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O Thou Mortal Who Wouldst Put On Thy Garments of Immortality, O Thou Son Who Wouldst Return to the Father: Call Thou upon Thy God to Commence the Weaving of Thy Deathless Solar Body Spun Out of the Light of the Sun
The parable of the wedding garment is indicative of the great Deathless Solar Body which man must weave.1 The anchor of man's identity which he must willingly cast beyond the veil is symbolical of this wedding garment. Just as your tube of light is woven of the great redundant God energies which answer every call, just as the violet flame pulses through all who call upon the name of the Lord and visualize this beautiful flame, so does God answer the call of man to commence the weaving of his Deathless Solar Body.
This body of light is begun in the heart of your God Presence and it is spun out of the light of the sun of that Presence as man below consciously invokes the holy energies of God. These are sent to him (where they are focused in the threefold flame within the heart) and then raised back through the top of his head up the silver cord into the hands of his Holy Christ Self for transmittal to the heart of the Presence where the garment is gradually woven as the wedding garment of the Lord.2
In order to comprehend the meaning of the ascension flame, men must understand the meaning of the Deathless Solar Body as well as the meaning of the possibilities of their own ascension. Only the purified energies of their hearts can be returned to the heart of the Presence so that God may actually create a garment of pure light with which the aspiring soul may be clothed. Therefore only those energies of the Presence which are retained by man in purity and in love are a worthy offering which may be returned to God for the preservation of man's immortality.
This garment of light possesses the power of levitation but it also possesses conformity to the outer and Inner Self. It conforms to the Inner Self because it is spun from the energies of God and the original pristine pattern of God for each lifestream. Embodying within itself, therefore, the principles of victory, it holds with the Presence and with all God-magnificence; possessing also conformity to the human, it is able to conform to the highest in man of the divine nature which he has externalized in the world of form, and it finds an anchor point in the human octave through all of the qualities and character of man which are congruent with the Divine.
Men find, however, that for the most part their behavior patterns are the result of selfish human activity whereby they regard their human rights as so sovereign that they conclude they are incapable of doing wrong as long as their actions remain within the bounds of these so-called rights. This is just as dangerous as the notion that they are incapable of doing right, which is equally treacherous. The correct attitude is to be found in the distinct realization that, when called upon, God can act in man and that all that God does in man will be according to His plan.
If men's lives are lived according to the divine plan, then conformity comes not as the result of struggle but as the result of happy and joyous submission to the Christ ideal, to the God design. The soul of such a man is always happy and joyous to receive even the little treasures and gifts of divine grace. He searches not of necessity for some great philosophical or theological statement which will exalt his mind within the human domain. He is pleased with the formation of the clouds, with the shape of the leaves upon the trees, with an expression of hope in the eyes of a child or one of ripened years.
He finds not the need to criticize mankind or himself but only to epitomize the divine ideal by loving and joyous obedience to the Christ or God design. Recognizing that he came forth from the Light, he seeks to return to the Light and he desires no longer to walk in the darkness of human reason. Man, then, understands that the anchor that he has cast behind the veil is the anchor that he has sent from his heart and soul as an activity of love unto God. This activity of love flows up the lifestream to the Holy Christ Self and is carried by the consciousness of the Christ back into the heart of the Father.
It is this anchor behind the veil, this deathless sense of identification with God, that enables mankind actually to function at the Divine Monadic level. There, when man functions under divine direction and activity either in or out of the body, he takes the energy dispensed to him which in ignorance might have been misused and creates instead a great body of light called the immaculate seamless garment of the living Christ which will one day become the great spherical Deathless Solar Body.
Born of the energies of the sun and of the energies of the Sun behind the sun, the Deathless Solar Body becomes a magnet. The magnetism of the Divine is a lodestone that will transmute shadow in the human octave and transform the consciousness of the ascendant one so that little by little there will gradually occur in his world a lessening of the tenacious ties which mankind over the centuries have woven to persons, places, conditions, and things. Simultaneously there will occur a renewal of the ancient covenants of the soul with the Father whereby the Son recognizes that the return Home to the heart of God is most imperative.
Thus the divine lodestone and Deathless Solar Body are activated and, because there is a response mechanism created in the consciousness below, it becomes an occasion whereby the Father, through man's own freewill choice, now has the authority to choose the hour when the Son shall return back to himself. Unless, however, the pathway of the flame is created in the caduceus3 fashion, the soul will not be able to make its winged flight back to God.
The caduceus takes advantage of both centripetal and centrifugal forces. It utilizes the energy known to the Hindus as Brahma and Shiva, the Creator and Destroyer.4 Thus are mankind made aware of the forces of the negative, or minus, polarity which flow counterclockwise and bring basic structure back to Spirit; and of the forces which flow from Spirit clockwise into the positive realm of manifestation. The caduceus action gives man victory over both hell and death, and with the ascension the last enemy, or death, is destroyed.5
The wings at the top of the caduceus symbolize that the holy and vital energies of both sympathetic and central nervous systems around the spinal column have been raised toward the spiritual eye of perception. Here the wings of spiritual perception raise the individual and trigger the cosmic mechanism of the ascension.
Thus the flame above (in the heart of the Presence) magnetizes the flame below (the threefold flame within the heart) and the wedding garment descends around the silver cord to envelop the lifestream of the individual in those tangible and vital essence currents of the ascension. Tremendous changes then take place in the form below, and the four lower bodies of man are cleansed of all impurities. Lighter and lighter grows the physical form, and with the weightlessness of helium the body begins to rise into the atmosphere, the gravitational pull being loosened and the form enveloped by the light of the externalized glory which man knew with the Father "in the beginning" before the world was.
This is the glory of the ascension currents. It is the glory of attainment which Jesus demonstrated on Bethany's hill.6 This may be experienced by each individual when fifty-one percent of his karma is balanced and he has made the other necessary preparations which make it possible for the Karmic Board to grant that his records be stamped "Candidate for the Ascension." This does not mean an end to life for that individual. Such an individual has been given, as was Elijah in the "chariot of fire,"7 a glorious means of transport out of human octaves into the octaves of light far above the psychic realm in the heaven world of the ascended masters and cosmic beings.
We shall continue to unfold the greatness of the ascension next week.