http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascended_masterIn a statement entitled, Ascended Masters, A Revelation of Ignorance written in 1988 and reproduced in his book The Way In, the Australian spiritual teacher, Barry Long described Ascended Masters as half masters who by virtue of the fact that they have come back (by possessing the living bodies of channelers) reveal their own ignorance. Barry did not entertain the idea that the ascended masters were figments of the imagination made up by the theosophists. In the final paragraph he gives a message to these masters including Kuthumi, Djwal Khul, Morya, Maitreya, Archangel Michael, Serapis, Master Hilarion, Ramtha, telling them 'to die for the truth' in the body they have possessed, withdraw and 'go on'.
btw, I am NOT recommending Barry Long as a sane resource....