#7 UNDERSTANDING ST GERMAIN

A few months later I had a new question for the Gatekeeper. "I want to understand St Germain, but I still find him difficult to describe and summarise. Although he is called 'Saint' he does not in his life as the Count appear to be very 'saintly'. How would you describe him, Gatekeeper?"

“He is a being of contradictions, the bits of which do not add up. He is capable of a life of exceptional charm and of exceptional cruelty. He has mastered magic. He has achievements in both arts and science that gives him a left and right-sided balance. He’s often in more than one place at the same time. He shows a curious conservatism, a sparkling sense of human wit with a capacity for verbal cruelty and a great sensitivity with a capacity to destroy opinion in situations that displease him. He has divine purity and rutting sexuality. He is a perfect reflection of the eternal contradictions of the human race.

Start with the Greek gods – so human and so unlike the Judeo Christian god. They were super-humans, the Captain Americas of their day. The same cast of characters, of course, were the Masters. They are super-powerful, bringing together seemingly irreconcilable differences which are warp and weft, together making a good strong cloth; a cloth which creates the mirage of the seeming contradictions of their characters.

To understand St Germain, you will have to study hundreds of his lives to even glimpse at his complexity.” (Litchfield, 2004)

“Would the Comte de Saint-Germain agree with what you’ve said, Gatekeeper?”

“I’ll ask him … he’s talking French, I’ll translate. St Germain is not a who, but a what … what is St Germain? St Germain is a multiplicity of qualities. Each of my qualities has intelligence and consciousness and can take many forms. Within these qualities is a seed of desire. This desire creates the passion to be born, and explore, discover and experience the expression of itself. St Germain, when planted in a human womb, is like a seed and in favourable conditions will bring forth a certain fruit.” (Clinton, 2005)

Saint-Germain was referring to himself not as a single person, but as a genus or a clan in which there were multiplicity of qualities each of which could form a life.

The Feminine Aspect of St Germain

Another of the Hermetic principles states that gender is in everything: masculine and feminine are present in all things on all planes. If St Germain was the masculine principle, was Mary truly his feminine principle?

Mary seemed a most unlikely pair with St Germain. Why was this pairing kept secret for so long? When I put this question directly to the Gatekeeper he said:

“It was Mary’s choice, she was known as Ashtoreth, Demeter, Artemis, Isis and Diana around the Mediterranean. It was her decision to phase them out as objects of veneration and focus instead on Mary throughout the Piscean Age as a complement to her son, Jeshua.

In the Aquarian Age she will be perceived differently. Her former role in the Piscean age was as Mary, the Immaculate Conception, the mother of God and the Queen of Heaven. Her role was and is complementary to St Germain. To understand St Germain you must understand her. St Germain is the doer, she is the placater. What St Germain stuffs up, she puts it right … she is a fixer. Her unbounded compassion allows love to flow. She is the born organizer. St Germain’s focus is over there, hers is down here for those round her feet. St Germain looks fifty years into the future, she works in the present. What a comfort to St Germain she is because he knows when he stuffs up, she will be there moving him onto the straight and narrow.

They are complementary, partners; he is purple, she is green. Mary’s colour green allows her to tell what to use wheat for; St Germain’s colour purple allows him to calculate how it may be improved. Sometimes they are in opposition, but they are always in balance. If he is competitive and she is collaborative and so on.

Think of them as the magician and the high priestess. Watch how they explore this as Joseph and Mary, as Merlin and Morgana, as Dante and Beatrice or as Chopin and George Sand, as Nureyev and Fonteyn.

As the High Priestess, Mary is the bearer of wisdom, the oracle, the seer and the being who is in the know, who is consciously connected to the higher realms … to be so connected to the Divine can be seen to be magical. The Magician does not share his knowledge, he creates it. The High Priestess makes herself available to share her knowledge and her wisdom, she teaches, guides and advises, allowing new systems or insights to be developed. The Magician is the doer … while the High Priestess … she is the sharer. Her role in this new age will be expanded, you will recognise her as a priest as well as a mother and god-bearer. It is now time to emphasise her complementarily with St Germain and for you to recognise if you want to know him, you must understand her. But she is not an afterthought. She is just reticent.

Mary will help; she will slowly reveal the full extent of her participation in world affairs allowing you to discover the multiplicity of her roles from leading medical scientist, geneticist, theologian, children’s advocate, king, novelist, conservationist, social reformer, president,apostle,playwright, military hero, feminist, queen, ruler, president, conqueror, prime minister, educator, saint, and evangelist of a gospel, a poet and a philosopher.”

And to understand how St Germain and Mary live through “the multiplicity of their qualities” the Gatekeeper would take me on a journey back to 6,000BC into legends and myths of great heroes and heroines to find the answers.