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Chapter 1
Saint Germain - January 1, 1978

     Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I am come in the Spirit of Freedom, unannounced and yet, to the faithful who are always one, there is a light connecting our hearts whereby you feel and you know the presence of freedom and you know the light of the Knight Commander.

     Therefore let the little children come. Let those who gather as the faithful be apprised that I am yet abroad in the land as Saint Germain. I stand with you and I am in the hour of your tribulation a certain truth, a certain comfort, a certain flame that cannot be denied. I stand in America today for the turning of the cycles of life, for the holding of the balance of the Dark Cycle¹ in the name of my own twin flame - Opportunity, Justice.

     Here is the fulfillment of the law. Here is the light of hope, that in the very midst of the Dark Cycle the flame of Mother and the flame of the children who bear that flame as the floral offering come together to give the light, to receive the light, and to know that that violet-flame action of Holy Amethyst will yet stay the hand of the oppressor if you have the courage to keep the watch in the darkest hour of the night.

     My own, my beloved, will you not rise in honor then [audience rises] of the coming of the Lord's hosts and the dispensations of the Lords of Karma and the great Cosmic Council and Lord Sanat Kumara, who look upon earth this day and, in the beginning of the woes of this Dark Cycle, have sustained their dispensations of light and who are well pleased that the lightbearers who have crystallized the Christ consciousness are not moved in the center of the will of God. There are hours when that will is a crown of rejoicing and the laughter of victory, and there are hours when that will must be the direct confrontation with ancient spirals of karma and wrongdoing which God must bring to the fore of consciousness that you might overcome and return to that fullness of joy for which you long.

     It is necessary to take care of these details of life, and you see that the sign of Virgo and the sign of Portia is the sign of the detail of the mercy and the justice of the law. Therefore let it be that everyone who would follow in the flame of the Mother must understand that the fastidiousness to the discipline and the detail of the law in organization, in one's self, in future planning, in fund-raising - all of this is the mastery of the line of Virgo and the mastery of the Dark Cycle. And therefore you must be fastidious in your use of time - the moments, the minutes, and the hours applied then to the mastery of every facet of the law that you will have the prize and the Great Pyramid and the foundation of life manifest in your headquarters in Los Angeles County.

     I AM come to place my shield and sword and my flame in Los Angeles for Saint Germain and in the Ashram of the World Mother, where I bid you welcome to come and to offer your decrees and invocations in that room set aside to the Lord Christ and to El Morya. For there from the heart of the city we will anchor light, we will send forth light, and we will set forth the design of our plan that comes forth from the Great Divine Director and from his great causal body of light. Thank you, most gracious ones. Won't you be seated. [Audience sits down.]

     We come, then, as the alchemists of the hour. We work individually with those who have seen the light and the vision and who know that this precious teaching of the ascended masters is the salvation of souls of light on earth. You who have responded to the winds of Aquarius, to the dispensation of our twin flames, understand what foundation it is that we would lay. It is indeed the stone which the builders rejected which has become the chief cornerstone. It is the teaching, the law, the rock, the Christ, and it is that Christ consciousness which is now become the instrument individually through the individual Christ Self of each one's own salvation and self-elevation to the plane of the I AM THAT I AM.

     This is the meaning of the alchemy and the freedom of Aquarius - that one son of God is now identified as every son of God. And every son of God can prove the law where he stands, can hold his head high and be with the ascended masters the instrument for the deliverance of the earth, and can come to be known the deliverer of earth's evolutions.

     You ought to know yourself by the term deliverer, for then you understand that you deliver the Word and the teaching and the alchemy and the sacred fire by your heart chakra even as your hand will take the hand of souls who are moving in the way of righteousness and lead them to the consciousness through the head of that true understanding of the law which is the only liberation from doctrine and dogma. For souls of light may have the awareness of the teaching of Jesus, but without the consciousness and the fullness of the mind of Christ and the fullness of teaching, the points of the law that are necessary are not conveyed. And again and again even the sincere are fooled by their own ignorance of the law.

     We come, then, seeing the need for the dissemination of teachings, how the need is great, and how there must a pulling together as with the heaving of the mighty oars for the moving of the ship, how this body must pull together in the travail of giving birth to the Christ consciousness in America and the world.

     Of course there ought to be time for individual recreation, for the re-creation of soul and mind and body in the light of the flame. But overindulgence cannot be considered or tolerated in the midst of the battle or the hour of the victory. For in that very hour there is the demand for the summoning of greater strength and greater resources. And I tell you that every victory that has ever been won has required this summoning of forces, whether it be Christ on the cross or George Washington on the Delaware or any others who have won the victory for mankind, I tell you that in that hour there is no time for dalliance or sloth or indulgence. It is the moment of the summoning of an extraordinary will. And when the individual son and daughter of God has summoned that will, then that will and that summoning becomes a magnet invoking all of the forces of the Great Central Sun and the hosts of the Lord.

     If there is not that extreme circumstance that demands the summoning of the forces, then there is not the alchemy whereby there is brought out in the individual those resources, those energies that have been held in nuggets of gold in the white-fire core of being for thousands of years until the hour when there would be required that coming forth of the most precious energies of a lifestream - the great genius, the staying power, the moving force.

     This, then, is the hour for the sustainment of that energy and that consciousness. This is the hour to look and see how this word of God can be disseminated for the great contact of the age. I tell you it is contact, and this is the battle that we face. For all of the hordes of darkness and the fallen ones have arrayed themselves against the hosts of light and the chelas in embodiment and the children of God to prevent the necessary contact.

     By the grace of God, then, this organization, built life upon life, is the organ and the instrument for the contact, and without the organization you would be as those crying in the wilderness. Those who are crying in the wilderness are very effective when they are John the Baptist, but I tell you even they can only contact a certain number of souls, a certain few hundred or a certain few thousand. But in this age there is the requirement for the contact of millions of souls, and therefore with one voice and one shout, one movement and one momentum, this people of God must rally for the contact through the channels which are open to you in the media and in the sources of distribution in this century.

     Understand, then, that the age of science and the age of alchemy in the seventh ray is the intensification, the geometrization of the coming of the Lord Christ. And so we have placed at your disposal before the Lords of Karma all types of inventions and uses and usefulness that can be made available for the dissemination of the Word. [To be concluded in next week's Pearl of Wisdom.]

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     Note: The above dictation by Saint Germain was dictated to the Messenger Elizabeth Clare Prophet in Pasadena, California, on April 24, 1977 (11:50 a.m.-12:21 p.m. PDT).

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Volume 21, Number 1, footnote 1. See Pearls of Wisdom 1977, p. 248, footnote No. 1.

SAINT GERMAIN. Alchemy, the ancient science attributed to Adam, Noah, Moses, Solomon, Zoroaster, and Hermes, became more widely known during the first century in the Hellenistic culture of Alexandria, Egypt, through the synthesis of Greek philosophy, Egyptian technology, and the mysticism of middle eastern religions. First-century alchemists studied the Aristotelian hypothesis of 'prime matter', the basis for all substances in the terrestrial world. Upon this matter, forms could be impressed. The interaction of matter and form produces the four elements - fire, air, water, and earth - which in turn produce all material creation. Changes in the proportions of these elements in any given body result in the change of form; therefore, any substance can be changed into any other substance if the right conditions can be found. This hypothesis encouraged skilled metallurgists to speculate upon the cause for the behavior of the metals with which they had become so adept. In preparing gold and silver ornaments for the wealthy, they naturally experimented with imitations for poorer customers and postulated that, if Aristotle was correct, they should be able to make gold as easily as any substitute. They were supported in this view by astrologers who also believed that under proper astrological circumstances the transmutation of base metals into gold could occur more readily. Just as the body grows and the soul passes through the initiations of the crucifixion and the resurrection into the perfectionment of immortal life, so the ancient alchemists saw how metals developed within the earth from the less perfect substances of lead, copper, tin, iron, and mercury to the flawlessness of gold. They observed that they could hasten the process of change by careful nurture and long heating - 'killing' the metal and then reviving it in a more refined state over and over again until gold is produced.

These alchemists invented many types of laboratory apparatus (which, in modified form, are still used today by modern chemists). Essentially artisans, they wished to keep their alchemy a trade secret and so invented symbolic names which the uninitiated could not understand. They used astrological signs to denote the five metals, relating them in inherent characteristics to the five known planets. Gold belonged to the sun, silver to the moon. As Hellenistic philosophy shifted from the scientific viewpoint to an emphasis on divine revelation in Gnosticism, Neoplatonism, and Christianity, alchemical writings became more and more mystical. In the East, early Chinese alchemists following the Taoist philosophy sought to understand the way of natural law (tao means "way"). They made use of a 'medicine' - a substance which when added to mercury or other metals brought about the alchemy. Gold thus prepared possessed the power of conferring healing or even immortality to anyone who consumed it. As in the West, Chinese alchemy later became mystical and the writings obscure. When the Nestorian Christians broke from the Orthodox church in the fifth century, they founded schools throughout Asia Minor and taught the philosophy and science of their Hellenistic background which included alchemy. In the eighth and ninth centuries, the Nestorians contacted the Arabs who became intensely interested in Greek science. Through them, alchemy began to return to its practical origins. Since the Arabs were also in contact with China, they incorporated into their alchemical literature the Chinese concept of the 'medicine' which became the 'philosopher's stone' of later European alchemists. The philosopher's stone could heal the 'sick' (base) metals by converting them into gold and also act as an elixir of life. After the fall of Rome, almost all traces of Greek philosophy and science in Western Europe were lost and alchemy disappeared. In the eleventh and twelfth centuries, however, a reawakening of interest in science led to the investigation of Arab secrets. Many of their alchemical works were translated into Latin and later into all the major European tongues.

In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, scholars such as Roger Bacon (Saint Germain) and Albertus Magnus devoted themselves to compiling all phases of knowledge into encyclopedic works. Alchemy served as an important link in their understanding. In the fifteenth century, alchemists began to turn their attention to more practical purposes than the attempt to make gold. It was at that time that Paracelsus developed metallic medicines and founded the school of iatrochemistry - the chemistry of medicines, the forerunner of modern pharmacology. The discovery of the structure of the atom at the beginning of the twentieth century has supported one of the oldest alchemical theories. The electron and the nucleus of protons and neutrons could be considered 'prime matter' and their structural relations the form which confers individual properties. In the light of the Holy Spirit, Ascended Master Saint Germain teaches his disciples in the twentieth century "spiritual alchemy," which is the science of self-transformation. The following statements were taken directly from Studies in Alchemy by Saint Germain, published by The Summit Lighthouse. When properly understood, alchemy deals with the conscious power of controlling mutations and transmutations within Matter and energy and even within life itself. The inner meaning of alchemy is simply all-composition, implying the relation of the all of the creation to the parts which compose it. It is the science of the mystic and it is the forte of the self-realized man who, having sought, has found himself to be one with God and is willing to play his part.

Two thousand years ago when Christ walked upon the waters of the Sea of Galilee, his demonstration was a manifestation of the natural law of levitation operating within an energy framework of cohesion, adhesion, and magnetism - the very principles which make orbital flight possible. The light atoms composing the body of Christ absorbed at will an additional quantity of cosmic rays and spiritual substance whose kinship to physical light made his whole body light, thereby making it as easy for him to walk upon the sea as upon dry land. His body was purely a ray of light shining upon the waters. The most dazzling conception of all was his ability to transfer this authority over energy to Peter through the power of Peter's own vision of the Christ in radiant, illumined manifestation. By taking his eyes temporarily from the Christ, however, Peter entered a human fear vibration and vortex which immediately densified his body, causing it to sink partially beneath the raging seas. The comforting hand of Christ, extended in pure love, reunited the alchemical tie, and the flow of spiritual energy through his hand raised Peter once again to safety. The key to alchemy that must precede the acquisition of all other keys is the mastery of yourself; for self-mastery is the key to all self-knowledge. You must acknowledge without question that you yourself are the alchemist who shall determine the design of your creation. Furthermore, you must know your self as the Real Self and your creation as coming forth from that Self. When used by the alchemist, symbols and symbology properly understood are literally charged with meaning. For example, mercury is the symbol of speed and interprets to the consciousness the thought of wakeful, reverent alertness, which swiftly endows the chemistry of action with the intensity of application. Salt equates with the idea of selfhood and reminds mankind of the need to have the self retain the savor of its Divine Source in preference to the crystallization of identity within the Sodom and Gomorrah of materiality indicated in the historical figure of Lot's wife. Fire, as life, is the catalyst which can be increased from the cosmic light within the cosmic rays in order to intensify and purify the radiance of life in the contemplated design. (To be continued.)

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