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LET US HONOR THE ASCENSION OF BELOVED MARY,
MOTHER OF JESUS, ON AUGUST 15th
On August 15th of each year, we have the opportunity and privilege of honoring the Ascension Day of Beloved Mary, the Mother of Jesus. As we send our love and gratitude to her, she comes back on that Ray of Light to charge into us her Power and Consciousness to hold the Immaculate Concept for ourselves and all life, and imbues us with that constancy to "keep on keeping on" until our Victory is achieved.
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ON RAISING THE CONSCIOUSNESS
by Beloved Mother Mary
The God Consciousness in the Universe is an eternal, ever-present state of Thought and Feeling, penetrating all strata of Light. Into this God Consciousness various lifestreams have tuned through selfconscious endeavor to unite their thought and feeling and continuous state of being with Reality. According to their capacity have they received more or less of the ultimate realization, vision and beauty, and are those individuals rated in evolution as Ascended and Cosmic Beings.
The endeavor of every aspirant, chela and student is to come to a point of realization wherein his or her individual consciousness is raised to a point where it contacts and unites itself with the Cosmic Truth ever-present. This raising of the consciousness is the Spiritual Path, and the sustaining of the consciousness in Truth is the Spiritual Way, and the realization of the ever-present consciousness of All Good is the reward of the lifestream who has determination and constancy to pursue this Spiritual Path to the fulfillment of realization.
We see, therefore, that the Ascension of Consciousness is an hourly process wherein the separate human consciousness, filled with its concepts and beliefs, is gradually quickened in vibratory action until by its very vibration it joins with Ever-Present Truth, which previously vibrated so rapidly that the human consciousness was unaware of its subtle presence.
For an individual to achieve Ascended Master Consciousness, he must be eternally vigilant as to the condition of the thought and feeling bodies, as they form the vibratory action and wave length of his state of being, and to accelerate the wave length of the vibration of his consciousness to a point where they tune into the Ascended Master Consciousness, the individual must entertain and maintain only those vibrations representative of the virtuous, harmonious, pure currents that form the ever-present God Consciousness of the Universe and all Perfected Beings.
Great men and women who have followed in the footsteps of the Master Jesus, the Lord Gautama Buddha, and other Great Exemplars of Good, have, by contemplation and imitation of their Divine Masters, raised their consciousness to a point where it blended with and became one with the Master's. These people, while unascended, formed a perfect channel for the conducting of the Ascended Masters particular gifts which could pass through a consciousness only akin to their own, and these people thus became great forces for GOOD because through individual application, their consciousness had joined to and become one with their Master's and in this way they performed all the Master's work in his name.
If you, who seek to serve God and to unite your separate selves with the One, dwell upon the consciousness of any single Ascended Being who will train your consciousness into his or her way of thinking and feeling, this will bring about conditions and blending processes which will insure your individual ascension and make you an individualized outpost of the Powers of that One. Then, all the Ascended Masters can use your consciousness as their own when it no longer dips into the vibratory action of the human state at the slightest stir of the ethers. I trust this will assist you in your earnest endeavors to sustain a realization of the consciousness "too pure to behold iniquity."