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Unto You Who Desire Your Ascension and Desire It Ordinately It Is Given to Believe in the Ascended Master Consciousness Which You Would Make Your Own by Your Attention to That Cosmic Process and Service Which Will Restore You to the Former State That You Knew with God Before the World Was
Saint Paul long ago said, "Some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come? Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:.."1 His rebuke to the Galatians concerning the following of the letter of the law instead of the Spirit of Christ was also to the point: "O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the Truth. Having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?"2
The course of man's victory leading unto his ascension, then, does not come about because of "human goodness" or mankind's pursuit of "accepted social norms." It goes without saying that karma must be balanced. Individuals cannot continue to flaunt the laws of brotherhood and justice; they cannot continue to disobey the infinite laws of God with impunity. It is unrealistic, then, for any man to imagine that he can follow a collision course with the Karmic Board and the heavenly hierarchies by ignoring his spiritual responsibilities and the need to desire the highest gifts and graces which God has already prepared for him.
The ascension must be desired and it must be desired ordinately. It must be desired not as a mechanism of escape from responsibility or from worldly duties. It must be desired as the culmination of a lifetime of service in the will of God, and men must be willing during their final embodiments upon the planet - the time of their escape from the round of the centuries - to give the very best of service to the light and to help usher in the kingdom.
I have known of many individuals who have been so involved in the battle of winning their ascension that they have completely ignored their responsibilities toward their fellowmen and toward the hierarchy. In God's name, beloved ones, you do not need to be like Nero who fiddled while Rome burned. You must take into account the awful treacheries that are abroad in the world today and the extreme pain and suffering in which mankind are enmeshed. Wherever possible, you must seek to draw down into the world the wonderful regenerate energies of the light as a healing afflatus, as an act of mercy and grace, as a joyous experience when you can, by the consummate skill of your Holy Christ Selves and through God's grace, draw forth light in men of lesser understanding.
Let us, then pinpoint in this dossier the fact that the Brotherhood at Luxor is not seeking to strip the planet of all of its cream. We do not desire to draw to our temple every illumined soul upon earth and then to ascend them all to God, leaving the world bereft of those who hold the balance of light and power and render spiritual assistance unto their fellowmen through the chain of hierarchy. We desire to draw only those whose course is run and who have recognized that they are nearing the fulfillment of their divine plan.
We are also aware of the fact that millions of people today who have been exposed to the higher teachings through this Dossier on the Ascension can and will begin to weave patterns of light in preparation for the fulfillment of their missions in their final embodiments. Then if they fail in their present lifespans to reach the mark of the high calling in Christ,3 they will have at least, by their right actions, set the stage of cosmic opportunity and the cosmic timetable to the point where adjustments of a karmic nature will be possible in their next lifetimes.
The ascension currents can hurt no one. Everyone who receives this flame of regeneration from the heart of God will understand the need to anchor the ascension currents in his own world here and now, even as man draws nigh to God by casting the anchor of his identity beyond the veil of mortal reckoning into the great sea of God's body of light. Thus the ascension in the chariot of fire is always preceded by the magnetization of man's solar energies which by the consent of his conscious will are raised to the heart of the Divine Presence.
You need not expect, precious ones, that as the swoop of a great bird of paradise, heaven will come down to you and raise you instantly up into the light. Each day you weave a strand of light substance back to the heart of your Presence by the shuttle of your attention; each strand strengthens the anchor beyond the veil and thus draws you into a state of consciousness wherein God can use you more as an effective instrument for good.
Let all understand, then, that the ascension is won just as much by good works and devotion to God, by service to your fellowmen, by service to the light, by decrees offered for and on behalf of mankind, by healing service to those who require it, and by the many avenues of the Brotherhood as it is won by a direct study of the mechanical process involved in the final ritual of the ascension itself.
We have known of a few cases of devotees who spent so much time in studying the mechanics of the ascension and seeking to prepare themselves for that gift that they actually triggered the mechanism of divine grace (for their karma had been fairly well balanced) and they rose prematurely into the ascension only to ask, after having been given this tremendous gift, if they could not then go back down into human form and take care of a bit of unfinished business of which they were made aware. Would it not have been, then, a greater pleasure and joy unto God, as well as man, if those individuals had put first things first, reckoning with their earthly responsibilities and leaving the mechanics of the ascension up to their Divine Presence without seeking to ascend by what we may almost term "violence"? (For the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.4)
There are those who say that the end justifies the means, and if they could receive their ascension by getting in an elevator they would do so. We wish to point out that whereas God has provided a very definite pattern for every lifestream and a universal pattern of Christ victory which is commendable to all, there are always exceptions to the rule and these serve only to prove the rule. Thus an individual, having free will, can continue to work and to serve for a given purpose which, while it may be within the keeping and province of the Law, may not necessarily have been the specific intent of the Law for his lifestream in the fulfillment of his mission. Yet because of man's importunity, God will grant that for which he prematurely asks.
This exception in no way contradicts the statement that God knows the hour and the day of man's victory. Man can either thwart the divine plan or he can hasten its fulfillment. The cosmic timetable requires man's attention to process, for by cosmic process and service men are restored to the former state that they knew with God before the world was.5 Having fulfilled this ritual, they have the added advantage of possessing their entire experience criteria gleaned from many embodiments upon earth which stands before them as an assistance for future service in cosmic realms.
The kingdom of heaven is without end, and lifestreams who enter into their ascension are soon assigned to other tasks in the service of the light. The body of Christ upon earth needs both unascended masters whose very life is wholly dedicated to God and ascended masters who serve mankind without ceasing. There is room in this cosmic scheme for men to play many roles; and the sooner they recognize their need to conform to the divine idea, the quicker they can get on with the business of assisting all the evolutions of life upon this planet to their ultimate freedom.
Heaven always desires to do things the gentle way, to produce the perfection of God into manifestation without the heavy hand of karma being lowered upon humanity. Yet the records clearly show that in many cases only the cosmic hammer was effective in awakening recalcitrant individuals who otherwise would have proceeded to while away their opportunities in indolent and vainglorious activities.
I have covered in this dossier a host of subjects, and the subtleties I have placed between the lines are legion. I hope next week to conclude this dissertation on the ascension, but should I fail to include all that is required for your victory I am certain you will give me audience another week to talk to you about these blessed opportunities of a spiritual nature.
In emulation of the Christ, man may recognize that in relative terms the mission of the Christ - which was thirty-three years of temporary life, thirty being devoted to his early training and three to his final service - created sweeping changes in the world of form and to the present hour has produced untold benefits to the earth. That these benefits are not greater is because of the hardness of men's hearts,6 which resembles the attitude of Pharaoh in the days when the children of Israel were in bondage. The Mosaic plagues which were brought upon the land of Egypt ultimately shattered the heart of the Pharaoh until he at last relented and let the children go free.7
There is much to be learned in the whole divine scheme, and a broken and contrite heart God will not despise.8 Those who come to him and believe in him must also "believe in me,"9 that is, they must believe in the ascended master consciousness which dwelt not only in Christ, in Jesus, but also abides in every ascended master and will raise thee also to thy mastery that where I AM ye may be also.10