The Ascension Temple of the Beloved Serapis Bey (Chohan of the Fourth Ray), is located in the Etheric Realm near the ruins of the magnificent edifices built by Ramses II at Luxor, in Egypt. 

The Ascension Flame itself is a constantly rising current of energy which truly leads to the Father's Throne. Like an escalator, it provides an added impetus to the individual's endeavors to ascend back into their God-estate. This Flame is composed, not only of the actual focus of ascending energy which Beloved Serapis and his Priests brought from Atlantis (before that continent sank beneath the waves of the ocean for purification), but it is also made up of the ecstatic feelings which have been joyously experienced by everyone who has gained his or her personal Ascension. 

In addition to these feelings charged into the Ascension Flame, the Seraphic Host gather all the prayer-force, aspirations and up-reaching thoughts and feelings of whatever members of the human race that are using the Planet Earth as a schoolroom and literally 'graft' this energy into the Ascension Flame itself. 

As the very nature of all the Flames of God is to RISE, unless some Divine Beings voluntarily choose to magnetize, anchor, sustain and expand particular Flames in the emotional, mental, etheric and physical consciousnesses of the people of Earth, the Ascension Flame itself would long since have arisen out of this physical appearance world - out of the ken of human mind and the use of unascended mankind. The Beloved Serapis Bey and the Brotherhood at Luxor have made the sacrifice of remaining here and so sustaining the Ascension Flame in the Temple at Luxor to provide a way back HOME for all unascended lifestreams, when they have earned the right to Its use by purification of all the energies of their lifestreams; thereby fitting themselves to dwell in the Ascended Masters' Realm. It is, therefore, strongly recommended to the gentle reader that he or she not only honor the Ascension Flame, but give daily gratitude to Beloved Serapis Bey and the Brotherhood at Luxor for providing, protecting and sustaining this way back home by their voluntary exile here - in a Realm from which they long since have earned the right to be eternally free! 

A conscious, dignified Ascension into Light, in full control of all one's consciously transmuted faculties of mind, soul, feeling and flesh is the natural God-intended goal of all physical embodiment and the reason for which all physical experience is endured. Decrepitude, disintegration, disease, old age and ignominious 'death' are not the NATURAL ACTIVITY OF LIFE. 

In the early ages, before the contamination of Earth's people by the shadows of the laggards brought here from other Stars, the Ascension was accomplished consciously and beautifully by every individual - after he had completed his cycle of Earth embodiments - spending some time on Earth during each of the seven two thousand year periods which make up the Cosmic Cycle of each fourteen thousand years. On other Planets belonging to this System and in superior systems, such a glorious Ascension in the Light is presently utilized as the altogether NATURAL culmination of the individual's experiences because on those Planets there is no discord or disintegration of any kind. This CONSCIOUS Ascension into the Ascended Masters' Realm has been all but forgotten by the masses of the people of Earth. The Ascended Master Jesus Christ came to remind the outer consciousness of mankind of their ultimate destiny and was the living example for them to follow. Unfortunately, during his life and in the centuries since his Ascension, most people have considered Jesus’ Example as a unique expression of Mastery - forgetting his statement: "The things I have done shall ye do also - and greater things than these shall ye do. 

Beloved Jesus, his Holy Mother Mary, John, his disciple, and others before and since who have achieved the Ascension, had the assistance, instruction and radiation of Beloved Serapis Bey and utilized the full-gathered Cosmic Momentum of the Ascension Flame to achieve this so-called 'miracle' of overcoming 'death'. 

Because Beloved Serapis Bey is required to teach the chelas how to transmute their own lower natures and purify their emotional, mental, etheric and physical vehicles preparatory to making the Ascension, he has been feared by many earnest chelas who unconsciously enjoy the feelings radiating from the causes and cores of certain human discords which are buried deep within their own inner and physical vehicles (which radiations eventually lead only to disintegration). Let the chelas be assured that Beloved Serapis is a Lord of Love and his ONE PURPOSE IN LIFE is to actually free every individual upon this Planet and all who are to come here in the future, from the recoil of those impure causes and cores of limitations and disease and their inevitable effects of distress of body, mind, soul and affairs. 

When a lifestream in embodiment upon the Earth has so served and purified himself enough so that he is ready to be prepared for the Ascension, that one is singled out from the masses by the Brotherhood at Luxor as one who can be given more personal assistance by them. From then on, the sometimes 'trying' experiences through which such a chela must pass are really initiations prepared and assigned by Serapis Bey for that lifestream, to bring about whatever transmutations of his lower nature are necessary to enable him to gain the Ascension at the close of his present Earth span. Because these experiences do not actually take place within an Ascended Master's Retreat, the chela does not recognize that it is a real initiation and is often discouraged by the tremendous weight of his own personal karma which is being directed back into his world for transmutation by the use of the Violet Flame and other purifying activities of the Sacred Fire. When such is the case, at your call, Beloved Serapis can and will mitigate the presently returning destructive karma. However, all destructively qualified energy of each lifestream must one day be transmuted either here on Earth or, in the case of those who have earned the beneficent assistance of the Dispensation which allows them the Ascension at the close of their present embodiment (because of unusual selfless service in freeing life here), these are sometimes permitted to transmute whatever remains of their discordantly qualified energies at Inner Levels of consciousness, before the Ascension can take place. 

You see, everything acts under Divine Law, especially where the Spiritual Hierarchy is concerned. When an individual applies for the privilege of gaining the Ascension in one given embodiment, that one must be accepted as a neophyte upon the Spiritual Path. When such a one signifies that he desires a respite from the rigors of quickly transmuting a great deal of destructive returning karma, that one is given such a rest. Therefore, please do not feel that the Beloved Serapis and the Brotherhood at Luxor ever 'try’ a chela beyond his individual endurance, for this is not the Law of Love by which they live and serve. Exactly as some students in school ask for permission to complete several years of learning in one and are allowed opportunity thus to prove whether or not they are capable of successfully mastering such added study and application, so is the chela who asks for the opportunity to gain his Ascension in one embodiment given permission to try to achieve the purity of body, soul, mind, feelings, words and actions to qualify him or her for the speedier attainment of his Goal. 

Beloved Serapis well knows that many of those chelas who apply for the privilege of finishing the round of their Earth lives by gaining the Ascension in one embodiment, are not really ready for the rigorous initiations which result in transmutation of the lower nature. However, because he is a Lord of Love, he allows all who so apply opportunity to qualify for this magnificent accomplishment. Nothing good achieved by any chela is ever lost - REMEMBER beloved ones! So even though many good and earnest ones in the past have applied to Beloved Serapis Bey for the opportunity to make themselves fitted to dwell in the Ascended Masters’ Realm but at that time were not able to successfully complete their initiations, they left Luxor, temporarily renouncing the disciplines thereof. Yet whatever they here individually accomplished will make it much easier in a succeeding life to continue to the point of 'graduation' from this Earth into the Ascended Masters' Realm. 

As has been described in previous issues of 'The Bridge to Freedom" - every Candidate for the Ascension, whether ready for this transition into the Realm of Perfection or not, must stand in the presence of Serapis Bey (usually in their etheric body at night while their physical body sleeps). He then externalizes the aura of each such a one and carefully and lovingly prepares those initiations which will help such a Candidate in the process of transmuting his lower nature. Then he assigns such a Candidate to a Brother or Sister from Luxor whose obligation is to provide the OPPORTUNITIES (not punishments!) so that all of the earnest Candidates, if they persevere, CAN ACHIEVE THE ASCENSION IN THE LIGHT. Many of us have had the loving guidance of Serapis Bey and his Brotherhood and have truly gained the Ascension through their assistance. Believe us when we say - HE IS TRULY A LORD OF LOVE!

 El Morya

Master Morya, we bless Thee for being the One

To assist our Beloved Saint Germain

To expand his great work as before you have done:

And to raise us again and again. 

Thou art always adored, thou great Cosmic Lord;

Now step through the veil to our sight,

That all be bathed in the Light from thy heart,

Dedicated as Guardians of Light.