I just recently finished this fascinating book:
Spiritual DNA Book Review by Lalia Wilson
Carmel Niland’s book, Our Spiritual DNA: Twelve Ascended
Masters and the Evidence for Our Divine Ancestry, stands by itself. Niland
spent 25 years researching this book and it incorporates spiritual lore from Western
sources, as well as some from the East. Niland’s thesis is that every human
alive has a spiritual lineage that leads back to one of the twelve Ascended
Masters, and to God. This spiritual DNA is not transmitted parent to child like
our physical DNA, but instead assigned pre-birth through spiritual means to
serve a specific purpose according to our life plan.
While many may take this book to mean a literal spiritual
DNA, it is equally valid to consider these connections as threads of
personalities, thus not requiring any particular spiritual approach nor
violating anyone’s religion.
The book focuses mostly on western thought and western
history, particularly through the lives of St. Germain and Mary’s three aspects
as Mary the Mother, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the High Priestess. The focus on
Western thought and history is for two reasons, one is the amount of material
as we have 272 pages for an introduction and information on two Ascended
Masters. The second reason, as Niland states, is that exploring some of the
spiritual DNA lineages will require writers who are familiar with and likely
speak the languages and know the cultures of other parts of the world.
Just as we as individuals might reincarnate as different
genders over many lifetimes, so too will do the Ascended Masters. Both we and
the Masters may have a preferred gender. Since there are 12 Ascended Masters
and over 7 billion people on this earth, needless to say each Master is
simultaneously embodied in many people. Mention is made of all twelve Ascended
Masters and their psycho-spiritual traits and embodiments in human history.
The short spiritual biographies of various historical
figures are fascinating. The name of the Ascended Master St. Germain, comes
from his incarnation as Claude-Louis, Comte de Saint-Germain. As Saint Germain
he was a linguist, violinist, raconteur, philosopher, mystic and alchemist. He
was a bright light in pre-Revolutionary France and across Europe, given rooms
near Versailles by King Louis XV. But the Ascended Master St. Germain has many
leading roles in history following three sub-types as Pan, Loki, and Eros. He
is mischievous, lucky and lustful. His Pan persona is connected to nature and
manifested as the biblical Noah, Johnny Appleseed, and Robin Hood. He lived as
famous dancers such as Rudolph Nureyev. He is also famous as a seducer in his
lives as Casanova, Julius Caesar, and as Krishna with his 14,000 wives. As a
debaucher he lived as King Charles II and Lord Byron. Ultimately St. Germain’s
goals were to bring light to the world which he did as Thomas Edison, Homer,
Plato, Lao Tzu, St. Patrick, and Columbus. These are just a few of the
manifestations of St. Germain in history and in contemporary life. The energy
of St. Germain is innovative, starting and establishing language, poetry, art,
science, dance, music, entertainment, philosophy, engineering, navigation…
Mary has a quieter style. She displays grace and style as
prima ballerina Margot Fonteyn, designer Coco Chanel and Empress Josephine.
Mary is restless and questing as Robin Hood’s partner Maid Marian, poet Emily
Dickinson, and novelist Virginia Woolf. Mary is a guardian of nature and
creation as biologist Rachel Carson, and garden designer Gertrude Jekyll. Mary
is the co-founder, partner, and colleague in the founding of spiritual
movements.
In discussions of these threads through history there are
some explanations of what seems to be evil. For example Queen Cleopatra, the
last of the Ptolemaic rulers of Egypt, had to fail in her duty to keep Egypt
safe and independent so that power across the Mediterranean could be
consolidated in Rome. Stalin’s purpose was to preserve Russia as an independent
country.
The book concludes with ways to identify your particular
spiritual energy, the result of which will assist you in aligning with your
current life path. Methods to identify your particular Ascended Master include
your first name and middle name, your aura color(s), and how you see particular
threads repeating in your own life. To digress, even if you cannot see your aura
color, and don’t have anyone to read it for you, most likely you will have a
preference in color in your life—clothing, décor, your automobile—that is quite
likely your aura color.
This writer received a free review copy from the publisher.
