Edna Lister’s Lectures

  In addition to Edna Lister’s written outlines, we have included transcripts of her students’ notes wherever available. Her outlines appear before the transcripts on any given date, and in many cases they are quite different. While the outlines may seem sparse, a transcript of a lecture is generally much longer; her lectures were typically an hour or more in length. Ponder what you read in the silence, and you may tune into the living record, which exists eternally in Divine Mind. You may best savor these records of her work by reading them aloud.

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Lectures 1970s



Lecture Series

The Beatitudes
The Disciples and Apostles
Initiations
The Labors of Hercules
The Mysteries of Egypt
Philosophy
Seven Churches of Revelation
Seven Degrees of Breath
Seven Sacred Degrees
Spectrology: The Human Spectrum
Star Studies
The Stations of the Cross
Ten Plagues on Egypt
Ten Commandments
The Tribes of Israel
Via Christa Degrees

Vivere in Gaudiis

Edna Miriam Lister ascended to the Father August 3, 1971.

Crossing the Bar 1

By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Sunset and evening star,
  And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
  When I put out to sea,

But such a tide as moving seems asleep,
  Too full for sound and foam,
When that which drew from out the boundless deep
  Turns again home.

Twilight and evening bell,
  And after that the dark!
And may there be no sadness of farewell,
  When I embark;

For tho' from out our bourne of Time and Place
  The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
  When I have crost the bar.


1 The sandbar that often separates shallower coastal waters from the open sea.

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


Edna Lister


References

Her students’ notes are of inestimable value in publishing Edna Lister’s lectures, which were not recorded. Our gratitude and thanks to the following for their faithful attendance and note-taking: Kay Wilder Abstein, Elizabeth Barnes, Molly Doan Bellamy, Edna Bender, Susan Bender, Ferne Chapman, Victor and Ruth Bender Collord, Joan Bender Dinse, Margaret Pratt Doan, Ruth Johnson, Lillian Kondash, Lotus Judson Landis, Linda Hildebrand Mihalic, Edward Pembroke, Darcea Schiesl, Florence Waldorf, Clarissa A. Watkins, Irene White, Ross and Virginia Whitehead, and May Wilder.

Many thanks to our proofreaders: Christi Carlson, Sherry Abstein Gordon, Sandra L. Gustavson, Barbara Imboden Martien, David P. Mihalic, Roberta Parsons, Mona Rainwater, Judith Weiss, and M. C. Whyman.


Merriam-Webster. s.v. “spectrum.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary.

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