When Guy and
Edna Ballard chose the Count of Saint-Germain as the main character for their
organization, they adopted the false image promoted by the Charles Leadbeater liars,
who described Saint-Germain as follows:
« He is not especially tall. He is very upright and military in His
bearing, and He has the exquisite courtesy and dignity of a grand seigneur of the
eighteenth century; we feel at once that He belongs
to a very old and noble family. His eyes are large and brown, and are filled
with tenderness and humour, though there is in them a glint of power; and the splendour of His Presence impels men to make obeisance. His
face is
olive-tanned; His close-cut brown hair is parted in the centre and
brushed back from the forehead, and He has a short and pointed beard. Often He wears
a dark uniform with facings of gold lace —often also a magnificent red military
cloak— and these accentuate His soldier-like appearance. »
(The
Masters and the Path, Chapter 2)
This
adoption by the Ballards can be seen in the photo below where Guy and Edna Ballard pose next to the
portrait of the Count of Saint-Germain painted as Leadbeater had described him.
But the
Ballards did not like that Hungarian military appearance, and that is why they
asked one of their members, the American painter Charles James Sindelar, to
make a more welcoming portrait of Saint-Germain, so Mr. Sindelar painted the
following portrait in 1935:
To explain
the difference that exist from the previous portrait, Guy Ballard clamed this
was the new appearance of Saint-Germain after he had ascended and became an
Ascended Master (which doesn't make much sense since the other ascended masters
have retained the same appearance).
And he also
claimed that Saint-Germain had personally visited Sindelar and posed for him at
the Richelieu Hotel located at 1050 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, California,
so the painter could make his portrait.
Those
involved did not specify how this event happened, but we can assume that may be
it was similar to the way Sindelar also painted the portrait of the Ascended
Master Jesus, and about which I AM member William A. Craig mentioned the following:
« Mr. Sindelar was awakened one
morning at two o’clock. As in a dream the image of Christ stood before him and
finally passed away. The same phenomena occurred every morning at two o'clock
for three weeks. During this period, the artist could not do his regular work.
When he would pick his palette and stand before his canvas to work, this image would
appear vaguely over the other picture.
In order to get
mental rest he dropped his painting and went to his etching
table and as he picked up his tools the same image appeared on his copper
plate. This, together with the nightly appearances, had bested the artist almost to a
point of exhaustion.
He mentioned
the facts to a lady of high spiritual attributes and her immediate response
was:
-
"Go home, Charles, and paint what you have seen."
He did that
very thing, and the picture flowed from his brush as if by magic and
immediately the nightly visions ceased, and his entire mental attitude was
changed and he rested in peace. After five days of steady work the picture was
finished. »
(link)
And on Saint-Germain
portrait, he added:
«
The picture which
Mr. Sindelar has painted of Saint-Germain is an absolutely perfect likeness of
him, as we have seen him many times in the tangible body. Saint-Germain
revealed himself to Mr. Sindelar previous to and while he was painting Saint-Germain´s
likeness and he has said that it is splendid.
We bless Mr.
Sindelar eternally for the perfect job he has done in bringing forth these two
portraits which are real, true likenesses of both of these ascended masters and
send them out as outpourings of the great love and light of the ascended master
consciousness which is his great gift to humanity. »
(I
hope it is not necessary to point out that all these asseverations are just lies.)
These
portraits became very popular and began to be displayed in all parts of the I
AM Movement: in its shrines, in its books, and even in its
magazine "The Voice of I AM".
But later,
when Guy Ballard passed away and his wife Edna took over the leadership of the
organization, she changed her mind about Sinclair portrait, which she began to
disown, and she asked to another painter in the organization, Mrs. May
DaCamara, to paint other portraits of Saint-Germain.
Painted in 1941
Painted in 1959
And Edna
assured that the Ascended Master Saint-Germain also appeared in person to Mrs.
May DaCamara and he also posed for her so she could make his portrait.
Surely
you will wonder:
What is the reason for this change
in attitude?
Well, it is
simply because Mr. Charles Sindelar did not register the copyright of his paintings,
and that allowed the rebel dissident group "The Summit Lighthouse"
led by Elizabeh Claire Prophet to also use those portraits in their meetings.
Here Elizabeh Prophet appears with the portraits of
Jesus and Saint-Germain made by Mr. Sindelar.
Here another photo with those two portraits in her
church
Edna hated Elizabeh Prophet who was running that show,
Edna wanted to have her own special Saint-Germain picture sincethis would then
allow Edna to say she has the approved picture and Summit don't. To add an
extra level of oomph to the argument, Edna came out and said Saint Germain no
longer radiates through the old picture so all I AM students should dump it.
But seeing
that Sindelar’s portrait was more appreciated by the public (probably because
May DaCamara painted as if she were a high school student), Edna changed her opinion
again and accepted again Sindelar’s portrait that it was again the most used by
the I AM Movement.
Here, old Edna with the portrait painted by Sindelar
behind her.
However,
Edna continued to value the work of May DaCamara, so the Saint-Germain
Foundation accepts the portraits made by both artists (although they are not
very similar) and ensures that these are the only true portraits of Ascended
Master Saint-Germain.
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