“Be Careful!”
Hold Fast to Me
A Perpetual Rosary to the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Balance All Things
Mother Mary’s Ascension Day Address 1992
Sons and Daughters, Hear Me Well!
I come in an hour when devotion to my Immaculate Heart ought to be a perpetual prayer vigil in this Community. If but one heart, [heart after heart,] should continue the rosaries unbroken, then you will know the strengthening of the cord–the cord of life from the Heart of Mother Omega through my own Heart to the hearts of those on earth whose flames flicker, whose flames have gone out.
There are many changes happening behind the scenes. There are many things hidden. The political situation in this nation is a cause of great grief to my Heart, as it is to the members of the Darjeeling Council. Pray, then, and invoke the Spirit of the Cosmic Christ and the Holy Christ Self of the sons and daughters of God to be in the positions of leadership in this nation. The gravity of the hour is not clear [to you] through the sources of communication that you have.
Beloved ones, who is equipped to lead the nation to new levels of righteousness? Who will understand the world equation and the forces of Darkness that are not spent and those that come from the levels of Death and Hell to torment the Lightbearers?
Today you entered the sign of the Mother, Virgo. <1> Know, then, that in this earth sign you must defend yourselves by the sword of Archangel Michael from the attacks upon the body of the Mother–your body, the bodies of children and of all Lightbearers.
Know well, precious hearts, that I am in this court, as my Electronic Presence is over my statue, and that you have recourse to me. This recourse will increase as you make the mantra of the Hail Mary one that sings in your heart and as you pray, “My Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy upon my soul!” O the mantras of perpetual prayer! These are what establish and reinforce the ties of your heart to the intimacy of the secret chamber of my Heart.
I come, then, with a sword and with the strength of a mighty rope to tie you ever more tightly to my Heart. Beloved, you must sustain [this rope]. And therefore you must be willing to look at the corners of darkness and to bring that to the light which must be examined and considered, perhaps reconsidered, and either passed into the flame for transmutation or be fired with permanency.
Look at “this” and look at “that” within yourself and do not tarry to decide “Yes” or “No.” Keep it or do not keep it, but do not allow misqualified substance of the gray areas or extremes of darkness to idle there wherein you do not let go yet you do not transmute it, or you do not let go and you do not hang on to it[–you simply refuse to deal with it].
It is a time to clean house, yes, to clean your house and the House of Representatives and the political bodies of the nations. It is a time to demand justice, and it is a time for a stripping and exposing of those who would represent what? Truth? Justice? God? Perhaps by some feeble attempt and with lip service, but they represent their own agenda and the agenda of the powers-that-be who have sent them to seek the highest offices in the land.
I ask for this perpetual novena to my Immaculate Heart to be unbroken at least through the November elections in this nation. For, beloved, it is surely, surely an hour of the coming of the Great Darkness as pertains to those who shall lead, make policy, enact laws and legislation.
Yes, beloved, what shall be done with a people of Light of this planet who have allowed themselves to be put down and to be under those who have not Light? Has not this been the challenge of all ages that we all have had to meet as we have been on the road of life?
Indeed, it has. And the challenge unto you is as great as it has ever been in all ages. For where there is the appearance of freedom, there there is the greatest bondage.
Individuals do not understand that they are in bondage to their own states of consciousness, their own limitations, their own ambitions, their own desires. And, alas, even Keepers of the Flame are not tidy to divide the Real from the Unreal and to stay on their tippy-toes in order to be certain that they do not harbor darkness.
Blessed ones, let the smugness depart. Let those who have entered states of spiritual pride or self-idolatry strip these from themselves and be stripped while they are yet here at the altar of God.
I am come to tell you that I bring and encapsulate in my Immaculate Heart in this hour all that has been said by the ascended hosts at the recent conference in the Heart. I energize it. I multiply it by the strength of the Cosmic Virgin, who I AM. I multiply it, beloved, to strengthen you, your bodies and your souls.
Prepare for the morrow and transmute your yesterdays lest they besmirch your tomorrows with those footprints of a past karma that will trip your soul and even shorten your life span if you are not careful. I say to you, Be careful! This is the sign of this dictation that I bring to you. Be careful, beloved, of that which lurks beneath the surface of world events and of your own consciousness. Establish a profound peace in God. Be not moved whatever is the next turn of events in your life. Hold fast to me.
I am a Mother of the seas and of the land and of the air. I am a Mother in the fire and the heart of the nucleus of the atom. I stand guard for the defense of freedom and I give my very Heart to forestall those certain conditions of karma that could descend.
They have been mitigated; and where they have not been mitigated, they have been simply held back. This has been because there are still those in the earth who decree, there are still those who invoke the violet flame, who listen with sincerity and rapt attention to our dictations and attempt with all in their power to implement them, to realize them and to increase the spheres of Light through the Ashram rituals.
Do not be asleep, beloved. Do not be asleep, but rather make hay while the sun shines. For you see how quickly the summer can retreat and the darkness may come and that darkness in which, it is said, “no man can work.” <2> There is a darkness of the soul and the dark night of the soul. There is a darkness of karma and then there is a world darkness.
It is well that you light a candle and see that it is the increase of light in your threefold flame or the capturing again of that flame by such determined devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and such an intense tie established to my Heart. If you would remember this–that the candle must be tended in this octave and that our Twin Hearts <3> do stand for your victory–you would have far less problems, far less vacillation: this way, that way, which way shall I go?
Being centered in our Hearts, as we have offered [you] this [refuge] for many a century, beloved, even before the Christian dispensation, will find you in a position of wholeness, equanimity of mind, peace in the midst of turmoil or war or sudden changes. I say, Be not moved by anything that comes suddenly upon your house but instead be prime movers who continue to move and hold steady, yes, hold steady the flame of God, the flame of the ark of the covenant.
When all else fails, beloved, it is the fire of the heart that will see you through. Therefore increase it while there is peace in the world, while you have a nation where you are not besieged either by famine or by war or the brutalities that you are seeing in Sarajevo. Blessed ones, these conditions in the earth are only a foreshadowing of the prophecies I have given, the prophecies my Son gave two thousand years ago and continuing through the Messengers.
[Speaking to Summit University students in attendance at the summer session:] Yes, beloved, it is good you have come this summer for a great preparation. Take every morsel and make it your own as you assimilate the Word and day by day realize more of your Christhood. Have compassion on the poor in spirit. Have compassion on the sick. Above all, have divine pity upon those who have no desire whatsoever for God or to be rekindled in his name–yes, beloved, divine pity upon those who have turned their backs on the Son of God and the Great Central Sun and continue to walk away from the center of Being.
These are hours of testing. These are hours when the fallen ones have attempted to turn your heads this way and that way to lure you here and there. I say, of all things that you could pray for [for yourselves], I would have you pray for that great divine gift of the discernment of spirits, <4> of the discernment of your own heart and mind and what is influencing you that does not come from God.
The discrimination of the Christ Flame requires that you invoke the shield of Christ, the shield that is held unto you by your Holy Christ Self, who, one and all among you, is dressed this night as a knight of the flame. Even the Holy Christ Self of those of feminine incarnation is in the armour of the whiteness of those who join the Faithful and True. <5>
Some of you, then, who are the feminine incarnation appear as prototypes of Joan of Arc, as your gaze is upon God and upon the Son of God and your ear is inclined to Archangel Michael; and that mighty sword Excalibur, wielded by you as sons and daughters of the Spirit, does yet protect a space and a time for souls who must be born and must move on.
The hours pass, then, and the days pass. Do not fail to endow them as cups of opportunity, to do things well, to keep the mind at its point of yangness, to keep the mind, as you say, as a steel trap, alert, and the listening ear attuned to the Mind of God so that when your Holy Christ Self speaks, you hear, when your soul speaks, you hear–because in the recesses of your being you have established a sanctuary where you meet God daily and you become wise men and women of the Spirit and warriors joining with the legions of Sirius.
These are days and hours when I increase my appearances. Remember, then, you are under the dispensation of bearing your own karma, as my Son has given it to you to bear <6> that you might have the better resurrection and the great God-mastery and access to the portals of Luxor and the ascension flame.
Remember that I do not weep in this place, for it is the one place on earth where I can still know happiness. <7> And my happiness is in the flame that you keep. It is in your diligence as you tend to the chores of being the keepers of a planet and a people, even as you apprentice under the Mother of the Flame and Lanello.
So you must do the chores, beloved! And in this hour when all depends upon you, I say, do not let that candle grow dim. Do not leave off from your calling in this court. For you have saved many a day for another opportunity of serving and living and rejoicing in the progress [of your] souls. You have saved many a day by your decree sessions.
Therefore, where I weep, I weep for many reasons. I weep for ignorance. I weep for hardness of heart. I weep for the decadence of some priests and other religious. Yes, beloved, I weep for conditions within and without the Church, for I bear the Immaculate Heart for all religions and for all peoples. I weep for the souls that will be lost. I weep for those who do not even have the enlightenment or the love to give the rosary in the understanding of the mighty grid of light that is formed [around them and the planet] by [the giving of the rosary–and that is reinforced each time they give it].
I say, if you are looking for a place to take a vacation, then why not go to one of the places of my appearances, where so many thousands come? Why not, then, go bearing my cassettes of the songs that you sing that will tie them to this altar and this particular statue of myself? Why not go, then, with the rosaries of the New Age that they might understand these and feel the tie to the heart of the Two Witnesses?
Be not troubled, beloved ones, for the passage concerning the Two Witnesses that has been recited in the rosary. <8> Understand that the Witnesses have passed through these trials, and yet one is taken and one is left. Therefore, by sponsorship of the Great White Brotherhood, by perseverance and determination, all of these things have already come to pass and we move on to the era of the Woman clothed with the Sun, <9> of my appearing and of the representatives of myself appearing.
Be representatives of my Immaculate Heart, beloved. Call, then, for the Electronic Presence of Mother Omega and of myself and rejoice in the coming of the era of your defense of the children of God and of the Divine Manchild aborning within you.
As you take your inner child and rear that inner child and bring that inner child to the point of union with your Holy Christ Self, lo, beloved, that inner child becomes the Divine Manchild! And what is the Divine Manchild? It is one who has the Holy Spirit in his mother’s womb. You, then, are in the womb of Omega, in a sense of the word, putting on the fullness of that inner child until the soul rises so gently and is evermore one with the Holy Christ Self.
Thus, beloved, it is perfectly in order for you to bring those [song and rosary] tapes to areas of pilgrimages around the world and to sell them, necessarily, to cover your expenses. It is perfectly in order to see where you can give [them away], where you can place them [in religious stores], where you can sell them so that there is a net of light of antahkarana <*> of my Heart through your hearts. For your hearts are converging with your Christ Self and tying in to many devotees upon earth whose profound devotion to my Heart has caused them to accelerate on the Path. I desire to see you also attain that acceleration. Measure for measure as you give, I give of myself [to you and to millions whom I can reach through your heart when you regularly give the rosary].
Let there then be the turning to my Heart in this hour. For I would have you know, beloved ones, that although the Roman Church has chosen to designate my ascension as the “assumption” <10> into heaven, I announce to you in this hour that I did indeed make the “physical” ascension. <11>
Know this to be true and therefore follow in the wake of my garment. Nestle your little footprints in my own and walk closely behind me that you might be carried up in the garments of my ascension flame and you might also aspire to this event in your life–not that it is an absolute necessity, but by your call to the resurrection flame and your balancing of the yin and yang forces in your four lower bodies, this may indeed come to you.
Do not seek it out of pride. Do not seek it for any other reason except to fulfill the Law of Love. There is a path to the physical ascension, as Enoch has told you, as Rex and Nada and Bob and Pearl have explained. <12> So it is true that some have taken that ascension and therefore marked a mighty cross of white fire in the earth that others might achieve the same.
I AM, then, [and I come to you in this hour] in the fullness of my mantle [as I bore it in] the hour of my ascension, in the moment when there was a release from my Causal Body unto all those who had the same tie to me as Elisha had to Elijah. [Therefore,] if you see me when I am taken up, you shall have that which you ask–a double portion of my Spirit. <**>
Let your celebration of the rosaries, then, in coming days and weeks and months be for the protection of this nation under God and your [respective] nations. All know that should America go down, beloved, [the nations will ask:] “Where shall any other nation appear?” Therefore, wherever you come from, from wherever you hail, beloved, remember that America must not be allowed to fail or to go down.
And fail she will and go down she will if the majority of the people have their way with abortion on demand. This, then, remains the Achilles’ heel of America today.
See, then, that you pray with all of your heart and your might that those who have this in their hearts and those who would make it a universal law and availability for all womankind on the planet are barred from positions of leadership. [For these] should be occupied by those who come bearing some portion of the mantle of their Holy Christ Self, some portion of the mantle of my Son.
In the hours and weeks ahead, then, I want you to remember that I am at your side, assisting you in resolving all things and doing so as quickly as you are able–[that is,] as quickly as you are able to surrender and enter in to the largess of heart of that burning fire of the flame of Jesus, as quickly as you are able to pass your fingers over the notes (and especially the wrong notes) of your own psychology and play the right notes and then to seal that chord of harmony in your being, to seal it, protect it and not allow it again to be violated anywhere, anytime by any person.
Hold fast what thou hast received! <13> Keep your eyes open. Keep your heart in the secret love star of Venus, where many of you have come from. Preserve the Teaching, first by assimilating it and [then by] radiating it to an entire world.
I speak to those who come from the Southern Hemisphere. I speak to those of Central and South America. You have a mighty work before you and many souls to contact. Keep steady at the point of your humility. Be self-emptied and filled with the presence of Jesus and of myself, overshadowed by the Two Witnesses, your Messengers. Do not shortchange yourself regarding decrees; for when you decree for yourself, you decree for all to whom you are tied karmically and in the dharma of the seventh root race. Hasten, then, the spread of the Teachings but always keep the vigil of my Heart.
I speak to you who come from all over the world. As long as you make your devotions to my Immaculate Heart and to the Sacred Heart of Jesus the primary action of your day and the very first priority, you will always know strength. You will have warning from our angels of times of trouble descending, you will be kept out of harm’s way, and you will be graced by the blessedness of the Holy Spirit to prosper and multiply this Church Universal and Triumphant.
Become the white stone in that Church. Be foundations. Let balance be remembered. For though you may not accomplish so many physical things, you shall begin to pluck the antahkarana you build each day by the rosaries and by the Ashram rituals. And when you pluck [its strings] and your heart itself is as a fine-tuned stringed instrument, you will know that your prayers have reached millions because of the momentum of the daily use of the rosary.
Strengthen your heart by letting it be tied in to that universal antahkarana of Light and also strengthen [the antahkarana]. This contact with souls of Light through devotions transcends karmic ties. It allows you to balance karma with almost, and I say almost, anyone by universal service and by universally contacting every Lightbearer each day who does become a part of that antahkarana because he or she does give some devotion to God.
I rejoice in the little children. I rejoice in the child of your own heart, whom I cradle in this moment to heal the hurts, to transmute the records, to remind you that I have always cradled you. There were some experiences that were necessary, even some burdens grievous to be borne that seemed so unjust at the time.
You are clean but not wholly clean, pure but not wholly pure. <***> And in yesteryears you have had to bear adversities, injuries, insults and abuses. Accept these whether they are of karma or of a soul testing or of your very own soul’s volunteering to bear these burdens in the body and these persecutions that some of you have borne as little children.
I want you to feel better about yourself and who you are, knowing that some of that which you did bear you did so voluntarily in Christ’s name for your love of him, your love of me and your desire to bear some weight of planetary burden.
Yes, beloved, some of you were Christ children. Some of you had such a Light and such a deep understanding in your hearts. Now that you are adults, do not lose that sense of yourself as the Christ Child. Put back together again the innocence of your early beginnings and the great wisdom that presaged your own coming. For you yourself had the wisdom to know that which you would be and you were told what you would bear, which would thereby enable you to enter the Path and move on and help others.
Let these rings in your tree of life grow! Let them now begin to grow symmetrically as rings of fire and as by the Heart of Kuan Yin, the Heart of Jesus, you know grace and mercy, you know these abounding, and you can finally let go of that sense of injustice because you yourself have been the embodiment of Divine Justice, as well as of human injustice–and you have wanted, you have willed, you have determined and accepted this life as the time when you would balance all things.
The desire for balance in some of you is an all-consuming desire. You want to balance your debts, balance your four lower bodies, your threefold flame, your chakras, your relationships. The sign of the great scales, beloved, is something to look upon and visualize, for how easily they are tipped! And this, of course, is the coming trap when you enter the sign of Libra.
Balance, then, the mind and the heart, the feeling body and the mental body. Learn not to be moved but to rejoice: to stand guard, to defend the little ones and to recognize that the prayer that you leave unspoken may mean a heart that is broken. A comfort that is not said might be forfeited, for the dead move on and they no longer hear what might have been said.
Therefore take each day’s opportunity to comfort life and use the power of the word to increase the joy to the world, the joy that comes because you are an obedient disciple of my Son and because you do not fear that Master-disciple relationship as it is offered to you.
Come Home, my sons and daughters! Come gather round me, my children, for I would heal your wounds. And they would indeed be healed but you do not let go at some level of your being.
Now then, keep always the sense of co-measurement of world events and which way they are moving even as you watch the weather. Do not allow yourself to not be aware of the shadings of turns or the sudden plummeting of the stock market or of nations or of politicians who no longer represent what they used to represent.
Keep your co-measurement with an eye on yourself and your soul, with a true self-knowledge of what it takes to place one foot after the other as you climb the highest mountain.
You climb the mountain: You climb the mountain of karma. You climb the mountain that leads to the abode of Lord Himalaya. You climb the mountain of success. Seeing that it takes you nowhere, you come back down that mountain and begin to go up, up and up the mount of Maitreya. Each step gained is a level of initiation corresponding to the level in the etheric octave that you might enter at the conclusion of your victorious battle over Darkness in this life.
I AM the Queen of Angels and in that office I may accord you a special grace or dispensation. I ask you to think about this for seven days and then come to a conclusion as to what special grace you might ask of me. Seven days hence I shall return. I shall return for such a grace and the giving of it and such a dispensation and the giving of it.
Thus, as you pursue the rosaries, I ask you for the first fourteen days to give the long rosary on one day and the Surrender Rosary on the next–every other day the Surrender Rosary, every other day the long rosary. And thereby when you come to knock on the door of my Heart for a grace, you shall ask for a grace, I trust, that shall enable you to become who you are, to fulfill your mission and to serve others.
May you appeal to me, beloved, for you are the strong workers in the vineyard of my Father and, as the Son has said, “Truly, the fields are white to the harvest but the laborers are few.” <14> May you go forth, then. May you harvest souls and bring them home to my Heart.
If you will enlist yourself [in the ranks of] my legions, my army of Light, I promise you blessings and graces not only in the hereafter but every day of your life. I shall come as the Divine Mother leading great armies of heaven, which you may join as you serve the Divine Mother in this calling even as Joan of Arc responded, even as you yourselves as the knights of old did go forth to slay dragons and demons, to rescue children and mothers.
Oh yes, beloved, there is much to be done! Tighten up, then, the concentration of the good servants of this Community and of its [outer] rings that span the planet. Tighten your service, your chelaship. Yes, tighten your belt. Yes, finish all things, bring all things to fruition. For the hour and the time of the change in planetary cycles is coming.
I seal you, then, in my Immaculate Heart. May you accept this sealing and confirm it by affirming it each day.
Bless you, my children. Bless you, my strong sons and daughters. You are myself in the earth. Yes, you are myself. And the recitation of the Hail Mary reestablishes that reality of my Electronic Presence over you every day and hour of your life.
This dictation by Mother Mary was delivered by the Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood Elizabeth Clare Prophet at the conclusion of the August 22, 1992 Saturday evening service held at the Royal Teton Ranch, Park County, Montana, in celebration of Mother Mary’s Ascension Day (August 15) and the feast of the Queenship of Mary (August 22).
In a candlelight vigil begun prior to the dictation, the Messenger and congregation gave Mother Mary’s Scriptural Rosary for the New Age: The Healing Mysteries (the Fifth Ray). [N.B. Throughout this Pearl of Wisdom, bracketed material denotes words unspoken yet implicit in the dictation, added by the Messenger under Mother Mary’s direction for clarity in the written word.]
1. The sun entered the sign of Virgo at 3:10 p.m. MDT.
3. Twin Hearts. The Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary are sometimes referred to as the Twin Hearts. Some Catholics use this term specifically in connection with parallel devotions to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary given on First Fridays and First Saturdays of the month. The tradition of veneration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary has come down to us through many saints of the Church, including Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, Saint Gertrude the Great, Saint Mechtilde, Saint John Eudes, Saint Margaret Mary—and through the messages of Mary to the children of Fátima.
6. Jesus’ request that we take back the karma he has borne for us. In his Christmas Day Address, December 25, 1989, Jesus Christ said: “You are my own, and any number of you are the one for whom I have gone after, leaving the ninety and nine....I have brought you through many lifetimes to this moment when you could see and know and understand....I have also paid the price. For in order that your spiritual senses might be quickened I, Jesus, have taken upon myself some of the stripes of your karma. Now I say to you, beloved, you are securely here. You have made the contact. You have tied yourself to my Sacred Heart....If you will take back that [karma] which I have borne [for you these two thousand years], for which I have paid the price, and balance it yourself and thereby grow in the stature of your Christhood, freely asking Hercules’ assistance, when needed, then, you see, I may leave you as the ninety and nine and I may now go after [those] other [ones], even as many as a thousand other souls who need [me to] bear their burden....So you see, beloved, in the process of [doing] this so little a thing that I ask you, [for you also have the violet flame,] you are also becoming world saviours; for in a sense you are allowing me to bear another’s karma. Thus you yourself do bear it, do you see?” (See 1989 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 32 no. 65, pp. 814-15.)
7. The one place where Mother Mary still knows happiness. In her December 29, 1991 dictation, given at The Rapture of Divine Love at the Royal Teton Ranch, Mother Mary told us: “When I come to this place, beloved, it is the place of my rest and repose from going out and appearing to the many, who understand my visage as the tears flow and even the blood. They understand through that image not only the sorrow of the Mother but that the body of the Mother in the earth is desecrated and is also martyred, even as the child within her body is aborted. So, my beloved, I know surcease from pain, for how can I do aught else but rejoice at such a company of devotees—you who ceaselessly pray about all of the conditions that Saint Germain and the Darjeeling Council have called to your attention. Know, then, beloved, that this altar is for me, as well as for you, a haven, [a holy place for] a coming apart, a surcease from the burdens and the sorrows of the world.” (See Pearls of Wisdom, no. 4, this volume.)
8. The Fifth Healing Mystery, “The Two Witnesses” (Rev. 11:3-13), in the Healing Mysteries (the Fifth Ray), given prior to the dictation.
10. The Assumption. Belief in the assumption of Mary has been a centuries-long tradition in the Catholic Church. The word is derived from the Latin assumere ‘to take up’. In 1950, Pope Pius XII officially defined the doctrine of the Assumption in his apostolic constitution Munificenitissimus Deus. He wrote: “The Immaculate Mother of God, the ever-Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory.” The Practical Catholic Encyclopedia (Pegis, 1956) states: “The body of the Blessed Virgin Mary, who was free from original sin and so was not subject to death in the same way that creatures are, was taken into Heaven and united to her soul.” The Church teaches that because of her purity, Mary did not have to wait until the Second Coming of Christ for her bodily resurrection. They believe her physical body was glorified and perfected into an immortal spiritual body in the same manner that all the faithful will experience it in the resurrection at the end of time. The reason for the difference in terminology between Jesus’ “ascension” and Mary’s “assumption” is that Catholics believe Jesus was a divine being and Mary merely human. Jesus thus ascended into heaven “by his own power” whereas Mary was “taken” into heaven. Hence, they see Mary’s assumption as a “hopeful doctrine” because what has been promised to all faithful Christians has already been realized by one.
11. The physical ascension. The Ascended Masters teach that in the ritual of the ascension, the soul is united with the white-fire body of the I AM Presence. This does not require the raising of the physical body; the soul itself may take flight from the mortal coil and be translated through the ascension process. In order to ascend, the candidate must have balanced at least 51 percent of his karma. In order to make a physical ascension, he must have balanced between 95 and 100 percent of his karma. When a physical ascension takes place, the physical body is transformed by and superseded by the Ascended-Master Light Body. During the ascension ritual, the soul becomes permanently clothed with this Body, also called the “wedding garment,” or the Deathless Solar Body. Serapis Bey describes the process in his Dossier on the Ascension: “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’....The individual ascends, then, not in an earthly body but in a glorified spiritual body into which the physical form is changed on the instant by total immersion in the great God flame” (see Dossier on the Ascension, pp. 157-59, 175-77). In a dictation given October 2, 1989, the Ascended Master Rex told us that those who are called to the physical ascension must have had many thousands of years of preparation. Today most people whose souls qualify for the ritual of the ascension ascend from inner levels after the soul has departed the physical body. The soul attains union with the Mighty I AM Presence to become a permanent atom in the Body of God just as she does in a physical ascension.
The Catholic doctrine on the “assumption” of Mary and the ascension of Jesus parallels the teachings of the Ascended Masters on the physical ascension. The Catholic Church teaches that the bodies worn by Mary and Jesus on earth were translated and perfected into the incorruptible spiritual bodies they now wear in heaven. This is analogous to what the Ascended Masters teach happens in a physical ascension. The Ascended Masters’ Teachings illumine us further, however, as to how this divine alchemy actually occurs, as described by Serapis Bey above. Some points where Catholic theology and Ascended Master teaching differ are as follows: According to Catholic doctrine, Mary and Jesus were unique because they were “conceived without sin” and remained perfectly sinless throughout their lives. Hence, it would not be meet that their physical bodies should be corrupted in a grave. In the Catholic perspective, Jesus would naturally ascend at the end of his mission because, although he had an earthly body, he also had a full divine nature. Catholic doctrine holds that because Mary was human like us, she is an “exception to the rule” in that she did not have to wait until the Second Coming of Christ for her bodily resurrection. The Ascended Masters set before each of us the goal of balancing at least 51 percent of our karma and ascending at the end of this life. They teach that it is possible–if we balance 95 to 100 percent of our karma–to ascend physically. However, we have each lived many times before. The Ascended Masters teach that the path of karma-balancing and spiritual progress leading to the ascension is not accomplished in one lifetime but through many incarnations. The many bodies worn during the soul’s earthly sojourn are not resurrected at the end of time; but all souls who ascend, whether in a physical ascension or not, are permanently clothed at the hour of their ascension in their Ascended-Master Light Body. Jesus and Mary set the example for all to follow. They are joined in heaven by countless saints who have also attained their soul’s victory through the divinely ordained ritual of the ascension.
12. Rex with Pearl, Bob and Nada, October 2, 1989, “The Physical Ascension,” in Keepers of the Flame Lesson 31, pp. 70-74.
13. Rev. 2:25; 3:3; 3:11.
14. John 4:35; Matt. 9:37; Luke 10:2.
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