Edna Lister’s Lectures, 1952

Mother’s Day
Edna Lister outline, Truth Temple Lecture Club, May 6, 1952, Tacoma, WA

  Love and Wisdom are absolute principles. Father Wisdom thinks and plans for all the needs of Creation. Mother Love nourishes and sustains Creation. To do this, Wisdom and Love must be perfectly balanced in a unity of will and desire working together.
  We know what law is and that we must obey law to live. Law is strong and unyielding, and no one may disobey without paying the penalty. But do you, can you always recognize when love is weak? And where did this notion that love is sometimes a weak, sentimental, emotional thing originate?! Real love is the strongest thing in the universe. It’s gossamer as Light when real, stronger than steel, unbreakable, and nothing, no thing can stand in its way. Nothing can resist the flow of universal love.
  Mothering love is a compound of love, joy and devotion. We speak of being selfish or unselfish in our loving. But joyful love is just loving devotion to, worship of, and gratitude for the Source. When mothering love possesses you, you are both timeless and measureless love.
  Loving with universal love is loving enough, yet something more is needed. You may feel filled with a love, just bursting, but that's still not enough because it’s passive. Joy is active and, when combined with love, it’s sustaining and renewing. Love is atomic power in action, the renewing, thrilling life of our bodies and souls. Love is health and strength, wealth and glory!

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Is Mind Important?
Edna Lister outline, June 15, 1952, Truth Temple Lecture Club, Tacoma, WA

  To answer the question, Is Mind important?, we must first know what mind we are discussing. Divine Mind is not mine, my neighbor’s or the world’s. These lesser minds are constantly changing. We are forever making up our mind, unmaking, remaking it and the result is confusion.
  Principle is unchanging, immutable, everlasting, and unalterable. Wisdom is the Mind that thinks and plans. Love is Substance that fills, sustains and nourishes. Power is energy upholding balance, harmony and action. Love, the desire principle, acts through Wisdom, the will principle, to make a decision, which is how you make up your mind. Power is the action principle, the energy that enables you to act on your decision.
  The Mind principle must have a body, a mechanism through which to work. Three phases of Mind operate through you as the subconscious, conscious and superconscious facets of mind. Mind and soul are inseparable, ONE. You are the soul, but the body is the instrument that receives divine Mind’s broadcast through the brain cells and glands in your head.
  Mind alone, the masculine Wisdom principle that thinks and plans the form-mold, is barren. It requires the feminine Love substance that nourishes and sustains, energized by the Son of action that builds—all three facets acting as one,: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.—this is the Creator's Magna Carta.
  We the embodied creators operate by this Magna Carta also, but somewhat differently. Subconscious mind corresponds to the impulsive appetitive facet of soul as it builds and maintains the physical metabolism. It reacts to all stimuli with impulses and appetites for it is incapable of thought; it can only follow a pattern pre-established by the rational mind or by a habit that conscious mind has permitted by default. Hence, the subconscious is the source of all your delays and difficulties in life.
  The subconscious mind’s purpose is to run the body as the servant of the conscious and superconscious phases of mind, so it must have a pattern to follow. Yet, if you are body-conscious in any way, you will live by the appetites and impulses of the subconscious dictator. The superconscious mind of Oversoul I AM forever seeks to change your path in life from fate to destiny by directing your conscious mind to form habit patterns for the soul’s destiny, which is like pulling teeth.
  Appetitive soul operates like a robot—it can’t change the pattern, but works according to every habit pattern you let it set for you. If you allow others to change your habits by dictating to you, confusion results in your life pattern. Stated another way, if you let others’ emotional advice recondition you away from principle, your mental patterns will become confused.
  You fulfill your desire in five steps. First, the concept exists in divine Mind. Then it becomes an idea through your use of Mind. Third, you apply your faculties of logic, reason, discernment, discrimination, and discretion through the process of thinking. You use mind to plan, build, direct and control your destiny. Fourth, you apply the spoken Word by making declarations, decrees or statements to open a vibration of action, which you preface by Let and complete with This is good! Let there be Light! to energize substance. Finally, your miracle takes on form as you fulfill it.

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Breathing
Edna Lister outline, June 18, 1952, Truth Temple, Tacoma, WA

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Five Steps to Attainment
Edna Lister outline, June 18, 1952, Truth Temple, Tacoma, WA

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Atomic Energy and Creative Mind
Edna Lister transcript, Ruth Johnson, scribe, September 30, 1952, Cleveland, OH

Principle is the absolute, unchangeable, undeviating, immutable foundation upon which all universes are based and established. The three great basic principles of the manifest universe are Mind, Substance and Power. Five great categories of expression—philosophy, metaphysics, psychology, mysticism, and science—deal with basic principles of being, which are absolutely objective in nature, with no tinge of personality.
  The basic fundamental principles of doing are equilibrium and harmony in action and expression are original primary laws under the fundamental principles. The absolute laws of Light—number, color, tone, name, and form—also become lesser relative principles of doing. The instant any principle is personalized, it becomes relative. Secondary laws could not exist in the outer physical world without a foundation of absolute principle. Secondary laws are always modified from absolute principles to suit the degree of receptivity and developed intelligence of the individual using them. When you worship intellect, you are worshiping your own mental faculties.
  The study of metaphysics deals with primary law. Primary law is not the All, but is a subsidiary portion of it. You use every absolute principle without understanding that you are do so. The prefix, meta-, pertains to that which lies just beyond the first veil of illusion, beyond the appearance that is visible. To perceive this, you must turn the imaging faculty of your imagination upward into the realm of metaphysics.
  The field of metaphysics deals with that which you perceive by the powers of mind and imagination. It provides the basis for your existence and eventually your relation to the Source. The first chapters of Genesis and John deal with Light as the Logos or Word. Physical science proves, on the outer material world, what metaphysicians know is right, but without sensory evidence.
  Physics deals with manifestation, that which can be seen and weighed. Mathematics is an invisible principle. Numbers are reused endlessly but never used up. You can measure physics in a laboratory. Everyone is proving God for himself in the laboratory of his own mind. To the one who demands, “Prove it to me,” respond, “You must prove it for yourself.” Get them started and they will prove it.
  The physical body and its functioning depend entirely on the principles of doing as its source, and you may understand it under the categories of metaphysics and psychology. From outer cells to inner etherons (life sparks), the body is composed of seven grades or degrees of substance. The physical, mental and spiritual bodies all possess certain qualities and quantities. For instance, the physical body has twelve endocrine gland and nerve plexus centers.
  The molecular desire body is the seat of sensation, pleasure, pain and emotion. The highly volatile electronic fire body does not have organs or parts, but envelops and spreads beyond the physical. According to the degree of development of your imagination, you have a magnetic body, which is not to be confused with the fire body, which encases the Oversoul. Imagination must be loving and upward-looking. The instant you ask for healing, the fire body becomes brilliant. Yet it may take years for the fire of the electronic body to ooze through to the physical because of negative mental blocks and memories.
  The fire body is composed of purely electronic substance. For example, telegraphy messages travel through this substance. When the fire body initially interacts with the physical, it establishes a seat of perfect principles of being and doing. Wisdom, Love and the Logos are the perfect principles of being and doing in the Selflessness of the Son. The fire body is a dormant idea until you energize it as you build imagination pictures of it with the selfless energy of the Son. This is you as creative Mind. You are completely a part of the whole when you desire to be, but you must look up to open the crown center so your fire body can move in and possess your three lesser bodies. Keep looking up so you won’t drop back into old negative ideas. Because the Oversoul is white hot, no crystallization can exist when you keep your live wire of omnipotence plugged into the Source.
  If you don’t like living in a body that’s half asleep, you’d better begin exploding the atom! God has given you access to the Mind that was in Christ Jesus. Your nerve and brain cells extend antennae to catch ideas carried along in the River of Life, which is Mind, Substance and Power. You receive the quantity of atomic energy you allow to enter according to the quality of your devotion and your desire to be possessed of it.
  The Holy Breath as the Christ Light, is the atomic energy that descends to fill, vitalize and quicken you and all of earth. Make up your mind to have golden hours. The self-way is the hard way. It is just as difficult to establish yourself in the way of sacrifice as it is in the way of self. The law of atomic energy operates in perfect accord with the law of nonresistance. Give up all parts of your body to the Light to be permeated by the fire body. Give up all dawdling and indifference. Replace your old ideas and patterns with new atomic age ideas.

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The Seven Churches of Revelation: Seven Promises
Edna Lister outline, October 31, 1952, Cleveland, OH, Revelation 2, 3

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The Seven Churches of Revelation: Seven Promises
Edna Lister transcript, Ruth Johnson, scribe, October 31, 1952, Cleveland, OH, Revelation 2, 3

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Seven Angels and Seven Seals
Edna Lister transcript, Ruth Johnson, scribe, December 9, 1952, Cleveland, OH, Revelation 8:1-5

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Seven Angels and Seven Vials of Wrath
Edna Lister transcript, Ruth Johnson, Irene White, Ross Whitehead, Virginia Whitehead, scribes, December 16, 1952, Cleveland, OH, Revelation 14:13-20, Revelation 16

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