Degree and Kind

A degree is a step or stage in a process, especially in an ascending or descending scale, a relative condition or state of being, the relative intensity, extent, measure, or amount of a quality, attribute, or action.—Oxford English Dictionary
  Synonyms for degree include stage, point, phase, step, grade, facet, increment, level, position, rank, order.—Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary
  Kind means implanted by nature, innate, inherent, naturally pertaining to, or associated with, a person or thing, proper, appropriate, fitting, belonging to one by right of birth, descent, or inheritance, lawful, rightful.—Oxford English Dictionary
  Synonyms for kind include type, kind, sort, nature, description, character, which all mean a number of individuals thought of as a group because of a common quality or qualities.

“All life exists according to its degree and kind: A rose can be no other kind of flower, but it can grow in degree from bud to full-blown.”—Edna Lister

  The kind of a person or thing is innate and unique: either this or that. The degree is the full spectrum of a kind: this and this and this, by degrees. Thus, the law of degree and kind illustrates why all people do not have the same talents, skills, ability and intelligent comprehension. All souls are created with the equal right to become, but the equality ends with their choice in what kind to become and to what degree.
  You are destined to be perfect in thought, word and deed, so do not resist your destiny: The law of degree and kind is rooted in the principle of nonresistance; it is an abstract principle, a law of being, and a law of doing.
  Plato in Book VI of the Republic (509d-513e), used the analogy of the divided line to illustrate the difference between the One and the many. At 511d-e he summarizes: “Your interpretation is quite sufficient,” I said; “and now, answering to these four sections, assume these four affections occurring in the soul: intellection (νόησιν) or reason for the highest [DE], understanding (διάνοια) for the second [CD]; assign belief (πίστις) to the third [BC], and to the last picture-thinking or conjecture (εἰκασία) [AB], and arrange them in a proportion, considering that they participate in clearness and precision in the same degree as their objects partake of truth and reality.”

Edna Lister on Degree and Kind

Everything is good according to its degree and kind.—Edna Lister, January 28, 1933.

Your good, your "added things" come in due season according to the degree and kind of your desires.—Edna Lister, August 25, 1938.

God is omnipresent, ubiquitous and all-pervading as the Mother of Love. God is everywhere evenly present and available as the Mind that thinks and plans, as the Power that moves and energizes and as the Substance of which He forms all creation, according to degree and kind.—Edna Lister, A Design for Ascension, 1941.

Everybody is living after their degree and kind.—Edna Lister, July 22, 1945.

I, if I am lifted up, will draw all people to me.—John 12:32. Your ascension creates a vacuum and you are responsible for the suction action that attracts all of a similar degree and kind.—Edna Lister, September 19, 1945.

Everyone is always right, after their degree and kind.—Edna Lister, March 19, 1951.

Every individual has an aura according to his degree and kind.—Edna Lister, May 28, 1953.

A mother’s love lifts according to her degree and kind. Remember, every stage, every degree, every class uses the Mother Love of God, which is credited to the individual, from the lowest to the highest, as their 100 percent ability to love. When one gives his all where he is, that is his 100 percent.—Edna Lister, Every Mother’s Domain, May 8, 1955.

Idle words betray you, but they cannot change by themselves. They follow a certain vibration and have no way of knowing that you do not mean them. They go out there, busy creating, gathering after their degree and kind, while you go on fooling yourself with more self-absolving excuses. Let’s stop such nonsense. Let’s be responsible and make certain that our words do follow the meditation of our hearts.—Edna Lister, Miracles or Demonstration? September 4, 1955.

Watch your words, for they will create after their degree and kind.—Edna Lister, June 12, 1958.

Each soul receives truth according to his degree and kind.—Edna Lister, A Charted Heaven, October 21, 1958.

Law is that which is derived from principle to govern, regulate and control the action of creators, man, for example, and there are varying degrees of law. Mosaic law was derived from principle to govern man on the outer. Christed ones have an advanced set of laws for their use to suit their degree and kind. The law that humanity recognizes as its own comes from a deeper set of principles, which yet remain undiscovered.—Edna Lister, March 12, 1959.

Every effort you make is like a vibration on one keynote that accumulates after its degree and kind. It returns to you as goals fulfilled, new security, new increases, new friends, new beauty, new illumination in your life.—Edna Lister, Realization, May 3, 1959.

All life exists according to its degree and kind: A rose can be no other kind of flower, but it can grow in degree from bud to full-blown.—Edna Lister, August 24, 1959.

You can relate to your fellow man only according to his degree and kind. Every individual is good where he is now. Instantly lift any thought to the contrary to a cloud continent of Light.—Edna Lister, Three Covenants Between God and Man, December 15, 1959.

The size of the portion of heart you give to love, devotion and seeking, determines how much you appropriate. Love expands that portion devoted to desire, so that the amount you appropriate depends on the degree and kind of your desire, its size and heat. Nothing limits your appropriation of Mind, Substance and Power, save the eagerness of your prayers.—Edna Lister, Nor Shadow of Turning, June 18, 1961.

When you curse God, He lets it go forth to draw unto itself all its degree and kind. When you pray, your curses are drawn in on the wings of your prayer to be lifted. Just as the curse attracts its degree and kind as it circles earth, so do the wings of prayer lift your debts to be consumed.—Edna Lister, June 7, 1962.

Thinking is a creative tool. Negative thinking creates after its own degree and kind.—Edna Lister, November 16, 1962.

Even the tiniest curse collects after its degree and kind as it goes forth.—Edna Lister, February 17, 1963.

Every word that is uttered creates after its own degree and kind. God’s first Word was Let there be Light! then He thought a form, declared it good, and that is still the law.—Edna Lister, This Is Good! Let There Be Light! November 27, 1964.

Every word you utter collects others of its degree and kind. One sentence goes around the earth five and a half times before it’s even finished. This is why we declare things good. This is good and very good! Lister, This Is Good, Let There Be Light, November 27, 1964.

You have only blessings and curses, and must eat every word you utter. Say, It is good! Let the Light move through and heal! and according to the degree and kind of your desire, the work is done.—Edna Lister, This Is Good, Let There Be Light, November 27, 1964.

Sufficient unto the day is the degree and kind of its evil.—Edna Lister, January 4, 1965.

When you place those for whom you pray in Light, according to their degree and kind, you release them from your forcing and demands that they ascend with you. Your responsibility is to lift them all on a cloud of golden Light, according to their degree and kind. To see them in a shaft of fire with a bubble of Light around them, frees you and releases them.—Edna Lister, February 21, 1965.

God shall fulfill every promise according to your degree and kind of steadfastness with no shadow of turning.—Edna Lister, October 27, 1966.

Every grade of substance is solid after its degree and kind.—Edna Lister, November 1, 1966.

Everyone is good after his own degree and kind and lives up to his degree where he is.—Edna Lister, January 11, 1968.

God establishes an altar wherever a soul has prayed, according to the degree and kind of that soul’s consciousness and faithfulness.—Edna Lister, May 5, 1968.

All religions are perfect after their degree and kind, no matter where you find them.—Edna Lister, Spread of Religion Through the Tribes of Israel, November 5, 1968.

Every word spoken creates after its degree and kind. To remain high in consciousness on this, remember to say, The Christ Spirit speaks as me.—Edna Lister, August 7, 1969.

You are doing a perfect work after your degree and kind. If that is your soul-satisfying degree, remain there. If you don’t want to go higher, God will let you stay where you are. It is always up to you.—Edna Lister, August 7, 1969.

We teach the deity of Christ and follow him. We believe that God can recreate us in His image and likeness if we stand, hold and believe in the Light. You can do anything according to the degree and kind of your desire to live there and follow thou me.—Edna Lister, August 7, 1969.

There is Light on every level, according to degree and kind.—Edna Lister, Faith Complete Now, November 15, 1970.

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