San Patricio

Statue of Saint Patrick at Croagh Patrick, Ireland

San Patricio es el gran santo y patrón del pueblo irlandés. Su naturaleza intensamente espiritual, su entusiasmo y su fortaleza en la acción lo capacitaron para sobreponerse a enormes dificultades y a llevar gradualmente la fe cristiana a toda Irlanda.

Vida temprana

Patricio nació en la Bretaña romana, a finales del siglo iv d.C. Su padre, Calpurnius, era diácono de la iglesia cristiana. Cuando Patricio tenía dieciséis años, una banda de intrusos se lo llevó y lo mantuvo preso cuidando rebaños. Tras seis años se escapó, y después de varios años regresó a su hogar.

Después de su regreso tuvo un sueño en el que vio a un hombre llamado Victoricus que llevaba innumerables cartas, una de las cuales recibió y leyó. Comenzaba con esta inscripción: «La voz de los irlandeses». Al leer las primeras palabras oyó la voz de los irlandeses llamándolo para que regresara.

Habiendo recibido la llamada, decidió prepararse para su misión y pasó los siguientes veinte años en los centros de aprendizaje de Galia. En 432 fue consagrado finalmente como obispo y recibió la comisión de diseminar la fe en Irlanda. Además de establecer muchas iglesias y convertir a miles de personas al cristianismo, Patricio introdujo el latín en Irlanda como lengua de la Iglesia.

Sanat Kumara on Saint Patrick

Sanat Kumara nos dice que Patricio fue elevado a ser apóstol de Cristo y a someter a la progenie de serpiente en Irlanda porque él lo llamó. Sanat Kumara habla así de su hijo Patricio:

Vayamos a la montaña de la tierra de Erin, donde un joven esclavizado por paganos está en oración todo el día hasta la noche. Tan ferviente es el amor de Dios en él, que el fuego de su corazón es una luz en medio de la nieve y el hielo. Vivía en el monte, solo con Dios, cuidando los rebaños de su amo. Y en ese monte llamé a mi hijo Patricio, para que de la condición de servidumbre pudiera producirse el fuego milagroso de la libertad.

Era el final del siglo cuarto y los clanes de los irlandeses –las tribus de Efraín y Manasés reencarnadas– estaban gobernadas por una hueste de reyes. No servían al SEÑOR Dios, ni tenían la salvación de su Hijo. Por tanto, yo, el Anciano de Días, llamé a mi hijo, nacido libre, a la esclavitud, para poder entregarle a la libertad y a la misión de implantar la llama violeta en los corazones de mis verdaderos hijos e hijas, para que un día pudieran llevarla al Nuevo Mundo en el nombre de Saint Germain.

A él le di la visión del pueblo de Erin, cuya progenie encendería un día los fuegos de la libertad en todas las orillas y en todas las naciones. El fervor de vuestro propio profeta, Mark, se deriva de ese linaje del Anciano de Días que se remonta hasta la isla esmeralda. Y los ojos irlandeses de Thomas Moore, poeta y príncipe de mi corazón, aún sonríen a través de la severidad de El Morya y su destello de júbilo, siempre necesario en la Tierra.

Devuelto finalmente a sus parientes tras seis años en los que se humilló ante mí en el monte, cuidando de las ovejas tal como pronto apacentaría mis ovejas, Patricio oyó las voces de las almas de mis hijos clamando desde la tierra de Erin por libertad: “Te imploramos, joven santo, para que vengas y camines entre nosotros otra vez”. Realmente se acordaron de él, cuando había caminado entre ellos como un profeta en Israel, reprendiendo su indisciplina en el nombre del SEÑOR. Ahora esperaban el mensaje de su salvación a través del apóstol ungido del Mesías.

Patrick prepared for his mission under the lineage of the ruby ray and with the saints of the inner Church. And that mission, my beloved, was to subdue the seed of Serpent in Ireland and to raise up the tribes of Israel, the remnant of Joseph’s seed who would be Christ-bearers to the nations. Empowered of the Holy Ghost and bearing the Staff of Jesus, he wielded such power and wrought such miracles that pagan chiefs and decadent druids bowed in submission to this rod of Aaron that, in the new tongue, became the rod of Erin.

So perilous was the mission of the shamrock saint of the fifth ray that he wrote in his “Confession”: “Daily I expect either a violent death or to be robbed and reduced to slavery or the occurrence of some such calamity. I have cast myself into the hands of Almighty God, for He rules everything; as the Prophet sayeth, ‘Cast thy care upon the LORD, and He Himself will sustain thee.’”

Well might you emulate the courage and the humility of my son Patrick when he boldly challenged Prince Corotick, that serpent who dared plunder Patrick’s domain, massacring a great number of neophytes, as it is written, who were yet in their white garments after baptism; and others he carried away and sold to infidels.

Patrick circulated a letter in his own hand pronouncing the judgment of Corotick and his accomplices and declaring them separate from him as the established Bishop of Ireland, and from Jesus Christ. He forbade the faithful “to eat with them, or to receive their alms, till they should have satisfied God by the tears of sincere penance, and restored the servants of Jesus Christ to their liberty.”

Such is the true Work and Word of the saints of the ruby ray who, with all due seriousness, receive the sign of their coming in the taking up of serpents. Thousands upon thousands of the descendants of Jacob’s favorite son were baptized and confirmed by the Lord Jesus through my son Patrick. Like the apostle Paul, he bound the power of Serpent’s seed that had invaded the land of Erin; and like him, he healed their sick, he restored sight—both inner and outer—to their blind, and he raised Abram’s seed—dead in body and in spirit—to new life through the indwelling Christ by the Word of Christ Jesus, his beloved.

Chapel at the Summit of Croagh Patrick (known in Patrick’s time as Mount Aigli)

Now the ascended master Saint Patrick stands with me on the summit of Mount Aigli where, at the close of his earthly sojourn, he retreated forty days and forty nights, fasting in body and in spirit that he might be filled with the light of the Ancient of Days. There on that occasion fifteen hundred years ago, I summoned all the saints of Erin—the light of Aaron’s priesthood and the lightbearers of the Christic seed of Joseph—past, present, and future, to pay homage to him who was father to them all.... My beloved, many of you were among the souls of the saints who came to Patrick in his final hours on the mountain. You saluted him in the glory of God that was upon him, and to him you were the promise that his Word and Work would be carried to golden shores unto a golden age of Christ peace and enlightenment.

Lessons from his life

Throughout his mission, Patrick was overshadowed by Lord Maitreya and Mighty Victory. The story of his life illustrates the power of one individual in God. On one occasion he faced the initiation of wrestling with the Antichrist. He explains that he was saved by calling on the name of Helios:

On that very same night I lay a-sleeping, and powerfully Satan assailed me; which I shall remember as long as I am in this body. He fell upon me like an enormous stone, and I was stricken nerveless in all my limbs. Whence then did it come into my unscholarly spirit to call upon Helias? At once I saw the sun rising into the dawn sky, and while I kept invoking “Helias, Helias,” with all my strength, lo, the Splendour of the Sun fell over me and instantly shook all the heaviness off from me. I believe I was succored by Christ my Lord and that his Spirit even then was calling out on my behalf.

Patrick faced many difficult challenges in his life. He was never afraid to confront evil, and he knew that Jesus Christ lived in him and spoke through him. In his Confession, he speaks of twelve perils that beset his soul. These perils are the twelve initiations of the twelve gates of the city, the New Jerusalem, whereby we are then anointed to enter into that Holy City, having passed the twelve initiations of the twelve lines of the clock, of our karma and of our Christhood.

On many occasions Patrick demonstrated mastery over animal life in the elemental kingdom. He is famous for his use of the shamrock to illustrate the Oneness of the Trinity to members of the court.

His service today

Saint Patrick speaks of his mission as an ascended master:

You have called me Saint Patrick, and I come by that name. Yet God has given to me another name, the new name that cannot be received except by those who enter into the white-fire core with the ascended masters. God has called me to be the champion of truth. And as I bring that truth to the nations, there is the rallying to the standard of truth by some and there is division and darkness and murder and death in the midst of others.

You can call to Saint Patrick to help you to deal with entrenched forces of darkness. Saint Patrick’s Lorica is a prayer for protection and a way to invoke his presence with you.

Sources

Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, The Masters and Their Retreats, s.v. “Saint Patrick.”