Edna Lister’s Lectures, 1966

Being an Ambassador in Bonds
Edna Lister outline, March 1, 1966, Tacoma, WA, Ephesians 6:18-20, Romans 8:38-39

  “Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints; and for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel, for which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.”–Ephesians 6:18-20.
  “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, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”–Romans 8:38-39.
  What is an ambassador? Who are they? For what are they used? How does an ambassador act? An ambassador in bonds is an officially appointed representative of a sovereign ruler or nation, a position of great responsibility.
  “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”–Ephesians 6:12. Agnostic and atheistic professors are teaching the noxious sophistry that “God is dead” on campuses today. They can speak no greater blasphemy.
  The world needs a prophet such as Zechariah, who will speak the Word to close the mouth of blasphemers and make dumb those who preach but do not know God. You are an ambassador, bonded to represent the Christed One. God gives you the right to speak boldly, which He can grant only when you no longer speak to convince someone of “I’m right” or “I know better than you do.”
  When you speak law, state it boldly, saying, “This is law.” Use law to point the way to the invisible world, which is greater by far than the visible, just as an iceberg’s tip belies it size beneath the surface. Electric wiring carries invisible power. Radio sets receive invisible vibrations through the atmosphere. You speak on the phone, but cannot see a voice. Would you refuse to speak on the phone because you cannot see the person on the other end or the wiring in between? Let your motto be “I accept.” Speak to prove truth, not to disprove, remembering that evil always falls of its own weight
  Some people are automatically fearful when they get up in the morning because they never bother to clean out the closet of their mind before bed. You must rid the subconscious mind every night of what appetitive soul filled it with during the day. The appetitive soul is supposed to care for and rebuild your physical body while you sleep, but it cannot when you use its share of mind as a dumping ground for the day’s darkness.
  Before sleep, take time to lift your subconscious negativity to God and refill the space with Light and plenty to spare. When you do this, which is just good housekeeping, your night’s sleep will refresh and rebuild you.
  Most people suppose that the “mystery of the gospel” is just a fantasy. Yet all souls work at night. Your soul leaves your body subject to the appetitive soul renovator while you work with the legions of the Christed ones to heal the earth. Just suppose you could do this work at night, consciously. What glory you could produce!
  Place your whole soul’s confidence in this one great declaration—“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, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”–Romans 8:38-39.

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Triumphant, Rapturous Being and Living
Edna Lister outline, 51st International New Thought Alliance Congress, May 3, 1966, Los Angeles, CA

  This has been a year of glory and of miracles of science. What was just “talk” last year is this year’s walk in space. Next, we’ll be landing on the moon. 1 We spent last year’s war budget on this space exploration, despite all the voices saying, “They can’t do that!” and “What for?” The doubters and complainers simply have no eyes to see the beauty in it, the romance for tens of thousands of children looking up. The whole world is looking up. We’ve set new air speed records, 1,800 mph, New York to Paris in three hours, two hours to cross the U.S. Doctors are now able to treat the growing baby in the mother’s womb. These are miracles.
  Revelation 7:1 tells of the “four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth.” A scientific journal recently printed an article about the earth having four corners in high layers, each covering an average of 1,000 square miles.
  Science, which is already doing the “greater works” that Jesus mentioned, is our aid in Bible interpretation. The Bible is also the greatest textbook on psychiatry ever written. What about our year so far? Are we doing the greater works? Have we planned for new experiences, new expansion and new ascension? Are we satisfied with our progress? If not, we ask ourselves whether we have a year’s set of goals. Have we reached them? What measuring rod do we use to know how to plan this year’s goals?
  We must have a method of cross-checking ourselves. We cannot stand still, for everything obeys the cycles of expansion or contraction. We love more or less. Our bodies are stronger or weaker. Our eyes see more or see less. Our only thermometer for the heat of our expansion or the chill of contraction is praise. Is our praise stronger, higher, deeper, broader and longer? Do I praise more today? Coming home at night, do I praise at the door that I am home. Do I expand upward in praise in the morning? We can tell exactly the degree of our ascension in consciousness for a day or a year, for praise becomes a compulsive action. The illumination of Ascension acts as the amplifier for the desire to praise until we must praise.
  When I become the law of praise, I am being perfect as my Father in heaven is perfect. When I become the law of praise, I am being faith in my desire, thinking and imagination. When I become the law of praise, I am being baptized by the Light from above, hour by hour. “I am now possessed by the One God, who is Father of us all, who is above all, through us all and in us all.” This is our perfect metaphysical statement.
  New Thought is new every day, as God is new every day. Light is new. To expand in consciousness, I move up to the higher creative center. I close out all earth noises. I close out all earth’s sound waves. I close out all earth’s mental waves, such as those carried on radio and television transmissions.
  I stand in the Light pouring down from above. Praise has become my escalator to my Mount of Transfiguration. Praise holds me as I conquer. I say, “Let there BE Light,” and new Light absorbs any and all darkness near me. “Light is denuding evil of power all around me.” Where Light is, evil is not. New horizons unfold before me. This Light is the flame of immortality, unconquerable, triumphant Light. The Light of ascension becomes a rapture of being and living within me.
  We do not need new words of praise, but we do need words newly vitalized every day. We have allowed words to use us. But we must now use words as praise. When enough of us stand as Light, transfigured, the world will follow for Light is life, triumphant and victorious.

1 The first manned moon landing was July 20, 1969, when Apollo 11 landed with astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.

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The Eightfold Path of Buddha
Edna Lister transcript, Margaret Doan, Ruth Johnson, Lotus Landis, Irene White, scribes, October 18, 1966, Cleveland, OH

  Following is the highest possible interpretation for the Noble Eightfold Path of Buddha, containing the original teachings from the sources of the mystery schools. Jesus taught the rhythms of seven in the Seven Degrees, and the powers of being, which are eight phases of the Logos Emanation of Power as energy, which we use in our healing work.
  Gautama Buddha (483-563 BC), the “enlightened one,” founded the philosophy of Buddhism in India, and taught a doctrine of “four noble truths”: existence is suffering, the cause of suffering is desire, there is an end to suffering, called transcendence (Nirvana), and there is a path to the end of suffering, the practice of meditation on the Noble Eightfold Path.
  The soul walking the eightfold path never completely ascend because even by climbing to the eighth point of ascension, he cannot pass beyond the third Degree of the Adept. The modern versions of the eightfold path taught today seek self-control, but usually fail to sublimate. By contrast, the Via Christa is the way of complete ascension to become as perfect as our Father in Heaven is perfect.

Neophyte: The Law of Acceptance
  “I accept all that comes to me as my own. I earned it in past lives, created it in this life, or it is something of darkness that only I may lift for my Father; therefore, I do accept and lift all that comes unto me. I now accept my responsibility to lift all that comes to me, which entails assuming responsibility for all darkness around me, a responsibility to sacrifice self, and the responsibility of full surrender to be the servant of all the Power. I now observe every detail of my life. I am alive and alert to observe above and below. As I use observation in my outer life, according to my practice of observation, exactly so shall I see and hear in heaven.” Only under acceptance can you open the higher mental faculties of logic, reason, discernment discrimination, and discretion.
  Rebirth is the first Mystic Brotherhood Initiation of the Via Christa. Jesus emphasized this: “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”–John 3:3. Rebirth breaks the shackles of the subconscious mind with all its old ideas, opinions and prejudices. You must be reborn in consciousness to control the “little self,” let alone to master it. Rebirth makes you child-like in the simplicity of your acceptance. “Whosoever shall not receive the Kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.”–Mark 10:15.
  Self-control is the first Buddhist path. Control of the impulsive appetitive soul is the first step in conquering self, and it begins with bridling the tongue. Stop using idle words, especially, “I’m trying.” Buddhism calls this “right understanding” (knowledge), and teaches that you must speak no ill nor injure another. On the Via Christa, self-control is the business of the Adept degree. We call it self-mastery because here you must apply discrimination, which is the mental faculty of differentiation, of being able to make an exact distinction between different ideas and actions. Discrimination is how you decide what choice of action is right and what is wrong.
  Hatha Yoga, the yoga of physical control of the body, is also a key to self-control. Hatha Yoga is part of the laws of the Neophyte: breathing, water, diet, rest, and exercise. Rest includes sleep, recreation and diversion, all the activities that inspire and quicken body and mind, including reading and painting. When you coordinate and apply these laws in their proper relationship, you become balanced physically.

Disciple: The Law of Surrender
  All Power comes from above. “Not I, but my Father does the work.” Here you surrender self-centered will and selfish desires to become the faithful servant of all God’s Light as Power. To surrender is to let go of needing the world’s approval so that it will let go of you. Giving up the self’s desires for recognition, credit, approval, and the self’s doubts, anxieties, and fearfulness, all thoughts of self, you conquer through obedience to the law of surrender, knowing that the God’s Light does the work through you and as you.
  The second Buddhist path is control of your actions, and it involves “right thought,” which includes your intention or motivation. In the practice of Buddhism control of your actions requires controlling all your outward expressions. To travelers on the Via Christa “right thought” is right direction of all outer expression under the faculty of discretion, which is the power of deciding or judging. Discretion is the faculty that governs knowing when to speak and when to remain silent. This is also a law of surrender.
  Baptism by Water is the second Mystic Brotherhood initiation. Through Baptism by Water you stabilize thought and conflicting emotions into the serenity of the Christ-life. “My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.”–John 5:17. Working with the Father as He works is always being God-conscious. As a Disciple you do this by surrendering emotional indulgences and reactions, including opinions, prejudice, resentment, blame, guilt, and reliving old, worn-out memories, to balance your emotional expression.

Adept: The Law of Obedience
  “Obey the Law and live.”–Leviticus 18:5 “Whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of [breaking] all.”–James 2:10. The law of obedience covers all law, for if you break the least of the laws, you have broken the whole. To keep the whole of the law requires that you gain and maintain balance of in your mental life, which is the responsibility of the Adept.
  Baptism by Fire is the third Mystic Brotherhood initiation. Here the flames of the Holy Spirit pour out upon you, the pure, unadulterated atomic fire of Holy Breath as love. This fiery baptism can come at any hour after surrender until all that remains is love. Baptism by Fire always brings a choice of positive or negative, of acceptance or repudiation, of love or hate. Love brooks nothing but love. Love builds but hate destroys; selfless love enriches but selfishness impoverishes. For a soul who has trapped himself in negativity and spiritual poverty, treat by reaching out with arms of Light and declaring, “Father, I now gather together and lift unto Thee this beautiful soul substance of love belonging to Name. Let it be ascended, purified and restored to Name to be used in Thy perfect works.” Use this treatment to redeem the lost soul substance of those who criticize and curse you. Stand within a circle of love, gird your loins, cross your arms, declare their curses are love, and thank God for them.
  The third Buddhist path is cultivation of perseverance, which is unwavering steadfastness. All obstacles in the soul’s path of life become a challenge for the initiate to practice steadfastness and perseverance. This path includes “right speech,” which means carefully choosing to use only kind, wise words. Think of it this way: What will you declare for yourself? “I am an idiot!” or “I am good!”? Remember, one “Let there be Light!” sets into action the whole eightfold path without having to think through each law.
  Three is the number that symbolizes perfected personal expression. To do the “greater works” that Jesus performed takes a vivid imagination and flaming desire. However, you can only effectively do greater work by letting God do them through you and as you. Stand steadfastly in the Light and let God do the work as you, with no force of self-will. You don’t use the Power, you let the Power use you! In this sense, standing is conquering by becoming the Power to release the Power. Then the Power goes forth to do the work unadulterated by any self. Overcome the world by overlooking its interference. To overcome is to come up over all ideas of self and worldly limitations. To overlook is to look up over outer appearances to see God’s reality.

Mystic: The Law of Praise
  The Mystic is the soul who serves God day and night, inwardly singing “Holy, Holy, Holy.” Praise frees you to pray with fervor at the heart center, which is the respiratory rate of balance between the three lower and three higher centers. The respiratory rate of balance involves the perfectly harmonious functioning of the stomach, heart and lungs. Any imbalance among these organs will interrupt how well and how quickly you can meet an assault to your senses, physical balance or thinking, rendering you unable to act wisely or even properly.
  Transfiguration is the fourth Mystic Brotherhood initiation. Transfiguration is idealization, changing the outward form or appearance and the inward character by drawing in the physical life sparks in the cells, ascending them to the perfect molecular desire form, then to the atoms of the mental body. You can transfigure your being only according to the fervency of your desire to serve God. Four, which is the number symbolizing service, represents the pineal gland of wisdom and illumination.
  The fourth Buddhist path is the cultivation of tolerance and “right action” in your choices and conduct. Buddhism teaches that you best cultivate tolerance through contemplation and seeking comprehension of God as the “All.” Yet even this is not enough. True tolerance is not simply letting others go their own way. True tolerance is instantly able to know the permissible degree of deviation from the absolute right of the law or any guiding principle. You must be able to adjust to and live in the world and learn how to agree with God that “This is Good!” and adjust to your fellow man to effectively apply tolerance.

Master: The Law of “I AM Good!”
  God is the Father’s name in heaven, and Good is the name of the Father on earth. Good is the first element in the name of every life spark, atom, molecule and cell in Creation. When you say, “I AM Good,” you open yourself to be used by God. “I AM Good” is a recall to your throne room in consciousness. Call on God’s name for you by declaring “I AM Good!” to lift yourself above every negative vibration or circumstance. You apply this law from the heart center, above your diaphragm, the meridian line between your thorax and abdomen.
  “I AM Good” is the name of your identity in and with God. Fasten yourself to Him in your Christ consciousness and maintain that contact! If you must, stand and shout, “I AM GOOD!” you draw the magnetic and etheric currents to your solar plexus, and hold them there, forming the Girdle of Aphrodite, a sheath of protection about the solar plexus, covering the lower centers, the sacrum, splenic and solar plexus. This protective sheath holds you undaunted by the shocks, blows and worldly vibrations that may strike your solar plexus.
  The crucifixion of self-centered will and dselfish desires is the fifth Mystic Brotherhood initiation. When you crucify selfish will and desire, you mate your now-lifted desire with will to become I AM, the Christ mind, but you must look upward in consciousness to access it! To declare “I AM Good!” causes desire to mate with will in what we call a marriage of the Lamb, which opens the pituitary gland as intuition and the pineal body as illumination. The symbol of a fully opened pineal body and pituitary gland is the number 144,000, the name of the Elect on earth. “I AM Good!” tunes you into the River of Life vibration that cleanses and purifies you, body and soul, as you move in harmony with it. This is how to tune in the vibration of the unconquerable faith of all ages rather than the world’s low, slow vibration, and you can access and increase it 24 hours a day.
  The fifth Buddhist path is cultivation of an impersonal attitude toward life. Buddhism calls this “right livelihood.” To travelers on the Via Christa, cultivation of an impersonal attitude is non-attachment to outcome, becoming too “simple-minded” to take offense, react and become emotionally embroiled. This strength comes with ascension, finding and holding your new relationship with God and man while agreeing and adjusting in harmony with the River of Life. Consider how many souls go through life wanting harmony by having others adjust to them! “I AM Good!” is good management of your life and faith. Learn to go to God first and let His love pour forth upon your neighbor. Lift the situation and stand in and on the Light to adjust in harmony to anything and everything life presents.

Priest: The Law of Becoming
  The Priest works under the law of becoming, which is also called transmutation and sublimation. You must work to become every law you learn. The Priest’s way is the “lonely path” because you feel as though you are walking it “alone” when you begin. Here you string together your lost pearls of wisdom, separate the wheat from the chaff, and keep only the good.
  Resurrection is the sixth Mystic Brotherhood Initiation. You must resurrect both the love you have unwisely invested in your emotional life, and the wisdom you have diluted in your mental life. You can easily do this by applying a just appraisal in three steps: surrender, praise and lifting. You surrender your self-interest under the laws of forgiveness, and praise all previous good done by everyone involved. You lift it all to the Father, knowing that He does the work. As you are resurrected from old ways of thinking and emotions you move into a new and bountiful life as the Father-Mother principles of Wisdom and Love.
  The sixth Buddhist path includes balance and equilibrium, which are key ingredients to “right conduct.” Divine equilibrium confers balance in your everyday life and affairs. Equilibrium and balance create equanimity as you stand on the hub of the wheel of life. Get off the constantly swinging pendulum of self and stand immovably balanced on the hub of the wheel and you become a teacher and protector, a leader among the Elect.

Christos: The Law of Absolute Responsibility
  Ascension is the seventh Mystic Brotherhood Initiation. To ascend is “to climb or go up to a relatively higher position, to rise by process of growth. It means to proceed from the inferior to the superior, to rise in degree of characteristic quality.”–Oxford English Dictionary. Travelers on the Via Christa know that to ascend is to rise to a higher point in consciousness and conquering. Ascension is continually moving up in consciousness, a continually growing awareness, continually increasing rate of vibration and continually expanding aura.
  The seventh Buddhist path contains the six attributes of the Priest: 1) To face life with no running from self or others. 2) To bridle the tongue, the will and your imagination. 3) To synthesize the five senses into apperception, a soul faculty. 4) To seek full use of your mystic eyes and ears. 5) To translate all life’s experiences into ascension of soul. 6) To balance Love and Wisdom, which you then express in the world as compassion.

The Eighth Power Degree: Joy
  Immortality is the eighth Mystic Brotherhood initiation. Immortality involves consciously living in the now, in eternity, as an immortal being. Your joy then lifts, ascends, heals and cleanses you and everyone within your sphere of influence, from this life and all your preceeding embodiments.
  The eighth Buddhist pathway is the final discarding of the “husks” of consciousness, the shells of self, the opinions, prejudices and old forms. To ascend, you must discard everything that holds you back from rising higher. You go back to the beginning and add the illumination of Raja Yoga to the Hatha Yoga of breath, and Karma Yoga to lift the soul debts you built while living on earth. On this path you pick up your pearls, life experiences, everything of love and wisdom you cast aside in the past during your descent into matter, and during past incarnations.

Steps in Ascension
  You ascend through the sub-steps of the Seven Sacred Degrees. The first ascent contains 144 steps through seven times seven equals forty-nine degrees of initiation, or twelve times around the Wheel of Terrah acquiring the twelve virtues of each sign. Even while you are incarnated in one sign, you are still polishing the virtues of the other eleven. You never focus on just one sign, but always operate under all twelve. If you neglect polishing the virtues of one sign-incarnation, the debts pile up until you must really hustle to “catch up.”
  The first ascent awakens the optic chiasm of the thalamus in the brain, where Light enters and shines forth through the mystical “third eye” in the forehead. This is Daniel’s window of the soul “open toward Jerusalem.” These 144 steps equal the 33 Via Christa Degrees as we make the rounds of the twelve signs twelve times. When you step onto the hub of the Wheel, you open a new round of twelve times through the signs. You are higher, but are still polishing the details you left undone. On this second ascent, the second round, you begin 1,000 burnt offerings, 1,000 days of selflessness, to open the mental body lotus petals. You complete one day of burnt offerings by being as perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect. Thank God and smile 1,000 times an hour. Say, “I love You, Father!” 1,000 times an hour.

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The Soul’s Powers of Being

Coming soon.

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Seven Life Stages From Birth to the Oversoul’s Descent
Edna Lister transcript, Margaret Doan, Ruth Johnson, Lotus Landis, scribes, November 22, 1966, Cleveland, OH

  Plato, in his Timaeus averred that every soul born to earth originated in a star in the Milky Way above, referred to as the Oversoul Star. {Throughout this lecture the soul referred to is you unless otherwise indicated.} God forged your soul within the heart of a star, then He numbered and named the substance in your Oversoul star with your unique rate of vibration, long before your first incarnation, when you first built a body for life on earth. Your Star is your home and it remains in its orbit in the Milky Way galaxy, the home of our solar system and planet.
  All soul progress is cumulative: Your Star’s magnitude of brightness reveals the amount of Light-as-power you can release, which depends on how well you have come through the seven stages, the seven cycles of the embodied soul called the Seven Ages of Man. These seven stages range from birth to the full descent of your Oversoul Star in this life. When you leave your body at night, your Guards anchor your silver cord at your Star and constantly monitor it to make sure that it cannot accidentally be torn from your physical body while you sleep. The Light of your Star is substance from the Source, condensed and ready to become anything you wish it to manifest as here on the outer. It is the soul substance, ready to become form, upon which you draw to build prayer molds and to make declarations.
  The hour, minute and second of your birth on earth determines the “sign” of the Zodiac you were born under, one of the twelve constellations forming the Zodiacal circle surrounding our solar system, which we can see in the night sky. You usually move from one sign-constellation to another each time you are born into a new life on earth. When you leave earth at transition, the death of the physical body, your Star dims temporarily; when you reincarnate, it brightens. A shooting star visible from earth signifies the arrival of a soul who has a great mission in his coming life on earth.
  Heavenly Councils always send you to the particular group of souls with whom you can best learn your needed lessons. If your life is “hard,” with many losses and obstacles to overcome, you carry a heavy load of soul debt, which means that you have either been lazy about paying your debts somewhere along the line, or you’ve set high goals of achievement. Debts always catch up, and many difficulties in life are best viewed as wonderful learning opportunities that strengthen you when you choose to accept and conquer their lessons. A good treatment for covering soul debts and challenges is: “Father, let the Light from my Star go forth and fill any pitfalls I’ve left in my path today.” You can use this treatment for others as well. When you speak the Word for another, you empower the Light of his Star to go forth to open the way for him. This is the creative healing work of the Elect, and the only limit is according to your faith and the greatness of your belief and faith in God.
  Gestation is the final period of preparation for life on earth. From conception until you burn away your silver cord, life is a process of preparing your soul, which is Light-as-substance condensed into form, to function at and release ever greater degrees of Light-as-power. You attain “soul freedom” when you burn away the silver cord to replace it with gold after you complete 1,000 days of burnt offerings, or days of perfection, as King Solomon did at Gibeon.
  Your soul is Light apportioned into various degrees of being-as-consciousness at every level of consciousness available to you. It’s critical to remember that soul is mind and mind is soul, the two are really one in the same. You are mind as soul, not mind and soul! Your being and thinking are one. Philosophy and modern psychology both use the word mind to describe individual conscious, which is confusing, but Plato’s original psychology knows this consciousness is soul, immortal and eternal. As mind, the phases you can occupy, from lowest to highest degree of consciousness, are subconscious, collective unconscious (the world mind), rational cognizant mind (your waking consciousness when you are thinking), and superconscious (the level at which you can access the mind of Christ, the I AM consciousness). As a soul, you operate from appetites, urges and impulses at the lowest level (impulsive appetitive soul, the creature-mentality soul), ranging upward to rational soul, and Oversoul, which is your key to universal Christed consciousness. The element of consciousness that knows is mind whereas soul is understanding. DESIGN
  When you began the descent downward and outward from your star-source, you left your Oversoul, which is half your full living soul, in your star. This Oversoul portion remains in contact with the presence of the Holy One and serves as the anchor that forever binds you to the Source. Remember, the Oversoul forms what philosophy calls the superconscious mind, the part of you that remains God-conscious. The Oversoul is your “anchor” to insure your safe return, unless you choose to completely regress through selfishness while on earth. Without this provision, the Supreme Councils would have no lifeline to hold an embodied soul who is going too far astray. As a soul you remain under the governance of eternal law guided by the the wisdom of heavenly councillors who direct your progress through the Legions of Guardians, angelic beings who guard and guide your progress when you cooperate with them.
  Your Oversoul, directed by certain specialized councils sent the remaining half of your living soul on the long pilgrimage through matter, descending through successively heavier phases of matter in a process of involution, involving you in denser physicality. At each new level of descent you further divided into individuated portions that would temporarily become different personalities, that is, portions of soul separated in form. Each portion shares the same Oversoul, but its share of rational soul (conscious mind), and impulsive appetitive soul (creature-consciousness, or subconscious mind) then develops (evolves) individually. These soul portions of a descended creator are not separate souls. They are but different functions of the one individuated soul that dwells within the physical sheath we call a body. The impulsive appetitive soul portion enters the bloodstream bit by bit with every pulse beat of the heart. The soul, from the outside and with the help of his guards, builds his own body, working from the heart center to the feet and back up to the head. The soul calls to himself his own life sparks which he then uses to build the framework of the physical body. This process of creation is symbolized by the story of Noah’s Ark. All the life sparks, named, stamped and numbered with the soul’s rate of vibration, are led in two-by-two for building the body. Within the basic protoplasm is the delicate framework of the desire body.
  There is as great an influence of the child on the mother as there is of the mother on the child. When the mother feels life quickening, the soul has then begun filling in the skeletal structure and organs. A lazy soul who leaves the body-building responsibilities to his guards ends up with a weakened and negative vehicle. Each soul is wholly responsible for properly building its own body. We are just beginning to do our life’s work of healing and treatment when we hear of a pregnancy and surround the Ark of the Mother with the Blue Ray which nourishes and sustains. We call upon the soul to fulfill its responsibility for body building; many miscarriages are the result of an soul simply quitting on the job.
  During the eighth and ninth months of gestation, small portions of the rational soul and the Oversoul are breathed into the newly-formed vehicle so that it can try them on for size. At this point, the desire body and chakra centers have been formed. Two weeks before birth, the rational soul withdraws for final class work on the inner. Every soul goes to school between incarnations to review all that occurred during the immediately preceding incarnation to the moment of birth. For this two-week period, the appetitive soul is fully involved with the rational soul and the Oversoul in prepartion for earth lessons to come. While on earth, the soul can go to the Hall of Records at night to review and prepare for the events which lie ahead.

Birth
  At birth, the Great Guard holds his arms about the soul as he inbreathes into the body. The Great guard, from the outside, exhales and the doctor and nurses inhale together. It requires three of these breaths as one to indraw the soul into the body. These breaths are unconscious. The guard, from the outside, controls the breath of the soul who inbreathes with the first cry.
  The first breath is most important; with it the soul claims his body. The first cry must be energetic enough to carry a thinned-out portion of the Three-as-One (impuslive appetitive soul, rational soul and Oversoul) down the spine to touch the sacrum plexus, which starts the pulsing of the vital centers.
  The Oversoul, rational soul and appetitive soul portions must take charge of the heart center with the first breath, which must be perfectly balanced--too hard an inbreathing and the heart will burst; too weak and the result is a blue baby. The first breath must be strong enough to permeate all of the bloodstream.
  At this point the Oversoul withdraws and takes a portion of the rational soul with it leaving the subsoul to continue the inbreathing along with a small portion of the rational soul. The brain cells are developed in the last part of the ninth month of gestation. These cells must be awakened slowly or they will rupture because they are so delicate. A highly developed soul may have brain cells already awakened at birth.
  Begotten Gods come into incarnation with more brain cells open than does one at the Son of Man stage and with a sun-circle of cells open which serve as “seeds” for the parathalamus glands. When there have been several incarnations of misuse this sun-circle is forfeited and must be re-earned.

1 to 7 Years of Age
  The first cycle opens with the first breath. The brain cells are awakened as the soul sinks down the 32 vertebrae to touch the base of the spine. More accurately, this process takes place in the desire body with the subsoul and rational soul portions moving down through-the shushumna to enter the Cave of Kundalini. This process enables the soul to move in and possess the sacrum plexus of the desire body as well as the nerve plexus centers of the physical body. This is the Degree of the Neophyte.
  It is supposed to take a soul a full seven years to complete the descent of the soul to possess the body. Some souls require less time, some longer, depending on the desire and sense of responsibility of the soul involved. The soul now begins to assert individuality and self-will in the “I will, I won’t” stage. The stronger the descent into the body, the greater the self-will. The brain cells awaken as the descent progresses with older souls opening brain cells at a faster rate. The soul is moving towards adolescence and preparing for self-centered development under Power.

7 to 14 Years of Age
  This is the degree of the disciple and the period of adolescence. During this cycle, the rational soul sets the chakra centers whirling properly. Each breath from above carries the rational portion of the soul downward and attracts the magnetic currents of earth to strengthen the chakras. The breath moves down to the feet and back up, drawing the magnetic currents with it. This is good and necessary, but the magnetic currents help make the soul more stubborn and willful.
  Under the right training from birth (which requires parents with a great sense of responsibility), the soul’s splenic chakra is whirling and, as the cycle of 7-14 years opens, begins to send the breath (also known as the Light or Creative Fire) up through the chakras to the crown chakra at the top of the head.
  At this point, the Star “storehouse” is filled with a new and higher grade of Light substance. The amount of condense.) Light given as Star Power is controlled by the great Councils of Fathers. Every time the child breathes deeply, a shot of Power moves down the spine and rises again, releasing the soul substance to move through the body. When the soul touches the cortex of the brain, it begins the descent of the living soul bestowed by the Father. This living soul substance, named and numbered with the soul’s own rate of vibration, is breathed in at every breath.
  This is the Degree of the Disciple. The first religious experience occurs from 12 to 14 years of age and is called “raising the creative fire.” Some souls mature more quickly at this time than others, the slower souls being called “late bloomers.” This experience is the birth of desire in the consciousness and souls begin to manifest tendencies to go up and down the “pole,” depending on how well they agree and adjust to life.

14 to 21 Years of Age
  As the Oversoul contacts the new Power of the Star, the cycle of awakening the pineal gland begins. From 14 to 21 years, the soul continues to awaken brain cells for use in self-determination and self-will. This is the Degree of the Adept and the soul learns perfected personal expression and equips itself for release of great Power. This is the point of development of maturity and strength for, until now, the soul has only developed the brain and the body.
  More important, this is the beginning of the formation of the mental body and the awakening of the lotus centers. The final rebirth into flesh takes place it> this cycle as the soul of the soul fully descends. There may be a maturing into great religious fervor at this time, or the soul may open the nerves in the misuse of the Creative Fire. The first baptism by water, which has to do with the emotions, occurs at this time because the soul has fully moved into the body. Adolescents can go “mad” at this time from the great release of Power which is greater than that for any preceding generation (i.e., the demonstrations of the Sixties). The heart chakra opens under this Power release.

21 to 28 Years of Age
  With the full descent of the rational soul at 21 years, the Star is filled again with a higher, finer grade of Light substance and the soul begins the cycle of the ascending soul. The first payment of heavy karmic debt comes at age 21. This is also the time of the first Marriage of the Lamb, the lifting of desire from the sacrum plexus up the spine to mate with Will to become the I AM in the higher creative centers.
  As the soul reaches the cortex of the brain, the Oversoul moves down and touches the pineal and pituitary glands, fully awakening them, and the rational portion begins to move down the spine again. About one-third of the Oversoul also moves in at this time and moves down with the rational soul, equalizing the body.
  The throat chakra begins to whirl and Power may stick in the throat at this time causing much “I, me and my.” At age 28 the soul finds his own soul and begins spiritual development. If the soul moves up in consciousness, it will turn to religion.

28 to 35 Years of Age
  As the cycle of 28-35 begins, the Star of the Oversoul is once more recharged and another Marriage of the Lamb takes place. This is the second religious experience or exaltation as the Oversoul moves down the spine under full Power. With the renewed religious fervor of this period there may also come fanaticism in world affairs and perhaps a bulge in the soul’s self-importance. The average individual really finds his balance here as he begins to move back up to the intellect to be used as a complete being. Freedom of choice operates here and the soul is faced with the choice of conquering, and as the Light filters through it encourages more and more choices of Light.
  The Oversoul is supposed to take charge of the physical glands, desire body chakras and mental body lotus centers with the awakening of the sun centers in the electronic vehicle. The descent of the Light of the Star at this time completes Resurrection. This is also the degree of mastery of one’s self.

35 to 42 Years of Age
  The glands and the plexus centers fully open at 35 and begin functioning. This is the creative cycle wherein the individual comes to fulfillment and is also called the time of Transfiguration for the ascent and cleansing of all life sparks.
  The soul moves in another third of the Oversoul and the Three-in-One (appetitive soul, rational soul and Oversoul) move back up the spine, drawing the magnetic currents of earth up with them. The silver cord burns away leaving the soul free for soul flights and, as it loosens from the heart center and moves up the spine, it may cause headaches, earaches and some backaches.
  This is also the period of the third Marriage of the Lamb when you mate your I AM Christed consciousness with your Oversoul. Light from the brow chakra moves in to open full “seeing” and the parathalamus glands awaken and “hearing” becomes active. If the soul has lived a very spiritual life, this begins a new period of agreeing and adjusting as family, life and work responsibilities become heavier. This is the Degree of the creative Priest.
  When one reaches 42, the Light of the Star is one’s own strength and spiritual substance, named and numbered, which has been moving in steadily from age 28 on. The Creative Fire, called the serpent fire, is lifted up and coiled in the heart of the Crown lotus. Lifting the serpent, fire is also known as Wisdom standing on its tail in the wilderness. One thousand days of burnt offerings are begun now to help one climb high enough for final conquering. The 1,000 petals of the crown lotus are opened and the full glory and Power and Light of the Begotten Fathers fills the Star and it becomes a super-star.

42 to 49 Years of Age
  This period marks the continuous descent of the Power into the life, body and affairs, and you are supposed to be living fully awake on all levels at once. This is the Via Christa, the degree and path of the Christ. You create with the word “let,” the only word that unlocks the Degree of Christos.
  Here you live as tone, a full and perfect tone which makes you untouchable by anything on the outer. As this illumination takes place, a golden cord moves down and hooks itself into the silver cord and you ascend to the Throne of your Begotten Father. Great Power comes with this and you are anchored to your Begotten Father, never to let go.
  At this time there can also be a descent of the birth Star and a flash of illumination comes through from the Source; severe headaches may accompany this period. One becomes aware of the importance of conquering at the very moment of a challenge so that, in time, one becomes untouchable, immovable, all compassion and all comprehension. Through conquering to bring through the Light of the Star, this entire process may be begun before the age of 49. The full Light of your Star, the Light and Power brought with you front the Source at the beginning, comes through at this time.

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