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Beloved children of my heart:

I offer you this week an address by my beloved son, Serapis, delivered on the occasion of the recent Transmission Flame Ceremonies at his Retreat in Luxor, during the course of which he not only acted the part of a very entertaining host and guide through his beautiful Sanctuary, but he also took advantage of your attention to impart a little of his beloved Law. As you have been told so often, the God-free Beings take these opportunities to address the children of men very seriously and spend much time in the preparation of their subject in an endeavor to cover as many points of the great Law as possible, coupled with instruction on how to live within it. As the Archangel Gabriel saluted the Beloved Mary with the words "Blessed art thou amongst women." I say to you blessed are ye among the sons and daughters of men that are given the opportunity to hear the words of the Ascended Host of Light and profit by them.

Love and Blessing,

THE MAHA CHOHAN

Beloved Ladies and Gentlemen:

(July 21^st, 1956) 

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, someday, somewhere, 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, then 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 in 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. 

Before I came this evening, I discussed very freely with the Maha Chohan, (as we always do) the subject matter of my address, and he said to me - "Which do you think they would like better a treatise on the Law, or a trip through Luxor?" I need not say that I did not have to answer that question! So, he smiled in that gentle way of his and said "Son, they have had too much of the Law that they are practically "tied up in knots" trying to understand and obey it, trying to breathe rhythmically and all the other things I think it would be nice if you just took them through Luxor this evening." Well, of course, that "clipped my wings" As far as a lecture on the Law was concerned, for as you know, both the Beloved Morya and myself always try to present some portion of the Law every opportunity we get. However, as the Beloved Maha Sahib’s word is "Law" to us tonight I will assume the role of guide and take you by means of projected consciousness through the Halls of Luxor.

This sanctuary is built on the principle of the columns which I have always loved so well. In former times we used them in Greece as well as in Egypt. Here they are laid out in a vast square, twelve mighty pillars to a row and eight deep so that they make great squares, one inside of the other, something like the boxes children play with. You will understand that each square gets smaller as we approach the center and it is in this center chamber that the Ascension Flame abides. 

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 states 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 feel 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 the; 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 friends, 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.

Serapis

 (Beloved friends: Space does not allow us to give any more of the Beloved Serapis’ address this week, but we will continue to give you a part of it each week until it is completed.)