Part of the Casswiki article series Cassiopaean Experiment
In FOTCM parlance, ascension refers to completing the development possible for and cosmically required of the human form and consequently moving to a qualitatively different form of being.
Close synonyms are “[graduating to fourth density](Graduation to fourth density)”, or accomplishing the Great Work of the alchemist. In Fourth Way terms, when man has evolved to man 7 and acquired an “immortal” [astral body](Bodies of man), such a transformation may in principle be possible after death.