Joshua David Stone - Innovations in Ascended Master Teachings

Innovations in Ascended Master Teachings

In the mid-1990s, Dr. Stone became the first ascended master teachings teacher ever to admit a UFO related entity, Ashtar (whom he referred to as the Master Ashtar), to the ranks of the ascended masters, by incorporating the teachings of the medium Tuella into his own teachings. Dr. Stone portrayed the "Master Ashtar" as commanding a space fleet of thousands of flying saucers watching over Earth, with the extraterrestrial being Vrillon functioning as his communications director. According to Stone, these flying saucers are based on several oblong artificial asteroids about 100 miles in diameter that function as mother ships for the flying saucer fleet, with a total population of millions of extraterrestrials, orbiting in the outer reaches of the Solar System in the Kuiper belt. The saucers in Master Ashtar's flying saucer fleet are manned, he asserted, by both Venusians and aliens from the Galactic Confederation based on the artificial asteroids. According to Stone, the Master Jesus, under his "galactic" name of Sananda, works with Commander Ashtar, and is actually the Commander-in-Chief of the Ashtar Galactic Command flying saucer fleet, with his own command flying saucer (this was originally revealed through Tuella in the early 1980s). According to Tuella and Stone, Pallas Athena (the “twin flame” (celestial wife) of the Maha Chohan in the Ascended Master Teachings) rides with Sananda in his command flying saucer and is second in command of the fleet, while the Commander Ashtar is actually third in command. According to Stone, another name used to denote Commander Ashtar's flying saucer fleet is The Airborne Division of the Great White Brotherhood.

Stone also pushed the boundaries of the ascended masters teachings by channeling entities dwelling farther out in our galaxy than any other medium had ever attempted to do before. He formulated a chart he called the "Cosmic Map", in which he, for the first time ever for any ascended master teachings teacher, detailed the structure of the ascended master hierarchy within the Milky Way Galaxy. According to writings of Joshua David Stone, this sector of the Milky Way Galaxy—one twelfth of the total volume of the galactic disc—is governed by a cosmic being (Elizabeth Clare Prophet's term—Stone himself uses the term cosmic master instead of cosmic being to denote ascended masters of extraterrestrial origin) named Melchior working out of the constellation of the Great Bear (Alice A. Bailey stated that each of the Seven Rays is focused from the center of the galaxy through one of the seven stars of the Big Dipper). Working with "Melchior" on the governing council of this sector of the galaxy operating from Ursa Major is said to be the cosmic being Melchizedek (not the same being as the terrestrial Master Melchizedek, said by Elizabeth Clare Prophet to be the ascended master that the Biblical Melchizedek became after his death on Earth). According to Joshua David Stone, there is a powerful cosmic being functioning at the galactic core of the Milky Way Galaxy named Averran, whom he identified as the governing deity of the Milky Way Galaxy and thus the personification in the ascended master teachings of what in conventional Theosophy is called the Galactic Logos. Working with Averran at the galactic core under his authority are said to be the cosmic beings Vywamus, Lenduce, Adonis and Atlanto.

According to Stone, the Galactic Confederation of Planets is a galaxy-wide organization.