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Volume 5, No. 20                                                                                             August 12, 1956

Beloved Children: 

In giving you these glimpses into civilizations of the past during which the majority of you took both an active and constructive part, it is not the intention of the Master to stir up etheric memories of these long forgotten experiences. Rather it is meant to convey the encouragement that comes from the knowledge that you have served life well in past embodiments and to provide a certain entertainment which we feel you have merited by reason of the service you have rendered in those bygone days, as well as your present splendid, cooperative endeavors. 

The awakening of your "Eternal Divine Memory" actually means those transcendent experiences that you had with your own mighty "I AM" Presence "before the world was". Memories of experiences after the fall of man invariably bring regret, sorrow and very often bitter remorse, with their attendant recoil of discordant energy, the pain of which you need never experience if you make persistent use of the Sacred Fire of Purification. 

Beloved children, Divine Discrimination is one of the very first Ascended Master gifts bestowed upon the earnest student of Truth. This quality, coupled with what the world is pleased to call "common sense" will go a long way toward keeping the student’s feet firmly planted on the upward path that leads to freedom. If you can eradicate the karma placed upon your shoulders in this embodiment through your calls to the Transmuting Power of the Violet Flame and demonstrate before life that you are indeed “your brother’s keeper” by making similar calls for him, then you may, safely trust that the Law of Divine Justice and Mercy will wipe out your own individual debts to life. 

There seems to be a growing tendency among the student body to probe into past etheric records in an endeavor to uncover some of their activities in other embodiments. May I gently say here, beloved ones, that if some of these records were truthfully placed before you they may not appear as noble as your ego would have you believe they were. Rather let me counsel you to turn your faces consistently toward the Light, invoke the glory "the glory that you had with HIM in the beginning", and "let the dead (past) bury its dead" as the Beloved Jesus once admonished his followers.

Love and Blessings,

THE MAHA CHOHAN

 (Final installment of Beloved Serapis' address of July 21st 1956) 

Beloved Friends:   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 mankind 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 shade representing the power 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 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, 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 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 the 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. 

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 in 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 Lord 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 mankind 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 already described to you, 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, as he loves himself;

The Fourth, where he is willing to purify himself;

The Fifth, where he is willing to consecrate all his energies, vehicle 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