White Eagle on Spiritual Tests
This morning I was guided to pull White Eagle's book On Living In
Harmony With The Spirit out one my bookshelves. When I opened the book,
my eyes landed on the following passage. Because it so spoke to me, I
thought I'd share it with you.
"The soul receives continual
opportunity to attain divine illumination. During its every
incarnation, lessons are presented - call them tests, if you like -
which are actually opportunities for progress and initiation. Test come
to you in almost every detail of life. By these you can gauge the
reaction of your emotions to human events, the reactions of your minds
to life in general, and the reaction of your hearts in the love you
feel towards other beings. Finally, through the tests you will
recognize how you are bringing the divine attributes right through your
physical nature, and your ability to direct and control your life by
calling upon the supreme love, power, wisdom and intelligence of the
Most High - your Creator.
"Your life is charged with
opportunities to grow in wisdom, love and divine power. Beloved, put
your hand into the hand of God... and He-She will lead you step by step.
Make the effort to walk God's way and you will pass your tests and
initiations (expansions of consciousness) until you become as one of
the twenty four elders around the throne. Once you know humility you
will strip yourself of your crown light - which means that you will
know that you are as nothing, for you move and have all your being in
God. In God's life alone you can live and know supreme happiness beyond
all earthly understanding.
"This is the answer to the many who
are so deeply troubled by life's contradictions. They ask, 'Why? Why?
Why? What have I done, that this trouble should come to me?' All we can
reply is that you have either refrained from or needlessly neglected
some opportunity to serve or to express kindness to your earthly
companions. This is why the suffering came. You will go on to ask, '
What is the good of it all?’ perhaps protesting that because you cannot
remember what happened so long ago, the suffering fails in its object.
To which we answer that if your physical brain cannot remember, your
deeper consciousness knows well that it has earned the experience.
"Be
thankful, therefore, and accept all your opportunities disguised as
so-called karma. Suppose a person goes through a particularly dark
patch of trouble or sickness, or suffers a great loss, undergoes some
kind of limitation or hardship, or meets misunderstanding or injustice.
All these experiences, when seen in their right perspective - with
understanding that they are lessons through which your master is trying
to make you see and understand life more perfectly - all these will be
recognized as tests. Furthermore, you will always find, however
trifling a test may seem, that when it is passed, there has come a
change. "I shall never be the same again', you say. That is true, never
the same, but always better, let us hope; for in minor way an expansion
of consciousness or understanding of human nature and human experience
has been the result.