For durable materials you must use a great deal of heat and sometimes pressure to get a very strong product. And when you are working a metal into a form you bring it to a forging temperature, about 60% of its melting point. The forging temperature allows you to shape the material without creating cracks and weaknesses in it.
For instance the forging temperature for tin is about 450 degrees F, while the forging temperature for carbon steel occurs at a whopping 2250 degrees F. If you want to make a very hard substance like diamond, just like Mother Nature does, then you simply bury carbon dioxide 100 miles deep in the earth, heat it to about 2,200 degrees F., put it under 725,000 pounds per square inch of pressure, and then somehow quickly rush it towards the earth’s surface in order to cool.
When man or Mother Nature wants to produce a very hard, durable substance they use these means in order to get the desired results. Mother Nature is not so different when creating something very different, when She is forging character in a human being, and Her masterpiece, a spiritual transformation in you.
Divine Mother uses the circumstances you are placed in order to create what you are meant to become. In this transformation you can certainly feel that the heat and pressure is all too much, however that is because you do not really know what the end product is to be. If the pressure feels like you are buried 100 miles under the earth, and temperatures are soaring to unimaginable heights, then you can only know that what is being produced will be of tremendous strength, hardness and durability.
Faith in the Master Forger; faith that He knows exactly what He is doing will give you the endurance to remain in the crucible and take all that He metes out to you. Trust and faith are alloys in your being that allows the transformation to go on with the best results. Surely your trust and faith will be tested, but that is part of the strengthening and clarifying process you have to undergo. Do not fear, enter the crucible knowing full well that you are ever under the loving care and watchful eye of the Master Forger.