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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
The sling of David shows what man can do when he is wedded by faith to his own latent divinity.1 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 maybe bolstered, but seldom do men hear the voice that cries in the wilderness proclaiming to make straight the Way of the Lord.2 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."3
I, Serapis, then, do come in memory of the Ancient of Days4 and in memory of the heritage of mankind, which is not crucifixion, albeit men die daily,5 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 toward 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?6 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"?7 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?8
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 mortal 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 that 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."9
The 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 clothing10 and sing forth high-sounding phrases which become no more than a "tinkling cymbal,"11 the Law of God cannot be broken with impunity and the watermarks of man's rebellion 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 have 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.12
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 references the latent Power of the Divine Angel within Man.13 (I do not expect that all of My Words will he 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 who are 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 warp and woof 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 impersonal manner but which in actuality is an intense focusing of the God flame within ourselves in the God flame within the aspirant. We have seen cases where for over 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!14 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 dissimulation15 and be not 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,