A being mentioned in Helena P. Blavatsky’s The Secret Doctrine (I:207), although not by this name, and in Charles W. Leadbeater’s The Masters and the Path (p. 332.). Known as “The Great Initiator,” he is said by Leadbeater to reside, with His three pupils, at Shamballa in the Gobi desert. The Lord of the World is also said to be head of the Great White Brotherhood of adepts.

See also INITIATOR; Brotherhood, Great White.

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