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Recently I was asked what words comforted me, and though I am a writer, more and more I find that I am most moved by images.  Many of these images come from meditations and dreams and I don’t know how to begin to describe them in words.  Me, the poet, the reader, the long talker, the lover of dictionaries and old thesauruses, most comforted by images.  

To further add to this irony as I sit here promising myself I will write a blog post this week, all that I feel like writing about is one of these images.  But as luck would have it this one comes with a bit of a story.

May 5th was Wesak this year, and I had toyed around with idea of gathering people to chant mantras of peace to mark this holiday but chickened out.  In retrospect I can see that my blocks around this are things it’s time to get over.   I am trying.

My Childhood was sort of a survey of Christian churches.  My Mom worked as a choir director so we went to church, and sometimes to school, where she happened to be directing choir.  My father was raised Christian Scientist, so for a brief time, we attended a Christian Scientist church as well.  This upbringing had a number of advantages, for one thing when I had a cold, Mom took me to the doctor where I got antibiotics and Dad took me to his friends house where I got prayed over.  Bases covered.

However, the greatest advantage of this was that I grew up in a home where I learned God is everywhere and I didn’t have to put boundaries on where I found her/him.  In our home God was a kind understanding force.  We were taught, that religion is a place where God and Mankind meet and the rule of thumb in our household, was that if it was coming from Love, it was God.  If it was coming from someplace else that was People.  

This kind of thinking came in very handy for me one year when Mom worked at both Bethany Covenant as a choir director and at Saint Therese’s middle school as a music teacher.  I ended up in a 3^rd grade Catholic religion class taught by the priest we kids unkindly dubbed Fat Father.  He wasn’t fat so much as a little mean, but the alliteration was irresistible to us.  I remember him teaching us about how only real Catholic Christians go to heaven, and instead of being scarred for life fearing my fellow protestants would be refused at the pearly gates, I simply thought, “well that’s weird, that’s clearly not God talking.”

Still I know this was not everyone’s experience, and so when I consider stepping out into my community in a spiritual way, the fear of offending others holds me back.  There are many people close to me who are beautifully devout Christians, even Catholics and if it’s not in the bible I can tell it’s not comfortable for them.  I also have friends who have had terrible experiences in church and associate religion of all kinds with pain, rather than comfort, and I am careful of their hearts as well.  I also know people who choose a peaceful atheism as their belief structure.  But today I’m thinking, why let fear hold me back from sharing something beautiful and near to my heart?

Getting back to Wesak, I did celebrate in my way.  I chanted mantras for about an hour in a quit time of day, and then when I went to bed lit a candle I have in my bedroom to honor the Vesok moon.  Rather than waking up fearful something was on fire as I usually do when I sleep with a candle on, this night I slept peacefully.

And as I was waking I was able to hold onto these images from the dreamscape.  I was speaking with a large golden Buddha with flowers all around, though I can’t tell you what kind.  When I sat next to him the golden glow extended to me as well, though I wouldn’t say it was mine.  And when we spoke the ideas that would form in our hearts , it was flowers that would leave our mouths instead of words.  I poured out all the troublesome things in my life but my fears couldn’t hold onto their darkness.  As I sat in the Buddha glow I could feel that my fears were a part of a larger peace and so when I spoke of them the only language they could form was one of petals.

I have been using this image as my go to meditation this week.  I think because this week has held so many events that I have no words for and it’s been very comforting to take my troubles to a peaceful place in my heart and imagination where they can be transformed, if only for a moment.

Om Shanti Om,

Elle Newman

www.ellenewman.com

Our group is chock full of many types of healers, interestingly each coming down a different track and yet all following the same path of “Energy”.  “Energy” is all, “Energy” is God and as we find out how it is configured, we find out that it is rewritable. It is found in communion.

Energy is intelligent but bends to our free will. The lattice on which this energy hangs is “our world” and in our particular personal world our own four lower bodies. We live in an environment that seeks to keep us in a place of choosing between one side of the duality or the other, both lead to misery, fanaticism, disease and death.

There are many ways into the keyboard, mouse and operating system of Self. The Self is the same for everyone. He/She/They/It awaits our attention. The differences are the way we have been programmed and this sets up the maze of our approach, how we are willing to approach God and “Give” our attention. As wayshowers, we use our divine intuition to work our way through the maze, forward back left right and some come along with us.

Those who take different ways are often seen in error and this is only amplified by the duress, confusion, and striving of the path we do follow. We sometimes see others and their different routes as a distraction and/or even a deception. When this occurs, we seek to find something wrong with them to validate ourselves and the choice of path we follow.

Let us all commit to going home, home is where we find our balance and rising, home is not a place but a state. We need a forum where each one of us can give our latest findings with Self respect and be received with Self respect. There are so many ways to the source, so many fine-tuned and tailored obstacle removers in our hands, let us offer them to each other in sanctuary, outside the cacophony of fear and ego.

Each of us must find our Source. When that Source is found, we will be one and yet disparate. The Oneness is real and the differences psychodrama. In Oneness we will find our Harmony, we will learn to be the keys on God’s keyboard that are played each in their right sequence with no fear of being left out, but singing out with full compression when it is our turn to carry the Harmony.

Each will heal in their own way and their own time. Let us respect that, give our offering knowing that it is in part and give the respect and reaching understanding to the others offering that we would like. The spoken word, sound, music, light, consciousness, energy, nutrition, body work, meditation, soul recovery, past adjustments, intuition and service are all the same to God, they are the up-reaching arms of His/Her/Their returning children.

Brian Emmanuel Grey

Fiat Rex by Niclolas Roerich

It is the end times and the time of new beginnings.
It is the end of the Kali Yuga and Piscean age.
It is the Age of prophecies fulfilled and of false prophets.
It is the Age of Masters and of counterfeit spirits.
It is the Age of suffocating human laws,
at the expense of common sense and spiritual laws.
It is the Age of sinking to the lowest common denominator,
smothering excellence and the Fire of Genius within.
It is the Age of accelerating karma, good and bad.
It is the Age of the Lightbearers victory,
It could become the best of times.
It could become the worst of times.
In case of either, perhaps the most important thing one can do is to make the tie to one’s God as strong as possible. To that end, did you know that each of us is assigned a guardian angel and a Sponsoring Ascended Master? To make that connection to your guardian angel we defer to Padre Pio. Just search “Padre Pio and Guardian Angels” to find out more, after all, he is without a doubt the greatest authority and advocate for your guardian angel in recent memory.

Our aim here is to help you find the other spiritual gift—that Ascended Master who oversees your life stream.
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Saint Patrick’s Day! What a great soul!

I’m including an old Catholic picture and a link to an Irish music video. See: Oró sé do bheatha ‘bhaile posted by Arany Zoltán

Saint Patrick wrote in his famous ‘Confession’ that, starting at the age of 16, after he was kidnapped and forced onto a pirate ship.

“I reached Ireland, where I used to pasture the flock each day and I used to pray many times a day. More and more did the love of God, and my fear of him and faith increase, and my spirit was moved so that in a day [I said] from one up to a hundred prayers, and in the night a like number; besides I used to stay out in the forests and on the mountain and I would wake up before daylight to pray in the snow, in icy coldness, in rain, and I used to feel neither ill nor any slothfulness, because, as I now see, the Spirit was burning in me at that time.”

Timothy Connor

The Second Coming

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.

–William Butler Yeats

We live in interesting times, rich with opportunity and fraught with danger. Illusion at every turn, truth mixed with error, it is a moment cosmically ripe for spiritual revolution. Even the sense of time is different. It seems to move faster in reference to exterior events, perhaps because centuries old traditions and institutions are collapsing or are endangered. Inwardly time is not being measured in days and weeks or seconds and minutes but in increments of growth, change and insight and all of this appears against the back drop of the slow-motion catastrophe that appears in the world news. The difficulties and obstacles confronting each and everyone on the spiritual path in this moment of transition are the tenuous stepping stones to the New Era.

Awareness of the fine line separating light from darkness brings into focus who we are and who we may become in our journey toward greater psychological and spiritual wholeness. The evolving soul is delimited by the world view she has embraced and by what has been transmitted through parents and culture, consciously and unconsciously. Inherited and often largely unexamined beliefs about life have created a ceiling restricting the natural upward evolution of self and society, of consciousness itself. It is difficult to rise higher than the philosophies with which we have encumbered ourselves. But all of this is changing. Lord Talbot in King Henry VI reminds us of the latent potential of our higher, more noble Self, "No, no, I am but a shadow of myself: you are deceiv’d, my substance is not here; for what you see is but the smallest part, and…were the whole frame here, it is of such a lofty and spacious pitch, your roof were not sufficient to contain it."
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The Mother of the World is coming… She who veiled herself at the sinking of Atlantis is now once again reaching out to her children. The Mother of the World is an office in the Spiritual Hierarchy and She has her emissaries from the heaven world reaching out to those of us on Earth.

Mother Mary has been appearing in Africa, Asia, America and Europe calling people to a higher path of love, integrity and unity. And, some of the Goddesses from the ancient world’s mythologies are real beings of light as well. They too are emissaries of the Divine Mother.

The Divine Mother honors the Eternal Father and brings his children into relationship with Him, through the Christ, the Eternal Emanation of the Son. And the Holy Spirit is the Divine Comforter, the Mystic Presence of Emmanuel, God With Us.

Here is a poem to the Goddess of Truth, Pallas Athena. She has declared the coming revolution in higher consciousness.

On the hillsides of Delphi
stand in silence
like the Temple

Broken columns hiding
ancient splendor slumbering here.

O Temple
art thou fallen
in tumbling ruin
to the grass.

Art thou hidden
in the memory
of golden centuries past.

When Oracles
stood as flames
before the most high altar.
Voices raised and poised,
a single chalice for the Word.

Hear the Word
yet intoning,
in the winds,
in water flowing,
and in endless cycles turning
around our Temple in the sun.

O Pallas Athena come
to the Temple of the One.
Raise the pillared marble shining
as the vestal virgin’s own.
We shall light the seven lamps
till burning
in the windows of our souls

O Lady
light our fragile hearts
the Temple shall be whole.

PK

I hope you have a chance to listen to Akiane on YouTube, to read her poetry and to see her gallery of paintings which are easily found on the internet.  I was feeling creatively flat when I happened to catch an interview with her. I was moved by her deep connection with God and how effortlessly she accessed her artistic potential. Her mother described her seriousness and dedication to art, rising at four in the morning to go work at the studio.  Akiane explained to her mother “You don’t wait for inspiration; it waits for you.” How much do we miss because we don’t present our self to the muse?

I selected one of her works for comment and to share my appreciation of her art with you.  Below is Akiane’s self portrait.  It is a visual treatise on Selfhood. She is a stand-in for each of us.  At least, this is how I see it.  The real Cosmos is the backdrop and yet a beautiful living star is just now being painted.  Look at the starlit left hand. Look at her balance and her focus. Everything is vivid, breathing life –conscious yet still with the serenity of wholeness. She has merged with cosmos… or is cosmos merging and expressing itself (Herself) through her? Which is which?  She captured the ultimate creative moment when the soul reflects the face of God, in whose image she is made and through this act dissolves into the Eternal Now. What I see in Akiane’s art is what I hear with the poems of Rumi, the revelation of my own soul.

The revelation of God as God is enfolded within the self as Self.  Let go and merge into the unfettered world, your own radiant expression of the loved inner child self, far beyond the captivating constraints of millennial judgments and ego expression.  Beyond good and evil, it awaits as a Presence, always present. In the hush Rumi’s voice comes in distant echoes, “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right-doing there is a field. I’ll meet you there.”   The Divine is waiting…

What I know of God is not measured in my limitation but in God’s infinite capacity to manifest in me the longing to be my Self, not only as identity but as an act of being, to create and share with me the higher reality I am becoming, ever singing into my heart the soul-stirring song of Awakening . Where does the music come from? Who is the musician? Who is listening? Is the beauty in the notes or in the silence that separates them?  Am I now the note?

The joy of God’s creating is the pain in my increasing.  Does this register consciously or is this the striving of dreams.  And when I awake, am I entering another dream?  No, when the starlight of cosmos was revealed, it was I who painted it.  Cosmos and Psyche are both implicated; they are one and inseparable.  It is God looking through my eyes. It is God who guides my brush. I am whole.

Thank you Akiane, for your beautiful gift.

by Michael McCann

Was Francis Bacon really the writer behind the mysterious Works of Shakespeare? Was Sir Francis Bacon the even more mysterious Count of Saint Germain? Here is an excerpted article by William House, on of the coworkers of the Universal or Worldwide Ashram on the amazing story of this modern age adept. His website at www.reversespins.com is a treasure trove of esoterica. This article explores the secret life and legends of the genius of our age, Sir. Francis Bacon.

“Four hundred years ago, before the invention of the telescope, astronomers were amazed by the appearance of a new star. It soon dimmed to invisibility, but they noted its location in the sky. Later astronomers, with the aid of telescopes, found at the location of the new star a nebulous cloud of glowing gas (image above). The developing theory of nuclear-powered stars led them to believe the cloud was a spherical shell of gas blown away by an exploding star. With the discovery that such glowing clouds and their central stars were composed entirely of plasma, a few astronomers realized that electrical forces had to be taken into account. The invention of more powerful telescopes (yellow is the visible light image) and of telescopes that could “see” in x-ray (green and blue images) and infrared (red image) light confirmed the electrical nature of these clouds. An isolated star that explodes would be expected to produce a spherical cloud of gas. Instead, the cloud is plasma, and it reveals plasma’s characteristic feature of organizing itself into a network of electric current filaments (notice especially the yellow and green areas). Furthermore, the cloud is not spherical but shows a distinct bipolar shape, somewhat reminiscent of the form of a brain seen from above. This axis through the nebula and the central star is the path of the Birkeland current that supplies the power to energize the system. And that energy is expended in more than the visible light that reveals the filaments: Around the periphery of the cloud, on the surface of the plasma sheath that mediates the internal electrical field with the field outside, can be seen bright spots of x-ray emission (blue). This is where currents in the sheath flow between high voltage differentials and, as in a dentist’s x-ray machine, accelerate the current-carrying particles to x-ray energies. We see these x-ray spots primarily at the edge of the sheath because that is where we are looking into the currents, where the x-rays are beamed in our direction. Instead of being the result of a mechanical explosion, the nebula is the result of a sudden increase in the current that powers the central star, a stellar electrical surge. The sheath (which surrounds every star and is normally invisible) has been pushed into the “glow” discharge state; the increased current is pulling matter from the star and from the surrounding space into the filaments that compose that current; and all of it is being heated electrically. Such a surge would have had a sudden onset and an exponential decline–just like a lightning bolt. The new star that 17th Century astronomers saw flaring up in their sky was a stellar thunderbolt. What we see is the declining aftermath.” end.

“It was in 1572 that nature took up the challenge of Aristotle, who had claimed more than a thousand years earlier that the heavens were immutable, but the stars were fixed, that nothing could ever change in the skies. In the 14th year of Elizabeth’s happy reign, the heavens proved him wrong. A marvelous new star [a comet] flashed out of the constellation Cassiopeia. The star was as short-lived as it was a brilliant. Within a year and a half, it was gone, leaving behind a world startled by this awesome portent. Tyco Brahe, a Danish astronomer, was the first to record its appearance. He reported it as a being brighter than Venus, so bright that it could be clearly seen even in the fullest light of day. Some said it was a comet; others, a star. Some said it had the same luminous appearance as the star that guided the Magi, the Bethlehem Star, which had appeared so mysteriously 1500 years before. Whatever it was called, it was a strange sight in the heavens during the months that it could be clearly seen. After 16 months the Guest Star disappeared, never to shine again, leaving even the astronomers musing over its appearance in the “unchangeable” heavens. The portent of the star of 1572 was not easily understood. But one man had claimed to know all about it—the famous Swiss mystic Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, better known as Paracelsus. He died 20 years before Francis [Bacon] was born, but he had been comfidently prophesying the coming of the comet for many years. When it comes, he predicted, it will be “a harbinger” of a great renovation of society—”the coming revolution,” he called it. The comet would announce a presence of “a marvelous being… who as yet lives not, and who shall reveal many things.” This being would be a master of all arts, bearing three divine gifts to change the face of the world.

Prophecies of comets, stars and rarely gifted beings did not ring as strangely in the ears of Elizabethans as they do in our ears today. (And we, in our time, do not treat them as scornfully as did our brothers 50 years ago.) Just who this great master of all arts would be only the gods in heaven could know for certain, but the one man of that time who came closest to fulfilling Paracelsus’ prophecy was our man of mystery, Francis Bacon.

Francis was about 12 years old at the time of the appearance of the star, but already he was showing the marks of genius. He was a young prodigy coming into his adulthood, ready to leave the security and warmth of the Bacon home for a broader life as a student at Trinity College, on the River Cam at Cambridge. Was his coming of age the event prophesied by Paracelsus? Some Baconians believed that it was and that the three gifts are Bacon’s outer philosophical and scientific writings, the plays of Shakespeare, and his involvement with the Rosie-Crosse and Freemasonry movements.” pp. 35 &36.

“Father of modern science, re-modeler of modern law, editor of the modern Bible, patron of modern democracy, and one of the founders of modern Freemasonry, Sir Francis Bacon was a man of many aims and purposes. He was a Rosicrucian, some have intimated the Rosicrucian. … Scores of volumes have been written to establish Sir Francis Bacon as the real author of the plays and sonnets popularly ascribed to William Shakspere. … The Bacon-Shakspeare controversy, as its most able advocates realize, involves the most profound aspects of science, religion, and ethics; he who solves the mystery may yet find therein the key to the supposedly lost wisdom of antiquity.” p.542

Doesn’t this extraordinary résumé qualify him for the exalted appellation from Paracelsus, “a harbinger” of a great renovation of society—”the coming revolution,” “a marvelous being… who as yet lives not, and who shall reveal many things.” But was Bacon’s endeavors enough to deserve such praise? Was Paracelsus’ intuitive knowledge of these events also describing an ongoing unfoldment of some great divine plan?

The significance of the 1572 comet: The comet that Paracelsus prophesized appeared around the 12th birthday of Bacon. Why is that year important in the life of a young Francis Bacon? The first 12 years are relatively karmic free as the soul courses its way through the 12 signs of the Zodiac. This is a period of grace which allows the child to grow into maturity and is the reason why children should not be robbed of their childhood. Otherwise, the soul will suffer later in life. After the cycle of 12 years, the soul is ready to take on her karma and begin her mission. Bacon was the original ‘indigo child.’ Being the secret son of Queen Elizabeth, he was given the finest education. Even Roger Bacon, about 350 years earlier entered Oxford University at age 13. At age 12, Francis was indeed ready to begin the accelerated path of his final embodiment that would ultimately lead to his ascension as the Comte de Saint Germain. That comet provided the impetus, light and energy for Bacon to initiate the cycles of a grand life and beyond. But this was no ordinary life. And he was not your run-of-the mill adept. He wanted to bring about a revolution for all mankind. He was to receive an added boost. A Star. Not just any star, his personal Star, just as the Bethlehem Star will forever be associated with Jesus.

Sir Francis Bacon

What changes did the supernova of 1604 bring to Bacon’s life?

Witnesses have said the supernova was very bright. As with any powerful astrological aspect, the effects are often seen before they appear or go exact. There was one impediment to Bacon’s mission. It was his own mother, Queen Elizabeth. She was the reason he wrote the Shakespeare plays in secret. Within those plays he tells his true story, including his birth, using ciphers. One year before the supernova arrives to physical sight but beginning to exert an influence, the Queen dies. That year, 1603, King James ascends the throne signaling the change of fortune for Bacon. He is Knighted in 1603. The year the comet appears in 1604 he begins The Advancement of Learning which is then published in 1605. The changes start accelerating in 1607 when he becomes Solicitor. In 1608 he begins Novum Organum. The books, accolades and titles continue on, year after year until he leaves the scene in 1626.

As I have written elsewhere, (The Hidden Significance of Enoch …) many have made their ascension. Jesus ascended.

I love this stuff. Can you feel the tingling in your spine or on the back of your neck of the Presence of the Master? If not, call to him as you read on. The Count of Saint-Germain by Cooper-Oakley is absolutely the best source for information on the Count. Much has been lost: “Napoleon III, puzzled and interested by what he had heard about the mysterious life of the Comte de Saint-Germain, instructed one of his librarians to search for and collect all that could be found about him in archives and documents of the latter part of the eighteenth century. This was done, and a great number of papers, forming an enormous dossier, was deposited in the library of the prefecture of police.

Unfortunately, the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune supervened, and the part of the building in which the dossier was kept was burnt.” source. And there’s this: “Although an effort has been made to eliminate St. Germain’s name from modern Masonic literature, careful research into Masonic archives will prove that he occupied a prominent position in eighteenth century Masonry.” source. The following is from the opening page of Saint Germain on Alchemy by Elizabeth Clare Prophet:

“He was the WonderMan of Europe—this we know. But was he the lost third son of Prince Ferenc Rakoczy II, the deposed Hungarian ruler? Or did he, as the Ascended Master Saint Germain, materialize a body to give the appearance that he had descended through the royal house of Hungary? His birth, death, and true identity are shrouded in mystery.

“He was skilled in healing and the use of medicinal herbs. Some have speculated that it was Saint Germain’s use of herbs combined with his simple eating habits that prolonged his life. Prince Karl of Hesse wrote, “He thoroughly understood herbs and plants, and had invented the medicines of which he constantly made use, and which prolonged his life andhealth.”
He gave an elixir to Madame v. Georgy which made her keep looking 25 for 25 years, according to contemporary accounts. She lived so long that she came to be called the old everlasting countess. …”

“… Whenever he traveled, he was welcomed as scholar, statesman and raconteur. He formed secret societies, was a leading figure in the Rosicrucians, Freemasons, and Knights Templar of the period, and penned the occult classic The Most Holy Trinosophia, using a mixture of modern languages and ancient hieroglyphics.

” Monsieur de Saint Germain never confirmed or denied anything that was said about him. Instead, he would respond with a smile or a studied evasiveness. His skill as an alchemist was praised by Louis XV, who provided him a laboratory and residence at the royal castle of Chambord. And his alchemical demonstrations were nothing short of miraculous according to his chroniclers. …” “… But why all of this extravagance at court? What was he trying to prove? He was trying, precisely—with wit and humor and his prophetic, masterfull presence—to galvanize an age in the face of the inevitable passing of the old order. His plan of action was to establish a United States of Europe—before the pulling of the ripcord of the bloody French Revolution should leave nothing bad or good of the royal houses of Europe.Another of Saint Germain’s aims was to accelerate the progress of science and technology to lift man into a capacity for greater spiritual awareness. At times he played the part of patron saint of the Industrial Revolution.” pp. vii-xi, xv

The Count tried to bring about a United States of Europe. Along with Louis XV, he formed ‘The Versailles Group’ which created a document and plan to revolutionize Europe along the lines of what would later become America, including major economic reforms. That document now sits in the Louvre. Louis XVI later undid all the changes that had begun to be implemented and brought back some of the aristocracy that had been removed. One of those original members of the Versailles Group later reincarnated as Henry George (1839-1897): 1, 2. He wrote Progress and Poverty, which Leo Tolstoy, Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill and John Dewey, considered a masterpiece of economics. The book included some of the principles he remembered (probably unconsciously) from his time spent in the Versailles Group.

Saint Germain next appeared in the Colonies as “The Professor” working to establish that beacon of democracy which was a dream of his when he was Bacon. He had a hand in designing the flag and he gave that electrifying speech from the back of Independence Hall, when he shouted out “Gibbet? They may stretch our necks on all the gibbets in the land–they may turn every rock into a scaffold–every tree into a gallows, every home into a grave, and yet the words on that Parchment can never die! …” (link below). He came back later to France to try and save the monarchy from ruin. But they would not listen. He was familiar with those behind the scenes causing revolution for they had penetrated a branch of his Masonic Order. After one of the Illuminati’s messengers was struck down by a lightning bolt in Bavaria (Source: Proofs of a Conspiracy by John Robison) their plans were exposed and they had to go underground. While Scottish Freemasonry remained true to the Founder’s principles, the German Freemasons were infiltrated by Adam Weishaupt of the Illuminati, whom the Count knew personally, knowing his intent and evil core. From this fertile hiding ground, they did their mischief, spreading lies about the Queen among other things. The confusion today about whether the Freemasons are Divinely inspired or something more sinister, dates from this time period.

At one point the Count had great hopes for Gustav II of Sweden and was off to assist him. He tried one more time to unite Europe through France but Napoleon’s ego got in the way. Alas, his time had run out. He’s hopes for Europe were dashed, Franz Gräffer was one of the last to see him:

“Saint Germain then freshly passed into a solemn mood. For a few seconds he became rigid as a statute, his eyes, which were always expressive beyond words, became dull and colorless. Presently, however, his whole being became re-animated. He made a movement with his hand as if in signal of his departure, then said: ‘I am leaving (ich scheide); do not visit me. Once again you will see me. Tomorrow night I am off; I am much needed in Constantinople; then in England, there to prepare two inventions which you will have in the next century—trains and steamboats. These will be needed in Germany. The seasons will gradually change—first the spring, then the summer. It is the gradual cessation of time itself, as the announcement of the end of the cycle. I see it all; astrologers and meteorologists know nothing, believe me; one needs to have studied in the Pyramids as I have studied. Towards the end of the century I shall disappear out of Europe, and betake myself to the region of the Himalayas. I will rest; I must rest. Exactly in eighty-five years will people again set eyes on me. Farewell, I love you.’ After these solemnly uttered words, the Count repeated the sign with his hand. The two adepts, overpowered with the force of such unprecedented impressions, left the room in a condition of complete stupefaction. In the same moment there fell a sudden heavy shower, accompanied by a peel of thunder. Instinctively they returned to the laboratory for shelter. They open the door. St. Germain is no more there. …” The Count of Saint Germain, by Isabel Cooper-Oakley; pp. 144, 145.

I am a little saddened re-living this scene of St. Germain’s disappointment. There may be nothing worse in the Universe than the disappointment of a Great Adept. Perhaps there is something worse: being the instrument for the disappointment of a Master. A side note, I remember seeing one of those history type programs a few months ago on the invention of the train in England. I always thought it was invented in America. I can see why they beat us, he helped them. No mention was made of St. Germain on the TV program. A pity. Understandable however, since he was always doing things behind the scenes, giving others credit. The goals and interests of Bacon were ever-present in the Count and undeniable. Wanting to lift the burdens upon mankind he continued to prod scientific inventions along. Not only did he help invent the train, but also mass-production methods and he helped create all sorts of new clothing that allowed the common man to dress almost as well as the upper classes.

The pyramid reference above is yet another parallel with Jesus. When Joseph and Mary fled with a very young Jesus to Egypt, it is entirely possible, and many have suggested it, that he studied with the heirophants at Luxor and in the pyramids.

The author, Isabel Cooper-Oakley pegged that quote above at about 1790. The Count said he would return in 85 years after taking a rest in the Himalayas. That would be 1875. Guess what organization of the Himalayan Brotherhood started in 1875? Correct, The Theosophical Society, primarily started by the Master M. and K.H. but with Saint Germain’s and D.K’s help. However, Saint Germain may have kept his word and appeared in 1875, albeit in an unlikely place, Santa Fe, New Mexico. The sisters of Loretto Chapel needed a staircase so they did a Novena to St. Joseph. An extraordinary “miracle” staircase was built by a mysterious man who left before being paid. Those who are familiar with Saint Germain’s past embodiments know him as St. Joseph. The Count would go on to personally sponsor other activiities of the Great White Brotherhood starting in the early 20th century.

“During the Theosophical Era, beloved Brothers Morya and Kuthumi invested their energies instead and I builded those energies so that when I came forth again and my energy again began to flow, my more personal association with mankind would begin again in a renewed and powerful activity. [Starting with the I AM activity. Editor]

I shall always remember the ceremony in which I received the ceremony as Chohan of the Seventh Ray from the beloved Kwan Yin. I considered in my heart, if I could ever hope to embody mercy, the compassion and the love of such a Being as Kwan Yin, half hoping that I might not have to assume that responsibility after so short a preparation at inner levels.

In regard to the use of the Sacred Fire of Transmutation, one of the major impressions which have differentiated her activity from mine seems to be that she taught the use of the Flame of Mercy as a power of transmutation in the changing of the quality of energy; whereas the presentation of the Violet Flame as brought forth more recently emphasized the consuming of discord. …

“… Now it is time to assume another vestment. In addition to assuming the vestment as the Chohan of the Seventh Ray, I will assume the cosmic of vestment as the director of this great incoming cycle of 2,000 years, which closes the major cycle of 14,000 years as well. I ask for the prayers and decrees, the devotion, the thought and, the calls of all who love me in this hour, so that I may avail myself of all that my consciousness can absorb and which I can pour as the greatest blessing to the mankind of earth through the consciousness of each of you and all my friends throughout the world. I have lived but to serve life. I have lived to set it free. Now is the hour of my opportunity.” Saint Germain 4/21/54; The Bridge to Freedom Journal, Book 2; p. 228.

We live at a momentous time. All eras and cycles are converging right now. The 25,800 year Kali Yuga (1, 2, 3) ends now. The 14,000 and 2,000 year cycles are here for change and we are now half-way through the 800 year old cycle. The Avatar of that Supernova in 1604 is still counting on “Other souls, strong and true, [who] promised to weave their life energies into completing the pattern of my free star!” It will be another 400 years till the next “fiery trigon and great conjunction”, possibly Maitreya’s Star. Until then, Saint Germain is still counting on us to complete his mission. Just as events hung in the balance in late 18th century Europe for the Count, so it is in America today. Only this time, the denial permeates all of American society and culture not just the powers that be. The Count is not without his resources in this day and age. He hopes history does not repeat itself and that we heed the warnings, especially the one received by his ablest disciple, Washington, when he heard those dire words for the third time: ‘Son of the Republic, look and learn, …’ and then saw the vision of his beloved Americal under the gravest of threats. And later, Washington himself returned during the time of the Civil War to give General McClellan a vital message. It ended on this note:

“… for ere another century shall have gone by, the oppressors of the whole earth, hating and envying her exaltation, shall join themselves together and raise up their hands against her. But if she still be found worthy of her high calling they shall surely be discomfited, and then will be ended her third and last great struggle for existence. Thenceforth shall the Republic go on, increasing in power and goodness, until her borders shall end only in the remotest corners of the earth, and the whole earth shall beneath her shadowing wing become a Universal Republic. Let her in her prosperity, however, remember the Lord her God, let her trust be always in Him, and she shall never be confounded.”

Change at the highest levels of government was the order of the day in France to head off catastrophe. Back then it was possible to change a government from the top down. Because of its unwieldy size and the consciouness of the people, that would be very difficult in America today. As Toynbee said, a civilization that wishes to survive, needs to transcend its focus on the material and begin the process of etherealizing culture. A quantum spiritual change in America is the need at this late hour.

The codes and ciphers of yesteryear have been unlocked and laid bare. But only those with ears to hear can unfold the Rosy Cross so near, and know the secret spiritual truths the Great Adept since 1604 has loosed.

Take a moment, go within, and look at these two. What does your heart tell you?

Francis Bacon, 18 years old; by Nicholas Hilliard

Saint Germain by Charles Sindelar, circa 1930′s

The Blessed Mother Mary has been appearing in Medjugorje for nearly thirty years. The original six children, now adult seers,  tell the same remarkable story about the coming of the heavenly Queen of Peace as Mary describes herself in the appearances. These messages have brought hope to millions and rekindled faith, community and prayer.

Not many New Age leaders have commented on or supported these appearances. One leading New Age spiritual writer and speaker, and a Messenger for the Ascended Masters, Elizabeth Clare Prophet did speak about these appearances of Mother Mary in Medjugorje.

In 1998, Elizabeth Clare Prophet gave us updates on the appearances of Mother Mary at Fatima and Medjugorje. [i] She instructed us that the messages give us prophecies and they also give us antidote to prophecies. They are warnings so that we can act in time to avert or mitigate prophecy.
“These children were prophets of their time and of our time.” We are encouraged to take these messages to heart and rededicate ourselves to giving the rosary. “Know that as you faithfully recite the rosary every day, you are contributing to world peace. And you have a very special place reserved for you in the heart of the Blessed Mother…. At both Fatima and Medjugorje the Blessed Mother has given the same message–that we can save ourselves and the planet–if we will faithfully pray and give the rosary.”[ii]
“I believe that Mother Mary began her appearances in Medjugorje because her requests at Fatima have not been fulfilled. The Pope to this day has never revealed the third part of the Fatima secret…. The children said that during her Medjugorje visitations the Blessed Mother gave them messages stressing peace, conversion, prayer, fasting, penance and a sacramental life.”[iii]
In 1987, Mother Mary dictated through the Messenger Elizabeth
Clare Prophet saying, “I have come to prepare for calamities to come….
Know, then, beloved, that I have also appeared in Yugoslavia to these
special hearts, young in body but ancient of days, as the Queen of Peace. For peace is a pillar of fire that is thrust as a sword in the very midst of Communist territory….Blessed ones, Medjugorje has become as a figure-eight flow where so many hearts give attention to me that the light may descend as judgment….The simple of heart need to be reminded of their original faith. To deliver to them a message beyond that which they comprehend within the supposed security of the Church would only serve to neutralize the message and their opinions of its authenticity. Thus, to depart from scripture or canon would be to obviate the very purpose of my coming, which is to draw a tremendous devotion of people of every faith to the heart of God and the Divine Mother, that in this sacred tie to heaven they might pass through a darkness to come….I have desired, then, that you should see and understand the light, the determination, the joy, the confidence that the seeing of myself has given to the six—and which through them has been radiated to the many.”
On July 4, 2009, Marija, one of the visionaries of Medjugorje that Mother Mary has been appearing to regularly, reported that the reconsecration of America to Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart was accomplished. This took place at a conference in Alabama. You can read more at this website: http://www.medjugorje.com/medjugorje-america/medjugorje-america/658-july-4-2009-apparition-in-the-field.html
Pray the Rosary
“In response to Mother Mary, I believe it is imperative that we all give a rosary daily.”[iv] And we can now invoke and affirm the Reconsecration of America to the Immaculate Heart of Mother Mary as we walk through our daily activities multiple times a day.

Alberta Fredricksen
[i] Elizabeth Clare Prophet, PoW, Vol. 41 No. 39, Copyright © C.U.T, September 27, 1998; [ii] Ibid. [iii] Ibid. [iv] Ibid.