The Great White Brotherhood are the immortals who have kept the flame and then become one with the flame in the ritual of the ascension.
This is the same flaming presence of God that appeared to Moses, that Zarathustra adored, the same whirlwind which took Elijah and which as “a cloud” received Jesus from Bethany’s hill.
All who have similarly merged with the flame through obedience to the inner law of their own God-free being, through the sacrifice of the lesser self unto the Greater Self, have, following their final earthly embodiment, taken their place among the hosts of the Lord.
Because they have mastered time and space and accelerated, or stepped up, their vibration to the plane of the I AM Presence, they are called “Ascended” Masters.
They, too, are keeping the flame for mankind. Together with their unascended disciples (chelas), they comprise the eternal order known as the Great White Brotherhood.
Dedicated to the salvation of the children of the Light through the World Teachers, its members Above and here below are marked by the white light of their auras. They are “purified and made white” by the eternal Logos into whose I AM Presence they have ascended or are ascending.
Regardless of race, creed, religion, or national origin, all children of God can walk the same path of initiation which the Ascended Masters and their disciples have walked: They, too, can ascend into the Presence of the living God—the Mighty I AM Presence—and become a part of the heavenly hosts.
This description of The Great White Brotherhood comes from information about the Keepers of the Flame® Fraternity.
The Keepers of the Flame Fraternity is a non-denominational spiritual fraternity for men and women in the tradition of ancient spiritual orders. It is composed of warriors of light who pledge to see this earth through to a golden age of freedom, peace and enlightenment by uniting to keep the flame of life.