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ATHE THREE CATEGORIES OF CANDIDATES FOR THE ASCENSION
An Address by the Ascended Master Serapis Bey
SPIRITS of God! Spirits of Light! Chelas who aspire to the Ascension! I bow before you! I am servant of your Life, summoned by the magnetic pull of your sweet soul which has demanded of the Universal redemption and immortal Freedom. For this, I have Being, for this I use the priceless gift of God-life itself, that wherever a summons from the heart flame goes forth I may, standing within the aura of that one, activate the Ascension Flame, transmuting the energy which has through the centuries been qualified imperfectly and opening the door into that glorious and eternal Freedom which Life, within itself, desires and knows is its natural habitat!
The Spirit of the Ascension Flame
It is my privilege and my honor to answer the summons from the heart when there is opportunity through the use of this mighty transcendent, glorious Intelligence, Spirit of the Ascension Flame, to raise a consciousness again to its natural God-estate. May I introduce to you the SPIRIT OF THE ASCENSION FLAME, a living, breathing Intelligence which does, when called into action, invoke from the electrons in every cell of your body that portion of itself which is hidden within your own Light. As that Flame of the Ascension within yourself expands and meets the Spirit of the Ascension Flame in its cosmic activity, the two become ONE and the mystic activity of transmutation and ascension takes place!
Within every electron of that Light that flows so freely and so constantly from the Source of the Universal into your hearts, is every qualification of the Sacred Fire, is every power of the Sacred Fire, which in cosmic capacity is held within the atmosphere of Earth by Spiritual Intelligences, and when the Cosmic Being who chooses to embody the activity and hold it in the atmosphere of Earth as a radiating center, is summoned by your Life and magnetizes the dormant quality within the electrons and draws that forth, you have the merging of the individual and the cosmic, whether it be of transmutation by the Presence of Holy Amethyst, whether it be of resurrection through the Presence of the Mighty Gabriel, whether it be the activity of the Ascension Flame in the beautiful Spirit of Luxor!
"Aloha" - the Song of the Ascension
As you sang that magnificent song to the Ascension (Aloha) which is the keynote of the beloved Spirit of the Ascension Flame, I am sure you felt stirring within yourself the activity of that Flame, which when released does change the quality of the flesh, change the quality of the etheric body, change the quality of the emotional body and the mental body as well, and which does quicken the vibratory action in every cell and atom of your inner vehicles as well as your flesh, raising you to a closer vibratory action with that of the God-free.
Beloved ones, I cannot point you too concentratedly towards the fact that within the electron, within the primal essence of Life that flows to you there waits Fire! Fire! The Fire which becomes the bread on your table, the substance that clothes you, the fire that becomes the transmutation of your transgressions into harmonious energy; the Fire that becomes for you the actual Elixir of healing, the Fire that becomes for you the Resurrection of the powers which you knew in the Great Central Sun and in the Inner Spheres, and here even in the physical world in ages that have been past; the Fire which one day, when your momentum is built to a point, will join with the Cosmic Flame and give to you that marvelous experience which you have come to know intellectually as the Ascension of self!
Your health and supply are within you
Each electron, each heart beat, each vital light cell answers every summons and call you make upon it, and graciously says: "All this I can do and more", when you summon it forth as Jesus summoned Lazarus from the tomb. When you summon it forth from within the depths of your being that power of the Sacred Fire which is the requirement of every moment answers. Opportunities are manifold! There is in the course of your hourly living, opportunity to summon forth peace or justice, harmony or restitution of divine perfection into distortion of form, or balance of mind and body, or supply! How can the consciousness of students linger longer in appearances of lack and limitation when within the essence of the electron is lying quiescent the very Nature of God himself!
At Luxor, beloved ones, where you have visited me on and off through the centuries, hopefully aspiring toward redemption, our complete discipline lies in turning the consciousness of the aspirant and the neophyte INWARD to the Flaming Heart Beat until such an one can draw from that Heart-beat even the necessities to nourish the physical body as Jesus drew the manna from Heaven; and the clothing, the very garments with which the initiate approaches the altar are woven out of the energies of his own primal Life! Mastery and completeness is within the unit as the oak tree is within the acorn and the chicken is within the egg. As the smallest and most insignificant seed contains within itself not only the pattern of its full flower but the way and means of externalizing that pattern, the nourishment required, the magnetic pull upon the elements to develop itself - so of a certainty is the Divine Pattern within the heart of man and Life itself endowed with self-sufficiency and it requires but a realization that within that Light that flows, beloved ones, in countless millions and millions and millions of units into your world each minute, is the fullness of healing, of freedom, of illumination, of every God desire!
The Three Reasons for Your Ascension
Those of you who have upon your breast - Candidate for the Ascension - are blessed of all the mankind embodied today! You have been chosen for one of three reasons, chosen mind you, in the great Halls of Karma before you were granted the privilege of taking an earth body.
(1) Your energy almost redeemed
You were chosen because you had become a harmless one, whose energy has been almost completely redeemed and whose cycle of individualization is ready to close and who has transmuted through many ages of saintly living the majority of those energies qualified imperfectly and have therefore by that very preparation of the ages, signified to Life through the color bands in your Causal Body that there is opportunity for you to write your name upon the last page of your Book of Life, seal it and place it forever in the records of eternity.
(2) You have decided to take back all energy unredeemed
Or you are those whose souls have awakened from a long soul sleep and have remembered the glories, majesties and powers on other stars in other systems and in other universes, and who waking, feel intensely and deeply the loss of your powers, the loss of your freedom and through that intensity have demanded the opportunity of completing the cycle of your manifest expression quickly and have decided to make the great sacrifice, taking back at no matter what personal cost or discipline, all the energies unredeemed, in one short life. You have been examined by the Law and have been found capable of making this sacrifice and the Karmic Board has agreed to release your karma to you, knowing you can hold the balance through its pressure, and if you endure unto the end can earn the seamless Garment of Light.
(3) You have volunteered to become Guardian Spirits
Or you are in the third category those who have renounced freedom to come in this period of cosmic change when the Sixth Ray played its last chord, when the gently opening notes of the Seventh Ray are sounded on the cosmic organ, and who desire for love of God and your fellowman to offer your bodies as conductors of these subtle currents as stepdown transformers, receive the instructions directly from the Ascended Masters and to carry that instruction in a more mercifully transformed form into the consciousness of mankind as volunteered Guardian Spirits!
You are presented before the Karmic Board
In any one of these three cases you were presented before the Karmic Board and the colors in your Causal Body had to be looked upon by the entire Seven Members. Any individual who is passed as a Candidate for the Ascension must have a pretty well balanced Causal Body. Concentric rings of force distinguish the Causal Body of an initiate, and adept, and a conscious chela who can bear the burden of more than ordinary responsibility. These rings, much like the colors in the upper figure on the Chart, are rhythmically pouring out waves of Light into the upper atmosphere. The inner spheres in which the Christ Selves dwell look as if they were in a constant state of greeting the Sun in a brilliant dawn.
There will be more Ascensions Now
I ask you to learn from every man, because as he perhaps is developed in another portion of expression, so will you develop the Band of Color within your Causal Body that perhaps needs nourishment, as well as give to him from the storehouse of your faith, your light, your opulence, your beauty or your peace.
These individuals who passed the Karmic Board as Candidates for the Ascension in the course of one earth life, are few compared to the masses. There has to be a minimum number of possible lifestreams who can make the Ascension in one embodiment in incarnation to hold the balance of the inner current for the Earth, however; but because of the closing of the Cycle, greater numbers of these individuals have embodied recently and from this point forth we are making a tremendous application to the Karmic Board that the greater numbers of prepared lifestreams at inner levels be given the first opportunity.
The great Archangel Michael, you will remember, secured a dispensation in gratitude for the student body's service which freed every lifestream belonging to any student who had given their life to this Activity and who had passed through the change called "death", or will in the future pass through that change, from the necessity of re-embodiment. We know the gratitude that rose from your hearts and the sweet essence of joy in your unselfish happiness that those parts of life that were near and dear to you would be free.
You have not thought perhaps, in detail of the entire endeavor and all of the thought and feeling that had to go into the preparation at inner level to have these individuals complete their own evolution when no longer allowed the theater of Earth in which to gain experience of cause and effect. You know, and I say this in kindness, the condition of the minds and hearts and consciousness of many of those who are included in this dispensation, and yet something had to be done to give to them opportunity which their consciousness could assimilate and digest, no matter how orthodox the mind might have been.
New Ascension Temples for your loved ones
Therefore, the Brotherhood at Luxor and the Ascension Brotherhood began the magnificent task of creating Ascension Temples into which these lifestreams could be drawn. They are magnificent, all white Temples of blazing Light; the doors are sometimes forty or fifty feet in height. The Silent Watchers of the inner spheres gather and dress in white every one of those who have come under this Dispensation and they are enrolled in active, conscious instruction in the use of the Sacred Fire. Is not this time on Earth a cosmic moment among moments? I thank you for feeling this so deeply for I understand, dear hearts, that the conscious mind is staggered of times by the truths that we bring, and yet it is all Love, and we who are free, just love to serve Life!
At this time of year you have the Resurrection Flame of Lord Gabriel and the Ascension Flame of my own Heart meeting; you have the Christian dispensation of Holy Thursday rising to the crescendo of Easter Sunday; you have the Feast of the Passover and all the radiation of the Elohim, the Angelic Host, the Beloved Moses and those who govern the Jewish dispensation, all focused together. Do you realize the powers that are focused through your sweet bodies? And may I say, because I have known you so long, I have seen your actions and reactions under stress and under strain, in the name of God HOLD YOUR PEACE, hold your tongue and guard your energy because you are batteries of power, and once you begin to loose your energies through the tongue, they will run away from you. Each one of you feel as though you are in a private Retreat for you have all of this magnificent inner activity to contemplate within the harmony of your own self, loving Life free, and you can have a tremendous cosmic blessing.
I thank you for your many visits to Luxor and I ask you now to remember that the Ascension Flame is within the electron is within your heart'. Your Friend, your Servant, awaiting your summons and answering your call and who has loved you for centuries.
Serapis