Theos-Talk Archives (February 1998 Message tt00120)

In a message dated 98-02-13 01:19:54 EST, Visanu asked:

<< Can you give me more information on Brian Ross, I've read his three books
 wrote under the name David Anrias with interest. I've also read BONE OF
 CONTENTION but can't find any reference to Thomas More, how could Cyril Scott
 consider him as one of his gurus? >>

Some neo-theosophical writers (and also Alice Bailey and Douglas Baker, I
believe) refer to an "English Master" one of whose incarnations was the
Renaissance Catholic saint and martyr, Sir Thomas More. His best known work
was UTOPIA, a prophetic vision of communal democracy. This same Master seems
to have had a subsequent incarnation as the poet Robert Browning. The
"Initiate" series of books written by Cyril Scott refer to this mysterious
figure in veiled terms. There is a specific reference to an English Master (as
Sir Thomas) in Scott's THE INITIATE IN A DARK CYCLE .  I don't have access to
all my books since most of them are in storage. I remember, however, that
Cyril Scott regarded this English Master and the Master Kuthumi as his
personal gurus. Most of his communications to and from these personages were
through trance channellers. Eileen J. Garrett, the famous British medium, may
have been part of this tightly knit group of independent esotericists who
skirted the periphery of the Theosophical Movement. I think I remember her
writing something about this in her autobiography.

I don't know the details of Ross' life offhand except that he was an English
visionary artist and astrologer. He spent some years at Adyar. While there, he
went on a search for the high Adept who was/is in charge of India, referred to
by C. W. Leadbeater as the Master Jupiter. He is sometimes referred to as the
Rishi of the Nilgiri Hills. Ross claimed to have discovered Him in a place not
all that far from Madras. A portrait of Him can be found in THROUGH THE EYES
OF THE MASTERS.

Blessings
Lmhem111