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Excerpts from an Address by
ASCENDED MASTER SAINT GERMAIN
April 21, 1954
Beloved children, it is my extreme pleasure to greet you in the name
of the Freedom which I serve. I am privileged among all the sons and daughters
of Heaven to have the opportunity of bringing to fruition the full harvest of
all the ages of spiritual service in which millions of lifestreams engaged. The
individual who places the final harvest of an evolution upon the screen of life
receives undue homage, for many do not think back to the countless numbers of
consciousnesses that contributed to the final Victory. I am merely the
"capstone" placed at the apex of the spiritual pyramid. This pyramid was built
out of the energies and vital life of countless men and women who served the
cause of God through the centuries and who gave themselves without reservation
to fulfilling his Divine Plan.
On the eve of this great Ceremony,* which will engage the attention
and energies of all the Members of our Spiritual Hierarchy, my heart is filled
with gratitude and humility for the honor of accepting the Crown of Authority as
Directing Consciousness for the incoming cycle. You may be interested in the
diversity of activity connected with the investment of certain powers in a
lifestream. Even in the world of form, wise investment of more than ordinary
powers requires a deep understanding and an illumined consciousness that those
powers may be used always to expand the sphere of influence of God-good, and in
every manner, aid the evolution of the planet and its people.
Although I have been the Chohan of the Seventh Ray for many years, I
had not yet become the Cosmic Representative of the new cycle, because the final
vibrations of the Sixth Ray were still active in the atmosphere of the planet
Earth.
For almost one hundred years after the Ascension of my physical
body, I prepared to be invested with the power and authority as the Chohan of
the Seventh Ray. I prepared to be invested with the Cosmic Authority as the
Directing Consciousness of the new cycle of time. You will see all progress is
in graded radiation, graded application and preparation of consciousness.
During my last Earth life, I was privileged to come into contact
with many Masters, some of whom were already Ascended, others of whom were
highly developed and evolved. Through their assistance I was able to use the
applications given and prepare myself to be free from the necessity of rebirth.
At the close of that Earth life I went into Transylvania and there on the first
of May 1684, passed into the Ascended Master Octave. My personal Ascension was
completed in 1684, but the assumption of my office as Chohan of the Seventh Ray
was completed late in the eighteenth century, after my service to the Cause of
Freedom in America and at the Court of France. When I assumed office as a
Chohan, it was no longer possible for me to use my vital energy in the
visitations, such as I had made to the crowned heads of Europe. Until this time,
I had certain liberty to utilize my energies in endeavoring to form a United
States of Europe and to persuade certain students of the occult and metaphysical
laws that, if they would cooperate with the Hierarchy, a universal brotherhood
could be established without bloodshed. With the exception of my endeavors
through Napoleon Bonaparte, I no longer gave any personal service to the
European governmental circles and my service to mankind became Cosmic.
It was at the time when Beloved Kwan Yin turned over to me the
authority as Chohan that I retired from active service in the world of form.
During the Theosophical era, Beloved Brothers Morya and Kuthumi
invested their energies instead and I built 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.
I shall always remember the Ceremony in which I received the Crown
as Chohan of the Seventh Ray from the beloved Kwan Yin. I considered in my heart
if I could ever hope to embody the 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. This is apt
to bring into the consciousness and the mind of many a feeling of a vacuum and a
lack. I am hoping that through the pressure of Kwan Yin's interest, we can in
some way convey to the consciousness of new people particularly, that this Flame
is not only a consuming activity of impurity, but it is also a transmuting and
changing of the quality of energy into perfection. This process leaves them with
the same energy which previously distressed them, but now constructively
vibrating at a rate which becomes a store of merit within their hands and use.
Much of the fear that enters the consciousness of new students with regard to
the use of the Violet Flame, rises from the word "consuming." Often as I sit
with Kwan Yin, we discuss the aspect of presentation and she emphasizes again
that she used the words "mercy," "compassion" and "transmutation" giving the
emphasis to the purification in the aspect of the Flame and in the change of the
actual quality of the energy.
It is now again the time to assume another vestment. I assumed the
vestment as the Chohan of the Seventh Ray, and now I assume the Cosmic Vestment
as the Director of this great incoming cycle of two thousand years, which closes
the major cycle of fourteen thousand 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 but to set it free. Now is the hour of my
opportunity.
Many centuries ago I hoped and wished for an Earthly crown (as
Francis Bacon). I had a vision of a united brotherhood of Europe. Through
circumstance, mercy and the wisdom of the law I did not receive that crown. Now
I am about to receive a Cosmic Crown and in the greater wisdom and maturity of
my consciousness, I find that even now I feel I am not ready. One does not
lightly assume the responsibility for the evolution of an entire planet, all its
peoples, all the angels and all the elementals. I stand in that position today.
I stand requiring the love and the friendship of incarnate spirits, I certainly
have the love, companionship, friendship and support in Heaven of the most
exquisite Beings of light and perfection, for which I am eternally grateful.
They are weaving the garlands for the great Temples. The Coronation
train of this exquisite vestment will be over forty feet in length. The Crown I
will receive from the beloved Jesus, because as Prince of Peace of the sixth
dispensation it has been in his keeping for the past two thousand years. The
Scepter of Authority I will receive from Sanat Kumara. It will truly be a day to
remember, a day when I shall offer myself again to Life and to Freedom.
I would like to thank you for giving yourselves so freely and so
completely. I would like to thank you for your interest in the Cause of Freedom,
for investing your energies in that Freedom through the centuries, not only in
this embodiment, but you have rallied around that banner of Freedom in almost
every era and every age that you have lived. Now as we enter the door of a new
day, I shall remember those of you who have stood by me, and you shall be part
of that Spiritual Court that lives forever.
There is much I would say, there is much of which I am thinking in
regard to each one of you; there are memories woven deep into my heart for the
personal and universal associations. Those memories are sweet... they are the
bonds that bind Heaven and Earth... they are the ties that keep the God-free yet
hovering around the planet reluctant to enjoy Heaven's bliss while any portion
of life is in shadow. It is a marvelous thing that through each one of you we
shall reach the rest of mankind and set them free also. I hope and trust that
you will enjoy the happiness of the incoming of the Seventh Cycle and that you
may enjoy the radiation and the beauty of the pageantry of the Kingdom of
Heaven. Meantime for this short while ahead I am spending it within the Temples
of the Silence in invocations to the Father that I be worthy of the honor to be
bestowed.
To you, each one, God bless you and thank you for the homely things
that make of life a joy.
SAINT GERMAIN
(*Note: Coronation of Ascended Master Saint Germain
and the Goddess of Justice, Portia, May 1, 1954.)
Calendar of Special Days of Spiritual
Importance in 1955
April 10 |
Easter Sunday |
May 1 |
Ascension Day of Master Saint Germain
|
May 1 |
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May 6 |
Wesak Festival (approximately 5 p.m. eastern standard time) |
May 8 |
Mothers' Day |
May 19 |
Ascension Day of Master Jesus |
May 29 |
Whitsuntide (Pentecost) |
July 4 |
Independence Day |
August 15 |
Ascension Day of Beloved
Mother Mary |
November 2 |
All Souls' Day |
November 24 |
Thanksgiving Day |
December 25 |
Christmas Day |