Creation

  Creation is defined as “the act of creating; the act of causing to exist; and especially, the act of bringing this world into existence. The act of making, by new combinations of matter, invested with new forms and properties, and of subjecting to different laws; the act of shaping and organizing; as the creation of man and other animals, of plants, minerals, etc. The act of investing with a new character. The act of producing. The things created; creatures; the world; the universe. Any part of the things created. Any thing produced or caused to exist.”–Noah Webster
  Evil cannot create; it can only destroy the good work and structures of genuine creators. When we, as members of the Elect and descended creators in our own right, begin to create, we must first think and plan the creation in advance. “For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him, saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.”–Luke 14:28-30.
  The desire to create is always the first step in creation, whether in the macrocosm or the microcosm, whether of the Godhead or of the finite individualized expressions, the creator-servants here on earth. A consuming desire is the first necessity. Desire is your foundation.
  Using the Creator’s first step, you must gain that point of consuming desire by unearthing all past ideals, unlocking your cold storage room of buried youthful ideas and desires. Consciously recall all past aims, visions and goals from your present life and all past incarnations on earth. Your subconscious holds all crystallized and frozen, awaiting love’s magic touch to bring it forth.
  Love, the highest expression of desire, is the foundation rock upon which you build. Using your awakened desire to know as the first step toward success, fan the spark of desire to know into an all-consuming, flaming conflagration of desire to do, which removes all obstacles.

Thinking and Planning

  Using the Creator’s second step, think and plan in two ways: First, think through all the laws you already know (do not just think about them) and plan their present and future application to what you desire to be. Then plan exactly what you desire to create as a creator-servant of God and what you can do this very instant toward that success with the tools and substance you already have.
  In a small notebook, list all your personal desires in order of their greater or lesser value, omitting nothing, for nothing is too great or too small to include. Analyze each desire separately and decide what you can do now toward its accomplishment.
  For example, if you desire all textbooks for study, are you reading at least one line each day in what you already have? Are you organizing at least one line a day in your work? Apply this method to your whole list.

Conscious Directing and Controlling

  Using the Creator’s third step, direct and control your plan in two ways: First, direct all your soul powers into soul expression of being and control all soul expression of doing. Then direct all your appetitive soul, the little self, into complete surrender to become the full servant of all God’s Power.
  Lift all your thinking, imagination and emotional desires until you conquer utterly every negative tendency to misuse these marvelous powers. This creates your ability to stand and hold complete control over your continuity of determination, perseverance, persistence and steadfastness. Finally, you are established on the unshakable foundation of wisdom, love, faith, and joy.
  This method is a foundation formula that you cannot reduce or restrict. You may add to, enlarge and expand it to hold all truth. Yet for this foundation formula to operate, you must vitalize and quicken it by active use and continuous exercise, which is your choice. No one else may choose for you.
  The formula is free. The choice is free. The Substance, Power and Mind to be contacted are free. Can you ask more of God?

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Edna Miriam Lister
1884–1971
The original Pioneering Mystic,
Christian Platonist philosopher, American Idealist, Founder of the Society of the Universal Living Christ, minister, teacher, author, wife, and mother.


Edna Lister


Reference

Webster, Noah. “Creation,” Webster’s American Dictionary of the English Language. New York: S. Converse, 1828.