ASCENSION
Good
evening, this is Father Blighton speaking, and I’m going to talk to you
tonight on the ascension, something very appropriate for you to understand at
this time of year.
The ascension is something that was
brought out in the Holy Bible by the act of ascension by our Master Jesus
Christ. Most people think of it as an uncommon act, something which was
performed by our Lord exclusively and that this is the way it was to remain but
the fact of the matter is that many have gone through the ascension down through
the years.
The
ascension is not a mystical mystery but a living part of man’s life, and as
with anything else a person would seek to accomplish, there is a preparation
necessary. The preparation for the ascension is a two-fold preparation. There is
a preparation of the physical body and a preparation of the mind, because in
moving into the other world the mind and the control of mind and one’s own
vehicle are absolutely essential. For it is the switch and the computer key,
which gives you direction and movement, not only here and there, but
dimension-wise and into the other planes of existence, or should we call them
the other planes of vibration, the other spheres of vibration.
With
the preparation of the physical body, we have from the New Testament an
enactment of this in the transfiguration of Jesus Christ, which is the new body
which he used, the body which we are endeavoring to begin to understand and
beginning to build, which eventually, down through the years, will be evolved by
man through his understanding of the truth and the Way which our Master taught.
In
this age we are in, we now have a new vehicle being built, that is made from two
other bodies, the physical and the spiritual. This new vehicle is gradually
being brought into existence, for man will no longer have a physical and
spiritual body, but will have a new body made of both, more intimate, should we
use the word, more closely related. For the two old bodies will unite and a new
body will be of much different character, but will be basically evolved from the
two, with always of course, something added… epigenesis.
This
two-fold change is not a two-fold. It
is not two fold in the sense of two different actions, but the commencing of one
brings about the effect of the other changing.
For anything to take place here in the physical world it must always be
started in the spiritual. So likewise with the change of the body, this first
begins with the change in mind. We have to adapt, to understand, to become
conscious of the reality, of the existence of the possibility, and be confident
of it.
One
of the things a person is taught when they enter any school of attainment,
especially in the Holy Order of MANS, is mind control, for this is the key to
all spiritual development. As one gains a certain level of mind control and
acceptance of Jesus and the great light through him, we may attain a state of
illumination. And this is something which I’m sure you all understand. And
yet, I wonder if you do? To you, you have experienced it, but what have you
experienced? You have the experience, the first seed-light, the starting of
illumination. The full reality, the full growth of light within you, will take a
little time and a greater change. And this is what we are bringing you towards,
the great light body which you will eventually attain down through the years.
After
receiving the light it is of extreme importance that each one of us spends at
least forty-five minutes to an hour each night, letting that light of Christ
permeate our whole being, our whole body. And when I use the word body here, I
mean the physical body as well. By this the dross and the effects of negation in
the physical body will be removed, and at the same time the negative patterns of
thinking and the limitations people have assumed, because they really don’t
have them, will be released from the mind and thus begin to build the concept,
the pattern, the frame-work of the new body.
With
the release of the negation from both mind and physical body, the growing
awareness of the inner being and the act of letting go and letting God, an
aspirant may be brought into Self-Realization by the teacher... God-Realization.
This realization is actually seeing of the inner being, the Self, the You,
the only thing you can ever fully understand or know, the only thing you can
only ever be... the Self. For you may live on Mars or Jupiter or any of the
extremes of the universe and it will still only be you primarily, regardless of
what that vehicle looks like that you manifest in the physical dense world or
physical world. You can never be different than just you. You will have many
experiences. You will grow. You will grow in the light and the power and the
consciousness of God and Our Lord and Master Jesus, and other great ones, but
you will never be anything else but just you, the Self.
Once
this is accomplished, from that time on, for all eternity, the aspirant will
forever be realizing the existence of the Great Creator, the guidance of Our
Lord Jesus Christ, and at this point of the preparation it is necessary to gain
a fuller degree of mind control, that you may hear the Self, that you may
understand what comes from the mind of God into your mind or brain.
For you know that you don’t have a mind any more than I do. The only
difference is I know it and you haven’t learned it yet. At this point of the
preparation it is necessary to gain a fuller degree of mind control that you may
hear the Self, which is the process of letting go of all personal ideas and
concepts, and continuing the practice of letting the light of Christ permeate
your whole body and being.
It
is this work at this point which brings about the actual existence…the actual
building of the new body, the body for the Aquarian Age, the body which will
function even in the new higher rates of vibration and the excessive greater
power and energy which exists on this earth. This was what was meant when I
said, made the statement, “All those who only half see through what their half
physically blinded eyes do see will die." In
other words, if you haven’t gotten with it and you don’t have the vehicle to
work with, you cannot function in it, any more than you could take an
old-fashioned biplane out into the outer stratosphere. It’s the same idea, the
same general parallel. It wouldn’t work. It
wouldn’t have the machinery to function with. Neither does the old vehicle of
the Piscean Age have the proper vehicle to work with through this age and to
project the new vehicles which will come into existence in time to come. The new
souls brought into this earth must have a consciousness of the proper vehicle.
And we, through our work, will build that consciousness for the embryos and
vehicles for the souls to come in and manifest on the earth. So what we are
doing, not only giving to ourselves a proper vehicle, but are opening the door
and preparing the way for the future generations unborn.
Scientifically
analyzing this change, the action which takes place in the physical body, it
orderly and gradually changes its level of density, becoming gradually less
dense through this process. The change in the mind, which is actually the
slaying of the lamb, as we say in the Testament, is the slaying of the
person’s own personal mass mind and getting rid of who he thinks he is, and
the acceptance of the true way of action and living, which is the art of
listening and following the guidance of the inner being.
This
process will bring about the state of being where a person will gain his freedom
from the deep sleep of material life. In other words he will then be in the
world but in no way of it. For it is truly a deep sleep. Once this is truly
accomplished, then the person will experience what many of the ancient mystics
called the mystical marriage and thus the body and the thinking are then
prepared for the ascension. What never was seen or heard of may yet be
conceived, nor is anything beyond the power of thought except what implies an
absolute contradiction.
The
actual act of ascension or, in other words, the point where you ascend, is one
of the greatest simplicities of all the mysteries. Ascending from this realm of
vibration into another is quite like a person walking from one room into
another. To walk into another room you must know of its existence and its
existence holds just as great a reality as the room you’re in. When a person
passes taking his physical body with him from one level of vibration to another,
the material substance of your body is transmuted into the pure state of its
original substance which is energy.
All
things here, regardless of the apparent density, are energy, for there is no
other substance in the solar system but energy. The ascension very simply is the
transmutation of this energy from one level of density to another level, which
is less dense. To gain an understanding of this transmutation of this energy
from one level to another is to begin with what actually takes place in the
illumination. It is that each cell of the body is visualized and raised in its
level of vibration by the light and the life-force of the great Christos. The
ascension is the culmination of this action or total infusion of light and the
life-force through each cell of the body, which then causes the total sum
vibration of the body to be of such a nature that it would then no longer be of
the rate of vibration of seen matter.
When
we speak of rate of vibration we are not speaking or implying the idea of the
physical measurement of height, but the number of pulses of vibration per second
of an object. The existence of all matter depends on the number of vibrations
per second that goes into and comes out of matter. The only difference between
one type of matter and the other type of matter is the difference of the number
of pulses of vibrations in them.
To
explain this, we will stop and consider the difference between a piece of glass
cut like a diamond and a real diamond. They both seem to be glass. They are both
transparent. They both look like glass, shine like glass, but one has a
brilliancy, a heart or soul that the other does not have. One is harder than the
other.
This
latter fact, the hardness, led scientists to believe that they could make
diamonds. So they tried to make glass hard by heating it to great temperatures.
The result they attained during these experiments led them to discover that the
true difference between a diamond and a piece of glass was differences of
vibration or pulses in the electrons which compose, were composed, of a piece of
glass and the diamond, or the difference in the vibration between pure carbon
and glass. They could not get as great a heat into the glass as nature had put
into the diamond when it was formed in its primitive primary elements. Therefore
they have not been able to manufacture a perfect diamond. They have manufactured
diamonds, which were good enough for cutting tools and for industrial uses, but
not perfect as a gem. They know of only one way of changing the vibration of any
matter, and that was through heat or coldness. But there is another way of doing
this, which is through transmutation, the changing of lead to gold, iron to
silver, and so forth. However, the difference between one kind of matter and
another is the difference in vibrational impulses in matter. But don’t try to
get rich by buying up some lead and think you’re going to make gold out of it.
Furthermore, the government controls the gold market today.
To
get an idea of the general composition of all matter we’ll take an
illustration of a cake made out of flour and water. Most people know that you
can take flour and water and mix them in several varied degrees of flour and
water or water and flour, water to flour. After you have mixed three or four
kinds of dough out of the same flour and water, you can bake them in different
ways so that some are baked a long time, others are baked a short time, some are
baked all the way through, and some are baked only on the outside, some with a
low fire, and others with a high or hot fire. If we consider the flour and water
as the primary elements and consider the fire as the spirit, this enters into
the combination, this gives a fairly good illustration of the general
composition of all matter.
It
is the spirit and its vibration entering into matter which makes matter its
various different finishes and manifestations. It is also the vibration of the
spirit in all matter which makes matter exist and which makes all forms of
matter known to us. The only reason we can distinguish one form of matter from
another is the vibration in matter coming out of matter in their natural
expressions.
Our
knowledge of matter depends on three of these vibrations, for if vibration did
not radiate out of all matter and things, we would not be able to see, hear,
feel, taste or smell anything that exists. A
material
thing could exist and yet you would not know it if you could not see it, feel
it, hear it, taste it or smell it, In that case the thing would not exist to
you.
In
order for things to exist for you, this vibration must come to you and be
received through one of the senses. Like a man born blind. To him colors do not
exist because he has never seen them. To the deaf man sound does not exist
because he has never heard anything. So nothing exists to you except through
vibration. Therefore, everything that exists in this world is sent by you or
known to you through the vibration of spirit, which is in everything and which
reaches our consciousness through the senses. The moment that these vibrations
come into the body through the faculties of sight, hearing, smelling, tasting
and feeling, they are then translated into understandable pictures within the
brain. So that things in the material world have a certain existence to us which
is dependent upon our consciousness, our understanding, our education, our
beliefs, and our acceptance. As I have said before, our consciousness of the
material world and its materiality is the result of vibration emanating from all
material things. You receive these vibrations through the senses but your
interpretation of vibrations is responsible for the world as it exists to you
personally. Now that is a little difficult to take, is it not? To think that the
world exists as it exists today because you helped to put it there?
This
force and vibration, which is the spirit, is in the human body also. It is the
spirit in the body that makes everything, every cell, every nerve, and every
drop of blood in the body alive. This force and energy is in the nervous system
of man, an energy that they have been trying to analyze for years.
The
greatest scientists have been working on it, and all they have been able to do
is give a name to this energy. They
call it electrical nerve energy. They call it electrical because they have found
that it vibrates like electricity and has many other properties which
electricity has, and that it flows through the nerves like electricity flows
through electric wires. We must remember here that when we say ‘flows
through’ it really flows, and it is the medium through which other sensory
actions take place. And it is how we are able to take the experiences of the
soul and its knowledge, and thus we have the automatic (autonomic) nerve system.
Electrons
are particles of spirit. Consider these particles as being large enough to
examine in a general way. Remember that electrons are so small that hundreds and
hundreds of them can be put on the point of a pin or a needle. They are too
small to be seen by most powerful microscopes, and yet we know how many there
are in an atom. Consider these electrons to be about the size of an orange with
a surface similar to that of a burr nut, which has projections all over it so
thick and sharp that when two of them come into contact with each other they
would hold together, because the projections of each would fit into the hollows
of the other. This describes one feature of the electrons.
Another
feature is that these electrons are changed or filled with an energy, a force, a
power that keeps them revolving as an earth revolves in its axis or as a top
spins. These electrons are revolving in this way at a very high speed.
Because of the energy and the power within them, these electrons do two
things: they vibrate or tremble with
vibration as a violin or a piano string vibrates when struck or picked, and they
are carried through space with such rapidity of speed in a curved line or arc.
Each one is glowing with a bright light from its center. Each is trembling
violently with its own rate of vibration, its own vibration, but revolving upon
its axis and moving like a comet through space in a curved arc. Some are going
from north to south and some from east to west, some from west to east, while
others are going in a diagonal direction, some angling upward and some angling
downward.
And every now and then, two of these will come together in a
clash, never stopping but sticking together. They unite their vibrations,
tremble in unison, and continue to move, but in a slightly different arc or
curve from the one which they were traveling in their separate movements. These
two meet a third electron and join with it into one trembling unit and move on
in another line, and so on, until we see many electrons gathering together to
them. Some electrons upon coming close to others jump away as they are repulsed.
Often this sort of meeting changes the direction of the arc in which they are
traveling. Thus we see in the dark space the movement of these particles and as
we watch we see matter in formation.
“For
He gave the Word and the Law, and within His mind was the principle and the
characteristics of His creation, and so God is ever creating.”
Matter
or a mass formed in this way by the electrons is so small that actually we could
never see the enlarged unit or electron even with the largest and strongest
microscopes.
Electrons
unite to form atoms. Like attracts unlike, like repels like. This has been
called the Law of composition of matter. Now the force, the energy, the power
that is centered in each electron and keeps it vibrating and moving is spirit.
Spirit is the vibrating energy that underlies the manifestation of all matter.
This is very important. Every electron is composed of the spirit. Very few of
the millions and millions of electrons in a small space are composed of exactly
the same amount or quantity of spirit, or quality. But they all have the same
quality, so to speak, in a way. There may be only a slight difference, but this
difference in spirit makes each electron vibrate or tremble more rapidly or more
slowly than others.
It
is impossible to be exact in the number of vibrations in the different
electrons, but they vary from a hundred to thousands per second and there is
often only a difference of two or three vibrations per second between some
electrons, so that many are nearly alike. Yet, all electrons are divided into
classes: those that vibrate to an even number of vibrations per second, and
those that vibrate to an uneven number of vibrations per second.
They
are something like the people of the world. You may see redheads here and
redheads in
This
is why some attract and some repel. Those vibrations at an even number attract
and are attracted by those vibrations at an uneven number, and those vibrations
at an uneven number repel and are repelled by those vibrations of an uneven
number. Thus it is seen that vibrations necessitate change. Matter is constantly
changing, or in the process of changing, or in the process of becoming something
else. Elementary substance and compounds are forever breaking up and assembling
into a new form of matter, which reassembles and changes as figures in an
endless dance. It is like the dance of evolution, weaving new forms in the dizzy
world of life and death, construction and reconstruction. This process goes on
also in the human body where the cells are constructed and have the same basic
shape as electrons.
Form
or manifestation then is only temporarily fixed. All manifestations must be
according to fundamental schemes, plan, or a definite arrangement according to
the law. Vibrations, as I have said, necessitates change, but what is the great
underlying principle which permeates us to recognize and compare these changes?
What is it that allows for the difference and the comparison of vibration? Of
course, positive and negative, light and dark, good and evil, permits comparison
in a simple way. But what allows for the finer and therefore more complicated
intricate system of comparison? These changes which permit finer comparison are
found in the arrangement plan or definite definition of a scale.
It
is probably because of the fact that the Laws of vibration were perceived,
tabulated, understood originally in regard to music that the term scale has
become firmly associated with that art. Here we see how the term or expression
has erroneously been limited to one field of study when it should be recognized
as universal in its attribution. The finer perception or comprehension could not
exist without scale, for without it the different relations and comparisons of
vibrations would simply be the positive and negative. This would result in
monotony which in itself does not permit continued consciousness. Therefore we
have scales, which is that state or states of vibration which permits their
comparison in either an ascending or descending series. This comparison in sound
is evident in the musical scale, in light, or color, or prismatic scale, and in
all other manifestations by the same fundamental series of elements.
But
what is the law of relations between the manifestations or the definite
vibrations according to scale? We have so often heard the word harmony used in
connection with music, that to the majority of us it conveys some idea of
musical value only. It must be apparent in the general sense that this should
not have been entirely appropriated to the art of music. It has become widely
known that this term has been applied and used by other arts with a feel of
private ownership. The artist in color, the architect in design, the geologist
in the study of crystals, and even the painter in setting up the painted page,
have used the word harmony without understanding it in its entirety. It is
applicable to all that pertains to the relationship of vibrations or all that is
evidenced or created. Harmony means a joining together in law, order and
proportion, which is simply accordance of vibration. The ancient poetic language
expressed this reality, “The very atoms may be said to sing for joy in the
dawn of every created form. For life is essentially harmony and harmony is
joy.”
The
triangle is the representation of complete harmony. This reality is seen in the
macrocosm as well as the microcosm, through the unity of opposites as the
triangle… triangular symbols. The two different vibrations in a scale may be
in harmony with each other but they are never complete in themselves and express
no definite character. For instance, two sounds or two colors vibrating in
agreement with each other in their respective fields are similar to two
dimensions in space without the third. Two parallel lines have their beginning
and end nowhere. It is necessary to establish a relationship to a third
quantity, which brings the two together in a complete unit. The number three
represents the complete form of harmony and this whole section can be summed up
as an illustration through matter of the working of the law of the triangle.
Harmony
cannot change process, progress in the space or time, or evolve without a
definite scheme based on law. It cannot use the scale which was the movement of
ascending or descending without definite law equal to its own law in importance
which governs the whole. This brings us to the subject of rhythm, which is a
fundamental principle of simple and compound population or populace, without
which all creation would be in chaos. Volumes have been written in the
explanation of each of these scales or laws or scales of harmony or rhythm.
Basic explanation of rhythm is related to periodicity. Motion when measured and
proportioned through the cycle of periodicity shows rhythm. Motion affected by
time can only give degree of speed; slow, medium or fast. When time is broken up
according to the law of proportion, then applied to motion, we have rhythmic
motion, what is referred to as time in its periodicity.
Rhythm
is measured motion in time. There are two fundamental rhythms that are either
two pulses or beats or three pulses or beats which show the one even and the
other odd. The even is positive and the odd is negative. However, as was shown
before, the rhythm of the pulse or beat consists in itself of a combination of
odd and even, negative and positive, weak and strong, is productive of monotony,
which, as the rhythm of three pulses or beats with its added negative pulse, is
the perfect rhythm of creation.
Since
it is true that the predominance of the negative element is necessary for a
perfect creation, or negative manifestation, in the microcosm, it then follows
as equally true that there is a predominance of the macrocosm since odd and even
vibrations are negative and positive respectively in the material world. Then it
follows that the reverse is true in the immaterial world. That odd and even
would be positive and negative respectively so that the perfect rhythm of the
triangle on this plane would be the predominance of positive, which would be the
two positives to the one negative impulse or beat.
This
alternately positive and negative polarity of the vibration forming a key board
of a cosmic scale have been proven and demonstrate the proven fact that these
polarities correspond to the frequencies of vibration which exceed multiples of
nine per second. This numerical correction shows that the basic frequency of one
per second is not picked at random, but it is in accordance with the laws of
nature. The ancient mystics who were first to divide time into hours, minutes
and seconds are cosmically inspired and possess deep insight into the forces of
nature.
At
this point we must take two considerations; the period, which means the shortest
interval of time within which any phenomenon goes through the necessary changes
to complete a perfect expression of itself, after which it passes immediately
through them again as before, or rather similarly as before because evolution
must be taken into consideration. In other words, there is a recycling of all
such processes. The starting point of a succeeding period would be higher than
the starting point of the preceding period, and this continued advance would
resemble a spiral form and the perfect round cycle or period of existence. It is
represented by the circle, numerically explained by the number nine, the square
of three or the triangle of three rhythms of three impulses or beats each.
Thus,
numerically and by the circle, we have the period going from one to nine when it
when it completes one cycle and begins another with the number one. Instead of
having one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and ten and so
forth to eternity, we have numbers all related to vibrations, numerically
expressed in periods of one to nine seconds, periods beginning with one through
nine, and thus is with nine succeeding periods. Each series of nine is like
steps in a flight of stairs. Each higher flight has also nine steps and this
explanation of matter and the cosmic scale which shows the order of creation of
the macrocosmic world to the microcosmic world by the term of densities, dense
and less dense, so that when one ascends from one level of vibration to another
they are transversely from one flight of stairs to another flight of stairs in
the cosmic scale.
