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Our Cosmic Library
Beloved Serapis Bey
"I AM" come tonight to bring to you the feeling of buoyancy and joy that is within the Heart of the Ascension Flame -- that Flame on which so many lifestreams belonging to Earth's evolution, as well as the Guardian Spirits from other evolutions, have risen into a God-free estate of perfection, Beauty and Eternal Freedom.
As each one rose on that Flame they left within It the feeling of their individual joy, happiness and gratitude for their release, all of which has added to the momentum of the bliss and exaltation that is within Its essence. . . This is the Flame, beloved ones, that We guard at Luxor and to which We pay honor and praise this evening.
On this Flame, some day -- some where, each of you shall (when you have completed your life course) ascend in like manner into the heart of your own "I AM" Presence -- becoming one with It, which is, of course, your preordained destiny.
But, beloved ones, while you are still "working in the fields" and in the process of "reaping your harvest" do not, I beg of you, either emotionally or mentally, look upon the Ascension "as a means of escape" or "a way out" of certain experiences that seem trying as you walk the Way of Earth. Rather would it be the part of wisdom to trust in the Law, knowing that when your work is done, when your particular obligation to life is completed and when the purgative power of the Sacred Fire has cleansed and purified your lifestream, then and then only will you be summoned Home.
You know, beloved ones the tendency of the outer nature is such that when difficulties arise -- when there are conditions to be surmounted which seem to try all the strength of the mental, emotional, etheric and physical bodies -- there is a desire within the outer mind to escape in some manner. Some of the orthodox beliefs have furnished such an escape for their followers by encouraging the mind to dwell on gold-paved streets in Heavenly cities, while in metaphysical and occult circles they find a certain peace in dwelling on the so-called mystery of the Ascension.
When individuals come to Luxor, the motive in desiring the Ascension is immediately discernible -- whether it be to draw from the Causal Body all of Its wonderful perfection in, through and around the lower bodies as a blessing to life -- or whether it is more or less of a wish to renounce a rather difficult task in the world of form -- and return Home.
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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, 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 exquisitely carved Crystalline columns that form the walls of the inner Chamber; as well as the magnificent three-tiered, circular altar which occupies the centre of the room. On top of this high altar you will notice is a beautifully carved Egyptian urn from which blazes Our Beloved Ascension Flame.
Around the base of the Altar are three massive rings of the same beautiful crystalline substance. These rings are placed one inside of 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.
The forty-eight columns that form the walls of the Ascension Chamber formerly upheld a magnificent 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.
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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. ( Now known as Harrisburg, Pa. )
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 colors to the very palest 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 Beloved Archangel Michael and all those Beings whore present 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, the 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 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, that if you awaken what the world calls "the subconscious" (which is really the Book of Memory or the etheric body) and are not acquainted with the Violet Transmuting Flame and Its use, you are going to have to handle not only the karma which has been given you in this present life, but you are stirring up something from a past life which the Lords of Karma did not deem wise to impose upon you at present. . .If an individual deliberately awakens a portion of the subconscious mind of another (who is, or is not, conscious of the power of the Sacred Fire) and throws that individual back one or two embodiments, stirring dormant etheric records into action, he would be very gravely responsible to life, taking upon himself in ignorance the prerogative of the Lords of Karma, but lacking Their Cosmic Love and Wisdom.
Beloved friends, you have an affinity with each other through past service...Your etheric bodies have certain definite remembrances within them of constructive services performed together which makes for unity and in unity there is strength... That is the strength of cooperative service We are endeavoring to build up through the welding together of the student body by their love for Us, love for each other and love for humankind as a whole.
People of all grades of development come to Us here in Luxor -- all seeking escape from the weary round of births and deaths -- We have the seven departments through which the aspirant for the Ascension must pass: --
THE FIRST, or outer one, is the place where he desires and decides to do God's Will.
THE SECOND, where he receives the illumination so to do.
THE THIRD, where he learns to love his God and his brother.
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.