Understanding
the elite and the counter-elite
Restoring
the WORD in America 1
A discourse by Saint Germain
NOTE: This dictation was delivered on April 6, 2007 during the Shangra-la
Easter Conference.
Eleven
o'clock—and all is NOT well. Thus my beloved, I, Saint Germain,
come as the watchman of old, who walked through the city streets in
the dark of night. But I cannot report that all is well. For indeed
all is not well in America.
Thus, my beloved, what is the only possible solution? Well, my beloved,
it is precisely – as you have given in
this rosary – the restoration of the Word in America. And
that is the Living Word. For there is far more than enough of the dead
word in America.
My beloved, I have asked you to once again participate in this meditation
on the cosmic images.* And I have done so for a very specific reason.
My beloved, imagine that you were sitting in some far galaxy or on the
God Star Sirius, looking down upon the Earth and America. What would
America look like from that cosmic perspective, compared to what America
looks like when you are inside—inside the mental box that has
been formed over America since she was founded by me?
The second law of thermodynamics and politics
You see, my beloved, as one of the masters who sponsored science on
this planet, I would like to bring you a scientific perspective. What
is the problem in America today? Well, it is a problem that has been
described by physics in a law that has been known for centuries. And
it is called the second law of thermodynamics.
Some of you are familiar with it through our releases. But unfortunately
most people in the world and in America are not familiar with this law.
And if they are, they see it as something that applies only to science
but not to other areas of life.
And this, my beloved, is indeed part of the problem—that everything
becomes so compartmentalized. And as Jesus,
Nada and Mother
Mary have talked about, people become so blinded by their filter
in front of their eyes that they can no longer see beyond it. They cannot
see the greater perspective, they cannot see themselves from the outside—and
therefore they cannot see that they are heading straight for the abyss.
Therefore, my beloved, what is needed is an integration of the philosophical
implications of the second law of thermodynamics, where you understand
what this law actually means for a civilization, a nation, a group of
people or even an individual. So for those not familiar with this law,
it states very simply that if a system becomes closed, becomes isolated
from anything outside itself, then disorder will increase in that system,
until the system breaks down to the lowest possible energy state. Which
we also might call the lowest common denominator, where things are so
bad, so flat, so dead that they simply cannot go any lower.
And so, my beloved, what exactly does that mean for a civilization,
for a nation? Well, it has been said that those who do not learn from
history are destined to repeat it. So let us look at history. Let us
look at the Roman civilization, as a perfect example for many reasons.
One is that at its time Rome was close to being as dominant in the ancient
world as America has become after the so-called collapse of the Soviet
Union.
Rome could do almost whatever they wanted with their armies, as America
today thinks they can do almost whatever they want. Yet, this great
civilization – that had conquered most of the known world back
then – collapsed. And why did it collapse? Well, it collapsed
because it fell victim to the second law of thermodynamics! Because
Rome, especially those who lived in the city of Rome and directed the
Roman empire – or the emperors, wherever they lived – they
isolated, they insulated, themselves from anything outside their own
little mental box.
And as a result, their mental box became narrower and narrower. It became
more and more focused on themselves, and they became more and more blinded
by their own logic, by their own filter through which they were looking
at the world. And so they were absolutely convinced that they were right
and that their way of looking at the world was the only possible way
of looking at the world. And they were so convinced that Rome was so
mighty and so powerful that it could not possibly collapse.
And, my beloved, what was it that caused that collapse? Well, it was
precisely because they had been blinded by their logic—they refused
to change themselves, they refused to transcend themselves and come
up higher. They wanted to expand the empire militarily but they did
not want to expand their minds. They did not want to expand the empire
in a spiritual way, in a spiritual capacity. And once the emperors had
gained power, they wanted to maintain power, rather than using that
power for the benefit of their own people or for the progress of civilization
as a whole.
My beloved, the Roman empire collapsed first and foremost from within,
through corruption, through decadence, through neglect, through denial.
And it was this corruption, this division from within, that made the
empire vulnerable to invasion from without. But truly, the invading
forces were only instruments of the people’s own divisions and
their inner turmoil. They simply finished the breakdown process that
the people themselves had started, led by the power elite of the Roman
civilization.
But do not believe that the people, as suppressed as they might have
been, were without responsibility in this matter. For what did the Roman
people do during those times? Well, they wanted to live the good life—to
sing, dance and make merry, to be entertained in the forum by the gladiators,
to entertain themselves with the power and the greatness of Rome, thinking
that they were so sophisticated and had such a wonderful civilization,
the likes of which the world had never seen.
Looking in the national mirror
Well of course, I must tell you that compared to the civilizations of
Atlantis and previous golden ages, the Roman civilization was not at
all sophisticated. It was actually very, very primitive in almost every
respect. And of course, you today can look back at the Roman civilization,
and you can see that the Roman civilization was quite primitive compared
to what you have today, even here in America and other places throughout
the world.
But what most Americans do not bother to see – because they are
not willing to look in the mirror – is that American society has
the exact same dynamics as what you saw in the Roman empire in the century
or so before its collapse. The same internal contradictions, the same
power elite that runs things, the same people who want to be entertained
through television, through football games, through pursuing the American
dream—which has been redefined by the power elite to be the dream
of being trapped into a 30-year mortgage, of owning your own home.
Well, my beloved, I should think that you can see that this was not
my dream for America, when I sponsored this nation. Certainly, my beloved,
I have no problem with people having a comfortable material life. For
indeed, I sponsored science precisely because I realized that as long
as people, the population, were toiling like the population in the middle
ages, they would not have the energy and attention left over to pursue
any kind of spiritual goals.
So I have no problem with a civilization where there is enough material
wealth and still enough free time that people have attention left over
to pursue spiritual goals. But what have the American people done with
their affluence, with their abundance of time? Well, they have busied
themselves with all kinds of empty forms of entertainment that drag
them down and down and down – or hammer their energies down –
so that they never have any quiet moment in their lives to actually
reflect and say, "Perhaps there is something better I could do
with my life than living this rat race of always feeling stressed out,
even though I have more time on my hands than any previous generation."
So my beloved, my point is simply this: when a society becomes trapped
in its own mental box, when it starts closing that mental box –
isolating itself from any input from the outside, any input that can
disturb that nation's sense that all is well – well, my beloved,
that is precisely the time to watch out for. Because you know that just
as the people are totally trapped in the illusion that they have it
all made and that they have created an eternal society—well just
about at that point, the second law of thermodynamics will start breaking
down their “eternal” civilization.
This is what happened to the Roman empire. This is what is in the process
of happening in America but it has not yet reached the point of being
irreversible. For there is still time, which is why I started out by
saying that it was eleven o’clock—the time has not yet run
out to turn around America, but it is getting close. And if people do
not start awakening themselves from the mass delusion that all is well
in America – and that America will remain free because she is
a democratic nation – well then things will start sliding downhill.
And they could slide downhill much quicker than most people would be
willing to consider.
The dilemma of how to awaken a people
I am in no way trying to sound alarmist. For my beloved, we are here
to always help you rise to the higher vision. But do you see, my beloved,
the dilemma that an ascended master faces? I have a cosmic perspective.
I see the handwriting on the wall. I am perfectly capable of adding
two plus two and coming out with four and seeing that there will come
a point where America reaches that point of no return, where it will
be very difficult to reverse the downward slide.
And so, the only chance I have of reversing that slide is to speak the
Living Word that can awaken people from the illusion that is causing
the slide to begin in the first place. And in order to do this, I must
shake people up a little bit, for otherwise they will go on pursuing
the American dream, pretending that nothing can go wrong and that everything
will turn out okay in the end.
Yet, on the other hand, I walk a tightrope. For you see, my beloved,
when the Roman civilization reached the point where the people started
awakening from their illusion, what actually happened was that the people
very abruptly shifted from a state of being in total denial to a state
of going into a state of panic and a sense of fear that things could
not possibly be turned around and that things were so bad that it could
only get worse.
And you see, my beloved, that shift actually reinforced the downward
spiral and made the downward momentum more powerful. So I have no desire
to awaken the American people to this alarmist mindset – that
so many are in – that a disaster is right around the corner and
that the economy would break down and that this or that calamity would
befall this nation. You see, my beloved, that is counter-productive.
But I do need to awaken the American people from the illusion that if
they keep going in the current direction, everything will be okay. For
that is not the case. So once again, the problem, the greatest problem
in America right now, is that the American people have not woken up.
They are in the closed system, and therefore the downward force –
which is truly not an evil force but is simply what Mother Mary calls
the contracting
force of the Mother – that force is breaking down society,
and some of you already know this.
And so what needs to happen is that the American people are awakened
to this reality without going to the opposite extreme of the alarmist,
disaster consciousness. And who, my beloved – or what –
can bring about such an awakening? Well, it is only one thing and that
is the Living Word, shining through many hearts – flowing
through many minds and hearts – where you give them a higher vision,
that although things are bad, it does not mean that things can only
go down but that things can actually get better because there is a higher
purpose, there is a higher vision for America and people's own personal
lives.
And therefore, letting go of the old does not mean that a civilization
breaks down and you lose everything. It means that you transcend the
limitations of the old, come up higher and build a better society, a
better civilization, one that is at an even higher level than today.
And it is at a higher level because the mental box that you have created
does not allow people to even envision what the Golden Age could be
like in America.
The power elite is always divided
Again, as we have said before, were we tell you this, you would accuse
us of being hopelessly optimistic, of being unrealistic Utopians. Well,
my beloved, we are Utopians but we are not unrealistic. For truly, the
Golden Age is a reality. The only question is how many people on Earth
will experience the Golden Age?
For I already experience it as a living reality in the etheric realm.
It simply has not been brought down into the material realm, where your
consciousness is currently focused. But it is a reality at higher levels.
And that means that it can be brought down if you are willing to be
the open doors. And so what needs to happen is, first of all, an awakening
to the reality that things need to change. But an awakening that does
not propel people to the opposite extreme.
For my beloved, I must tell you – as we have tried to explain
now, through the books, especially Mother
Mary's and Maitreya's
books – there are always two dualistic extremes. And when we talk
about the power elite, we are not talking about one homogeneous body
on this planet. For if the power elite were united, they would already
have controlled every aspect of life on this planet.
And, my beloved, you might think that they already have a lot of control.
But if they had this planet under total control, I would not be able
to speak through a physical messenger and speak this message. And so
you see, there is still an opening, there is still freedom for the Living
Word to flow. And this is indeed the potential for turning around a
nation and a planet.
But, my beloved, the two dualistic extremes that are set up by the power
elite, the two different factions of the power elite, are first of all
those who are trying to keep people asleep, to prevent them from waking
up because they are in total denial of the forces described in the second
law of thermodynamics. They truly believe that they can create a civilization
where they are in control and that they can maintain that control indefinitely.
This is what the Romans believed, the leaders of the Roman empire. And
they were the last ones to wake up and realize that things had shifted
and they could no longer maintain control.
Then there is the other faction of the power elite, and they will move
in once the control of the first power elite begins to slip. They will
then come in and try to take advantage of the situation in order to
create a panic and a downward spiral that goes out of control, so that
they can break down the old order and then set themselves up as the
new power elite that holds the position of the old power elite.
If you want a typical example of this, look at France before and after
the revolution. The old power elite were the kings. And again you see
the typical example, where they had isolated and insulated themselves,
created a mental box that they thought was unassailable. And yet, the
force of the second law of thermodynamics eventually created a shift.
But then what happened was that the counter elite moved in and caused
the French revolution to spin out of control, until so many heads had
rolled that there was no rhyme or reason for it whatsoever. And they
then set themselves up as the new power elite. And they quickly became
as tyrannical and as controlling as the old one.
Another typical example is Russia before and after the Bolshevik revolution.
The czar is another example of a leader who had insulated and isolated
himself, not being willing to see reality. And then, after the revolution
had taken hold, the Bolshevik forces moved in and set themselves up.
And I dare say that anyone looking at history will see that the communists
in Russia were responsible for far more atrocities, killings and suppression
of the Russian people than the czars ever were.
Strive for the Middle Way
And so you see that, too many times in history, a nation has jumped
from the frying pan into the fire, from one extreme to the other. And
this is not what I desire to see for America in this age. So I must
ask you, beloved – those of you who are open to this Word –
I must ask you to discipline yourselves and to strive for the Middle
Way, the middle way between the two dualistic extremes—one that
all is well and that you can remain asleep, the other that all is bad
and things can only get worse.
My beloved, I desire the American people to be awakened. But I do not
desire them to be awakened through fear. I desire them to be awakened
through love—the love for something better than what is here today
instead of the fear of going to some fiery hell and therefore being
willing to give control to those who promise you that they can keep
you away from that hell—if you will only follow them blindly.
So I ask you to discipline yourselves. I know that many of the people
who are open to our word are so because you have overcome the delusion
that all is well. You have realized that things need to change and you
are willing to study alternative viewpoints that give you a different
perspective.
Yet many of you have not found the Middle Way. And you have become unbalanced
in the sense that you look for the doomsday prophets, the doomsday scenarios.
And you indulge in these things, almost to the point of enjoying how
bad things are, or how bad you think things are, and how – pretty
soon – the people will be awakened and you will emerge as the
wise ones who saw this coming ahead of time.
This is a tendency that we have seen even in students of the ascended
masters in previous organizations. And it is a tendency that it is time
for those of you who are open to our word now to grow out of. My beloved,
this world, this nation, is not going to hell in a handbasket—unless
you absolutely are hell-bent on seeing it go to hell. For as we have
tried to tell you, what you project into the cosmic mirror, the mirror
will reflect back to you. So what do you want? Do you want a nation
that goes from one extreme to the other? Or do you want a nation that
transcends the dualistic extremes and finds the Middle Way? Well, if
you want the latter then YOU must find the Middle Way.
For my beloved, if those who are open to the Living Word cannot find
the Middle Way, how can you expect the rest of the nation to find it?
And so, I ask you to let go of following these websites or email lists
or wherever you get this doomsday information. And, my beloved, let
me say this very clearly. I will admit that there are some of the doomsday
scenarios out there that may have some reality to them. I will admit
that there are conspiracy theories that have some reality to them. But
I must tell you that they have an overlay of negativity, of pulling
you down and pulling everyone else down with them, and if you have any
intention of being a student of the Ascended Host, then you cannot allow
anything in your life that pulls you down.
We are going up!
For we are not about going down—we are about going up! There is
only one direction for me and that is UP! And if you want to follow
me, you have to go up with me, because I will not stand still and wait
for you. I have a golden age to manifest on this planet. And I am about
my Father's business. So if you want to be a chela of Saint Germain,
follow me as I go up!
My beloved, God did not tell me that I had to be the hierarch
of the Aquarian age—I made a choice. And I made that choice not
out of pessimism, not out of thinking that this world was about to fall
apart. I made the choice because I saw the higher vision of the potential
of making that Golden Age a reality.
My beloved, the motto of all pessimists throughout the ages has been,
"I am not a pessimist, I am a realist." My beloved, there
is blind realism and there is the realism based on the vision of Christ.
Surely, there are optimists who are blind, but I am not among them.
And I do not want you to be among them. But neither do I want you to
be among the blind pessimists who think they are being realistic in
believing that things can only get worse.
My beloved, do you think Jesus would have come to this planet if he
thought there was no hope of turning it around? Nay! Why would we expose
ourselves to a hopeless cause? Why would we bind ourselves to a planet
that was doomed to go to hell? This planet is not doomed to go anywhere.
But it surely has the potential to go up, and to transcend all of the
old mental boxes that keep people trapped and keep them asleep.
So my beloved – just to stress this point again – what is
needed in America today is that the American people are given a different
perspective that allows them to step outside of their current mental
box and look at America from a greater perspective. To some degree you
can get this perspective on this Earth by interacting with people who
are outside America and therefore are looking at America from outside
the mental box.
But I must tell you that there is hardly anywhere to go on this planet,
where they do not have their own mental box that filters their view
of reality and their view of America. So while you can learn somewhat
from people in other cultures and nations, you need to raise that vision
and seek for something that is totally beyond the duality consciousness.
And that something is, of course, the Living Word, which is the only
thing that will connect you to a reality that cannot be affected by
duality, and therefore cannot become a closed box and cannot become
subject to the forces of the second law of thermodynamics.
You see my beloved, Jesus came 2,000 years ago to set the foundation
for the golden age of Aquarius by creating a tradition whereby people
would have and maintain the direct contact with the Living Word—which
would allow them to develop Christ discernment so that they could not
be pulled into the dualistic extremes and become blinded by that relative,
dualistic logic. For the only way to avoid creating a closed mental
box, creating a closed system, is to be connected to something beyond
duality.
And the only thing beyond duality is the universal Christ mind –
the LOGOS – which is simply another word for the Christ mind,
and has been translated in the English Bible as the Word. But I tell
you, it would have been far better if it had been maintained as the
LOGOS. Because the LOGOS has a broader meaning than the Word. And I
shall let Jesus himself explain this to you.
But the reality is that from the very moment that the Creator decided
to give beings free will, the universal Christ mind was created to make
sure that they could never be lost in the consciousness of duality,
the consciousness of separation, but they always had a way back to the
reality of oneness. And that reality is the LOGOS, which is expressed
in this world through the Living Word. It is the only thing that can
help you escape the duality consciousness without having your sense
of self-worth broken down.
Iraq is a textbook example
You see, my beloved, what has happened in Iraq is a textbook example
of what I have been talking about—a nation isolates and insulates
itself. This has been going on for a long time in the United States—there
is a tradition of isolationism and it is partly due to the fact that
the United States is a large nation. You can see other big nations –
Russia, China are prime examples – of how these nations can become
isolated, insulated, thinking that they have the highest possible civilization.
You saw it even in smaller nations in Europe, England, France and Britain,
to a lesser degree Spain and Italy. But most of the smaller nations
in Europe have remained out of that trap, whereas the bigger nations
again went into it.
My beloved, I think it is universally recognized that one of the worst
atrocities of the last centuries was the Holocaust in Germany. But you
see, my beloved, most Germans had no idea what was going on in the concentration
camps until after the war. And why did they have no idea? Because they
did not want to know! They were like the Romans. They did not want to
know the corruption and the insanity in their leadership. Because if
they knew, they would have had to do something to overthrow those leaders
and take back power over their nation.
And this is precisely what is going on in America today. The American
people do not want to know the corruption in America. They do not want
to know how their foreign policy is taken over by an international power
elite who are simply directing the President and his cabinet as marionettes—who
are dancing as they pull at the strings from behind the scenes.
And so, the American people are asleep, and they allow the President
and his cabinet to use the 9/11 incident as an excuse for insulating
and isolating themselves. My beloved, look at the remark of the President
when he said, "If you are not with us, you are against us."
Is that not isolationist to the core? Is that not black-and-white
thinking?
For truly, you cannot possibly say with sanity that anyone who is not
willing to go along with a military adventure in Iraq is against the
United States or is supporting terrorism. Perhaps those nations just
had greater foresight than the American administration, who had allowed
themselves to look at the world from inside a closed box, thinking their
box gave them an accurate representation of the world.
And so what happened was that the people allowed this to happen. They
allowed the Patriot Act to erode their civil liberties and their hard-fought
freedoms. And therefore, they allowed their president and those behind
him to take them into the military adventure in Iraq. And you see, my
beloved, why has this been – what I think most people today realize
– an embarrassment for the American nation? Well, it is precisely
because the people would not be awakened in any other way. So since
they would not listen to the Living Word, they became subject to the
second law of thermodynamics, whereby their own illusion creates the
forces that break down the illusion and therefore awakens the people.
But what is in danger of happening – and what is already
happening – in this nation, is that now you see the counter-elite
trying to run with the momentum of breaking down American self-esteem
and the American people’s belief in their nation and their nation’s
ability to rise above this. And they are then trying to create the opposite
movement, so that they can take over and take America into what they
think is the only true world view, but which is truly the opposite dualistic
extreme.
This, my beloved, is already beginning to happen, and you can see it
in the democratic leadership who think they have an opening, but yet
they are not representing the Living Word. They have not reached for
the Living Word. And so you see, they are all the blind leaders. And
as long as the American people play the role of the blind followers,
things will only get more embarrassing—in Iraq and elsewhere.
So who will be the ones crying in the wilderness, as the voice of reason,
as the voice that brings out the Middle Way? Well, my beloved, that
remains to be seen. But we are willing to do our part and inspire anyone
who is open to be be an instrument of the Living Word to some measure.
And so what I am doing in this release is to speak into the mass consciousness,
which will truly create an alchemical force. For the Living Word released
even through one individual – when that Living Word flows from
above and truly is alive – will have an effect. And even if nobody
listens, it will have an effect. And it will start that alchemical process,
that is like the catalyst you see in chemistry, where it starts very
gradually, building a process. But as the momentum gains, it suddenly
comes to that point where a phase transition occurs. And now all of
the molecules suddenly come into alignment, and you have coherence.
And then you have the awakening, where everybody suddenly wakes up and
says, "But the emperor has nothing on! And the other emperor has
nothing on either! So let us reach for the one who represents the Middle
Way."
Only God is the Middle Way
And my beloved, there is no way to find the Middle Way unless America
remains one nation under God. For my beloved, why did the founding fathers
write that sentence? Well, because what they had known before were the
nations of Europe that were one nation under the king, representing
the power elite on Earth. And so the founding fathers recognized that
unless you had a system of government that was based on the respect
for something greater than any earthly authority – something that
could not be manipulated by the politicking on Earth – unless
you had that respect for something beyond, you could not maintain or
even create a free nation.
And so, this was their great foresight, certainly with a slight inspiration
from myself and others. But they were willing, as imperfect as they
were, to be the open doors for this. And when you know the reality,
my beloved, you know that the Declaration of Independence was penned
by Thomas Jefferson, who lived on a farm here in Virginia, a farm that
was based on slaves. And yet he penned the words that all people are
given rights. And yet he could not extend that to his own slaves because
he was yet too attached to his comfortable lifestyle.
But nevertheless, my beloved, he was still able to be the open door
for the Living Word. And so was Washington and the others, despite their
imperfections. So again, we do not require people to be perfect, we
require you to be willing to transcend whatever state you are in right
now. It does not matter how imperfect it is. What matters is your willingness
to transcend and come up higher, for this is what we are looking for.
For my beloved, the Living Word is not a state of perfection that never
changes. It is the Living Word precisely because it is constantly
transcending itself. And so if you will to be an instrument for the
Living Word, you must be willing to constantly transcend yourself. For
there are again two dualistic extremes. One is that so many people think,
"Oh but if I am not perfect, how could I be an instrument for the
Living Word? How can I represent Jesus or the ascended masters?"
The opposite extreme are those who are deluding themselves in pride,
thinking they already know it all, and therefore they don't need the
Living Word to come and disturb them in their comfortability. They think
they know better than God how to run this planet. And they go out and
present themselves that way to the people. But they have not connected
to the Living Word. For there is no life in them. And so, again, the
Middle Way, the Middle Way, the Middle Way—balance, my beloved.
Life, truth, is not found in either of the dualistic extremes nor is
it found in the middle between the two extremes. It is only found by
transcending the scale of duality, as Maitreya explains in his book
better than I have time to explain it here—lest you go into the
extreme of falling asleep on me. [Laughter]
So I shall, as Jesus did earlier, not get ahead of myself. For again,
I will return. For, as you can hear from my eagerness, I have indeed
many more living words to share with you. And so I too express my gratitude
for your willingness to be here. For, as I said, one person speaking
the Living Word has an effect, but the more people are present, the
more this effect is multiplied through the heart flames of all. And
so, this messenger would have been perfectly willing to stand all alone
and bring forth this word, as he did when he stood all alone in the
midst of Berlin and dictated to speak into the mass consciousness.
Nevertheless, I am eternally grateful that so many of you are here,
for thereby we have a multiplication, which is what you have felt as
the light flowing through you as you give these rosaries. So my beloved,
my gratitude, my gratitude, my gratitude. And I look forward to seeing
you again tomorrow.
* Before the dictation, the
participants watched a slide presentation with images of the universe
set to classical music.
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