Ritual in Light By Judith Wise-Rhoads The Ritual in Light is a technique for building a Body of Light. Once built, you can use this Body of Light for many tasks. It is difficult to explain but easy to learn as you go along. It acts as your double and can go to places your physical body cannot. It can carry your consciousness with it. It will look like an idealized you and will be under your control. In your spiritual life you are already working on a Body of Light, but most are not aware of it. This will speed up the process and strengthen it by feeding your Body of Light the soul food it needs to grow. The development of spiritual consciousness is a process similar to that of physical growth. The Ritual in Light brings about this spiritual growth. This expands the capacity of our minds to achieve instantaneous contact with the Divine Light. To have electricity in a house it must be wired. This technique is the wiring process for your body, enabling it to receive in a flash the divine spark of eternal life energy. This technique can be done at any time. Mornings before getting up are best. It takes only a few minutes because you are to do it as quickly as is comfortable, without stopping. If you are interrupted, don't worry, it's not a problem. Each step is short and is a complete ritual in itself. Carefully read it enough times that you are confident in what you are doing. You can take your time at first to be sure to get it right. As you become familiar with the technique, you need only to glance at the outline at the end of the article to remind you what to do next. The end of each step marks a complete ritual in itself. You may perform just Step 1, or just Steps 1&2, or 1 through 3, etc., if you wish. First Step: The Figure of Light When you wake in the morning, lie completely relaxed in body and mind. Image a radiant Figure of Light at your feet, with the soles of your feet touching the soles of the Figure, palms up, as illustrated. This contact of the feet is the necessary ground for divine power to spark through the body. Once you have grounded your Figure of Light it remains to light your path for the rest of the day. In the next second, send your vision soaring upward into space until you see above you an Infinite Point of Light, which is your High Self or God/Goddess/All-That-Is. That Point is the station from which inspiration and revelation can flashed into your mind throughout the day whenever you chose to refocus your attention upon it. You have your ground and your mental focus. Now instantly image a flashing Circle of Light from the right side of your head around, through the head of Figure of Light, and back to your own head to complete the circle. The radiant image of the Great Spirit sanctifies your feet for the day's activity and makes your mind capable of receiving inspiration. But actually receiving this inspiration depends on you. This ritual is a daily renewal of strength, our daily bread of life. Don't let the mind wander or linger, let it flash and be finished. This trains our minds to spark for one cannot mediate on or contemplate a flash of lightning. Do not linger on any step. It is a quickening process in every sense of the word. It should be done so quickly that even the busiest people could spare a flashing moment every morning to receive their High Selves. Second Step: Conscious Breathing Our first understanding of initiation comes from our conscious breath. Physical breathing, which is the rhythm of our physical life, is largely unconscious. Conscious breath brings the rhythm of our eternal life energy. In this exercise (and those to follow) remember that when you visualize breath and light, you are actually creating them on another level for your use. Once you visualize your Figure of Light, Circle and Infinite Point of Light, they are really there. Continue to lie completely relaxed, the palms of the hands still up, your feet resting against the Figure of Light's feet and see your Infinite Point of Radiance far above you. Inhale an ordinary physical breath and at the same time visualize breath going down outside the body from the solar plexus to the feet. The breath you visualize looks like your breath on a cold morning. Exhale and visualize breath going straight from the solar plexus to the infinite point above you. This completes a cycle of conscious breathing. Take at least six conscious breaths immediately after the First Step of the Ritual. Do more if you wish, but do not linger over them. You may want to pause the tape to give yourself the tie you need. Let your breathing be perfectly normal and try to do it as rhythmically as possible. Results will appear in your everyday experiences. The life of the initiate does not go around in a circle, but in an upward spiral of progressive experience. The exercises should be a morning routine. They can be done anytime you are worried, annoyed or uncertain. They can be done when sitting, standing or moving. Take a few conscious breaths and you will find your equilibrium returning. Use it at night if you are restless to help you sleep. Third Step: AH MEHAEOO This is the first preparation of our bodies to receive in full consciousness the creative force of the Great Spirit. This exercise brings the light from the feet of the Figure of Light through your insteps in a straight line to your hands. Turn your hands palm down with elbows slightly bent outward and remain completely relaxed. While inhaling normally, breathe in the sound of AHHH. Visualize yourself drawing a ribbon of vivid white light from the feet of the Figure of Light, through your own insteps and up to each of your hands. Keep the light in your hands while you exhale gently, breathing the sound MEH. Do this three times in succession. On the third AHHH the light is fully in your hands, and the third MEH retains it there finally. Now draw the light from hand to elbows on the sound of A and from elbows to the throat on the sound of E. Do A and E on one, same inhaling breath as quickly or as slowly as you please. Then exhaling, make the sound of OOOO for as long as you can manage while sending the breath of light from your throat up to your Infinite Point of Light. Do this three times. As the light reaches the Infinite Point, realize that it fuses instantaneously with the Divine Light. This is the beginning of the Oneness in Light with our High Selves a conscious offering of our spirit in true prayer. You could call it union, communion, communication or merging, if you like. Fourth Step: Elimination This exercise first eliminates old and undesirable reactions. Having freed you from these, it brings to your hand a very important Feeding Substance in Light. After you have drawn the light to your feet, hands, arms and throat in the AH MEH exercise, remain quietly relaxed. Keep your feet in the same position, but turn your hands over so that the palms face upward. To prepare for what you will receive, make a short staccato sound, AH! OO! While ejecting all the unwanted elements of your being through your physical body from your head to your feet. Clear your body as a ramrod clears a gun, with great force. Do this emphatically, repeating the sound loudly and forcefully as often as you need to feel it traveling through your body and out through both feet into the figure of Light. This is the eliminating of all the undesirable reactions in the body. You may want to pause the tape at this point to take your time. Fifth Step: The Shafts of Light Visualize two Shafts of white light starting in your hands and stretching up to infinity. It is the base of a triangle that rests in your hands with its apex beyond the range of your vision. When you have imaged these Shafts of brilliant whiteness into your hands, start your conscious breathing. See your inhaling breath go to your feet and your exhaling breath rise from your solar plexus between the Shafts. As your breath ascends, the softest petals of peach colored light come down the Shafts into the palms of your hands and are at once absorbed by them. See the different substances of these two lights: intense shining whiteness, and the softness (like a snowflake) of the peach light. The petals travel down the Shafts at varying speeds slowly with some people, quickly with others. Do not worry if you do not see them at all. Do not concentrate; you cannot make yourself see them. Just know that by consciously thinking of the peach petals, your spirit is working through your mind and receiving its food and strength. When the petals come down into your hands, confidence comes into your being. Fear is ejected. Continue as long as you wish, as long as you are comfortable. You cannot accumulate the petals of light, so you must do this exercise daily for a fresh supply of soul food. Day by day, your awareness will grow and your capacity to receive divine instruction will increase. Each person's growth is different and just how enlightenment will happen for you no one else can say. But your own High Self will be your instructor and show you your unique unfoldment. Your job is to listen and receive. I wish you Joy in the Light! Outline Figure of Light
Infinite Point of Radiance
Circle
Conscious Breaths
AH MEH AEOO
light from feet to hands to elbows to throat
AH! OO! Elimination
Shafts of Light with Conscious Breathing
to bring down Light Food Blessed Be! | 
