Book: Testimony of Light (Part 2)

4th February – pg 83
…that the soul needs to ‘project’ some part of Itself back into the denser environment of earth in repeated attempts to master the trials and stresses of those vibrations…. When a soul (or that portion of a soul which seeks enlargement of experience) reincarnates, it is at a certain stage in its Divine Blueprint. It will seek a trial of strength in some experiences, a leading role in human affairs in others, an emotional compensation in personal relationships and so forth. Therefore, up to a point, it fixes its own ‘coming events’ because they will afford it the necessary experience it has come to gather… In other words, as there is no such thing as time, the beginning, ending and the actual event are all one.

7th February – pg 85
Many who arrive here are either completely overwhelmed by the fact of a further existence, or disillusioned because in their narrow creeds, they have envisaged a heaven of utter delight which, to such crude imaginations, included the joyful inference that from henceforth no efforts would ever be needed by them. In fact, a blessed state of negativity, of passive acceptance, of paradise, a kind of super-Welfare State where they would dream away Eternity. But this is certainly no super-Welfare State….This is an existence in another dimension of thought; disease, poverty, cruelty, suffering as it is known on earth could not possibly exist here…
Our work is to be on hand when those newly arrived entities awake to awareness…. Our ‘patients’ stay with us until they have adjusted to this new life and are ready to join their dear ones or their special Groups… the Sisters explain the Rest Home and its purpose… I suppose you could call this a hospital, a home of rest upon the Way… The weary souls, the frightened souls, the ignorant and ‘fallen’ souls, together with those who have been ‘rescued’ from the ‘Land of Shadows’ required understanding and explanation of their sore states, and there are some to whom Survival has to be explained, even demonstrated.

9th February – pg 87
This is indeed a world of thought. You live, of course, also in a thought world, only with you, thought has been crystallized very deeply into matter and much of the illusion of that existence has become ‘solidified’ in the earth mind….Here the persona, or mask, has been removed and our very thoughts are open to all. This new interest in many of the world’s scientists in Extra Sensory Perception, especially in the fact of Telepathy, will result in wearing away of this persona mask, for through it, disloyalty, insincerity, lying, will be disclosed.
Anger, irritation, depression can actually be seen in the appearance and ‘field’ surrounding an entity. They can actually be felt and sometimes ‘heard’ as a low warning, drumming, rather like a wasp’s buzzing.
Thoughts are truly things. That is why, when an entity comes over to this plane he, or she, automatically graduates to the rightful place. That is Law. It also explains why some folk are so surprised and dismayed at their surrounding. For instance, one who has lived an ordinary good life shall we say, doing the right things, attending to his outward religious observances, but all the time concealing within himself black thoughts of envy, malice, uncharitable ness, will find himself in the company of such as he is, and sometimes of those worse than he is. Dismay will fill his soul until he realizes that this great Law is just, until he makes efforts to adjust his thinking of Love, Charity, Truth and to try to redress the wrongs he has worked on others… One has only to have a glimpse of the Planes of Mind, where emotions have been conquered and transmuted into aspiration, to realize the wonder of Creation… One has only to see the dark misery of the self-imprisonment of souls in the shadow-worlds to understand the justice and the balance of the Life Force.
When telepathy and mind-communication become more widespread in the world, then will Light be raised up in man and he will realize his oneness with all.

17th February –pg 96
There are Heavens…. But there are also Hells though differing from the physical hells and everlasting fiery torments of man’s warped imagination…Yet these hells are not eternal. The man (or woman) in these mental torments need stay there no longer than his desires keep him. He is free to resist the hatreds, cruelties, lusts of his lower nature which he has retained from his earth life and which are keeping him in dark dungeons amid like-minded inhabitants. He can always choose to follow the Light of Love, Forgiveness and Harmony and always there are souls ready to help, to guide, to comfort and to assist.
Cause and Effect is still the Law on this plane of astral matter, as it is on earth. I understand that only as the soul proceeds onward in its progress into Higher Realms can this Law be superseded, and then other and higher Laws must be obeyed.
The journey to this place (the Land of Shadows) is difficult and wearying for we have, by concentrated thought power, to ‘slow down’ our vibrations… The Shadow Land is a very real place indeed; a gloomy murk covers it to which one has to become accustomed; squalid dwellings inhabited by unhappy, tormented beings who jeer and mock and pursue their warped existences. Sometimes these poor souls live in hatred and rebellion, sometimes in apathy and sometime fierce denial that there is any other state of existence possible.
(Here, the story being told is about a painter that she encounter while she was there. Apparently, the painting that he painted are all dull and how in the end, he was persuaded to move on to brighter colors which shines with more Light.)

19th February – pg 102
And now as I look back over my earth life, I realize that so much was illusion…Like most of us in the body life I was in illusion; lost in glamour. I looked for the Spirit to reveal itself to me, when all that was necessary was ‘relaxation unto God’. The Spirit was always with me, veiled because physical sight could not view it. The great secret of finding that Spirit was the ‘letting go’ of self. I, who longed so much for the touch of the divine, who dedicated my life to religious work, who read lives of the saints for their examples, who delved into the sciences of psychology, extra-sensory perception and all psychic phenomena, as well as into the occult sciences, who denied myself the usual sensual and reproductive life of a human being; who truly tried to obey the precepts of the Master, as related in the New Testament, I had accepted the simple Reality of those words: “Behold, I am with you even unto the end”.I had not being able to let go, and let the Spirit absorb me.


25th February – pg 104
…as far as my progress will allow, and believe me, the barriers are in one’s own consciousness…The only hindrances to progress are from one’s own limited reception of Light.
…now you see for yourself how the Light seemed to have been withdrawn from you during your own feelings of weakness and sickness. It is as if there has been a power cut in the electrical supply. Because the body entities are so real to us in our earth life, and because, as yet, most of us are not sufficiently advanced to supersede this body-call, we are cut off from the High Supply. The vibrations slow down – become grounded in matter – become denser and harder to penetrate.

9th March – pg 106
I see that you have been reading Dr. Weatherhead’s book The Christian Agnostic… ‘Unless we can break out of the prison of old-fashioned expressions, creeds and formulae, we shall never be free to find the far more glorious truths which are inherent in the Christian religion.’
Not that I no longer believed in God, or did not care to follow the pattern of Jesus, nor that I doubted that Christ was the Light of the World, but because, into my experience and thoughts had seep, to me, an explanation of these mysteries. Personal discovery had implanted within me doubts of the veracity of those tenets of the Faith which even more than twenty years ago were being superseded as outmoded, limited in interpretation, and impractical forms for modern belief.
There are no tenets, no creeds, no formulae, no hard and fast rules devised by any mind to restrict or confine progress here. All is individual, and yet all is for the good of the whole; for the advancement of the group… each soul and each group moves onward towards greater expansion… individually and collectively. The soul must judge for itself – must make its own progress, must choose what to accept as truth for itself. No soul is coerced, forced or bound by creeds. If he believes that this is Heaven, or conversely that he is in Hell, then for him that is so at his present state of progress.

25th March – pg 114
We are, to my limited knowledge, all members not of one Group but many, and the many make up the Great Group or the Great Soul Being in which we live and move and have our being…
First of all we belong to a Family Group. The Family Group Soul is the most important in their lives. The next Groups are the Group of interest, passionate attachments to the arts, music, education, social sciences and social service. These are wider, more extensive Groups and extend beyond families and individuals to smaller Groups. The next stage of groups is on a higher level and is not always attained by souls who desire rapid return to earth conditions. We could compare these Higher Groups with the advanced classes in a university. In the guidance of these Groups are great Beings, watching over their cell-like clusters of souls. They worked on higher mental Rays of influence. These Soul Groups are extensive, yet concentrated in their classes and workshops. They work for progress in Divine Imagination … Amongst them are philosophers, scientists, researchers, priests, teachers. They are parts of Groups which influence and impress such movements on earth as Psychic Research, Healing movements, Religious Co-operation, the advancement of Science and all movement intended to bring Light upon future worlds.

28th March – pg 118
Here, progress, when made, is always rewarded with a service. In other words, as one advances to greater Light, so one is allowed to teach and guide others of the Group on a lesser path. The Group itself is made up of souls at all levels of consciousness, from highest to the mediocre, but the Spirit of the Groups only Itself advances as the younger and less knowledgeable members make progress. It is a unified advance. Thus we are indeed ‘one with another’ and it seems to me that one of our chief lesson to learn whilst immersed in the personality is that of tolerance. For often we do not know who is a member of our same group… we may find that the other person is an advanced member of our own Group to whom we are indissolubly linked by ties of spiritual kinship.
On the other hand there are souls to whom we instinctively and immediately react with affection, admiration, union…but now I realize that those souls who attract us are part of ourselves.