Masters of Wisdom

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The Masters of Wisdom are said to be enlightened beings living largely on the etheric plane of Earth.

Starting in 1875 the Theosophists Helena Blavatsky, Henry Steel Olcott, and Alfred Percy Sinnett claimed to have met some of these great teachers in the remote areas of Tibet and India.

Although these spiritual adepts have remained largely unknown in the West, they have long been referred to in esoteric writings as "The Brothers" (i.e., the Elder Brothers of the Human Race), "The Mahatmas", "The Lords of Compassion" and "The Masters of Wisdom".

These "spiritually illumined men...are known historically, among others, as Hercules, Hermes, Rama, Mithra, Vyasa, Krishna, Confucius, Zoroaster, Shankaracharya, the Buddha, Christ, Mohammed.

Helena Blavatsky was the one who re-introduced the New Testament Greek study of Theosophy or "Divine Wisdom" to the West, and presented it not as a distinct religion, but a science.

(Aspects of it came not merely from the 3rd Century Philaletheian philosophers, who had studied both sacred religious texts and yogic practices in India, but also from Neo-Platonists who belonged to diverse religions, and an Egyptian priest named Pot-Amun who lived during the Ptolemaic Dynasty.)

Since its inception, the motto adopted by the Theosophical Society has been, "There is no religion higher than Truth."

Theosophists' chief aims have always been to unite diverse people through a pursuit of ethics and irrefutable, underlying principles.

In this manner, they focus not merely on fostering human development and freedom of thought but also promote peace.

There is no more fertile source for hatred and strife than religious differences. When one party or another thinks of himself as the sole possessor of absolute truth, it becomes only natural that he should think his neighbour absolutely in the clutches of Error or the Devil...Expand that idea, carry it out to a universal application, and you will soon find out that in true philosophy every physical action has its moral and everlasting effect. Hurt a man by doing him harm; you may think that his pain and suffering cannot spread by any means to his neighbours, least of all to men of other nations. We affirm that it will, in good time. Therefore we say, that unless every man is brought to understand and accept as an axiomatic truth that by wrongdoing one man that we wrong not merely ourselves but the whole of humanity in the long run, no brotherly teachings such as preached by all the great Reformers, pre-eminently by Buddha and Jesus, are possible on earth.^[7]

Two of the Masters of Wisdom, Kuthumi (K.H.) and Morya (M.), were said to have agreed to maintain a correspondence with two British Theosophists, Alfred P. Sinnett and A. O. Hume, from 1880 to 1885. The originals of these letters are currently being housed in the British Library in London and were published as the Mahatma Letters.

After Blavatsky's death, Alice A. Bailey, Helena Roerich, Manly P. Hall and Benjamin Creme continued to write about (and telepathically to receive information from) certain Masters of Wisdom. Their deeply layered yet decipherable writings have permitted esoteric and occult Theosophy (which is also referred to as the Ageless Wisdom Teachings) to have become more widely known over time.^[8]