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The Saint Germain Movement is an American religious movement , headquartered in Schaumburg , Illinois , a suburb of Chicago , with a major facility just north of Dunsmuir , California in the buildings and property of the Shasta Springs retreat. There is also a facility in the Capitol Hill neighborhood in downtown Denver , Colorado .

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45-583: The organization's doctrines are based on teachings and wisdom received by Guy Ballard in 1930. Ballard was hiking on the slopes of Mount Shasta in California , and claimed that Saint Germain appeared to him and began training him to be a "Messenger". Ballard published his experiences in a series of books. The organization's philosophies are known as the "I AM" Activity, and its members popularly known as "I AM" students. There are hundreds of "I AM" temples and sanctuaries located in most principal cities of

90-562: A detailed critique of Theosophy titled Theosophy: history of a pseudo-religion (1921). In the book Guenon speculated that Blavatsky had acquired all her knowledge naturally from other books not from any supernatural masters. Guenon points out that Blavatsky spent a long time visiting a library at New York where she had easy access to the works of Jacob Boehme , Eliphas Levi , the Kabbalah and other Hermetic treatises. Guenon also speculated that Blavatsky had borrowed passages from extracts of

135-488: A number of movements in the theosophical tradition are held to be spiritually enlightened beings who in past incarnations were ordinary humans, but who have undergone a series of spiritual transformations originally called initiations. Both mahatma and ascended master are terms used in the Ascended Master Teachings. The concept of an ascended master is based on the theosophical concept of

180-727: Is Saint Germain Foundation, with headquarters in Schaumburg, Illinois , a suburb of Chicago. The "I AM" Activity began after Mr. Ballard's alleged meeting with Saint Germain, an Ascended Master, whose experiences are outlined in Volume One of the Saint Germain Series of Books, "Unveiled Mysteries", published by the Saint Germain Press. The year was 1930 when Mr. Ballard met Saint Germain according to

225-837: Is believed to be one of the Masters of the Ancient Wisdom in Theosophy and is one of the ascended masters in the Ascended Master Teachings. The Master Jesus is regarded by Theosophists as the Master of the Sixth Ray . It is believed by Ascended Master Teachings organizations that the Master Jesus was "Chohan of the Sixth Ray" until December 31, 1959, when, according to Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Lady Master Nada fully took on

270-807: Is regarded as the Lord or Regent of Earth and of humanity , and the head of the Spiritual Hierarchy of Earth who dwells in Shamballah . It is believed by these authors that he is the founder of the Great White Brotherhood, which consists of Masters of the Ancient Wisdom (Fifth Initiation), ascended masters (Sixth Initiation), Chohans and Bodhisattvas (Seventh Initiation), Buddhas (Eighth Initiation), and highly spiritually-evolved volunteers from other worlds, who have all joined to advance spiritual evolution on Earth. Sanat Kumara

315-412: Is reported that both Ballards ascended upon passing out of the physical body. Godfre Ray King has also reputedly given dictations through Edna Ballard (under the pen name of "Lotus Ray King"). Given the "I AM" Activity, old occult laws have been replaced including the teaching of Theosophy that, to become a master, a person would have had to ascend upon death to the fifth level of initiation. Adherents of

360-598: The Church Universal and Triumphant in 1975), The Temple of The Presence (1995), The Hearts Center (2005), the I AM University (2004), and various other organizations such as The White Eagle Lodge (1936) and the Aquarian Christine Church Universal (2006). Peter Mt. Shasta, who claims to be channeling the ascended master Saint Germain, has been releasing the ancient teachings in a more modern and simplified form, emphasizing

405-785: The Kanjur and Tanjur , translated by the eccentric orientalist Sándor Kőrösi Csoma , published in 1836 in the twentieth volume of the Asiatic Researchers of Calcutta . K. Paul Johnson suggests in his book The Masters Revealed: Madame Blavatsky and Myth of the Great White Brotherhood that the Masters that Madam Blavatsky claimed she had personally met are idealizations of certain people she had met during her lifetime. Robert Todd Carroll in his book The skeptic's dictionary (2003) speculates that Blavatsky used trickery into deceiving others into thinking she had paranormal powers. Carroll further speculates that Blavatsky had faked

450-691: The Alpes-de-Haute-Provence . It counts less than 50 members. In 1997, the Belgian parliamentary commission established a list of 189 movements containing I AM. Worldwide, the religious group had over one million members in 1940, but it began to decline after Ballard's death. Among its splinter groups have been The Bridge to Freedom , The Summit Lighthouse , and the Church Universal and Triumphant . Guy Ballard Guy Warren Ballard (July 28, 1878 – December 29, 1939)

495-623: The Ascended Master Teachings believe that Guy Ballard became the "Ascended Master Godfre" after his death, and that his previous incarnations include Richard the Lionheart and George Washington . They also believe that Edna Ballard became the "Ascended Lady Master Lotus", with previous incarnations including Joan of Arc , Elizabeth I of England , and Benjamin Franklin . Ascended master Ascended masters in

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540-409: The "Great White Brotherhood" by various theosophists and esotericists. The use of the term white refers to their advanced spirituality (in other words, that they have a white colored aura ) and has nothing to do with race. Blavatsky described many of the Masters as ethnically Tibetan or Indian ( Hindu ), not European . She did, however, describe them as being from all cultures and races, such as

585-553: The "Greek gentleman" known as Hilarion . Belief in the Brotherhood and the Masters is an essential part of the syncretistic teachings of various organizations that have taken the Theosophical philosophical concepts and added their own elements. Examples of those believed to be ascended masters by these organizations are: Jesus, Sanat Kumara, Buddha, Maitreya, Confucius , Lord Lanto (Confucius' historical mentor), Mary

630-454: The "green books" of The Saint Germain Series . In all, 3,834 claimed Dictations from the Masters were received through Guy and Edna Ballard. Other "Ascended Master Activities" believed that the ascended masters, cosmic beings, Elohim, and Archangels continued to present a program for both individual development and spiritual transformation in the world. They believe that further instruction from

675-668: The 'I AM' COME! Pageant, on the Life of Jesus the Christ, has been given annually in the outdoor G. W. Ballard Amphitheater, with magnificent Mt. Shasta (California) as a backdrop." The next performance will be in August 2023. There are also "I AM" musicals that are free for listening over the web. J. Gordon Melton , an American religious scholar, studied the group and ranked it in the category "established cult". Also present in New Zealand,

720-576: The 9th century BC. According to the post-1900 publications of Theosophy (specifically, the writings of Charles W. Leadbeater , Alice Bailey, and Benjamin Creme , as well as the Ascended Master Teachings of Guy Ballard, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Geraldine Innocente , Joshua David Stone , and other Ascended Master Teachings teachers), Sanat Kumara is an "advanced being" of the Ninth Initiation (the highest initiation possible on planet Earth) who

765-594: The Brotherhood may be known as the Masters of the Ancient Wisdom or the Ascended masters. Various people have said they have received messages from these beings, including most notably Helena Blavatsky (Theosophy), Aleister Crowley ( Thelema ), Alice Bailey ( New Group of World Servers ), Guy Ballard ( "I AM" Activity ), Geraldine Innocente (The Bridge to Freedom), Mark L. Prophet & Elizabeth Clare Prophet (Church Universal and Triumphant) and Benjamin Creme ( Share International ). The Masters are collectively called

810-683: The Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep III (who constructed the Temple of Luxor to the god Amon ) and also as Leonidas , the King of Sparta , who was killed in 480 BC defending the pass of Thermopylae against the invasion of ancient Greece by Emperor Xerxes I of the Persian Empire . Belief in the brotherhood and the masters is an essential part of the beliefs of various organizations that have continued and expanded

855-723: The Emperor of Atlantis, once in 33,050 BC and again in 15,000 BC. According to Alice Bailey, the Master Jesus was previously incarnated as Joshua , the Hebrew military leader in the 13th century BC, and Joshua the High Priest in the sixth century BC. According to the Ascended Master Teachings, Jesus was also incarnated as Joseph of the coat of many colors in the 17th century BC/16th century BC (approximately between 1650 BC and 1550 BC), as well as King David (who lived c.  1037 BC until around 970 BC), and Elisha in

900-778: The I AM Movement, White Eagle Lodge and New Thought and Theosophical groups. The book "Initiations of the Aquarian Masters: The Theosophy of the Aquarian Gospel" by ACCU founder Jacob L. Watson, expounds on the church's teachings which draw heavily from the writings of A.D.K. Luk (pen-name of Alice Beulah Schutz) (1905–1994), the Saint Germain Series published by the Saint Germain Press (The Saint Germain Foundation), and especially from "The Lost Years of Jesus" compiled by Elizabeth Clare Prophet and published by The Summit Lighthouse. René Guénon wrote

945-627: The I AM University (2004), the White Eagle Lodge (1936) and the Aquarian Christine Church Universal, Inc. (2006). In Ascended Master Teachings there is also mention of Serapis Bey, a being who was incarnated as a high priest in one of the "Temples of the Sacred Fire" on Atlantis , and who migrated to Egypt at the time of the destruction of Atlantis. It is also believed that he was incarnated as

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990-546: The Mahatma or Masters of the Ancient Wisdom. However, Mahatmas and ascended masters are believed by some to differ in certain respects. According to the Ascended Master Teachings, a "Master of Light", "Healer" or "Spiritual Master" is a divine human being who has taken the Fifth Initiation and is thereby capable of dwelling in a 5th dimension. The teachings hold that an "ascended master" is a human being who has taken

1035-592: The Office in the Spiritual Hierarchy in his place. According to Prophet, Jesus became World Teacher, along with Kuthumi, on January 1, 1956, succeeding Maitreya, who took the Office of "Planetary Buddha" and "Cosmic Christ". According to Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Prophet of the Church Universal and Triumphant (the largest Ascended Master Teachings religion), the Master Jesus incarnated twice as

1080-589: The SaintGermainFoundation.Org website. Ballard died on 29 December 1939 and Edna Ballard died on 12 February 1971. A new dispensation was reputedly given so that the "ascension" could be gained (in the finer body) without taking the physical body, as Jesus had done. The "ascended master bodies" were reputedly already prepared for Ballard and Edna Ballard as noted in Unveiled Mysteries by Godfre Ray King (the pen name of Guy Ballard). It

1125-524: The Sixth Initiation, also referred to as Ascension, and is thereby believed to be capable of dwelling in a 6th dimension. The term ascended master was first used by Baird T. Spalding in 1924 in his series of books, Life and Teachings of the Masters of the Far East (DeVorss and Co.). Godfre Ray King (Guy Ballard) further popularized this concept of spiritual masters who had once lived on

1170-654: The St. Germain Foundation is considered by the writer Robert S. Ellwood as a religious group with theosophical and esoteric roots. It is recognized by the Theosophical Society and the Great White Brotherhood . The group was labelled as cult in the 1995 report established by Parliamentary Commission on Cults in France . The group founded a community in France in 1956 and is now located in

1215-671: The United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia and locations in India, Latin America and Africa where members come together every week to decree for the benefit of mankind. There are also group meetings on various continents, as well as introductory classes and musicals. The Saint Germain Foundation and Press serves "I AM" students all over the world and performs pageants for residents and visitors alike in Mt. Shasta: "For more than 70 years,

1260-760: The ascended masters and the rest of the spiritual hierarchy continued through new Dispensations with new Messengers, such as the Bridge to Freedom, the Summit Lighthouse, and the Temple of The Presence. The Aquarian Christine Church Universal, Inc. (ACCU) is a denomination founded in 2006 based on The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ , said to be transcribed from the Akashic records by Levi H. Dowling . The Aquarian Christine Church actively promotes Ascended Master Teachings and shares many beliefs in common with

1305-584: The ascended masters became a central part of each member's life. Through the Ballards as "messengers", the ascended masters were believed to have regularly communicated with the students of "The I AM Activity". These supposed addresses (known as "Dictations") were delivered before gatherings of members in Conclaves held throughout the United States of America, and published in the monthly periodical The Voice of The "I AM" , and some were collected and reprinted in

1350-571: The atmosphere, created an effect. Like a boomerang, the effect came back into the consciousness and made a record. That record was the beginning of an impression. Energy sent out in a certain manner returned to affect the lifestream who had sent it forth and there began to be created a shadow between the I AM Presence and the human consciousness. Endeavoring to contact the Presence, the individual would find these 'tramp' thoughts and feelings flowing through that line of contact until more and more imperfect

1395-401: The books Unveiled Mysteries and The Magic Presence , using the pen name Godfré Ray King. Guy Ballard, his wife Edna , and their son Edona Eros "Donald" Ballard (1918-1973) claimed to be the sole "accredited messengers" of Saint Germain. Their teachings constitute the original nucleus of what are today called the " Ascended Master Teachings " and are still used in "I AM" Sanctuaries all over

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1440-484: The concept of an ascended master is an exaggeration and corruption of the more modest theosophical concept of "Master of the Ancient Wisdom". Guy Ballard said his work Unveiled Mysteries was dictated to him by the ascended master St. Germain . Other Ascended Master Teachings are contained in The Bridge to Freedom (1951), Mark Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet 's The Summit Lighthouse (1958) (reorganized as

1485-456: The concepts released in the original Saint Germain instruction in the 1930s through the "I AM" Activity . Examples of those believed by the ones proposing these teachings to be ascended masters would be the Master Jesus, Confucius , Gautama Buddha , Mary the mother of Jesus , St. Paul of Tarsus ( a.k.a. Hilarion ), Ashtar Sheran , Sanat Kumara , Melchizedek , Archangel Michael , Metatron , Kwan Yin , St. Germain and Kuthumi . Jesus

1530-425: The earth in his book Unveiled Mysteries . Adherents of the ascended master Teachings hold that the beliefs surrounding ascended masters were partially released by the Theosophical Society beginning in 1875, by C.W. Leadbeater and Alice A. Bailey , and began to have more detailed public release in the 1930s by the ascended masters through Guy Ballard in the I AM Activity . However, theosophists maintain that

1575-406: The mother of Jesus, Lady Master Nada, Enoch , Kwan Yin , Saint Germain, and Koot Hoomi (Kuthumi), to name but a few. It is believed that all of these put aside any differences they might have had in their Earthly careers, and unite instead to advance the spiritual well-being of humanity. Within "The I AM Activity" (founded by Guy Ballard in the early 1930s), claimed contact and cooperation with

1620-442: The mountain, where he reported the following to have occurred. It came time for lunch, and I sought a mountain spring for clear, cold water. Cup in hand, I bent down to fill it, when an electrical current passed through my body from head to foot.    I looked around, and directly behind me stood a young man who, at first glance, seemed to be someone on a hike like myself. I looked more closely and realized immediately that he

1665-403: The principles of theosophy. According to C.W. Leadbeater, Initiation is a process by which "we try to develop ourselves not that we may become great and wise, but that we may have the power and knowledge to work for humanity to the best effect." According to Alice Bailey, Initiation is the "process of undergoing an expansion of consciousness" It is believed that since the "fall of man" during

1710-548: The teaching that the masters can work with those who have an open heart and the desire to benefit humanity. The term ascended master was first introduced in 1934 by Guy Ballard with the publication of Unveiled Mysteries , a book which he said was dictated to him by the ascended master St. Germain . Other Ascended Master Teachings are contained in The Bridge to Freedom (1951), The Summit Lighthouse (1958) (known also as The Church Universal and Triumphant ), The Aetherius Society (1955), The Temple of The Presence (1995),

1755-472: The time of the fourth root race was described: Curiosity, rebellion against holding true to the Divine Pattern and the use of thought and feeling in creation of imperfection, began the building of what you call the 'soul'. It is a consciousness apart from the full Purity of God. The first thought a man had that was imperfect and impure, energized by a secret feeling, was a cause and that, sent out into

1800-476: The time of the incarnation of the fourth root race , imperfection, limitations and discord increasingly entered into the world. The memory body is considered to have become known as a "soul", and this temporary personality has taken on the sense of a self that is separated and not connected to God. It is believed that a "Dictation" from Maitreya further clarified this matter through the "Messenger", Geraldine Innocente , on September 27, 1954, when what occurred during

1845-627: The world. The "I AM" Activity started from public lectures about these encounters and grew rapidly in the 1930s. Ballard lectured frequently in Chicago about Saint Germain's mystical teachings, in which America was destined to play a key role. By 1938, there were claimed to be about a million followers in the United States. In 1942, they began the I AM Sanctuary at a Presbyterian missionary school. The "I AM" Activity describes itself as an apolitical, spiritual, and educational organization financed by contributions from its members. Its parent organization

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1890-675: Was an American mining engineer who, with his wife Edna Anne Wheeler Ballard , founded the "I AM" Activity . Ballard was born in Newton, Kansas and married his wife in Chicago in 1916. Ballard served in the U.S. Army in World War I , and then became a mining engineer . Both Edna and Guy studied Theosophy and the occult extensively. Living at the base of the California volcano Mount Shasta in 1930, Ballard frequently hiked on

1935-535: Was mentioned briefly by the theosophist Helena Blavatsky . She claimed he belonged to a group of beings, the "Lords of the Flame", whom Christian tradition have misunderstood as Lucifer and the fallen angels. Sanat Kumara gained greater prominence when her follower Charles W. Leadbeater wrote that Sanat Kumara was the "King" or Lord of the World, and the head of the Great White Brotherhood of Mahatmas who had revealed

1980-546: Was no ordinary person. As this thought passed through my mind, he smiled and addressed me saying:    "My Brother, if you will hand me your cup, I will give you a much more refreshing drink than spring water." I obeyed, and instantly the cup was filled with a creamy liquid. Handing it back to me, he said: "Drink it." The young man later identified himself as the Count of St. Germain . Ballard provided details of his encounters with St. Germain and other Ascended Masters in

2025-525: Was the conscious use of them. Finally, those centers got completely away from the control of the ego and acted independently. Students of the Ascended Master Teachings believe that this world is destined to again have a Golden Age , a "Heaven on Earth", that will be permanent, unlike previous Golden Ages millions of years ago. The Great White Brotherhood , in belief systems akin to Theosophy, are said to be supernatural beings of great power who spread spiritual teachings through selected humans. The members of

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