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The Temple of the Ascension
In the Etheric Realm over Luxor, in the land of Egypt, there exists the Focus of the Great White Brotherhood dedicated to preserving the Cosmic Flame of the Ascension which is the WAY BACK HOME for every lifestream determined in itself to make things right before the Cosmic Law and to complete the portion of the Divine Plan for which incarnation, sustained self-conscious being, and preservation of identity has been effected.
The Ascension Temple of Beloved Serapis Bey is dedicated and consecrated to providing an ascending current of energy upon which any individual, when purified enough, may return to the Realm of Perfection 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 humankind and the Guardian Spirits into the Earth's atmosphere was for the purpose of magnetizing 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, humanity lost the memory of that initial purpose, the 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 that 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. Therefore, dear reader, all your prayers and invocations are already a part of that Ascension Flame, guarded and sustained by the Brotherhood at Luxor. One day, when your own call comes, you will be grateful for the ascending tide of energy which helps your sublimated soul in its final journey into the Ascended Master Realm.
When a man, in himself, desires to know the reason for his own being, and desires to cooperate with the Will of God, he comes to the threshold of the Ascension Temple in consciousness.
To graduate from the Earth plane and remove oneself from the wheel of birth and death, the individual must first determine within himself to complete his individual service to life, purify the energies he has used so prolifically through eons of living, and prepare himself for self-conscious, awakened being in a realm where no discord, inharmony, imperfection or limitation exists. Thus he must become incapable of generating discord through his own consciousness, his thought and feeling self. Only in such a manner can he qualify for entrance into the Kingdom of Harmony.
Individuals who have come to a place of spiritual maturity, and who wish to serve with the Father who has created and sustained them through the centuries, are given opportunities without limit to "serve the purpose through THAT which made them men". Such opportunities, under the new dispensation, come in the ordinary life experience of daily living. These opportunities follow the pattern of the created initiations which are provided for the neophyte at Luxor.
Because the glamour of the Retreat is not apparent in daily living, many worthy individuals who have applied for the disciplines, purifications and assistance of the Brotherhood of the Ascension, are not aware that the very experiences of life are being consciously provided by this Brotherhood, and the ascent is taking place according to the control and mastery of these conditions which so often pall upon the outer self.
The presence of the physical body in a certain place is not necessary for the acceptance of the individual into the role of applicant for mastery. The motive in the heart of the aspirant determines that acceptance. Many are the candidates for the Ascension who live mundane lives in the world of form, but whose souls are being purified, strengthened, tested and tried by this mystic brotherhood right where they are. The constant admonition of this brotherhood to its chelas is 'TRY'. It is upon the motive within the heart that the Masters of Wisdom dwell.
To ascend into the place of self-mastery, God-control, peace, harmony, health and ever-present supply, the individual must learn to rely upon the Presence of God within the heart.
The disciplines at Luxor are designed to turn the consciousness, attention, feeling world and outer self INWARD until from within the heart center of Being there is drawn forth consciously and at will, - anything and everything which is required to forward that portion of the Divine Plan which the individual self finds at hand to be externalized.
The ascension of the thoughts, feelings, actions and spoken word of the student is not the work of a moment. It is the constant, hourly application to rise into a spiritual consciousness of listening grace, of harmony, balance, purity, peace, ever-sustained supply, perfect health and ever-increasing illumination of soul until the Spiritual Self is manifest in every avenue and activity of the life experience.
As the interested chelas visit the Ascension Temple at Luxor, they are requested to draw back with them into their individual world, homes, auras and consciousness that raising, buoyant, joyous energy which is the activity of Ascension.
This Flame will enter into the elemental substance of the inner bodies, as well as the physical form, and act as the "leaven in the loaf" when earnestly invoked. As the pure White Flame passes through the substance of the chela's bodies, it quickens the vibratory action of the atoms, each electron moving more rapidly around its own central pole.
This causes the throwing off of the impure, discordant, heavily charged substance around the electrons, and quickens the rhythm of the vehicles. These vehicles then become more sensitive to the finer vibrations of the Higher Spheres, and the consciousness of all the instruments is more attuned to Truth, the gravity pull lessened and the various appetites and passions of the physical and inner vehicles are transmuted. It is a practical and mechanical activity of purification.
When the Ascension Flame thus acts, the individual, through his own purified energies, becomes a conductor of the raising activity of the Ascension Flame into his own environment, home, family, business and affairs.
From the 15th of this month through the 14th of the following month the great Ascension Temple of Luxor will be the Host to the Members of the Great White Brotherhood and those individuals who choose to accept the opportunity of visiting this Retreat in consciousness and absorbing the Gifts of Light, Freedom and Purity which form the atmosphere and Power of this Retreat.
Here, every man is invited to stand in the Presence of the Hierarch of Luxor, enter the heart of the Ascension Flame, and prepare to meet his own God self face to face and come into Oneness with its Purpose, its Design, its Service through the outer personality.
After entering the Temple at Luxor and being shown to the private room, each visitor is summoned before the Hierarch for a personal interview. At Inner Levels, the Master Serapis is the Directing Intelligence of the Fourth Sphere.
In this Great Sphere, the Christ Selves of the greater number of the human race abide, awaiting the hour when they can assume the authority over the outer personal self and fulfill their God Plan. Serapis, therefore, is so well acquainted with the Divine Self of each applicant, and knows full well what the Spiritual Pattern is for each lifestream who has the temerity to stand before him.
The measure of development of the personal self, and the clear picture of the Christ Self are registered in his Consciousness simultaneously during the interview, and the particular type of training, discipline, instruction and purification required to draw this Inner Christ Self and the outer personality together is here designed by the Master and given to one of the brothers who are assigned the responsibility to see that the student is given the opportunity to develop according to the Hierarch's Plan.
This tutelage is done entirely from ‘behind the veil‘ and the neophyte is never conscious of a teacher at any time. He is forced back into communion with the God self within his own heart, and made to rely upon its promptings at all times. The circumstances that seem to happen are, of course, carefully planned to give him the opportunity to gain mastery through self-control and initiative.
Only those who are able to move forward according to the promptings of the God Self are allowed to remain. The others, after a given time, are asked to withdraw. It is a particular fact that, although the membership at the Luxor Temple has always been smaller than at any other Retreat on the Earth, the interest of the people has been turned toward it by reason of its reputation for Discipline and Training. It is the hope of its great Hierarch that the people of Earth may enjoy this month at Luxor, and the explanations of the Law which are behind the disciplines which form the Vow of the neophyte and, understanding the Law, be eager to comply with it and thus gain their individual Victory in the Light.
May the light of Luxor, and the Glory of the Ascension Flame be yours during this time, and through you, each one, flood the Earth with the knowledge of the Power of Light and Love as the Master Control of Energy in every realm, sphere and octave in the Earth, upon its surface and in its upper atmosphere.