Edna Lister’s Lectures, 1964

What Is Power?
Edna Lister outline, February 2, 1964, Tacoma, WA

  Everyone knows the difference between potential power and kinetic energy, which are Power in its initially dormant but dynamic state of being versus Power in action as energy actively working. Potential power, harnessed, can do anything. Kinetic energy is potential Power released into action. Running wild, it is capable of extreme destruction, but when harnessed, it can move the world.
  The difference between an individual, who has a goal, is even-tempered, controls his life while conquering and one who flies off in all directions, lacks self-control, and has no desire to conquer is one of soul expression versus self expression. Soul expression harnesses the potential Power of God and releases it though prayers and declarations, receiving miracles and success, as compared with delays for the “almost-hardlys,” ranging from the atheists to agnostics in their belief in God, who have no respect for the Power of God.
  “Of myself, I can do nothing.” Breathe the Power of the Almighty as its servant, and you can do anything. To man, a million things are impossible. Yet one man comes along who doesn’t believe it’s impossible, thinks or knows it’s possible, and does it. If I declare it “impossible,” so it is to me. If I declare, “Not I, but the Power can do anything. All things are possible with God. My God can do anything”—so it shall be.
  The difference between a declaration and a statement is that a statement can be weak and unsure of itself. A declaration is a positive thing, born of the fire of conviction that Power is and does the work. To see the truth, to believe the truth is not enough. Truth waits upon the declaration to move into action. A declaration of Power is like starting a jet engine. It activates the Power into becoming the atomic energy that does the work.
  “I now declare my new truth of the Power of God to move into action, to fulfill all my dreams. I begin to transform my life. I move up to my Mount of Transfiguration, where Power does the work, where the renewing, rebuilding Glory of the Power of God vitalizes and quickens all my projects.”

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Love and Wisdom
Edna Lister outline, February 7, 1964, Tacoma, WA

  Wisdom is the Father of principle. Love is the Mother of personality. Principle represents all Power. Personality represents all Power in Action. Wisdom is all law as being. Love is all law as action. The mating of Love and Wisdom give all actions firmness and boldness. When Love and Wisdom are one, they become nonresistance, which is the greatest, most powerful of all primary laws.
  You get into action according to your desires, which are the appetitive soul’s most basic and primitive expressions Love. When you use the power of Love as base desire to gratify self’s appetites as darkness, you steal from yourself. You rob from your soul’s Light to live in the dark or shadows. Thus you dilute, adulterate, and dissipate the Light within you. Self, dwelling in darkness, steals your soul substance to sustain itself. Only truth is self-sustaining.
  Only love enough brings uncountable, unthinkable rewards, spiritual treasure beyond belief, and the Life abundant! What do you desire? Choose! Stand, know, and praise God, knowing no fear, no delay. Be bold and courageous in all your declarations.

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Responsibility
Edna Lister outline, February 14, 1964, Tacoma, WA

  Responsibility is a form of steadfastness in assuming payment for all your own debts—for thoughts, for your actions, and for your words. Responsibility requires you to take the blame for what your words or actions cause, without becoming soft, a doormat, or unbalanced in your relation with family, friends and others. Everyone knows what irresponsibility is and what it does—blithely doing anything it pleases, never paying an emotional or material debt.
  When you pay spiritual debts on the outer, you receive tenfold credits on the inner. For example, you earn your own Oversoul, ready to fold its golden wings beside us. Yet if you repudiate some debts, your golden wings fly off, back to the mountaintop of unattainable desires to wait until your next spurt of desire sends them winging you on your way once more.
  Responsibility is based on respect for God’s Laws under honor, loyalty and integrity of soul. Lack of respect for God’s laws causes lack of respect for God Himself!

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The Legend of Isis and Osiris
Edna Lister transcript, Elizabeth Barnes, Margaret Doan, Ruth Johnson, Irene White, Virginia Whitehead, scribes, April 14, 1964, Cleveland, OH

  Understanding the background of Isis and Osiris requires a knowledge of the Begotten Gods who descended and those children of experience coming up through evolution. A Begotten god is condensed by the Supreme Ones, by the application of the highest abstract thought, into form as a whole being, and is exactly like all at the Source. The created gods are the offspring of the Begotten gods, who sit for a space of time and condense an outer sheath around a spirit form like a condensed cloud. While this outer sheath is condensing, Mind develops the “golden bowl,” which contains all like from the collar bone up. To simulate the potentialities of the brain cortex and glands, man would need a machine that is the breadth of the Cow Palace in Fresno, the height of the Empire State Building, and with the power of Niagara Falls.
  The Begotten Gods moved down seven magnitudes from the Source and as they moved down into each newer and lower magnitude, they had to sit and wait to condense heavier sheaths. Holy Pairs created Sons and Daughters of God, or differentiated themselves from the One to the many. Darwin’s theory of evolution is correct for the evolutionary stages of earth, the ascent up through the kingdoms of matter.
  Genesis 1 tells the story of the Holy Pairs descending to earth to open the new cycle of the Adamic civilization. The second chapter tells of evolution. All forms of life were watched over by group souls who oversee the entire evolutionary scale from birds to animals to young souls. They live in their bodies under the Law of Experience until they reach a point when they become sons of man. The stages are creatures, children of earth and sons of man.
  The Descended Gods open all new cycles of life on earth. Isis and Osiris opened the Egyptian cycle. The Adamic cycle was opened by the androgynous pair, Adam and Eve. At the Egyptian cycle, this pair descended to earth and condensed a sheath about themselves. The people among whom Cain married were leftovers from a previous Day of Manifestation. They had been put to sleep at the Night of Brahm and were reawakened for this Day of Manifestation. Legend grows from fact. Isis and Osiris were the king and queen of Egypt. The legendary and historical story of Isis and Osiris deals with occult astrology. Astrology is the basic work for the universal occult legend while the Bible is the historical work. The Great Pyramid is the measured work. There are 32 Paths of the Yetsirah. Every Bible verse is open to twenty‑two different interpretations. Our basis is the Zodiacal Wheel.
  Prediction comes from the subconscious mind of the world and it contacts the lowest levels of worldly thought. Vision involves highly occult work from the higher creative center of intuition and illumination. The subconscious mind takes care of your physical welfare and has charge of the involuntary responses, muscles, etc. It coordinates and takes care of body functions. It is your servant to do such services as telling you where you misplaced something. Your Guards put Light upon it and your subconscious tells you where to look. There is no happenstance; this is a perfect functioning of the equipment God gave you. The soul records of past lives are stored in the midbrain. The cortex is new with each incarnation. You must make tracks in it and open new brain cells. When they are awakened, the nerves carry messages to the midbrain and gradually the soul records are opened.
  The descended gods come in different stages of unfoldment. Each one may be awakening new brain cells along a line never awakened before. We are not equal. We are equal in the number of brain cells we have, and all have the same potential powers and equal right to ascend and to breathe 24 hours a day, but those who achieved the superior and are worthy for leadership have worked for what they are. They have expanded their potential power, opened new brain cells, lifted self, ascended in consciousness.
  Osiris was the sun god; Isis was the moon goddess. Osiris, as the sun god, made an annual trip through the twelve signs and he was called the great luminary of Heaven. His younger brother, Typhon, was jealous and desired the rulership to open the new Day of Manifestation. Isis frustrated him, so he decided to kill Osiris. He enticed him into a sarcophagus and threw him into the Nile. Isis could not find Osiris and searched for him throughout Egypt. The sarcophagus was hidden in the trunk of a tree. Isis found and hid it in the forest where Typhon found it, opened it and cut Osiris’ body into fourteen pieces and scattered them all over. Isis searched for and found thirteen pieces and was told the fourteenth piece had been eaten by the fish of the Nile.
  This whole story is allegorical and deals with the stars, seasons and phases of the sun and moon. The fourteenth part is the outer creative center, the reproductive organs, which were eaten by the fish. A fish represents abundance and being fed by the heavenly manna. These fourteen pieces were important in the Bible. In Revelation there are ten kings, ten horns, ten cities to rule over and twelve glands and plexus centers. The twelve signs rule twelve portions of the body. The fourteenth piece represents the pineal and soul illumination, the pituitary and intuition, and the I AM consciousness of desire mated with will.
  When you ascend from the fate line to the Path of Destiny, desire moves up to mate with will in a Marriage of the Lamb. This is activity involving the pineal and pituitary where Power moves into the seat of the higher creative center and nervous energy moves into the pineal and shoots it into the pituitary, causing a great explosion of Light. The pineal and pituitary become the I AM, the thirteenth part. You live then by intuition, held in check by illumination. If you have a low-level worldly premonition, pray that God's Light-as-power sets the evil aside. When you lift your fears no sidereal aspect can operate. The soul of the particular planet descends and the energy of the planet sets evil right. This also describes the action of the law of repulsion around a car, for instance. It encircles the car with a metaphysical radiation that averts all accidents.
  Isis was allowed to find thirteen pieces of Osiris’ body. This is the vibration of the Master, the thirteenth Path of the Via Christa. Danger enters only when Substance is misused: “The wages of sin are death.” Osiris, the father of Wisdom, allowed himself to be enticed into the sarcophagus. Wisdom had no business allowing Typhon, the subsoul, to lead and command. One who lets the subsoul lead is always cut into little pieces. The legend of Isis and Osiris must be studied along with the twelve Labors of Hercules. Isis (Love) searches for Osiris (Wisdom). Here is young Love not yet matured enough to call Wisdom back to life. Love must call Wisdom back. When Wisdom has been enticed by evil, it may only be called back by Love. When Wisdom is cut up, Love comes to life.
  Every gland is ruled by twelve powers which become the twelve plexus centers; twelve pieces cut up, twelve different ideas working at once in physical bodies. This applies to illnesses. Isis finds the thirteenth piece–Love, the Via Christa—and makes a wooden image of the fourteenth piece. Phallic worship entered here. She made a tau cross, a sistrum whose three strings represent Love, Wisdom and Energy. These three symbols were placed in Osiris’ tomb which meant the physical part was ready for resurrection.
  Man rules ten “cities” or the ten senses, the pineal and pituitary, the parathalamus structures being awakened, seeing and hearing and the outer creative center. At the time of Isis and Osiris, this was the fourteenth piece. This legend is a practical tale of Wisdom being conquered by the masculine and feminine temptations. In this age, illness comes from a frozen sacrum plexus. The 14th Path is the Path of Separation conquered by raising the creative fire through sublimation and Ascension to awaken the parathalamus structures. The first twelve pieces of Wisdom’s body are the twelve plexus centers and glands. The thirteenth piece is the pineal and pituitary and the fourteenth piece is the awakened parathalamus glands. Wisdom rules the head, Love rules the sacrum plexus. If you have frozen nerves at the sacrum plexus, you have illness.
  The reason for the Tau cross, the sistrum, the fourteenth piece, had to be played by Isis, Love, in the tomb to bring the resurrection of Wisdom. Isis buried Osiris’ body at Philae and built a temple there. The son of Isis was Horus, also called Har‑peri. Typhon warred against Horus and Horus conquered him. This is representative of the Christ spirit of energy overcoming all evil tendencies and the lower self. At her death, Isis was placed in the tomb of Osiris.
  Typhon regressed to the child of earth stage. He had been a god. He was covered with feathers and his stature reached the clouds. There were serpents darting from him, the little self inflating itself. Horus became the sun god, as was the Greek Apollo. Typhon is but an anagram of Python, the great serpent slain by Apollo. This is the story of the slaying of Draco the dragon in the skies. Typhon, or Python, like the story of Eve, symbolizes a serpent as a symbol of winter. This is human passion supplanting wisdom. Isis wrote instructions in sacred words, but Typhon effaced them. Typhon represents pride, arrogance, falsehood and treachery. Isis was aided by Anubis, Sirius the dog star. Anubis ruled Sirius and was the inner counselor and friend of Osiris. Osiris gave language to the world. He invented grammar, taught astrology, surveying, mathematics and science. He taught worship of God and was the first maker of laws. He built temples throughout Egypt. Isis taught laws; one legend says Isis made the law scientific.
  Aphension, or disappearance, represents the disappearance of the sun at winter solstice in Capricorn. Eurysis, or finding, is the legend about Isis and Osiris. Following are various solar and lunar gods and goddesses:

  In Brother of the Third Degree, St. Germaine taught the Mysteries of the Sun and Moon at Ste. Madeline Church in Paris. The legend of Isis and Osiris is the basis and model for all other mysteries. Plutarch wrote the legend of Isis and Osiris. Brothers and sisters married in Egypt. Isis was sister and wife to Osiris. Osiris taught agriculture. Typhon slew Osiris in Scorpio at the autumnal equinox. The moon was full and the sun was in Scorpio, the sign representing death and resurrection. Typhon’s slaying of Osiris accounts for the seasons.
  Diodorus Siculus (Diodorus of Sicily) tells of the famous columns in Nysa, in Arabia, dedicated to Isis (Ysa) and Osiris (translation by C.H. Oldfather in Diodorus of Sicily, vol. 1, London, 1933 [Loeb Classical Library]. Isis declares, “I am Isis, the queen of every land, she who was instructed of Hermes, and whatsoever laws I have established, these can no man make void. I am the eldest daughter of the youngest god Cronus. I am the wife and sister of the king Osiris. I am she who first discovered fruits for mankind; I am the mother of Horus the king. I am she who riseth in the star that is in the Constellation of the Dog; by me was the city of Bubastus built. Farewell, farewell, O Egypt that nurtured me.” Osiris declares: “My father is Cronus, the youngest of all the gods, and I am Osiris the king, who campaigned over every country as far as the uninhabited regions of India and the lands to the north, even to the sources of the river Ister, and again to the remaining parts of the world as far as Oceanus. I am the eldest son of Cronus, and being sprung from a fair and noble egg I was begotten a seed of kindred birth to Day. There is no region of the inhabited world to which I have not come, dispensing to all men the things of which I was the discoverer.”
  Osiris represents Light and good. Typhon represents darkness and evil. This teaches conquering of self and the love of the soul seeking to lift that which is buried under self and bring it back home. Also, in the individual there is that point of desire to be better which gives another chance. It is not enough to study the Bible. It is a way of life. The begats are a record of the chronological order of descent of the Begotten Gods.
  When you love enough, rays of repulsion surround you so that nothing negative can get through. This is so when you live all law as well as loving enough. You have no right to judge another, but you do have the right of a just appraisal, which cannot be used for self gain.
  In Psalm 119, twenty‑two sections are headed by the twenty‑two Hebrew letters which release the Power Substance of the Universe. There are twenty‑two chapters in The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ, by Levi H. Dowling (1908), written under inspiration to supplement the New Testament. It takes Jesus through his thirty-three years and covers the Bible’s gap between his twelfth and thirtieth years. Read the eight verses of law in Psalm 119 in conjunction with the twenty‑two chapters in the Aquarian Gospel. Read Revelation in conjunction with the pyramid work.
  All myths deal with descended creator gods. All books on Jesus, the martyrs, King Arthur, etc., open past incarnations for you. We brought this with us as descended Creator gods, the power and ability to contact the Power that does the work. Say, “I arise, I ascend, I move into the house of the Lord. I stand under the Light. I wait upon the Lord while working out my salvation here below.” Expand your horizons every time there is a delay on the outer! Every time the college is delayed, it costs God more.

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The Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes
Edna Lister transcript, Elizabeth Barnes, Margaret Doan, Ruth Johnson, Irene White, scribes, April 21, 1964, Cleveland, OH

  This is a comparative study of the ten Commandments and the Beatitudes. There are only nine Beatitudes in the New Testament, be we recognize that the tenth is joy: “Rejoice! And be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven.” Be‑attitudes are a new attitude of being. The Commandments teach us how to stand and worship God. The Beatitudes explain our relationship to the world. The Commandments explain your relationship to God. You can still belong to God if you are not meek or in mourning, but you can’t afford to be weak‑kneed. Nor can you successfully study the Commandments or the Beatitudes without studying the Great Pyramid also.
  The Bible is the revelation of Light. The Great Pyramid is the measurement of Light. Every life spark contains Mind‑Power‑Substance. God created form to be used by the Descended Gods and every cell contains Mind, Intelligence, Power and Substance. Here is a big God. The golden bowl is a special creation of God. The book of Revelation speaks of the face of God that fled in every direction which proves God has form.
  At the point of emotional conquering, the Beatitudes enter. They represent a new attitude toward a situation. From the Bottomless Pit to the capstone of the pyramid represents the 33 Degrees of the Via Christa. The Chamber of Chaos represents the perdition of Revelation. The Long Passage represents the slow disintegration of the evil of the world. The Descending Passage represents the law of the world and an “eye for an eye,” the law of the age of Moses.
  The point of entrance to the Queen’s Chamber represents the creative fire. Many try to enter the Queen’s Chamber on misuse of the creative fire but they cannot remain. The creative fire draws the seeker after truth. You crawl into the King’s Chamber through a low passage. In the Chamber of Chaos you are swung like a pendulum. The Grand Gallery holds the nine lesser mysteries, which are the Beatitudes.
  1. “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” Each commandment is a key to a great initiation. All initiations deal with ascension of soul. Moses brought the Commandments through on two tablets of stone which represent fire and water. Fire represents man’s relationship to God; water represents emotions and man’s relationship to man. Fire represents illumination. You are set afire with zeal. You tie this up to the seven churches of Revelation and the white stone. The white Light of the Christ moves through the pineal and pituitary glands for opening the higher creative center.
  2. “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven images.” Thou shalt not bow down to them, for I thy God am a jealous God. God is indivisible. You cannot take a part of God and worship it as the whole. God is Light and the Creative Fire. Heaven is air, Mind and both belong to the fire of Spirit.
  3. “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain” deals with idle words such as “I am tired. I am nothing. I am dumb.” “Ye are gods” when you give up cursing yourself and others. Instead say, “I am dwelling in the River of Life.” This command has to do with creative speech. Law permits no taking the name of the Lord thy God in vain. You are like unto your Father. You have been given three phases of Mind: subconscious, conscious and superconscious. You have been given three phases of emotion: intuition in the pituitary gland, conscious will or illumination in the pineal gland and the I AM consciousness. Who are you going to be? How are you going to make the trip home?
  4. “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.” Six days shalt thou labor. The seventh day is the Sabbath day of the Lord thy God. To remember is itself a command to the soul to constantly recall its heritage. To remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy has tincludes four levels of being: physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. Four is the number of service, the pineal body and illumination. The soul lives by divine illumination. You can constantly renew you soul if you keep a day holy, wholly free from self. To do this make your every seventh breath one of fire.
  5. “Honor thy father and mother” requires that you honor the Father and Mother principles that you are. Praise God. Honor God for all that He is. Go to the Source for your understanding. Leo is a fire sign and the fire principle is masculine. Cancer is a water sign operating under the feminine principle. Cancer and Leo united by the two tablets of stone represent the cohesion of love and wisdom. If you honor God, His power and principles, you are being obedient on these levels.
  6. “Thou shalt not kill” comes under Virgo, Libra and Scorpio, and it may be restated as “Thou shalt not kill emotions and hope.” Thou shalt not kill out desire or hope but especially desire. If you plan to write a letter, desire to, and then are caught on the phone, etc., you use up the energy of your desire and lose desire. We have delays because we kill our desires through lack of obedience to the ten commands. When you have a positive desire to do something, carry it through. One of the great ancient mystery schools was dedicated to Virgo. The virgin was shown closing the mouth of a lion. The lion’s mouth represented the negative use of the ten commands. The lion is a symbol of Power while the virgin represents innocence in understanding, compassion and mercy. Unleashed negative thoughts must be conquered to have power go forth and heal situations. Innocence does the conquering. This innocence is not to be confused with ignorance.
  Among the ancients, Scorpio was the sixth sign, before earth was thrown out of Sagittarius. It governed all that Virgo now covers. After earth was thrown out and into the abyss, the Greeks placed a sign, Libra, between Virgo and Scorpio. This was about 600 BC. Libra is the scales. Scorpio lashes you into position. You kill yourself if it is good for you. Scorpio will lash out and save you, and will also dig you out of the ditch. Libra makes a Trinity of these three signs and represents the sixth command: Thou shalt not kill. Virgo chooses the way of the Spirit untouched by the world. Libra represents justice, law and balance. Scorpio represents death and resurrection.
  7. “Thou shalt not commit adultery” comes under Sagittarius. You commit adultery of your vibration when you say, “I am tired.” Light goes out under a joy vibration. Any adulteration of Light misuses substance. If you breathe out a negativity, it returns to you a hundredfold. Sagittarius is the Gate of Fire of the gods. It is the sign of ministers and the Gate of Ascension. Jacob’s ladder goes down through Capricorn and up through Sagittarius. It is interesting that the command against adultery is under Sagittarius. If you adulterate one single law, even a tiny one, and have done all things right for a month, you are caught by, say family, as if you had never done anything right.
  8. “Thou shalt not steal” comes under Capricorn. The earth signs can misuse Power most. Eight is the Power number. It takes Power to be a success. Eight ties earth to heaven. There is a connection between the sixth and the eighth commands. Thou shalt not steal and thou shalt not kill, and they are both under earth signs.
  9. “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor” comes under Aquarius which rules seeing. This covers the misuse of speech from Gemini to Aquarius. Here you cover the transgressions of others in speech. Remember, Gemini is “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.”
  10. “Thou shalt not covet” comes under Pisces. When you compare your life to that of anyone else on earth, you lay yourself open to the tain of coveting. Breaking this command breaks all others, for this is the basis for self pity and martyrdom. From here you can fall into the pit of the pyramid. Pisces makes the individual repudiate his own responsibility. All the universe must grow into a circle.

The Nine Beatitudes
  The nine Beatitudes are also part of the first Wheel of Ezekiel.
  1. “Blessed are the poor in spirit: for their’s is the kingdom of heaven.” This refers to being poor in pride of self. This is giving up things of earth and standing upright before God. (See Revelation 3:17‑18)
  2. “Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.” When you want to make a decision, stand on a cloud and say, “I am above.” If there is no response, ask “what should I do?” When you have stood there alone you will want to go back and do the right thing. All is lifted into the Light and you cannot do anything shabby or selfish. The trick is to get yourself up there and alone with God.
  3. “Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth” is nonresistance. You accept the fact that if it hurts to do something, then if you wait upon the Lord you will be shown what to do. To be meek you cannot have inner conflict. Love into the Law of Nonresistance. Arise and let the Father do the work. “I declare good here on earth and my Father works hitherto.”
  4. “Blessed are they who do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled” is the step up from the Son of Man to the Son of God stage.
  5. “Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.” Mercy is love backed with compassion and wisdom. Thus you can honor your Father and Mother principles covered under the fifth commandment, which means covering the transgressions of others.
  6. “Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.” This covers Virgo, Libra and Scorpio, the step from self to soul development.
  7. “Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.” This comes under the Gate of Ascension.
  8. “Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” This covers witnessing the truth and law. This is under Capricorn which covers principle. This is the world.
  9. “Blessed are ye when men shall revile you, and persecute you and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.” This is witnessing to love and comes under Aquarius which covers personality. Here Capricorn witnesses before the world, Aquarius witnesses before God.
  And finally the extra: 10. “Rejoice! And be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven.” This comes under Pisces. Rejoice and send out joy! Pisces covers up self. Ten represents spiritualized individuality.

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Ezekiel’s Wheels: An Interpretation
Edna Lister transcript, Ruth Johnson, Irene White, scribes, April 28, 1964. Cleveland, OH, Ezekiel 1, 10

  The ten Sephiroth are in charge of ten cities and ten principles. “Ten angels are appointed to uphold the Throne on the Day of Judgment.” Ten is the number of spiritualized individuality. In the Vedas, it is noted that, “God maketh his angels and his messengers.” They are furnished with wings in accordance with their rank. Some have three or four sets of wings. Wings are Light and spring from the twelve glands and plexus centers and from the lotus centers, which are the companions of the forty-four faculties in the golden bowl.
  One school of thought taught that certain angels tear the souls of the wicked men and lift them from the righteous ones with kindness and gentleness. This is ignorance seeking to understand that the wicked tear their own souls. The same school also taught that two angels were ordered to accompany each man on earth; one who encouraged good deeds and the other who encouraged evil. They were trying to account for the creature soul. Each was led before the judge after death. There were two sets of ten angels; this must be tied up Kabbalistically. This is a preview to the Second Wheel of Ezekiel.
  Science is resolving the mass of substance into life sparks (photons, neutrinos, etc.). Planets are outer physical sheaths with twelve inner souls. You call upon the fourth inner soul of a planet for healing. Planets are transforming stations reducing energy, as the White Light of the Christ, into levels that can be measured through certain rays. Science admits that the energy of planetary rays can affect a watch, but denies it can touch your brain.
  When we direct spiritual Power, substance, life, glory, to a particular part of the body, it can be healed without harming the other cells of the body. Those who believe only in praying for healing, with no direction of Light, take much longer to heal.
  Speak the Word. Say, “Let the White Light of the Christ surround and permeate the liver (or whatever part of the body needs healing.
  From Pythagoras: “To the soul has been given the power of consciousness direction and control. To substance has been given the power of becoming.” This is becoming what you declare in faith. Unconscious scattered living slides you down the pole. We must have conscious direction and control in our lives 24 hours a day.

Seven Wheels of Ezekiel
  Premonitions come from above the Zodiacal Path, the First Wheel. The Second Wheel of Ezekiel corresponds to the rational soul. The souls of the planets are above this. Great ones are there to direct and divert energy to earth. When we declare and pray for healing, those great ruling gods release the Power from the souls of the planets and Power from the Source touches you before you finish the call. Light years do not count in this. You do now protect yourself. You do not stand protected and speak the word and direct the Power to the one who needs the healing. Hermetic axiom: “as above, so below.” The many gods give one confidence in the Father’s Supreme Plan.
  1. Wheel of Terrah; the mundane outer physical sheath; the material world.
  2. Wheel of Eve; in charge of creation
  3. Wheel of EZE; ascension
  4. Wheel of EYE; comprehension
  5. Wheel of Manasseh; limitless Light
  6. Wheel of the Queens; pure Love; Lords of Creation; Servants of the Flame; Servants of the Queens.
  7. Wheel of Gabriel; Messengers of the Gods; Head of all Eunuchs
  Guards are changed three times a day at six a.m., noon and six p.m. We have the capacities of imagination, thinking and desire. The subconscious mind pushes limitations up to the conscious mind at night which is why we sometimes awaken in a negative frame of mind in the mornings and must declare Light moving through before we get up. To lift, you inveigh imagination to hold you. Visualize a high throne above and the subconscious moves right up. Do not have even one moment’s regret. God moves through you to cleanse as the River of Life while you sleep and if you are high in consciousness, you can be given the answer to a problem upon awakening.
  There are twelve Divisions at the Source. There are twelve Magnitudes through which the River of Life flows to the outer rim. There are twelve Archangels (see chart) who have charge of release of Cosmic Power greater than the planetary rays. The accompanying chart uses the Kabbalistic system of numbers. The Archangels have charge of lifting evil for each of the twelve Divisions. The primary work of the gods is to wipe evil from the face of creation. Capricorn is the Gate of the Gods. Sagittarius is the Gate of Ascension.
  Scorpio is ruled by Vulcan, the last of the planets to lose its Light when earth was thrown out of orbit in Sagittarius. Vulcan releases Power over death. Vulcan may not come forth until Power comes through the East Gate of Aries and Jesus appears. Earth must be moved back into Sagittarius then. When Vulcan appears, gird up your loins. Scorpio has the pine tree symbol which represents the Higher Creative Center of Illumination and Intuition (pineal and pituitary). Zaphkiel has eight letters. Eight is the Power number and represents the crossing out of evil.
  Under Libra, Hamiel has six letters and Libra has five. 6 + 5 = 11; Librans are coming into mastery. Hamiel has seventeen strokes (17 + 8); 888 is the Crown of Christ.
  Under Virgo is Camael. C is one-half of the seed of life (69) and represents Power coming through from the east on the rising sun. The whole word raises the creative fire.
  Ezekiel 1:1 “Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God.”
  The thirtieth year is the 30th degree of the Via Christa. The fourth month is the Jupiter Gate of Ascension (Sagittarius), and the fifth day is the Saturn Gate of Resurrection (Capricorn). These are represented by the pine tree symbol: This represents the 33rd degree.
  Ezekiel, after completing the 30th degree, had opened the pineal body and was taken up through the Gate of Ascension and was looking down through the Gate of Saturn.
  There are twenty-two different interpretations for every verse in the Bible. The Kabbalistic school is the school of the twelve tribes of Israel. This is celestial astrology. We are to use seership and prophecy to unfold these mysteries.
  Ezekiel 1:4 “And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the color of amber, out of the midst of the fire.” North means heaven and UP. The amber fire represents the high Yellow Ray of Wisdom. On earth, it becomes brass (amber) infolding itself.
  Ezekiel 1:5 describes the cherubim who represent the four season and the four triplicities. Ezekiel 1:7 describes the shaft of Light brought to earth by the cherubim and represents the air signs and the four seasons. Ezekiel 1:8-9 describes the cherubim four wings from the solar plexus. Their four wings and hands represent execution. The hands also represent the pineal and pituitary glands; the wings represent the parathalamus glands. Their hands also represent the Fans of Pharaoh. The right hand is material execution and the left hand is spiritual.
  Man and the lion are on the right; the eagle and the ox are on the left. The ox is strength and the eagle flies; we need these virtues to ascend. The pineal and pituitary must be used downward in experience. The wings are protection. Forward means upward in ascension.
  Ezekiel 1:10-14. The fire here is the Holy Ghost; the living creatures here are the living cells of the physical body. The subconscious runs away from the Oversoul.
  Ezekiel 1:15-16. There is one likeness, but it is charged with having four faces. The mystical interpretation is that the body cells ran away from man and did not submit to Osiris’ control.
  Ezekiel 1:22. The “terrible crystal” refers to the White Light of the Christ. Ezekiel 1:25 refers to the cusps of the zodiacal path (wings).
  Chapter 10 of Ezekiel refers to the physical body and the misuse of Power. The house represents the head and the higher creative center. The right side of the house is the liver and the left side is the spleen. The man robed in white linen represents masculine aggressive power. The wheels of Ezekiel represent the atomic mental body lotus centers and electronic fire body sun centers and the sublimation of the creative fire. The cherubim and seraphim represent the glands and the plexus centers. The inner court is the abdominal cavity of the physical body. The sacrum plexus and splenic chakras are the two wheels between the cherubim, or the soft love center between the cherubim and the wheel.
  Chapter 10 also refers to souls furling and unfurling (verse 4). Four wheels refer to ascension. Coals of fire refer to sublimation. In Lemuria and Atlantis, the Holy Pairs came together only under temple orders. They became so intellectual they did not desire to bear children. They had the Marriage of the Lamb, but did not consider legal bonds to be permanent. They stayed at the temple with their children until the children were a year old. If they desired to depart they could, and other temple priestesses cared for the children. This awakened head glands in the beginning. They had no lower physical sensation. They created through an explosion in the head. Then it degenerated. Today, the population explosion is bringing those souls back.
  When degeneration set in, phallic worship developed. Then the Hindus tried to kill out desire and froze the sacral plexus. Most of today’s illnesses come from this. Treat with Power descending and ascending the spine and you can retrack the creative fire.
  The coals in the hands referred to in Chapter 10 describes lifting the sacred creative fire: reaching with hands between the cherubim down to the sacrum plexus, up through the creative track and up through the spleen and so on. The only way to have the chakras and the lotus centers open is to have a shot of Power descend through them and back up, opening the Door of the crown.
  Lazarus being bound represents the soul being bound. Vulcan is fire itself, energy. Mars is only part of that fire and energy. Some who desire healing will touch Vulcan, but not for self-exaltation. Now, Pluto is the high one for healing.
  Multiple incarnations within a single lifetime: An incarnation is the length of time it takes to move out of an old vibration and up into a new one. This is the equivalent to an interlude over there and gestating a new body. There are nine months of pregnancy, the number of completion. Each month is devoted to one faculty. Ten month pregnancies are becoming more common due to development of the parathalamus glands.
  un centers are formed in the fire body over the chakra centers and whirl out through the mental, desire and physical sheaths for healing. Lift up your arms and invoke the Power to descend and through. Then invoke the magnetic currents up through your feet and back up the spine.
  The four faces represent the four triplicities: the ox symbolizes the earth signs; the eagle, the air signs; the lion, fire signs; and the man represents the water signs since water symbolizes man’s relationship to man and his emotions.
  The rings full of eyes around are the four wheels lifted up. Could there be a connection with Osiris the sun god who was said to be able to see around and through all things because he had 1,000 eyes? The rings form when the sun centers of the electronic fire body develop. Osiris rules the Temple of 1,000 Eyes with the forty-nine priests and their telescopes. The rings full of eyes have something to do with the creative fire.
  “Z” represents the Holy Ghost and the soul records in the midbrain.

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The Mysteries of Egypt
Edna Lister transcript, Ruth Johnson, Irene White, Virginia Whitehead, scribes, May 5, 1964, Cleveland, OH

  A myth is a story portraying truth, an explanation of phenomena, a legend. Myths are relative and are sometimes told as fact. We may comprehend myths on various levels: spiritual, as stories of the gods; intellectual, as history in time and location; and emotional, as the subject matter of a story and your reaction to it. Mysteries are something hidden, closed, unknown.
  To the savage, the alphabet, or even a book, is a mystery. They are unfolding the spiritual, mental and emotional mysteries so quickly now that we are almost dizzy with them. Psychological values have been mysteries in the past but are no longer. In religion, all tenets such as sacramental rites, Eucharist, Mass and Communion, are mysteries, especially in the general lack of understanding of the meaning of Ascension. For instance, the meaning of the Immaculate Conception is that two cosmic rays of Light in the Milky Way cross, and a baby star is born. Astrology shows how cosmic rays affect the human being through the brain and glands. The same two rays cross in the Ark of the Mother and cause an Immaculate Conception. This occurs often in the world today.
  That which we call a mystery is something that has not yet been intellectually or scientifically placed. Its meaning is hidden in spiritual realms. Egypt was considered a sanctuary of the arts and sciences. Other nations of the day considered it the great college of the world and it was certainly the intellectual center of the world. Gathered there were all teachings brought forth by the descended gods. One of the first gods to indwell in Egypt was the architect of the great pyramid at Giza, which was a great sundial that recorded astronomical data perfectly. Scrolls could be lost or destroyed. However, the great pyramid is permanent and unfolds the mysteries through its measurements, the pyramid inch.
  In 550 BC, Cyrus the Great of Persia decided to conquer the world about him. His son, Cambyses II, followed him and later had his brother, Smerdis, murdered so he would inherit the throne. Cambyses II destroyed many principal cities he conquered and profaned the temples of Egypt and murdered the priests. This was the turning point from the Arien to the Piscean Age.
  850 BC marked the dispersion of the Hebrew tribes and the Babylonian Captivity. This renewed the life of the mysteries in the Hebrew faith. In the mystery schools, priests initiated their students into the mysteries of science and theology. They termed each class an initiation. The conquering of Egypt dispersed the priests and teachers who were left and many traveled to Greece. They continued to teach enigmatically and ever more enveloped the mysteries in hieroglyphics, fables and myths. This finally led teachers in lower categories to descend into common and vulgar interpretations and from there they slipped into delusion and illusion. They became thoroughly mediumistic and real degeneration set in. All of this is valid reason for the trend to agnosticism. What they were teaching was tripe!
  The few always followed the truth, as evidenced by the survival of mystery plays at Eleusis, etc. Yet the mysteries, so long concealed under so many unexplained envelopes, produced a swarm of uncertainty and bred philosophers who did not believe in the gods. The absurdities spread from Egypt to Greece and throughout the world.
  Still, Christianity bloomed in the midst of thousands of years of paganism. The sacred teachings of the Druids, for instance, carried the truth. The sons of Ishmael’s teaching focused on low emotions and black magic. Christianity was anathema to many pagan cults, and early Christians found it wise to follow the pagan calendar on holy days and to adopt many practices of their schools of initiation. Missionaries in Britain, for example, always built their churches on the sites of old pagan sacred places.
  Three degrees of instruction stemmed from the Orders of Solomon: Auditors, Catechumen and the Faithful. They have also called these initiations and were part of the lesser mysteries. The Auditors were novices, neophytes who were letter‑perfect in their knowledge of creed and dogma. The Faithful passed through particular purification and further instruction in baptism. They also required them to pass initiations of Theogenesis, the beginning, rebirth, the origin of things. This is the first portion of what are known today as the six lesser mysteries. These mysteries were all Christian and so must be hidden from Roman authority. Initiates studied and underwent great purification before the rite of baptism to be worthy of the sacrament. Between each initiation was a separate purification rite so severe that those who survived came through with great strength. This is how they kept the holy sacraments profoundly secret.
  The historian, Irenaeus, relates that the Simoneans also maintained a hidden priesthood of the mysteries because, as Christians, they were so persecuted. The Simoneans, whose name could have derived from the fact that they were followers of Simon Peter, was one of the earliest of the Gnostic sects and underwent the greatest of initiations. These were not the mysteries so far talked about, the mysteries of the early Christians. They imported the sacred mysteries from Egypt. The modern church still does not accept them, but the Gnostics were the pure Christians. Hypatia was a famous Gnostic teacher in Alexandria.
  The Egyptian gods formed triads, the third person in each triad proceeding from the first two. The triad of Thebes included Amen, Mut and Konshu, who were oracles. Konshu, the third, was the mouthpiece of the three. An oracle is one whose vocal cords are spoken through by a high god. They close their eyes to veil their personality from the masses. Closing the eyes in prayer is first an act of devotion, but eventually you close your eyes to the world.
  The triad of Philae was Osiris, Isis and Horus, the son. Knemu, Sati and Anqut formed the triad of Elephantine and the Cataracts. All of these were under the order of the oracles and were regarded as spirit, active principle or generative power by speaking the word; matter, passive principle or productive capacity; and the universe, which proceeds from the first two.
  In Egypt they also had Amen Ra the Creator, Osiris Ra, the Giver of Life, and Horus Ra the Queller of Light, transforming Light from the Source down into form. Priests in the temples of Egypt used these three. They symbolized the three Egyptian seasons. Temples had only three gates; in all ways they held to the trinities.

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Your Magic Wand
Edna Lister outline, International New Thought Alliance 49th Congress Rally, May 22, 1964. Seattle, WA, Ephesians 3:14-19

  “I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.”–Ephesians 3:14-19.
  Fairy tales describe a wand as a thin stick or rod waved to produce a miracle. A miracle is an instantaneous acceleration of law. Your spoken Word goes forth on a vibration that acts as a magic wand.
  New thought, in all its different approaches or vibrations, has become a new magic wand in the world. For the past several decades [in the early 20th Century], many orthodox mainline protestant ministers reached a point where instead of grimly preaching so-called old-fashioned sermons on law and obedience, they thought they had to make themselves popular by making their sermons entertaining.
  New thought, in all its many branches within in our International New Thought Alliance, has gradually changed this attitude by placing emphasis on obedience to divine immutable, unchangeable principle. You have heard those principles tonight. They are the only requirement to be one with our universal New Thought Alliance.
  We still have two approaches to God as eternal truth, the intellectual approach and the devotional approach. They are not incompatible, yet confusion results in seeking to reconcile them. The intellectual and devotional approaches are complement each another just as the expressions of wisdom and love are unified as one. God must be both principle and personality at the Source since we all agree that you cannot have anything out here on the periphery of Creation that does not exist at the Source. Starting with this as the basis of your hypothesis, you will find no difficulty in relating wisdom and love in truth through the scientific approach to unfold the Bible, which is our Christian textbook of principles. Therefore, you can be obedient and use principle as you worship in spirit and in truth. “The hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth.”–John 4:23.
  When you know that there are many different yet valid viewpoints in interpreting the Bible—psychological, metaphysical and mystical, for example—you can understand the resulting confusion. When personality enters the interpretation so do opinions, prejudices and self-centered ideas, because personality is full of these. A personal interpretation, based on personality, is not enough to satisfy the soul. It must also be based on a scientific interpretation, on principle. That is why we have an International New Thought Alliance. It takes all of us to make a perfect whole. Our basic principles have been proven long since. This is our forty-ninth Congress and we have proven for ourselves that the Christ principles are greater than ever before. Science itself is proving the “greater works.”
  The Ten Commandments are ten laws that everyone must obey. The nine beatitudes are nine ways to express universal compassion to our fellow man. The thirteenth chapter of the Letter to Corinthians gives three answers to what love is, to what we really are, and how to express our love. These three-as-one truths form your magic wand.
  Science is proving many things for us. You have all heard of the prophecies in ancient books of wisdom that are now coming to light. Earth was cast from its true orbit in our galaxy during the “rebellion in the skies.” Those who have eyes to see with and ears to hear with, and are using them, can discern this truth. As we watch and listen, we are told that this is one of the mysteries revealed, and that earth and our solar system shall be returned to its original orbit in Sagittarius. This shall happen with no loss of life or harm, as lightly as a thistledown lights upon a leaf.
  God’s Power uses Nature to work miracles, releasing built up force through earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Do you believe this can be? It is done by the one Power as part of the greater works, the same Power our magic wand of love invokes.
  “I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.”–Ephesians 3:14-19.
  The spark for our magic wand is comprehension of what love is. How broad is your love? How long does your love endure? What is the depth of your love? Does a scratch on its surface find self? What is the height of your love? Does it extend to the Source?
  The United States and Canada have now completed the North American Defense Command (NORAD) at Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado. The computers it houses are held stable by huge blocks that act as shock absorbers. This is the greatest mechanical computer mind in the world today, and it registers every earth vibration. We have a NORAD for consciousness in the INTA. As a group, we form a great and powerful mind, whose thinking goes forth to change every old condition. We form a worldwide Distant Early Warning [DEW] line of protection as a cushion around every individual for whom we pray.
  You create, as I create, a cushion of love with the magic wand of love, a mighty vibration. I wave my wand and do this as I am protecting my creative tools of desires, thinking, and imagination with a cushion of love. Do you believe this? Do you comprehend what is the breadth, length, depth and height of your magic wand?

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Harmony
Edna Lister article, International New Thought Alliance Quarterly Magazine, June 1964, Scripture: Psalm 23:6

  “And I shall dwell in the House of the Lord forever.”–Psalm 23:6.
  I started in the high place of my consciousness where the Wisdom of God illumines me, and the Love of God possesses me. Harmony has become the keynote of my life, expressing as thoughts, words and actions.
  Harmony now oils the squeaky hinges of my inharmonious self and I am now all harmony. I am poised and strong. My vision of harmony is steadfast. Harmony is the oil of Spirit that I pour on every troubled water of my life as I pray. I hold my consciousness above all dark clouds of earth, for the House of the Lord is a House of Light.
  The universal law of harmony encircles my family and my friends and draws unto me all “added things.” “And I shall dwell in the House of the Lord forever.”–Psalm 223:6. Harmony has now become my only way of life.

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A Formula for Daily Living
Edna Lister article, Great Britain INTA newsletter, June 16, 1964, Seattle, WA, 1 John 3:2, Romans 8:28

  “Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be.”–1 John 3:2.
  “We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”–Romans 8:28.
  Love, faith, and praise are the three most important keys to our kingdom of heaven. They are limitless cosmic principles that you may contact and use limitlessly all your earth life.
  God sent you here with the power of choice as to how you use them. What you think about them, the use you make of them, is your choice alone.
  How you use them today determines what your tomorrow will be. What you think, feel and say about them today will appear tomorrow as your life’s expression.
  The quantity of your love determines the quality of your faith. If life’s little daily frustrations dilute your love, you will not appear greater! If doubts and fears dilute your faith, they will delay your miracles.
  Since praise is the motive power behind every miracle of your life, it follows that praise sets love and faith into action. Therefore, the more you praise, the more vitalized and quickened your love and faith will be.
  If your molds of desire are well planned and built, and by praise you keep the substance of love and faith flowing into them continuously, no delays should interrupt our speedy results. Praise keeps love flowing forth to touch everything about you with its transforming magic.
  Praise is your only hold on your own constancy and alertness, and causes the warmth of God’s love to hold your fires of faith burning white hot in your crucible of life. Pure love, held at constant white heat, melts all obstacles and barriers the world can produce between you and your fulfilled dream-desires.
  Your praise grows weak or fades only when you neglect praising, until your love cools, faith falters, and you do not grow greater in strength and courage with comprehension of God’s bountiful laws unfolding for you. Feed your prayer molds constantly with the substance of love and faith to fill them to become visible.
  Only enough praise can hold the vibration of love and faith high enough to keep them moving forth from the Source, unchanged in quality or quantity. Unless you hold the vibration of love and faith steadfast, it will leave thin spots in the molds, and they will leak, causing delay.
  To know that nothing can separate you from the love and faith of God brings you miracle after miracle. To praise and name everything good that comes to you by God’s name on earth, Good, gives principle a chance to transform any darkness into Light.
  Thus it is that “all things work together for good to them that love God” enough. Then shall it appear that we truly are sons and daughters God. It shall then also appear what you can do and be when you love God enough and when your faith is constant and strong enough to overcome the world, with praise as your companion, day and night.
  Beloved, we are now the sons and daughters of God and it does appear that we are doing the greater works and becoming the outer fulfillment of joy!

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Rejoice! God Reigns
Edna Lister outline, International New Thought Alliance 49th Congress, July 5, 1964, Seattle WA, John 4:23-24

  “The hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.”–John 4:23-24.
  Two thousand years ago, a babe was born in humble circumstances. He grew to manhood and grew to be the greatest Teacher in the world. He didn’t write a book. He didn’t have a home. He didn’t build a church. He traveled, was scorned, flogged, his friends left him—he even borrowed a grave. Yet, the laws he taught are greater than all science today. Science is still trying to understand substance. He spoke, and substance was created into healing, bodies came back from death.
  There is one Light as one Mind, one Power, and one Substance. Archaeologists’ evidence backs up the Bible. Just as told in the Bible, Moses struck a rock and produced water. Energy researchers are extracting water from rocks today. Moses understood that to work a miracle, you need God as consciousness, not God and.
  You see the body, but not spirit, mind or emotion. Nobody sees you. You get a glimpse, as you use the eyes of love. You are threefold as spirit, thinking and emotions, as relative Mind, Substance, and Power.
  “I hope, I want, I will, I won’t” are words of challenge never to use. Instead, take your invisible three-quarters of the self, and turn it up to God. If not, you are three-quarters submerged, like an iceberg. All you need is to declare God as all there is. Life is an escalator. If you look back, you become cross-eyed. Look forward.
  The New Testament is a complete book of psychiatry, a must-read, especially the chapters on taints of earth which tell you the things not to do. Anyone who obeys the laws of God turns his submerged part upward to God. To do so, he must have a burning desire for God and a burning desire to see God first.
  Put Him into all you do. Praise everything that you want increased. Joy, beauty and all good will follow you all the rest of your life when you praise and put God first. Turn the submerged part upward. Stay in heaven first, and God will reward you.

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I Will Arise outline
Edna Lister outline; International New Thought Alliance 49th Congress, July 6, 1964, Seattle, WA, Luke 15:18, James 1:17

  “I will arise and go to my Father.”–Luke 15:18.
  “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.”–James 1:17.
  I will arise. I enter my Father’s house. I now stand under the Light from above. I now wait upon the Lord in the high place. I work out my salvation below while I stand on my own mountaintop in consciousness. As I wait, I pay attention. I am alive and alert.
  As I arise in the morning, I reach for the stars. I declare the glory of God in all my affairs, all my heart and all my body. I say, “Lord, don’t let me miss anything today—chance, opportunity or detail.” I declare three times, “I am alive and alert with the Power of God.”
  I rejoice and breathe the Breath of the Almighty. The Power of God is without shadow of turning; without variableness, I rejoice and am glad. God’s perfect healing glory now fills every name, every affair, every condition associated with me. Thank You, Father!

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I Will Arise transcript
Edna Lister transcript, Ruth Bender Collord, scribe, International New Thought Alliance 49th Congress, July 6, 1964, Seattle, WA, Luke 15:18, James 1:17

  “I will arise and go to my Father.”–Luke 15:18.
  “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.”–James 1:17.
  To arise and go to God, take a deep breath. For how long do you hold your high point in devotion and obedience to God? You all use the one Breath of Life, and inhale all the life you require on a single breath. The Breath of Life is the source of your life, and is a gift of the Father of lights, freely given.
  The deepness of your breathing is the measure, the length, breadth, depth and height of your love. If anyone can scratch through the surface of your love, if what they do can hurt your feelings, you are expecting something from someone who has no capacity to give what you want.
  God neither slumbers nor sleeps. You just arise, breathe deeply, and ascend in consciousness. “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.”–James 1:17.
  God is deathless, ageless and abiding. You may be also through the Breath of Life. Set your use of the breath like a clock at night. When you awaken, breathe yourself into your body before you get out of bed.
  On arising, reach for the stars to inflate the atoms of your atomic fire body of soul. Breathe deeply throughout the day to replace and maintain the atomic power of the body. “I will arise. I will reach for the stars. I will move into my Father’s house. I will remain in the Light from above. I will remain in the high place of the Lord in my consciousness.”
  You have ample energy from breathing deeply and remaining high in consciousness in the high place. When a challenge comes, say, “This is just what I want, another opportunity.” I declare the glory of God while I stand on my own two feet. I am now alive and alert with the Power of God. I breathe atomic power for energy. It is a scientific fact that you can inhale this atomic power for physical energy.
  At night, rest yourself before going to bed. Rest is greater than sleep for renewing mind and body. Rest includes diversion, and recreation such as reading, conversation or watching television. Just before you go to bed, reach for the stars and declare that the Power of Almighty God is possessing you. Declare that your every breath shall renew you. Whatever you do, do it for the honor and glory of God. Declare, “I rejoice and am glad that I am now one with the Power of God.”
  The Power must use you. There is only the one Power. It is now moving through every person attending this Congress and all their affairs. Every condition is now being lifted. Everyone who has asked for a healing is now healed. This Power never varies in availability. Now reach for the stars, and say, “I rejoice and am glad.” Repeat in three sets of three declarations, or nine times.

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Being For God
Edna Lister outline, International New Thought Alliance 49th Congress, July 7, 1964, Seattle, WA, Romans 8:31, Romans 8:37-39

  “If God be for us, who can be against us?”–Romans 8:31.
  “In all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God.”–Romans 8:37-39.
  Who can be against us if God is for us? Is God for us all the time, or part-time? What is a conqueror? How may I be a conqueror?
  I listen. I hear. I hearken, I obey. I ascend. To ascend is to move up from a static condition into a higher place. I can listen to or for one thing and not hear another. I can hear and pay no attention. When I hearken, I pay attention.
  I obey under the compulsion of my desire to return to God. I ascend in consciousness, I come to God and I ascend when I am aroused.

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Your Magic Wand
Edna Lister outline, International New Thought Alliance 49th Congress, July 7, 1964, Seattle, WA, John 1:1-3

  “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.”–John 1:1-3.
  Your magic wand is the Word of God, which is good. The Word was God, who pronounced us good. When I say, “This is good,” I call upon God’s name.
  I am now receptive to all good. I am become flexible to all good. I now adjust to all good. I am now balanced as all good.
  All that God has is mine to draw upon. My good is my gift from above. All that comes to me is my good. This is now my good. Everything works together for good for those who love God enough.
  God’s great name on earth, His magic name is, “This is good.” I now fashion my magic wand. I wave my magic wand over all my affairs, bringing them together for good.

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Rejoice! God Reigns
Edna Lister outline, 49th International New Thought Alliance Congress, June 5, 1964, Miami Beach, FL

  Two thousand years ago, a babe was born into humble circumstances yet he grew to adulthood to became the greatest Teacher in the world. He never wrote a book, didn’t have a home, didn’t build a church. Instead, he traveled widely to villages and towns where he was often scorned and run out of town. Finally he was flogged, deserted by his friends—and even buried in a borrowed grave! Yet, the spiritual laws Jesus taught are greater than all science today! Science is still trying to understand the nature of substance, yet Jesus spoke, and substance appeared and filled voids, substance as cataracts disappeared, and bodies came back from death.
  There is only One Mind, One Substance, One Power. Archaeological discoveries prove certain Bible accounts, just as scientific discoveries do. As told in the Book of Exodus, Moses struck a rock and produced water. Energy researchers are extracting water from rocks today. Moses acted as if God were acting as him, and God did! Practive God as, not God and you!
  You can see bodies, but not Mind, Spirit or emotion, only their effects. Nobody sees YOU! You may get a glimpse of love in the eyes. We are threefold—Spirit, thinking and emotions—Mind, Substance and Power. “I hope, I want, I will, I won’t” are words of challenge that you must cease using if you with to be successful in life. Instead take your invisible self, and turn it up to God. If not, you submerge the real you! All you need to do is to declare, God is all there is! God never sets the clock back for anyone! Life is like an escalator. If you look back, you become cross‑eyed. Look forward! The clock is set right out there on the same vibration when you could have started.
  The New Testament is a complete textbook of psychiatry. The chapters on the taints of earth, which tell the things not to do are a must to train self rightly! The submerged part of anyone who obeys the laws of God is turned upward to God, but the soul must have a burning desire born of God and a flaming desire to see God first. Put Him into all you do! Praise everything you want Light to increase. Joy and beauty will follow you all the rest of your life when you praise and put God first! The submerged part is turned upward. When you stay in heaven-consciousness, God will reward you.

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This Is Good! Let There Be Light!
Edna Lister transcript, Edna Bender, Joan Dinse, scribes, November 27, 1964, Buffalo, NY

  How many thousands of times a day have you declared “it”—whatever “it” is—good? God works all things togther for good for those who love Him. Love is a principle, absolutely solid and dependable. It is firm, it is final, and it covers everything.
  You have free choice, not free will. 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. Salvation is free, but we must work for it. The secret is to declare it good. “Let there be Light.”
  Your physical is an out-picturing of the fourfold man—your thoughts, your prayers, your devotions and what you do with your emotional life. You are the sum total of your life.
  The laws of God include disintegration as well as integration. There is no age limit, no time when it does not work. Every time you utter a word, you put your name on it, it circles the world and returns to you. God sent us here with a built-in computer. Have you any idea that God is exciting? We have an instant contact with the Source.
  Without breath there is no life, and without life, there is no breath. The Hindus laid all the stress on just breathing. That breath is not complete unless we are cognizant that it contains everything we need for our life. Einstein gave us the secret of life—mass becomes energy when you raise the vibration, and energy becomes light when you raise it higher. If we are stingy with our breath, old age is creeping in, and starving our atomic body to death.
  You obey the mental laws. This is good. Every word you utter collects its degree and kind. One sentence goes around the earth five and a half times before it’s even finished. This is why you declare things good. “This is good and very good.” We are not going to a higher plane until we have learned what we must learn on this earth.
  Read 2 Peter, Chapter 3, which says, “Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?” “Forever” is the length of time it takes to consume heavy evils until they return to the gas stage.
  Healing results from deep breathing, declaring things good, standing and never wavering. You have to plant your feet, stand and look into the face of evil and destruction. We are lifting evil because God Himself has us in the hollow of His hands.
  The lymph system must have four quarts of water a day. Wash your eyes out with boric acid in the morning. Science is backing up miracles. You can make over your body with the right kind of thinking and emotional life. You can build a new set of nerves because the desire body nerves are perfect and untouchable. Declare it good: “Every hour of my life is perfect and it is good!” It is good to receive the same lesson repeatedly until you learn it. Do you want to change your pattern? It’s up to you. It’s up to every single embodied soul to make up his mind.
  The Bible is a psychiatric textbook. The Law of Nonresistance is the greatest power on earth. Jesus the Christ is known in every corner of the world. He is the door, the life, the way, the truth and that is the law of nonresistance. ll you have to do is to fold your arms, stand and say to the person who is handing you guff, “You are having such a good time. I am enjoying listening to you.” This is how to agree and adjust, to work it together for good. God neither slumbers nor sleeps.
  If you don’t like work, you are not going to like God. You are going to think that nobody loves you, nobody understands you. Perhaps they understand you only too well. You can do anything, and we are going to do everything. There are enough of us in the U.S. to turn the world over. We are not in any more of a mess than we have been in a thousand years.
  You have only blessings and curses. You have to eat every word you utter. You 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. Do you know what a miracle is? It is someone’s burning desire going forth. You don’t know how wonderful God is. It is exciting to go on. Your soul has to be singing with life and on fire with zeal. If enough of us walk with our worlds right, it will happen. The best of it will be when we have Godly men and women serving.
  Let’s have a healing treatment. Offer what you want to happen on an Altar of Light, and declare perfection for their healing. We must love ourselves first. We love our neighbor exactly as much as we love ourselves. None of us is happy unless our spiritual life is possessing us. “Move in, Father, and possess me.”
  Jesus is the only teacher who said, “Use my name. If you use my name, that life will be yours.” When we do, we have become faith without any hindrance that earth can produce. We agree that God is Love and we adjust to the world by giving them their own. What does it matter as long as the Light is going forth to conquer evil?
  “Father, just make us perfect instruments of Thy Love and Glory. Give us to eat of that inner manna. Touch us with Thy Light and Glory, oh Father. Let us go through these endurance tests on the outer, knowing that we have lift so much evil by our endurance. Oh, Father, wipe our minds free of idle words. Let us speak in terms of Love and Ascension, not only Resurrection and Ascension. Let Thy Light move through every individual today, wiping their hearts and minds free of all darkness. In Thy Name, we declare that every word of good that we have declared in the past shall bring vast good to us. We now lift all. It is melted, dissolved and only the Light, the good and the Glory can be returned to us, even though we have sent it forth colored and dark. We are Thine, and we shall have miracles of going forth from this hour. Thank You, Father. Thank You so much. Amen.”
  You have to visualize and stamp the River of Life with $1000 bills. 1 The River of Life is flowing by unstamped because it refuses to take negatives and curses—they go out into the world, but this visualization comes from above.
  You can’t sleep at night unless you are relaxed when you go to bed—that means mental freedom from any strain, emotional freedom from anxieties and things that never happen. You spread your wings like an eagle and soar, and when you go to bed, you move up. The other side is so beautiful.
  God is principle and personality, and heaven is a place and a state of consciousness. If you apply logic, you know that you are in a place. Jesus said, “I go to prepare a place for you.”
  God is interesting, and He has not even started yet! We are just children. We haven’t awakened the brain cells to take it in. Ministers are so far behind the scientists. Ministers are supposed to lead the way, but scientists are doing it.
  Too many people have God and. We have God as every cell of life there is. A lot of people would rather suffer than be healed. Get up and reach for the stars. The Power moves through and the collapsed atoms become inflated. Praise and pray into being Spheres of Light around everyone. I see all my people enfolded in a bed of Light, blanketed in the Light.
  Just talk to God without petitioning Him. Just say, “Here they are, Father. Please take care of them.” I go into the golden silence. The Power is moving forth. Do you see this picture of activity? “Father, open my eyes. Let me feel, let me see this Glory that has been Yours from the beginning.”
  How often have you said, “I want to see. I want to hear. Move in and possess me.” You must declare what you want and move up out of the puddle of the past. “Forgetting those things which are behind and pressing onward toward to the high calling of Christ Jesus.”
  I know some people have never lost contact once they have touched it. I see them a year later, they have remained under the Light and it shows. I love life. I love the life I am leading, the books I am writing, the classes I am giving, the services.
  God is giving every fellow in every grade his 100 percent. You have to have faith and love God first, before you declare everything good, but you can begin to say it from the teeth out. You can even say, “This is good,” and get rid of your repudiations. Some people are so self-satisfied. Yet our whole ascension must be the burning desire to become this law. The Father wants you home more than you could possibly desire it.
  When your atomic body is not collapsed, you can fall asleep fast. The atoms hold the energy we use, and you must replace it as you breathe from the Source, knowing that it is the pure Light of God recreating you. You have to move up and hold your hands up high. God is wonderful. “All that works that I do, ye shall do also and greater works than these.” Do you believe this?

1 American paper currency comes in seven denominations: $1, $2, $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100. The United States no longer issues bills in larger denominations, such as $500, $1,000, $5,000, and $10,000 bills. But they are still legal tender and may still be in circulation.

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