The Tibetan Master, Djwhal Khul: His Picture and It's History

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The Tibetan Master, Djwhal Khul: His Picture and it’s History
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It was decided to publicly release this colour image of DK, as it has already ‘leaked out’ onto
the internet from sources to whom it was privately loaned. Originally, it was going to be
published with permission, in an updated edition of Masters of the Seven Rays, now deferred
to a later date.
Hence, I thought it best to release a higher quality picture than that which is currently online,
but more importantly, include some explanation about it. The DK picture is from one of five
paintings made in the 1930’s. The original of this particular painting was in the possession of
one of the principals of The School for Esoteric Studies in North Carolina, USA, and was passed
on to the SES for safekeeping.
The SES has a particular lineage with two of its founders participating in some of DK’s
experimental groups in the 1940’s, namely ‘RSU’ and ‘FCD’ – Regina Keller and Roberto
Assagioli. These groups of aspirants and disciples are discussed in the two books, Discipleship
in the New Age (Volumes I & II), by Alice A. Bailey.
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My original concern for releasing this image on the internet was that it might be mis-used and
create alot of unnecessary comment and fuss. (That still might be the case!)
The Tibetan Master, Djwhal Khul (D.K.)

(From a painting by Annie Gowland, 1931. Occult rumour has it that DK said this image
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rapidly approaching year of 2025. (That’s just 4 years away!)
Also, it is worth bearing in mind, the subject of images and their illusory nature. The picture
viewed here is from the period of the nineteenth to twentieth centuries when Djwhal Khul was
incarnate in a Tibetan body and was the abbot of a certain Lamasery.
Who knows what body He inhabits now, or has appropriated as a “mayavirupa” (“body of
illusion”)? Students need to be aware of the pitfalls in creating an ‘idol’ from the ‘idea’ of DK.
(Not to mention cluttering up the astral plane with thoughtforms.)
Nevertheless, the image of The Tibetan, the body he inhabited at his Master’s Initiation (the
5th degree), is widely loved and most evocative of this Mahatma who so humbly stated, “had
fought his way into a greater measure of light”.
As a “messenger of the Masters”, it was Djwhal Khul who transmitted a great deal of the
Eastern mysteries and its rich wisdom to the West – through H.P. Blavatsky and The Secret
Doctrine, as well as twenty-four books through Alice A. Bailey. There are other visual
interpretations by artists that can be viewed on the internet or in books. Truth, like beauty, is
in the eye or heart of the beholder.
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A photo that has recently come to light, bearing a striking resemblance to the existing
painting of Master Djwhal Khul, and currently being researched (2021) to analyse its
authenticity.
Phillip Lindsay, 2014. (Revised 2021.)
Click here to download (384 kb), or to save to hard disk, go to the image above, right mouse
click, then select, “save image as”. (See also, The Masters Gallery.)
ON THE PORTRAIT OF “THE TIBETAN”

by Marjorie Artus.
(Discovered after Marjorie Artus’ death; typed on a sheet of

paper and folded and taped to the back of the portrait.)
In 1963, on the death of my husband, Norman Artus, I inherited a picture which had been his
greatest treasure for some 15 years perhaps. I had first seen the picture in the hotel room of
the artist, Annie Gowland, in Cape Town, South Africa in 1948. Annie Gowland had long been
an esoteric student in the Arcane School.
Norman Artus had received from Annie Gowland his first teaching in the Ageless Wisdom. On
her death, she left the picture to him. All she would ever claim for it was “this is how I saw
Him.” Meantime, over the years in Cape Town, she had painted small copies of the original for
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Some of these Arcane students told me that it was not known whether A.G. had seen the
Tibetan “in the flesh”, she had once traveled to India and to the borders of Tibet or whether
she had had a dream, or some such. She just stuck to her statement above. Norman also had
one of the smaller pictures, but I gave this away to friends after his passing. I myself now
have the “original” larger portrait.
Doubts have been cast on its “authenticity.” I never make any claims about it at all, and have
shunned all photographic reproductions. Shortly after I acquired it, I sort of put up a “prayer”
indicating I would much like to know if it were in any way, or in any degree, “authentic.” I did
not think there was any possibility of “reply.”
However, a few days later I was invited to dinner with old South African friends of Norman’s.
After dinner, the wife and I discussed various things concerning Norman and esoteric matters.
For some reason, she pressed upon me a copy of Clara Codd’s So Rich a Life, an
autobiography. Clara Codd is a Theosophist, and at that time was a well-known lecturer, and
Norman had heard her in South Africa and liked her. I don’t have much time for reading, and I
really didn’t much want to borrow the book. But, not wanting to seem rude, and because
Norman had known her, I took it home.
That night in bed I began to read it, opening it at random. As I read a certain passage, there
seemed a great radiance in the room. It was where Leadbeater (quoted by C.C.) was clarifying
a question regarding the authenticity of the three Theosophical Society pictures of the Masters.
It appeared that he had been “told” that whereas the actual features of a portrait of a Master
might not be utterly exact line for line, yet while the artist was painting the picture the Master
could stand behind directing the brush and, later, would impregnate it with his vibration.
As I read this passage, something in my head seemed to be telling me that this was the
answer to my plea. So, though I make no claims, and could not, the picture seems to carry a
power, and I accept it with thanks and humility.
Marjorie Artus
October 10, 1973.
P.S.- Roberto Assagioli [F.C.D. in the DINA books] accepted the above and himself had a small
photocopy.
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it’s History
Maryrose says:
September 19, 2020 at 5:12 am
I had a dream with a teacher, He was in front of a blackboard but he dress as an

abbot,He told me there were 3 reasons for the covi 19, I only remember one now, there
were many beautiful flowers also hanging on the blackboard,The dream was a beautiful
and intense, A few days later, what a coincidence! I saw for first time in my life this
picture on internet and I still amused because he is the same person I saw on my
dream. (sorry for my spelling)
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The Tibetan Master, Djwhal Khul (D.K.)

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Phillip Lindsay, 2014. (Revised 2021.)

ON THE PORTRAIT OF “THE TIBETAN”

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