#6 MY ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT MASTERS
Based on what I had read about masters and my own ideas about reincarnation, I concluded that:
Masters experienced occasional lives on Earth.
Masters were geniuses, who lead highly ethical, principled, almost saintly lives.
Their lives were rare, say once in two to four hundred years’ occurrences.
Before one aspect of a master could be born, another aspect of that master had to die.
A master never met himself or herself.
Masters believed in God.
Masters were always leaders in their field.
Masters' lives clearly progressed one after the other towards further enlightenment.
But how did these assumptions mesh with the record of the life of Comte de Saint-Germain?
Over the course of fifteen years, every one of my assumptions would be proved wrong, and sometimes in an abrupt and challenging way that stopped me in my tracks.
Take, for example, when I started delving into St Germain’s lives to discover who he really was and found that after a life as the greatest saint he could be, in his next life, the greatest sinner! I found that one life of inspiring virtue and leadership could be simultaneously experienced with another life of carnage and debauchery; that light and dark co-existed, not only in separate beings, but together within the one; that the hero was a tyrant and the goddess was a whore.
It was when I was doing an inventory of St Germain’s lives with the Gatekeeper that he mentioned St Germain’s life as St Augustine of Hippo, a great doctor of the Christian Church, reincarnated as Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s Minister for Propaganda, one of the most influential men in Nazi Germany. But that was not all. Each member of the inner circle around Hitler, like the circle around George Washington, King Arthur or Jesus bore a master’s name!
The Role of Evil in Masters’ Lives
Confronted by the central role of Masters in the Third Reich, I stopped work on this project. My intention had been to write songs of praise for illustrious beings who battled and conquered the forces of darkness … think of Boadicea, Joan of Arc, Winston Churchill or Gandhi. I had intended a limited exploration of the role of the dark forces as a counter-point to the exploits of the master. Evil, I believed, existed outside good, not inside of it. My role was to describe evil from a safe distance and show how an incarnated master conquered it and saved us all.
If, on the other hand, an Ascended Master pursued a life of pure evil, I would have to explore with distaste historical events which I had placed, squeamishly in the shadows: the horrors of the Third Reich, the Gulags of Stalin, the excesses of Nero... all I wanted to do was leave the question of evil as a rhetorical one and tiptoe quietly away.
Nevertheless, I sought advice from Kuthumi through Michaela Clinton, and he was, for Kuthumi, unusually succinct:
“Suspend your judgment”, he said, “and persevere. Do you merely want to continue this cult of heroes?” [Clinton, 2003]. Later the Gatekeeper added crossly, “Only Hollywood and philosophers seek to present life as one dimensional, a simple duel between good and evil. Earth is a great proving ground, it is very complicated and the analysis of the lives of the Great Ones would engage us for one or several lifetimes… Evil men and women want to understand divinity in the muddiest of waters, to experience God in more uncomfortable areas. They are the same as the seers in caves who seek that understanding in solitude, leading their sad, uncomfortable and lonely lives. They want to know what God is not. The fullness of creation is both light and dark… There is only a thin line which separates them. Understand that the light of day could not be known if we had no dark of night. Do not despair about your book. It is very important you complete your task … the road is stony and tiring and the closer you come to the top of the mountain, the stonier it will become.” [Litchfield, 2003].
The Gatekeeper suggested that if I explored the seven Hermetic Principles of Hermes Trismegistus and studied the fourth principle, in particular, on polarity, it may assist me to move forward.
Hermes Trismegistus, an Egyptian Priest was a contemporary of Moses and enunciated seven principles or laws which summarised the wisdom of God, whom he called, “The All”. The fourth principle read:
“Everything is dual; everything has its pair of opposites. Like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; extremes meet; all truths are but half-truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled”.
While I found it difficult to accept that evil and goodness were the same, when I returned to my task, the Gatekeeper laughed and, speaking with the wisdom of a Tibetan sage, asked, “Now you are starting to learn about the contradictory being who is St Germain. Have you now learned that the lotus has its roots in mud so perfection can flower from filth?” [Litchfield, 2003].
It had been a struggle. While I could not comfortably reconcile good and evil and transcend this pair of opposites, I was at least prepared to persevere.
So it was back to the main game.
