The Burning Sands of the Desert

The way to Wisdom's Well is a path through the burning sands of the desert in consciousness. As a series of fire initiations, the burning sands of the desert are designed to consume the darkness of self, especially pride and ego, sufficiently to open the Christos initiations on every degree of ascension attainment. These initiations grow more painful only when you resist them.


“The burning sands of the desert initiations will immolate selfishness.”


Navigating the hot, dry and barren burning sands of the desert is your task as you begin walking the Via Christa to reach your full Path of Destiny. Coming after the excitement of awakening (as a Neophyte undergoing Rebirth) and following the new Light on your path (as a Disciple), you must face and overcome the sheer drudgery of the same old hard, boring conquering of self as an Adept seeking to become a Mystic, Master, Priest and Christos.

You know you are in the burning sands when you reach a drab place in consciousness, in which most people look grim, but you can and must choose to smile. Here you learn endurance, and it must be joyful, not grueling.

You will face the burning sands at least three times in your journey on the Via Christa. During the first burning sands of the desert, you lift selfish desires to become one with personal will, which fully awakens the pineal body and pituitary gland into the I AM consciousness of your Oversoul. The selfishness of ages reveals itself here as the dregs of arrogance, pride, rebellion, and resentment.

Passage through the burning sands of the desert may take weeks, months, years or decades to complete. You must walk the last half of the burning sands alone. Unfortunately, most candidates for ascension quit there, well before finishing the journey to glory.

The path of the burning sands, fire initiations, temptations and shafts of fire are all methods of purifying self and cleansing soul records. Together with obedience to law, this helps you to sublimate and ascend the creative fire.


Warning: Completing this initiation often takes more than a single lifetime.


Until you pass the 33 Degrees of Initiation (the expression of perfected personal responsibility), the pineal body and pituitary gland are adequate for limited spiritual seeing and hearing. However, to ascend farther, you must lift the base of your spiritual seeing and hearing to the hypothalamus gland, and this requires a second burning sands of the desert.

You may face several more courses in the burning sands as well, depending on your fervent desire to ascend. The burning sands of the desert will immolate the selfishness that holds you back from conquering and ascending. You will lose only what your soul no longer needs.

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Edna Miriam Lister
1884 –1971
The original Pioneering Mystic
minister, teacher, and author

Edna Lister


Note: For an in-depth discussion of the burning sands of the desert initiations, go here.


References

The Compact Edition of The Oxford English Dictionary: 2 vols. E.S.C. Weiner, ed. Oxford University Press, 1971.

Guyton, Arthur C. and Hall, John E. Textbook of Medical Physiology, Saunders Co.; 11th. ed., 2005.


Related Topics

See Burning Sands Initiations

See Creative Fire

See Christos Degree


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