#9 MORE ABOUT THE ROCKSTAR MASTER
Prior to travelling to Greece in 2003, I had reread Robert Graves’ The Greek Myths.
In it, Graves identified Apollo’s spheres of responsibility:
“In classical times, music, poetry, philosophy, astronomy, mathematics, medicine, and science came under Apollo’s control. As the enemy of barbarism, he stood for moderation in all things and the seven strings of his lute were connected with the seven vowels of the later Greek alphabet, given mystical significance and used for therapeutic music.” (Graves, p. 82).
Apollo was also concerned with prophecy, healing, law and the arts. He was a master archer, an athlete who performed in the first event at the first Olympic Games. Apollo is the sun, described by Joseph Campbell as, “the Lord of time and ripeness.” (p.62)
It seemed that Apollo’s responsibilities more closely paralleled the fields of accomplishment I had identified in St Germain’s lives than those of Pan, Loki and Eros. Apollo matched his areas of achievement; in music: St Germain was Monteverdi and Chopin; in poetry: he was Donne and Dante; in philosophy: Plato and Sartre; in astronomy: Copernicus and Ptolemy; in mathematics: Christopher Wren and Copernicus; in medicine: Hippocrates and Galen; in science: Edison and Tesla. But an argument could also be mounted that Apollo’s responsibilities could just as easily be attributed to Master Kuthumi. Why St Germain?
“Because,”the Gatekeeper clarified, “St Germain is a complex being and only by understanding Loki, Eros, Apollo and Raphael all together will give you an insight into his greatness and his complexity.” [Litchfield, 2003]
I just wasn’t getting his point. “You’ll have to explain it to me again” I said. “How about a case study?” The Gatekeeper suggested George Stephenson (1781-1848) would be a most suitable quick case study because besides being an aspect of St Germain, he invented the first railway locomotive and combined the Pan, Loki, Eros and Apollo qualities of St Germain.
The Gatekeeper explained him as follows: “George Stephenson had a passion for playing chamber music and he was renowned as an inventor; here we have the characteristics of Apollo; he was a great practical joker, into whoopee cushions, here we have the joker, the trickster, the Loki but Stephenson also loved the erotic with a succession of mistresses; here we have Eros. He combined the characteristics shown in Apollo, Loki and Eros. But there is more still to St Germain.” [Litchfield, 2004]
There was still more to St Germain!
St Germain was Brendan the Navigator, Marco Polo and Zeng He and Captain James Cook, the British ‘discoverer’ of Australia, all of them outstanding travelers, men who crossed boundaries and oceans where no-one we had heard of, had ever been before. But all these legends still did not encompass his complexity and diversity. As well, St Germain was the master alchemist with a detailed knowledge of chemistry. It was time to explore the characteristics attributed to Raphael, the Archangel.
Raphael is one of the four main Archangels mentioned in the Bible. The name Raphael means “the shining one who heals”. Raphael plays a guiding and protecting role in the biblical story of the blind Tobit, and his son Tobias on a journey to Nineveh. Raphael, in disguise, assists Tobias successfully marry Sarah, whose seven previous bridegrooms have been murdered on their wedding night by an evil spirit. Later, he cures Tobit’s blindness with the gall of a fish. When he reveals his true identity, he declares, “I am Raphael, one of the seven holy angels, which present the prayers of the saints, and go in and out before the glory of the Holy One.” (Tobit 12:15)
The Encyclopedia of Angels (pg168), describes Raphael as having the following attributes: “He is often connected with the symbol of healing, the serpent…he acts as a guide and a companion on a journey, thus making him the angel of travel and safety…a guide to the underworld.”
Raphael has a further attribute, one he shares with Apollo; he is the regent of the Sun. While Apollo is not identified with travel, Raphael is. His role in the Tobias journey made him a protector of travelers and of adventurers. St Germain is emphatic about the importance of travel in his lives. Often he had been referred to by the Gatekeeper as “the voyager” or “the traveler”.
“St Germain implanted the idea of travel, particularly as an adventure for young people,” the Gatekeeper said. “He is St Christopher, the patron saint of travel. He carried the Christ Child on his back and on his shoulders. He did this as Joseph ben Mathias when he carried Jeshua, his son, and he did it again as Christopher. As Christopher Colon, he carried the Christ Child on his ship to the New World.” (Litchfield. 2003)
Layer upon layer, a pattern of characteristics are forming of St Germain but mixing an archangel with legendary gods was, according to the Gatekeeper, a poor mix because St Germain and Raphael are not extensions of one another as are Loki and Eros; they were simply different classes of being.
“St Germain is not Raphael completely. It is as close as a relationship between a human and a dolphin. They are two travelers on divergent paths, when they meet they illuminate each other’s lives and journeys,” the Gatekeeper maintained. “But they are related in that they share the same spiritual DNA".
Unfortunately, we are trapped in a world of words and our degree of description is limited. Archangels can only incarnate under exceptional circumstances, otherwise we would have them interfering all the time the Gatekeeper tersely instructs. St Germain incarnates as a human, who becomes a legend who becomes a god named Pan, or Eros, or Loki or Apollo but Raphael does not incarnate. Except for Tobias.
Archangels are a separate species. They take human form temporarily to communicate something very important as Raphael did in the Tobit story or as Gabriel did at the Annunciation. But this is unusual; messages are usually done by a lesser species of angels. Some of the archangels have a special relationship with humans. But Raphael is the only one I know who has domain over different universes other than this one. Therefore, like St Germain, he has changeability. Like St Germain, he is a protector against the Dark and the thought forms it creates. Watch for the role he’ll play at the birth of Jeshua. And he shares with Apollo a connection to music. So you see, they are similar, but not identical. A being of such diversity as St Germain is like a three person god; Pan, Loki and Apollo with other minor strains as Eros, Dionysus and Asclepius, the god of healing.” [Litchfield 2004]
While Apollo and St Germain are identical, in fact extensions and amplifications of one another; Raphael, despite the similar qualities he shares with St Germain, is not.
When two different species were created, angels and beings with the potential to be human, God used the same spiritual DNA for both species. Each of the Masters, therefore, will be identified with one of archangels and share their qualities. El Moyra and Pallas Athene are associated with Michael, Kuthumi and Portia with Uriel, Hilarion and Nada with Gabriel, Djwal Kuhl and Leto with Zadkiel, Serapis Bey and Fortunata with Sandalphon and St Germain and Mary with Raphael.
In many of Mary’s lives, Raphael’s characteristics will emerge as she explores lives as a healer and physician, traveler, mediator and musician. In her life as Soranus, a first century Greek from Ephesus, she concentrates on healing diseases of the eye like Raphael in the Tobias story and as Luke, the evangelist and physician she popularizes iodine for the treatment of wounds. She shares Raphael’s ability to move between the worlds and across the dimensions and to return safely from where she has come from. Because of this ability she was successfully able as Isis to rescue her husband’s body from death while as Mary she could help her son Jeshua, in the harrowing of hell.
It had taken five years of questioning to get it clearly established that Apollo was St Germain and that Mary, St Germain’s feminine counterpart was Artemis, his twin sister. In 2003, I decided to visit the Aegean island Delos where Apollo and Artemis were born.
The nativity of any god or goddess is a serious, propitious event and holds the portent for their future greatness. According to legend, Apollo and Artemis were both born on the Aegean island of Delos which is now uninhabited and protected as an important archaeological site. When I visited Delos, our local guide, an archeologist, shared with us her own version of Apollo and Artemis’ birth. Her story has the magic of this myth.
Standing in the shade from the thirty-eight degree June heat, she narrated the story this way: “The amorous Zeus, the head of heaven, seduced Leto, the daughter of the two Titans and to disguise his lovemaking, Zeus transformed himself and his lover into quails. Hera, Zeus’ wife, was furious and jealous; a state she frequented was because she was married to Zeus. In a rage, she demanded that the goddess Earth, Gaia was not to allow Leto any place on this Earth to give birth. Hera also decreed that Leto was not to be permitted to give birth anywhere the sun shone. Smugly, she thought she had covered all eventualities.
When Leto approached her time for confinement she searched the world for a birthplace. Lifted up on the south wind, she came to Ortygia, the island of the quails… that small island you can see over there. It is only a short swim from Delos but at that time Delos floated in the darkness above the Aegean Sea. Leto told Gaia that Delos was a site outside Hera’s decree because Delos was neither attached to the Earth nor was it exposed to sunlight. "If only I could give birth there," she pleaded; my son will anchor Delos into the Earth and make it prosperous and safe, beyond belief."
Leto’s argument appeared to have convinced Gaia. Quickly, while still on Ortygia, Leto gave birth to a daughter, Artemis, who was no sooner born when she was helping her mother across the narrow straits to the airborne Delos. Leto, clung desperately on to a date palm (we have planted a palm over there to mark the spot) so she would not be swept away in the air currents created by a floating island. She groaned her way through nine days of labour and finally was able to give birth to the most handsome and gifted of the immortals, her son… Apollo. As he was born, Delos became bathed in a radiant light and hundreds of flowers: crimson poppies, purple statice and yellow verbasium bloomed. Look at them, everywhere!
Apollo, as Phaelius, fulfilled his mother’s promise and each spring brought light to Delos when he travelled south on a swan, returning the sun to the world. Later, under the watchful eye of Apollo, Delos became a sanctuary where wealthy city states could keep their treasuries in safety.”
On completing her story the guide pointed out the only two other temples on Delos. Both of them recognised aspects of Mary, one for Artemis, and one for Isis. The nativity story of the twins reinforces important characteristics of both St Germain and Mary. St Germain’s lives he will fulfil the promises of Apollo’s birth. He will do this literally in his lives as Thomas Edison and Nicolai Tesla when they will bring light to the world in the form of electricity. And he will do it figuratively in a multiplicity of lives where he will bring the enlightenment of education to many societies.
But five lives, in particular, stand out: as Homer and Plato he formed the curriculum of Greek education while as Lao Tzu he created the curriculum for Chinese education. In a different culture at a different time he was St Patrick who brought education to the illiterate Irish and founded the monasteries to keep learning and civilization alive during the Dark Ages of Europe. Later he will found Trinity College in Cambridge, England and sponsor Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts. These two colleges together with Massachusetts Institute of Technology will become favourite places for his aspects to learn.
Mary, as Artemis, will become the patron of childbirth. Artemis demonstrates her courage, stamina, strength and resourcefulness when she helps her mother reach the floating island of Delos. Mary will have lives as some of the world’s outstanding gynaecologists and obstetricians: Soranus, al Zakawi and Pave and eventually she will help women manage their fertility as Margaret Sanger and as Marie Stopes. She, too, will play with light, by writing dissertations on eyesight as Soranus and as an Australian eye surgeon, Fred Hollows.
But in our guide’s story, it is Apollo who is centre stage and Artemis a bit player, almost airbrushed out. This juxtaposition will be a theme across many lives when the spirited performer St Germain gets star billing and the reticent Mary works tirelessly without recognition in the background. She insists that is how she likes it.
