Picture a man standing at a crossroads. One path is worn smooth, easy to walk, leading to the same routine he has always known. The other rises steeply, rocky and uncertain, but at its crest shines a golden light.
Hello and welcome to today’s episode of The Fellowship Chronicles. This is Episode 5 of Studies on Alchemy.
Saint Germain, in Studies in Alchemy, tells us that every person faces this choice. We are all at a crossroads at one point or another. The question is simple: will you choose freedom, or will you choose fetters?
The Now Is the Hour
“The now of the present hour,” Saint Germain writes, “must be utilized as a chalice of spiritual opportunity.”
Too many people live in regret over yesterday or fear of tomorrow. But alchemy works only in the present.
The crucible of transformation is always now.
Paul said it this way: “Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.” (2 Corinthians 6:2). You can’t change yesterday, and you can’t live tomorrow. But today — right now — you can begin to transmute.
Ghosts on the Stage
Saint Germain paints a vivid picture of our limitations: he calls them “ghosts that parade upon the stage of mortal existence”. They look real, they frighten us, but they have no lasting substance. Eternal Reality waits behind the curtain, ready to shine forth once the ghosts are dismissed.
This is why Jesus told John the Baptist’s disciples, when asked if He was the One: “The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear.” (Luke 7:22). These were not just miracles — they were demonstrations that human “ghosts” of blindness, deafness, and despair can be replaced with divine Reality.
Sharing What You Have
Another lesson Saint Germain presses is the importance of exchange. Each person carries within them an abundance of something: wisdom, compassion, courage, joy. And yet, our neighbor may be starving for exactly what we have in surplus.
“So often a lifestream may have in abundance the very qualities in which his neighbor is lacking. Exchange your virtues by exalting the valleys of another, and trust Life to remove the peaks of his pride as well as your own.”
Doesn’t this sound like Paul’s teaching? “Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.” (Galatians 6:2). Spiritual alchemy is not only personal but communal — we rise together.
The Alchemy of Destruction and Construction
Saint Germain is bold here: some things must be destroyed before new life can be built. The base elements of greed, vanity, and selfishness must go into the sacred fire, so that compassion, freedom, and love can emerge.
He reminds us that even when life feels like “making bricks without straw,” there is always a way forward. The challenges that look impossible are only invitations to prove that Spirit can overcome.
No More Old Bottles
Humanity has been too content with old patterns, he says, clinging to outworn concepts like dog-eared garments. But just as people once resisted Columbus’s claim that the earth was round, so many resist the possibility of real change today.
Jesus taught the same principle: “Neither do men put new wine into old bottles… but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.” (Matthew 9:17). Transformation requires new containers — new ways of thinking, new openness of heart.
The Great Reversal
Saint Germain longs for nothing less than a total reversal of “deleterious human attitudes.” He calls us to transmute not only our personal limitations but also the heaviness of humanity’s collective despair. Each person who dares to change becomes a beacon of light for the world.
And here is the heart of the message:
“By transmutation let every would-be alchemist first act to transform himself here and now and gain thereby an inner peace and a sense of outer accomplishment.”
The Invitation
You and I stand at the same crossroads: freedom or fetters, faith or fear, change or stagnation.
The power to change is not far away. It is already in your hands, in your heart, in your prayers. All of heaven waits for you to declare, “Now is my hour. I choose freedom.”
📚 Excerpt inspired by Studies in Alchemy: The Science of Self-Transformation by Saint Germain, published by the Summit Lighthouse.
