A Master or Adept who has attained bodiless consciousness, and chooses to teach from another plane through such methods as dreams and visions, rather than reincarnating.
Enlightened spiritual beings who once lived on earth, fulfilled their reason for being and have ascended and reunited with God in the ritual of the ascension. The ascended masters are the true teachers of mankind. They direct the spiritual evolution of all devotees of God and guide them back to their Source.
Those who have reached the highest level of spiritual consciousness and are guides in mankind's spiritual evolution.
a being that has reached a sufficiently high level of understanding and spiritual awareness that they are capable of remaining on the earth-plane by choice and not by necessity
a great healer, teacher, or prophet who previously walked upon the earth, and who is now in the spirit world, helping us from beyond
being who has become Self-Realized and serves humanity being who has raised his/her vibration to a sustained frequency of light. He/she can come and go at will from the earth plane without the Birth//Death cycle.
Ascended Masters, in various descendants and offshoots of Theosophy, Partridge, Christopher ed. New Religions: A Guide: New Religious Movements, Sects and Alternative Spiritualities Oxford University Press, USA 2004. Describes the Theosophical Society and religious organizations based on a belief in Ascended Masters, such as The I AM Activity, The Bridge to Freedom and The Summit Lighthouse. pages 330 - 334 are held to be a group of spiritually-enlightened beings, who in past incarnations were ordinary humans, but who have undergone a process of spiritual transformation.
