Vol. 50 No. 15 - Beloved Saint Germain - August 1, 2007
A Small Boy in Transylvania
Part 1
Eternal friends, I recall now a morning scene in Transylvania. The sky is so blue that all of God seems reflected in it. It seems a mirrored lake of perfection. The sunlight is mellow and golden and warming and revivifying; the hilly country seems charged with the essences of nature’s grandeur.
A cart drawn by an animal that does not seem too animated slowly wends its way across a very narrow and dusty pass in the hills of that beautiful country land. Seated in this somewhat rude cart is a small boy. A quantity of straw protrudes from the cart and, because it is properly ripened, it seems, as the sun shines upon it, to be tiny sticks of gold. The sun reflects in the hair of the small boy driving the cart and horse, and the hair, too, seems a crown of gold.
The boy remarks to himself in his inward musings, “How beautiful the country is this morning! How glorious and how fresh everything appears to me! The warmth feels wonderful upon my body. How I love the sun!” The boy stands within the cart in order to inhale more deeply of the mountain air and draws in the fullness of a most deep and penetrating breath. In joy he knows the meaning of breathing in the air of freedom.
The cart continues on its rugged journey over the dusty road in an age far less mechanized than the present one; and the lad enjoys, without the feelings and pressures of modern living, the simplicity of the countryside reflecting the beauties of nature, the golden moments of childhood, and the tenderness of a spirit attuned to the harmonies of the universe. Bound for the palace of a count of the nobility, the cart wends on down the road. I remember it well, for I was the boy.
All people upon earth, all who dwell here, in their precious halls of memories record numerous experiences which have simply delighted their beings. The cluttered halls of memory at times become charged with the vibratory action of that which is coarse, of that which stifles the flame of freedom, of that which does not speak of the elemental creation of life and nature—the trees, the natural verdure, the elemental things of the forest and field, the sparkling mountain stream, the laughing, happy waters, the exhilarating air, the beauties too of the fireside and the candlelight and the silver, the pewter, the friendliness and the warmth of good-neighborliness. All of these qualities at times, in the race for the expansion of vanity and ego, are forgotten, and men live no more in the pioneer spirit of the wilderness, but they live in an age of mechanized grief.
I remember the hours of freedom, and I remember them eternally. But I have a specific purpose in mind in recalling them to your attention today. It is this: that every one of you and every child of earth all have at one time been a babe in their mother’s arms. From the least to the greatest, from the wisest to the most ignorant, from the strongest to the weakest—all have been held in a mother’s hands and taught about the meaning of life in some manner or another. Some mothers have spoken wisely and well to their children, and others, less endowed themselves with understanding, have conveyed a lesser measure of the fullness of understanding which a mother could give. But all have given from their hearts that love which was implanted there by the Eternal One.
I have a reason, a specific reason why I am referring to this simple scene. It is because individuals sometimes forget the meaning of life. They sometimes forget that life is a schoolroom of eternity and that this planet is a beautiful home, that its emerald lakes and azure seas and snow-capped mountain peaks can ring with freedom if the hearts of its people can sing a song of freedom to God.
Have you ever heard the anthem of a people voiced by thousands of throats? Have you ever stood aloft in a tower of light and listened to the heart of a nation? Have you ever gazed upon a planet and felt the pulsation of all of its people as a great magnet drawing your heart to express the fullness of your cosmic abilities? I have.
I am called—and my peers tell me it is no misnomer—the God of Freedom. Well, I am grateful they have included the word God in the title, for that is where the credit belongs—to my Presence, to my Divine Being, to the Source of my freedom.
And the childhood of all mankind should be sustained in an environment where the natural meaning of life can come to be known and cherished. The mechanization of the world is progressive and it is a part of man’s eternal freedom, but it can become a chain of iron around his neck. With the invention of gunpowder and nitroglycerin, mankind were enabled to know more of the powers of destruction. Those of you familiar with the history of the world will recall the great love in the heart of Mr. Nobel and [you] are aware of the Nobel Peace Prize.1
Ladies and gentlemen, the inevitable release of a dynamic explosive upon the world scene wrought untold destruction in those wars that have transpired since its invention. The challenge of the times has been, Should the ascended masters have interfered with the manifestation of such inventions? Should we have caused mankind to remain in ignorance of such destruction? And did the Deity do wrong to permit mankind to have the use of such destructive instruments?
As you ponder this question, realize, beloved ones, that we acted as long as the Great Law would permit us to act and deliberately kept the mankind of earth from having these weapons of destruction when they were still more warlike, more cruel, more barbaric, and less illumined than they are today.
However, the inevitability of human discovery and the spirit of man–the quest for knowledge, the quest and search for progress—brought about the unfoldment of these scientific advances. And so not only gunpowder, but in your age the release of the atomic bomb has been brought to mankind, threatening the destruction of the now-known earth. For with the advent of atomic energy and the building of the hydrogen bomb and that bomb which is yet held in abeyance, the cobalt bomb2, the mankind of earth have reached new heights of destructive possibilities.
Now I am interested in the boy, in the eternal boyhood. I am interested in giving eternal freedom to unborn generations, lifestreams waiting in the temples of birth, lifestreams as precious as your own, charged with as great a God flame as manifests within your own hearts. If these individuals are to be permitted the opportunities which you have to learn life’s lessons in the schoolroom here of eternity upon the Earth planet, civilization must preserve itself intact against destructive influences and eternal freedom must become the goal of all life.
I can well understand and sympathize with those who desire to bring about peace. As patriots know, peace cannot be at any price, and so bloodshed ensued in the separation of this land of America from England. And many other wars have been fought in the name of freedom. The time has come, however, to put an end to all strife. It is here now. The destructive possibilities of mankind are so intense as to make it possible to destroy the earth.
Now it is an entirely different thing, beloved ones, if God—by cosmic law, by cataclysmic action, by karmic action–were to bring about the destruction of the planet. But for mankind, and a few among them, to take it into their hands to unleash the powers of God through atomic energy upon mankind and, in a fiery holocaust, to demolish the labors of elemental life for centuries and centuries, would be one of the greatest crimes—if not the greatest—that has ever occurred in the entire universe, and I refer to the physical creation.
I hope, therefore, that those of you who love peace as you love your Presence will call to its heart that the illumination’s golden flame will touch these people who are in control of governments, and minds and lives in the schoolrooms, and the control of men’s destinies, that they may be made aware by the angelic host of the awesome responsibility which they hold.
Some of them, beloved ones, have become so crass and so seared in conscience with the hot iron of materialism that they no longer care about anyone upon earth except themselves, and I think sometimes they are somewhat at war with themselves. This is particularly true if you will visit the asylums, where you will find, through the split personalities which mankind develop, the divisive factors in human life manifesting and tearing apart the very hinges of their mind and lowering human dignity until man is no longer man but [like] an animal in the jungle.
Beloved ones, the brave men who are living and those who have passed on in the service of this great nation stand today mute—both living and dead—before the infamous war plans of the destructive forces which continue to be made. One of the dispensations which ought, then, to be granted is for the destruction and transmutation of all war plans made by any nation before they can act or longer be sustained.
But it is not enough, beloved ones, to merely build and secure the bulwarks of a great nation. A great nation rides upon the backs, so to speak, of its people, and it is no stronger than the weakest link of its people. To strengthen the causes of freedom, then, strengthen the flame of freedom within the hearts of men. Give them an understanding of God, of the simplicity of childhood, that they may realize that their own lives and their privileges are indeed a blessing of incomparable magnitude.
Now, beloved ones, there is one particular facet of the boy driving the cart which I wish to call to your attention. It is the fact that it was his consciousness which enjoyed, his consciousness which appreciated, his consciousness which reveled in nature, his consciousness which was happy, and it was his consciousness in which he lived. It is your consciousness in which you live, and your consciousness is the consciousness of God. But your consciousness does not manifest the consciousness of God and the eternal freedom of that consciousness unless you are happy as God is, unless you enjoy as he does.
Beloved ones, the natural elements of life visible to your mortal eyes were created and designed by God. They remain uncontaminated in their essences. Only outwardly has nature taken on human discord. The thorns and thistles have sprung up into the kingdoms of nature as a direct result of mankind’s wrong thinking and feeling. The insect life and the vicious sucking, biting, and stinging insects of the world are released into manifestation not by God, but by man’s wrong thoughts and feelings. All of that which produces unhappiness comes from the power of man to create as God does.
Give to the scientists of the world more power than they now have and their danger is increased, unless they can understand the spiritual philosophy of the brotherhood of man. The eternal freedom of Almighty God is a priceless gift and heritage, but it must be appreciated in consciousness. Consciousness then must be purified in order to appreciate the purposes of God.
Give a priceless jewel to a babe or to an ignorant, unlearned fisherman and he may toss it into the sea and never know its value. The Christ said, “Do not cast your pearls before swine.”3 But beloved ones, life has cast a pearl of great price before all, and it does not desire to have you remain as animals. It desires to exalt you into the deity of your eternal Presence. The deity and the dignity of your eternal Presence is that which endowed the great men of this nation and every nation with the power of light and light’s perfection.
Simón Bolívar,4 George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette,5 and a multitude of historical figures known as patriots in the various nations of the world have stood for the cause of freedom. They too were children, but within their hearts a flame began to blaze. And as they became elevated in stature, completed their physical educations, they absorbed from the screen of life and their contemporaries around them a greater understanding of life and its meaning, and they chose to externalize some facet of the God design which inspired them. And many of them chose freedom, and they stood for freedom.
Patriots all! In them lived that desire to be free, that desire to raise their heads in dignity. Underneath the aegis of Almighty God, they breathed the power of freedom with reverence for it. They knew that that which quickened them was light and they treasured it and they sought to expand it. They sought to be more noble. They desired to make something of themselves, but they realized the power to do so was not always in their hands. So when necessary, they accepted partial limitations, but they never accepted partial limitations as final. They determined to shatter human concepts, and they went outside of themselves to the Deity and called to Almighty God for assistance.
They knew naught of the ascended masters during those dark ages. They did not know of the existence of the angelic hosts. Many of them had a plain and simple faith in God alone, and they called to God as the “unknown God.” But God answered them as the known God.
Continued in Part 2, published in Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 50, no. 16.
“The Summit Lighthouse Sheds Its Radiance o’er All the World to Manifest as Pearls of Wisdom.”
This dictation by Saint Germain was delivered by the Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood Mark L. Prophet on Wednesday, July 4, 1962, during the Freedom Class held in Washington, D.C. This dictation was previously published in the 1977 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 20 no. 34.
1. Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833–1896) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, industrialist and munitions maker. He discovered that when nitroglycerin, which is highly volatile, was mixed with kieselguhr (a porous diatomaceous earth), it became more stable and safer to handle. He patented this mixture as dynamite. Nobel also invented one of the first smokeless gunpowders as well as more than 100 other patented items. Despite the nature of some of his discoveries, Nobel was essentially a pacifist and hoped that awareness of the destructive power of such inventions would help to bring an end to war. He bequeathed much of his fortune to the establishment of the Nobel prizes, including the Nobel Peace Prize. These are awarded annually for outstanding achievement in peace efforts as well as in physics, chemistry, literature, economics, and medicine or physiology. First given in 1901, the Nobel Prize is still one of the most highly regarded awards in the world.
2. A cobalt bomb can theoretically be made by coating a hydrogen bomb with cobalt, producing more dangerous fallout.
3. Matt. 7:6.
4. Simón Bolívar (1783–1830) led the fight for liberation from Spanish rule for the present-day nations of Colombia, Venezuela, Panama, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. A great statesman, writer and revolutionary general, he is known as the George Washington of South America.
5. Marquis de Lafayette (1757–1834), born to a wealthy noble family, early entered French military service and later withdrew to join George Washington’s army in America. He was appointed a major general and won the close friendship of Washington. During his participation in the American Revolution, he was wounded at Brandywine, shared the trials of Valley Forge and helped to win the siege of Yorktown. In standing for the cause of freedom, Lafayette not only assisted the colonists in their struggle for independence but also played an important role in the French Revolution.
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