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Journeying in consciousness leisurely up the Nile, almost 480 miles from our point of embarkation at Cairo, we come in sight of the ruins of the glorious Temples of Luxor which stand out from the sands of the desert, proclaiming to the world a magnificence of splendor, a transcendence of purposeful worship that is little understood by modern civilization. 

We pass into the great pillared avenues around the base of the great Temples built by Ramses II, and which have endured to the present day. The Temples seem to throb, not only with the akashic records of spiritual invocations and endeavors of the Illuminati of the ages, but with a very present, powerful, potent and active stimuli to the upliftment of the soul and spirit. 

Proceeding onward and upward into the Etheric Realm, we come upon a large white stone edifice, built in a perfect square, that seems to be in good repair and presently inhabited. It is surrounded by a high wall, the four corners of which end in huge towers. The entrance is through massive doors which open on to a large courtyard, glimpses of which we can perceive through the closely knit grillwork. Our guide summons the gatekeeper by pulling a cord hanging beside the gate; we hear the sound of a melodious bell, and our call is answered immediately by the gates swinging inward, admitting us into a veritable paradise of beauty. 

Set back from the courtyard, we see the famous Sanctuary of Luxor, known throughout the Spiritual World as the host to those sons of men who are about to finish their Earthly pilgrimages and who desire to hasten the development of the necessary faculties to pass, with awareness, into the next realm of conscious life through what is termed "The Ascension". 

The Ascension Temple of Beloved Serapis Bey is dedicated and consecrated to providing an ascending current of energy to the Realm of Perfection, upon which any individual, when purified enough, may return to that Realm and become an Ascended Being. 

This current is made up of actual energy, focused through the minds, feelings and bodies of the Brothers and Sisters of the Ascension Temple, in adoration, prayer and devotion to God. Thus, each Member widens the river of ascending energy by his own personal and collective participation in such services. The conscious descent of mankind and the Guardian Spirits into the Earth's atmosphere was for the purpose of magnetizing the Perfection of the Kingdom of Heaven and molding that Perfection into the substance and form of the physical world. Even as the physical Sun 'steps down' the radiation of the Central Sun of our System, so did every lifestream given opportunity to embody upon Earth vow to externalize some portion of the Divine Plan. When the lifestream had completed that service, it was to ascend back into its natural estate of Perfection. 

However, mankind lost the memory of that initial purpose - reason for being - and lost also the conscious capacity to find its way back home. 

The Ascension Brotherhood, knowing that sometime, somewhere, each individual must complete its cycle of individualization and return to its Source, have kept the door open so those who complete their services and qualify for graduation might have the assistance of their buoyant energies upon which to ascend. 

Because of the mass accumulation of discordantly qualified energy filling Earth's atmosphere, no unascended being can accomplish this Ascension alone! At the time when the individual has finally completed his service to life upon the Earth plane, some member of this Brotherhood assists him to rise upon the cosmic tide of the Ascension Flame into his rightful estate in God's Kingdom. Each such ascending lifestream contributes the joyous energies of his own world to the Ascension Flame as he achieves this final Victory. In this way every Ascension makes wider, more joyous, more powerful and more buoyant the Ascension Flame and this Flame becomes an ever-increasing assistance, to be used by those who follow on into, the Ascended Masters' Realm, each in his own appointed time. 

Angels from the Ascension Temple gather together all the praise; adoration, songs, devotions and blessings sent upward by individuals in congregational worship or individual application and these currents are carefully woven into this ever widening Spiritual Stream of energy. Each Ascension makes it easier for the next lifestream to avail itself of the full gathered cosmic momentum of those who have gone before.

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BELOVED ASCENSION FLAME 

Along the Nile, within the Halls of Luxor,

The Flame of Ascension dwells;

That to each one aspiring unto Light,

The Beauty of Heav'n foretells.

As in Ascension's Glory,

We see Creation's story -

This is the Goal that God's great love has willed;

'Tis our Divine Plan Fulfilled. 

Serapis Bey, Beloved Hierarch of Luxor,

Our Love to thee ever flows

For thy great Presence - God's sustaining Pow'r

That each passing moment grows.

Our Joyful praise ascending -

With Angel voices blending,

Brings nearer Earth blest Heaven's Kingdom fair

That all may its glories share. 

Ascension's Flame, thou Gift from God the Father,

Raise all now in Freedom's name

As we invoke thy Purity and Peace

And thy mighty Pow'r proclaim

To raise each one's attention

To that one Goal - Ascension.

For thy great Presence grateful shall we be

Throughout all Eternity.

MELODY - Liebestraum by Liszt