Paul the Venetian

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Paul the Venetian is one of the Ascended masters or "Cosmic Masters of the Ancient Wisdom" in the teachings of Theosophy. He is regarded as the Master of the Third Ray (See Seven Rays). It is believed that his final life was his incarnation as the artist Paolo Veronese (1528-1588), after which he is said to have become an Ascended Master.

He is said to live in an enormous mansion called the "Chateau de Liberte" on the etheric plane above an area of southern France called Provence. This mansion is supposed to be larger than the Versailles Palace and have thousands of rooms decorated with copies of paintings (rendered in etheric matter) from all civilizations and eras of human history and is in the center of a large etheric city or "retreat".

The traditional Theosophical gurus such as C.W. Leadbeater ^[1] and Alice A. Bailey do not mention any previous incarnations of Paul the Venetian. However, in the teachings of Elizabeth Clare Prophet of the Church Universal and Triumphant, he is said to have been incarnated as a "Minister of Culture" in the government of Atlantis, as one of the architects of the pyramids in Ancient Egypt, and as an artist (mural painter) in the Inca Empire. ^[2]

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^ Leadbeater, C.W. The Masters and the Path Adyar, Madras, India: 1925--Theosophical Publishing House--Paul the Venetian ("The Venetian Chohan") is profiled on pages 238.
^ Prophet, Mark L. and Elizabeth Clare Lords of the Seven Rays Livingston, Montana, U.S.A.:1986--Summit University Press--"Paul the Venetian--Master of the Third Ray"--Pages 119-148