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Transformation and the path
Ascension
Ascension is the soul's upward movement toward its divine source, the rising of consciousness from the dense and material toward the radiant and free. In the Neoplatonic vision the soul climbs the ladder of being back to the One; in the Theosophical and channeled traditions it is the evolutionary lifting of the human into ever-higher states until the body itself is quickened into light. It is the answer to the descent, the long arc of return that completes the journey the spirit began when it first came into form.
Carried by 28 teachers · across 5 traditions · 7 quotes
The teachers of the ascended path speak of the I AM Presence above each person, the indwelling spark of the divine that the aspirant invokes and rises to meet. Ascension is not escape but transfiguration, the gradual exchange of mortality for the deathless life that Bailey calls entrance into fuller life and freedom from the handicaps of the fleshly vehicle. It is the crown of the whole path, the soul finally rising into the light from which it never truly departed.
In their words
There is no death. There is, as you know, entrance into fuller life. There is freedom from the handicaps of the fleshly vehicle.Alice Bailey
Plotinus, the philosopher our contemporary, seemed ashamed of being in the body.Porphyry
The One is all things and no one of them; the source of all things is not all things.Plotinus
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.Rumi (attributed)
I AM the open door which no man can shut.Guy Ballard (Saint Germain teachings)