The
true alchemy of the heart
A message from Saint Germain
NOTE: This message was delivered on May 25, 2006 during the Shangra-la
Ascencion Conference.
Welcome to the heart of America and welcome to the heart of Saint Germain!
I have decided to greet you right at the start of this conference because
I have been looking forward to this gathering for quite some time. And
I could no longer contain myself. And therefore, here I am, to welcome
you to this experience on the inner path.
[Applause]
It has been some time since I have been able to speak this way in this
area of Chicago. Yet in times past I have spoken here many times. That
is why many past organizations have had centers here and still do. Because
the heart chakra of America is indeed a key factor in the raising of
America into the Aquarian Age. For as Jesus pointed out 2,000 years
ago, the heart is the center of your Being. And what fills the heart,
the mouth will overflow with, and so the entire person is controlled
by what is going on in the heart—as is an entire nation.
A most important service
Thus, my beloved, I can tell you that one of the most important services
ever rendered to America has been the vigil that so many people around
the world have conducted over this past month, of giving the rosary
for the clearing
of the heart.* Truly, this has cleared the heart of the people in
every nation where it was given. But because the focus has been on this
conference, there has been an immense clearing of the heart chakra of
America.
It is not fully cleared, and thus you have work to do at this conference.
But I must tell you that much of the hardness of heart in this area
has been softened up. And although it may not appear to have been cleared,
it is ready to be taken, almost like a dam breaking and suddenly the
waters can flow freely again. The waters that have been dammed up so
long, therefore sitting still, becoming stale and filled with all kind
of debris and dirt, as has truly been the case here in Chicago, with
the energies in this area.
This
city is by no means what it could be if the heart had been cleared,
if there had been room in the heart. This is a great, great problem
for the progression of the Golden Age. And thus the potential for clearing
it in this conference is immense. And I want you to hold the image that
the dark substance of the hardness of heart covering the Chicago area
– extending far beyond this city – can indeed – through
the action of your work here below and our work Above – be cleared
for the remainder of this conference.
Hold that immaculate vision. And truly, by the grace of God, a miracle
can be performed, a miracle that is unprecedented in the history of
the Great White Brotherhood. Because, the rosaries of Mother Mary are
unprecedented tools, far more powerful than what was given in previous
organizations.
There is power and there is Power
Yes, my beloved, I know that some will say that nothing could be more
powerful than the violet flame decrees, but it is not so. For the power
is not just an outer power. The power is not something that you just
invoke. The power must, as everything else, come from within. And it
comes from within only when you reach integration and Oneness with your
own higher Being, so that you are here below, all that you are Above.
And through that Oneness, a power can be released that is beyond the
comprehension of most people, even beyond the comprehension of many
Ascended Master students who have given the decrees and techniques released
in previous organizations. For the rosaries are designed not just to
invoke the light, but to provide the platform for the integration of
your lower being with your higher Being. And thus, through that Oneness,
your higher Being can act in an entirely different manner, that is at
such a higher level that there is no comparison. It is truly, like Jesus
said, “My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.”
This is the power that comes only through Oneness. It cannot be faked.
It cannot be forced. It is not a matter of belonging to a particular
organization or giving a certain amount of decrees over so many years.
There is no mechanical means that will provide that integration and
Oneness because there is no substitute. There is no way of cheating.
There is no way of putting on an appearance of being one with your higher
Being, as many spiritual people in many different organizations and
religions have been good at putting on an appearance of being spiritual
and religious because they lived up to the outer rules and practices
in their particular religion. Which is something we have seen our fair
share of in Ascended Master organizations.
Stop playing the ego games!
And thus, we have now reached the point, where we can release the teaching
that this must stop and that our students need to come to a higher level
of not playing games. Not playing the ego game of pretending to be a
good person. It is time, at the end of the Piscean Age, to realize that
Jesus himself said this over and over again 2,000 years ago, when he
chastised those who were the hypocrites, the scribes and the Pharisees,
who pretended, who honored God with their mouth, but their heart was
far from him.
There is no way to fake the purity of heart, the openness of heart,
the oneness of heart. It can only be achieved through complete surrender
to the higher Being that you are. Whereby you become one, because you
now realize that the will of your Higher Being, or the Will of God,
is not alien to your own will. It is your own greater will, it is your
reason for coming into embodiment, for coming to this planet in the
first place.
And thus, you are not working against your own purpose. You are not
divided, you are not trying to serve two masters. Where the one master
is your divine plan that you agreed to before coming into embodiment,
when you were in a state of Oneness with your Higher Being and your
spiritual teachers. Yet after coming into embodiment, and growing up
and being faced with the trials of life, you built an outer personality,
outer expectations. And now that outer personality is warring against
the higher Being and your divine plan, thinking you have to do this
or that here on Earth. You have to accomplish these or those goals,
that were programmed into your mind by society or by your parents. And
then you think – after you have attained these goals – you
can finally be spiritual.
This is not the way things work, as Jesus clearly said, “Seek
ye first the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be added unto
you.” If you think it can be done the other way around, you are
putting the cart before the horse. It will not work! Millions of people
in all kinds of spiritual organizations have attempted to make it work.
And I must tell you that not one has ever been successful and no one
ever will be.
So give up the dream. Give up the illusion that what the Ascended Masters
want or what God wants is an outer appearance of pretending. We don’t
want you to pretend to be someone else according to some man-made standard
created by some religion. We want you to BE who you are. But the Being
we want you to be is, of course, not the ego, the outer personality
created by this world. We want you to BE your own higher Being, your
own I AM Presence, your true Being in Heaven. And even BE the greater
spiritual Being out of which you are an individualization.
And thus, some of you are indeed individualizations of the same greater
Being out of which I came. And thus you might attain a greater Oneness,
first with me as a representative, but then even with that greater Being
out of which we came so many eons ago. And some of you are one with
the Beings of other Ascended Masters. And we are not here to stand between
you and the higher Being out of which we all came. We are only here
to show you who you are by showing you an example that we have united
with our own higher Being.
The essential principle of alchemy
Thus, I ask you to contemplate – throughout this retreat –
the essential principle of alchemy, a principle that has been misunderstood
by so many people, even so many spiritual people, even Ascended Master
students who have read my teachings on alchemy given so many years ago.
The principle of alchemy is that you take what is imperfect and you
transform it into something perfect—not by making it conform to
an outer appearance but by transcending the outer appearance and making
it conform to the immaculate concept, held in the mind of God, in your
own Higher Being.
Note the essential difference. People will look at conditions on this
Earth and they will say, “This is not right.” The reason
why you know it is not right is because in the deeper part of your being,
you have the immaculate concept for how the kingdom of God should be
here on Earth and how your own divine plan should be unfurled. But what
happens in the world is that you build a worldly expectation of how
things should be. And that worldly expectation obscures your own inner
knowing, your divine plan and the reality of the kingdom of God.
So when you find the spiritual path and become more aware of the need
to raise your consciousness and raise the planet, you impose, you superimpose,
the image of your worldly expectation upon yourself and upon the world.
And you think that alchemy means that you take what is imperfect and
transform it into the worldly image of “perfection” that
has been created in this world through the mind of anti-christ, through
your own ego, or even through people who are well-meaning but simply
are not attuned to the reality of Christ.
And so all of your life, you can run after this false goal that is not
the true goal. And thus, you are simply going from one extreme to the
other. You are trying to get away from worldly imperfection [which is
only an appearance] by creating the outer appearance of worldly perfection.
My beloved, listen carefully. You can make progress by doing this. Realizing
that your own life, your own consciousness, is not where it needs to
be, setting a higher goal and striving for that goal can lead to progress.
But it will only lead to a certain level of progress, and then you will
stop—unless you understand the true principle of alchemy, namely
that you completely surrender all of your worldly expectations.
You do as Jesus said, you lose your worldly life for the sake of becoming
one with Christ truth, becoming reborn according to the immaculate concept
for your own Being. And in that total surrender of the lower expectations
and of the ego, then you can obtain Oneness with your higher Being.
And that Oneness is the philosopher's stone, the golden means, the cup
of Christ, the X-factor, that both alchemists and many other people
have been searching for throughout the ages. Thinking that if they found
something in this world that had magical properties, then that something
would transform them into perfect human beings, or transform lead into
gold or transform the Earth into the kingdom of God, without them going
through the process of obtaining Oneness through the death of the ego.
Answer
the call of this age
Thus, I ask you to consider the contrast between past organizations
of the Ascended Masters and what you are experiencing today, in this
retreat and in this organization. Look at how, in the past, people would
have a view that the Ascended Masters were so far above them. There
would be idolatry. There would be a tendency to put on an outer appearance,
even by dressing a certain way, talking a certain way, doing certain
outer things that made it seem like you were really a good Ascended
Master student.
But you see, my beloved, in this day and age – and through this
particular organization – we are calling those who are ready to
move beyond this outer appearance and just BE who you are, but be the
greater Being that you are, not the lower self. This may seem very simple,
very low-key. It may seem like it is not as sophisticated as the “supposedly”
higher path of past organizations.
It may seem like the teachings are simple, but my beloved, they are
at an entirely different level. It does not even matter whether they
are higher or lower, because what we are calling you to do today is
to move beyond the duality consciousness that judges and compares based
on outer appearances.
The outer appearances do not matter. What matters is that you transcend
the outer appearance, see beyond it to the inner reality. Thus, you
are here for these next few precious days, you all came from all over
the world with your different backgrounds. You had to go through trials
to get here. You may have various problems in your normal lives. But
I ask you to set it aside for these next days.
Look beyond the outer conditions. Find the deeper reality within and
strive for that oneness within yourself, with your own Higher Being
and strive for the oneness with each other. And if you can achieve it,
if you can detach yourself from the outer appearances, then truly you
can be the instrument of the miracle of clearing away the hardness of
heart of an entire nation. Including healing your own being from hardness
of heart, which in many cases is the underlying cause of whatever outer
problems you face that seemingly will not go away. Because how can they,
when the hardness of heart prevents the flow of the River of Life through
you, that is the only thing that can consume the problems, transform
them through the alchemy of the heart into the higher perfection of
the immaculate concept for your life.
This, my beloved, is the true path of integration. It is a path that
cannot be promoted in an outer way. Because it will have no appeal to
those who are still stuck in the duality consciousness and want to create
the appearance that people are not equal and that some people are more
important, more powerful or more spiritual than others. And thus, they
prefer to stay in the twilight zone where light and dark can coexist,
which is the situation you see on this planet and have seen for so many
eons that one wonders when a sufficient number of people will wake up
and say, “Enough is enough!”
Hardness of heart and abortion
My beloved, I will speak to you briefly on the issue of abortion, which
as you know has been on the hearts and minds of the Ascended Host for
decades. We indeed have a plan for this nation, for the raising up of
America and the entire world. But contrary to the old image –
that goes back decades, centuries, millennia in religions – that
God or the Ascended Hosts will miraculously save humankind and bring
about the Golden Age, the reality is that what will bring about the
Golden Age is that a sufficient number of people in embodiment discover
and follow the inner path and reach a certain level of Christhood. Where
they can be the open doors – as Jesus was the open door –
for bringing the immaculate concept for the Golden Age into physical
manifestation.
And so for this to happen, the lifestreams that have obtained a certain
level of Christhood in past lives must come into embodiment. This, of
course, is a plan that has one major flaw, because the forces of anti-christ
are fully aware that it is people who must bring about change in the
world. They have known this for a long time and they are keenly aware
of it, even though most people – most spiritual people and the
general population – are not aware of it. Because the power elite
has created a culture that de-emphasizes the importance of the individual,
seeking to turn the majority of humankind into the blind followers of
themselves as the blind leaders. Thus following the currents in the
mass consciousness, rather than attaining the supreme individuality
that is the Christ consciousness.
Thus, they are fully aware that if they can keep out the key individuals,
so that a critical mass of Christed Beings will not come forth on this
planet, then they can postpone – at least for a season –
the manifestation of the Golden Age, which will bring about their own
exit from this planet and their loss of control. And because America
is a key to the manifestation of the Golden Age, they have especially
attempted to prevent the right number of Christed Beings from living
in the United States.
Abortion has been one of their key strategies. And I must tell you quite
frankly that it is the divine matrix, the divine plan that there should
be 44 million more people living in the United States than is the case
today. Many people when they hear this staggering number would say,
“Oh but what would happen then to the economy, to the environment?
It would be overcrowded. Think about the traffic!”
[Laughter]
But you see, these are selfish concerns. And this is precisely why the
forces of anti-christ have been successful in establishing abortion
as the legal right for any woman with no conditions. It is because so
many people in the United States have become so self-centered and so
selfish that there is not room in their hearts for another person in
their family or for another family down the street.
This is hardness of heart in a way that is subtle, and therefore most
people do not see it as hardness of heart. They do not realize that
what they see with their intellectual minds as a perfectly logical and
rational argument is simply the ego’s ability to justify anything,
even justify the hardness of heart that would exclude a Christed soul
from coming into embodiment. As King Herod attempted to kill the Christ
child, and in so doing was willing to kill an entire generation of male
babies.
My beloved, think of the hardness of heart of a ruler who could give
such an order. Yet there are people in America today who have that same
hardness of heart and therefore think abortion is acceptable.
Now, my beloved, I must tell you that the Ascended Host never look at
any issue in black and white terms. We have in the past spoken out in
a black-and-white way against abortion, because we deemed it necessary
to portray a viewpoint that hopefully could awaken at least some people.
Yet in the long run, we could foresee a society where abortion was available
to a woman under certain conditions that would not jeopardize her spiritual
growth.
Thus, the issue is not as clear-cut as it might have seemed from our
past musings on the topic. Nevertheless, I must also tell you that the
United States is not at a point yet where it is able to enact the right
Christ-like conditions. And thus, it would have been better had the
United States had a clear law preventing abortion over these past decades,
since that fateful decision by the Supreme Court. Because there would
have been millions more Americans in embodiment than there is today.
Hardness of heart and immigration
Thus, my beloved, you see now that the Ascended Host have a plan, and
the dark forces try to counteract that plan in whatever way they can
by working through their instruments in embodiment. Yet that does not
mean that it all ends there, for we of the Ascended Host are, of course,
aware of what is being done, and we have our ways of counteracting it.
And so my beloved, contrary to what many people might be thinking –
even some Ascended Master students – part of our plan to compensate
for the loss of Christed souls through abortion is indeed immigration.
If a soul cannot be born in the United States, well then it is certainly
not beyond the means of the Karmic Board to find parents for that soul
South of the border [or in other parts of the world]. And then inspire
that person to do whatever is necessary to come to the United States
later in life—to simply be here and be part of the experiment
that America is.
Thus, I am somewhat dismayed that a number of our past and present students
have not seen that immigration is the only practical means to compensate
for what has been lost through abortion. Even from a practical standpoint,
how will you pay for the retirement of the baby-boomer** generation
with the current number of taxpayers? There is not time to raise them,
even if there was another baby boom today. So the only practical solution
is to let them come in from abroad and give them the opportunity that
the United States of America was designed to be from the very beginning.
An opportunity to be free from the oppression and the rules and regulations
and restrictions that prevented so many people during the Middle Ages
in Europe from expressing their Christhood and growing beyond their
level of consciousness.
My beloved, what is it that causes so many people in the United States
to be against immigration? Well, it is again hardness of heart. A hardness
of heart that sometimes takes the form of a subtle form of looking down
at most of the people who come across the border from the neighbor to
the South. But my beloved, I, Saint Germain, do not look at a person’s
skin color or nationality or culture. I look at the quality of the heart.
And I can tell you that there are millions of beautiful souls in the
Latino culture, in Mexico and throughout Central and South America [and
in other parts of the world], that are close to my heart. And I will
welcome them when they come across the borders of this country. I would
very much prefer that they could do so legally and that one of the conditions
for their entry was a basic mastery of the English language.
But I must tell you that the need for immigration, even illegal immigration,
is created by the hardness of the heart of the people who have been
so spoiled from growing up during the affluent decades, and therefore
thinking that they are somehow better than the people in poor nations.
They are entitled to all this wealth, and they own this nation of America.
They think it is their own or at least their parent’s hard work
that has built this nation.
And while I do not in any way want to degrade their hard work, I must
tell you that what has built the United States of America is the sponsorship
of the Ascended Host. Because we have set this nation up to be the forerunner
for the Age of Aquarius. And it is the interaction of people here below
and the Ascended Host above that has made America what it is today,
in the positive aspects that this nation expresses.
There are souls who have deserved to be part of this dispensation, which
is why they were born here. But they were born here because they deserved
the opportunity to be part of it, to be part of the alchemy of taking
a wilderness and turning it into a modern nation. Thereby transcending
the natural conditions that could not sustain the number of people that
can be sustained today through modern knowledge and technology.
Back to nature versus back to God
My beloved hearts, we of the Ascended Host do not belong to the back-to-nature
movement. We belong to the back-to-God movement!
It is not a matter of thinking back to the “pristine” wilderness
that existed when the first settlers came over here, idealizing it and
thinking that America should somehow go back to this state. In which
only a small number of people could survive here and only do so by being
in a constant state of warring with each other over the scant natural
resources.
No, it is our plan for the Golden Age that America should transcend,
and establish a modern society that has pristine conditions both in
the areas inhabited by man and in the areas that are left to natural
conditions. Certainly, we do not desire to see overcrowded and polluted
cities with slums. Certainly, we do not desire to see the entire food
chain polluted by chemicals. This is not our plan for this nation.
But what you see today in the pollution of nature springs from –
starts in – the pollution of the heart of the people of this nation.
And again, it is hardness of heart, lack of sensitivity, lack of willingness
to reach for the higher vision that there might be a better way to do
things than the way that is convenient – or seems convenient –
right now. Or the way that allows a small power elite to maintain their
control over the majority of the wealth and resources in an entire nation.
My beloved, what overturned the rigid feudal system of Europe was a
growth in the population. What will overturn the current elitist system
in the United States will be only – at least on the physical level
– a growth in the population, that makes it necessary to redistribute
– not wealth as the Communists say – but redistribute economic
and spiritual opportunity. So that all men and women can be treated
as they were created, namely to be equals and have equal opportunity
to raise themselves above the conditions of their own past karma. And
therefore, [they can] experience the personal alchemy, which when it
reaches critical mass will become a national alchemy and turn around
a nation and raise it to an entirely new level, that is so much higher
than what you have today that people today cannot even envision it.
My beloved, my vision for this nation would put all of your science
fiction literature to shame. All of the things that you see [in science
fiction literature and future studies] are as nothing compared to the
real vision that we of the Ascended Host hold for this nation and for
the world. But for that vision to come into action, into physical manifestation,
a critical mass of people must be willing to let go of the old, to let
the old images – the old world view, the old expectations
– die as Jesus demonstrated by being willing to die on the cross
and give up the ghost.
And so my beloved, you will hear much more – from the Master himself
and from the Master’s Master – during this conference about
giving up the ghost. And thus I will not speak of it, but I will let
you ponder the concept of giving up the ghost, and what it means to
you personally to give up the ghost.
Thus, once again, I welcome you to this conference, to this experiment
in Oneness. I welcome you to my heart, for I AM Saint Germain. I AM
indeed here. BE with me!
[Applause]
* Students from around the world gave the rosary for
clearing the heart once a day for 33 days before the conference.
** A baby boomer is someone who was born during the period of increased
birth rates when economic prosperity arose in many countries following
World War II. In the United States, the term is commonly applied to
people with birth years from the span 1945 to 1957. But the boom continued
on a smaller scale through 1964. Seventy-six million American babies
were born during the post-World War II baby boom. This would have been
seventeen million extra babies, had the pre World War II birth rate
continued.
Because the baby boomers did not have as many children as their parent’s,
there is now a large number of people coming close to retirement, yet
there arre not as many taxpayers in the working age. Thus, the economic
reality is that the social security system is predicted to run out of
resources within a decade or two. The question is therefore who will
pay the taxes needed to maintain the retirement benefits of the baby-boomer
generation.
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