Saint Germain’s Retreat in Transylvania

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The Seven Sacred Weeks

Saint Germain’s Retreat in Transylvania
July 15th Through August 14, 1953
In the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains stands the beautiful old manor house, which is presently the sanctuary of the Ascended Master Saint Germain.
Here, since early in the Christian Dispensation, certain men and women, interested in studying the hidden laws of nature, and the methods of employing those laws to the evolution of the race, have gathered together and endeavored to bring, through their own consciousness, ways and means of forwarding the progress of good through the mankind of earth.
Here, the early alchemists endeavored to combine the various alloys, to produce the previous metals which have formed the currency of each generation. Here, other earnest brothers pondered over the way and means of drawing, from the universal, the elixirs by which youth, beauty and life, itself, might be sustained for centuries.
Here, was drawn the culture of the early Grecian Golden Age, and, through the long, dark period known as the “dark ages,” the wealth of knowledge, invention, discovery, and spiritual truth was carefully guarded and sustained by these brothers for the use of the few, who might apply at the doors of wisdom, and be invited within the sacred portals of this house of wisdom and freedom.
It was within this baronial home, that Marco Polo received the impetus to seek the trade routes to bridge the vast expanse of unknown territory between the European continent and the Far East. Here Galileo learned the truth about his stars.”
And here, century after century, came one whose heart was the compass, guiding him ever toward truth, and which – even in the heavy bonds of forgetfulness that bound his inner vision round – told him that freedom lay within the moss-grown walls of that old castle. He came to warm his heart and renew his spirit in the presence of freedom, and then walk again among the sons and daughters of men, his garments radiating the strength of purpose and will renewed within its presence.
Here, in great privation, year after year, came Roger Bacon on earnest pilgrimage, and at its doors knocked Columbus, long before his lifeplan carried him westward in his service.
And here came the disillusioned and embittered Francis Bacon, stripped of his right to rule Britannia, who then requested to surrender his honor and his name, itself, in behalf of a king who had lost the fortune of a crown.
Century after century, this beautiful sanctuary of freedom, this home of faith and hope, had passed from father to son, carrying always the name of Rakoczy, and welcoming, always, the seekers after truth-unveiled.
And when the end of earthly pilgrimage of the great son of freedom drew nigh, and the voice of the presence of God summoned him home, he set his worldly affairs in order, and returned into the heart of Transylvania, and in the presence of his loved ones, and in the arms of his great friend, he relinquished his spirit into the heart of eternal life – to return no more in the limiting bonds of flesh, but only in the free robes of immortality – Saint Germain! Son of freedom! Shakespeare describes this friendship and passing in the play “Hamlet.”
Because of this association with this sacred home, and because of the love of his great benefactor, this home has remained a focus for the Freedom Flame unto this present day. In later years, particularly during the eighteenth century, when Saint Germain again came before the eyes of the public, he used this home as a meeting place for his friends and students, and here, Catherine of Russia, Lafayette, Von Steuben, Napoleon, and others in whom he had great hope to further the cause which is his life embodied, often visited.
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Journal 1, The Bridge to Freedom, book reprinted now by Ascended Master Teaching Foundation - AMTF

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