Lady Portia

Lady Portia is the Goddess of Justice and the twin flame of Saint Germain. She holds the balance of mercy and justice on the Seventh Ray, and she serves on the Karmic Board, the council that reviews the records of souls and dispenses mercy. She is also called the Goddess of Opportunity, because in her understanding every situation, however difficult, contains an opening.

Her presence is calm, upright and kind. People expecting severity are often surprised. Justice, as she embodies it, is not punishment. It is the restoration of balance, and balance always includes mercy.

Justice and Mercy Held Together

The scales are Portia's emblem, and the teachings take care to say that they are held level. Justice without mercy becomes cruelty. Mercy without justice becomes indulgence, and it leaves those who were harmed unprotected. Portia holds both at once, and she teaches that a person who can hold them together has learned one of the great lessons of the Seventh Ray.

Students often remark that the best-known Portia in literature is the one who rose in a court of law to plead that the quality of mercy is not strained. The teachings do not claim any connection. They simply note that the speech says very well what the Goddess of Justice would want said.

The Goddess of Opportunity

Portia's second title is perhaps the more practical one. The teachings say that every return of karma brings with it an opportunity: to meet an old situation with a new response, and so to be free of it. Portia is said to watch for these openings and to point them out to anyone who asks. She is especially close to people who believe that they have had their last chance. Her consistent answer is that they have not.

Twin Flame of Saint Germain

The teachings relate that through the long ages in which Saint Germain took embodiment after embodiment in the cause of freedom, Portia remained in the higher octaves and held the balance for him. When he ascended, they were reunited. In the age of the Seventh Ray they serve together: he bringing the violet flame of freedom, she the justice that makes freedom safe.

What Lady Portia Teaches

• Justice is not revenge. It is the return of balance.
• Every difficulty you face holds an opportunity. Ask to be shown it.
• Be fair to yourself as well as to others. Self-condemnation is also an injustice.
• Mercy that forgets the one who was harmed is not mercy.

When to Call on Lady Portia

• Situations of unfairness, at work, in families or in law
• Making a balanced decision between competing claims
• Recognizing the opportunity hidden in a setback
• Self-judgment that has grown harsher than the fault
• Petitions to the Karmic Board for mercy and for a new beginning

How to Work With Lady Portia

Picture a pair of golden scales in front of you, with violet light around them. Place on one side the situation that troubles you, and on the other your wish for a fair outcome for everyone involved, including yourself. Watch the scales come to rest, level. Say: Lady Portia, show me the opportunity in this. Then write down whatever comes to mind in the next few minutes, without judging it. Read it again the following day.

An Invocation

Beloved Lady Portia, Goddess of Justice,
hold the scales of my life level.
Where I have been unfair, correct me gently.
Where I have been wronged, restore the balance.
And in every closing door,
show me the opportunity that waits.

A Word From Lady Portia

You think that justice will be hard on you, and so you avoid it. Beloved, justice is the friend who tells you exactly where you stand, so that you can take the next step from there.

I have never closed a door without opening another. Look to your left.

Received by Ilse Varrow

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• Saint Germain
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