The forty-eight mighty columns forming the outside barrier of the Retreat are rather colorless in appearance, something like your sandstone, but the seven inside rows of columns are in the glorious colors of the Seven Mighty Rays. However, due to the fact that this Sanctuary is the focus for the Ascension Flame, the colors of the Rays do not run in their general consecutive order, the pillars forming the innermost square being of pure crystal white. The row of columns next to the outside is an exquisite sapphire blue: the next: row is gold, the one inside that is pink; next comes the green, then the ruby and last the violet. When one passes through the magnificent Violet Chamber he comes face to face with the brilliant white light enfolding the Ascension Chamber.

In the spaces between these rows of pillars are the compartments and corridors in which are housed the various aspirants and chelas. The outer corridor is the one where the neophytes are placed when they first come to Luxor. Here they are sorted, as it were, and their stages of development examined by one of the Brothers before they are presented to the Hierarch (Myself in this case).

The mystic part of this Retreat is that there is no need for curtains to shut off the various corridors, because the light emanating from each one forms a barrier, and while the occupants of each one feels the radiation of light, yet they are unable to see beyond it.

Now, the occupants of the outer corridor, looking toward the blue columns, see what they think is a great wall of sapphire blue light between each of the pillars, and while they feel and enjoy its radiation, they do not see within it. Those in the next corridor, looking toward the gold columns think they see a wall of golden light, and so on, - the same with those looking toward the pink columns - all the way in, but they all know that when a certain point in their development is reached, they are automatically advanced, each step bringing them closer to the Ascension Flame.

They also know that there is an activity going on behind that wall of colored light, but they do not know what it is, and are invariably surprised when they are moved from one corridor to another to see that there are people like themselves functioning therein.

While in My aura this evening, beloved ones, you have been free to walk from one beautiful corridor to another. There are no doors in this Retreat like there are in Shamballa and other places; each pair of columns making an entrance so that there can be a mass movement of several hundred people walking forward at once between these pillars. However, as I said before, each aspirant knows that he can only move forward when his own vibratory action fits him to enter the light, and so he finds himself in the next inner compartment.

As we find ourselves in the Violet Flame Chamber, you will note that Its appearance is somewhat different than the others, in that the four sides of this vast room are of the most exquisite, purple light, - and it is understood, of course, that the average unascended being may not enter the Ascension Chamber, - but if you look through the Violet Light curtains, you will be able to distinguish the lovely carved crystalline columns that form the walls of the inner Chamber, as well as the three tiered, circular altar which occupies the center of the room. On top of this beautiful high altar, you will notice there is a carved Egyptian urn from which blazes Our Beloved Ascension Flame.

Around the base of the altar are three massive rings of the same crystalline substance. These rings are placed one inside the other, at an equal distance apart and depicted on the outer one in raised figures are twelve beautiful figures, representative of the twelve Virtues of the Deity, (We use the numeral twelve in all Our Activities here in Luxor, just as you have the twelve signs of the Zodiac through which your Earth passes in the course of a year).

The forty-eight columns that form the walls of the Ascension Chamber formerly Upheld an Eastern canopy of crystalline substance that covered the entire room, - and when the Flame rose, it blended into that shining essence, making an aureole of light that shed its radiance over the entire countryside. However, owing to the expansion of the consciousness of the race due to Our Beloved Maha Chohan's Transmission Flame Activities and the amphitheaters that the Brotherhood found it necessary to build over the Retreats to take care of the thousands of lifestreams that are drawn to them through these Activities, We recently removed the canopy, allowing the Ascension Flame full freedom to rise up into the amphitheatre where the people are gathered and where instruction is given.

Tonight, as Host to this vast assembly, it is both My pleasure and responsibility to welcome the Members of the Heavenly Host Who grace Our Retreat with Their Presence, Beloved Lord Gautama, Lord Divino (the new Buddha), the Beloved Archangels with Their Archaii and the members of the Celestial Hierarchy, including the Beloved Ascended Masters Who have come to Us from other Planets as well as this. They are all in pure white tonight, in honor of the Ascension Flame and I am grateful to them for Their Presence here with Us.

We are so grateful to have this fine Amphitheatre created over the Continent of Africa, and I ask you to make Calls that this be permanently sustained here, because as you know, it is the darkest of the continents belonging to the Earth's evolution. This Ascension Flame, which contains within Itself Divine Purity and all the other qualities necessary for the Ascension, should do much for the race of people that are evolving here, as well as for the animal life, the reptile life, and all the imprisoned elementals in this continent.

You may be under the impression, beloved friends, that serving humanity of Earth from the Ascended State is a comparatively easy task, but let Me assure you that such is not the case.

In the first place, We are dealing with beings of free will who, (even among the students under Our instruction) do not always feel like cooperating with Our suggestions and endeavors: then We have those in different states of development, receptivity and capacity, and lastly We have the general run of humanity who are not aware even of Our existence, whom We must serve with impersonal radiation.

However, every time Our Retreat here at Luxor is active, and I see all the lifestreams who are attracted here, I pray God that there may be a 'click' in the feelings of the people that death is not the end, - but that the Ascension, the conscious Ascension is the ultimate victory of all their endeavors.

So, beloved Friends, We are sending forth on the Ascension Flame this night from the hearts of the Assembled Host of Light and the conscious chelas assembled here, the strong feeling of Everlasting Life and the Joy of Service, and We know that you will cooperate with Us in this during the current month while Our Beloved Ascension Flame is active.

Many, many long ages ago, when the Atlantean Civilization was in full bloom, there was a great Temple of Light in what is now one of your large Eastern Cities. This Temple was dedicated and consecrated to the Power of Protection, which is the specific God-activity of protecting the Divine Spirit-nature of the humankind embodied at that time as well as all the other evolving life upon the Planet.

The individuals who served in this Temple all wore the varying shades of blue, from the deep sapphire and midnight blue, to the very palest pastel shades, representing the powers of Faith and Protection and the other qualities that come under the Blue Ray. Sometimes these blue garments were banded with the golden hue of Wisdom.

From this Temple the priests and priestesses who were conscious of and able to contact the Beloved Hercules, the Great Archangel Michael, and all those Beings Who represent the activity of Protection, drew into themselves a concentrate of the Blue Flame. Day and night, rhythmically, groups of these priests and priestesses (never less than seven to a group) gathered together and, through their calls, were able to see the activity of the Sacred Fire ascending and descending, as well as consciously hear the directions of the Beloved Hercules and Archangel Michael or One of Their Representatives.

In this way they drew a concentrate of energy which was qualified with the powers of Strength, Endurance, Faith, Protection and the Will to Do THAT which their Own Christ Self and the God-free Beings desired. From this Temple, rays of light like beams from the sun radiated out until they covered the whole surface of the Earth.

The people in and around Atlantis proper, of course, were much more acquainted with the power of the priesthood than those in the outlying districts who only learned of the powers of magnetization and radiation from the visiting missionaries, but the people from all over the landed surface of the Earth were invited to come from time to time to the main Temples of Atlantis, learn at firsthand the teaching, and take part according to their development in the activities.

Now, these activities have engaged the lives of many of the present day students of Saint Germain. Therefore, - you have built within yourselves certain strengths on this Ray of Cosmic Christ Protection which We hope (and have hoped since the beginning of this New Endeavor) you would use for the protection of everything connected with the Activity of Saint Germain.

The blue robes that you then wore; the Blue Light that you drew; the Faith that you embodied are all part of your etheric bodies. You never lose in the etheric body the experiences that you have had in the Light, no matter how much destructive thought and feeling you may have drawn around yourself since then. You see, beloved friends, - each successive life that you live forms a coating like the petals of a flower, each one closing in the experiences of the life before. Therefore, down in the deepest core of the etheric body are the experiences that you had 'before the world was', - and outside them layer after layer, are the experiences of every life you lived up to the present day.

Another phase of the law which, of course, is apparent to the students of Saint Germain, is -  

The Second, where he receives the illumination so to do.

The Third, where he learns to love his God, and his brother, as he loves himself.

The Fourth, where he is willing to purify himself.

The Fifth, where he is willing to consecrate all his energies, vehicles, time and talents to the service of the Godhead.

The Sixth, where he becomes desirous within himself to minister to all evolutions on the Earth, - human, elemental, animal - in whatever form he may encounter them.

The Seventh, where he learns to become Master of all energy through the Sacred Love of the Sacred Fire.

Use the Sacred Fire of Purification offered to you by the Beloved Saint Germain constantly beloved ones, because in your inner bodies there is darkness as well as light, and the more you use the Violet Fire the more of this effluvia will be burned away until only the light remains.

Your etheric body can either bog you down or, through purification, it can become the motor by which you can perform miracles and finally ascend. I hope you have enjoyed your visit to Luxor as much as I have enjoyed being your Host.

Thank you and God Bless you.

Serapis Bey