Extra terrestrial intelligences

Man and current humanity living on Earth consider life as anything that can be perceived and grasped with contemporary mundane waking consciousness and the physical senses. This assumes that intelligent life can only be of a physical form and substance. However life in the solar system and cosmos beyond the Earth contains life in many different forms, and at various levels of development.

This topic page groups a number of statements by initiates such as Daskalos, Sri M, Helena Blavatsky about extra terrestrial intelligences, more advanced than current humanity, and their interaction with humanity in the context of the development of Man on Earth.

Aspects

disclaimer: Some topics have an extraordinary potential for causing sensation, quite irrespective of their importance in an overall understanding of spiritual scientific matters. Because they stand at a tangent of the contemporary worldview of materialistic mineral science, they can easily be ridiculed as they defy the limited understanding of world and cosmos by the contemporary materialistic worldview. Furthermore these topics are bound to inspire wild phantasies in popular media that are difficult to qualify or distinguish from genuine stories by initiates.
main sources
- Daskalos as quoted by Markides in 'The magus of Strovolos' (MoS, 1985) and 'Homage to the Sun' (HTS, 1987)
- Sri M in his books 'Apprenticed to a Himalayan Master' (AHM, 2010) and 'The Journey Continues (TJC, 2017)
- Rudolf Steiner describes the higher beings on Earth in the Polarian and Hyperborean epochs, also the divine nature of the leadership of mankind since the Lemurian epoch. See more on the Three classes of Buddhas (oa Schema FMC00.313). These advanced beings are described of being at the level of archai or archangels and linked to the planetary spheres Venus and Mercury. Also, only in the future, "the sixth epoch will have the first beings that arose from humanity itself and that will lead humanity as Manu. This is a transition from the divine leaders to the human masters".
higher divine beings and guidance of humanity on Earth - contemplate the potential relation or correlation between the following:
- the description given by Sri M's guru Sri Maheshwarnath Babaji (see quote below, Sri M - TJC - Ch. 10)
  - extract (SWCC): ".. advanced extra-terrestrial visitors came to Earth .. from a planet in a constellation many light years away ... seven 'Sapta Rishis' landed on the summit of the Kailash peak .. to teach a selected few the knowledge that had to be imparted .. these great beings were androgynous .. two of them died because they could not adjust to the new environment .. and were mummified to be viewed by special individuals from future generations"
- the 'coming of the Lords of Venus' in the Lemurian epoch, as described by Helena Blavatsky (see Ch. 34 in The Solar system by Powell)
extra-terrestrial intelligences as described by Daskalos in relationship with beings from Mars, and what humans experience as flying saucers; synthetic extracts (SWCC) from the quotes below:
- ".. extraterrestrials who visit us may be .. from other solar systems and .. visit us .. to .. help us evolve. They appear like flying saucers as a way of expressing themselves to us in a material form that we can understand. When they enter our system they gather matter from our planet and appear with the known human form characteristic of our planet .. When Martians comes to Earth and arrive in the ionosphere of the Earth they creates, by thought, whatever they desire. The objects created often appear to us as flying saucers."
- ".. those intelligences are more advanced and are masters of matter, they can materialize and dematerialize themselves at will. If he decides to materialize on Earth, he assumes the shape of a human being .. but they are not bound to a place by a body .. the body is more like a house, and as an entity he gets in and out with as much ease as we enter and leave our homes. "
beings called 'Nagas' from a planet called 'Sarpa Loka'
- extract (SWCC): "when humanity was still in infant stages of evolution .. the wise and evolved Nagas from Sarpa Loka frequented the Earth and spent long periods here, teaching and educating human beings" .. "The snake worship you come across in all ancient civilizations is a tribute to the advanced Nagas of yore ... Patanjali .. was himself a Naga, and is depicted as half man and half snake."
- for an overview of serpent worship in ancient traditions and religions worldwide, see Alexander Wilder (1877) in the 'Further reading' section below
high spiritual beings known by humanity as 'one of them' with given human names, but in fact not of human origin
- White Lodge#.5B2.5D - Sri Guru .28or Mahavatar Babaji.29. Sri M states clearly this is a spiritual being of a higher nature, and eternal, not a human spirit incarnated into a physical body.
- Daskalos states "some superintelligences are here on Earth among other human beings, looking and moving like ordinary people .. it is possible that when such a superintelligence comes down he acquires a name" .. and goes on to describe Saint Paul. See also Schema FMC00.430.

Illustrations

Lecture coverage and references

Rudolf Steiner

Whereas Rudolf Steiner does not explicitly name extra-terrestrial beings, he refers to the divine super-human teachers of mankind coming in many lectures. Below are just a few quotes (of the very many) with references to the source pages.

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is a lecture on cosmology and the planets. At the end of the lecture Rudolf Steiner comments:

These indications have to be considered with certain pre-conditions. A lot has come to our knowledge through tradition. Even the Masters only know certain things though the fact that records are available from times when these things were still known. In the middle of the Lemurian epoch the great teachers came, so we can know something from the Dhyani-Chohans. The Secret Doctrine has been created on the basis of these records. Originally it were only the Dzyan stanzas. These were available in extremely old notes, and were only accessible under very special conditions.

Note, earlier in this lecture is described how the beings of Venus and Mercury are ahead of Earth development and are working in the whole solar system, and how they became teachers in the Lemurian epoch when the Earth needed this influence.

more on: Book of Dzyan#1903-12-22-GA090A

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The arhats are highly developed beings that, whenever they incarnate, stand much higher than any normal human being. They have the capability to live in the higher planes and communicate there, also receive orders there. Hence these were messengers of the gods, kings and leaders of humanity. At most they could attract a few men to them, but overall the rest of men were guided rather unconsciously. This lasted throughout the Atlantean epoch.
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The Rishis were the first initiated Men, all the ones before were gods that had descended. Now a new phenomena occured with new beings: initiates that origine from Earth development itself .. and that could become leaders. .. Since then these have incarnated again and again, and are now called Masters. The sixth epoch will have the first beings that arose from humanity itself and that will lead humanity as Manu. This is a transition from the divine leaders to the human masters (or mahatmas).

more on: Three classes of Buddhas#1904-09-06-GA091

Schema FMC00.313

on Three classes of Buddhas

Powell - The solar system (1930)

Below are just a few sentences quoted from Ch. 34 'coming of the Lords of Venus', as described by Helena Blavatsky

We come now to describe the most dramatic moment in the history of the Earth -the Coming of the Lords of the Flame; an event for which long preparations had been made.
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A great astrological event, when a very special collocation of planets occurred and the magnetic condition of the Earth was the most favourable possible, was chosen as the time ...
Then, ”with the mighty roar of swift descent from incalculable heights; surrounded by blazing masses of fire which filled the sky with shooting tongues of flame, flashed through the aerial spaces the chariot of the Sons of the Fire, the Lords of the Flame from Venus; it halted, hovering over the White Island, which lay in the Gobi Sea; green was it, and radiant with masses of fragrant blossoms, Earth offering her best and fairest to welcome her coming King” -the great Being known as the King of the World, the Sanat Kumâra, with his three Assistants, and the remainder of His band of helpers.
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The Lords of the Flame arrived on the Earth about the middle of the third Root-Race, after the separation of the sexes. Diagram XL illustrates the Coming in its relation to other events.
[ see Schema FMC00.457 on Lemurian epoch]
It is part of the plan of the Logos that at a certain stage in its evolution humanity must begin to guide itself, instead of being dependent upon entities from other evolutions. Therefore all future Buddhas, Manus and Adepts will be members of our own humanity, the Lords from Venus having gone on to other worlds.

Daskalos - HTS, Ch. 7 Visitors

Quote A gives a general introductory statement on other beings, quote B gives a description with further details, and quote C describes a concrete encounter Daskalos had in 1969.

quote A - general

The universe within which we live, is full of life forms and more intelligent than the ones with which we are familiar. We are not alone in the universe. Higher intelligences are overseeing the evolution of our planet. They are like guardians of our planet and some of us are in communication with them.
In earlier encounters I had with Daskalos, he described to me at some length how he encountered such beings, that according to him were theosized beings unencumbered by time and space who were masters of matter and were able to materialize and dematerialize themselves.
I confessed to Daskalos that I found such stories of 'extraterrestrials' too unbelievable for my humble brain and that .. I had difficulties reconciling the superb logical consistency and wisdom in his overall scheme of things and such 'wild' arguments about intelligent beings
...
Therefore, we should not expect to discover life in other planets the way we understand it and the way it is expressed on our Earth. Life is everywhere and not only in environments known to us. .. even the sun itself is full of life, and organized life at that. Don't you think it is rather egotistical to expect life to express itself always in the manner with which it is expressed on our planet? Just keep in mind that orthodox science has yet to explain or cope with such simple phenomena as fire-walking, telepathy or even clairvoyance. They are beginning to acknowledge them as phenomena but they can't explain them. And they still cannot understand how so-called UFOs travel with such high velocity and appear and disappear instantly. If orthodox science cannot do that, how can we assume that, because the conditions as we know them on Earth do not exist on Mars, therefore there is no life there?
Ultimately, in our own evolution, we will also become liberated from the necessity of gross matter and of the natural environment on Earth as we know it. Gross matter will no longer be an obstacle to us. We wouldn't, for example, need oxygen so that we could breathe. We would be able to travel instantly into the very depths of the Earth and inside the sun, if you will, without being affected by the element of fire. By then we would have become masters over the elements. Therefore, when we travel to the other planets of our solar system and we search for life as we know it, we will never find it. Those intelligences are more advanced, they are masters of matter. They dress themselves with gross matter at will. They have a shape similar to ours, they are human beings who have passed through the Idea of Man and, yes, they do have organized societies.
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[these entities] are assisting those of us who are at lower levels of evolution. Pay attention, not every being within our solar system is on the same level of evolution. Those who are at higher levels help those below to evolve. And when every entity attains the stage of Theosis then our solar system will have no purpose to exist. It will, sooner or later, disintegrate. Note that not all planets of our solar system are at the same level of evolution. For example, the entities on Mars may be of the highest stage of development. They may be residing within the noetic counterpart of that planet. Consequently, they could travel anywhere within our solar system and even beyond it into other solar systems and galaxies.

Those extraterrestrials who visit us may be, therefore, from other solar systems and they visit us in order to challenge us and help us evolve. They appear like flying saucers as a way of expressing themselves to us in a material form that we can understand. When they enter our system they gather matter from our planet and appear with the known human form characteristic of our planet.

quote B

At my probing Daskalos revealed that he communicated telepathically with beings that reside on Mars. Although, he said, it was possible for him to visit them he had neither the desire nor the reason to do so.
You can go there by travelling with incredible speed, using only the noetic body. It takes about an hour to arrive there, but you can return in fifteen minutes. Your body draws you back much more quickly. Only a master who has gone beyond the noetic world and entered into the world of meanings and ideas can visit other planets. As for myself, it is here on this Earth that I have been assigned to teach, and here will I come to teach again.
.. Daskalos added that although he had never visited Mars, he coordinated himself with beings on that planet and learned a great deal about them.
...
Do they have a gross material body?
Sometimes they do, but it is different from ours. The human beings that live on Mars are much superior to ourselves. They are masters of matter. They can materialize and dematerialize themselves at will. Their material body looks like two triangles, of the head and of the chest. The waist is very small and the hands and legs resemble ours. Their heart differs from ours and their blood is very thick and has the color of honey. Their body is not complex and even though they have a circulatory system, they have few arteries and veins. Our blood takes thirteen minutes to circulate. In the body of a Martian it takes an entire day. The deterioration of their body does not proceed at the same tempo as ours.
The body of a Martian is more like a house to him. As an entity he gets in and out with as much ease as we enter and leave our homes. His body makes very few movements and he uses it as if it were his workshop. Martians are not bound to a place nor are they enchanted by it the way we are.
When a Martian comes to Earth he leaves his body behind. His blood continues to circulate but the tenant is absent. When he arrives at the ionosphere of the Earth he creates, by thought, whatever he desires. The objects created often appear to us as flying saucers.
If he decides to materialize on Earth, he assumes the shape of a human being, sometimes wearing clothes that seem to be an extension of his body. What creates this impression is the concentrated etheric energy. He may also appear dressed like us, wearing a suit for example. He can shape matter at will. He can absorb ideas and meanings by coordinating himself with the thought of humans on Earth and, through the power of visual imagery, he can materialize and look like them. He may then sit in a coffee shop, have a drink and speak the local language. Since he can coordinate himself with human thought, he can know whatever humans know.
If that is the case, then they must know what is happening on Earth.
They certainly do. Why do you think they visit us?
Do they have any influence over our planet?
They must so that we may not destroy it again. They have always visited our planet through the centuries and humans have seen them as angels or gods. I would say they are eternal beings like ourselves but on a higher stage of evolution. They have transcended the idea of Evil.
How is it that we have not discovered them as yet?
Who told you they are not in contact with a lot of us?
...

Do you think it is easy to discuss these matters publicly? But I am telling you .. I have come into contact with such beings .. I am now in contact with them ... I know a lot of things about them and there is nothing I know that they do not know through coordination. Who is going to believe me? Who is going to accept what I say?

quote C

Daskalos then narrated an experience he had had with such beings ... this took place in 1969.
I felt them coming. I was out of my body and I came near their spaceship which was roving over my house. The beings inside sent me a message urging me to return to my body because the spaceship could burn my etheric. When I returned I heard a neighbor, an old woman, screaming that the Turks were coming. She saw the spaceship, which looked like an expanding and contracting ball of light, and assumed that the Turks were attacking. I tried to calm her down and explained to her, in vain, that it was not the Turks but a UFO with beings from outer space. I went inside and then the UFO disappeared.
They returned late that night. Two of them materialized in my house. They looked like men. They explained to me that they could take on the characteristics of the beings of the planet. They wore silvery suits and it was hard to distinguish their outfits from their skin. When I touched them I felt as if I had touched a snake. We communicated by thought. They entered into my aura and at that moment they knew everything I knew.
My late wife, who was present, offered them some baklava which she had just baked. They spat it out the moment they put it in their mouths. It was too bitter for them. There was too much earth in what we gave them, they said. They then demonstrated for us how they nourished themselves. We turned the lights off and they drew cosmic light that brightened the entire room. They were absorbing it into their bodies.
Before leaving they told us that it was their wish not to make their existence known to the public as yet.
Do these extraterrestrial beings have families like us?
I believe so.
I asked whether they bore children like humans, and whether they reproduced themselves through sexual contact.
This I do not know. They may reproduce themselves differently. They act through thought and attract one another through love. That is how they are born. In our case the reproductive process is the domain of the Holy Spirit without our conscious participation. These Martian entities, on the other hand, are masters of their bodies. They know and control whatever is happening to it.
Do they die?
No. They dissolve their bodies and create new ones.' They are eternal gods. Of course we are gods, too. But they have reached the stage of Theosis. They are Logoi who live an archangelic existence of their own. They can, for example, descend to the center of the Earth and acquire the appearance of the angels of fire. They can also penetrate another element and assume the image of the idea of that element.

... It appears .. that only a few have or use a gross material body.'

Daskalos - MoS, Ch. 10 The Guardians of Planet Earth

quote A

When Daskalos came out of his trance once more, he continued .. to narrate his experiences with the extraterrestrials.
I just saw three flying saucers. The entities inside communicated with me ... they invited me to move onto their side and observe their work. These entities are really advanced. They live in the higher noetic world and have no form. They asked me to abandon the image of myself and join them . ...
Now I must leave behind the image of myself and ascend formless with only my self-awareness.
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"We are the guardians of garden Earth," they said. "Your Earth is like a nursery school of noisy infants."...
They seemed as if they were working in groups which gave me the impression of flying saucers. I asked them whether they in fact were flying saucers but they seemed to ignore my question. Their response instead was that they are 'space people' .. they live around our planet.
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I communicated with these beings by coordinating myself with them. I was inside them and they were inside me. I expressed a wish to meet them again and invited them to come down to Earth. They refused. They preferred, they said, to watch us from afar. "You know the way, come and meet us here," they replied. Perhaps it is not pleasant for them to visit the Earth. When I was about to return to my body they advised me, "Come pass through us so that you may go down rested." I felt very relaxed after that. They truly love us.
Daskalos expressed his amazement and ruminated upon the nature of these superintelligences.
I felt as if they were a form of light with vibrating intensity. They are innumerable.
There was a pause as Daskalos pondered over his experience. ..

I was receiving their thoughts and I could understand them. I had the impression that whatever I knew they knew.

quote B - another encounter

I asked Daskalos whether he had any prior contacts with extraterrestrial beings other than those he encountered while working on Skylab.
`Yes,' he said, and began to narrate another encounter he had had with such a being some time in the past.
I felt him somewhere near Petra Tou Romiou [a spot on the southern shore where, according to Homeric legend, Aphrodite was born. According to Daskalos it is one of the energy or magnetic centers of the planet]. I was in exomatosis with lacovos and Theophanis. After I escorted them back to their bodies I returned to the same place in search of him.
"But I have seen you," I muttered, "where are you?"
"I am inside you," he whispered. "I am inside you so that we can have a common center for communication. How would you like me to give you some experiences? Spread out," he commanded me.
"I can do this," I responded.
"I know that you can do it, but now it is going to be through a different method."
"What do you mean?"

"Just wait and you will see." For a moment I felt everything was inside me and that I spread over a large area. "Become the pulsation of Life. Forget who you are."

quote C - some higher beings have names, ex. Saint Paul

Daskale, I asked, have you met any of these superintelligences here on Earth, among other human beings?
You mean while walking in the street?
Yes. Several. They move and look like ordinary people. I can spot them through their aura and communicate with them through thought. One day I was walking on Ermou Street right in the heart of the bazaar. It was the first time I encountered such a being.
Did he have a name?
It is possible that when such a superintelligence comes down he acquires a name. The one I met is a great master. The Logos blinded him temporarily when he appeared in front of him like fire. Now do you understand who I am talking about?
Iacovos nodded affirmatively but it required further probing on my part to realize to whom he was referring. `Was he a Cypriot?' I asked rather naively.

No, Daskalos replied lowering his voice. He was Saint Paul who in his present incarnation lives as Father Hilarion down in the Sudan. Some friends of mine met him there. He materializes and dematerializes like a great master.

Sri M - TJC - Ch. 10 'Travelling Free: My Out of Body experiences'

Regular text is Sri M writing, italics are the words of Sri M's master, called Sri Maheshwarnath Babaji, in short 'Babaji'

.. Babaji said: This .. first successful out-of-body trip was entirely due to your effort. .. But coming here and seeing me would not have been possible if I did not want it to happen. As a matter of fact, I willed you to come here for an important purpose and therefore opened the barrier I normally use to shield myself from astral travellers.
.. This Lama is the caretaker for a series of caves not far from here, where relics, left by extra-terrestrial visitors who came to earth many thousands of years ago, are preserved. They came from a planet in a constellation many light years away.
They were deputed by still further advanced extra-terrestrial beings to teach earthlings certain yogic and scientific secrets including the primary principles of language. They landed on the summit of the Kailash peak and then moved towards the caves where you will presently go. The Bonpos of pre-Buddhist Tibet have a belief that their founder descended from heaven on to Mount Kailash. This mythology of theirs is based on the arrival of these advanced extraterrestrials.
Seven of them, the Sapta Rishis, landed here. After teaching a selected few the knowledge that had to be imparted, the Sapta Rishis prepared to return but their space craft developed a snag. They had to stay for a while, until help came from their realm.
Two of the advanced extra-terrestrials died, because they could not adjust to the new environment. Eventually, the mechanics who arrived set the aerial vehicle right and they departed leaving behind their dead. The dead Sapta Rishis were now perfectly mummified to be viewed by special individuals from future generations. You will see all that when I take you there. I have taken permission from the venerable Lama. ...
Babaji then lay down on his folded blanket and in no time his subtle body was beside me. His physical body was left under the Lama’s care. We travelled together passing through ruins of a city and reached a series of caves hidden well by cliffs and ruins. We entered a tunnel that looked like bomb shelters built by the Japanese in the Andaman Islands during World War II. Soon we reached a large circular cave with small passages leading to smaller caves. It was lit by a beautiful cool violet light that came from a cavity on the roof. A number of strange devices were placed in glass containers all along the walls of the cave.
The violet light, is powered by nuclear energy and left here by the visitors from outer space. The technology used is yet undiscovered by our scientists. It is supposed to be lit for another one hundred years, after which the intensity may reduce.

Babaji pointed out to the various microscope and telescope like devices in the glass cases and explained about them. They were all precision instruments brought by the extra-terrestrials for various purposes.

In a small vacuum container were little white cubes. These are nuggets made of a special material that are packed with super-nutritional substances. The great beings brought them along. A small bit of it diluted in a glass of water, is enough to sustain their bodies for a hundred years or more. Unfortunately, the cells of human bodies are not capable of absorbing such high doses of nutrition and will in fact begin to multiply, if ingested, faster than the fastest cancerous cells known to humankind and lead to disaster.

In a fairly big container were flat discs made of a white shiny material. Something like Egyptian hieroglyphs were engraved on them. Babaji explained that these were codes which, when decoded with the help of special devices not yet perfected by mankind, will reveal information about outer space realms and civilizations and the story of many previous visits by extra-terrestrials. They would also describe those rare instances, when specially developed humans were taken to these far space realms and brought back after awakening special centres in their brains, which distinguished them from ordinary human beings in many ways.

In another circular container, were two large flat discs, which Babaji indicated were the two super magnets from the aerial vehicle of the extra-terrestrials. It was because these discs had malfunctioned that they had to remain for a long time on Earth waiting for replacements from their home planet. Babaji said that the magnets were so powerful, even now, that they were kept in a special insulated container.

Finally, he took me into one of the passages that led to an enclosure. Inside were two glass coffins that contained perfectly mummified bodies of the two beings that had expired due to being unable to withstand the changed environment on earth. They were almost ten feet in height, were fair in complexion, almost milk white and had beautiful features. One could not say if they were male or female. Their faces and bodies were absolutely hairless and wrinkle free. They had thick, brown shoulder length hair and wore ornaments that seemed to be made of gold and diamonds. Babaji said: These great beings were androgynous. The Ardhanareeswara concept, where Shiva is depicted as half-male and half-female, comes from this. They possessed the reproductive organs of both sexes in one body.

“Whatever can be revealed to you at this point has been done,” said Babaji. “No more now. It is time to go. ...

Sri M - AHM

quote A from Ch. 29

[the event]
On the third night at Arundhati cave, I was woken up by what I at first thought was the rumbling of thunder. I opened my eyes and saw Babaji in his usual sitting posture, back towards me, silhouetted by the light of the Dhuni. I looked beyond, and from between two parting clouds, emerged something that was roughly the size of a full moon, but could not be the moon. Instead of the cool, silvery, white light shed by the moon, this object was a glowing ball of fire, and as it moved closer the rumbling became louder. Then it came towards the cave and landed right on the Dhuni, with the sound of a thunderclap.
I was so scared that I could not even sit up, but Babaji sat upright like a statue, unaffected and unmoved. I wanted to call out to him, but my vocal chords refused to function. Somehow, I pulled myself up to a sitting position. My whole body trembled with fear.
A strange spectacle unfolded before my astounded eyes. The rumbling had stopped and there was utter silence. The fireball, which was about two feet in diameter, split vertically into two, and out of it emerged something that caused goose pimples all over my body. It was a large snake, with a hood like a cobra, glowing electric blue, as if made of a transparent, violet, glass like material, with electric filaments lit inside. The snake-like creature’s eyes glowed, and it hissed softly.
My fear vanished the moment I saw the creature bend down and touch Babaji’s feet with its hood. Babaji blessed it by touching its head with his right hand, and then did something, which for a second, made me wonder if what I was seeing was a silly dream, or reality. He hissed in reply.
The blue cobra straightened up and sat facing Babaji. A hissing conversation went on for quite some time. Then Babaji said, “Madhu, come forward and see the deputy chief of the Sarpa Loka.” I moved forward and carefully sat behind Babaji. The snake hissed. Babaji said, “Bow down to Nagaraj.” I bowed low before the snake. At close quarters, I could see that he was quite big and had intelligent sparkling eyes. The snake hissed and touched my head with his forked tongue. I found that I was not the least bit frightened, although I could feel a mild electric shock passing through my body.
Then abruptly, it slithered back into the globe, the two halves of which clicked shut, and with a rumbling sound, the globe took off and soon vanished in the clouds.

[explanation]
I could not but ask Babaji to explain. “Babaji,” I said, “I deserve an explanation. If I said this to anybody, they would think I am utterly crazy, or that I am concocting some kind of fiction, so I shall keep this to myself. But please, explain to me.”
Babaji said:
Yes, you are right. Not many will believe this experience of yours but you will have to share it with the public, when you write your autobiography. It does not matter who believes or does not, but I will explain to you. Truth is often stranger than fiction.
In the Milky Way, there exists a stellar system with seven planets and eighteen moons. One of these planets is called Sarpa Loka, and is entirely inhabited by highly evolved, hooded snakes. The serpents are called the Naga devatas. The person you saw is the deputy chief of this realm and he is called Nagaraja. The supreme head of the Nagas is the five-hooded golden serpent, known in ancient Indian texts, as Anantha.
Thousands of years ago, when humanity was still in infant stages of mental evolution, there was regular contact with Sarpa Loka. The wise and evolved Nagas frequented the earth, and spent long periods here, teaching and educating human beings.
The snake worship you come across in all ancient civilizations is a tribute to the advanced Nagas of yore. Their images were venerated for the deep wisdom that they possessed. They also taught the secret of the kundalini energy initially, again symbolized by a serpent. Patanjali who gave the world the Ashtanga Yoga Sutras, was himself a Naga, and is depicted as half man and half snake. The snake on the pharaoh’s head and the snake coiled around the yogi-god Shiva, are all symbolic representations of wisdom and power, imparted to certain human beings by the Naga teachers.
But then, as always seems to happen, human beings, as they became more powerful, began to also become more self-centred and cunning. Humans, or at least a majority of them, were ready to even kill for personal gain. Some felt threatened by the intellectually and spiritually superior Nagas, and forgetting their indebtedness, began to use the powers that they had acquired from the Nagas against them.
At one point, there were large scale massacres of the Nagas. The Supreme Naga Chief decided to recall the Nagas from Earth, and cut all connections, except with some human beings who were highly evolved spiritually. Overnight, they were transported back to Sarpa Loka. A small number of Nagas, who were either sick or too old, or in rare cases, rebels who defied the orders of the Supreme Chief thinking that they still could do something with the human beings, got left behind.
The serpents and snakes that exist in the world today are the descendents of those who were leftbehind, and who, through years of in-breeding, have become retarded, and no longer possess the great qualities of their ancestors. However, as I told you, the channels of contact were kept open with highly evolved beings of the human race.
[Sai Nath of Shirdi]
When the great Sai Nath of Shirdi left his body for three days, and returned on the fourth day, to the great astonishment of the general public who had thought that he had died, he told his close circle of associates that he had gone to settle a dispute in some other world.
The other world he spoke of, was the Sarpa Loka. The dispute, which I cannot reveal to you, was not completely settled, and has come up again. Nagaraj here went to Sri Guru for help, and on his suggestion, came to me to discuss the matter.
“Babaji,” I said, “all this sounds so bizarre, that if I ever wrote a biography – which I might do, at some point, since you say so, the readers would either dismiss it as the ravings of an unbalanced mind, or as pure fiction. I don’t care. So let it be.”
Babaji laughed, and said .. I repeat again, truth is stranger than fiction, and even if the story stimulates their imagination, there is hope that they might at some point realize that there are greater realms of consciousness which cannot be comprehended by dry logic, and currently available levels of intelligence.

However, by the time you attempt your biography, even the scientific world would have expanded its knowledge of outer space and other planets. The suspicion that life exists, or existed on other planets or stellar systems, will be strengthened by the discovery of water, and other conditions suitable for the evolution and sustenance of life forms in hitherto unsuspected parts of the cosmos. Perhaps, some unprejudiced scientist might consider it worthwhile to at least give your story the attention it deserves. Beyond that, considering the stupid attitude of dismissing anything that does not fall under the category of ‘established norms’ as unscientific, have no hope.

quote B from Ch. 45 'Babaji Leaves His Body'

for more on the being mentioned as Sri Guru, see White Lodge#.5B2.5D - Sri Guru .28or Mahavatar Babaji.29

The full moon shone brightly from a clear sky. A cool breeze was blowing. “We will wait for Sri Guru,” said Babaji.
Soon a globe of light like the one I saw at Arundhati cave appeared on the horizon. As it came close to the full moon, it looked as if there were two moons. As it hurtled towards us it became bigger. This time the landing was smooth. No thunderclap, no noise whatsoever, as it descended in front of us.
The glowing globe opened, and out stepped Sri Guru, followed by an exquisitely handsome naked man with a shining blue complexion. ..
Sri Guru said to me: You have met Nagaraj before, only this time he is in a different form. The beings of Sarpa Loka can change their forms at will ..

Discussion

[1] - The 'coming of the Lords of Venus'

Background

Helena Blavatsky, in the Secret Doctrine, describes that in a distant past, before large catastrophes occured, the area now known as the Gobi Desert was covered by water, spanning areas of China and Mongolia.

The island, where the Gobi Desert is now, was inhabited by the last remnant of the race that preceded ours. A handful of Adepts – the 'Sons of God', now called the Brahman Pitri, are called another synonym in the Chaldean Kabbalah. Tradition says, and the records of the Great Book explain that long before the days of Adam and his inquisitive wife Hewa, where we now find salt lakes and barren desert wastelands, there was a vast inland area, the sea that stretched over Central Asia, north of the proud Himalayan range and its western extensions. The sea existed until the last great ice age, when a local cataclysm, which swept the waters to the south and west, formed a real huge deserted desert and left only a certain oasis.

It also states that remnants of ancient traditions are buried under the sand

… in no other place .. there are as many traditions as around the Gobi Desert. This howling desert of quicksand was once .. the seat of one of the richest empires in the world. It is said that such wealth lurks beneath the surface, in gold, jewelry, sculptures, weapons, utensils and anything that indicates civilization, luxury and fine arts, which no existing capitals of Christendom today can show.

In this context now is to be placed the often-quoted paragraph (see Powell above):

.. with the mighty roar of swift descent from incalculable heights; surrounded by blazing masses of fire which filled the sky with shooting tongues of flame, flashed through the aerial spaces the chariot of the Sons of the Fire, the Lords of the Flame from Venus; it halted, hovering over the White Island, which lay in the Gobi Sea; green was it, and radiant with masses of fragrant blossoms, Earth offering her best and fairest to welcome her coming king” -the great Being known as the King of the World, the Sanat Kumâra, with his three assistants, and the remainder of His band of helpers.

Some sources mention other ancient Indian texts (not checked or qualified) about "the actual landing of a mysterious and intelligent being called Sunatkumâra" (meaning the 'everlasting youth') and "people with a large white star settled on an island in the Gobi Sea in 18 617 841 BC”.

Discussion note

The descriptions given by Blavatsky in the Secret Doctrine, and the references made in and to the Book of Dzyan, correlate quite well to what Sri M's guru Sri Maheshwarnath Babaji explains about androgynous super-human beings coming to Earth (see quote above Sri M - TJC - Ch. 10).

Even though Blavatsky mentions 'the White Island in the Gobi Sea', Sri Maheshwarnath Babaji mentions 'Mount Kailash'.

One could also see a correlation between the records described in this quote, and what Rudolf Steiner mentions eg in 1903-12-22-GA090A in the context of the Book of Dzyan and ancient records of the Lemurian epoch.

Mount Kailash

Mount Kailash is a 6638m high mountain in Tibet, said to be the most sacred mountain on Earth, with many connections to ancient mythology and religions. Kailasa means crystal in sanskrit, and hindu mythology states Kailasa as the abode of Lord Shiva.

The mountain looks like a pyramid from one side and like a cone from another, with the four sides facing the four directions; furthermore four rivers originate (Indus, Brahmaputra, Surlej and Karnali). Some sources call Moiunt Kailash the center of the world or the Axis Mundi.

Historical findings in the areas of the Himalaya and Gobi Desert

In popular media, the term OoP-art is used for 'out of place artifact', prehistoric objects found in various places around the world that seem to show a level of technological advancement incongruous with the times in which they were made. Ooparts often frustrate conventional scientists, delight adventurous investigators open to alternative theories, and spark debate.

Below is an example of such a finding which may or may not be related to the ancient civilizations in the area of the Himalaya and Gobi Desert.

Baigong pipes

In 1996, a remarkable discovery was made in Qinghai Province in China, on the slopes of Mount Baigong, about 40 kilometers southwest of the city Delingha. The discovery consisted of a series of metal tubes embedded in the rock.

Author Bai Yu discovered - in a pyramid-shaped outcropping on the mountain - a triangular cave, about six meters deep, that appeared to have been artificially dug, and two similar caves nearby that had collapsed and could not be entered. The three caves lead to a saltwater lake. Under the lake bed and on the shore are iron pipes ranging in size with some being as small as a toothpick, others upto 40 cm diameter

The array of manufactured metal pipes protrudes up through the floor of the cave and is embedded within its walls, one 40 cm wide. Following their path outside, Bai discovered more pipes protruding from the surface of the conical hill, and even more of them 80 meters away from the cave along the shore of the lake.

A sample of the pipe was analyzed (by the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry), constitution being 92% of common minerals and metals ( a combination of ferric oxide, silicon dioxide, and calcium oxide which are byproducts of a long interaction between iron and the surrounding sandstone), and 8% of unknown composition. Further thermoluminescence dating analysis of samples in 2001 (by the Beijing Institute of Geology) estimated the pipes to be some 140-150.000 years old.

Some articles:

Baigong pipes: wikipedia page and Brittanica page
two articles of June 2002: article 1 and article 2
further unqualified popular sources: article 3 and article 4

Related pages

References and further reading

Alexander Wilder (1823-1899) as editor, re-publishing (1877) of two treatises:
- Hyde Clarke (1815-1895): 'Serpent and siva worship and mythology in Central America, Africa and Asia'
- C. Staniland Wake (1835-1910): 'The origin of serpent worship' (originally published in 1872)