who held the spiritual oce
of Lord of the World here on planet Earth.

Both Mahatmas and Ascended Master are terms used

in the Ascended Master Teachings. Ascended Master is
based on the Theosophical concept of the Mahatma or
Master of the Ancient Wisdom. However, Mahatmas
and Ascended Masters are believed by some to dier
in certain respects.

The term Ascended Master was rst used by Baird T.

Spalding in 1924 in his series of books, The Life and
Teachings of the Masters of the Far East (DeVorss and
Co.). Godfre Ray King further popularized this concept
of spiritual masters who had once lived on the earth in
his book Unveiled Mysteries [2] (1934) by Guy Ballard
(1878-1939). Ballard was the founder of the rst Ascended Master Teaching in modern times, known as The
I AM Activity (in full: The I AM Religious Activity
of the Saint Germain Foundation ).[3] The teachings were
continued and embellished by later organizations such as
The Bridge to Freedom[4] (founded 1951) (known in the
1980s as The New Age Church of the Christ, and later
as The Bridge to Spiritual Freedom), The Summit Lighthouse[5][6] (founded 1958) and its successor organization
the Church Universal and Triumphant, and various other
organizations such as the White Eagle Lodge (1936).[7]
A more modern form of the teachings, which did not rely
on channeled messages, was given by a former associate of Godfre Ray King, Pearl Dorris, in Mount Shasta,
California, beginning on October 20, 1972 and continuing until her death in Yreka, California in 1990. See her
books, The Step by Step Series (M. S. Princess). Her
emphasis was on learning to feel and identify with the I
AM Presence within, rather than invoking the Presence
as a mental principal existing outside oneself. Under her
tutelage, Peter Mt. Shasta was trained to continue the
Masters teachings, working today to incorporate the inner teachings of the Far East and their emphasis on selfobservation, with the dynamic I AM teachings of using
language to develop mastery in action in daily life. See
Adventures of a Western Mystic: Part 1, Apprentice to
the Masters, and Part 2, Search for the Guru;" also, I
AM Armations and the Secret of their Eective Use
(Church of the Seven Rays). See also I AM the Open
Door (M. S. Princess, 1979).

The Ascended Master Teachings refer to the Sixth Initiation as Ascension.[1]

According to the Ascended Master Teachings, a Master, Commoner, Shaman, and as used in theology
and theology terms (or Spiritual Master) is a human
being who has taken the Fifth Initiation and is thereby capable of dwelling on the 5th dimension. An Ascended
Master is a human being who has taken the Sixth Initiation and is thereby capable of dwelling on the 6th dimension. An Ascended Master is a human being who
has regained full union with his Mighty I AM Presence.
When a human being has regained full union with his
Mighty I AM Presence, that state of full union is referred to as Ascension. Technically, a human being ascends when he takes the Sixth Initiation, and not before
then.
A Chohan (Lord) of a Ray is an Ascended Master
who has been placed in charge of one of the 12 Rays
(until recently, 7 Rays were generally known, and 5 Rays
were secret), due to having an extraordinary natural
spiritual anity for that Ray. A Ray is a concentrated
stream of spiritual energy emanating, ultimately, from
the Godhead. Each Ray is the embodiment/expression
of one of the 12 great God-Qualities, such as Divine
Will, Divine Wisdom, Divine Love, etc. The Chohans
(Lords) of the Rays thus constitute a special grouping of
Ascended Masters (Sixth Level Initiates).
Those who have taken the Seventh Initiation hold the Senior Administrative Posts in the Great White Brotherhood on Earth. These senior administrative posts are divided into 3 departments: The Department of the Manu,
the Department of the Planetary Christ, and the Department of the Mahachohan. "

The rays, the divines evolutions of peoples and planets

are represented by 7 colors (new age) and more 5 colors (new age gold or solar rays). The colors of new age
and solar rays are (in order): 1 blue (power of faith); 2
yellow (obedience); 3 pink (beauty; geniality); 4 white
A Lord of the World is a human being (or a being of (ascension; peace; light); 5 green (nature); 6 red (true
some lifewave other than the human lifewave) who has resurrection); 7 violet (New Age of Master Saint Gertaken the Ninth Initiation. The Ninth Initiation is the man); 8 turquoise (lucidity); 9 magenta (divine wonder;
highest Initiation possible on a 9d-dimensional planet grid
1

2 BELIEFS ABOUT ASCENDED MASTERS

justiciars); 10 gold (materialization of wealth); 11 orange aspects.

(sunshine); 12 Opaline (renewal).
It is believed that Ascended Masters are individuals who
were formerly embodied on the Earth and learned the
lessons of life during their incarnations. They gained
mastery over the limitations of the matter planes, bal1 Denition
anced at least 51% of negative karma, and fullled their
Students of Ascended Master Teachings organizations Dharma (divine plan). An Ascended Master, in such an
(also known as Ascended Master Activities) believe understanding, has become God-like and a source of unthat the Presence of Life God individualizes as conditional Divine Love to all life, and through the AsMighty I AM Presences, which then incarnate in lower- cension has united with his or her own God Self, the I
dimensional subtle and gross bodies throughout the cre- AM Presence.
ated universes. They believe that their Teachings have
been given to humanity by the Ascended Masters. Ascended Masters are believed to be individuals who have
lived in physical bodies, acquired the Wisdom and Mastery needed to become Immortal and Free of the cycles
of re-embodiment and karma, and have attained their
Ascension (the Sixth Initiation). They consider the Ascension to be the complete permanent union of the raised
and puried outer self with their Mighty I AM Presence - that True Identity that is the unique Individualization of Almighty God residing in each person. This
knowledge is believed to have previously been taught for
millions of years only within Ascended Master Retreats
and Mystery Schools. It is believed by adherents of the
Ascended Master Teachings that this wisdom was partially
released by the Theosophical Society beginning in 1875,
by C.W. Leadbeater and Alice A. Bailey, and began to
have more detailed public release in the 1930s by the Ascended Masters through Guy Ballard in the I AM Activity.[8][9] However, Theosophists maintain that the concept
of Ascended Master is an exaggeration and corruption of
the more modest Theosophical concept of Master of the
Ancient Wisdom. The term Ascended Master was rst
introduced in 1934 by Guy Ballard in his work titled Unveiled Mysteries, a book which he said was dictated to
him by the Ascended Master St. Germain.[2][3] Other
Ascended Master Teachings are contained in The Bridge
to Freedom (1951),[4] Mark Prophet and Elizabeth Clare
Prophet's The Summit Lighthouse (1958) (reorganized as
the Church Universal and Triumphant in 1975),[5] The
Temple of The Presence (1995),[10] The Hearts Center
(2002), the I AM University (2004), and various other organizations such as the White Eagle Lodge (1936) and the
Aquarian Christine Church Universal, Inc. (2006).[7][11]

It is further claimed by various groups and teachers that

the Ascended Masters serve as the teachers of mankind
from the realms of Spirit, and that all people will eventually attain their Ascension and move forward in spiritual evolution beyond this planet. According to these
teachings, they remain attentive to the spiritual needs of
humanity, and act to inspire and motivate its spiritual
growth. In many traditions and organizations, they are
considered part of the Spiritual Hierarchy of Earth, and
members of the Great Brotherhood of Light, also known
as the Great White Lodge, Great White Brotherhood, or
Universal White Brotherhood (per Peter Deunov).[12]
According to Alice Bailey and Benjamin Creme there are
sixty Masters of the Ancient Wisdom, dened as beings
who have reached the Fifth Level of Initiation or above,
with Djwhal Khul in a pivotal role as the master who telepathically dictated the many esoteric teachings in Baileys
books. Elizabeth Clare Prophet revealed, by taking dictations from them, the names of many dozens of additional Ascended Masters that were previously unknown.
The concept of recognizing the spiritual self, ones own
psychological and karma battles and how to overcome
them, and eventual Ascension of all humanity is covered
in James Redeld's Celestine Prophecy and its sequels,
The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision and The Secret of
Shambhala: In Search of the Eleventh Insight. These
books, while controversial, are recent popularizations of
the concept of Ascension.

In Ascended Master teachings there is also mention of

Serapis Bey, a being who was incarnated as a high priest
in one of the Temples of the Sacred Fire on Atlantis,
and who migrated to Egypt at the time of the destruction of Atlantis.[13] It is also believed that he was incarnated as the Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep III (who constructed the Temple of Luxor to the god Amon)[14] and
2 Beliefs about Ascended Masters also as Leonidas, the King of Sparta,[15] who was killed
in 480 BC defending the pass of Thermopylae against the
invasion of Greece by Emperor Xerxes I of the Persian
Originally presented by Helena P. Blavatsky in the 1870s,
Empire. According to teachings of Agni Yoga,[16] Serthe idea of the Masters of the Ancient Wisdom or
apis Bey purports to be, in past lives, the Roman king
Mahatmas was adopted by people who at some point
Numa Pompilius, and the philosophers Confucius, Plato
had had a connection with the Theosophical movement,
and Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca). He is
such as Alice Bailey, Helena Roerich, and Manly P.
referred to in the book Supermundane as The Thinker.
Hall. Later on many other organizations, especially in the
United States, developed the concept of Ascended Masters, which departs from the theosophical one in several

3.2

The Individualized I AM Presence

The Seven Rays of Ascension

God the All in All the Good the Source from

which all Life, Light, and Love come.(or from which all
things, yin & yang come. Even what one may perceive as
The evolutions divines/directories are:
darkness evil or bad is in someway working out for
New Age Rays
the Good and toward the elevation and ascension of all
men. All things pervading or pouring out from the One
1 Blue (willpower, faith; material goods): Master El perfect intelligent mind i.e. God) There is always an unMorya (Gods will), God Thor and Elohim Hercules; interrupted Oneness that is maintained with the Allness
of God. From the One God all other realities, including
2 Yellow (discipline, intelligence): Master Lanto;
Hierarchy, humanity and the material universe, are the
result of a process of emanation.
3 Rose (beauty; genius): Master Roweena;
4 White (ascension; peace; spiritualization): Master
3.2
Serapis Bay;

The Individualized I AM Presence

5 Green (prosperity; nature) : Pan and Hilarion;

Adherents of the Ascended Master Teachings believe that

each person is an incarnation of an Individualized Pres 6 Pink (sacrice): Master Jesus Christ, Master Vir- ence of the Most High Living God the Mighty I
gin Mary;
AM Presence as part of humans very nature and being. God (as Life and Love) manifests in the 7 octaves of
7 Violet (New Age, technology; transmutation):
the created universe through individual Divine Identities.
Master Saint Germain (Saint Germain).
As embodied individuals, we are the outer expression of
that God Self in form. It is our unique and immortal True
5 Rays of the New Golden Age or Solar Rays (almost Identity, yet always sharing in the Allness of the ONE
unreachable for humans)
GOD.
8 Turquoise (clarity): Master Kenich Ahan;
9 Magenta (divine miracle): Master Lady Magnus
(South Pole) and Master Polaris (North Pole);

4 Origins

The founder of the Theosophical Society, Madame H. P.

10 Gold (materializations of the riches): Divinity Blavatsky, in the late 19th century brought attention to
Gold and God Alexia;
the idea of secret initiatory knowledge, by claiming her
ideas were based on traditions taught to her by a group of
11 Orange (Nirvana): Master El Moriah;
highly enlightened yogis which she called the Mahatmas
12 Opaline (renewal; rejuvenation): Lord Gautama. or Masters of the Ancient Wisdom. These Mahatmas,
she claimed, were physical beings living in the Himalayas,
usually understood as Tibet:

3.1

Universal All-Pervading Presence of

Life

Students of the Ascended Master Teachings believe that

there is One God, the Universal All-Pervading Presence
of Life, The One, Who is the Source of all Love,
Light, and Love in existence, and that all forms of existence and consciousness emanate from this Allness of
God - The One. The Voice of the I AM states All
Life is One [17] and that there is One Substance, One
Energy, One Power, One Intelligence as the Source of
all consciousness and creation.[18] This Divine Being and
Mind is considered to be above and distinct from all
creation (in the sense of classical theism), transcending
all creation yet interpenetrating all existence. Belief in
this one God stresses the essential unity of the spiritual
and material components of the universe. God creates
through Individualized Identities that have distinct SelfConsciousness and that make up the Spiritual Hierarchy
of Creation, yet remain connected through the ow of the
River of Life and Lifestream to the one undivided

... they are living men, born as we are born,

and doomed to die like every mortal. We call
them masters because they are our teachers;
and because from them we have derived all
the Theosophical truths ... They are men of
great learning, whom we call Initiates, and still
greater holiness of life.[19]
After Madame Blavatskys death in 1891, the concept
of the Mahatmas was developed by her successors in
the Theosophical Society leadership, Annie Besant and
Charles W. Leadbeater, who described them in great detail and added Jesus and Maitreya. In Leadbeaters book,
The Masters and the Path (1925), the Masters are presented as human beings full of wisdom and compassion,
albeit still limited by human bodies, which they choose to
retain in order to keep in touch with humanity and help
in its evolution.[20]
Later organizations that used many of the teachings of
Theosophy for their own purposes, developed concept of

7 SANAT KUMARA

Ascended Masters which bears some important dierences with the Theosophical one. The ascended master
Saint Germain has been releasing the ancient teachings
in a more modern and simplied form, as can be found
in the books of Peter Mt. Shasta, which show how the
Masters can work with those who have an open heart and
the desire to benet humanity.[21]

Ascended Master Teachings as the Master of the Sixth

Ray.[28]

It is believed by Ascended Master Teachings organizations that the Master Jesus was Chohan of the Sixth Ray
until December 31, 1959, when, according to Elizabeth
Clare Prophet, Lady Master Nada fully took on that Ofce in the Spiritual Hierarchy. According to Prophet, Jesus became World Teacher, along with Kuthumi, on January 1, 1956, succeeding Maitreya, who took the Oce
5 Other beliefs about Ascended of Planetary Buddha and Cosmic Christ.[29][30] This
belief is not accepted by adherents of traditional TheosoMasters
phy and the followers of Alice A. Bailey and Benjamin
Creme - they believe that the Master Jesus is still the
Belief in the Brotherhood and the Masters is an essen- Chohan of the Sixth Ray and that Maitreya is still the
tial part of the beliefs of various organizations that have World Teacher.
continued and expanded the concepts released in the origAccording to Elizabeth Clare Prophet, the Prophet of the
inal Saint Germain instruction in the 1930s through The
Church Universal and Triumphant, the largest Ascended
I AM Activity.[22][23][24][25][26] Examples of those beMaster Teachings religion, the Master Jesus incarnated
lieved by the ones proposing these teachings to be Astwice as the Emperor of Atlantis, once in 33,050 BC and
cended Masters would be the Master Jesus, Confucius,
again in 15,000 BC.[31] He did this in order to aid the
Gautama Buddha, Mary the Mother of Jesus, St. Paul of
white magicians in the war of the white magicians and
Tarsus (aka Hilarion), Melchizedek, Archangel Michael,
the black magicians that was going on in Atlantis at that
Metatron, Kwan Yin, Saint Germain and Kuthumi, as
time.
well as dozens of others.[27]
According to Alice A. Bailey, the Master Jesus was preUnveiled Mysteries records:
viously incarnated as Joshua, the Hebrew military leader
in the 13th century BC, and Joshua the High Priest in the
Truly the Great Ascended Masters are
sixth century BC.[32]
Gods. It is no wonder in the mythology of
According
to
the
Ascended
Master
the ancients that their activities have been
Teachings,[33][34][35][36][37] Jesus was also incarnated as
brought down to us in the guise of myth and
Joseph of the Coat of many colors in the 17th century
fable. They wield Tremendous God Power at
BC/16th century BC (approximately between 1650 BC
all times because they hold with unwavering
and 1550 BC), as well as King David (who lived c. 1037
determination to the Great God Presence and
BC until around 970 BC), and Elisha in the 9th century
hence all Power is given unto them for they are
BC.[38]
All-Perfection.
When Jesus said, 'All these things I have
done, ye shall do and even greater things shall
ye do,' he knew whereof he spoke, continued Saint Germain. He came forth to reveal
the Conscious Dominion and Mastery that it is
possible for every human being to attain and
express while still here on Earth.

Jesus

Main article: Master Jesus

7 Sanat Kumara
Main article: Sanat Kumara
According to the post-1900 publications of Theosophy
(specically, the writings of Charles 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), Sanat Kumara[39][40] is an advanced being of the Ninth Initiation
(the highest Initiation possible on planet Earth) who is regarded as the Lord or Regent of Earth and of humanity,
and the head of the Spiritual Hierarchy of Earth who
dwells in Shamballah, a city said by Theosophists and
those adherent to the Ascended Master Teachings to be a
oating city on the etheric plane above the Gobi Desert.

Jesus is one of the Masters of the Ancient Wisdom in

Theosophy and is one of the Ascended masters (also collectively called the Great White Brotherhood; with white
being in reference to the light) in the Ascended Master
Teachings, a group of religions based on Theosophy. The
Master Jesus is regarded by Theosophists, was regarded It is believed by these authors that he is the founder of the
by Alice Bailey and was later regarded by students of the Great White Brotherhood, which is composed of Masters

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of the Ancient Wisdom (Fifth Initiation), Ascended Mas- Theosophical Masters even denied that such beings exist.
ters (Sixth Initiation), Chohans and Bodhisattvas (Sev- Mahatma K.H. wrote:
enth Initiation), Buddhas (Eighth Initiation), and highly
spiritually-evolved volunteers from other worlds, who
If we had the powers of the imaginary Perhave all joined together to advance spiritual evolution on
sonal God, and the universal and immutable
Earth.[41]
laws were but toys to play with, then indeed
might we have created conditions that would
Sanat Kumara was mentioned briey by the theosophist
have turned this earth into an Arcadia for lofty
Helena Blavatsky.[42] She claimed he belonged to a group
souls.[48]
of beings, the Lords of the Flame, whom Christian
tradition have misunderstood as Lucifer and the fallen
angels.[43]
In their letters, the Mahatmas constantly talk about the
Sanat Kumara gained greater prominence when her fol- immutable laws of the universe, and that they can help
lower Charles W. Leadbeater wrote that Sanat Kumara humanity only within the limits of these laws.
was the King or Lord of the World, and the head of the Proponents of the Ascended Masters sometimes attempt
Great White Brotherhood of Mahatmas who had revealed to account for these discrepancies by claiming that when
the principles of theosophy.[44]
the Theosophical Society (TS) was founded most of the
Later theosophists such as Alice Bailey and Elizabeth Theosophical Mahatmas were still unascended MasClare Prophet have embellished the story with further de- ters. This leaves room to detach the Ascended Masters
tails. He is usually depicted as having the appearance of from the limitations. However, the Mahatma K.H. wrote:
We are not infallible, all-foreseeing Mahatmas at every
a 16-year-old boy.
hour of the day.[49] As he explained: An adeptthe
highest as the lowestis one only during the exercise of
occult powers.[50] In fact, according to the Theosoph8 Comparison of Masters of Wis- his
ical teachings, the higher the adept, the less we are likely
to hear from him:
dom and Ascended Masters
There is considerable dierence between the concept of
Masters of the Ancient Wisdom in Theosophy (as described by Blavatsky, Olcott, Sinnett, and others) and the
current concept of Ascended Masters, developed by Guy
Ballard and Elizabeth Clare Prophet fty-ve years after
the Theosophical Society was founded.

The more spiritual the Adept becomes, the

less can he meddle with mundane, gross aairs
and the more he has to conne himself to a spiritual work ... The very high Adepts, therefore,
do help humanity, but only spiritually: they
are constitutionally incapable of meddling with
worldly aairs.[51]

They added more than 200 new Ascended Masters that

they claimed to receive dictations from in addition to receiving dictations from the original Masters of the Ancient In the Theosophical view the Masters do not pay attention
to personal desires. Theosophy teaches that the psychoWisdom of Theosophy.[45]
logical ego is false, that the idea that we are this body,
The Ascended Masters, as their name suggests, are sup- emotions, and mind is a mistake of perception and the
posed to be Masters who have experienced the miracle source of sorrow. It says that real happiness comes only as
of ascension, as it is said Jesus did. The original teach- an unsought by-product of reducing rather than increasing, channeled by Guy Ballard, was that a new Ascended ing our attachment and identication with the personal.
Master would not die but would take the body up with Blavatsky wrote that Occultism is not . . . the purhim. This teaching of ascension is in direct opposition to suit of happiness as man understands the word; for the
the Theosophical teachings. Mahatma K.H. refers to the rst step is sacrice, the second renunciation. [52] K.H.
idea disparagingly in one of his letters to Sinnett:
agreed with this when he wrote: Wethe criticized and
misunderstood Brotherswe seek to bring men to sacThere was but one hysterical woman alrice their personalitya passing ashfor the welfare
leged to have been present at the pretended
of the whole humanity..[53] During the early times of the
ascension, and ... the phenomenon has never
Theosophical Society, some members, misunderstanding
been corroborated by repetition.[46]
the nature of the Mahatmas, would bring HPB some personal requests to ask of them. In a letter Blavatsky exMme. Blavatsky also rejects ascension as a fact, calling it plained:
an allegory as old as the world.[47] In the Theosophical
view, the Masters of Wisdom retain their physical bodies.
The Masters would not stoop for one moThe Masters of the Wisdom are not like the Ascended
ones, who are said to become Godlike, all-powerful beings beyond the laws of nature. In their teachings, the

ment to give a thought to individual, private

matters relating but to one or even ten persons,
their welfare, woes and blisses in this world

10 INITIATION
of Maya [illusion], to nothing except questions
of really universal importance. It is all you
Theosophists who have dragged down in your
minds the ideals of our Masters; you who have
unconsciously and with the best of intentions
and full sincerity of good purpose, desecrated
Them, by thinking for one moment, and believing that They would trouble Themselves with
your business matters, sons to be born, daughters to be married, houses to be built, ...[54]

This kind of interest is a very marked feature of the

Ascended Masters. The Ascended Masters Teachings
teach ways to attract material or emotional possessions
to a persons life, and also how to dissolve unpleasant
karma, a conception that the Theosophical Mahatmas
emphatically opposed. For example, K.H. wrote: Bear
in mind that the slightest cause produced, however unconsciously, and with whatever motive, cannot be unmade, or
its eects crossed in their progressby millions of gods,
demons, and men combined.[55] In fact, the Ascended
Masters are portrayed as cosmic fathers who will take
care of their followers problems. In contrast, Mahatma
M. said: We are leaders but not child-nurses.[56]

Maitreya

Main article: Maitreya (Theosophy)

""Maitri,"" is Sanskrit for loving kindness. The historical Buddha was reported to have said near the time of his
death in the 4th century BCE, that many Buddhas (awakened ones) had come before him, and that in the future
another Buddha would come who would be greater than
him, and who would embody Maitri. This prophecy created the expectation of a Buddha Maitreya, which was
probably fullled in the advent of the being now called
Jesus, likely Apollonius of Tyanna, who on his travels in India and the Far East was reported in many texts
to have been called, Issa, probably short for Rishi
(great sage). His teachings embody that principal of loving kindness. 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. According
to Theosophical doctrine, one of the Hierarchys functions is to oversee the evolution of Humankind; in accord
with this function Maitreya is said to hold the so-called
Oce of the World Teacher. Theosophical texts posit
that the purpose of this Oce is to facilitate the transfer
of knowledge about the true constitution and workings of
Existence. Humanity is thereby assisted on its presumed
cyclical, but ever progressive, evolutionary path. Reputedly, one way the knowledge transfer is accomplished is
by Maitreya occasionally manifesting or incarnating in the

physical realm; the manifested entity then assumes the

role of World Teacher of Humankind.
The Theosophical concept of Maitreya has many similarities to the earlier Maitreya doctrine in Buddhism. However, they dier in important aspects, and developed differently. The Theosophical Maitreya has been assimilated or appropriated by a variety of quasi-theosophical
and non-theosophical New Age and Esoteric groups and
movements. These have added, and advanced, their own
interpretations and commentary on the subject.

9.1 Development of the concept

The rst mention of Maitreya in a Theosophical context
occurs in the 1883 work Esoteric Buddhism by Alfred
Percy Sinnett (18401921), an early Theosophical writer.
The concepts described by Sinnett were amended, elaborated on, and greatly expanded in The Secret Doctrine,
a book originally published 1888. The work was the
magnum opus of Helena Blavatsky, one of the physical
founders of the Theosophical Society and of contemporary Theosophy. In it, the messianic Maitreya is linked
to both Buddhist and Hindu religious traditions. In the
same work Blavatsky was to assert that there have been,
and will be, multiple messianic (or messianic-like) instances in human history. These successive appearances
of emissarie[s] of Truth are according to the Blavatsky
writings part of the unceasing oversight of Earth and of
its inhabitants by a physically hidden Spiritual Hierarchy,
called Masters of the Ancient Wisdom. The Theosophist,
""Alice Bailey,"" who broke with the Indian branch of the
Theosophical Society, and who was heavily inuenced
by orthodox Christianity, started the expectation that the
""Maitreya would actually be reborn on the earth as a
physical being, fullling the Christian ideal of a Second
Coming, rather than the New Age ideal of the Christ being reborn in the heart of each individual.

10 Initiation
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 evil acts may cause bad karma
which may cause one to temporarily regress. It is believed that when souls have advanced to the fourth level
of initiation, they have reached enlightenment and have
no further need to reincarnate. At the fth level of initiation and beyond, souls have the opportunity to become
members of the Spiritual Hierarchy. This concept was
developed by both C.W. Leadbeater and Alice A. Bailey
beginning in the 1920s.
According to C.W. Leadbeater, Initiation is a process by

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which we try to develop ourselves not that we may become great and wise, but that we may have the power and
knowledge to work for humanity to the best eect.[57]
According to Alice A. Bailey, Initiation is the process of
undergoing an expansion [toward higher levels] of consciousness"[58] It is believed by Theosophists that all souls
that have reached the fourth level of initiation and evolved
beyond the necessity to reincarnate. Those who do not
elect to become pratyeka buddhas and go directly into
Spiritual Hierarchy governing nirvana, gradually evolving upward through all of these six higher levels of consciousness over thousands or millions of years, and later
over billions or trillions of years, with other higher levels
beyond.
The concept of Initiation is also recognized in the Ascended Master Teachings, a group of religions based on
Theosophy. In the Ascended Master Teachings, the Sixth
Initiation is referred to as Ascension. The rst six initiations were named by Charles W. Leadbeater and Alice
A. Bailey after the six most important events in the life
of Jesus.

11

The 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.[59] The members of the
Brotherhood may be known as the Masters of the Ancient Wisdom or the Ascended masters.[59] Various people have said they have received messages from these beings, including most notably Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
(Theosophy), Aleister Crowley (Thelema), Alice A. Bailey (New Group of World Servers), Guy Ballard (I AM
Activity), Geraldine Innocente (The Bridge to Freedom),
Elizabeth Clare Prophet (Church Universal and Triumphant) and Benjamin Creme (Share International).[59]
The Masters are collectively called the Great White
Brotherhood by various theosophists and esotericists.
The use of the term white refers to their advanced
spirituality (in other words, that they have a white colored aura) and has nothing to do with race. Blavatsky
described many of the Masters as ethnically Tibetan or
Indian (Hindu), not European.[60] She did, however, describe them as being from all cultures and races, such as
the Greek gentleman known as Hilarion.[61]
Belief in the Brotherhood and the Masters is an essential part of the syncretistic teachings of various organizations that have taken the Theosophical philosophical
concepts and added their own elements.[62] Examples of
those believed to be Ascended Masters by these organizations are: Jesus, Sanat Kumara, Gautama Buddha,
Maitreya, Confucius, Lord Lanto (Confucius historical
mentor), Mary (mother of Jesus), Lady Master Nada,
Enoch, Kwan Yin, Saint Germain, and Kuthumi, to name

but a few.[22] It is believed that all of these put aside any

dierences they might have had in their Earthly careers,
and unite instead to advance the spiritual well-being of
humanity.[63]

12 Dictations
Within The I AM Activity (founded by Guy Warren
Ballard in the early 1930s), contact and cooperation with
the Ascended Masters became a central part of each
members life. Through the Ballards as Messengers,
the Ascended Masters were believed to have regularly
communicated with the students of The I AM Activity. Those Addresses (known as Dictations) were delivered before gatherings of members in Conclaves held
throughout the United States of America, and published
in the monthly periodical The Voice of The I AM, and
some were collected and reprinted in the green books
of The Saint Germain Series. In all, 3,834 Dictations from
the Masters were received through Guy and Edna Ballard.
Other Ascended Master Activities believed that the Ascended Masters, Cosmic Beings, Elohim, and Archangels
continued to present a program for both individual development and spiritual transformation in the world.[64]
They believe that further instruction from the Ascended
Masters and the rest of the Spiritual Hierarchy continued
through new Dispensations with new Messengers, such as
The Bridge to Freedom,[65] The Summit Lighthouse, and
The Temple of The Presence.

13 The Aquarian Church

The Aquarian Christine Church Universal, Inc. (ACCU)
is a denomination founded in 2006 based on The
Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ transcribed from
the Akashic Records by Levi H. Dowling. The Aquarian Christine Church actively promotes Ascended Master Teachings and shares many beliefs in common with
the I AM Movement, White Eagle Lodge and New
Thought and Theosophical groups. The book Initiations
of the Aquarian Masters: The Theosophy of the Aquarian Gospel by ACCU founder Rev. Dr. Jacob L. Watson, expounds on the churchs teachings which draw heavily from the writings of A.D.K. Luk (pen-name of Alice Beulah Schutz) (April 10, 1905 - Jan. 14, 1994),
the Saint Germain Series published by the Saint Germain Press (The Saint Germain Foundation), and especially from The Lost Years of Jesus compiled by
Elizabeth Clare Prophet and published by The Summit
Lighthouse.[66]

16 NOTES

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Skeptical view

Ren Gunon wrote a detailed critique of Theosophy titled Theosophy: history of a pseudo-religion (1921). In
the book Guenon claimed that Blavatsky had acquired all
her knowledge naturally from other books not from any
supernatural masters. Guenon points out that Blavatsky
spent a long time visiting a library at New York where she
had easy access to the works of Jacob Boehme, Eliphas
Levi, the Kabbala and other Hermetic treatises. Guenon
also wrote that Blavatsky had borrowed passages from extracts of the Kanjur and Tanjur, translated by the eccentric orientalist Sndor Krsi Csoma, published in 1836
in the twentieth volume of the Asiatic Researchers of Calcutta .[67]
K. Paul Johnson suggests in his book The Masters Revealed: Madam Blavatsky and Myth of the Great White
Brotherhood that the Masters that Madam Blavatsky
claimed she had personally met are idealizations of certain people she had met during her lifetime.[68]
Also see the article Talking to the Dead and Other
Amusements by Paul Zweig New York Times October
5, 1980, which maintains that Madame Blavatskys revelations were fraudulent.[69]
Robert Todd Carroll in his book The skeptics dictionary
(2003) wrote that Blavatsky used trickery into deceiving
others into thinking she had paranormal powers. Carroll
wrote that Blavatsky had faked a materialization of a tea
cup and saucer as well as written the messages from her
masters herself.[70]
In a statement entitled, Ascended Masters, A Revelation of Ignorance written in 1988 and reproduced in his
book The Way In, the Australian spiritual teacher, Barry
Long described Ascended Masters as half masters who by
virtue of the fact that they have come back (by possessing the living bodies of channelers) reveal their own ignorance. Barry Long did not entertain the idea that the ascended masters were gments of the imagination made up
by the theosophists. In the nal paragraph he gives a message to these masters including Kuthumi, Djwal Khul,
Morya, Maitreya, Archangel Michael, Serapis, Master
Hilarion, Ramtha, telling them 'to die for the truth' in the
body they have possessed, withdraw and 'go on'.

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See also

Abdal
Avatar
Boddhisattva
Initiation (Theosophy)
Khwajagan
Khidr

Once-returner
Qutb
Satguru
Sarmoung
Secret chiefs
Shambhala
Shangri-La
Telepathy
Xian

16 Notes
[1] Partridge, Christopher ed. New Religions: A Guide: New
Religious Movements, Sects and Alternative Spiritualities,
Oxford University Press, USA, 2004. Describes the
Theosophical Society and religious organizations based
on a belief in Ascended Masters, such as The I AM Activity, The Bridge to Freedom and The Summit Lighthouse.
pp. 330334.
[2] King, Godfre Ray. Unveiled Mysteries. Chicago, Illinois: Saint Germain Press, 1934, p. vii: The time has
arrived, when the Great Wisdom, held and guarded for
many centuries in the Far East, is now to come forth in
America, at the command of those Great Ascended Masters who direct and protect the evolution of mankind upon
this Earth.
[3] Saint Germain Foundation. The History of the I AM Activity and Saint Germain Foundation. Schaumburg, Illinois: Saint Germain Press, 2003.
[4] The Bridge to Freedom Journal (1951-1961) Reprinted by
Ascended Master Teaching Foundation, 1989.
[5] Lewis, James R. Church Universal and Triumphant in
Scholarly Perspective Center For Academic Publication
1994.
[6] White Paper - Wesak World Congress 2002. Acropolis
Sophia Books & Works, 2003.
[7] Braden, Charles S. These Also Believe, MacMillan Publishing Company 2000, pp. 257307.
[8] King, Godfre Ray. The Magic Presence. Saint Germain
Press 1935. page 89, 95
[9] Luk, A.D.K. Law of Life - Book I (Pueblo, Colorado:
A.D.K. Luk Publications, 1989), pp. 178, 91102,
120143, 215216. The name A. D. K. Luk was the
pseudonym of Alice Beulah (Schutz) Booras (April 10,
1905 - Jan. 14, 1994)
[10] White Paper - Wesak World Congress 2002. Acropolis
Sophia Books & Works 2003

[11] Watson, Jacob L. Initiations of the Aquarian Masters:

The Theosophy of the Aquarian Gospel Outskirts Press,
2009. ISBN 978-1-4327-4598-1
[12] Luk, A.D.K.. Law of Life - Book I. Pueblo, Colorado:
A.D.K. Luk Publications, 1989, pp. 23-27.
[13] Prophet, Mark L. and Elizabeth Clare Lords of the Seven
Rays. Summit University, Livingston, Montana, USA,
1986, p. 149.
[14] Prophet, Mark L. and Elizabeth Clare Lords of the Seven
Rays, p. 153.
[15] Prophet, Mark L. and Elizabeth Clare Lords of the Seven
Rays, p. 150.
[16] Roerich, Elena Ivanovna. Letters to America. In 4 Vols
(19231952). T. 4. Moscow: Sfera, 1999.
[17] The Voice of the I AM. Saint Germain Press December
1940 page 32
[18] The Voice of the I AM, Saint Germain Press, July 1942, p.
7.
[19] Blavatsky, H. P. (1968 [1889]). The Key to Theosophy.
London: Theosophical Publishing House.
[20] See also: K.H. Letters to C.W. Leadbeater
[21] Adventures of a Western Mystic: Apprentice to the Masters (Church of the Seven Rays, 2010)
[22] I AM Ascended Master Dictation List, Saint Germain Press
Inc., 1995, Listing of those who are claimed to be Ascended Masters by The I AM Activity
[23] Schroeder, Werner Ascended Masters and Their Retreats
Ascended Master Teaching Foundation 2004, Listing of
those who are believed to be Ascended Masters by The I
AM Activity and The Bridge to Freedom
[24] Luk, A.D.K. Law of Life - Book II. Pueblo, Colorado:
A.D.K. Luk Publications, 1989. Listing of those who are
claimed to be Ascended Masters by The I AM Activity
and The Bridge to Freedom
[25] Booth, Annice The Masters and Their Retreats, Summit
Lighthouse Library June 2003, Listing of those who are
believed to be Ascended Masters by The I AM Activity,
The Bridge to Freedom, and The Summit Lighthouse
[26] Shearer, Monroe & Carolyn. I AM Adorations, Armations & Rhythmic Decrees, Acropolis Sophia Books and
Works, 1998. Listing of those who are claimed to be
Ascended Masters by The I AM Activity, The Bridge to
Freedom, The Summit Lighthouse, and The Temple of
The Presence

[29] Luk, A.D.K. The Law of Life: Book II, Pueblo, Colorado:
A.D.K. Luk Publications, 1989; pages 267272.
[30] Prophet, Mark L. and Elizabeth Clare Lords of the Seven
Rays Livingston, Montana: Summit University Press 1986
page 225
[31] Prophet, Elizabeth Clare and Prophet, Mark (as compiled
by Annice Booth) The Masters and Their Retreats Corwin
Springs, Montana:2003 Summit University Press Pages
142-143
[32] Bailey, Alice A. Initiation, Human and Solar New York:
Lucis Publishing, 1922, p. 56.
[33] I AM Ascended Master Dictation List, Saint Germain Press
Inc., 1995, Listing of Ascended Masters by The I AM
Activity
[34] Schroeder, Werner. Ascended Masters and Their Retreats,
Ascended Master Teaching Foundation, 2004. Listing of
those who are believed to be Ascended Masters by The I
AM Activity and The Bridge to Freedom
[35] 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
[36] Booth, Annice. The Masters and Their Retreats Summit
Lighthouse Library, June 2003. Listing of those who are
believed to be Ascended Masters by The I AM Activity,
The Bridge to Freedom, and The Summit Lighthouse
[37] Shearer, Monroe & Carolyn. I AM Adorations, Armations & Rhythmic Decrees, Acropolis Sophia Books and
Works, 1998. Listing of Ascended Masters by The I
AM Activity, The Bridge to Freedom, The Summit Lighthouse, and The Temple of The Presence
[38] Prophet, Elizabeth Clare and Prophet, Mark (as compiled
by Annice Booth) The Masters and Their Retreats Corwin Springs, Montana: Summit University Press, 2003,
p. 143.
[39] Sanat Kumara at ascension-research.org
[40] A Progress Report On Our Ascension at luisprada.com
[41] Schroeder, Werner. Ascended Masters and Their Retreats,
Ascended Master Teaching Foundation 2004. Describes
the founding of Shamballah by Sanat Kumara
[42] Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna. The Secret Doctrine: The
Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy, Theosophical Publishing House, 1888. Sanat Kumara - Volume I:
pp. 89, 457458; Volume II: pp. 106, 140, 319, 584.

[27] Prophet, Mark L. and Elizabeth Clare. Lords of the Seven

Rays, Proles of the Ascended Masters, pp. 13-394.
Lists more than 250 Ascended Masters.

[43] Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna. The Secret Doctrine: The

Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy, Theosophical Publishing House, 1888. Volume II, pp. 243 .

[28] Bailey, Alice A, A Treatise on Cosmic Fire (Section Three

- Division A - Certain Basic Statements), 1932, Lucis
Trust, 1925, p. 1237.

[44] Leadbeater, C.W. The Masters and the Path. Adyar,

India: Theosophical Publishing House, 1925 (Reprint:
Kessinger Publishing, 1997), pp. 296-299.

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[45] Prophet, Elizabeth Clare and Prophet, Mark (as compiled by Annice Booth) The Masters and Their Retreats
Corwin Springs, Montana:2003 Summit University Press-See Proles of the Ascended Masters Pages 13-394-More than 200 Ascended Masters are listed.
[46] Barker, A. T., and Vicente Hao Chin Jr., eds. The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett from the Mahatmas M. and
K. H. in Chronological Sequence, p. 5. Adyar: Theosophical Publishing House, 1998.
[47] Blavatsky, Collected Writings vol. 8, p. 389. Wheaton:
Theosophical Publishing House, 1977-91; See also CW
4:359-60.
[48] Barker, A. T; Vicente Hao Chin Jr., eds. The Mahatma
Letters to A.P. Sinnett from the Mahatmas M. and K. H.
in Chronological Sequence, p. 474. Adyar: Theosophical
Publishing House, 1998.
[49] Barker, A. T; Vicente Hao Chin Jr., eds. The Mahatma
Letters to A.P. Sinnett from the Mahatmas M. and K. H.
in Chronological Sequence, p. 450. Adyar: Theosophical
Publishing House, 1998.
[50] Barker, A. T; Vicente Hao Chin Jr., eds. The Mahatma
Letters to A.P. Sinnett from the Mahatmas M. and K. H.
in Chronological Sequence, p. 257. Adyar: Theosophical
Publishing House, 1998.
[51] Blavatsky, H. P. Collected Writings vol. 6, p.247.
Wheaton: Theosophical Publishing House, 1977-91.
[52] Blavatsky, H. P. Collected Writings vol 8, p. 14, Wheaton:
Theosophical Publishing House, 1977-91.
[53] Barker, A. T., and Vicente Hao Chin Jr., eds. The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett from the Mahatmas M. and
K. H. in Chronological Sequence, p. 222. Adyar: Theosophical Publishing House, 1998
[54] C. Jinarajadasa, Early Teachings of the Masters p. iv.
Chicago: Theosophical Press, 1923.
[55] Barker, A. T., and Vicente Hao Chin Jr., eds. The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett from the Mahatmas M. and
K. H. in Chronological Sequence, p. 77-78. Adyar: Theosophical Publishing House, 1998.
[56] Eek, Sven, ed. Damodar and the Pioneers of the Theosophical Movement, p. 605. Adyar: Theosophical Publishing House, 1965
[57] Leadbeater, Charles W. The Masters and the Path, Adyar,
Madras, India, Theosophical Publishing House, 1925, p.
166.
[58] Bailey, Alice A. Initiation, Human and Solar New York:
Lucis Publishing, 1922, p. 12.
[59] Barrett, David (1996). Sects, 'Cults, and Alternative Religions: A World Survey and Sourcebook. London: Blandford. ISBN 0-7137-2567-2.
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& Rich, 1882.

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