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THE DAILY USE OF THE ASCENSION FLAME

Excerpts from an Address by Beloved Serapis Bey

Beloved Friends, seeking the way toward eternal freedom, it is my privilege and my honor to bring to you some of the buoyancy of that Ascension Flame: that Flame which is constantly rising from the Earth as a ladder of Light and Energy, upon which, when any man, woman or child is treading, he or she may ascend into Perfection, the Realm of Divinity from whence they came. 

Of what is the Ascension Flame composed? 

Of what is this Ascension Flame composed? It is composed of the magnetic powers that were drawn by Beings who volunteered when the Earth first came into being, to stay upon the Earth and to magnetize that Light as a ladder in the atmosphere upon which those who were ready might ascend. It is composed then of the powers of invocation and magnetization by many Priesthoods in every Golden Age that has been. That Ascension Flame is composed also of the ascending energies of all the prayers and decrees and fiats, all the invocations and aspirations of every lifestream upon this planet Earth. It is gathered up by the Brothers and Sisters of the Ascension Temple and by the Silent Watchers of all the various nations upon this planet that energy is gathered up and becomes part of the Ascension Flame. 

The Ascension Flame is therefore, like all the Flames and Rays, dual in activity. It is the descending, conscious stream of energy from the Godhead which is drawn and sustained upon the surface of this Earth through the selfconscious cooperation of the Brotherhood at Luxor; and it is also ascending energy of the mankind of Earth, the Angelic Host imprisoned here, and all of Life that is aspiring upwards. 

The record of every Ascension 

Within this Ascension Flame is the record of every Ascension that has taken place upon this Planet Earth. That is why it is such a happy Flame. Every Ascension, the first and second root races and all their subraces went Home, you see, on that Flame. Then the lower activity came in with the laggards from the other systems, but yet from time to time individuals did persevere in the purification of their vehicles and utilized this Ascension Flame; and the gratitude of the lifestream when it is caught up into the Infinite "I AM" PRESENCE knows eternal freedom from bondage, from limitation, from fear and distress of every kind, can hardly be described to the outer mind. That is the imprint in the Ascension Flame. Everyone who has become God-Free, who has utilized that many of your loved ones who have passed through the change and have ascended have utilized that and their energy is within it. This 'buoyant Flame is not to be treated with a consciousness of fear and a consciousness of a negative feeling. 

The Fourth Ray, like the First Ray, is a very positive Ray and it is liable at times to affect people adversely, shall we say, and because our disciplines at Luxor seem so severe, and because all recorded history seems to have shown up the weaknesses of unascended individuals, unfortunately, there has not been recorded the joy of those who have utilized that Ascension Flame. 

Now when any lifestream is ready for the Ascension, he is either summoned to Luxor in his inner body while his physical body sleeps, or a Sponsor, one of the Ascended Ones goes to that one, enfolding that lifestream in a river of that Ascension Flame. 

That Ascension Flame is Intelligent, beloved ones and I have loved it long and loved it well. It can ascend any condition in which you find yourself. It can ascend that condition from limitation into harmony, from distress into peace, from poverty into opulence, from discord into perfection. It is one of the activities of Divine Alchemy which the student body for the most part, has not thought about using. 

How to ascend depression 

If there are heavy conditions in your world; if your Soul is weighted down; if there are depressions (sometimes not your own) in the group of people with whom you work; if there are financial depressions that are made apparent to you through your telecast, then call to the Brotherhood at Luxor to send the Ascension Flame to bring into Life the ascendancy, the buoyancy which resurrects the depression and brings it to a natural state of happiness and harmony. 

The Ascension Flame, like the Resurrection Flame, is a most marvelous antidote for depressions, individually and collectively. Now many among you are Group Directors, Sanctuary Directors and all of you will one day become teachers, if not in this physical appearance world then when you pass through the change and gain your Ascension. 

Please remember when you are dealing with groups of people that you will not have always the same quality of energy in their emotional, mental, etheric and physical bodies. You may have one in tiptop condition physically but mentally very slow. You may have one that is mentally alert but is physically very depleted. You may have another emotionally stable but with another vehicle that is out of order. Now you may get that conglomerate mass of earnest people, the cream of the crop, because they are the conscious students seeking the way to the Ascension. But you get a roomful of them or a handful of them together and each has his own graph, and it is fortunate for you for the most part, that you do not have inner sight, because that would give you something more to handle. But you get them together, and if you call to me and to the Beloved Hope, the Beloved Gabriel, to the powers of the Ascension, we will assist you in raising that vibratory action into a happy sustained vibration which is one with the Music of the Spheres. 

War torn areas can be helped 

Now beloved ones, this is required so much on the Planet Earth today. There is so much depression, so much of fear, with the world records speaking of wars and atom bombs and explosions and the end of civilization, and with the etheric bodies of so many of mankind and womankind too, bearing the ravages of wars which they passed through in this embodiment alone, and the loss of loved ones, the suffering of atrocities in concentration camps and so on, the use of this Ascension Flame in through and around those war torn areas, and in through and around the people who have passed through those conditions will do much to help. 

I speak particularly, of course, of Europe; Africa, up through and around the Jordan area, and in China, Korea and all those places that were war torn through the last half century, and have suffered so much. Now that energy is intelligent. Energy is God's Light qualified by somebody's thoughts and feelings through the use of free will. Energy is never quiescent. Even science has proven that so-called inanimate objects are in constant motion and that the electrons that make up the atoms that make up seemingly inanimate objects are pulsating and moving. 

There is no death - There is only Life eternal 

Now dear ones, the ethers are also in constant motion and one man's voice may be heard and may be directed around the entire world, especially when we from the Ascended Master Realm are speaking and that energy that comes forth through us, through the utilization of your emotional world, we take a mass of energy from the entire class, of your emotional, mental, etheric and your physical best, and that is the best of the least of you, and that we use like a great loudspeaker; and into it is directed not only the Truth which we speak but most important, the feelings which we are and have become. And my feeling and my virtue is that of IMMORTALITY, that of the certainty of the Resurrection and the Ascension of every lifestream belonging to this Planet Earth since the Beloved Kuthumi, through his great dispensation, did remove the second death. 

Now that consciousness of immortality, again today I charge and charge into the feelings of mankind, into the thoughts of mankind, into the etheric consciousness of mankind, into the flesh structure of mankind THERE IS NO DEATH THERE IS ONLY LIFE ETERNAL. 

The assistance of Hilarion 

Now beloved, LIFE being eternal, sometimes bogs mankind down and many of the agnostics and many of the sleepers will not face the FACT of the continuation of consciousness beyond the grave because they are tired and they are disillusioned, and so they either go into sleep or they refuse to accept the fact that they are dead, and the great Hilarion spends a great deal of time with those blessed ones who pass through the change, particularly in accidents and who are shot from the body suddenly, not through a gradual illness and decline, which allows the Soul some time to prepare for the passing. These individuals, who are shot from the body quickly in accidents, explosions and of course war casualties, need a great deal of loving training. Beloved Hilarion takes care of them. 

Then there are those who are just stubborn and they retreat from Life: in the physical world they often retreat into becoming mental patients and after the change called death, they retreat into the Sleepers Realm, but now through your good applications and the Bridge between the divine and the human and your understanding, they cannot remain in the Sleepers Realm any longer than a six months period, so this too, does not make them too happy. It is like waking a person in the morning before his usual time for getting up, and perhaps you have had occasion to feel that resentment at being disturbed, so these sleepers that have gone out of the body, non-believers, and agnostics, after six months they have to face the fact that they still ARE, that tremendous resistance there takes the power of the Beloved Hilarion, believe me, to get them into line. Now with the activity of the assistance being given to the friends from the compound, we are expecting great things to happen for the progress of the race. The activity of Luxor is yours. Please do not allow depression in your Sanctuary, in your homes, in your businesses in the world. 

How to ascend finances and food 

If you are in New York, go down to Wall Street; if you are in another town or city, go down, or send one of your chelas down, into the heart of that financial area, and of course do not make a show of yourselves but silently while you are within that location and your physical body is there CALL the Ascension Flame. I speak of this with a purpose because with coming changes and coming world conditions, you may find the necessity of restoring your values so far as your currency is concerned. That is the same thing beloved ones, in the times that are to come. You can have great assistance in drawing forth food quickly to feed great numbers of people. Lord Ling will help you of course as he rendered that service as Moses to the Israelites. But if you find yourselves with great numbers of people around you and they are in need of physical nourishment, you can call the Ascension Flame and have multiplied that substance which you already have. It is a wonderful activity and it can be utilized. You see these Flames are so ethereal that you do not realize sometimes how practical they can be in ordinary things. And you know the Ascension Flame can even tune a piano or a harp. I'll bet you haven't thought about that! 

Beloved ones, these Flames are as practical as the fingers on this hand that can lift up this paper. These Flames are for your use. God Almighty, we have stayed within the confines of Earth's atmosphere and guarded them and sustained them and magnetized them and loved them, and then when our Lord Maha Chohan saw fit we have given you the understanding of them, and every thirty days you are given a new Sponsor and enter a new Retreat, and another Flame is explained to you again and it is thought a beautiful idea - BUT LET US MAKE IT PRACTICAL NOW! 

Put the Flame into action 

Beloved ASCEND the substance in your worlds, everything and everywhere. I am most willing to help you and most joyous to put it into action. For instance when you are riding on a trolley car, if that Ascension Flame was placed on every seat, think what it would do for the atomic structure of every person who rode on that trolley car again, and you ask that it be eternally sustained, all powerfully active and ever expanding. One of the Angels from Luxor will do that. The same in an airplane, a bus or a private car, or whatever you are using, even the chairs in your home. Streamers from the central Flame will flow forth at your call and they are so grateful to be invited! As you have been told time and again, the first activity of the Flame, not only the Violet Flame but ALL the Flames, is gratitude for being called into action. The first activity of every Hierarch and every Ascended Master at every Retreat is gratitude when somebody speaks his name, calls upon his service and asks for radiation to assist him or her. 

We are never too busy because we forswore the glory of Nirvana. When we stood at the apex of the cone, so to speak, when the Ascension was attained and then the Karmic Board asked each lifestream "do you wish to go on into Cosmic Service or do you wish to be a part of a certain Planet"? And those of us who form the Great White Brotherhood are those who at that point, after attaining the Ascension, spoke voluntarily, nobody coerced us any more than anyone coerced you into this room, and chose to come back into the atmosphere of Earth and work through the unascended chela. 

How the Brotherhood selects chelas 

Now, accept this Ascension Flame in God's Most Holy Name. Perhaps it will help you to remember me happily. Morya and I stand alone in the severe discipline. Sometimes we are very lonely but we can be very sweet and I know that the Ascension Flame can do much for you. God knows that I want you ascended more than you do yourselves, for you don't know how important it is and you don't know the glory. But no matter how much I want you ascended, I want Saint Germain's Kingdom established on Earth more. 

Therefore you see how the Brotherhood works. It is my service to Life to ascend mankind. The Cosmic Law has decreed that the Golden Age shall be established on the Earth. Do I rush in and pull everybody that I see who has a possibility of the Ascension out of the activity into the Ascension and leave nobody here for Saint Germain? No! That would be foolish, wouldn't it? My Service is to cooperate with him, watching you each one, when you get to a good point, praying to God you will stay there as long as you have volunteered to stay so that when the call does come you haven't lost the merits and we have to start all over again. But that is the unity that must come out between and among the chelas. The service of the moment is the important factor, and not the particular individual, Master, Deva, Angel or Chohan. I am sure you understand this. 

So I have been the Guardian of the Ascension Flame for a long time as you know. All right! If fifty-one percent of your energy is harmonized you are ready. Sometimes it takes a long series of embodiments to get an individual to that point and we just see on the Cosmic Graph that you are ready, and then the Law, the great Saint Germain or Maha Chohan may say "Well, you cannot take that one for it will leave a hole and at the moment we have no replacement," and my goodness, when I look at the Graph again, it is down to forty-eight percent you see. Now, that becomes my obligation, and it is the same above as below. 

If I require a First Ray man for a specific purpose I can direct my attention and find him, but I usually, through courtesy, go to the Beloved Morya and say, "Now I have a certain job here in, say, Korea. Have you got a good First Ray man in Korea?" Oh, he has wonderful people always, everywhere! Morya has the most wonderful chelas! He is always talking about them. The Maha Chohan gets many a smile out of it. Then if I want a gentle person to ease a situation I will ask the great Venetian and, of course, he is very courtly and says gently, "Certainly!" and will offer some lady or gentleman of great spiritual culture and that saves me going over all the people on the Third Ray, combing out their lifestreams and opening the books in the Maha Chohan's library. So that is how we work together. I thank you! 

Serapis Bey