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Unto You Who Recoil Not from Ascension's Coil but Would Be Recoiled in the Sacred Fire - I AM Come to Transfer the Compressed Energy of My Causal Body
In continuing my dissertation on the ascension which is the gift of God for all, I take you now to the Shakespearean plays and to the statement made
To sleep! perchance to dream -
ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death
what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off
this mortal coil,
Must give us pause:
Seekers for freedom and truth, know that the play of the emotions and the fire of the mind are determinant in creating the record referenced in Hamlet as "this mortal coil." for around the body and being of man, energy, compressed energy, like a giant spring wrapped, in some cases, unmercifully tight and in other cases, loosely knit, does exist. This coil governs the amount of time and energy required by each lifestream actually to cut himself free from misguided effort.
Because individuals, by divine grace and mercy, have hidden from their own eyes the extent of the degradation to which they have fallen in their total schema of past embodiments, I would suggest that it is preferable for everyone to feel that the weight of his karma is less rather than gross. For when individuals, who have what We would call a heavy karma, become obsessed with the idea of that karma, they create a certain lethargy in their feelings and an almost unwillingness to begin paying off the karmic debt, feeling that it is too overpowering even to contemplate.
When individuals believe their karma to be very light and they enter into the spirit of releasing it swiftly into the sacred fire, there is a great release of joy that flows through their beings. The action of joy has a tendency to create malleability in the coils of energy, a relaxing of the tensions inherent within these energetic coils, and the freeing of the individual from restless tides which have, over the centuries, proved to be his nemesis. In seeking, then, the ascension in the light, the power of love must be recognized as a fervent heat which will cause the elements of mortal creation to melt and the very being of man to meld into a great pool of cosmic light and love.
Now, because of man's intently conceived ideas about life and love, there is always the danger that individuals will overpower the truth that lies behind the worded symbol by their own shallowness of concept, and thus fail to acquire the power of the word that went forth on behalf of their own freedom and quickening.
The giant storings retained within the heart of the Christ, as he lay within the tomb, were the results of no idle effort. They were the power of universal law and life, of enormous concentration of resurrection's flame and of the receptivity of the chalice of his great heart of faith that in olden days did in golden cadences sweetly say, "Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, nor suffer thine holy one to see corruption."
Men must come to understand that it is the poison of mortal concepts that has created the sting of death; that the strength of sin lies within the law and that this Law man has made to read, "In sin did my mother conceive me," while denying the immortal birthright of the heavenly Father who can justly say of all his creation, "ye are my offspring."
If you are the offspring of God, then there should be resident within you the "dayspring from on high," the energetic coil of the Spirit of the Resurrection and the ascension out of human density and patterns of lethargy. While it is unquestionably true that a plant can split a rock by the power of life within the root of the plant, it of necessity requires greater energy for it to accomplish this feat. If the rock is not in the way, then, only the gentle earth needs to he moved.
Thus, let me clearly declare that the stripping away of the coils of negative energy surrounding mankind, the yielding up of old and residual ideas that have not brought to man his freedom, and the substitution of great positivity of mind does help to remove the crushing weight of human effluvia from the soul and prepares the way for Christly vestments to be placed about the shoulders of the neophyte, of the seeker for greater Light.
Candidates for the ascension understand the plan that surely as he has measured the everlasting hills, surely as he has prepared a place for those who love him, the way is made plain that men either continue to dwell in the darkness of mortal concepts and misunderstandings, culminating in the death of the body and the release of the soul, or they accept the opportunities which life offers them and become candidates for the ascension. Those who do so welcome the surge of the ascension flame through their minds and bodies, for they understand the need for regeneration even as they understand the need for generation.
Certainly, first has come into manifestation that which is of the "earth, earthy," and then has come into manifestation the second man which is "Lord from heaven." As man has borne the image of the earthy, so must he now bear the image of the heavenly. But the weight of the burden of the Christ Light, which is in reality no burden at all but only the powerful essence of freedom concentrated within the soul, must he accepted as the sole reality of life, as the reality of the Solar-El that makes man to understand, indeed, the meaning of the words, "Ye are gods." If, then, men belong to God and, in the possessive sense, are God's belonging unto Him, they also, as His offspring, must be Sparks of the Parent flame and thus not only belong unto God but also, in truth, themselves be Gods.
What a lie has been fostered down through the ages and slyly slipped into the religious patterns of the world. Men have then come to accept as truth, in the name of God, that they are vile and, in the words of Saint Paul, "altogether gone out of the way." They do not understand how to "break the scriptures"; they do not understand that he was citing, as the scriptures have cited from time immemorial, the negative patterns into which men have fallen. This is the ditch into which the blind lead the blind, but those who have the power to see understand that energy must follow the thought and the thought must manifest the idea of its freedom here and now. For men to continue to wallow in the mire of despair or fear is a tormenting thing which denies the soul the power of the love of God.
The love of God infuses life! The love of God frees life! The love of God is inherent within life! It was the energy of that love that raised the Christ from the dead, set him on high, and ascended him into the heavens; and a cloud indeed hid him from the sight of mortal men. "All, then who follow me," he has said, "in the ritual of the ascension, will be hid with Christ in God."
The triunity of the spiritual experience forms a star of victory. There are three points in this triunity of the divine, and there are three points in the triunity of the human; when all are welded together and the victory of the ascension is won, the star of victory shines in the firmament of that one's being and he becomes a victorious star in the heavens of God. In their messages of love, the stars in the firmament of God's being are telling all below, "Peace on earth, good will toward men ... For unto us a Saviour is born, which is Christ the Lord." Christ is Christos. He is the light of the world and in him there is no darkness. All who, then, dwell in this Spirit of the Christ become joint heirs with him of the Ritual (the right-you-all) of the ascension.
How the Brotherhood at Luxor are chanting the anthem of the ascension! Hour after hour the rolling cadences and heavenly melodies pour upward as a white smoke, signifying a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, telling all the meaning of these words, "Where I AM, there ye may be also."