The Mount of Transfiguration

158:0.1It was near sun­down on Fri­day af­ter­noon, Au­gust 12, A.D. 29, when Je­sus and his as­so­ciates reached the foot of Mount Her­mon, near the very place where the lad Tiglath once waited while the Mas­ter as­cended the moun­tain alone to set­tle the spir­i­tual des­tinies of Uran­tia and tech­ni­cally to ter­mi­nate the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion. And here they so­journed for two days in spir­i­tual prepa­ra­tion for the events so soon to fol­low.

158:0.2In a gen­eral way, Je­sus knew be­fore­hand what was to tran­spire on the moun­tain, and he much de­sired that all his apos­tles might share this ex­pe­ri­ence. It was to fit them for this rev­e­la­tion of him­self that he tar­ried with them at the foot of the moun­tain. But they could not at­tain those spir­i­tual lev­els which would jus­tify their ex­po­sure to the full ex­pe­ri­ence of the vis­i­ta­tion of the ce­les­tial be­ings so soon to ap­pear on earth. And since he could not take all of his as­so­ciates with him, he de­cided to take only the three who were in the habit of ac­com­pa­ny­ing him on such spe­cial vig­ils. Ac­cord­ingly, only Pe­ter, James, and John shared even a part of this unique ex­pe­ri­ence with the Mas­ter.