THE PERMANENT CENTRAL TEMPLE OF THE ASCENSION FLAME

ELECTRONIC PATTERN: Visualize all members of the human family standing within a large crystalline chalice. Through the joyous, buoyant activity of the mighty Ascension Flame, each person now individually enters into full communion with their I AM Presence quickly and easily bringing the qualities of peace and harmony to their lives.

Dedication to Beloved Serapis Bey

With sincere gratitude, this issue of The Bridge Journal is dedicated to the beloved Ascended Master Serapis Bey, Hierarch of the Central Temple of the Ascension Flame, Chohan of the Fourth Ray and Enfolding Spirit for this year. This great being has stood guardian over the Ascension Flame since it was removed from Atlantis for safe keeping, just prior to the sinking of this continent beneath the sea. Without the love and dedication of this great being of light, the Ascension Flame could not have been sustained upon the Earth and there would have been no way for us to return home to the house of our Father-Mother God from whence we came. We love, bless and thank Serapis Bey for his gift to life and his endless assistance in helping us ascend out of the limitations of this Earth into the eternal freedom of the higher Octaves of Light.  

Taken from an informal address by Master Serapis Bey in January 1954.

Many, many times you have been hopeful aspirants standing at the door of the Temple in Luxor, holding within the confines of your uncertain consciousness, the energies which were the harvest of your endeavors. Many times, it was innocence more than wisdom that prompted your desire to enter the concentrated flame which has been my honor to guard for thousands of years. It was not without trepidation that I accepted you into the Temple, knowing full well that until the lower energies of your worlds were free from the pull of the outer world, those energies would return you once again to the world of form, until the lyres of invocation would burn to ashes the momentum of these energies that lay dormant for a time and are coming to the fore to be purified. Now you come again and the door is wide open to your eternal freedom.

It is interesting to bring to your attention the service of the brothers and sisters of the Ascension Flame so that you may understand something of our endeavor and perchance, cooperate with us. In the Fourth Sphere, which it is my privilege and honor to guard, dwell the Holy Christ Selves of the human race. Here these magnificent God free beings worship together in temples of such magnitude that many millions may gather and send up adoration through song and spoken word. Here I become well acquainted with the divine pattern of every ego who belongs to the evolution presently enjoying progress upon this planet and around it.

There comes a time in this sphere during the long course of evolution when the Holy Christ Self of an individual will signify by auric light that the ego or personality which it has sustained had attained a point of evolution wherein the ascension of that ego is a possibility through the sublimation or transmutation of the outer self. These particular Christ Selves are then drawn together and segregated from the great masses. They enter into special temples under the direction of the Angels of the Ascension Flame. Here they receive the instruction from those of us who are dedicated to the education, of the consciousness in drawing forth the sacred fire which makes possible the final transmutation of consciousness.

These Holy Christ Selves abide within the Ascension Temples and in each twelve month cycle the Lords of Karma announce, in every one of the Seven Spheres, how many lifestreams are to be admitted to incarnate in the course of that year. It is my opportunity to suggest a certain number from the Ascension Temple who are to join the incarnating egos who will take embodiment within that year. This ensures entrance every year into the Earth, the maximum number of lifestreams who could attain their freedom with self-conscious endeavor.

From each of the other six spheres, the Chohan in charge draws the lifestream's representative of his or her ray. These are all presented to the Lords of Karma in a magnificent ceremony, which yet has much sadness in it, because there are many more applicants than those to whom it is possible to give opportunity. The Lords of Karma then must separate from this number the small few who are offered incarnating privileges, the others returning again to their respective spheres until the passing of some soul from the Earth makes room for another incarnation.

Because of the specific requirements and need of the cosmic hour in which we presently find ourselves, Cosmic Law has allowed us greater freedom and entrance into the world of form, a larger number of applicants who can possibly attain the Ascension at this time, more so than ever before. For the past seventy years, anticipating this cosmic moment, we have availed ourselves of the leniency of the law and have not only presented for approval greater numbers of applicants, but have been given larger grants in getting our chelas incarnated.

If man could see how much energy, how much time and prayer and application goes into the drawing from these inner spheres of each lifestream who is taken within the compass of our aura before the Lords of Karma, in the hope that a flesh body might be allowed them, they would not weary so easily of life or rebel at the opportunity of each day.

When the Karmic Board designates the lifestreams that are to enter the earth plane, each one of the Chohan takes back into the temples in his or her sphere, those who come under their particular supervision and guidance. For a longer or shorter period of time, they prepare them through radiation if they are spiritually undeveloped, and by conscious instruction if they are chelas. Then these great friends stand at the gates of birth enfolding the incarnating souls with the blessings of their flame and ray as they pass through into the world of form.

You have been with me many times and we are old friends. It is my hope that you may bring to your conscious remembrance the power of the sacred fire that you have wielded in our temple; that you drew forth on our altars, by which you molded into form and rendered such great service to the public. These things are recorded in your own feelings, they are part of the energy of your dear hearts. Through your flesh garments, your hands and through your fingertips flowed that flashing flame, obedient to your conscious direction. Through them you have conducted powers of precipitation, of healing, of levitation.

I speak now to the memory which I stir within you! These are the records of momentum which belong to the glory of your Causal Bodies, not something that must be born out of primal unqualified life essence. They are the heritage of centuries of devotion to God which belong to you by right and earned endeavor.

Sleep no longer in this limitation of the outer senses! You are guardian spirits come to save a planet! You are here to fire a people and to resurrect those living in the shroud of their own human creation!

Contemplation coupled with action is my request to each of you. I thank you!

Serapis Bey