Rising Above the Past | Saint Germain via Daniel Scranton

Rising Above the Past: Insights on Spiritual Evolution and Letting Go

In the journey of spiritual awakening, many individuals find themselves at a crossroads between where they used to be and where they are going. A recent message channeled through Daniel Scranton from the perspective of St. Germain, the keeper of the Violet Flame, offers a profound perspective on this transition. The message focuses on a common pitfall for those on a path of self-improvement: the temptation to judge or fight against the lower-frequency experiences they have recently overcome.

The Purpose of Personal Challenges

According to the insights shared by St. Germain, the difficult circumstances many people are born into are not accidental. Instead, they are described as intentional choices made by the soul to test its own strength. By entering a world filled with “density”—vibrations characterized by hardship, limiting beliefs, and heavy emotions—individuals provide themselves with a powerful backdrop for growth.

The core idea is that you cannot truly appreciate the light without having navigated the darkness. These challenges serve as a “contrasting experience,” allowing a person to see how far they can evolve within a single lifetime. Recognizing that your past struggles were a necessary part of your curriculum is the first step toward true empowerment.

The Temptation of Condemnation

The message highlights a specific “trap” for those who have successfully elevated their consciousness. Once you rise out of “the muck and the mire” of negative habits or mindsets, it is incredibly tempting to look back and condemn those same energies.

St. Germain suggests that this resistance actually keeps you tethered to the very things you are trying to leave behind. To truly graduate to a higher state of being, one must learn to bless the level they are leaving. By making peace with the past, you stop feeding it your attention and energy.

Allowing Others Their Own Timing

One of the most difficult aspects of spiritual growth is watching loved ones stay in cycles of pain or negativity. However, the teaching emphasizes the importance of “allowing.” Just as your own struggles served as your catalyst for growth, the challenges others face are serving their evolution as well.

The message encourages us to let others “play in the dark a little longer” if that is where they are. While it is tempting to try to pull everyone into the light with you, true spiritual maturity involves respecting the timing of every soul’s journey. Everyone is in the process of remembering their “light and love,” but the path to that realization is rarely a straight line.

Self-Forgiveness and the “Butterfly” Transformation

Perhaps the most healing aspect of this discourse is the focus on self-recrimination. Many people carry heavy guilt for past actions, prejudices, or hurtful words. St. Germain reminds us that these experiences were part of the learning process. You cannot become the “beautiful butterfly” if you spend all your time apologizing for having been a caterpillar.

Final Thoughts

The message from St. Germain serves as a gentle reminder that spiritual evolution is not about “winning” a fight against the dark; it is about outgrowing the need for the conflict altogether. By letting go of judgment—both for ourselves and for others—we clear the path for a more fulfilling, satisfied, and empowered life. As we move closer to 2026 and beyond, the call to bless our past and embrace our future has never been more relevant.

[Reference]:

This is Tempting, but Don’t Do It ∞ St. Germain

Jul 7 2026

“I am Saint Germain, keeper of the violet flame.

It is quite impressive what you are doing there on planet Earth at this time. You are moving from a lot of darkness into a lot of light, and you are doing so while experiencing a lot of pain, a lot of hardships, and many of you entered into these lives with many disadvantages. You actually wanted to see how far you could go in a single lifetime, which is why you were born into the circumstances that you were. You were born into that density and that dimension, knowing that there would be a lot of energies, a lot of thought forms and beliefs around that would be very enticing for you to play in and try on for size.

And of course, all of you have to some extent, because these energies cannot be ignored completely. Now you have gotten to the place in your spiritual evolution where you recognize that you do not have to continue to play in these energies. You do not have to continue to operate on beliefs that are not serving you. However, the tricky part for those of you who are awake is not condemning that which you have grown from. Once you rise up out of the muck and the mire of the lower frequency energies, it is quite tempting to go back and try to s***f all of that out.

It is tempting to at least condemn that which you have seen does not work. And it does not work for anyone who wants to lead a happy, empowered life that is fulfilling and satisfying. Those energies do work to give someone a contrasting experience. They work to give someone else something to rise up out of, and therefore they must be allowed. You must allow them to continue to exist, and it can be the hardest part of the journey of an awakened person to not look back. You do not have to keep telling your story of how you climbed up out of those lower frequency energies, and you do not have to warn anyone else either about them.

You do not have to put up shields and bubbles of protection to keep them from getting you or anyone else for that matter. In order to graduate to the next level, you have to be able to bless the level that you are leaving. You have to be able to make peace with it, to see it as serving a greater and higher good, and you must allow everyone else to be right where they are, right now, even if you can see the better life that they could be living, and you can see it because you are living it.

Even though you know that someone else would benefit greatly from joining you in the light, sometimes you have to let those people play in the dark a little bit longer because somehow it is serving them. They still need to have those experiences to assist them in becoming the beautiful beings of light and love that they are becoming and remembering themselves to be. Letting go of the past is something that most of you are still working on.

And you need to let go of that which you have experienced and not enjoyed, but also you need to let go of your guilt and your self-recrimination, because you needed to have those experiences as well, and you weren’t wrong to have them. You weren’t wrong to experience yourself as someone who had prejudices or who did hurtful things and said hurtful words to others. Let yourselves off the hook so you can once and for all rise above what you were born into and become the beautiful butterfly that you were meant to become in this lifetime. I know you can do it and I know you are doing it, and it is beautiful to behold from afar.

I am Saint Germain, keeper of the violet flame.”

Channeled by Daniel Scranton

Source(s):

• https://rainbowwaveoflight.wordpress.com/2026/07/07/this-is-tempting-but-dont-do-it-%e2%88%9est-germain/