And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in
the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.
And he led them out as far as Bethany, and he lifted up his
hands, and blessed them.
And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted
from them; and carried up into heaven.
And they worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with
great joy:
And were continually in the temple, praising and blessing
God.
— Luke 24:49-53
The final culmination of the path of the Christian Mystic as
portrayed in the experiences of Christ Jesus comes in the sublime event of the
Ascension. At this time the mighty Archangel, the highest Initiate of the Sun
Period, clothed in the dazzling radiance of a superlative spiritual body and
accompanied by joyous celestial hosts, ascends into His own home world, the
World of Life Spirit and on to the very throne of God, the Father. There he is
revivified for His return to the Earth, where He will again give of His very
life substance, for the liberating of mankind from the toils of materialism.
"Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the
world," said Christ Jesus, and to the Christian Mystic there comes an
unutterable joy in contemplating this comforting assurance. He is, indeed, as
the indwelling Planetary Spirit of our Earth, radiating His life and love to
our dark world and its inhabitants, with us"always." Every year
since the Great Sacrifice on Golgotha, the Christ Spirit has made the journey
from the Earth to the higher realms, and back again. At the time of the summer
solstice in June He begins His downward journey, reaching the atmosphere of
the Earth at the time of the autumnal equinox in September. By the 24th of
December He has reached the center of our planet, where He remains for three
days. Then commences the withdrawal, which is completed at Easter. From that
time our Savior passes through the higher worlds, reaching the World of Divine
Spirit again on the 21st of June.
As it is above, so it is below. The processes which take
place upon a larger scale in the Earth are reproduced also in man. We are thus
assured that every human being will at some time attain to the stage of
consciousness where he can leave his physical vehicles consciously, step out
from his cross of matter, and ascend into the higher spiritual realms in his
soul body. This is the inspiring message held out by the Western Wisdom School
of the Rosicrucians.
Throughout the steps of initiation, be they of the mystic or
of the occultist, there runs the high refrain of "life eternal."
"There is no death," joyously sings the poet, and this blessed
thought, ringing with the golden note of truth, sounds for the spiritual
aspirant an eternal inspiration toward ever higher steps on the spiral path to
God. The Spirit, which is man, is indeed immortal and can never die. In him
exists that God-given power to unfold into infinitely larger states of
spiritual consciousness, accompanied by the realization of that glorious
immortality which is the reward of the perfected Spirit.
Some time in the future will dawn a glad day when "all
mankind. . . will ascend to heavenly realms to become pillars of strength in
the Father's house, from whence they shall no more go out."
— Rays from the Rose Cross Magazine, July, 1977, page 314.
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