Saint Joseph/is

Draumur heilags Jósefs, Philippe de Champaigne

Saint Germain endurfæddist sem heilagur Jósef, faðir Jesú og eiginmaður Maríu guðsmóður.

Í Nýja testamentinu

Fáar heimildir eru um heilagan Jósef í Nýja testamentinu. Biblían rekur ætterni hans aftur til Davíðs konungs. Þar er einnig sagt frá því hvernig engill Drottins varaði hann við í draumi um að Heródes hygðist drepa Jesú, en Jósef hlýddi viðvöruninni og fór með fjölskyldu sína til Egyptalands og sneri aftur eftir dauða Heródesar. Sagt er að Jósef hafi verið smiður og talið er að hann hafi látist áður en Jesús hóf opinbera þjónustu sína. Í kaþólskri hefð er heilagur Jósef virtur sem verndari alheimskirkjunnar og hátíð hans er haldin 19. mars.

Aðrar frásagnir

Samkvæmt apokrýfu guðspjalli Matteusar um fæðingu Maríu, þegar María varð giftingarhæf, kallaði æðstipresturinn alla ókvænta menn af ætt Davíðs til að færa staf sína að altarinu. Því að Drottinn hafði opinberað honum að „úr staf hvers sem er ... ætti blóm að springa út, og á toppi hans ætti andi Drottins að sitja í dúfulíki, hann ætti að vera maðurinn sem gefin skyldi meyjunni.“

Jósef, sem var orðinn hniginn að aldri, dró staf sinn til baka. Þegar ekkert merki birtist leitaði æðsti presturinn ráða hjá Guði, sem sagði að María skyldi trúlofuð manninum sem ekki hefði lagt fram staf sinn. Þegar Jósef færði staf sinn lenti dúfa á honum og samkvæmt öðrum frásögnum blómstraði hann með blómum og laufum.

Heilagur Jósef með Jesúbarninu, Guido Reni (1620)

Tilbeiðsla við heilagan Jósef

Dulspekingurinn Teresa frá Avila frá sextándu öld var mjög trúföst heilögum Jósef og valdi hann sem verndara reglna sinna. Hún skrifaði:

Ég man ekki eftir að hafa nokkurn tímann beðið hann um neitt sem hann hefur ekki veitt.... Með þessum dýrlega dýrlingi hef ég reynslu af því að hann svarar öllum þörfum okkar og að Drottinn vill að við skiljum að rétt eins og hann var undirgefinn heilögum Jósef á jörðinni — því frá því að hann bar titilinn faðir, var kennari Drottins, gat Jósef gefið barninu skipun — svo gerir Guð á himnum hvað sem hann býður.

Barnæska Krists, Gerard van Honthorst (um 1620)

Heilaga fjölskyldan

In a dictation delivered on May 6, 1979, the Ascended Master Jesus said that Saint Joseph taught him much more than the sacred labor of carpentry:

He taught me the sacred labor of the alchemy of the Holy Ghost, the changing of the water into wine. Truly I am the son of Joseph, the great miracle alchemist of all time. And truly my works show forth his handiwork and the blessed grace of my mother.

Where history has not preserved the record, the Ascended Masters have from time to time given us glimpses into the life of the Holy Family. One such story was dictated by Mother Mary to Mark Prophet in 1968:

I recall one morning when beloved Jesus was yet a small lad that he came to me with a very hard piece of wood that he was trying to whittle. He desired that I should persuade Joseph to exchange it for a softer piece, one that would lend itself more easily to molding. I sat him on my knee, and I proceeded to explain to him that there was an ingrained quality that of old had been placed within trees making one to possess a harder quality and another a softer quality. I told him that the soft wood would easily mar and that, were he to use it, the little image that he sought to whittle would not endure the knocks and tumbles that might later come to it, whereas a carving made of hard wood would endure more substantially.

I also told him that the wood enjoyed being shapened by his hands and that the only difference between the soft and the hard wood would be that of a greater use of patience on his part. He brushed back his hair which had fallen across his eyes and, with great and quick gentleness, planted a kiss upon both of my cheeks. I noticed a trace of a tear in one eye as he dashed away to continue his work of shaping the hard wood.

In another dictation, Mother Mary told us that Saint Joseph “did father and nourish the Christ Child and therefore set the pace of the age of Pisces.” The Blessed Mother said:

May all of you who are of the Masculine Ray in this life remember his example in all of his lifetimes and know that your stature in God can be modeled after this role model of one who dared to defend Woman, who dared to raise up that Manchild, and stand as the protector not only of a family but of an entire area of a planet, until that one could fulfill his Christhood.

The Youth of Our Lord, John Rogers Herbert (1847)

The mantle of Saint Joseph

Saint Germain has said:

Yes, I AM Saint Joseph, and I walk in the full mantle of my office as protector of Mary and of every mother and every woman and of every child in the earth. And I tell you, beloved, that I play that role. As many in the earth call to me as Saint Joseph, so I respond to that name.

Knowing who I am, therefore, I can be called by any name, any key of any name of any past incarnation. Thus, I have rolled them into one and determined to be called by you merely “Holy Brother,” Saint Germain.

See also

Saint Germain

Sources

Pearls of Wisdom, 1988, vol. 1, ch. 2.

Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 24, no. 68, June 1981, endnote 1.