Testimony of Light

Link to Instrumental Transcommunication video clip showing a landscape in the ascended realm of existence.  (1, 2)

"The late Frances Banks, M.A.

(formerly Sister Frances Mary of the Community of the Resurrection, Grahamstown, South Africa)"

 

Most of Testimony of Light (1969) by Helen Greaves consists of communicated "Scripts" expressing the perspective of Frances Banks in the ascended dimension of life.  Frances had lived as a nun and participated in a meditation group with Helen.  Following the introductory article about the book, this article presents excerpts of the "extra-sensory perceptions of clairaudience and telepathy" experienced by Helen upon finding herself a 'channel' for the "Scripts" following her friend's passing from cancer.  
 
After the memorial service for Frances, Helen experienced a euphoric Sunday evening that she expressed as being an occasion when she was "not only in touch with my own immortal soul but also with the soul of Frances Banks."
 
In the 2009 edition of Testimony of Light, there are 125 pages of "The Scripts" dating between December 5, 1965 and April 16, 1966.  Helen explained there was a period of nearly 17 months before another, briefer interim of communication.  The 18 pages of the "Second Series of Scripts" are dated between September 3 and December 10, 1967.

Among these scripts are descriptions of people encountered by Frances while she was becoming acquainted with the nature of the new plane of existence.  There are renewed associations first made during earthly life, including Mother Florence and Father Joseph.  Among the numerous new contacts was 'Mr. M,' a scientist who professed that his research always indicated "a certain X factor which was beyond man's conception, the perfect Creative Factor, a Supreme Mind"; while 'Dr. X' was a surgeon who became aware of  an inner "all-knowing, all-perfect someone who, when I stood aside and let Him take over, performed miracles of surgery through my brain and hands."  
 
There was also a Nazi leader (not Hitler) who'd committed suicide after the downfall of Germany: "He was conscious of his terrible cruelty and filled with remorse . . . His besetting sin, which blacked out all else, was love of power; it swelled into viciousness against another race, even causing him to put to death men, women and children of that race . . ."  After 20 Earth years he had been rescued and would soon be confronted by another 'patient' in the new 'Home' of Frances — a young Jewish mother who was one of his victims. 

A 'Great Physician' was the 'Leader' of a team of doctors within a "medical circle" on the "higher Planes": "One was there who had been a great physician, a beloved physician, when on earth; a soul whose countenance was beautiful beyond any description of mine.  He radiated spiritual love and beauty."

There is an encounter with Pierre Curie: "I was able to have a word or two with Pierre Curie, even though on earth he was a Frenchman . . . Language affords no difficulty over here . . ."  The conversation brings Frances an insight about how mankind may evolve: ". . . do away with the dread and fear of death and teach the eternal Oneness of life."  Pierre Curie is quoted: "We are perhaps employed on the palliative side; to relieve and cure that which misapplied thought and energy and ignorance have crystallized." 

A patient in Frances's 'Home' was 'the man on a bicycle' — a bicycle-riding laborer who "made an art of stealing" while on Earth and continued to have moral "stumbling blocks" preventing him from adapting himself to the new conditions of life.

There was an 'arrival' who had been a missionary nurse put to death by natives.  She was accompanied by 'Laki,' a small native boy she'd befriended.  "They had arrived here together, for it seemed that even in the period of transition to this plane she had held the child to her with love . . . She had lived what so many of us had talked about."  This 'arrival' soon went to her "rightful Place": "Love had been translated to Higher Spheres, you see, long before intellect, as in the scientist, or skill, as with Dr. X, had been ready to ascend."

Another resident of the Home was an ex-policeman feeling anguish about his troubled daughter on the earth plane: "He no longer feels shame or anger, only a great desire to express his love for her and to help her redeem herself from the life she is leading."

A pretty child named Jeannie had lived to be nearly 12 years old on Earth.  Her ambition had been to become a dancer until contracting polio and undergoing several operations.  In her new life, she resumed her plans to be a dancer.  Jeannie told Frances: "I've got to be perfect at dancing . . . Before I go back to the earth again . . . really to be a dancer."

There was also encountered "a Frenchman" who on Earth was "a painter of promise, who dissipated the gift . . . indulging in drink and drugs . . ."  During a night brawl "he killed a fellow artist, and himself received a knife wound from which he later died."  His current habitat was "a dreary little 'room' in a dark and crooked street in Shadow Land"; however, he "still  cherished in his soul some remembrances of beauty."  Frances told him: "There is a way out."

Excerpts from "The Scripts"

After the Change was over and I was free of my earthly "covering" I "woke up" here in this hospital of the Rest Home.  My room had no walls and the sunlight seemed to flow over one all the time.  I opened my eyes . . . or I came back to consciousness . . . and there was Mother Florence just as she used to be and as I had remembered her for so many years.


Some of our patients here have got "stuck."  And that is where I, who myself am undergoing this kind of mental and spiritual "psychiatry" am able to help them.


Because this plane is only a few rungs or so higher than the earth plane, there are the same conditions, hospitals, as with your civilizations, and prisons, only here they are self-made.


It has been a wonderful experience, discussion with this man [Mr. M].  He sees now that consciousness is the expanding X Factor which goes on becoming stronger and more able to lighten matter; and that before him lies a glorious conception of a Universe of ever-increasing Light and, therefore, ever-lightening matter with which to experiment.

Now he is absorbed in the wonder, not only that he himself is a unit of consciousness, but also because of his transition from the body, the pattern of his own energy ratio has changed, has become less dense, so that he is now able to work at a stepped-up intensity, using a wider field of magnetic force.

What a lot I have learned from him!

Here are two of us conferring; he with his great knowledge of atomic reactions in matter and I, with my inherent conviction that the Spirit is the Light (the X Factor) which is the focus, the power and motive of and for all.

You can understand how thrilling and exciting this is.

My friend (I will call him Mr. M.) will not be here in this Rest Home much longer . . . (I could say "unfortunately" for I shall miss our sessions).  He will be going on to join a group of scientists working on the higher Planes.  But he says that he will still make contact with me, even though I elect to stay on here for a while.  And, of course, there is telepathy of the mind for us to radio ideas to each other.


[Dr. X quoted:]  "Since I was a young man I had always known that the 'Surgeon' was within me . . ."


[Dr. X quoted:] "I had made it a practice to keep quiet and be alone for a while on the days when such skill was required in the course of my work, so as to contact Him.  I was never a religious man.  I don't think I regarded Him as God or Christ.  But He was the strength and the cunning of my hands.  His was the inspiration which guided and governed my brain.  I was perfectly sure and certain of that, although I never spoke of it to others.  Without Him and His judgment, skill and serenity, I was as nothing.  And when each operation was over and I went to the tap to wash up, I used to feel physically sick at the possibility that, one day, I might lose touch with Him. . . . I recall I always said 'thank you' after each extended session in the operating theater.

"But on this particular day when the accident occurred, I had rushed to the hospital after an emotional row with the woman I thought I loved.  There had been no time for quiet, or for recollection of my 'Celestial Surgeon,' if I may call Him this.  I was in an emotional turmoil."


[Dr. X quoted:]  "Had I realized then that He is (as Christ instructed us) ever ready to be contacted, I might have had strength to go on without making the muddle I did of my life. . . ."


Suddenly, without preamble, this blue vista broke up, and became a cinema or television screen.  Pictures began to emerge on it.  They were not superimposed as in a cinema, but seemed to "grow into it" from the very ether itself.  These pictures appeared to form themselves.

They showed moments of stress, moments of triumph, moments of failure in the earth life of Doctor X.  We saw patients; we watched him in his diagnoses; we followed him to the theater and witnessed his operations, and as we watched, we became conscious (as he did) of the great Light that enfolded him as he worked.


Jesus came to show and demonstrate that man lived on after leaving the earth plane.  He taught that this God Force, this Life is truly within every one of us, dimmed yet unextinguishable.


The saying on earth "As a man thinks, so is he" is true in essence, truer than our ideas can conceive.  By man's thoughts and inspirations he weaves for himself his future place in this dimension.  This is logical Law.  In the earth life he can build a facade about himself.  Here he has no such mask.  He is known for what he is, and for what his inner subjective life has made him.


A Messenger arrived with a guide, and little Laki went on to his rightful place.  His foster-mother was overjoyed for she knew that she would be able to visit him and help him as she had done when in the physical body.  Here I must say a word about the boy.  A child is so much nearer to the soul-life.  Even this child's few short years on earth, six I believe, had scarcely separated him from his before-birth contact with Divine Love.  This Love had been continued for him by his missionary "mother."  He accepted our new life with a quiet wonder and yet a fulfilled joy.  He loved us all, and once he told Mother Florence of a great angel whom, he said, he had seen with us in the home.  For me it has been a precious and wonderful experience to have witnessed the rebirth here of such innocence; the soul of this child, unpolluted, untainted by the materialism and separation of earth beliefs, was so ready for the heaven world.  I can express it best by saying it was like a bud opening into flower here.


"Prayers and good thoughts," he [Father Joseph] told me, "for those who have left the earth life, by their fellows still in incarnation, are a great aid to our work here.  The prayer forms, and the potency of good thoughts, cause a quickened vibration to reach the one prayed for.  As he is generally closely connected with his former life by interests and affections and memories, he is able to respond to such vibrations; thus he is much helped.  Such petitions and meditations could be likened to a draft of healing water for the newly transmitted soul."


I have met my family, and visited my father, mother, sister and brother.  But as this is a private affair and not relevant to the purpose of these communications, I shall not write about it. . . .


[concerning cancer]  Doctor X spoke of the use of a pure Light Ray, and I understood him to be referring to the Laser.  In the future, he asserts, such a Ray will be used more extensively and will project its light onto these rogue cells.  Later, he says, the Band will help to impress the minds of researchers with the realization that, apart from its cutting power, this Ray, or rather a variation of it in modified form, can be used as a sort of catalyst to reform the cellular pattern which has gone awry.


Here we are mind (stepped down to our individual potency, I grant), but still mind, untrammelled by the destructive and apparent reality of matter. . . . Therefore, by thought and will, we can travel far out beyond what constitutes our immediate circumstances, if we wish.

As I think I have stressed before, this stretching out into Light and Life can appear as a dream-extension.  Yet, conversely, it is true and real to the dreamer!  Perhaps it is Reality itself . . . at my present stage I cannot know.


I was conscious of being in a great "atmosphere" of learning.


The "buildings" appeared Grecian in character, clean of line and symmetrical.


There were outer courts and beautiful vistas of gardens, where fountains of Light played.  Here there were many souls, groups of students, sometimes surrounding One who appeared to be a Teacher, intent upon His discourse, or composed in deep meditation with Him; sometimes in clusters eagerly discussing together, and sometimes a student alone and apart in contemplation.  These here were of all types and from all nations.


There are Stations on this plane where communication with the earth plane is possible.  (I always had an idea of this but now I know it is a fact.)  In these Stations there are helpers and servers who have dedicated their knowledge and service to helping those who long to send messages to loved ones still on earth.  The technique employed, I understand, is quite "special" and very difficult at first to follow, even by those who desire to use it.  But there are Stations, there are Directors for this work, there are administrators and (in a sense) technicians to run them.


After talking with savants I have been privileged to meet here there seems no reason for me to change my earthly acceptance of the fact of repeated lives, and therefore of a possibility of previewing the presentable future, even when in a material body.  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.


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.


Mother Florence, two other Sisters and I made our journey into what you would call the Underworld.  Here we prefer the description Shadow Land, for this is indeed a Land of Shadows.  The journey to this place is difficult and wearying for we have, by concentrated thought power, to "slow down" our vibrations so that our "bodies" will be enabled to endure the physical conditions pertaining therein.  The Sisters never go without the special Messengers who guide them there and conduct them to the various stations on the way.


I live mostly now in an astral body and that gives a measure of greater freedom than a dense physical body, but I am very aware of my Higher Body, or if you wish, my inner self, much more aware of it than when in incarnation in the physical plane of matter.  I am now learning, and achieving, I trust, a higher balance of living.  By this I mean that I am becoming aware of my Spiritual Body and in so doing I am enabled to absent myself from this plane of thought, the astral or emotional, and slip away in consciousness to the higher Mental and Spiritual planes of thought.


I am trying to function more and more in this Body of Light.  I cannot sustain it for long yet, but I have the joy and bliss of the certainty of a further expansion which is available to us all.  This is the next step in progression, the stepping out of illusion into the consciousness of the functioning of the Higher Self, an emergence into a wider consciousness and an awareness of Spiritual Beings and of Forces from the All-Creative Mind of God.