Ramtha

Ramtha is an entity that JZ Knight says she channels, and the name of the teachings given through her. The main published account of his life is Ramtha: The White Book (JZK Publishing, revised edition 2004), compiled from Knight’s recorded sessions. Everything below about Ramtha’s life comes from that book and from Knight’s own foreword. None of it has historical or archaeological support; it is a matter of belief for those who follow the teachings.

How Knight met Ramtha

In her foreword to The White Book, Knight writes that Ramtha first appeared to her in 1977, in her kitchen on a Sunday afternoon, while she and her husband were making pyramids, while they were dehydrating food. She describes him as patient with her questions and quotes him as saying he was 35,000 years old. In the book, Ramtha calls Knight his daughter, and the glossary states that she is the only person he has appointed to channel him. The book is published by JZK Publishing for Ramtha’s School of Enlightenment in Yelm, Washington.

Ramtha’s account of his life

Ramtha dates his single lifetime to 35,000 years ago.

I lived but one lifetime upon this plane, what is called in your understanding of time 35,000 years ago.

Ramtha, Ramtha: The White Book (JZK Publishing, 2004), chapter two, "I Am Ramtha" (short excerpt for review and study)

In The White Book, Ramtha is not born in Lemuria itself. He says he was born to Lemurian pilgrims living in the slums of Onai, the chief port city in the south of Atlatia, his name for Atlantis, in the last hundred years before that continent broke up and sank. In his telling, technology had been lost in the north of Atlatia, life in the south had become primitive, and the south was ruled by tyrants who treated the Lemurians as outcasts. The Lemurians, he says, had little technology but a strong spiritual understanding and worshipped a single God they called the Unknown God. The Atlatians despised them for it. For other accounts of this people, see the Lemurian era.

The conqueror

The book tells how, as a boy of fourteen, Ramtha lost his mother and little sister, blamed the Unknown God, and climbed a great mountain to confront him. There, he says, a woman appeared with a great sword.

On the mountain, Ramtha receives a sword and a charge.

Take this sword and conquer yourself.

Ramtha, Ramtha: The White Book (JZK Publishing, 2004), chapter two, "I Am Ramtha" (short excerpt for review and study)

He came down, led the poor of Onai against the city, opened its granaries and burned it. He calls himself the first conqueror and says his march lasted sixty three years and took three quarters of the known world.

Ramtha claims to have been the first conqueror.

I was the first conqueror this plane knew.

Ramtha, Ramtha: The White Book (JZK Publishing, 2004), chapter two, "I Am Ramtha" (short excerpt for review and study)

About ten years into the march, the book says, he was run through with a sword. While he recovered under the care of the women who travelled with his army, he began to watch the sun, life and death, and to reflect on them. In his words, his greatest conquest became the conquest of himself.

Ascension

Ramtha says that when he was old, he crossed the Indus River and spent 120 days with his people on the mountain he calls Indus, then ascended in front of them, taking his body into an unseen dimension. He numbers his people at more than two million, a mix of Lemurians, people from Ionia and refugees from Atlatia, and says their descendants live in India, Tibet, Nepal and southern Mongolia.

The teachings

The book presents the teachings as Ramtha’s School of Enlightenment, which Ramtha calls a school of the mind and of ancient wisdom dedicated to the Great Work. According to the book, the Great Work is the practical application of those teachings. Its dedication sums up the message: “To God who lives within you.”