Kuthumi

The adept (initiate) Kuthumi (also known as Koot Hoomi or the master K.H.) led an extraordinarily reclusive life as a result of which very little is known about him. Mahatma Kuthumi was born in the early 19th century in the Punjab to a family that had settled in Kashmir. He attended Oxford University in 1850 and is thought to have contributed to the story in about 1854: The Dream of Ravan to the Dublin University Journal before returning to his native country.

Incarnations of the ascended master Kuthumi
This Brahmin from Kashmir spent considerable time in Dresden, Wurzberg, Nuremberg, and at the university in Leipzig where in 1875 he sought out Dr. G. Fechner the founder of modern psychology. His later years were spent at the lamasery at Shigatse in Tibet where his contact with the outside world included didactic writings sent by mail to some of his devoted students. Those letters are now in the British Museum.

Tuthmosis III
Pharaoh, prophet and high priest during the period of the new kingdom ca. 1460 BCE who expanded the Egyptian kingdom into the Middle East. His most important victory was on a battlefield near Mount Carmel where he led his men who had formed a line through the narrow Megiddo Pass to surprise and defeat an alliance of 330 rebellious Asiatic princes: a daring maneuver against which the Pharaoh's terrified officers had protested. Only Tuthmosis was certain that this plan would succeed, and he rode ahead while holding up the banner bearing the image of Amon Ra the sun god, who had promised him victory.

Pythagoras
Greek philosopher from the 6th century B.C. "the blond native of the Greek island of Samos" who was considered the son of Apollo. Even as a youth, Pythagoras easily engaged in debate with priests and scholars as he diligently sought scientific proof of the inner law revealed to him in meditation concerning Demeter, the Earth Mother.

His search for the great synthesis of Truth led him to Palestine, Arabia, India and finally to the temples of Egypt where he gained the trust of the priests of Memphis and was gradually initiated into the mysteries of Isis at Thebes.

When the Asian victor Cambyses began a barbarian attack on Egypt in c. 529 B.C. was Pythagoras exiled to Babylon where the prophet Daniel was in the service of the king. Here rabbis revealed to him the secret teachings of the "I AM WHO I AM" given to Moses and here Zoroastrian magicians taught him music, astronomy and the "Sacred Doctrine of Invocation.

Mystery School
After 12 years Pythagoras Babylon and founded a Brotherhood of initiates in Crotona, a lively Doric port city in southern Italy. His "city of the elect" was a Mystery School of the Great White Brotherhood where carefully selected men and women studied philosophy based on the mathematical expression of universal Law, expressed in music and in the rhythm and harmony of a highly disciplined way of life. After a 5-year probationary period in strict silence, the Pythagorean mathematicians went through a series of initiations and developed the intuitive faculties of the heart through which the son or daughter of God can become - as stated in Pythagoras' golden verses: an immortal divine being.

In Crotona, Pythagoras gave his lectures from behind a screen in a secret language that could only be fully understood by those who had received the highest initiations. The most important part of his instructions concerned the fundamental principle that a number constitutes both the form and the essence of creation. He formulated the most important parts of Euclid's geometry as well as advanced astronomical concepts that subsequently led to the theorems of Copernicus.

It is written that 2000 inhabitants of Crotona gave up their daily lifestyle and united into the Pythagorean community under the wise management of the Council of Three Hundred: a governing scientific and religious order that later exerted great political influence on Greater Greece.

Pythagoras, the indefatigable initiate, was 90 years old when Cylon, a rejected candidate of the mystery school, began a fierce persecution. Standing in the courtroom of Crotona, he read aloud from a secret book of Pythagoras, twisting the teachings and ridiculing them. When Pythagoras and 40 of the Order's leading members were in meetings, Cylon set the building on fire and all but two were killed. As a result, the group was destroyed and many original teachings were lost. Nevertheless, the master influenced many great philosophers, including Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas and Francis Bacon.

Balthazar
He was one of the three magi, (astronomers, initiates) who followed the Star of Bethlehem, or the Divine Self or I AM Presence of Jesus born of the virgin Mary. It is believed that Balthazar was the king of Ethiopia who brought the treasure of his country, the gift of incense, to Christ - the eternal High Priest.

Saint Francis of Assisi
Saint Francis of Assisi was the divine "poor" who had renounced family and wealth and embraced "Lady Poverty" and lived among the poor and the lepers, experiencing unspeakable joy in emulating the Christ's compassion. As he knelt down at Mass on the feast of St. Mattias in 1209, he heard the Gospel of Jesus, which was read by the priest, and in which the Lord instructed his apostles to go out and preach. Francis left the little church and immediately began to preach the Gospel preaching the doctrine of reincarnation as Jesus had taught it and converting many disciples including the noble Lady Clara who later also left her home dressed as the bride of Christ and went to Francis to be included in the mendicant order.

One of the many legends about the life of Francis and Clara describes their meal at Santa Maria Degli Angeli where Francis spoke so lovingly about God that all were inspired. Suddenly the people of the village saw that the convent and the woods were on fire. They immediately ran there to put out the flames and then saw the small company standing in a brilliant light with their arms raised to heaven. God revealed to St. Francis the divine presence in "Brother Sun and Sister Moon" and rewarded his devotion with the stigmata (the five wounds) of the crucified Christ.

Saint Francis' prayer is still prayed by people of all faiths around the world: "Lord make me an instrument of your peace!

Shah Jahan
Shah Jahan was the 16th century emperor of the Moguls in India who overthrew the corrupt government of his father Jahangir and partially restored the ethical thoughts of his grandfather Akhbar the Great. During his enlightened reign, the splendor of the Mogul court reached its peak and India entered its golden age of art and architecture.

Shah Jahan multiplied his country's treasures not only with music and painting but specially with the construction of breathtaking monuments, mosques, temples and thrones all over India, some of which can still be visited today.

The famous Taj Mahal, "the wonder of wonders, the ultimate wonder of the world," was built as a tomb for his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal who died in childbirth in 1631 when she gave birth to her 14th child. Shah Jahan spared no expense to make the temple "as beautiful as it was. It is the symbol of the mother principle and the monument of his everlasting love for his "twin soul.

The ascended master Kuthumi
The former chohan of the 2nd ray of divine Enlightenment now serves with Jesus as World Teacher. He is the hierarch of the Temple of Enlightenment over Kashmir, at Shrinagar, called the "cathedral of nature" in Kashmir, India and heads the "Brothers of the Golden Robe.

Kuthumi maintains an ethereal focus over Shigatse in Tibet, where he plays sacred classical music of East and West and compositions of the heavenly lords, as well as music of the first root races of the earth. He does so on an organ tuned to the "music of the Spheres" where souls trapped in the astral (lower) realm are lifted to the etheric retreats of the Brotherhood by sacred divine sound vibrations.