#32 BUILDING AND CORRECTING: MARY AND ST GERMAIN'S LIVES IN TRANSITION AND THE INSPIRATION OF TH
The lives of Mary and St Germain can be lives of transition. They are the lives when they have their training wheels on while they build towards lives of much greater challenge and significant importance. Or they can experience lives where they correct or rebalance the shortcomings from their past.
In this chapter Mary experiences her last Jewish life before incarnating as Mary, the mother of Jesus and St Germain experiences his last Jewish life before incarnating as Joseph, the father of Jesus. He also experiences two important lives which will prepare him for his life as Joseph of Arimathea, the father of her cousin, Elizabeth; her uncle as Mary and the grand uncle of her son Jesus. In St Germain’s life as Samuel he corrects his shortcomings as Aaron.
RUTH, BOAZ, SAMUAL, HIRAM AND HIRAM ABIFF
When Mary as the High Priestess line returns as the twice-widowed Ruth, where she will bea devoted and resourceful daughter-in-law. She will eventually remarry the wealthy merchant Boaz, an early life of King Hiram and Joseph of Arimathea. While it is Mary’s last prominent Jewish life before living as Mary the Mother and it is still twelve hundred years before her life as Maya, the mother of the Buddha.
St Germain’s next two prominent lives move into completely different directions.
In the five hundred years from the reign of the Hebrew King Solomon to the reign of the Persian King Darius I, the Middle East changed its nationality three times from Egyptian to Assyrian and finally to Persian. Underneath these tectonic movements, Israel flourished briefly under two brilliant kings: the father and son team of David and Solomon.
Flourishing beside Israel was the coastal city of Tyre that will grow into a thriving market economy. It was led by another brilliant king: Hiram. Below all the might of the kingsSolomon and Hiram was a humble architect, a brass worker in the temple of Solomon, Hiram Abiff. He managed through his death to inspire the Masonic movement in Europe. These were two significant lives of St Germain; one in which he designed the perfect temple and another in which he created the trading nation of Phoenicia. We will explore these two lives: the brass worker Hiram Abiff whom St Germain identified as one of his most significant lives ever and his half-brother King Hiram, a reincarnation of the upright Boaz and an entity scheduled to play a critical role in the life of his nephew, Jeshua ben Joseph.
Ruth and Boaz
Ruth is one of the most popular stories in the Old Testament because its heroine is a strong, resourceful and compassionate woman. Ruth was a foreigner and when her Jewish-born husband died, rather than desert her widowed mother-in-law Naomi, Ruth accompanied her back to her homeland in Bethlehem. There Ruth foraged for grain in a wealthy kinsman’s fields to gather enough food for Naomi and herself for the winter. The kinsman, Boaz, admired Ruth and following the romantic advice of Naomi, Ruth visited Boaz after work. The Biblical story leaves to our imagination what happened next. They marry and become the ancestors of King David and Boaz gives his name to one of the columns in the temple of Solomon.
Conversation with the Gatekeeper:
“When did Ruth herself actually live?”
“She was King David’s great-grandmother and the mother of Obed, who was the father of Jesse, David’s father. You can count the three generations back from David. She lived before Samuel and she was born about 1120BC. Ruth is a Moab who was married to one of Naomi’s sons, Mahlon. And who were the Moabs? They lived near the Phoenician coast, a Semitic tribe, inland of Tyre, in what is now Southern Lebanon. They were close to the Jews. It wasn’t a difficult journey to Bethlehem.”
“Then why does the Bible refer to them as foreigners if they are so close?”
“The Moabites spoke a dialect of Hebrew but they were idol worshippers of Baal, the Palestinian god, when some Jews had converted to paganism again. The Moabites stole the Hebrew’s cattle and were regarded with hatred and fear. The meaning of the Hebrew word ‘foreigner’, in this case is ‘the distrusted one’!”
“We already know a little about Ruth’s story. What does the Biblical account leave out?”
“Ruth’s name means ‘the heart of love’ and her life shows it. She was married to Naomi’s son who died and then, as was the custom, she was taken as a second wife by his brother Chilion, who also died, leaving her alone. Her mother-in-law, Naomi was also a widow and, after the death of her sons, she was destitute. She decided they both should return to her home in Bethlehem, which was not that far away, where her family would be able to help her.
In Bethlehem, Ruth approached Boaz, Naomi’s relative who himself was a widower, and asked permission to glean in his fields. Boaz, dazzled by her beauty, as she is by his charm, commands his workers to leave more grain than usual in the fields so that Naomi and Ruth will have enough grain for the winter. Ruth had an extraordinarily strong back allowing her to glean for three weeks. Whenever he could, Boaz secretly watched her, mesmerised and Ruth pretended not to see him. She collected up to eighty kilos a day, over a thousand kilos in her time. When the harvest was finished, Naomi said you must go and let him know how grateful we both are. So Ruth called on Boaz to thank him for the obvious gift of his grain. He was working the threshing floor and he immediately sent his workers away, Ruth embraced him in thanks and her hands wandered and his hand wandered and she seduces him. After he covers her with his robe he was obliged to marry her, and Naomi, the matchmaker is very happy. They will have one son. This was one of the Bible’s great love stories of two people who couldn’t bear to be out of one another’s sight.”
“The last time Mary was beautiful, she was Sarah!”
“Ruth was quite beautiful with olive skin, an oval face, auburn hair, grey eyes, with a womanly, shapely figure, not as beautiful as Sarah, but she is beautiful. She walked gracefully and had surprisingly strong hands, but she was very modest in her manner.”
“What traits of Mary did she select?”
“She had all of them: beauty, intelligence, compassion, linguistic ability, regality, grace, eloquence. This is the real Mary: unselfish, compassionate, gracious, peaceful, full of unconditional love. Doesn’t she say unselfishly to her mother-in-law, ‘Wherever you go, I will go'? Doesn’t she serve and protect Naomi?"
“Yes. Both Ruth and Naomi show five of the qualities of leaders: assertiveness, courage, ingenuity, stamina and wisdom. Did Ruth have any other traits unusual for Mary?”
“None of these traits are unusual for Mary. Didn’t both Sarah and Leah show those traits and what of Deborah? Besides her strong back, Ruth had a decidedly better taste in husbands than any of them!”
“That is because she married an aspect of St Germain, Gatekeeper. But the Book of Ruth is one of the shortest chapters in the Bible and it is about women and it seems to be written from the point of view of a woman. Who wrote it? Was it Ruth herself?”
“It was written by a woman around 597—537BC during the Babylonian captivity of Jews when they were telling the history of King David and Solomon. Nearly a thousand years later it would only scrape in by one vote at Nicaea for inclusion in the Christian Bible.”
“What was Ruth’s life purpose?”
“There was a need to improve the genetic material of the David line into which she, as Mary herself will incarnate and improve the role-modelling for future mothers. This was her main purpose, to be an iconic good woman, the very model of uprightness of character.”
“Boaz gives his name to one of the columns in Solomon’s Temples. He must too have been upright and an extraordinary man.”
“And he was an aspect of St Germain whom we will see later as King Hiram, one of the builders of the Temple and as Joseph of Arimathea, Mary’s uncle. He was a symbol of uprightness, strength and righteousness: a perfect model for a column! He was also kind and generous; in all his lives he set high standards for himself… they were all men of a strong, personal morality.”
“Why was Boaz’s column depicted in gold?”
“Because it is to show his incorruptibility and his purity.”
“Was that his purpose? To be a role model for a column?
“This name ‘Boaz’ means ‘upright’ and his purpose was to be unflinchingly righteous. As the great grandfather of King David he will be part of the genetic engineering for that remarkable life of Kuthumi. It is also his dry run for his most important life as Arimathea, the beloved mentor of both Jesus and his mother. Boaz was a merchant working as a farmer while trading his wine and oil to Lebanon and Egypt, a life with a similar occupation to Arimathea”
“The other column was called Jachin. Who was he?”
“Jachin overlapped in his time with Boaz and he was a soldier, also an aspect of St Germain. His name means ‘strength’, ‘moral strength’ and we glimpsed him as Jacob’s son, the blackberry-eyed Benjamin.”
“Was there a metaphysical reason for Boaz and Ruth’s union?”
“It was for Mary and her uncle Joseph to learn to work together and instinctively trust one another. It was also an opportunity for St Germain to balance his neglect of her when he was Jacob and she was Leah. Mary herself, will play very important roles in the fulfilment of the law.”
