The area of the upper astral plane of Earth in the upper atmosphere where the various Heavens are located is called Summerland ( Theosophists believe Hell is located in the lower astral plane of Earth which extends downward from the surface of the earth down to its center ).

However, Theosophists believe that the soul is recalled back to Earth after an average of about 1400 years by the Lords of Karma to incarnate again.

* Maitreya ( Theosophy ), a being that Theosophists believe will physically manifest sometime in the 21st century and who will be the Messiah expected by various religions.

Theosophists also believe there is another higher level of heaven called Devachan, also called the Mental plane Heaven, which some but not all souls reach between incarnations — only those souls that are more highly developed spiritually reach this level, i. e., those souls that are at the first, second, and third levels of initiation.

The final permanent eternal afterlife heaven to which Theosophists believe most people will go millions or billions of years in the future, after our cycle of reincarnations in this Round is over.

Theosophists believe the Atlantean root race was physically progenerated by the Chankshusha Manu.

Blavatsky asserted humanity was presently in the fifth root race, the Aryan race, which Theosophists believe to have emerged from the previous fourth root race ( Atlantean root race ) beginning about 100, 000 years ago in Atlantis.

) Theosophists believe the Aryan root race was physically progenerated by the Vaivasvatu Manu, one of the Masters of the Ancient Wisdom.

( The " City of the Bridge " was constructed directly below the etheric city called Shamballa where Theosophists believe the governing deity of Earth, Sanat Kumara, dwells ; thus, the ongoing evolution of the Aryan root race has been divinely guided by the being Theosophists call " The Lord of the World ".

Theosophists believe that each root race has a separate and distinct progenitor.

Theosophists believe that the most material of the vestures of the soul are interpenetrated by the particles of the more subtle vesture.

Theosophists believe that there are also devas living inside all the other stars besides Sol ; these are called stellar angels.

* New Age Theosophical guru Benjamin Creme subscribes to the Theosophical view that the Nordic aliens ( like those seen by George Adamski — Creme accepts Adamski's UFO sightings as valid ) pilot flying saucers from a civilization on Venus that exists on the etheric plane ( Theosophists believe that since the Venusians ' civilization is on the etheric plane, the heat doesn't affect them ) and are capable of stepping down the level of vibration of themselves and their craft to the slower level of vibration of the atoms of the physical plane.

Krishnamurti was named as its head, with senior Theosophists assigned various other positions.

It holds that the unassailable basis for union among Theosophists, wherever and however situated, is " similarity of aim, purpose and teaching ," and therefore has neither Constitution, By-Laws nor Officers, the sole bond between its Associates being that basis.

Prior to this time, Theosophy had made little headway in Germany ; despite some visits by Helena Blavatsky, a founder of the Theosophical Society, to Germany and its prominent Theosophists, it was not until after her death in 1891 that a single Berlin Lodge was officially chartered in 1894.

Lemuria, according to Theosophists, existed in a large part of what is now the Indian Ocean and included also Australia and in addition extended into the South Pacific Ocean ; its last remnants are the Australian continent, the island of New Guinea, and the island of Madagascar.

This sixth subrace of the Aryan root race will be called the Australo-American subrace and is believed by Theosophists to be now arising from the Teutonic subrace of the Aryan root race in Australia and in the Western United States ( many individuals of the new subrace will be born in California ) and its surrounding nearby areas ( i. e., the Australo-American subrace is presently in the process of arising from the Anglo-American, Anglo-Canadian, Anglo-Australian and presumably also the Anglo-New Zealander ethnic groups ).

It is believed by some Theosophists that after the present round of human spiritual evolution by reincarnation of souls in root races is completed several dozen million years from now, the human race will migrate to the planet Mercury to continue its spiritual and physical evolution.

It is believed by Theosophists that the root races evolve from the subraces of the same number ; thus the sixth root race will evolve from the sixth sub-race of the fifth or Aryan root race, just as the fifth or Aryan root race evolved from the fifth subrace ( the Semitic ) of the fourth or Atlantean root race 100, 000 years ago.

During his final years Stonehouse was an active Theosophist living at the London branch of the United Lodge of Theosophists.

Other groups split off from Tingley's organization over the years, becoming Theosophical Society in America ( Hargrove ) the Theosophical Society of New York, the United Lodge of Theosophists, and Temple of the People in Halcyon, California.

These are currently made available through The Theosophy Company a non-profit publishing entity for the United Lodge of Theosophists.

It is believed by Theosophists that humans are evolving spiritually through a series of esoteric initiations and in the future humans will become esoteric masters themselves as their souls gradually rise upward through the spiritual hierarchy over the course of eons as they reincarnate.

In 1908 he published a letter To all open-minded Theosophists about his thoughts on the Theosophical Society.

Although most of the Theosophists appear to have counted themselves as Buddhists, they held idiosyncratic beliefs that separated them from known Buddhist traditions ; only Olcott was enthusiastic about following mainstream Buddhism.

This article led to an invitation by the Count and Countess Brockdorff to speak to a gathering of Theosophists on the subject of Nietzsche.

In January 1946, Theosophist Alice A. Bailey prophesied that Christ ( who is regarded by Theosophists as being identical with the being known by Theosophists as the Maitreya ) would return " sometime after AD 2025 ".

She is mentioned nearly 80 times in the Rigveda: the verse " Daksha sprang from Aditi and Aditi from Daksha " is seen by Theosophists as a reference to " the eternal cyclic re-birth of the same divine Essence " and divine wisdom.

This view was also supported by occult writers and Theosophists of the early 20th century such as Ralph Shirley and Arthur E. Powell.

His public image, cultivated by the Theosophists, " was to be characterized by a well-polished exterior, a sobriety of purpose, a cosmopolitan outlook and an otherworldly, almost beatific detachment in his demeanor.

Leadbeater and other Theosophists expected the " vehicle " to have certain paranormal experiences, but were nevertheless mystified by these developments.

However, by 1925 Krishnamurti had begun to move away from the course expected of him by the leaders of the Theosophical Society in Adyar and by many Theosophists.

The United Lodge of Theosophists, or ULT, was founded in 1909 by a Theosophical Society member, Robert Crosbie ( 1849 – 1919 ).

When, in 1909, he had been joined by a small nucleus of persons who shared this ideal, The United Lodge of Theosophists was formed to carry out the purposes in view.

The following is the form signed by Associates of the United lodge of Theosophists:

Though this usage continues to be widespread, the term, " etheric travel ", used by some later Theosophists, offers a useful distinction.

Fringe archaeological ideas such as Pyramidology have been embraced by religions ranging from the British Israelites to the Theosophists.

Duncan was born in Oakland, California, as Edward Howard Duncan Jr. His mother, Marguerite Pearl Duncan, had died in childbirth and his father was unable to afford him, so in 1920 he was adopted by Edwin and Minnehaha Symmes, a family of devout Theosophists.

The term was adopted by nineteenth-century Theosophists and neo-Rosicrucians.

Levi seems to have been regarded by later Theosophists as the immediate source from which the term was adopted into their sevenfold schema of planes and bodies, though there was slight confusion as to the term's proper use.

Carl Jung has been aligned with the idea of the astral body by Jungians and Theosophists alike.