Testimony of Light 12

Sister Frances continues her 'dictation' to Helen -

9 March 1966

I passed through the experience of death firmly believing in the Resurrection, but not of the body that clothed me on earth. How could I ever desire to bring an old, worn-out thing into this new Life? Or ever to occupy it again at any future experience?

Here I have a body, certainly, but it is of finer composition than my late physical body. Here I look as I did on earth, or relatively as I looked, but here I am free to refashion this body by thought. I am beginning that adventure of breaking out of the prison of those creeds which limited the reality of life. Here I dwell temporarily amongst my fellow religious, in a community which is entirely dedicated to helping souls to awaken to greater freedom before they proceed onwards to their 'rightful places,' and to the extent in which I am allowed to participate, I am learning more and more of the true values of each soul's experience in all the worlds through which it is destined to pass in its progress towards Destiny.

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. It is a 'forward and backward' movement, if I may be allowed to use a contradictory expression. Each soul and each group moves onwards towards greater expansion, towards the Divine conception of an illimitable Creation, individually and collectively. Yet at the same time each group and each soul directs 'backwards' to the plane below its present achievement, the fruits of its knowledge. These ideas, ideals and conceptions fit into and make manifest, the Divine Pattern or Plan as far as this can be accepted by the souls still steeped in the illusion and glamour of matter. No acceptance of another soul's belief colours progress. 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.

Helpers and Teachers and Great Souls there are in number to explain such errors of thinking, but there are no rules to follow and obey, except the Divine Precepts of Love, Light, Wisdom and Understanding.

Jesus said: "I am the Light of the World," and truly He had found and could live in that Light. We are striving to live also in that Light as it presents itself as truth to us individually. This is the glory of the Christian religion, as of all religions; this inner stamp of Divinity in each soul, whether blinded and deafened by material thinking or not. Our 'inner eyes' are opened gradually or swiftly to the errors of our old patterns of thinking and acting. We are allowed to progress into such experiences as will help us to put right these errors. In some, this means remaining in one state until the effects of the disasters of their actions in earth lives have been resolved and love and harmony have healed the hurts. For others, this means joining a Group where the omissions in their thinking and feeling can be remedied. Yet still for others there is service to their fellows, whilst to those happy few advanced souls, there is swift progress to other and higher spheres.

The 'serial' life from one plane to another, from one experience to another, from one group to another, from one adventure to another, from partial understanding to deeper comprehension, from apparent separation to inherent unity and on into the bliss of Divine Reality, that seems to me, as far as I have progressed, and as clearly as my growing understanding has shown me, to be the 'glorious truths.'