Saint Germain

Saint Germain is the Chohan of the Seventh Ray and the Master who presides over the age now opening. He is the best loved of the Ascended Masters in the West, and the one whose gift, the violet flame, is most widely used by people on the path of ascension.

He is the Master of alchemy. In the outer sense, alchemy is the changing of base metal into gold. In the inner sense, which is the one that concerns him, it is the changing of human limitation into divine freedom.

Legend and Embodiments

The teachings describe a long series of lives as priest, prophet, scholar and counselor, each given to the cause of freedom. He is remembered above all through the legend of the Wonderman of Europe: a nobleman of unknown origin who moved through the courts of the eighteenth century, spoke every language, composed music, was said to remove the flaws from gems, and never appeared to age. In that appearance he is said to have been already ascended, and working to turn the rulers of the time toward a peaceful transformation.

Service to the Ascension

Each age of roughly two thousand years is said to unfold under one of the seven rays. The age now beginning belongs to the Seventh Ray, and Saint Germain is its hierarch. Its keynote is freedom: freedom of conscience, freedom from the weight of the past, and freedom to create.

To make that freedom possible he was given leave to release to humanity at large the knowledge of the violet flame, which had formerly been taught only in the retreats. The violet flame is the practical means by which karma is transmuted. He regards it as his chief gift, and he asks only that it be used.

What Saint Germain Teaches

• You are not asked to carry the past. You are asked to transmute it.
• Freedom is not the absence of law. It is the mastery of it.
• What you place your attention on, you feed. Choose with care.
• Every moment offers the alchemist the same choice: to react, or to create.

When to Call on Saint Germain

• Transmuting old patterns, habits and karmic ties
• Freedom from limitation of every kind
• Forgiveness on a large scale, for families, peoples and nations
• Creative and practical alchemy: turning a difficulty into an opening
• Dignity and self-respect

How to Work With Saint Germain

Saint Germain's practice is the violet flame, and he prefers that it be spoken. Each day, for a few minutes, see yourself standing in a fire of violet light and affirm aloud that it is transmuting everything in you that is less than freedom. A complete method is given on the page The Violet Flame.

An Invocation

Beloved Saint Germain, Master of the violet ray,
blaze the violet flame through me and around me.
Transmute every limitation into light.
I AM the freedom I seek.
I AM the alchemy of love in action,
now and always.

A Word From Saint Germain

I greet you in the violet fire of freedom. You have been told that you must work off your past grain by grain. I tell you there is a faster way, and it has been in your hands all along. Use the flame. Use it daily. Use it gladly.

I did not bring it to be admired. A fire that is only talked about warms no one.

Received by Ilse Varrow

Related Entries

• The Violet Flame
• Archangel Zadkiel
• Kuan Yin
• The Seven Rays