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  • Wisdom for practice
  • Wisdom is applied knowledge
  • Wisdom spreads itself

Wisdom for practice

Wisdom is for practice, not for continuous speaking. If we keep on speaking about the Masters, the Rays, and the Hierarchies, we are only missing our duties for the present.

Wisdom is applied knowledge

Knowledge, when applied becomes wisdom. We gain a lot of knowledge, but it has to be applied in daily life, then it transforms itself into wisdom. Through wisdom we will experience the existence.

Wisdom spreads itself

We need not be anxious to spread the wisdom without working it with ourselves. It is a wrong understanding if one thinks that he can spread wisdom. Wisdom knows how to spread itself. It only needs channels.

The Kumaras 1 - The Lords of the Flame

The Cosmic Rebels

The Lords of the Flame Since ancient times the sages have advised their students to know themselves and to ask, “Who am I?” Self-observation is possible for us because we are self-conscious beings. We know that we exist and we can reflect on our life. The self-consciousness differentiates us from the animal. Animals are in a dreamlike state. Some animal species that live in closer contact with humans can also develop mind. In minerals, plants and the majority of the animals, however, the mind, called Manas in Sanskrit, has not yet awakened. Through the awakening of Manas, man has grown from being guided by instinct to an individual. He slowly develops from an individual to a personality and from there to soul consciousness.

The unfoldment of the core of his being happens through the presence of high beings who have given to man the fire of mind. Since eons they are sending their light rays so that the blossom of human awareness unfolds. This blossom is also called the egoic lotus, the lotus of our soul.

There are different legends and allegorical narrations which explain the awakening of the mind. The story of the Fallen Angels contains in its esoteric meaning the key to the secrets of human consciousness in the same way as the eastern allegories of the Kumaras or Agnishvattas, the Solar Angels. It depends on our subtle understanding how far the teachings disclose themselves to us. Thus, the Greek legend of Prometheus, who brought man the fire from the gods, resembles the story of the awakening of self-consciousness through the Kumaras which we want to study here.

There are four Kumaras who were born out of the Creator at the beginning of creation. A fifth Kumara, Narada, later joined them as the teacher of the beings. The Kumaras are called the Sons of Mind, of the creative mind principle. They had been perfect beings already in the previous creation. The Kumaras came at the beginning of this creation, not to learn something more, but to help, especially the human beings. They are pure beings who are symbolically represented as five-year-old boys or as eternal youths of 16 years. The Puranas describe that Brahma, the Creator, asked them to co-create with him. But they refused, for they knew that they had another task. Brahma got angry and cursed them to descend to earth. Because of their disobedience they are also called the cosmic rebels.

Their disobedience had a purpose which Brahma did not know. They said, “The forms into which we are to move are not yet suited for us.” They refused to let their fire flow downwards and to stimulate beings for procreation. Therefore, they are also called Agnishvattas, those who have put off the procreative fire. Their flames are always directed upwards, to the origin. Thus, they are also described as innocent youths because impressions do not stick to their virginal pure mind. Though they were perfect beings of the most sublime worlds, they didn’t refuse to descend into the dense matter because this is precisely what they wanted.

The Awakening of the Mind

Thus 18 million years ago, these heavenly beings came down to earth, in the second half of the third root race. They wanted to help the human monads to become self-conscious, to develop the mind and thus to slowly ascend. Up to then the human monads were in a half-conscious state. There was no connection between the soul (Atma-Buddhi) and the material sheaths. The animal-men didn’t yet have self-consciousness because Manas, the mind principle, hadn’t yet awakened. A part of the creative hierarchies considered it dangerous to give the power of mind to the human monads; they considered it dangerous, similar to giving a sharp knife to a child. The rebels, however, wanted to enable the animal-men to make experiences and to slowly learn through the self-consciousness. With their light, they awakened the light of I AM in the brain cells of the undeveloped man. Without this impulse of the Lords of the Flame, the animal-men wouldn’t have awakened. Thus, we have become what we are through the Kumaras; that is self-conscious, thinking humans. Our I AM-consciousness is based on the presence of the Solar Angel, a spark of the light of the gods.

Through the awakening of the Manas we have gained the free will which we can use for good or for evil. The Kumaras wanted to give us the possibility to consciously develop towards the Light. But only few people followed the path of Light, the majority used the abilities of Manas to gain power and to realise worldly goals. In this orientation, there is a key to the origin of evil. Genuine malice, however, is only with a very small number of people; most of whom we consider as evil are only ignorant.

In the Genesis it says that the human beings were tempted by the serpent – a symbol of the Lords of the Flame. They ate the apple of knowledge of good and evil and then saw that they were naked. The shame arose because the monads had descended from their state of awareness and received coats of skin; that is they developed dense physical bodies of flesh and blood. The connection to the spiritual world darkened, and the human beings created consequences through their ignorant actions which created conflicts and suffering and entrapped them into matter. These experiences have made the humans learn and thus have hastened the development tremendously.

The Light of the Presence

The Kumaras are on the planet to help us. However, they don’t interfere with our lives and also don’t tell us what we should or should not do. There is an eternal law according to which a development cannot happen through outer support as long as there is no impulse coming from inside. The Kumaras continuously give us the Light of their presence which we experience as the Light of our soul. The Light itself doesn’t interfere, but it helps us to see things more clearly. Their presence is magnetising and makes things fall into a higher order. This way the Kumaras help us to organise our thought patterns, to manage our life better and to align ourselves more to the Light so that its influence can increase.

The Light of the Kumaras is especially available during the time of the dawn, when darkness transforms into light. Once a month, they visit us in a greater measure, during the 24 hours immediately after the new moon point. Then there is also the annual visit during the dawn of the year in the month of Capricorn which is also called the month of the Kumaras. If we use the dawn to align to the soul, the Solar Angel in us, we can absorb much of the Light of the Kumaras.

The Five Kumaras

The Kumaras are the leaders of the spiritual Hierarchy on all planes of creation, they are even beyond it. Therefore, they are the most high and most ancient ones in the Hierarchy. The names received for them are Sanaka, Sanandana, Sanat Kumara and Sanat Sujata.

The first Kumara, Sanaka, forms the passage from the supra-cosmic to the cosmic plane. In his transcendent aspect, he is also called Sanatana, the pure existence or the eternal Light; in his this-worldly aspect, he is the Kumara of the cosmic plane. His seat in us is in the Sahasrara centre; he corresponds to the state without awareness in which we are during sleep.

The second Kumara, Sanandana, corresponds to the solar plane and the pure awareness, Atma. His seat in us is in the Ajna centre. His name means deep bliss.

The Kumara best known to us is Sanat Kumara. He is the Lord or Logos of our planet and corresponds to the Buddhic plane of ideation and of the mind in the heart centre filled with love. He is considered the Teacher of the teachers and the Ruler of all rulers of the planet.

The fourth Kumara is Sanat Sujata; he corresponds to the higher mind, Chitta. He is the lower counterpart of Sanat Kumara; in us he rules over the solar plexus and the lower part of the body, and he is active for humanity.

Normally the four Kumaras are totally silent, only the third and the fourth one have taught people at special times. Sanat Kumara gave the teachings relating to the path of discipleship to the emperor Pruthu. 5000 years ago, Sanat Sujata collaborated in the preparation of the coming of Krishna and imparted the secrets of death and immortality to the Blind King. He said, “Death is only a gap in consciousness.” At that time Sanat Kumara was born as the son of Krishna, as Pradhyumna.

According to another system, Sanat Kumara is the fourth of the Kumaras and rules over the plane of action, whereas the third one governs the mind. The fifth Kumara, Narada, is the highest teacher and the messenger moving with ease through all seven planes of creation. He is the intelligence who enables us to compare things, and therefore he is also called the bringer of conflict. His blessing confers upon us the fiery will of wanting to know. The protection and the fire of the Kumaras lead us safely upwards and nothing happens haphazardly.

Sources: K.P. Kumar: The Teachings of Sanat Kumara / notes from seminars. E. Krishnamacharya: Spiritual Psychology. The World Teacher Trust - Dhanishta, Visakhapatnam, India.