The Ascension Temple

As Archangel Michael and Maria approached Luxor, Archangel Michael gave Maria some background on the Ascension Temple.

“Serapis Bey is the Hierarch of Luxor and the Chohan of Ascension's Ray, who built the Ascension Temple with those brothers who had served in the Ascension Temple on Atlantis,” explained Archangel Michael. “Serapis was an expert on using symmetry of form and geometry of angles to house the divine flame. When Serapis Bey was embodied on earth, he was the architect of the Great Pyramid, carving in stone the path of initiation, where the soul, from the base of the pyramid's four sides, rises to the apex. The Great Pyramid is a meditation upon the white light that travels in the physical body from the base-of-the-spine up to the crown.

“Serapis Bey was embodied in Greece as the sculptor Phidias. He built the Parthenon with a beautiful forty-foot statue of Pallas Athena made of gold and ivory. He also chiseled out of gold and ivory the large statue of Zeus that stood in the temple of Olympia.

“All of the masters who serve with Serapis Bey are very intense disciplinarians, and they also have a great heart of love. The master Serapis geometrically designed the Temple of Luxor as a physical manifestation of the laws of God that were passed down for centuries through the Egyptian priesthood, and that came from Atlantis. Now the temple that partially remains in the physical octave is a counterpart to the etheric retreat. It contains a tangible divine flame, as do the Great Pyramid and the Parthenon.”

Serapis Bey warmly greeted Maria and Archangel Michael. “I remember you, Maria, before you took incarnation. You came to me and said, 'Serapis Soleil, I will make my ascension in this life.' We all cheered for you. It is good to see you again.”

Maria did not remember, but felt honored that the master did. She remembered how the word “soleil” means sunshine in french. Then, she noticed how all of the structures around her were glistening in white light, sometimes soft like a winter sun shining through the fog, and sometimes with the intense searing brilliance that reminded her almost of the noonday sun.

“We honor Aton and we honor the Sun God Ra, two manifestations of our Father Helios,” said Serapis Bey. At the side of Serapis Bey was Archangel Gabriel and Hope—the archangels of God's purity, resurrection, and ascension. They began conversing with Maria.

“We are completely dedicated to the purity of God's purpose for every soul,” said Archangel Gabriel. “I was the angel who rolled away the stone from Jesus' tomb. We teach about the mysteries of life and death. My beloved twin flame here always brings hope to the world. She fills expecting parents with joy and enthusiasm for their unborn child, and for the soul's ultimate goal, which is the ascension in the light.”

“You can be the golden age in manifestation when you individualize the God flame within you,” Archeia Hope told Maria. “The golden age can already be in your aura. You no longer need to wonder, 'Will the golden age come to earth?' You can say, 'It is here in me! It is where I AM, for I AM with Hope, filling cosmos with my golden age!”

Maria laughed. “I love that,” she said.

“Let me introduce you to two masters who serve in our retreat,” said Serapis Bey. “Amen Bey and Clara Louise. They are twin flames who work closely with me to prepare each soul for the ascension or for re-embodiment, as the case may be. Amen Bey and Clara Louise are dedicated to the youth of the world, and they assist parents and their children. They eagerly await your prayers and calls to they can help you each day. ”

Amen Bey stepped forward. “We are dedicated to the spiritual rebirth of the Christ in every man, woman and child on the planet,” he said. “I can direct needlepoint rays into every cell and atom of the four lower bodies for balancing and healing. I also call upon Mighty Cosmos, an ascended cosmic being who ensouls the secret rays for the entire cosmos. Mighty Cosmos brings needle-like rays that reinforce the earth's core, and also strengthen the crystal cord that connects each one to their God Source. Mighty Cosmos assists with the birth of every child, by charging that soul with the divine pattern of perfection held in the flame of the heart. Our needlelike points of light are superimposed upon the incoming soul, even before birth, with the memory of their divine plan.”

“Did you help me too?” asked Maria.

“We sure did,” said Amen Bey. “That is why you are here! We guard the immaculate concept of God for each one.”

“Do you remember the story recorded in the Bible when Archangel Gabriel greeted Mother Mary to announce to her the birth of Jesus?” asked Hope.

“Yes,” said Maria.

“May I share with you that he also salutes every mother-to-be with the Christ Presence of the soul that she will receive,” said Hope. “He places the electronic pattern of the Christ Self of the incoming child into her aura, to bring forth the perfect form for the child and to anchor the soul's best talents, that were developed in previous embodiments and are stored in the causal body.”

Amen Bey spoke up again. “When my Beloved Clara Louise ascended, she chose to anchor the spiral of her victory in the atmosphere over Berkeley, California to help the youth of the world,” said Amen Bey. “She would offer prayers four to six hours every day for children everywhere. She published her life story in the book Ich Dien, which means I serve, in German. She is the regent Mother of the Flame and her symbol is the white rose.”

“It is true,” said Clara Louise. “I served as a nurse during World War I on the battlefields of France. Then, I went to Brazil to prepare for the children of the incoming seventh root race destined to embody in South America. For many years before I made my ascension, I would get up at three or four o'clock every morning without fail to pray for the youth of the world.”

“Clara Louise was also embodied as James, one of the disciples of Jesus,” said Serapis Bey. “And before that, she served with Amen Bey in the Lemurian temples.

“Lord Gautama Buddha spoke about Clara Louise's ascension and the return of her youthful appearance. 'I want you to understand,' he said, 'that her body is no longer gray or crooked in any way. Her form no longer reflects age, but only the beauty of her earliest youth and maturity. Upon her face is the glow of hope and the sweetness of love.' “He announced that Clara Louise would present a torch of illumination for the Age of Aquarius to the Mother of the Flame. This torch is a flame composed of many, many millions of flames, each a petal of light that releases sacred fire to kindle the vast mission that will illumine the world's children, and produce the blessing of true culture for all people everywhere.”

“I desire to assist all who would follow the path home,” said Clara Louise. “I was so happy that Mark Prophet signed a copy of his book, Climb the Highest Mountain for me with the words, 'May you win all the way!' It is not enough to wish victory for someone. We want them to win all the way—every step of the way—until the hour of the ascension. That is what passing the torch is all about.”

Serapis Bey took Maria to see the rooms and chambers of the retreat. There was an underground building in a circular courtroom where the last judgment is conducted by the Council of Adepts. The underground complex of the temple contains other flame rooms for meditation, as well as chambers that prepare candidates for various initiations, including the initiations of the transfiguration and the resurrection.

“Our disciplines are tailored for each ascension candidate,” said Amen Bey. “After an initial interview, initiates are assigned in groups to carry out projects with others whose karmic patterns trigger maximum friction between them.” “Each group must serve together until they become harmonious,” said Serapis Bey. “They must learn that those traits of character that are most offensive in others are actually the polarity of their own worst faults, and that what one criticizes in another is likely to be the root of his own misery.

“This is why Jesus said, 'Cast out the log in your own eye before you complain about the splinter in the eye of your brother.'”

“In the retreat of Serapis, one cannot simply up and leave a crisis, a circumstance, or an individual that is not to his liking” said Clara Louise. “Each one must stand, face, and conquer their own misqualified energy by disciplining their consciousness in the art of not reacting to the human creation of others, or to their own.”

“That is hard to do,” said Maria.

“Yes it is,” said Clara Louise. “For this reason, the ascended master Cuzco gave us a wonderful decree that we can give when we are under this kind of pressure. It is called the 'Count to Nine Decree,' and it goes like this:” Clare Louise began reciting the decree so Maria could hear the cadences.

“Come now, by love divine,
Guard thou this soul of mine,
Make now my world all thine,
God's Light around me shine! I count one, it is done.
O feeling world, be still.
Two and three, I am free.
Peace, it is God's will.
I count four, I do adore
My Presence all divine. Five and six, O God affix my gaze on thee sublime.
I count seven, come all Heaven, my energies take hold.
Eight and nine, completely thine, my mental world enfold.
The white fire light now encircles me, all riptides are rejected.
With God's own Light around me bright, I AM by Love protected!”

“The future is what you make it,” Serapis Bey told Maria, “even as the present is what you made it. If you do not like your present circumstances, God has provided a way for you to change them.”

“How?” asked Maria.

“By accepting the currents of ascension's flame,” said the Master. “We ascend daily. Our thoughts, feelings, and daily deeds are all weighed in the balance. We do not ascend all at once, but in increments, as we pass our tests and win our individual victories. When we have brought at least 51 percent of our karma into balance with the purity and the harmony of our Great God Self, we may be offered the gift of the ascension, whereby the remaining 49 percent of our karma may be transmuted or purified through service from the ascended octaves.”

Serapis Bey led Maria to the Flame Room that was in a square building with doors on both sides. He told Maria that he and a few other adepts had helped to carry the ascension flame in their heart to Egypt, just before the sinking of Atlantis so it could be externalized again in this retreat. Over one door of the Flame Room was the inscription, “Man, Know Thyself.” Over the other door was the inscription, “Man, Know Thyself as God.”

Forming another square within the room were twelve white pillars decorated in gold relief at the base and at the top. The twelve pillars surround the central dais on which the Ascension Flame blazes. The Ascension Flame is intense, fiery white with a crystal glow, like a white diamond or a shiny Easter lily.. “These twelve pillars represent the twelve hierarchies of the sun, with the sun in the center,” Amen Bey told Maria. “Likewise, Serapis Bey is the thirteenth member of the Council of Adepts of the Ascension Temple, hence the name Serapis Soleil. We find the same pattern with Christ in the center of the twelve apostles.”

“All who ascend from the Ascension Temple do so because they attained God Mastery under the tutelage and discipline of one of the twelve hierarchies,” explained Clara Louise. “That is the spiritual hierarchy under which they were born—their birth sun sign—with both its God qualities and human misqualifications.”

“After all initiations have been passed,” said Serapis Bey, “the candidate is invited into this room and passes through the pillars to stand in the center of Ascension's Flame. Then, that individual's cosmic tone is sounded, and the flame from Alpha is released from the circle on the ceiling, while the flame from Omega rises from the dais. Simultaneously, the seraphim trumpet the victory of the ascending soul with the most magnificent rendition of the Triumphal March of Aida.

“I would like to introduce you to another friend, said Serapis Bey. “This is Justinius, Captain of Seraphic Bands.”

“Hello Maria,” said Justinius. “We know you very well. We attended the birth of your soul in the Great Central Sun, and we also attended your birth on earth.”

“Who are the seraphim?” asked Maria.

“The seraphim are fiery angelic beings who are the closest to the throne of God. My seraphim form concentric rings around the Great Central Sun. We absorb the light of Alpha and Omega and then deliver it to the far-flung reaches of space, trailing clouds of glory. Our continuous song around the Throne of God is 'Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty, which was and is and is to come. Holiness unto the Lord!'”

Justinius continued: “You can ask the seraphim each day to purge you of all that is not a part of your God reality, and to help you in your mission in life. They are like brothers and friends, and are among the greatest healers. They can release sacred fire to purge, purify, and renew your bloodstream, and give you eternal youth. All you have to do is call for it and live the path of the ascending one.”

“I want to walk the path of the ascending one,” said Maria.

“The seraphim possess cosmic penetrability” said Serapis Bey. “They can penetrate the densest human consciousness to transmute that substance instantaneously. They can absorb toxins from our bodies, our minds, and our emotions, and they leave behind a residue of purity. You cam call to them to heal all life on earth.”

“I will,” said Maria.

“May I sing to you the song of the Seraphic Meditations?” asked Justinius.

“Yes, please do,” said Maria. “I would be honored.”

Justinius began to sing with a deep, rich and melodious tenor voice that was very lovely:

“And I beheld the great electronic fire rings of the Great Central Sun. I saw the surface thereof as of molten gold blending with an azure blue. The sky became a sea, and behold, a soft glow as of pale pink roses of living flame bubbling on the surface beneath. Translucent and transparent, a white fire core that pulsed and rose and fell with a holy radiance, inundated my soul.

“My eyes I sought to shield from the glorious wonder which I knew to be reality, infinity, and love without end.

“All knowledge, all power, all love, going on forever, having neither beginning nor ending, were before me.

“And I saw the naturalness of home, of friends, of family—all that ever was and is or is to come. Ribbons of interconnecting glory from this gigantic orb spread into space from galaxy to galaxy, star system to star system...”

Justinius paused for a moment as his eyes welled up with the tears of the saints, before continuing: “And I understood the message of the elder ones, the consciousness of a little child, innocent of heart. I knew the pure in heart should see God.”

“You sang like the Great Tenor,” said Serapis Bey.

“Who is the Great Tenor?” asked Maria. “The Great Tenor is a great cosmic being who is also known as God Harmony, ” said Serapis Bey. “He and I both serve the cosmic hierarchy of Cancer on the six o'clock line of the cosmic clock. That is the line of the Divine Mother. Prior to his ascension, thousands of years ago, God Harmony devoted himself for many incarnations to the flame of the Divine Mother's harmonious love for her children. This is how he attained the cosmic consciousness of harmony, that earned him the name God Harmony.

“God Harmony renders a great service at inner levels, drawing a a tremendous quality of the flame of God Harmony, which is a crystal flame that reflects the seven rays of God in harmonious interaction. He tells us that without harmony, the entire cosmos would collapse.”

“He explained that harmony is key to our progress on the path,” said Justinius. “No matter how much light the saints call for, that light must be held in the balance of harmony. Harmony is a science, just like music is a science. It is the science of the balance of light, of sun centers and electronic forcefields. Ultimately, harmony is oneness and attunement with God—ever beholding the face of the Father, as the angels do. It is happiness found in the simplest manifestations of nature, in the sharing of love, in the creation of beauty. Harmony is what the seraphim sing in their Seraphic Meditations.”

“I would like to be more harmonious,” said Maria. “Sometimes I get a little out of sorts when I get stressed out at school before a test, or when I am learning a new song on the piano and my fingers slip on the notes.”

“When there is balance, then there is harmony,” said Serapis Bey. “When there is balance and harmony, then there can be acceleration. God Harmony gives us the example of a top that spins. In order to spin, it must have a certain acceleration and a certain balance. Thus the Law of Harmony is the spinning action within the fiery core of the threefold flame itself. When the plumes are not harmoniously in balance, the threefold flame cannot spin.”

“Saint Germain has told us that light is the alchemical key,” said Justinius. “God Harmony tells us that God Harmony is the key to the light which is the alchemical key. So harmony is the key to the key!”

Maria laughed. “Can you please tell me more about how to make your ascension?”

Serapis smiled. “Well I already made my ascension.” Maria laughed again.

“I know what you meant,” the Master said smiling. “Do you remember the story of Icarus?”

“I think so,” said Maria. “He made wings from wax and feathers to soar up into the sky, but the sun melted the wax and he fell to the ground in a pile of feathers.”

“That's right,” said Serapis. “And let me tell you why. The feathers and the wax were made by the ambition of the human ego. The human ego cannot reach the sun of the I AM Presence. Only the soul wed to Christ can achieve immortality through the ascension. And in the process, the vestiges of the human ego will melt away like the wax and drop like outworn feathers.

“No one can take heaven by force and no one can win the ascension for another. The ascension is forged through constant cooperation and obedience and co-creativity with our individuated God Source, and through service to mankind. That is why Jesus said that the two most important commandments were to love God with all you heart, soul, mind and strength, and then to also love your neighbor as yourself. He said that on these two commandments hang all the laws and the prophets, and he was right!”

“In order to join the ranks of the ascended masters, you have to become like an ascended master,” said Justinius.

”Everything else falls away. Only that which is real in God can become permanently crystallized in God through the currents of the ascension flame.”

Serapis Bey continued his explanation: “During the ascension ritual, the human miscreation that is unreal in God melts away like the wax, and so does the identity attached to it. That is why it is so important for your identity to be wed to Christ, and not to the wet paper bag of human limitation that Mark Prophet described!”

Maria smiled. She was thinking about what a wet paper bag over somebody's head might look like. The master interrupted her thoughts.

“The Bible tell us that God is a consuming fire that tries our works of which sort they shall be,” said Serapis Bey, “to see if they can be immortalized. Only that which is absolute good can be made permanent. The Bible tells us that God is too pure to behold inequity. Only that which is truly God-good, after having been tried through the fire of initiation, can become the acceptable offering.

“Jesus demonstrated the ascension when he ascended into heaven in front of his disciples on Bethany's Hill. Elijah was taken up in a chariot of fire when he ascended. Enoch walked with God and God took him, when he ascended. And Mother Mary was assumed into heaven, when she ascended. Great souls have ascended from all times and places and religions.”

“Souls come to our retreat while their body sleeps or between embodiments to prepare for the ascension,” said Clara Louise.

“The process can take many lifetimes. When a soul is ready to fully accelerate in God through the rigors of the path of the ascending ones, she is marked as a 'candidate for the ascension,' and receives our utmost help.” Maria listened intently.

“I wonder if I could be a candidate for the ascension some day,” she pondered. “I must be careful to grow wings that will not melt!”

“Making your ascension is about expanding the fires of the heart until your heart fire can meet God's fire and merge into one permanent flame,” said Serapis. “What a glorious celebration that is! You become a permanent atom in the body of God, a permanent star in the heavenly firmament. You never have to descend into lower octaves again, or if you do, you do so as an ascended master because you so choose.”

“When the ritual of the ascension takes place,” said Archeia Hope, “the soul is changed in the twinkling of an eye, like the caterpillar emerges from the chrysalis— a caterpillar no more. Behold a magnificent butterfly!” As Serapis finished speaking, Maria heard the most beautiful trumpet song playing in the background, a very joyful song.

“That is the Triumphal March from Aida,” said Serapis Bey. “Anyone who hears this piece of music understands at the soul level that this is the march of the ascension flame, that souls who are candidates for the ascension make their ascension through this flame, and that when they do so, this music will be playing.”

Maria then went to another room where she heard the most beautiful piece of piano that she had ever heard, and it was played with so much love! “That is Liebenstraum,” said Serapis Bey, “le rêve d'amour. It means the dream of love. The composer Franz Liszt captured the keynote of our retreat through this piece of music. God's dream of love is for all of God's children to come home through the ascension.”

“I so look forward to making my ascension,” said Maria. “I will work very hard on balancing my karma and balancing my threefold flame and invoking the violet flame and doing all of those things that will help me to get ready.”

“Very well,” said Serapis. “We look forward to receiving your soul when you are ready for your ascension.”

“Would you like me to share a little decree that you can say every day that will help you?” asked Clara Louise. “Yes, please,” answered Maria. “It goes like this:

I AM ascension's light,
Victory flowing free,
All of good won at last for all eternity.
I AM Light, all weights are gone.
Into the air I raise.
To all I pour with full God Power my wondrous song of praise!
All hail! I AM the living Christ, the ever loving one!
Ascended now with full God Power, I AM a blazing sun!”