The Brotherhood of Ascended Masters, The Brotherhood, or The Ascended Masters are those  who achieved advanced spiritual development while living on the material plane and now reside in the Worlds of Light.  From there, they continue to be teachers by helping those still in the material world to develop spiritually.  There members include Jesus, Buddha, Joraster and the other great saints and prophets of all religions including those who worked quietly through small schools and are not known to most of us.  They work together to bring about spiritual enlightenment while looking forward to the day when we on the material plane will all work together in harmony as well.
     They help us in many ways.  They may communicate directly with some of the more advanced spiritual teachers still in the material world.  They may come to us through dreams.  They may be responsible for causing some of those strange coincidences that Jung called "syncronicity". Just when you are thinking about getting more seriously into spiritual development, they may cause you to look at a magazine and notice an add for a spiritual school that is just right for you at this point in your spiritual awakening.  
     Sometimes they may work in a more indirect way through those who may not be ready for spiritual development themselves but who, through talents they have, can help others to awaken their spiritual self.  They can be muses to writers, composers, poets and artists of all kinds resulting in writings that have subtle phrases that may awaken something in some people who read it and art that has images that do the same.  They may
be the source of a combination of sounds that just pop into a composer's head and results in music that vibrates and stimulates the chakras (energy centers) and breaks down barriers to energy flow.