The Ascended Master St. Germain As Christopher Columbus

St. Germain is an ascended master recognized for his work with alchemy and the performing of miracles. He had lifetimes in which he perfected various soul and character qualities. A study of one or more of his lifetimes can help us to understand what is required for true self-mastery. One of his more well-known lifetimes is that of Christopher Columbus.

Christopher Columbus was born in 1451 in Genoa, part of modern Italy. His father was Domenico Colombo, a middle-class wool weaver, who later also had a cheese stand where Christopher was a helper, working both in Genoa and Savona. His mother was Susanna Fontanarossa. Bartolomeo, Giovanni Pellegrino and Giacomo were his brothers. In one of his writings, Columbus claims to have gone to the sea at the age of 10.

At the age of twenty-two, Columbus began his apprenticeship as business agent for three important families: the Centurione, Di Negro and Spinola families of Genoa. A few years later, he took part in an armed convoy sent by Genoa to carry a valuable cargo to northern Europe. He docked in Bristol, Galway, in Ireland and was possibly in Iceland. Columbus settled for awhile in in Lisbon, continuing his trading for the Centurione family. He married Filipa Moniz Perestrello, daughter of the Porto Santo governor. A year or two later, his son Diego was born.

Europe had long enjoyed a safe land passage to China and India, but with the Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in 1453, the land route to Asia became difficult. In response to this, Christopher Columbus his brother Bartolomeo developed a plan to travel to the Indies by sailing directly west across the Atlantic.

In 1486, Columbus presented his plans to Queen Isabella, who referred it to a committee. They pronounced the idea impractical, and advised the queen and king to pass on the proposed venture. However, to keep Columbus from taking his ideas elsewhere, and perhaps to keep their options open, the King and Queen of Spain gave him an annual allowance and furnished him with a letter ordering all Spanish cities and towns to provide him food and lodging at no cost.

After continually lobbying at the Spanish court for two years, he finally had success in 1492. On the evening of August 3, Columbus departed from Palos de la Frontera with three ships: the Santa María, the Pinta and the Niña. Columbus’s initial voyage came at a critical time of increasing national imperialism and economic competition between developing nations. All of Europe seemed to be seeking wealth from the establishment of trade routes and colonies.

Columbus’s goal of finding a westward route from Iberia to the Indies would allow Spain entry into the profitable spice trade. Instead, Columbus landed at a locale he named San Salvador. Mistaking the North-American island for the East-Asian mainland, he referred to its inhabitants as Indians.

According to the contract that Columbus made with King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, he was to be given the rank of Admiral of the Ocean Sea and appointed Viceroy and Governor of all the new lands. The terms were unusually generous, but the monarchs did not really expect him to return. Columbus was later arrested these posts were taken from him.

Today, spiritual seekers recognize St. Germain as the lord or chohan of the seventh ray. The seventh ray is related to the Golden Crystal Age of Aquarius, the color violet and the seat-of-the-soul chakra.

By: Rose Greenwood

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