The Many Lenses of Ascension
The Many Lenses of Ascension
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Ascension As Living
The process of ascension and initiation is the process of your daily life. Far too many people look at the process of initiation as one aspect of their lives and everything else as another aspect of life. This type of thinking is fragmented and in actuality runs counter to the goal of integrating initiation, ascension, meditation and spiritual development as a whole with the totality of one’s beingness.
Being upon the conscious path of ascension and initiation does not mean that you stop being who you are. It means that you develop more fully and completely into the very best, or most spiritually attuned aspect of who you are, and then bring that fuller aspect of your being into manifestation within the very life that you are living and within your mental, emotional, physical bodies and environment.
Whatever your worldly profession, religion, personal preferences, tastes and so forth, you bring them right along with you into your transformative process. There will come a point in time where certain friends will fall away, tastes in music and other forms of entertainment may go through transition, dietary habits will give way to healthier nutritional habits, however, the essential you will remain throughout. The real transformation that occurs will be in the fine tuning or finer attunement of yourself to your best possible potential. What is truly needed is a disciplined and balanced approach to life on every level of your being.
The Lens Of Light
The most common lens that humanity looks at ascension with is the lens of "light". That is to say, as we evolve, one extremely important aspect of our initiatory work is to build what is called our "light quotient", to bring in every greater and greater frequencies of living light with which to fill every cell of all our bodies. This serves to anchor one of the most important attributes of God on earth, which is Light!
When we bring the light of God into the vehicles of our four lower bodies, we actually begin to raise the very frequency of each of these bodies to ever higher levels. Thus, we move through what is called, in occult literature, the various sublevels of the physical, etheric, astral and mental bodies, until we are functioning at the highest possible sublevel of each of them. Again, I ask you to bear in mind that these levels are interpenetrating and “not” stacked one above the other. In essence, this means that the higher we go, the more inclusive we actually become. Since what is termed “levels” are, in actuality, overlapping aspects of each plane. That which is higher or greater includes that which is lower or more limited and is a process of expansion rather than one of exclusion.
What I must point out, however, is that, as I have stated before, many lightworkers will often seek to circumvent certain levels if they find they are not comfortable dealing with the lessons of that particular level or body. This, ultimately, will not work. There is no true ascension without integration, and each and every step must be mastered and appropriately dealt with in order to truly free ourselves from the dictates of that particular level. Beloved readers, there are no short-cuts to the path of ascension and you will ultimately save yourself much trouble if you proceed slowly, step by step along your given pathway.
The Lens Of Love
The "lens of love" must again take its rightful place beside (and infused with) the "lens of light". True and complete ascension cannot exist without the blending of these two aspects. Much emphasis has been placed on the infusing of light within one’s aura and four body system (which includes and transcends the four lower bodies, for this includes the various spiritual bodies as well). It has indeed been appropriate to focus upon light, for one cannot proceed without the infusion of that divine attribute. However, neither can one truly achieve the perfection they seek without integrating the divine attribute of love.
The “love” which is herein being addressed is not the sentimental love of the poet, the dreamer, the lover, or even the worshiper (although the last category comes the closest to what I am addressing here). The love of which I am speaking is the "core essence of love itself". It is the embodiment of that "principle divine", which does not simply make the world go ‘round, but, in truth, is the very world and energy field in which we live, move and have our being!
We spoke earlier of the seven rays that are functioning both within our planetary and solar system. Of these seven rays, love/wisdom is the one governing our own solar system, and is therefore intrinsic to our very nature. Looked at esoterically love is a "fact", not a fancy, and an aspect which must be fully incorporated into every cell of our four lower bodies and four body system in exactly the same way that "light" must be incorporated. The same general rule applies to moving through the various sublevels of our bodies, integrating sublevel upon sublevel with greater love frequencies in the same manner in which we moved up these various sublevels, integrating and infusing them with ever greater frequencies of light.
Psychological Wisdom And Service
Just as love and light must function as one, so must “wisdom” (which, in truth, is but another aspect of light) and “service” (which is the inevitable outpouring and outpicturing of love). If we do not do this, then both love and light remain in the realm of the abstract and are not doing us much earthly good at all!
Psychological wisdom brings with it clarity of action and purity of intent. It allows for the light, per se, to be called into service by revealing the true nature of ourselves and our world, giving us the clarity of mind with which we can integrate, cleanse and heal that which is in need of integration, cleansing and healing! It takes light from the vague and nebulous strata and allows it to shine upon our earth, revealing hitherto hidden fragmentations and cleavages. This allows the needed adjustments to be made, so that life, and we, as part of life, may function as fully integrated, balanced and whole beings.
Many of us enjoy being "blinded by the light" to the extent that much which must be tended to is bypassed. This is all-right for a temporary period of time, as it is natural for one to need to grow accustomed to ever brighter intensities of light. It, however, is not all-right on a permanent basis, and far too many of us think we can remain blinded by the light and ignore the realities around and within us that seek to be revealed!
Ultimately, we will all be called to pay attention to the wisdom of the light and to make straight in the desert a highway. Or, in other words, straighten out our psychological selves. This applies to each of us individually, as well as to our planet as a whole.
Service is love made manifest! Without implementing service work into our ascension path, we are not allowing the love we have integrated within ourselves to be integrated within the world. As long as we refrain from giving love the expression that it seeks, we are holding ourselves back from one of the most fundamental purposes of initiation and ascension.
As we ascend, we are, as was earlier stated, rising up into ever greater and greater wholes. We are coming to terms in joy with our own unity with All That Is. If we are truly making progress upon this path, we cannot help but seek to serve. For we know that by serving others we are, in truth, serving ourselves, and God. Knowing ourselves to be one with the One, we realize that by helping others we are helping ourselves. For we are all part and parcel of the one essence of life, the I Am that I Am.
Therefore, my beloved readers, I would thus far explain ascension as the integration and synthesis of the divine frequencies of love and light within the four body system manifesting in psychological healing of all fragments and cleavages within ourselves and our world through the vehicle of service to the One by the service of the many that comprise the One. There are, however, a few more aspects that must yet be integrated to present an accurate picture of ascension. However, before I do that I would like to share one quote on service from His Holiness the Lord Sai Baba: “Hands that help are holier than lips that pray”.
The Transcendence Of The Negative Ego And Christ Consciousness
There are two areas which must ultimately be addressed in order to fully grasp the realization of ascension. One is that of the negative ego, which is the process of seeing via the separate self, and which includes thinking, perceiving and “acting out” through the lens of selfishness, separation, greed, lust, manipulation, negativity, anger and fear. During the process of ascension the thought process must be transferred from that of the negative ego to that of the Christ/Buddha consciousness.
Those of us who view the world and ourselves through the lens of the Christ mind or spiritual consciousness, view it in terms of oneness, wholeness and love. There are really only two basic ways in which we can function. One is from the negative ego and the other is from the Higher Christ/Buddha Consciousness. The former begets an attitude of separateness and selfishness, creating an entire behavioral structure built upon a faulty foundation. The latter springs from the fount of oneness, and outpictures in loving service to Self and to humanity. The two cannot co-exist if you want to realize God and become a full fledged Ascended Master, rather than a “partial” or kindergarten Ascended Master.
The sincere initiate works on exposing, via the light, any and every pattern of faulty negative ego thinking, using the clarity of wisdom to wipe the slate of their mind clean of the destructive influence of the negative ego. In its stead, through the wondrous and healing quality of love and attitudinal healing, does the sincere initiate work to put forth only Christ/Buddhic consciousness, and from that state of being and perceiving to then participate in serving self and humanity.
This, my beloved readers, is a process which demands much attention. This is why I have given you specific tools and guidelines with which to proceed with your work. The time spent in clearing away the negative ego and reprogramming both the conscious and subconscious mind with the quality of Christ/Buddhic consciousness will be well worth your while, and the rewards of peace, joy, love, unity, health, wholeness, Oneness and liberation that await you will transform you into the truly spiritual being that you, and all of us, in truth, really are!
Synthesis/Mahatma Consciousness
Truly, ascension is the synthesized and balanced integration of light, love, psychological wisdom (leading to the transcendence of the negative ego) and service (which finds the natural expression by living within the realm of the Christ consciousness). This process “frees one from the wheel of rebirth”, and frees the initiate-turned-master to function from the higher planes downward rather than as the aspiring seeker looking upward.
What I am speaking of here is “integrative ascension”, which does not bypass nor deny any level of your beingness, but rather synthesizes and ascends all four bodies equally into the spiritual or monadic self. Through the process of integrated ascension you then become the perfect unique manifestation of God, able to fulfill your divine puzzle piece without the interference of your negative ego and with the full integration of all the divine qualities within you. With the negative ego transcended, the emotional body becomes spiritualized and positive, the mental body filled with divine wisdom, and the physical body purified, healthy and filled with light!
The fact that a synthesized approach to integrated ascension will free you from the necessity to reincarnate upon the four lower worlds (physical, etheric, astral, mental) is true indeed. Likewise, is it true that, as a fully integrated ascended being, you will have vast potential both to express and to serve upon these “lower worlds”, and in joy will you be living out the wisdom and grace spoken of by beloved Master Jesus when he told his disciples to “be in the world, but not of it”. These worlds will become, to you, realms of experimentation and service rather than the enforced “school of endless lessons” and experience that they were before you achieved the status of the integrated and fully realized ascended master.
Therefore, while remaining in incarnation as an ascended being, you will not be leaving your life behind, but, in truth, expanding your life to include the Divine! As was stated earlier, ascension goes hand and hand with descension. Therefore, as you bring your Earth self unto “Heaven”, so do you bring and anchor your “Heavenly self” upon the Earth.
Ascension and initiation, my beloved readers, is the most practical path anyone can travel. By whatever name you feel most comfortable calling this process, know that it falls under the banner of synthesis and is therefore the most “complete” and balanced approach to life that one can possible strive for. It is a path that, in its truest and most complete sense, incorporates and includes “life as a whole”, running the full spectrum from the densest material earth plane to the most refined spiritual planes. What it is not is a path relegated to the impractical dreamer. Being all inclusive, the true initiate seeks to give substance and manifestation to their loftiest dreams and visions, as well as to bringing forth the practical application of all that has been assimilated from the “higher spheres”.
It is of utmost importance that you look upon this path in this balanced and integrated light, with the full knowledge that ascension is not meant to separate you from the world but simply to give you “Life more Abundant”! This entire book has been given as a presentation of ascension in its most simple yet complete and synthesized form.
Summation
It is with this in mind that we bring this book to its conclusion. It is our fervent hope and prayer that the material contained herein will serve as a launching pad to your conscious participation, study and application to the path of “integrated ascension”.
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