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She studied at the same time with [[Saint Germain]], whose [[Rakoczy Mansion|retreat in Transylvania]] (then in Hungary) was within that kingdom, which she was called upon to rule by popular acclaim. (Both [[Mark L. Prophet|Mark]] and Elizabeth have been Saint Germain’s pupils during and between many embodiments.)   
She studied at the same time with [[Saint Germain]], whose [[Rakoczy Mansion|retreat in Transylvania]] (then in Hungary) was within that kingdom, which she was called upon to rule by popular acclaim. (Both [[Mark L. Prophet|Mark]] and Elizabeth have been Saint Germain’s pupils during and between many embodiments.)   


The queen was trained in administration and in dealing with people of every level of society—including “the rulers of the darkness of this world.”<ref>Eph. 6:12.</ref> Her training in the initiations of the [[Brotherhood]] took preeminence over her Catholic upbringing. Elisabeth’s Greek tutor recorded in his Vienna Diary: 
The queen was trained in administration and in dealing with people of every level of society—including “the rulers of the darkness of this world.”<ref>Eph. 6:12.</ref> Her training in the initiations of the [[Brotherhood]] took preeminence over her Catholic upbringing.  
 
<blockquote>Speaking of the difference between culture and civilization, she says: “Civilization is reading, culture is the thoughts.... Everyone has culture within himself as heritage of all his pre-existences, absorbs it with every breath and in this lies the great unity.”... Of Dante and other great ones, she says: “They are souls, who, from ages past have come anew to earth to continue their work and to anticipate the development of others still to come.... Our innermost being is more valuable than all titles and honors. These are colored rags with which we try to cover our nudities. Whatever is of value in us we bring from our previous lives that were spiritual.”<ref>Constantin Christomanos, ''Tagebuchblätter Wien'' (1899), pp. 81, 97, 227; quoted in Head and Cranston, ''Reincarnation in World Thought'', pp. 334–35. </ref></blockquote>


It was through the Austro-Hungarian Empire that the Brotherhood made their final attempts to unite Europe. Although these failed to stem the mounting control of Europe’s governments by dark powers both within and without, the democratic reforms instituted by Franz Joseph were “more rational than anything seen in Europe before or since.”<ref>Edward Crankshaw, ''The Fall of the House of Hapsburg'' (New York: The Viking Press, 1963), p. 4.</ref>
It was through the Austro-Hungarian Empire that the Brotherhood made their final attempts to unite Europe. Although these failed to stem the mounting control of Europe’s governments by dark powers both within and without, the democratic reforms instituted by Franz Joseph were “more rational than anything seen in Europe before or since.”<ref>Edward Crankshaw, ''The Fall of the House of Hapsburg'' (New York: The Viking Press, 1963), p. 4.</ref>
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