Pallas Athena

Pallas Athena is the Goddess of Truth. She serves on the Karmic Board as the representative of the Fifth Ray, and she is the patron of everyone who speaks truthfully: teachers, scientists, judges, journalists, students, and any person who has decided to stop pretending.

Her presence is clear, cool and steady, like a lamp in a quiet room. People often describe a sense of things coming into focus. What was blurred becomes sharp, and what was frightening in the blur often turns out, when seen clearly, to be quite manageable.

The Goddess and the Master

The ancient Greeks honored Athena as the goddess of wisdom, of crafts and of just counsel, and they built for her one of the most beautiful temples in the world. The ascension teachings regard the goddess of the myths as a memory, partial and colored by its age, of a real being: an Ascended Lady Master who has long held the flame of truth for the Earth.

Some of the old symbols fit her well. The owl sees in the dark. The olive branch was her gift to the city, a gift of peace and of long patience, since an olive tree takes many years to bear. Other parts of the myths, the teachings suggest, say more about the people who told them than about her.

Service to the Ascension

The Fifth Ray is the ray of truth, and Pallas Athena serves it alongside Hilarion and Archangel Raphael. Her particular work is with truthfulness: the alignment of what a person thinks, says and does. The teachings say that every small lie, including the ones told to oneself, creates a little disorder in the subtle bodies, and that every truth told with love restores a little order. Over a lifetime the difference is very great.

She is especially close to those who must tell difficult truths: to a doctor giving hard news, to a parent, to someone confessing a fault. She teaches that truth does not need to be harsh to be complete.

What Pallas Athena Teaches

• Truth spoken with love is never cruel. Cruelty spoken as truth is still cruelty.
• Begin by being truthful with yourself. Everything else follows from that.
• You do not have to say everything you know. You must not say what you do not believe.
• Clear sight is a kindness, even when what it shows is hard.

When to Call on Pallas Athena

• Speaking an honest word that you have been avoiding
• Study, research and the search for accurate knowledge
• Seeing through confusion, rumor or self-deception
• Fairness in teaching, journalism, law and any public role
• Discernment in reading spiritual material, including this library

How to Work With Pallas Athena

Before a conversation in which you need to be honest, sit for a minute and picture a small lamp burning steadily in the center of your forehead, with emerald light around it. Say: Pallas Athena, let me speak the truth, and let me speak it kindly. Decide on the one sentence that most needs to be said. Then go and say it, and let the rest of the conversation be gentle.

An Invocation

Beloved Pallas Athena, Goddess of Truth,
light your lamp in my mind.
Let me see what is so, and say what is so,
with a clear eye and a kind heart.
Free me from every falsehood I have believed,
and from every one I have told.

A Word From Pallas Athena

You are afraid that the truth will cost you something. Sometimes it will. But you have been paying for the lie every day, in a currency you have stopped noticing.

Say the true thing. Say it gently. Then notice how much lighter you are.

Received by Ilse Varrow

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