Aufsteig/Himmelfahrt
Das Ritual, durch das sich die Seele wieder mit dem Geist des lebendigen Gottes, der ICH BIN Präsenz, vereint. Der Aufstieg ist der Höhepunkt des gott-siegreichen Aufenthalts der Seele in Zeit und Raum. Er ist die Belohnung der Gerechten, die als Geschenk Gottes nach dem Jüngsten Gericht vor dem großen weißen Thron gewährt wird, bei dem jeder Mensch „nach seinen Werken“ gerichtet wird.[1]
Der Aufstieg wurde von Henoch erlebt, von dem geschrieben steht, dass er „mit Gott wandelte: und er war nicht mehr, denn Gott nahm ihn hinweg“[2]; und von Jesus, obwohl sein Aufstieg nicht bei jener Gelegenheit stattfand, als die Schrift berichtet, dass er in einer Wolke in den Himmel aufgenommen wurde.[3] Der aufgestiegene Meister El Morya hat offenbart, dass Jesus seinen Aufstieg von Schamballa aus vollzog, nachdem er in Kaschmir im Alter von 81 Jahren im Jahre 77 n..Chr. dahingeschieden war.
Die Wiedervereinigung mit Gott im Aufstieg, die das Ende der Zyklen von Karma und Wiedergeburt sowie die Rückkehr zur Herrlichkeit des HERRN kennzeichnet, ist das Lebensziel der Söhne und Töchter Gottes. Jesus sagte: „Niemand ist in den Himmel hinaufgestiegen außer dem, der vom Himmel herabgestiegen ist, nämlich der Menschensohn.[4] Durch die Errettung, die ‚Selbst-Erhöhung‘, das bewusste Aufrichten des Sohnes Gottes in ihrem Tempel, legt die Seele ihr Hochzeitsgewand an, um das Amt des Sohnes (Sonne oder Licht) der Manifestation zu erfüllen. Die Seele wird durch die Gnade Jesu würdig gemacht, die Trägerin seines Kreuzes und seiner Krone zu sein. Dem Einweihungspfad Jesu folgend, steigt sie durch das Christus-Selbst zu ihrem Herrn, der ICH BIN Präsenz, auf, von der sie herabgestiegen ist.
Der physische Aufstieg
Die aufgestiegenen Meister lehren, dass es nicht notwendig ist, den physischen Körper tatsächlich zu erheben, um aufzusteigen. Die Seele selbst kann die sterbliche Hülle verlassen und durch den Aufstiegsprozess übertragen werden, während die physischen Überreste durch das Ritual der Kremation dem heiligen Feuer übergeben werden können. Obwohl es in der Schrift erwähnte Fälle eines physischen Aufstiegs gibt (Henoch und Elija), erfordert der physische Aufstieg den Ausgleich von 95 bis 100 Prozent des eigenen Karmas; während das Große Gesetz durch die Dispensation des Wassermannzeitalters den Ausgleich von 51 Prozent des Karmas fordert, wodurch es der Seele ermöglicht wird, die verbleibenden 49 Prozent nach dem Aufstieg auszugleichen. In diesem Fall ist der Aufstiegsprozess fast nie ein physischer, aber er ist ebenso real und kann von Hellsehern oder jenen beobachtet werden, die in der außersinnlichen Wahrnehmung des Heiligen Geistes erfasst sind.
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.[5]
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.
Requirements for the ascension
Purity, discipline and love are requirements for the ascension, for in these virtues the Law is satisfied: purity of consecration, of heart and mind and soul; discipline of motive and desire; transparent thoughts, feelings and acts, shining in the crystal-clear stream of consciousness flowing back to its Source.
Purity is the discipline of directing all of one’s energies in loving action. Purity is going all the way with Christ. It is ministering to the poor in spirit. It is healing the sick and raising the dead. It is submitting to the tests of the Great Initiator. It is surrendering totally and praying without ceasing.
To be pure in the discipline of the Law is to “love the Lord thy God” with one’s total being, to “love thy neighbor” as one in whom the Christ Self lives, and to love the Christ in every ascended being with enough devotion so that one can put behind him the things of the world and say, “What is that to me? I will follow thee!”[6]
The ritual of the ascension is the goal for everyone who understands his reason for being. This initiation can and will come to anyone—even to a little child, when he is ready:
- when he has balanced his threefold flame
- when his four lower bodies are aligned and functioning as pure chalices for the flame of the Holy Spirit in the world of form
- when a balance of mastery has been achieved on all of the rays
- when he has attained mastery over sin, sickness and death and over every outer condition
- when he has fulfilled his divine plan through service rendered to God and man
- when he has balanced at least 51 percent of his karma (that is, when 51 percent of the energy given to him in all of his embodiments has either been constructively qualified or transmuted)
- and when his heart is just toward both God and man and he aspires to rise into the never-failing light of God’s eternally ascending Presence.
The ascension process also involves the passing of those initiations given at Luxor:
- the transmutation of the electronic belt
- the correct use of the chakras and the caduceus
- the raising of the Seed Atom (the Kundalini)
- and the building of the cone of fire for the transmutation of the last vestiges of one’s human creation.
Originally, the complete balancing of personal karma was required before a man could return to the heart of God. Every jot and tittle of the Law had to be fulfilled; every erg of energy he had misqualified throughout all of his incarnations had to be purified before he could ascend. Perfection was the requirement of the Law.
Now, however (thanks to the mercy of God dispensed by the Lords of Karma), the old occult law has been set aside. Those who have balanced only 51 percent of their debts to life can, by divine decree, be given the great blessing of the ascension. This does not mean that man can escape the consequences of his acts, nor does it imply that through the ascension he can evade any unfulfilled responsibilities. This dispensation does, however, enable man to obtain the freedom and perfection of the ascended state more quickly in order that he may from that plane of consciousness balance all remaining debts to life.
Then, when the Great Law has been fulfilled and 100 percent of the energies allotted to him since he came forth from the heart of God have been qualified with perfection, he can proceed on the high road of cosmic adventure and service in the eternally perfect reunion of man with God.
For more information
Serapis Bey, Dossier on the Ascension.
See also
List of ascended masters, cosmic beings and angels.
Sources
Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Saint Germain On Alchemy: Formulas for Self-Transformation.
Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 25, no. 54, December 30, 1982.
Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 35, no. 34, August 23, 1992.
Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, The Masters and the Spiritual Path, pp. 93–94.