Area : META_UFO
Date : Oct 03 '95, 00:47
From : Don Allen, 1:3618/2
To   : All
Subj : Ascension



Dossier On The Ascension
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Unto you who remember the Ancient Of Days:
Greetings from the Brotherhood at Luxor who keep the memory of His
sacred name.

Chapter 1: The Reality of the Inner Walk with God
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The sling of David shows what man can do when he is wedded by faith to
his own latent divinity. The mimicry of humanity abounds in the world,
and while imitation may be the highest form of flattery, the question
before the hierarchy is "What do the current models offer?"

Men must return to the pristine, to the reality of the inner walk with
God, to the high temple magic embodied and captured by living truth.
The world media proclaim the wares of mankind that material treasures
may be bolstered, but seldom do men hear the voice that cries in the
wilderness proclaming to make straight the way of the Lord. Almost
forgotten are the sweet lispings "Train up a child in the way he
should go:and when he is old, he will not depart from it."

I,Serapis, then, do come in memory of the Ancient of Days and in
memory of the heritage of mankind which is not crucifixion, albeit men
die daily, nor resurrection, although some men are transformed daily,
but is that splendid finale of the ascension. When men sail, going
abroad, those upon the shore gaily wave to those aboard ship. With the
moving out of the ship to sea, there is a happy separation and thought
of reunion. So should it be with those whose departing does leave
behind them golden footsteps pointing towards Cycles' heritage. Not
death, not even separation is reality, but ascension's currents
residual within all men in whom dwells the seed of God.

Is it not clearly recorded that upon the Tree of Life twelve manner of
fruit should appear? And is it not recorded that when the Master Jesus
anointed the eyes of the blind man that his first impression was "I
see men as trees, walking"?  What is the mystery, then, of the spinal
tree behind the spine, of the sympathetic nervous system and the
ganglionic trunks over which flow the currents of immortal life? How
is the Deathless Solar Body fabricated and from whence is spun the
substance of the wedding garment?

Does not all come through the alchemy of the self, and in a very real
sense did not God ordain that every man should become his own Saviour?
Oh, we are not talking about paltry human flesh and blood. We are not
talking about the finite man. We are talking about the God-man, the
Presence of Life that is the individualized reality of every soul. The
Presence of God individualized as true being is "I AM."  This is the
flaming Spirit- deathless, birthless, uncreated and yet creating- that
spake to Moses out of the flaming fire in the bush, saying "I AM THAT
I AM."

Th mystery of the ascension, then, is attained by partaking of the
Tree of Life and the twelve manner of fruit thereof. It is attained by
the realization of the Real Man. Men do not gather grapes of thistles
and no matter how many wolves may parade in sheep's clothing and sing
forth high-sounding phrases which become no more than a "tinkling
cymbal," the law of God cannot be broken with impunity and the
watermarks of man's rebllion and confusion rise high in the astral
record,signifying man's lack of emotional control.

Some have met with our lieutenants, our codirectors at Luxor, who
greet the young neophytes as they arrive. Some have commented on what
they termed the lack of feeling, the lack of emotion and even the lack
of love our representatives have expressed. They have not understood
that love is not just a feeling, an "emoting" that desires to swallow
up the object of its affection. Those who hallow space understand why
the planets are placed in orbits allowing lebensraum (living room) for
each orb to circulate in the dignity of self-manifestation. True love
is love for the God flame and holds no other desire save the
expectation of the amplification of that flame as a tangible, divine
feeling that sweeps the world pure and clean "with the washing of the
water by the Word" invincible.

The purification of the soul in the ritual of the ascension must be
recognized as the manifestation of that pristine and original ideation
of God which men call the 'soul'. The real meaning of the soul is
"Solar-El", which refers to the latent power of the divine angel
within man. (I do not expect that all of my words will be interpreted
correctly nor that they will be understood by all, but I must state
the law in order that those who have been initiated to a level of
comprehension suitable for the revelation inherent within this mystery
may then comprehend it.) The Solar-El is the infinite idea of God
projected by the divine light through the so-called seven densities of
creation, including the angelic realm and evolving within man as the
evolution of divine energy intended in the beginning.

One of the saddest ideas in connection with the ascension is that
those accustomed to rock 'n' roll, Wiener schnitzel, egoistic
bolstering, and the suave distinction and glorification of the lesser
self may actually fear the abolishment of that which they hold dear as
spelling an end to their individual worlds. These live in a
lilliputian world which has meaning and depth to them because of their
habit patterns of long standing, and their mimicry of that which seems
to be a pleasant idea to the mortal mind.

We seek to raise the veil upon the wonderful world of cosmic magic,
the magic of believing in the power of the original intent which may
then be blazed as the all-consuming love of God through the entire
woof and warp of the self. Changes will be wrought, of course. They
should be expected. But we who know every step of the way say to you
all, they will be welcomed changes once the soul becomes acclimatized
and the consciousness adjusted to its new environment.

Naturally there will be a space, an increment of time between the
opening of the first seal of reality and the fulmination of that
magical potion, the elixir of Life, into the test tube of the human
soul. How could it be otherwise? For certainly that which men deem to
be life and hold to be real, while it holds a semblance of reality is
not the reality with which God will bless mankind. Nevertheless, men
must understand that the springboard of the present life is a platform
upon which the cosmic astronaut will be launched into higher
dimensions.

We at Luxor are not without a "contactual" love for everyone who comes
to us and seeks to amplify the ascension currents. We simply dare not
recognize the stratum of the human emanation that layer upon layer has
imprudently builded out of pure light substance, causing shadowed
enclosures to surround the Self of man in concentric rings of error.

Error produces pain and suffering. We who understand the correct use
of energy must, then, greet the chela in what appears to be an imper-
sonal manner but which in actuality is an intense focusing of the God
flame within ourselves in the God flame of the aspirant. We have seen
cases where for forty years we have focused this flame within an
individual before securing results, then in an instant, in the
twinkling of an eye, a God is born! Some have within a period of forty
days of purification come to the position of Christhood and readied
themselves for the ascension.

Let love,then, be indeed without dissimulation and not be carried away
by those who gush over mankind in order to win him over to mortal
thoughts and feelings. Our laws are perfect laws and they can never be
flaunted. They are embodied within the Spirit of the flame at Luxor.
May I carry on in the coming week and tell you more?

For your freedom and victory, I AM

           Your brother at Luxor,

              Serapis Bey


End of Chapter 1
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Unto you who recoil not from Ascension's Coil but would be recoiled in
the sacred fire- I AM come to transfer the compressed energy of my
causal body.

Chapter 2:"When we have shuffled off this mortal coil"
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In continuing my dissertation on the ascension, which is the gift
of God for all, I take you now to the Shakespearean plays and to the
statement made


         To sleep! perchance to dream-
          ay,there's the rub;
         For in that sleep of death
          what dreams may come,
         When we have shuffled off
          this mortal coil,
         Must give us pause:

Seekers for freedom and truth, know that the play of the emotions and
the fire of the mind are determinant in creating the record referred
to in Hamlet as "this mortal coil." For around the body and being of
man, energy, compressed energy-like a giant spring wrapped, in some
cases, unmercifully tight and, in other cases, loosely knit-does
exist. This coil governs the amount of time and energy required by
each lifestream actually to cut himself free from misguided effort.

Because individuals by divine grace and mercy have hidden from their
own eyes the extent of the degradation to which they have fallen in
their total schema of past embodiments, I would suggest that it is
preferable for everyone to feel that the weight of his karma is less
rather than gross. For when individuals who have what we would call a
heavy karma become obsessed with the idea of that karma, they create a
certain lethargy in their feelings and an almost unwilligness to begin
paying off the karmic debt, feeling that it is too overpowering even
to contemplate.

When individuals believe their karma to be very light and they enter
into the spirit of releasing it swiftly into the sacred fire, there is
a great release of joy that flows through their beings. The action of
joy has a tendency to create malleability in the coils of energy, a
relaxing of the tensions inherent within these energetic coils, and
the freeing of the individual from restless tides which have, over the
centuries, proved to be his nemesis. In seeking, then, the ascension
in the light, the power of love must be recognized as a fervent heat
which will cause the elements of mortal creation to melt and the very
being of man to meld into a great pool of cosmic light and love.

Now because of man's intently conceived ideas about life and love,
there is always the danger that individuals will overpower the truth
that lies behind the worded symbol by their own shallowness of concept
and thus fail to acquire the power of the Word that went forth on
behalf of their own freedom and quickening.

The giant storings retained within the heart of the Christ as he lay
within the tomb were the results of no idle effort. They were the
power of universal law and life, of enormous concentration of
resurrection's flame, and of the receptivity of the chalice of his
great heart of faith that in olden days did in golden cadences sweetly
say, "Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, nor suffer thine Holy One
to see corruption."

Men must come to understand that it is the poison of mortal concepts
that has created the sting of death, that the strength of sin lies
within the law and that this law man has made to read, "In sin did my
mother conceive me," while denying the immortal birthright of the
heavenly Father who can justly say of all his creation, "Ye are my
offspring."

If you are the offspring of God,then there should be resident within
you the "dayspring from on high," the energetic coil of the Spirit of
the resurrection and the ascension out of human density and patterns
of lethargy. While it is unquestionably true that a plant can split a
rock by the power of Life within the root of the plant, it of
necessity requires greater energy for it to accomplish this feat. If
the rock is not in the way, then only the gentle earth needs to be
moved.

Thus let me clearly declare that the stripping away of the coils of
negative energy surrounding mankind, the yielding up of old and
residual ideas that have not brought to man his freedom, and the
substitition of great positivity of mind does help to remove the
crushing weight of human effluvia from the soul and prepares the way
for Christly vestments to be placed about the shoulders of the
neophyte, of the seeker for greater light.

Candidates for the ascension understand the plan that surely as He has
measured the everlasting hills, surely as He has prepared a place for
those who love Him, the way is made plain that either men continue to
dwell in the darkness of mortal concepts and misunderstandings,
culminating in the death of the body and the release of the soul, or
they accept the opportunities which life offers them and become
candidates for the ascension. Those who do so welcome the surge of the
ascension flame through their minds and bodies, for they understand
the need for regeneration even as they understand the need for
generation.

Certainly, first has come into manifestation that which is of the
"earth,earthly" and then has come into manifestation the second man
which is the "Lord from heaven." As man has borne the image of he
earthy, so must he now bear the image of the heavenly. But the weight
of the burden of the Christ light, which is in reality no burden at
all but only the powerful essence of freedom concentrated within the
soul, must be accepted as the sole reality of life, as the reality of
the Solar-El that makes man to understand, indeed the meaning of the
words "Ye are gods." If, then, men belong to God and in the possessive
sense are God's, belonging unto him, they also as his offspring must
be sparks of the parent flame and thus not only belong unto God but
also, in truth, themselves be Gods.

What a lie has been fostered down through the ages and slyly slipped
into the religious patterns of the world. Men have then come to accept
as truth, in the name of God, that they are vile and, in the words of
Saint Paul, altogether "gone out of the way." They do not understand
how to "break the Scriptures"; they do not understand that he was
citing, as the Scriptures have cited from time immemorial, the
negative patterns into which men have fallen. This is the ditch into
which the blind lead the blind. But those who have the power to see
understand that energy must follow the thought and the thought must
manifest the idea of its freedom here and now. For men to continue to
wallow in the mire of despair or fear is a tormenting thing which
denies the soul the power of the  love of God.

The love of God infuses life! The love of God frees Life! The love of
God is inherent within life! It was the energy of that love that
raised the Christ from the dead,set him on high, and ascended him into
the heavens; and a cloud indeed hid him from the sight of mortal men.
"All, then, who follow me," he has said, "in the ritual of the
ascension will be hid with Christ in God."

The triunity of the spiritual experience forms a star of victory.
There are three points in this triunity of the Divine, and there are
three points in the triunity of the human. When all are welded
together and the victory of the ascension is won,the star of victory
shines in the firmament of one's being and he becomes a victorious
star in the Heavens of God. In their messages of love, the stars in
the firmament of God's being are telling all below "Peace on earth,
good will toward men...For unto us a Saviour is born, which is Christ
the Lord." Christ is Christos. He is the light of the world and in him
there is no darkness. All who then dwell in this Spirit of the Christ
become joint-heirs with him of the ritual (the right-you-all) of the
ascension.

How the Brotherhood at Luxor are chanting the Anthem of the Ascension!
Hour after hour the rolling cadences and heavenly melodies pour
upwards as a white smoke, signifying a pillar of cloud by day and a
pillar of fire by night, telling all the meaning of these words:
"Where I AM, there ye may be also."


          Lovingly, I remain

             Serapis


End of Chapter 2
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Unto you who would walk in the footsteps of the Masters who have
transcended karma and reincarnation- the  scientists of the Spirit
teach the law of self-transcendence.

Chapter 3:The Triangle within the Circle
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As the fig tree puts forth her sign, so does the dawn of cosmic
prescience in the divine aspirant manifest the signs of Divine
Appearing within the human monad. There are gusts of hope, laden with
the balm of summer and the portent of good things to come, yet men
must stabilize the consciousness during the time of testing.

The deviations from perfection occurred not in the flash of a moment
but, in most cases, they were the result of a gradual weakening of
character, less and less acceptance of responsibility, and the desire
for mortal ease. Just as flabby muscles occur from a lack of exercise,
so do the spiritual senses grow dim when the loud outcries of a
maddening world are heeded; thus an unnatural imbalance of life takes
place in the threefold flame of life's manifestation within each
person so affected by mortal doings.

Men pay respect to science for they feel it has brought them "the good
life." But without the scientist of the Spirit there would be no life
whatsoever upon the planet and all would dwell in darkness or in the
shadowed state of groping even for physical sensory perception. The
lumens of the Spirit have softly caressed the darkness and pushed back
the shadows as the will of God which is good has magnified his
purposes for his created sons.

Men lament the pains and sufferings occasioned by their own karma. But
what of those karmaless masters serving in hierarchy whose hopes are
blighted again and again by unresponsive men? These are asked to stand
as bulwarks against the hordes of mortal, shadowed substance and to
intervene for and on behalf of mankind; whereas once men have received
the little satiety of lesser purpose for which they crave, they
sometimes quickly turn again from the light and immerse themselves in
darkness as though their hopes lay within the turmoil of the world.

We ask ourselves at inner levels, "Is it because they doubt? And when
they are convinced, is there no permanence to their conviction? Must
they be reassured again and again as to the reality of the octaves of
light?" What more shall I say than that God hath wrought the miracles
of his perfection which are the momentary and eternal perceptions of
the ascended masters' consciousness?

Ours is a forte of immortal rejoicing, and the trumpetings of our
hopes echo even over the human sea. Men speak of Serapis with awe and
reverence.They honor El Morya and the thrust of power. They "oo" and
"ah" over the beauty of the consciousness of Paul the Venetian. But
where are the legions of God upon earth, and where are the staunch
ones applying to us today for initiation into the highest steps here
at Luxor?

Returning again to the science of the Spirit, let me release knowledge
whether or not there are any to hear, to appreciate, to appropriate,
or to revere.

When men fail to progress it is always because there is imbalance in
the threefold flame of life. The life that beats your hearts is a
triad of motion, consisting of tripartite energies. The Holy Trinity
of Father, Son and Holy Spirit, of body, mind, and soul, of thesis,
antithesis and synthesis, of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, of love, wisdom
and power, is also the pink, blue and gold of divine consciousness.

The will of God is a predominant third of the whole, but lacking the
wisdom of God, the golden illumination of his supreme knowledge, even
power is stifled of action; and without love, power and wisdom become
the brittleness of self-preservation. The balance of the threefold
flame creates a pattern of the ascension for all.

Dominant emotions are controlled by love and by the power of love in
action. Because the wisdom of men is foolishness with God, they
perceive that not in the psychology of the world but in the balance of
the energies of the heart do men bank the fires of the ascension
against the day of their victory. The furnace of being, heated white
hot, must needs manifest the colors of the sacred fire and the coil
from the serpent's nest rise upright, being lifted by wings of faith,
hope and accomplishment (faith, hope and charity) until the Christ-man
is enthroned in all. This is a scientific victory of the Spirit.

Not without precedent was this universe created. No idle experiment
was behind the program but the ageless wisdom of the infinite Creator
whose purposes are dimly perceived by men of lesser vision. Emotions
controlled by love in balance with wisdom create a sharp etch of power
which life cannot resist. Progress stems, then, from attunement with
all of the triune aspects of God in perfect balance.

Blessed ones, if your tendency is to excessive study and the feeling
of egoistic wisdom gleaned from the world's storehouse of knowledge,
remember with all thy getting, unless thou hast wisdom thy knowledge
is but a tinkling bell or a clanging cymbal. And if the love which
thou art manifesting is a love in expectation of return as a dowry
from the beloved, thou art not cognizant of the will of the Great
Giver whose every desire is to give the allness of himself unto the
beloved.If thy power is as a flood or a raging fire which covers the
mountains and the plains or consumes that which it seeks to benefit,
thou must then master holy wisdom and holy love that thy power may be
within the reins of the Trinity of Balance.

Classification is not so complicated as men imagine. The opinions of
the mental body concerning the self, the overly protective aspects of
the emotional body which often expends itself in beating the air as
Don Quixote and his windmills, the strenuous appeasement of human
physicality as the satiation of human desire and thirst is placed
above the Spirit, the flagellation of the self by the memory body as
self-condemnation mounts over a trifle- all take their toll of human
happiness while defeating the divine purpose.

Men must summon the energies from the heart of God that teach them, by
communion and friendship with the Divine One, how to govern the three
and fourfold aspects of being until the seven bodies of man manifest
the sevenfold plan of perfection according to the law of the square
and the triangle. Then the cosmic circle of Life remains unbroken and
the triangle within the circle becomes the symbol of personal victory.
The circle can be placed within the square, and form then becomes
comprehensible as a schoolroom of the Spirit and the place of
consecration where the omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence of
God becomes a reliable forte for the ascending soul.

Your consciousness is a priceless tapestry. Each day you weave upon it
a motif of the Spirit, which is forever, or a jagged pattern which
must be meticulously disengaged and rewoven as heaven intends. We are
staunch and we remain the friend of all who earnestly, honestly seek
to serve our cause and to find their freedom in allegiance to
universal law which is universal love.


        In the sense of divine commeasurement,
                    I remain

                    Serapis

End of Chapter 3
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