The Mysterious Sixth Kingdom
The sixth and seventh kingdoms are the most mysterious of all. The seventh is identified with the residents of Shamballa while the fifth is the Spiritual Hierarchy, but to the sixth no name is given and very little is written about it.
DK tells us that it hasn’t even been given a name “because the possibility of their existence is only now just beginning faintly to penetrate into the consciousness of the disciple and the initiate. The sixth kingdom is that of the “overshadowing Triads”—that aggregation of liberated Lives of which the higher initiates in the Hierarchy are a part.” Rays and Initiations, Page 129
This kingdom corresponds to the color indigo in the spectrum, the most difficult color to identify, for it is often difficult to tell where the blue ends and the violet begins.
We are told that members of his sixth kingdom “are the directing Agents and are a correspondence to the ajna centre of mankind, only here it is the ajna centre of the planetary Logos, in the same sense as Shamballa is His head centre, the Hierarchy His heart centre and Humanity His creative throat centre.” Rays and Initiations, Page 733
Whereas the sixth kingdom has not been given a name DK has given us a name or title of those who compose it. They are called Nirmanakayas. These are a “great group of divine Contemplatives who are trained to act as an intermediate receptive group between Shamballa and the Hierarchy. They receive impression from Shamballa and transmit it to the Hierarchy, thus enabling the Members of the Hierarchy to receive it as ‘a sharpened impression’ and to register it accurately because the emanating impression has passed through an area within the divine Mind where it is enhanced by the trained perception and the determined receptivity of this group. They are called, in the East, the divine Nirmanakayas.” Telepathy and the Etheric Vehicle, Page 44
These great beings have taken the sixth initiation or higher and have had opportunity to go to higher states beyond the concerns of earth evolution, such as the Sambhogakaya and the Dharmakaya who dwell in formlessness with the Source.
The Nirmanakayas sacrifice the higher way and keep their “ethereal form which one would assume when leaving his physical he would appear in his astral body—having in addition all the knowledge of an Adept.” TCF, Page 1193
Sanat Kumara descended from his high plane and took an etheric body so he could stimulate the evolution of the earth.
The Nirmanakayas made a similar sacrifice, but in an opposite direction. They had an opportunity to go higher, but refused and stayed here in bodily form in etheric matter.
We are told “that Gautama Buddha, with several of his Arhats” have become Nirmanakayas through such a sacrifice. TCF, Page 1193
Whereas agents in Shamballa focus on the work of the seventh kingdom, and the Hierarchy the fifth, this sixth kingdom of Nirmanakayas function as messengers who move between the kingdoms sometimes even descending to humanity. It is interesting that the Biblical Greek word for angel is ANGELOS which means messengers. It is quite possible that those having visions and sightings of angels have witnessed a contact with Nirmanakayas. Indeed, these Nirmanakayas are messengers transmitting intelligence from higher to lower kingdoms.
In addition, DK says this: “They are the creative agents of life itself and the knowers and the custodians of the will of the planetary Logos, as it works itself out in manifestation. They are the source in reality of planetary invocation and evocation.” Discipleship in the New Age, Vol 2, Pages 210-211
Thus when we invoke or evoke through prayer or mediation, it can be the Nirmanakayas who pick it up and act upon it.
These entities have very high contacts in Shamballa for “Their major relationship is with the Triangle of the Buddhas of Activity, and it is under Their creative inspiration that They work.” Discipleship in the New Age, Vol 2, Page 201
Just as a correspondence of Shamballa is the head center in a human, and the Hierarchy corresponds to the heart, there are also a number of correspondents to the sixth kingdom , the ajna, or third eye of the Planetary Logos.
On the upper end of evolution, we have the Three Buddhas of Activity just mentioned “Who are to Shamballa what the Nirmanakayas are to the Hierarchy.” Telepathy and the Etheric Vehicle, Page 45
These great entities act as messengers transmitting intelligence from beyond our solar system to Shamballa. Thus, they have a similar function to the Nirmanakayas, but on a higher level.
On a lower level we have the “New Group of World Servers. This group is the lower correspondence of the Nirmanakayas, the recipients of impression from Shamballa.” Telepathy and the Etheric Vehicle, Page 122
On a lower level still DK speaks of “the rapport being established between humanity and the domesticated animals. These animals are to their own kingdom what the New Group of World Servers is to humanity.” Telepathy and the Etheric Vehicle, Page 68
Thus, domesticated animals are Nirmanakayas on their own level, sending stimulation and intelligence to those in the wild.
Finally, we humans have within us our own ajna center which corresponds to the Third Eye of the Planetary Logos. Within us the ajna center relates the head to the heart similar to the Nirmanakayas relating Shamballa to the Spiritual Hierarchy.
Not many humans have passed into this sixth kingdom, but eventually the numbers will be significance and when the time comes that advanced humanity is aware of these great beings, then we can expect it to receive a name.
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Aug 7, 2025
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