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The '''Ascension Temple''' is at Luxor on the Nile River in Egypt. The Temple is a part of the '''retreat at Luxor''', which is presided over by [[Serapis Bey]]. Archangel [[Gabriel and Hope]] also serve here. | The '''Ascension Temple''' is at Luxor on the Nile River in Egypt. The Temple is a part of the '''retreat at Luxor''', which is presided over by [[Serapis Bey]]. Archangel [[Gabriel and Hope]] also serve here. | ||
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== Attending the retreat == | == Attending the retreat == | ||
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[[File:101479J.jpg|thumb|link=|Serapis Bey receives a neophyte | [[File:101479J.jpg|thumb|link=|<translate>Serapis Bey receives a neophyte</translate>]] | ||
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Serapis Bey’s methods of discipline are tailor-made for each candidate for the ascension. After an initial interview by himself or one of the twelve adepts, devotees who come here are assigned in groups of five or more to carry out projects with other initiates whose karmic patterns lend themselves to the maximum friction between the lifestreams. Each group must serve together until they become harmonious, learning that those traits of character that are most offensive in others are actually the polarity of their own worst faults, and what one criticizes in another is likely to be the root of his own misery. | Serapis Bey’s methods of discipline are tailor-made for each candidate for the ascension. After an initial interview by himself or one of the twelve adepts, devotees who come here are assigned in groups of five or more to carry out projects with other initiates whose karmic patterns lend themselves to the maximum friction between the lifestreams. Each group must serve together until they become harmonious, learning that those traits of character that are most offensive in others are actually the polarity of their own worst faults, and what one criticizes in another is likely to be the root of his own misery. | ||
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<blockquote>To those who have said in their hearts, “I desire above all to be perfect in the sight of God, to have that perfect mind in me which was also in Christ Jesus,”<ref>Phil. 2:5.</ref> to those who yearn to merge with the flame of God’s identity and to find themselves made in the image and likeness of God, to those in whom this desire burns day and night—to you I say, Come and be tutored in those precepts of the Law that perhaps have escaped you in this life or which perhaps you have overlooked in previous embodiments.</blockquote> | <blockquote>To those who have said in their hearts, “I desire above all to be perfect in the sight of God, to have that perfect mind in me which was also in Christ Jesus,”<ref>Phil. 2:5.</ref> to those who yearn to merge with the flame of God’s identity and to find themselves made in the image and likeness of God, to those in whom this desire burns day and night—to you I say, Come and be tutored in those precepts of the Law that perhaps have escaped you in this life or which perhaps you have overlooked in previous embodiments.</blockquote> | ||
<blockquote>For we are here to fill in the missing links in the chain of Being so that when the hour of your [[transition]] comes and you find yourself as the rose on the other side of the wall, you will have the momentum and the inner soul-direction that will carry you to this or one of the other retreats of the [[Brotherhood]] either for final preparation for the ascension or for preparation for [[reembodiment]].<ref> | <blockquote>For we are here to fill in the missing links in the chain of Being so that when the hour of your [[transition]] comes and you find yourself as the rose on the other side of the wall, you will have the momentum and the inner soul-direction that will carry you to this or one of the other retreats of the [[Brotherhood]] either for final preparation for the ascension or for preparation for [[reembodiment]].<ref>{{OSD}}, chapter 4.</ref></blockquote> | ||
The ascension flame is an intense fiery white with a crystal glow. The Easter lily is the symbol of the flame and its focus in the nature kingdom, and the white diamond is its focus in the mineral kingdom. The melody of the flame is the “Triumphal March” from ''Aïda'', and the keynote of the retreat is “Liebestraum,” by Franz Liszt. | The ascension flame is an intense fiery white with a crystal glow. The Easter lily is the symbol of the flame and its focus in the nature kingdom, and the white diamond is its focus in the mineral kingdom. The melody of the flame is the “Triumphal March” from ''Aïda'', and the keynote of the retreat is “Liebestraum,” by Franz Liszt. | ||
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{{MTR}}, s.v. “Ascension Temple and Retreat at Luxor.” | {{MTR}}, s.v. “Ascension Temple and Retreat at Luxor.” | ||
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