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Recurring Creativity
"I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times,
In life after life, in age after age, forever."
— Rabindranath Tagore, Unending Love, 1890
Kahlil Gibran, I Have Come Down the Ages, undated.
Among the many past lives we share here, few are more remarkable than those oversouled by a select group of Dhuman-Adamics, namely the Osirian adepts, who play leading roles in the cultural-philosophical development of all humanity. They are best known through the lives of Zarathustra, Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato, Averröes, Roger Bacon, Goethe and Blake, etc, some of whom we shall return to later. Or treat individually elsewhere, such as the manifold lives of Sir Francis Bacon, alias William Shakespeare, and Count Saint-Germain. The names of their Dhuman oversouls are generally derived from the Atlantean era, during which many first incarnated in physical bodies, and for which we have no actual likeness. To this end we use the same generic portrait to depict them all, as shown below with Rashuvu and Kavirilu, the oversouls of Ravi and Rumi.
Osirian Brothers
This page is dedicated to Rabindranath Tagore (1861 – 1941) and his spiritual brother, Khalil Gibran (1893 – 1931), renowned for their profound sensitivity, lyrical poetry and philosophical prose. Tagore and Gibran blended universal spirituality with passionate emotions through themes of love, joy, death and sorrow. Both were influenced by Eastern mysticism and Western romanticism.
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The title page of Gitanjali, Tagore's most celebrated collection of poetry, published in 1913, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Literature that same year.
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A first-edition copy of Gibran's most beloved book, The Prophet (1923), in which a prophet delivers 26 parables before being sent by ship into island exile.
Rabindranath Tagore
Rudolf Steiner describes Tagore as having once been "a Christian soul but who did not become a Christian". (GA 202, 12 December 1920) Puzzled by this enigmatic statement we asked El Ochre to clarify and received the following reply:
“Rabindranath Tagore, the soul, did not have a Christian incarnation. The soul was from Atlantean times in that branch of the co-Adamic or Arbrahmic race which we call the Brahmans [distinguished from the Aryans]. And although the oversouling of the divine sparks by the Dhumans through conjoint incarnations began with the Arbrahmic group called Israelites [not to be strictly equated with the later Biblical Israelites] the oversoul of Rabindranath — Rashuvu, the 2nd son of Ezekunu [the 5th Osirian adept, later incarnate as Ezekiel] — began its co-Adamic incarnations oversouling Brahman souls in Atlantis and continued to do so through the post-diluvian epoch as the Brahmans eventually became established in the regions of Asia now known as Kashmir and India.
Rabindranath was previously incarnate in India (with the same soul and oversoul) as the great poet and playwright Kalidasa in the 4th–5thC CE during the reign of Chandragupta II. Although his birth name Ravi or Rabi has since been lost, he became renowned under this title of Kalidasa, meaning Servant of Kali. (Note that by this time the goddess Kali had long since lost the association with the pre-Vedic demonic cult mentioned in Mother Theresa's karmic history, and was simply venerated as one of the consorts of Shiva.)
Steiner was inclined to consider Christianity or at least his idea of Christianity as the apogee of spiritual attainment. He saw in an Oriental man a soul that contained the qualities of Christian virtues and considered the soul to have been 'Christianised' even though he was not outwardly Christian. In that respect he was certainly correct, but such 'Christian' qualities or virtues are not the exclusive prerogative of Christianity, in that other religious cultures and traditions such as Hinduism were and are certainly capable of producing such ennobled souls. Some of Kalidasa's works were translated into Western languages and impressed the likes of Goethe. Kalidasa has been hailed as the Shakespeare of India, though there are those who would rather say that Shakespeare was the English Kalidasa!" (El Ochre, 4 July 2026)
Rabindranath Tagore's portrait of Kadambari Devi, the poet's youthful companion, critic and sister-in-law, date unknown.
Khalil Gibran
"Rabindranath — as an incarnation of Rashuvu the 2nd son of Ezekunu — was closely associated with his younger Dhuman brother Kavirilu, the 3rd son of Ezekunu. Kavirilu was incarnate as the Lebanese poet Khalil Gibran who, moreover, was the reincarnation of the renowned Sufi poet Jalaluddin Rumi. Gibran was profoundly inspired by Sufism and Rumi in particular, but even more so by William Blake [another incarnation of Ezekunu], both in his mystical poetry and sublime artworks, to the extent that some have looked on Gibran as a reincarnation of Blake." (El Ochre, 4 July 2026)
W B Yeats sparked a revival of interest in Blake and drew Gibran into his Blakean circle. Both Tagore and Gibran were admired, befriended and promoted by Yeats. Yeats contributed to Tagore winning the Nobel Prize in 1913, which Tagore reciprocated for Yeats in 1923. Gibran drew portraits of both Yeats and Tagore.
Kahlil Gibran, Portrait of a Woman, 1916. He was initially seen as a talented young artist before turning to prose and poetry.
Gibran's portraits of Yeats (1911) and Tagore (1916).
More Osirian Brothers
"Yeats was an incarnation of the Dhuman Iambulu, the 3rd son of Pratabulu [the 4th Osirian adept] and therefore a younger brother of Ezekunu (as was Chaldheru, the 2nd son of Pratabulu, hence his closeness to Blake in his incarnation as Coleridge.) Iambulu was incarnate in the 3rd–2ndC BCE as Iambulus (Iamboulos) — a Syrian-Greek merchant who wrote a utopian fantasy novel, 'Islands of the Sun'. He was reincarnate in the 3rd–4thC CE as Iamblichus of Chalcis, a Syrian Neoplatonist.
Plotinus is generally considered the founder of Neoplatonism in the 3rdC CE, though some scholars give the honour to his teacher Ammonius Saccas, and there is some truth in that. Ammonius Saccas was an incarnation of El Amenu [the 8th Osirian adept] as you know. Plotinus was an incarnation of Plutonunu the 2nd son of Orfu, and therefore the younger brother of Pratabulu who was incarnate as Plato, and from whom Neoplatonism ultimately stems, though there were other contributing influences, notably from Pythagoreanism — Pythagoras having been an incarnation of Hermes (Makheru) [the 2nd son of Osiris]. Plotinus ultimately reappeared as the renowned Indian metaphysical philosopher Sri Aurobindo (Aravinda) of Pondicherry who profoundly influenced Rabindranath Tagore who once declared him to be the incarnate voice of India's soul.
Progeru the 3rd son of Orfu and youngest brother of Pratabulu was incarnate as Proclus Lycius, a 5thC CE Neoplatonist. He was reincarnate in the 12thC CE as Averroes (ibn Rushd) an Arabic philosopher who championed Aristotelianism. Averroes ironically critiqued Neoplatonism, or at least the Neoplatonism that was embraced by some of his predecessors and contemporaries, while retaining respect for Proclus from whose ideas he borrowed. Again ironically, his Aristotelianism was critiqued by Thomas Aquinas, the 13thC reincarnation of Aristotle himself. Progeru appeared in the 13thC as Roger Bacon. The two incarnations were close together, separated by only 21 years, and overlap considerably in many ways which you can research. He is reincarnate today as Roger Penrose the English mathematician, physicist and philosopher, controversial for his concept of consciousness as fundamental and universal as revealed through quantum physics.” (El Ochre, 4 July 2026)
We explore the lives of other Osirian adepts elsewhere.
