Bear with me, this is about impressions and is not a linear presentation. Sometimes when I'm right, I'm very right, and sometimes, I'm wrong and have to learn something from having made the mistake. I don't care much for that, mind you :) Pardon the semi-coherency, and a poke in the eye to any lurking freepers.
In a lump: The "Ascended Masters" are working to create an energy grid around the planet to help the Ascension. One site I found has an Alice Bailey-related "Triangle" project, to link lightworkers in triunes around the world. Alice Bailey and friends are purported to have started a Lucifer-oriented project. "Lightworker" is derived from the "light" of Lucifer. Lord Maitreya advises us to become masters as they are, using the "powers" of the Creator to attain mastery.
This site argues about such things:
http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/NewAge/Creme_Maitreya.htmNow I'm not so into the Bible because I don't trust Christ, one of the Ascended Masters. The Universe is an energy exchange system; you are given what you give. You can create positive energy through selfless intent. Tibetans teach this, and seem to use this to cover the possibility that they lost Tibet due to black magic (Padmasambhava predicted this, and Trungpa notes that Padmasambhava is now in the field of vampires beneath the copper-colored mountain).
It is said that Jesus went to the East to learn. Such "powers" are common in India. Patanjali lists them, and a new tranlation that I have sort of giggles at the concept of rogue yogis using them to gain control of people and places.
So. Jesus returns to his home, and according to one text, cannot perform miracles in his hometown. This jibes with what I've heard, that faith in others either accentuates or diminishes the "powers". Jesus performs an unselfish act and ascends to immortality in the mental plane. As have the other Ascended Masters.
It is said that some of the gods in these realms require contributions in order to survive there, as it is risky to become involved with our level of karma. I wonder if any of the Ascended Masters are like this, or if they receive from God for continuing acts of good intent on the behalf of lesser beings. Jesus says in the Bible that we can all do as he has done. The link above questions the call to such power as being against the will of God. Some paths are entirely about the pursuit of such powers, and the more I look into them, have involved a complete lack of God. I don't know why the Christians don't question Christ regarding such powers.
And I don't know whether to take the Bible seriously if Christ is not there for our greater good. Jeshua (ben) Joseph Christ= 666. Is the Book of Revelations right or wrong? Positive or negative? Is Christ the anti-Christ?
I read that some people provide energy to the Ascended Masters. They're called chelas. This is about all that I know about the subject so far, but it seems to fit more into the vampire bit than the "universe supports and rewards you for every act of good with more good". Magicians of such calibre would not need anyone to donate energy. If they're worried about karmic involvement with the Earth plane, it's just weird. Why not incarnate and use those powers, as well as negate the karma involved? Buddha can generate a Sambogakhaya body if needed. Why not the others?
Now from the article:
"Alice Bailey founded the Lucifer Trust, which she later changed to the Lucis Trust -- what did she mean by Lucifer?"
"Now would the true Christ return to deny God and give the same message that the serpent gave to Eve; we can become Gods. Creme teaches that the Christ Maitreya has returned as the World Teacher and that his teaching is the art of "self-realization" or in other words, man has the capacity to become God by occult initiatory methods."
Now I have experience with the horrific writings of one of Bailey's students. Look no further if you want the real deal regarding negativity. Well, there is one more that is worse, but it hasn't come up here.
The one who has been channeling Maitreya has a history with Gurdjieff, Oustpensky, Bailey, and Blavatsky, as well as Patanjali's writings. This is very nearly a who's who of what is wrong with the world today. I can offer zero trust to anything related to such connections, especially with so very many of them at once. If you have read some of these writings, you have truly been poisoned, in ways that you might not like, and I recommend as strongly as I can that you find a brilliant healer to look into it and deal with it.
This goes further to something I posted regarding channelings from the Galactic Federation. They say that the Ascended Masters are working to complete the conditions for first contact, and that the ETs will help us to ascend into full God consciousness. Again, it is possible to gain such consciousness and to have no ties with the Creator whatsoever. A planetfull of ego-bound, fully aware beings worries me vastly, mostly for their own sakes, but for the future of the planet as well.
This has begun to reveal some sort of interaction between all of these aspects. I now take the Galactic Federation material to be negatively-sourced. A couple of items in the writings made me flinch, and now I believe that I see why. First Contact can also take the shape of an occupation. I hear less and less about God and God's will in these things.
Now I don't know if it's God's will for us to do anything special at all at this time, or for us to take up the call to such mastery. I've learned that I myself do not know enough to make such large decisions on my own, and have attempted to trust in God's will and guidance (again, I'm a student at this, by no means a master, so don't get upset if I screw up once again through self-will. It's zero reflection upon God, and only upon my own lacks. Or worse, if I fail simply because people are what they are- unready for such powers in any amount whatsoever.) What does =God= want from us at this time? Why did "Abraham" of Abraham-Hicks (which I also dislike due to the greed-oriented teaching, as well as the many contradictions) sneer "That one" instead of using Christ's name? (Audio download on their web site.) If "Abraham" is unable to even say Christ, is Christ after all a positive being? Are there so very many liars being channeled these days, that it purposely becomes difficult to tell?
Obviously I don't know the answers. I've been wrong before and will be wrong again, the latter being why I'm so very skittish, and wishing for insight into these things. The worst negativity, hiding itself in light, sets us up for the true, fatal fall, by our own self-will. This isn't a dress rehearsal, folks. This is being with God or not time. I've taken to praying to God for God's greatest good for the Earth and all beings on and around it, and to undo evil and to keep negativity off the planet. The Christ energy is very bright and powerful, which might be a warning regarding the Lucifer aspect? The worst of the negative bunch said, "The Luciferic opens the door to the Satanic." And that door, my friends, would not be easy to close.