The following article forms is a transcription of part of a private reading with Edwin Courtenay in September 1997, where he channels Saint Germain.

Please feel free to circulate these words as you see fit. They are not copyright, as it is Edwin's desire to spread spirit's word.
A long time ago in Atlantis I lived at the Temple of Peace and Order that was dedicated to all forms of healing arts.  I was not only a healer in that time, in that age, I was a prophet and a seer too.  It did not require my psychical or spiritual capabilities or vision to see that the Atlanteans who had long since began to ear towards science as a means of mastery rather than mystical and spiritual practises were beginning to alter the structure of Atlantean society by dividing it between those who possessed psychical and spiritual power and those who did not.  Those who did not possess psychical and spiritual abilities were considered to be handicapped, were considered to be prone to a form of genetic virus, that prevented them from being spiritual beings capable of accessing and attuning themselves to the higher wisdom of God.  Of course, this was not true; God shines forth in all creatures, in all individualities and is present in both the gifted and the plain.

The Atlanteans did not see this and cast forth these individuals from their ranks to live as peasants on the shoreline of Atlantis and be the Atlantean High Priests slaves.  I had lived with this disgusting social system for far too long and in desperation prayed to the Divine for guidance and a means whereby I could end this horrific practise of segregation.  The Divine sent its angels to me who provided me with symbols, keys of energy which when placed into the energy system would attune that individual to frequencies or vibrations of energy that they would from that point onwards be enabled to attune to and channel and receive.

I was given in Atlantis the original Reiki system which was, in those ancient days called a system of Inspiration.  I passed this system on to those who were sympathetic to my cause and eventually in time we left the mainland city of Atlantis and fled to the higher mountains where we became known as the Inspirers.  We would project ourselves astrally into the dreams of those who we had monitored for some time, who we would choose to receive the inspiration in order that they may be raised to a similar level of enlightenment and power as their brothers who lived in the mainland part of Atlantis who had cast them forth from the cities since their early births.

The peasantry would journey, those who had been chosen, to the higher mountains, and if they made the journey successfully and passed the tests that we would set them on the way, they would receive the Inspiration and be transformed.  Some of them would remain with us, and some of them would return to the shoreline to pass on their healing, their enlightenment, their truth and their power to others there, and some of them would go back into the centre of Atlantis to show the High Priests and Priestesses who lived there that they had found the light; that they had been cast away for being blind to it.

The initial and original Reiki system then was given to me in order that I may utilise it in order to bring equality of a spiritual nature to all those who resided in Atlantis.  We were guided to pass on the Inspiration only to those who we considered to be ready, willing and able to use these gifts correctly.  Some people who lived on the shoreline of Atlantis were not yet ready to receive these powers, and would have misused them.  We were guided also never to give the Inspiration to any of those Atlanteans who already possessed power, as the Inspirational system would not magnify or strengthen their already existing gifts, but limit them in some way.

In its original state, the process of Inspiration contained a sum total of 365 symbols.  At this moment in time, there are people upon the Earth who carry an acknowledgement of 22 of these symbols.  More symbols are being brought to the Earth at this time.  At this moment the vibrational climate and the enlightened state of mankind is nowhere near ready to receive the full amount of symbols that are stored within the Akashic records, as they would simply have no use for them, no use for their power or no understanding of what they had to offer.  You will see as the years progress that the Reiki system will expand and that more of these symbols will come to light.  However, we are not completely pleased and happy with the way in which certain systems of Reiki are being run at this moment in time, and this is part of our message for you today.

After the great destruction of Atlantis, the Inspirers fled the island before its decimation and journeyed to Tibet.  There they utilised the system of Inspiration to see how the natives would respond to receiving such attunements, such power.  They gave the test subjects 3 symbols.  For a certain amount of time the test subjects used their new found powers with great grace and honour, but after a while some of the subjects began to use their powers against the will of God.  In order to do so, they altered one of the symbols that had been given to them in order that they could draw upon a different form of energy that was not so closely monitored over by the higher, spiritual beings that guide and guard the system of Inspiration, the system of Reiki itself.  When this was discovered by the Inspirers, it was decided that mankind at that moment in time was not ready to receive any more of the symbols, and the 22 symbols that they had given the original Tibetan High Priests were sealed away in order that they would be used at a later date.  The Inspirers returned to spirit and the system of Reiki was only utilised by the High Priests of the Tibetan Temples upon those who they knew would use it correctly. Now is the time when this system is to return in order to empower people and in order to provide people with an opportunity for spiritual equality and growth.