Journeying in consciousness leisurely up the Nile, almost 480 miles from our point of embarkation at Cairo, we come in sight of the ruins of the glorious Temples of Luxor which stand out from the sands of the desert, proclaiming to the World a magnificence of splendor, a transcendence of purposeful worship that is little understood by modern civilization. 

We pass into the great pillared avenues around the base of the great Temples built by Ramses II, and which have endured to the present day. The Temples seem to throb, not only with the akashic records of spiritual invocations and endeavors of the Illuminati of the ages, but with a very present, powerful, potent and active stimuli to the upliftment of the soul and spirit. 

Proceeding onward and upward into the Etheric Realm, we come upon a large, white stone edifice, built in a perfect square, that seems to be in good repair and presently inhabited. It is surrounded by a high wall, the four corners of which end in huge towers. The entrance is through massive doors which open on to a large courtyard, glimpses of which we can perceive through the closely knit grillwork. Our guide summons the gatekeeper by pulling a cord hanging beside the gate; we hear the sound of a melodious bell, and our call is answered immediately by the gates swinging inward, admitting us into a veritable paradise of beauty. 

Set back from the courtyard, we see the famous Sanctuary of Luxor, known throughout the Spiritual World as the host to those sons of men who are about to finish their Earthly pilgrimages and who desire to hasten the development of the necessary faculties to pass, with awareness, into the next realm of conscious life through what is termed the Ascension. 

The Focus of the Ascension Flame was carried by those who loved it - Priests and Priestesses of the Sacred Fire - across the seas to the land of Egypt. Here traversing the Nile they reverently established a new Focus at Luxor for this Ascension Flame and have guarded it since that day. 

The Hierarch of this Retreat is our Beloved Serapis Bey. The Great White Brotherhood dedicated to preserving, the Cosmic Flame of the Ascension which is the WAY BACK HOME for every lifestream determined in itself to make things right before the Cosmic Law and to complete the portion of the Divine Plan for which incarnation sustained self-conscious being, and preservation of identity has been effected. 

The Ascension Temple at Luxor sustains the pulsation of the Ascension Flame in the atmosphere of Earth. This Flame is utilized freely by the nature kingdom in the resurrection of each successive springtime. The few members of the human race who awaken in each century to the desire to complete their cycles on incarnation become the responsibility of the Brotherhood. 

Angels from the Ascension Temple gather together all the praise, adoration, songs, devotions and blessing sent upward by individuals in congregational worship or individual application, and these currents are carefully woven into this ever widening Spiritual Stream of Energy. Each Ascension makes it easier for the next lifestream to avail itself of the full gathered cosmic momentum of those who have gone before. 

Therefore, dear reader, all your prayers and invocations are already a part of that Ascension Flame, guarded and sustained by the Brotherhood at Luxor. One day when your own call comes, you will be grateful for the ascending tide of energy which helps your sublimated soul in its final journey into the Ascended Master Realm.