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“Here, in this place in the afterlife, and in other places here, those who have passed over take part in what we call the Ceremony of Light. It is a formation of thought, a deep concerted concentration that springs from a deep desire to experience Life and yet more Life, to unite with the Supreme Essence, to realise as far as one’s present consciousness will allow, that life is expansion, that Light is but the widening of one’s inner perceptions.
Such ceremonies and festivals here seem to be for the purpose of breaking down barriers which obstruct those lingering inhibitions of the personality which circumscribe the soul and which have to be consciously dissolved and discarded before Light can truly flow in. In these Festivals of Light there is ‘a raising up’ into Power and energy rather than a ‘pouring down’.
As one takes one’s place here amongst the Community of Souls making this observance of ceremony, one is conscious of a supreme quickening of tempo, a heightening of the action of the dynamo of the Spirit. There is a distinct feeling of growth; the subtle body seems to expand, to become less gross, to stretch into a new elasticity and ethereal content. The mind soars to a hitherto unexplored vastness of creative activity. The Spirit fills all with a dynamic lift of consciousness. New and vast concepts stream into the mind. The onward Path is illumined with a clarity that surpasses all imagination.
“This is Truth” one whispers, awed yet exhilarated. “This is Light.”
These festivals here are accompanied with music on a grander scale than anything that is performed on earth. Yet have I never ‘seen’ instruments such as were necessary for the production of such harmonies on earth. The notes are trilled as though by some unseen performers. There is no dissonance, but a growing ascendancy of some majestic theme; there is a swelling of harmony until a particular chord or Note is reached and held. Here, the Note, when at last reached and sounded in full, is held and vibrated at a pitch of intensity which sweeps every soul into harmony. Then light breaks through into the assembly. . .
Light surrounds us, lifts us, touches us, awakens us. One finds oneself trying to express the Note with all of one’s mind and all feeling and intensity of which one is capable. Thought, feeling, expression, aspiration and exaltation become united in one vast effort to capture and hold in consciousness that Note, to live in and become the vibration of that Ray of Light expressed through the sounding Note.
This is union with the vast Worlds of Spirit. It is the Light that permeates and becomes Essence in us.”
Testimony of Light
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