Lord of the World/es

The hierarchical office of Lord of the World is vested with the highest authority of the Godhead on behalf of a planet and its evolutions. Upon the recommendation of the Lords of Karma, the one who holds this office is selected by the Solar Logoi from among those who have passed the Buddhic initiations and qualified under the laws of hierarchy as the most advanced initiates on a particular world.

The Lord of the World receives the divine blueprint for the world from the planetary Silent Watcher and guards the threefold flame on behalf of angels, elementals and men, serving to externalize the flame of the Christ in the planes of Spirit and Matter. He also focuses all of the planes of God’s consciousness, including those of the five secret rays. Having mastery in both the inner planes (the planes of the five secret or passive rays) and the outer planes (the planes of the seven color or active rays) of the Great Causal Body, he holds the balance of peace in the four lower bodies of the planet.

El Buda Gautama, el Señor del Mundo actual

El Buda Gautama ocupa el cargo de Señor del Mundo (el "Dios de la Tierra" de Apocalipsis 11:4). Recientemente sucedió a Sanat Kumara, quien había ocupado ese cargo durante decenas de miles de años. Éste es el cargo de gobierno más alto de la jerarquía espiritual para el planeta, y sin embargo el Señor Gautama es el más humilde de los Maestros Ascendidos.

A niveles internos sustenta la llama trina, la chispa divina, para aquellas corrientes de vida que han perdido el contacto directo con su propia Presencia YO SOY y que han hecho tanto karma negativo que son incapaces de magnetizar la Luz suficiente de la Divinidad para sostener la encarnación física de su alma sobre la Tierra. A través de un hilo de filigrana de luz que conecta su corazón con el corazón de todos los niños de Dios, el Señor Gautama nutre la llama titilante de la Vida que debería arder en el altar de cada corazón con una mayor intensidad de amor, sabiduría y poder, alimentada por la conciencia Crística de cada uno.

Sanat Kumara, el Señor del Mundo anterior

El Buda Gautama recibió el manto de Señor del Mundo el 1 de enero de 1956 de Sanat Kumara, jerarca del planeta Venus, quien había ocupado el mismo cargo desde las horas más oscuras de la historia de la Tierra. Conocido como el Anciano de días, Sanat Kumara vino como voluntario a la Tierra hace miles de años, cuando los consejos cósmicos habían decretado la disolución del planeta. Tanto se había desviado la humanidad de la ley cósmica, que los Señores Solares habían decidido que no se le daría otra oportunidad a la humanidad, la cual obstinadamente había desdeñado y olvidado la Llama de Dios que está dentro del corazón. El requisito de la Ley para salvar la Tierra fue que alguien que tuviera las cualidades del "Cordero" encarnado estuviera presente en la octava física a fin de mantener el equilibrio y guardar la llama trina de la Vida por y para toda alma viviente. Sanat Kumara se ofreció para ser esa persona.

In The Opening of the Seventh Seal, Sanat Kumara tells the story of how Venusian devotees volunteered to accompany him and embody among mankind to assist in keeping the flame:

The joy of opportunity was mingled with the sorrow that the sense of separation brings. I had chosen a voluntary exile upon a dark star. And though it was destined to be Freedom’s Star, all knew it would be for me a long dark night of the soul. Then all at once from the valleys and the mountains there appeared a great gathering of my children. It was the souls of the hundred and forty and four thousand approaching our palace of light. They spiraled nearer and nearer as twelve companies singing the song of freedom, of love, and of victory.... As we watched from the balcony, Venus and I, we saw the thirteenth company robed in white. It was the royal priesthood of the Order of Melchizedek....

When all of their numbers had assembled, ring upon ring upon ring surrounding our home, and their hymn of praise and adoration to me was concluded, their spokesman stood before the balcony to address us on behalf of the great multitude. It was the soul of the one you know and love today as the Lord of the World, Gautama Buddha. And he addressed us, saying, “O Ancient of Days, we have heard of the covenant which God hath made with thee this day and of thy commitment to keep the flame of Life until some among Earth’s evolutions should be quickened and once again renew their vow to be bearers of the flame. O Ancient of Days, thou art to us our Guru, our very life, our God. We will not leave thee comfortless. We will go with thee.

Thus, they came to Earth with Sanat Kumara and legions of angels, preceded by another retinue of lightbearers who prepared the way and established the retreat of Shamballa—the City of White—on an island in the Gobi Sea (now the Gobi Desert). There Sanat Kumara anchored the focus of the threefold flame, establishing the initial thread of contact with all on Earth by extending rays of light from his heart to their own. And there the volunteers from Venus embodied in dense veils of flesh to see Earth’s evolutions through unto the victory of their vow.

The first from among these unascended lightbearers to respond to the call of the Lord of the World from the physical octave was, understandably, Gautama and close with him was Maitreya. Both pursued the path of the Bodhisattva unto Buddhahood, Gautama finishing the course “first” and Maitreya “second.” Thus the two became Sanat Kumara’s foremost disciples, the one ultimately succeeding him in the office of Lord of the World, the other as Cosmic Christ and Planetary Buddha.

Transfer of the office

At the moment of the transfer of the mantle of Lord of the World on January 1, 1956, Gautama Buddha assumed the responsibility for sustaining the lifeline to Earth’s evolutions through his own heart flame, and Sanat Kumara, as Regent Lord of the World, returned to his home star, Venus, where he maintains an intense activity of involvement with the Great White Brotherhood’s service on planet Earth.

Gautama’s former office of Cosmic Christ and Planetary Buddha was simultaneously filled by Lord Maitreya. In the same ceremony, which took place at the Royal Teton Retreat, the office of World Teacher, formerly held by Maitreya, was passed to Lord Jesus and his dear friend and disciple Saint Francis (Kuthumi). Lord Lanto took the chohanship of the second ray July 1958, which had been held by Kuthumi, and beloved Nada assumed the office of chohan of the sixth ray, which had been held by Jesus during the Piscean age of which he was also the hierarch.

Saint Germain with Portia assumed the rulership of Aquarius on May 1, 1954. While Maitreya represents the Cosmic Christ and Planetary Buddha, Jesus holds the office of the personal Christ as the great exemplar of each one’s own Holy Christ Self.

Representatives in the world

Lord Gautama presides as Hierarch of Shamballa, now on the etheric plane, to which the physical retreat has been withdrawn. Throughout the ages, the messengers of the Brotherhood, known and unknown, have held the balance in the physical octave for the flame and the Buddha of Shamballa. Thus Jesus, as the anointed messenger of Lord Maitreya, the Cosmic Christ, was the open door through his Sacred Heart for the light of the Father represented in the persons of Maitreya, Gautama, and Sanat Kumara to be anchored in the hearts of the multitudes of Earth’s people.

The Lord Jesus Christ defined his office in the physical octave according to cosmic law when he said: “As long as I AM in the world, the I AM that I AM, the Word which I incarnate, is the Light of the world.” It was this anchoring of the Light of the I AM Presence in his heart chakra that enabled Jesus to take upon himself planetary karma, “the sins of the world,” in order that souls of Light might follow him on the path of Christhood until they, too, should bear in their body temples the Light of the Son of God.

See also

Gautama Buddha

Sanat Kumara

Sources

Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, The Masters and the Spiritual Path, chapter 4.

Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Saint Germain On Alchemy: Formulas for Self-Transformation.