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Master Jesus is the theosophical concept of Jesus in Theosophy and the Ascended Master Teachings. Portrait of Jesus, by the Theosopher and painter Hermann Schmiechen (1910) Position in the Hierarchy of Masters of the Ancient Wisdom
G. R. S. Mead. George Robert Stow Mead (22 March 1863 in London [1] – 28 September 1933 in London [1]) was an English historian, writer, editor, translator, and an influential member of the Theosophical Society, as well as the founder of the Quest Society.
Ascended masters, (or Mahatmas) in a number of movements in the theosophical tradition [1] are held to be spiritually enlightened beings who in past incarnations were ordinary humans, but who have undergone a series of spiritual transformations originally called initiations. Both mahatma and ascended master are terms used in the Ascended Master ...
The movement believes in the existence of a group called the "ascended masters", a hierarchy of supernatural beings that includes the original theosophical masters such as Jesus Christ, El Morya Khan, Maitreya, and in addition several dozen more beyond the original 20 Masters of the Ancient Wisdom of the original theosophists as described by ...
Central to Theosophical belief is the idea that a group of spiritual adepts known as the Masters not only presently exist but were responsible for producing early Theosophical texts. [38] For most Theosophists, these Masters are deemed the real founders of the modern Theosophical movement. [ 39 ]
The first mention of Maitreya in a Theosophical context occurs in the 1883 work Esoteric Buddhism by Alfred Percy Sinnett (1840–1921), an early Theosophical writer. [1] The concepts described by Sinnett were amended, elaborated, and greatly expanded in The Secret Doctrine (published 1888), a major work by Helena Blavatsky (1831–1891), a founder of the Theosophical Society and contemporary ...
This is a list of theosophical glossaries. Some important theosophical glossaries are the Theosophical Glossary by Helena Blavatsky, first published in 1892; the Encyclopedic Theosophical Glossary by Gottfried de Purucker; and the Collation of Theosophical Glossaries.
The count, also sometimes referred to as Master Rákóczi or Master R, is seen as a legendary spiritual master of the ancient wisdom in various Theosophical and post-Theosophical teachings, said to be responsible for the New Age culture of the Age of Aquarius and identified with the Count Saint Germain (fl. 1710–1784), who has been variously ...