- Office
- World Teacher, an office he shares with the Master Sananda
- Ray
- Second Ray of wisdom, which he formerly served as Chohan
- Color
- Golden yellow
- Origin
- Said in some teachings to have come to Earth from Venus
- Etheric retreat
- The Cathedral of Nature, above Kashmir
- Keynote
- Know yourself, and be kind to what you find
Kuthumi holds the office of World Teacher. He was for a long period the Chohan of the Second Ray, and when he was raised to his present office the care of that ray passed to Lord Lanto. His task now is the spiritual education of humanity as a whole.
He is known as the master psychologist. No one understands better how a soul comes to be divided against itself, or how gently it must be handled if it is to become whole. His manner is kind, humorous and unhurried.
Legend and Embodiments
The teachings say that Kuthumi was among those who came to Earth from Venus in the company of Sanat Kumara. His remembered lives share a single thread: he is the philosopher who heard the harmony of number in the turning of the stars, the wise traveler who followed a light, the gentle friar who called the birds his sisters. In his last life he is said to have been a scholar of Kashmir who retired to the mountains, and who is still described as playing a great organ whose music reaches souls at the hour of their passing.
Service to the Ascension
As World Teacher, Kuthumi sponsors every effort to bring spiritual understanding to people in a form they can use. He overlights teachers, counselors and writers, and he has a great tenderness for children and for the child that remains within every adult.
He teaches that the unhealed places in the personality are not obstacles to ascension. They are the curriculum. Each one, met with understanding, releases light that was bound up in it. He also teaches communion with nature as a direct path, and many people first meet him out of doors.
What Kuthumi Teaches
- You cannot leave any part of yourself behind. Go back for it, kindly.
- Nature is the first scripture. Read it daily.
- The teacher you are looking for is listening through your own ears.
- Gentleness is not weakness. It is strength that has nothing to prove.
When to Call on Kuthumi
- Understanding your own patterns and reactions
- Healing the wounds of childhood
- Teaching, counseling and writing
- A deeper relationship with animals and the natural world
- Lightness of heart on a path that has grown too solemn
How to Work With Kuthumi
Go outside if you can, or sit by a window. Let your eyes rest on one living thing: a tree, a bird, a patch of sky. Ask Kuthumi to walk with you. Then bring to mind something in yourself that you find hard to accept, and regard it with the same quiet attention you are giving the tree. Understanding often comes within a few minutes.
An Invocation
Beloved Kuthumi, World Teacher,
walk beside me and teach me to know myself.
Shine your golden light on every hidden place,
and let me meet what I find with kindness.
Make me whole, and make me a teacher by example.
A Word From Kuthumi
You come asking how to be rid of the frightened one inside you. But that one is not your enemy. That one kept you alive when you had no other help. Sit down beside them. Ask what they have been guarding all this time.
It is usually something very beautiful.
Received by Ilse Varrow