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Rays of Spiritual Illumination

October 1968

by the Ascended Master Serapis Bey

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Friends of this planet Earth; friends of great Light! Not so long ago, you individually chose to apply to the Karmic Board for the opportunity to take embodiment, and to seize the opportunity that Earth life would give you in order to weave for yourselves the immortal robe and the purified soul which would require no further contact with the Earth, and which would give to you the glory of the freedom from the wheel of karma or re-embodiment.  

At that time, I was responsible for sponsoring your lifestreams. Having carefully looked upon the momentums of light in your Causal Bodies; having considered your potential strengths and weaknesses; having looked upon the pattern of Earth life into which your lifestreams would be woven should you embody, I stood sponsor for you individually and collectively, with a sincere deep heart call and prayer that when opportunity disguised in the folds of maya in the world of form should present to you, either through spoken or written word, through chance or prepared meetings, the way and means by which you could sublimate the energies belonging to your own lifestreams, and sublimate that portion of the planet’s energies that you volunteered to set free, and that you might, with dignity, dexterity, and enthusiasm, accept becoming a co-worker with the Spiritual Hierarchy while yet unascended. This you have done!  

Beloved ones, people think lightly of that which they cannot see; yet that which you cannot see in the physical appearance world forms over ninety-four percent of the pressure of both good and evil. Those of you who can joyously become part of that cleansing and purifying activity; those of you who can lend your energies willingly to it, are blessed indeed!  

Happy energy is beautiful. In happy energy, you can accomplish, in a much shorter time. that which is done with great tension and too great a sanctimonious consciousness because that closes off the natural flow of life, and that which should be done as a joy, when done as a duty, is poorly done at best.  

I want to discuss the activities of INVOCATION. To do this, I must take you back to the continent of Lemuria in order that you may understand and watch, in your teaching of others, to keep individuals upon the CONSTRUCTIVE PATH in their application, and in the instruction which will later reach the masses.

From the first creation of individualized consciousness, vibration increased. Now think of it! The great Godhead, the Angels, the Seraphic Host, the Cherubim, and all Powers of Light that have a thinking and feeling center and first realized I AM, increased the vibratory action of that great Kingdom. That was in Harmony! I might explain it thus; a man playing the piano gives forth a certain vibration. If you join a group together and have a symphony, you increase that vibration but it is still in perfect Harmony. In the creation of the individualized Presence, of which each of you is an externalization, the vibrations of the inner realms were increased. The responsibility for the QUALITY of vibration rested within that individualization just as the quality, harmony and beauty of the musical score rests within the individual who belongs to and is part of the symphony. That should be simple to see!  

With individualization was given energy; with energy came the thought and feeling centers, and vibrations immediately began to flow out from that Presence. Free will allowed each individualization to use that energy according to its own design to add to the Music of the Spheres.  

As each individual Presence passed through the Seven Spheres, many chose to remain with each one of them-being attracted to the Light of Lord Michael, to the lovely Illumination of Jophiel; to the Love of Chamuel; to the Strength and Purity of Gabriel; to the Consecrated Benediction of Raphael; to the Ministration of Uriel; or to the Invocative Powers of Zadkiel. These never took form in the physical appearance world. They work through the Seven Spheres and form part of the host of heaven about which the orthodox channels sing at the Holy Season.  

Some decided within themselves to take embodiment upon this Earth. This has been described to you and I shall not go into it except to give you the understanding of the powers of application which I want to impress upon your hearts and which you, in turn, as shepherds of the race, can impress upon the hearts of others.  

The first Golden Ages were referred to as the Garden of Eden. No lifestream used energy to create a discordant vibration and the Earth was as harmonious as Heaven. Each was part of the great symphony, and each one was in complete obedience in the rhythmic radiation from his own Holy Christ Self and Presence and thus the inner bodies were in perfect harmony. The fragrance of each one's own light was the natural aura and mantle of light around the form - the powers of precipitation giving the substance, the clothing, the food, and everything that was required because there was no vibration of inharmony. There was no static in the atmosphere and the angelic host, the ascended masters, the cherubim, the seraphim and the devas walked with humankind. There was not the haze which is caused when vibration is set into motion in discord and dissonance. 

With the great crisis which was precipitated when the Earth Council and the beings upon it decided among themselves that the people of the Earth and the guardian spirits were strong enough to help to sublimate the dissonance and discord of certain planetary orphans, we come to the time when the vibratory action of the Earth changed.  

You have little idea of the powers of contagion in those souls you have spoken loosely of as laggards who came from other systems. What were they? They were CONSCIOUSNESS, just like yourselves—consciousness with the capacity to think and to feel; consciousness which had not maintained a vibratory action of perfect harmony, beauty, purity and perfection, and therefore could not, or would not accelerate the vibratory action of their inner vehicles to move forward with the planets to which they belonged.  

It took a great deal of time and thought before the guardians of the planet Earth offered this gift of mercy. The priests and priestesses of Lemuria were gathered together after the Cosmic Law made the decision, but it was many years before the first lifestreams were allowed through the gates of birth. The priests and priestesses within the temples, schooled in the powers of invocation and radiation under the mighty Zadkiel, made calls for the purification of the soul light of these lifestreams and for the amplification of the pressure of light from within the embodied humankind and the Earth people so that they could withstand the subtle suggestions of every kind.