Vol. 63 No. 40 - The Two Men Who Stood by in White Apparel - October 22, 2020

The Mark of Candidates for the Ascension

Part 2

So many times the chelas will give perhaps 10 percent of their time to the inner communion and 90 percent to the weighing of externals, until finally the delicate thread of contact with the Presence cannot be made because there is such a ponderous concern for the pros and cons of moving on in the caravan of life.

Each step in the fulfillment of the blueprint brings the individual closer to important keys of initiation. And I think that as I observe the paths of disciples through the ages, one point that I have noticed is that in making a wrong decision and stepping outside of the fiery coil of the divine plan for months or years at a time, the greatest inconvenience of such a course is that it deprives the disciple of the step-by-step initiations that are planned by the Brotherhood.

People in the world who are not attuned to this Path, who have not set their feet upon the Path, who make their decisions based entirely upon their careers, their preferences, and the indexes of life, truly pass entire embodiments without initiations and especially those initiations that follow one by one, step by step, in logical sequence.

Now, then, the seraphim from Luxor descend with a taper of light of ascension’s flame, and they place over the heart chakra of the candidates here, who have recently come of age in the way of initiation, that insignia of the white fleur-de-lis.

I must report to you that there are some who in all respects have fulfilled these requirements of initiation but they have failed to be present at this dictation. Therefore they are in the wrong place in the right time, and they will wait another cycle to receive (if they maintain and progress on the Path) this insignia of the fleur-de-lis. Their waiting may be for a year or more or less.

This, beloved ones, is only a part of the rigors of the Path. After all, there is nowhere else to go after Luxor. When you come to Luxor, you are coming for the grand finale of hundreds of thousands of years. Shall we take candidates who know not who they are or where they are or where they ought to be? This, then, removes the definition of the candidate for the ascension.

And so the Path continues; the pilgrims continue on the Path. And we watch and we wait. And there will come a time for those of you who have now felt this fire in your heart and who feel it continuing to burn—a time when two of us, whether ourselves or others who serve in twos from the Retreat of Luxor, will come to you before your ascension, perhaps in a decade, perhaps more, to assist you in the flow of the currents in your physical, emotional, mental, and etheric bodies.

Some of you will recall several of the early dictations given through the messenger Mark in Washington, D.C., when the masters announced that a certain action of the ascension flame was being initiated within his form. This was the preparation of his four lower bodies well in advance of the final triumph over matter and over the limitations of mortality. And so you see, there are some who will be among you in the not too distant future whose preparation for the ascension, even in the physical body, was begun in the previous incarnation.

These blessed souls who are scheduled to incarnate among you will come, then, with bodies that have a unique vibration, and we trust that the parents will be aware of their children having this essence of light already anchored within their form. Some of you will give birth to children who have already received the Holy Ghost in a previous incarnation, and others among you will feel the Holy Ghost entering and filling that temple while the child is yet within the womb. These are sons and daughters of God of whom it is spoken—that they had the Spirit from their mothers’ womb.¹

We pray, then, that that extra care that is due the Christed ones will be taken, will be imparted, and that others who attend these lifestreams as teachers, as guides, as those who will instruct them in ascended master law will recognize the great responsibility of giving them an accurate, a loving, and a comforting presentation of the teachings.

We are, then, the two men who stood by in white apparel, and our white apparel was simply the condensation of the ascension flame. And when you wear your white [clothing] to the ascension service on Friday evening, keeping the flame of the Order of the Golden Lily² for the Goddess of Liberty, will you remember that that golden lily is the symbol of the fleur-de-lis and the gold is the sign of the bodhisattvas, the great servants who have volunteered to remain with the evolutions of Terra until they are free?

And will you recall, then, that the golden lily can become, on your heart, the fire of the white fleur-de-lis, and will you remember that that white is also, by vibration, the condensation of the ascension flame?

Therefore, let your white robes that you wear to the service be consecrated to that service, and let them be used only for that service or other services at conferences, or when the dictations of the masters are played. But let not these garments be a part of your daily work in the world or even in the retreats.* They must be carefully set aside, for if you so care for them, then we will be able to add to these garments an extra charge of ascension’s light because you understand the meaning of forcefields.

Take care also that the shoes that you wear on the platform are not the shoes that you wear in the density of the world. For when you are serving as a conductor of light, you must realize that light can only be conducted through you physically, for it is the physical plane that we must reach. And therefore all that is physical, both the body and the garment, becomes the instrument of the sacred flow. This is why the Goddess of Purity and other beings of great light have admonished on physical cleanliness, especially when participating in sacred ritual.

Let it be, then, that all understand that coming closer and closer to the flame is a refinement through and through. You find your thoughts and feelings refined, your memory refined. Why, then, should you not find your bodies also refined as purity and refined as decency?

We are not prepared to receive into our dictations those who come barefoot. It is not because we object to the blessed feet of those who walk and preach the gospel of peace, but it is that the skin absorbs the substance of the world, the substance of your floors, and it is far more porous than the shoes themselves.

As a matter of respect to hierarchy, then, we ask that all things be considered and that you do not dress according to the ways of the world in order to please the world, but that you dress according to the chalice of consciousness that the masters require. We commend you for your love and your care and your understanding of these details.

Realize, then, that the path of the ascension is nothing but detail. It is the disciple who has the consciousness of detail, who leaves no stone unturned, who will discipline the self, who will realize that it is the small victories won in consciousness, inch by inch, that make the final Victory, just as the raindrops, one by one, make the streams and rivers of life.

As you approach, then, from the mastery of the seven rays, the mastery of the secret rays, realize that you are coming nearer and nearer to the fiery core of your ascension. In the seven rays of mastery you are concerned with conquering the world and forging the pathway of light. But the secret rays demand the very delicate awareness of threads and lines and the crisscrossing of threads and lines, for this is truly the weaving of the seamless garment.

We also hold classes in the weaving of the seamless garment, and you would be surprised how many times the initiates must start again and again because of the unevenness of the forcefield, of the lines and the threads, and the very threads themselves representing the consciousness, the thoughts, the feelings. Thoughts are the warp, feelings are the woof, and the fire of the etheric body is the smoothness of the cloth that is to drape as a forcefield of auric protection around the physical body and all of the bodies.

Some of you who have taken sewing classes, who have found yourselves sewing and then undoing and then sewing and then undoing, can well understand that this is the patience that is required when working on the seamless garment. And, you see, the masters of the Ascension Temple have a very sharp eye for the quality of the garment and they never, never let pass an imperfection in the weave.

So we have come to give you a certain insight according to our service to life and to you. We will not long be far from you, for we must come again when other candidates for the ascension are ready for this focus of light. And we must come again, as some of you draw nigh the hour of your transition, for the beginning of the charging of your forms with that current that will intensify and intensify and intensify until the great cloud of your causal body and the cloud of witnesses will receive you out of sight from mortals, from loved ones, from disciples.

Precious ones of the flame, we are privileged, then, to conclude this conference with a final release of the energy and the momentum of the Lord Christ in the hour of his ascension. For as we were the electrodes for that Alpha and Omega fire, so we focus it here.

We ask, then, that as we stand before you to transfer the feeling of the jubilation of his ascension, you will sing your song to the ascension** three times, which will mark the conclusion of our release of the sacred fire flow.

Our words to you at the conclusion of that singing will be spoken individually within the heart of each one, and not one of you who has come and tarried at this hour for this dictation will be without that individual message. The message will be recorded in your etheric body and in your soul. Some of you will hear it as it is spoken in the chamber of your heart, and others of you will have an awareness of the sense of the message as the days unfold.

You can be certain of this—that our message to you directly concerns your ascension, and since we are more concerned with your lacks than with your virtues, we will counsel you in the way of overcoming the most laggard of the tendencies of your lifestream. These tendencies may not be so very terrible when they are measured against the ways of the world, but they may be that little point of the Law or that little subjectivity that has either held you back or is totally unknown to you because it is so much a part of your outer personality. This message, then, we extend with all of the love of the hierarchy of Luxor.

In the name of Serapis Bey, guardian of the flame of the new birth, guardian of your Victory, we salute you in the light of God that never fails.

*The retreats of the Great White Brotherhood in the physical plane, such as the Church’s headquarters in Montana, the Church’s teaching centers and study groups throughout the world, and certain focuses of light across the planet

**Song 227, “The Ascension” (see below)

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“The Summit Lighthouse Sheds Its Radiance o’er All the World to Manifest as Pearls of Wisdom.”

This dictation by The Two Men Who Stood by in White Apparel was delivered by the Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood Elizabeth Clare Prophet on Monday, April 19, 1976, during The Path to Attainment conference, held at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. [N.B. Bracketed words have been added for clarity in the written word.]

1. Luke 1:12–15.

2. The Order of the Golden Lily. This order was founded by the Goddess of Liberty in 1963. Members invoke the intercession of the LORD’s hosts for the cutting free of souls of light caught in the astral plane after transition so that they may be escorted to the retreats of the Great White Brotherhood on the etheric plane. The Friday evening ascension service is dedicated to this purpose. For further information, go to “Order of the Golden Lily” at HolyOrders.org.

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This song is printed in the Book Of Hymns And Songs (The Summit Lighthouse), no. 227.

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