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To the Cosmic Flame of Freedom: 

BLESSINGS from the hearts of all who have utilized your Presence to sublimate the energies of our Personal worlds and have ascended into the God-free Estate by reason of your assistance! 

To the Beloved Master Saint Germain, Guardian of the Flame of Freedom, we send our gratitude on behalf of all evolutions in the Earth, on the Earth and in its atmosphere, who can, through the use of that Flame which you guard, ascend in like manner to become Divine Beings! 

To the Angels of Freedom and the Brotherhood of Freedom who, when invoked, assist in the restoration of the Earth and its evolutions to perfection, we send our thanksgiving! 

To the men and women throughout the ages who have loved Freedom and sought to bring that Freedom to their fellowman, we send our love! 

As the Earth has entered into the Activity of the Freedom Flame, upon whose ascending tide Lord Sanat Kumara has already received his Freedom from centuries of voluntary exile, we decree that the knowledge, use and manifest expression of the efficacy of that Freedom Flame shall cover the Earth and every man, woman and child arise, throw off the shackles of limitation and walk in FREEDOM'S ROBES! Anticipating the transmutation of the Earth (now known as the Dark Star) into FREEDOM'S STAR, we move forward with those earnest chelas whose purpose, motive and activity is to a like accomplishment - NOW! 

THOMAS PRINTZ, EDITOR

The Homes and Retreats of the Masters of Wisdom

ASCENSION TEMPLE AT LUXOR (Egypt)

July 15th through August 14, 1956

The Brotherhood of the Ascension Temple have dedicated their lives to sustaining the Ascension Flame upon whose crest all who qualify may return "Home" into the Ascended Masters Realms of perfect expression. 

When mankind allowed their consciousness to be impregnated with shadows and lost the control of their thought and feeling worlds, some few realized that a way back to Perfection must be found and sustained. While the masses enjoyed the "pursuit of happiness", these few continued to draw primal life, qualifying it with adoration to God and his Heavenly Messengers; then consciously sending that praise, adoration and thanksgiving up to them. This ascending stream of love is a current of actual power and lifts the energies of those who choose to avail themselves of connecting with the Ascension Flame for the purpose of raising the vibratory action of their own inner and physical bodies. 

Every Being who has sublimated the impure energies of his own world has received assistance from the Brotherhood of the Ascension Temple to help in the acceleration of the vibratory action of the electrons composing the atoms in the four lower bodies. This momentum of ascending energy is increased by the gratitude and thanksgiving of each Being who ascended on its current into the God-free Estate. The Seraphic Beings who serve with the Brotherhood of the Ascension Temple gather together all the prayer-force of mankind and weave it into the Ascension Flame. Thus, in each man's personal victory, does the ascending current become more strong, powerful. and efficacious for those following after him. The use of any activity of the Sacred Fire increases the power of that Fire for all others, even as the first explorer, cutting his way through the brush, makes it easier for the next group to make a foot path, until finally there is a wide highway to a specific goal. 

The focus of the Ascension Flame was changed when Atlantis sank. At that time, the actual Flame was carried by those who loved it - Priests and Priestesses of the Sacred Fire - across the seas to the land of Egypt. Here, traversing the Nile (some 480 miles south) they reverently established a new focus at Luxor for this Ascension Flame and have guarded It since that day! 

The Hierarch of this Retreat is our Beloved Serapis Bey, who applied particularly to Sanat Kumara to include Luxor as one of the twelve Retreats to be honored in 1956. His specific request was based on his desire to stimulate HOPE in the consciousness of mankind. Let us then endeavor, while bathing in the stimulating, purifying radiation of the Ascension Flame, to invoke the Beloved Archii, Hope (Twin Flame of the Beloved Archangel Gabriel), to help us in spreading HOPE to the world!

(NOTE: For further description of Serapis Bey's Ascension Temple at Luxor, please see "Transmission Flame Book," pages 8, 9; 25-31. "The Bridge to Freedom,"

Vol. 1, No.;6; Vol. 3, No. 7; Vol. 4, No. 6.)

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ASALA FESTIVAL

(4:29 pm Eastern Standard Time) July 22, 1956 

Once each year, the Beloved Lord Maitreya celebrates the presentation of the Spiritual Law as given by his Guru, Lord Gautama Buddha, by reciting to the Great White Brotherhood and the assembled and receptive chelas, the tenets of Lord Buddha's Principle of Living - the Middle Way. This ceremony takes place in July of each year. We present for your individual and collective ceremonies, excerpts of more recent comments by the Beloved Lord Maitreya which will intensify his outpouring at the Asala Festival. Participate!