Sanat Kumara

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rdf:langString According to the post-1900 publications of theosophy, Sanat Kumara is an "Advanced Being" at the Cosmic level of initiation who is regarded as the "Lord" or "Regent" of Earth and of humanity. He is thought to be the head of the Spiritual Hierarchy of Earth who dwells in Shamballah (also known as 'The City of Enoch'). According to the adherents to the Ascended Master Teachings, Shamballah is a floating city manifested on the etheric plane somewhere above the Gobi Desert in the borderlands of Mongolia. Sanat Kumara is a mythical religious figure often referred to as an advanced human master with a consciousness far evolved from a human master as a master human is from an animal. His consciousness, age and experience of cosmic and interplanetary life and deity far exceeds that of a human master. In Theosophy, the Great White Brotherhood is a spiritual "fraternity" of Ascended Beings, which was founded by and is still directed by Sanat Kumara. Presently he is supported in his role as the head of planet Earth and of Shamballah by a number of Avatars, most notably Buddha and Maitreya. According to Elizabeth Van Buren, the Brotherhood once maintained (earthly) headquarters hidden in a remote valley near a sacred lake in old Tibet, until relatively recently, when, possibly due to the surmised threat of Communist China, they withdrew, allegedly through tunnels to an alternative earthly location in Peru, where they are still reported as having an earth base (circa 1985). These authors believe that Sanat Kumara is the founder of this Great White Brotherhood, which is composed of Masters of the Ancient Wisdom (called in the Ascended Master Teachings Ascended Masters) and volunteers from other worlds who have joined to advance spiritual evolution on Earth.