THE ELOHIM OF Arcturus and Victoria From an oil painting by Marius -George

The Elohim are the Lords of Creation - they are considered to be the highest representation of Divinity in our galactic system of worlds. Elohim is a Hebrew word meaning "" - it was used 2500 times in the Old Testament. It is a uni-plural noun that refers to the "Divine Us" who "in the Beginning" (Gen. 1:1) created male and female in their own image and likeness. They are the "Morning Stars" that sang together in the beginning (book of Job) The of Creation and the Seven Days of Creation are each presided by one of the seven Elohim and their Twin Flames. Our image represents a symbolical vision of Arcturus and Victoria - Elohim of the Seventh Ray, together with Saint Germain - Hierarch of Aquarius and his Twin Flame Portia and with Archangel Zadkiel and Archeia Amethist.

Etheric Retreat - Near Luanda, Angola in Africa - , , - Seat of the Principal qualities - Freedom, Creativity, Forgiveness, Transmutation Solar Ray - Seventh Ray celebrated on Saturdays

SERAPIS BEY

The * Bey is the Chohan of the Fourth Ray. (Chohan is a Sanscrit word for 'Lord'. To be a Chohan of one of the Seven Rays means, the of that ray in Christ and God, flows through that Master to all on who are evolving on that particular Path).

The Fourth Ray is the or Crystal Ray of Purity, Discipline and Joy. It is the Ascension Flame, and is the White Light of the Mother in the Base-of-the-Spine Chakra. is the Hierarch of the Ascension Temple at Luxor in . He is known as the Great Disciplinarian. Serapis works with spiritual seekers to help them develop the qualities of Purity, Hope, Discipline, Excellence and in gaining mastery over the Base of the Spine Chakra and gradually and safely raising the Kundalini Fire that is stored in this Chakra. He is a great lover of the Divine Mother and of her light and fire within all . He was a Priest in the Ascension Temple In . As guardian of the Ascension Flame, he and his followers carried the Flame up the Nile River to Luxor just before Atlantis sank. Serapis was the architect of the Great Pyramid and El was the Master Mason. One of Serapis' embodiments was that of the Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhoteb III (c.1417 - 1379). During his reign Egypt was at the height of prosperity, peace and splendor. Amenhoteb III was regarded as the greatest ruler on earth. He maintained a high level of diplomatic relations with all nations. He constructed magnificent Temples and Palaces and built the monolithic statues uncovered on the banks of the river. He also embodied as Leonidas, the Spartan King (died c.480 B.C.) who commanded the Greeks in their heroic stand against the Persians at the Pass of Thermopylae. Thus showing a prime example of courage and fearlessness in fighting for a cause against massive odds. Our image depicts Serapis Bey holding the scepter of Christ Power and in the background a group of candidates for the Ascension.

For further , see the book 'Lords of the Seven Rays' published by Summit University Press.

*Ascended Master: One who has walked the earth with mankind and who, through Christhood, has mastered time and space and gained mastery over self and oneness with the Divine.

PALLAS ATHENA

Pallas Athena is the of TRUTH. She is an impelling Being of Light, who ensouls the of Truth. The Flame of Truth is a bright . It combines the flaming power of God's Will and the brilliant Golden illumination of the Intelligence of God.

Pallas Athena is a member of the Karmic Board, where she serves as the representative on the Fifth Ray of Truth, Healing, Supply and Precipitation.

She ministers to mankind from the Temple of Truth above the Island of . She serves under Vesta, the Goddess, as she focuses the truth of God's Love to the earth. Pallas Athena also works with Hilarion, the Chohan of the fifth ray and other green ray Masters.

If you ask to go to the Temple of Truth at night while your body sleeps, you will be instructed in the fine points of cosmic law, the science of healing, mathematics, music, divine geometry and the laws of and precipitation.

Pallas Athena was embodied as the high priestess in the Temple of Truth on Atlantis, serving under Vesta. This Flame was later transferred to ancient just before Atlantis sank, and Pallas Athena later kept the Mother flame of Truth in that land.

For more info please see "The Masters and their Retreats" published by Summit University Press

SHAMBALLA.

Shamballa, the ancient home of is located in the etheric realm over the Gobi desert in China. The retreat once physical, has since been withdrawn to the etheric octave, or -world. Shamballa was originally built for Sanat Kumara, hierarch of , who long ago came to Earth in her darkest hour, when all light had gone out in her inhabitants and there was not a single individual on the who maintained contact with the God Presence and the Inner Buddha. This city was originally a physical replica of the Venusian City of the Kumaras and became for all time the legendary Shamballa of the White Island. The main temple of Shamballa is marked by a golden dome and is surrounded by terraces, flame fountains and seven temples - one for each of the Seven Rays. The altar of the threefold flame is in the main temple, where the star of Sanat Kumara is hung from the ceiling over the altar. This, the principal focus of the threefold flame upon the planet, was established by Sanat Kumara himself. Through it he connected a ray from his heart to every individual evolving on the planet, and thus he assisted their souls to evolve to the place where they could be taught the laws of self- mastery. In past ages people would come each year from many miles to witness the visible, physical Sacred Fire and to take home a piece of inextinguishable aflamed wood consacred by Sanat Kumara to light their fires through the coming years. Thus began the tradition of the Yule Log commemorating the return to the fire of Christhood. For more info there are wonderful messages from Sanat Kumara published as " of " by the Keepers of the Flame Fraternity and by A.D.K. Luk in the "Law of Life" books. See also www.sanatkumara.info

Shamballa is an etheric Retreat. A beautiful 'place prepared' which was actually built here on earth. At the time, our planet was going through a particularly dark period, with humanity totally unaware of the need to do anything about it. Not one soul carried a flame of consciousness in his heart.

Did God want to save this planet? "Yes"! The Hierarch of Venus stepped forward and offered to 'put his life on the line' to replace the Divine Spark, thus lightening a planet. Yes, he knew it would take "time", but he was willing to try.

The News spread - the move was popular.

One hundred and forty four, thousand souls of light, coming from all directions far and wide, joined Sanat Kumara, the Hierarch.

An 'avant-garde' of four hundred souls came ahead to build on White Island, in the blue Gobi Sea, (where the Gobi desert is today), a replica of the Venusian city of the Kumaras, and they focused one hundred and forty four virtues of the flames of the elements, in the Great Hub.

Shamballa, this White City, was approached by a beautiful marble bridge. The main Temple was marked by a golden dome, and surrounded by terraces, flame fountains, and the seven temples of the rays, situated on a wide avenue lined with trees and flowers, flame fountains and exquisite tropical birds, bluebirds of happiness included.

Sanat Kumara made Shamballa his headquarters and his home. was his first initiate and consequently, the one chosen to succeed him when Sanat Kumara returned to his planet, Venus.

SANAT KUMARA

Sanat Kumara is the Great Guru of the seed of Christ throughout Cosmos. He and Lady Master Venus, are the Hierarchs of Planet Venus, and he is one of the seven holy Kumaras (Lords of flame who represent the seven rays on Venus). He initiates us on the Path of the Ascension. Since the darkest hours in earth's history, Sanat Kumara has been with us as Lord of the World. At that time, earth's evolutions had lost all contact with the God flame and there was no one to keep the flame of Christ consciousness alive. Earth was at the point of dissolution. Sanat Kumara offered to hold the balance for the entire planet and on behalf of every living soul until the time when a sufficient number of individuals were once again able to establish and maintain direct contact with the Divine. When the heard the news, a great joyous shout went up. One hundred and forty four thousand beings of light came to join and support their Lord, Sanat Kumara. This is the episode portrayed in our painting. Four hundred of these, who formed the avant-garde, went ahead to build the magnificent retreat Shamballa, on White Island in the Gobi Sea - the present Gobi desert. Sanat Kumara established the focus of the threefold flame at Shamballa, and resided there in the physical for many centuries.

Here is Sanat Kumara's story in His own words:

You call me Sanat Kumara, and you know me as the one who stood before the cosmic council known as the Council of the One Hundred and Forty and Four. You know me because you were witnesses to my plea made for and on behalf of the evolutions of earth who no longer knew the presence of the Lamb, who by disobedience were cut off from the living Guru. You know me as the one who volunteered to embody the threefold flame within the earth unto the evolutions evolving within the seven planes of being–fire, air, water, and earth.

The Cosmic Council had decreed the dissolution of earth and her evolutions because the souls of her children no longer worshiped the in the threefold flame of life burning upon the altar of the heart. They had become the sheep gone astray. Their attention fixed upon the outer manifestation, they had willfully, ignorantly abandoned the inner walk with God. They knew not the hidden man of the heart, that blessed Ishwara, and the seven candles no longer burned in the seven windows. Men and women had become hollow, their black holes in time and space; and their vacated temples became the tombs of the dead; and the spirits of the dead took up their abode within their hollowed-out houses. Thus they received the judgment of the One Hundred and Forty and Four even as their descendants would hear the denunciation of the Son of God.

Thus the light of the temples had gone out, and the purpose to which God had created man–to be the temple of the living God–was no longer being fulfilled. One and all were the living dead, a Matter vessel without an ensouling light, an empty shell. Nowhere on earth was there a mystery school–not a chela, not a Guru, no initiates of the path of unto Christhood.

The hour of the judgment had come, and the one seated upon the throne in the center of the twelve times twelve hierarchies of light had pronounced the word that was the unanimous consensus of all: Let earth and her evolutions be rolled up as a scroll and lit as a taper of the sacred fire. Let all energies misqualified be returned to the Great Central Sun for repolarization. Let energy misused be realigned and recharged with the light of Alpha and Omega, once again to be infused by the Creator within the ongoing creation of worlds without end.

The requirement of the law for the saving of Terra? It was that one who should qualify as the embodied Guru, the Lamb, should be present in the physical octave to hold the balance and to keep the threefold flame of life for and on behalf of every living soul. It is the law of the One that the meditation of the one upon the Eternal Christos may count for the many until the many once again become accountable for their words and their works and can begin to bear the burden of their light as well as the of their relative good and . I chose to be that one. I volunteered to be a flaming son of righteousness unto earth and her evolutions.

After considerable deliberation, the Cosmic Council and the Nameless One gave their approval of my petition, and the dispensation for a new divine plan for earth and her evolutions came into being. For cosmic law so states that when a hierarch of certain degrees and dimensions of cosmic consciousness volunteers to be the shepherd of lifewaves that are the lost sheep, the petition must be granted. Where there is no Guru, there can be no chelas; where there is no shepherd, there can be no sheep. As it is written: smite the shepherd, and the sheep are scattered.

But the Guru may be given opportunity to be Guru only for a certain cycle; and if at the end of that cycle the members of a lifewave by their recalcitrance and hardness of heart have not responded as chelas to the heart flame of the Guru, then the Guru must withdraw. And that which might have been may not be, and to no other hierarch then will the dispensation be given.

Thus I knelt before the great white throne of the Nameless One and he said unto me, “My son, Sanat Kumara, thou shalt sit upon the great white throne before the evolutions of earth. Thou shalt be to them the Lord God in the highest. Verily, thou shalt be the highest manifestation of the Deity which shall be given unto them until, through the path of initiation, their souls shall rise to thy throne of awareness and stand before thee in praise of the I AM THAT I AM which thou art. In that day when they shall rise up and say, 'Blessing and honour and glory and power be unto him that sitteth upon the throne and unto the Lamb for ever and ever'–behold, their redemption draweth nigh.”

And he said unto me, “Thus unto the evolutions of earth thou shalt be Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the I AM THAT I AM, which is and which was and which is to come, the Almighty.” And he placed upon me his mantle of sponsorship of the Father unto the Son which would become in me his sponsorship of a lifewave that he now made my own. It was a trust. It was the initiation of the Father in the Son.

And I knelt before the Nameless One and I worshiped God, saying, “Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power; for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.” And he, the Great Guru, repeated the approbation, thus completing the circle of devotion. He acknowledged the light that he and he alone had placed within my heart as the flaming image of himself, and to that image he said, “Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.”

Thus I am in the Father and the Father is in me and we are one, worlds without end. And without that oneness, there can be no petition and no dispensation no matter what your level of evolution. And the Council of the One Hundred and Forty and Four, forming a single solar ring around the great white throne, intoned the Word with the great beings of light, forming the inner circle about the throne and saying, “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.” And I heard the echo of their chant of the “Holy, holy, holy” all the way home to the morning star, to my twin flame whom you know as Venus, and to the sons and daughters of the Love Star.

Winged messengers of light had announced my coming and the disposition of the Cosmic Council and the dispensation granted. The six–my brothers, the Holy Kumaras, who sustain with me the seven flames of the seven rays–Mighty Victory and his legions, our daughter Meta, and many servant sons and daughters whom you know today as the ascended masters welcomed me in a grand reception. That evening, the joy of opportunity was mingled with the sorrow that the sense of separation brings. I had chosen a voluntary exile upon a dark star. And though it was destined to be Freedom's Star, all knew it would be for me a long dark night of the soul.

Then all at once from the valleys and the mountains there appeared a great gathering of my children. It was the souls of the hundred and forty and four thousand approaching our palace of light. They spiraled nearer and nearer as twelve companies singing the song of freedom, of love, and of victory. Their mighty chorusing echoed throughout elemental life, and angelic choirs hovered nigh. As we watched from the balcony, Venus and I, we saw the thirteenth company robed in white. It was the royal priesthood of the Order of the , the anointed ones who kept the flame and the law in the center of this hierarchical unit.

When all of their numbers had assembled, ring upon ring upon ring surrounding our home, and their hymn of praise and adoration to me was concluded, their spokesman stood before the balcony to address us on behalf of the great multitude. It was the soul of the one you know and love today as the Lord of the World, Gautama Buddha. And he addressed us, saying, “O Ancient of Days, we have heard of the covenant which God hath made with thee this day and of thy commitment to keep the flame of life until some among earth's evolutions should be quickened and once again renew their vow to be bearers of the flame. O Ancient of Days, thou art to us our Guru, our very life, our God. We will not leave thee comfortless. We will go with thee. We will not leave thee for one moment without the ring upon ring of our chelaship. We will come to earth. We will prepare the way. We will keep the flame in thy name.”

And so as the Lord God directed me, I chose from among them four hundred servant sons and daughters who would precede the hundred and forty and four thousand to prepare for their coming. For though they knew the darkness of the darkest star, in reality they did not know, as I knew, the real meaning of the sacrifice which they now were offering to make in the name of their Guru. We wept in joy, Venus and I and all of the hundred and forty and four thousand. And the tears that flowed on that memorable evening burned as the living sacred fire flowing as the water of life from the great white throne and the Cosmic Council, our sponsors. I shall come again to continue with the history that unfolds from the folds of the garment of memory of the Ancient of Days.

O my children, I AM still your

Sanat Kumara

MASTER AFRA

The Ascended Master Afra was the first soul to ascend from the African race. He is the spiritual sponsor of all souls embodying on the coninent of Africa.

ELOHIM ASTREA

PURITY AND ASTREA are the Elohim of the fourth ray (the white ray) of purity, perfection, hope, and wholeness. It is the flame of the Mother and the flame of the ascension–the desire to know and be God through purity of body, mind, and soul through the consciousness of the Divine Mother which embraces the natural laws governing all manifestation in the earth .

Purity holds the divine pattern of the perfection of the Christ for all that is in manifest form, focusing the white fire that is in the heart of every sun and atom–the pure white light out of which emanates the seven 'rays', or aspects, of the Christ consciousness. Blue is considered the feminine aspect of white because the white fire of Purity coalesces as blue in the Matter plane. Thus Astrea, the feminine complement of Purity, works twenty-four hours a day wielding the cosmic circle and sword of blue flame to free the children of the Mother from all that opposes the fulfillment of the divine plan held in the heart of Purity. Astrea personifies the Hindu concept of Kali, “the demon-slayer.”

You can make the circle and sword of blue flame practical in your life as Christ did to exorcise the boy possessed of a demon–the one who lay on the ground frothing at the mouth, whom the disciples could not heal (Matt. 17:14-21). As Astrea has explained, “The disciples had attempted, again and again, to cast out the demon from that boy, and I tell you they exerted themselves to the fullest. But they lacked the faith and they lacked the knowledge of our octave of light. If my cosmic circle and sword of blue flame had been invoked around that boy by any one of those disciples, they would have found that that demon would have left on the instant and would not have remained for a second. This was the power of light which Jesus himself invoked. He invoked that energy of the blue flame, and it immediately fulfilled the destiny that God intended it to do.”

The circle of blue fire invoked from the heart of Astrea is a dazzling blue-white fire that oscillates as two concentric rings of fire–the blue of Astrea, the white of Purity–interchanging frequencies at such a rapid rate so as to appear as the action of blue-white lightning flashing around souls, , solar systems, galaxies–wherever there is a need for the reinforcement of the will of God in the divine blueprint held in the white-fire core of being. Whenever and wherever there is discord in any form, in any of its aspects, you should call in the name of the Christ to the Elohim Astrea: “Lock your cosmic circle and sword of blue flame around the cause and core of that condition.” Then see this circle of the sacred fire lock around the individual at the waist, around entire groups of individuals, around buildings, around entire cities, states, nations, and even around the earth at the equator. See this in your mind's eye as a ring of brilliant and - flashing fire–its regular, almost geometric flames cutting away, like a buzz saw, layers and layers of discord and density. Then visualize the sword of blue flame as a pillar of blue fire perpendicular to the circle of blue flame, breaking the matrices of darkness, shattering force fields of disease, decay, and death. And above all, see the Elohim standing over each individual for whom you are praying, holding the sword of blue flame two inches from the spine and parallel to it.

This is the action whereby the Elohim demagnetize the being and consciousness of the individual of all anti-God, anti-Christ, and anti-Spirit manifestations, all sinister strategies of the fallen ones, and the serpentine energies of the carnal mind. Whenever and wherever you invoke the circle and sword of blue flame from the heart of Purity and Astrea, you can know with absolute certainty that an action of cosmic momentum is taking place.

MELCHIZEDEK From an original painting by Marius Michael-George

Melchizedek is the High Priest of the Order of Melchizedek - an ancient priesthood of Sacred Fire who tends the Flame of Life at the Altar of the Most High God. In the Old Testament he appears as the king of Salem and Priest of the Most High God who served Holy Communion (bread and water) to Abraham upon receiving a tenth of his spoils of war. He is portrayed as being an immortal of divine descent - "In this manner Melchizedek was born without father and without mother, without descent, without beginning of days and without ending" It is believed that the Melchizedekian Brotherhood has its origins in the God Star and that it is widely spread throughout other galaxies and systems of worlds… This is also Archangel Zadkiel's and Saint Germain's Violet Ray Priesthood of Aquarius which imparts to mankind the gifts of freedom, forgiveness, creativity, as well as the science of alchemy, transmutation and sacred rituals. Our image shows Melchizedek with the sacred geometry figure of the seat of the soul chakra (see our sacred geometry series) and the white dove of the , tending the Holy Grail and its Flame of Life. Meditate often on the image of this divine master and his Presence will always be with you. Ask and you shall receive. Whatever you place the focus of your attention upon, that is what you become.