Edna
Lister
When suffering pain, you must know that this is but an endurance test for the definite purpose of
Ascension. To “know” this,
you must ascend in consciousness beyond “believing” this
is true.
The crystallized cells you built into nerve tissue from the past
can only be burned out by intense activity. Nerves are the last of
the outer to be refined. Since nerves are the seats of all sensation,
pain, sorrow or joy, there is great ability to stand pain involved.
The process of lifting the bodies to dwell in the electronic fire
body is, from start to finish, one of pain and a certain pulling-apart
sensation, uncomfortable to bear. When nerves quiver, it is above
any ordinary earth pain. It is the only way you can refine, to purify
the spiritual body.
As you proceed, the pain will diminish in intensity, and occur less
often. The Power and the Glory of the Ascension refinement of bodies
is indescribable. It must be witnessed in person to know the meaning
of “ecstacy” and “rapture.” For the rapture
and ecstacy of the ascended body dwelling cannot be bought or bestowed
by God.
The only vehicle to carry you from the outer coarseness of the physical
is the ship of endurance, and the only invocation for release is, “Let
there be Light,” and “This is good.” There is no
turning back. Forward, onward, march is the by-word, with rapturous
interludes between the endurance tests.
To seek the Kingdom just to “know something” does not
open the veils of Maya. You must tear asunder the last, the seventh
veil of Maya strand by strand, each strand representing a nerve.
Retrogression can set in only when the egoic soul seeks to piece
together the strands of that last veil, to seek “comfort” or
commiseration.
As each strand of the last veil is severed, it is rolled up and made
into a brick in the egoic soul’s pathway going above. When
a strand is left hanging through retrogression, it becomes a lash
of further suffering and grief, with the physical body hardening
and becoming one mess of physical pain. For while the seat of sensation
is in desire body, every physical cell becomes an entity of special
pain and this pain is that pain, which the doctors cannot touch;
the suffering is tremendous.
At this point in Ascension, you can attain true joy only by suffering
and holding. Any other way to joy can fail and you may fall until
you have nothing left.
When will you have completed this Ascension? When you no longer notice
the endurance tests. Remember, for every pain you suffer, your Guards
lift a hundred. And you have the joy of knowing you have paid the
debts of your family, friends and your share of world debts.
