Healing by Principle
Edna Lister
Opening Session
International New Thought Association Congress
San Diego, California
July 12, 1959

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” “In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” Many different schools of thought have given “words,” which they have claimed is “the Word.” One word cannot express all Principle.

“In the beginning” all of God was the Word, therefore the Word as God contained all Principles. When we really accept and fully understand these statements of truth, we will need no healing because they are statements of complete perfection that only ignorance and disobedience to Principle can set aside.

So the Word was a vast Emanation or a composite Vibration of all Principles and Laws, the same Laws we have been rediscovering for ourselves as metaphysicians. The Word as God is the Source Principle upon which we draw for all our healing power.

We cannot take Love, Wisdom, Faith or Joy and set them aside and say “this is the Word.” Each is a Principle, and part of the Universal Principle. All Principle is the immutable, undeviating, changeless foundation upon which our healing power is based, and the foundation upon which all universes are established.

Metaphysics and science move along side by side under changeless, workable Laws. Lincoln Barnett, in “The Universe and Dr. Einstein,” explains exactly and scientifically what happens when we have had healing.

Scientists at first thought that “mass” was one kind of substance and “energy” was another. Under Einstein’s Law of Relativity, they have found that mass, energy and light are the same substance in different rates of vibration. Mass is slow, energy is faster, and the Light above that is a high rate of vibration.

Metaphysicians have always known that “God is everywhere evenly present and available in all His parts, attributes and qualities.” We know that all disease is a stagnation of life in the body cells.

Healing under the Principle of Faith raises the actual cellular vibrations, “mass” is changed into “energy,” and we have a miracle. Einstein’s mass-energy theory has explained the resurrection of the body of Jesus. On the Mount of Transfiguration, he showed Peter, James and John that he could raise his physical mass body through energy into Light.

Every healing we have is a resurrection from “mass,” the heavy body substance, into “energy.” Perfect unconquerable faith can do this for us now as the “greater works.” Do we believe this? No one is apt to move from mass through energy and float off as Light for a while yet. We don’t need to worry that we’ll get “too good” too soon!

The world of science challenges metaphysicians today. Science is doing the “greater works,” more so than metaphysics. What will we do to equal that? “In the beginning was the Word” of all Power. Today it is still the Word of all Power. Science calls this atomic power, and metaphysicians name it the Christed Energy of Light, and it is pure, unchangeable Principle that cannot fail.

Do we fail? Are we afraid of it? Are we like the timid little boy who, when asked what he wanted to be, said “I want to be a scarecrow so I won’t be afraid”? If we hide behind the scarecrow idea, we find that when we should be standing firmly upon Principle, we are stuffed with straw instead of fortitude. We need not be afraid of doing the “greater works” by speaking the Word of the Power of the “beginning.”

The Principle of Faith all truth is not an emotional “bubble bath,” where we get excited occasionally when we hear a sermon, a lecture or read a book. Nor is it a “mental amendment” to our past life, where we take it out, think about it or make trite statements once or twice a day.

Truth is no substitute for anything, but a Principle to live by as an entirely new way of life. It is a reconditioning, a reconversion into a New Age image and likeness of God as “in the beginning.” It is a surrender of self-desires and self-will, both moving into the “House of the Lord” to become the “I AM” of the Christed one. Desire then becomes intuition, moving “beside still waters” of Spirit, while will becomes pure illumination of Wisdom and turns itself into the “green pastures” of growth and cosmic expansion.

Principle already has our passport waiting for us in the House of the Lord. ”I AM” accepts it, and the door opens to all health, success and glory. Do you believe that this is your “new beginning?”

Now is an escalator moving us up into the House of the Lord where Principle can recreate repeatedly what it created in the beginning, where we stand, in the ultimate Glory, with a youthful, singing heart! You are as immortal now as you ever will be, for the Principle of this one Substance forms you, and the “Word was God.”



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From 1927 to 1971, Edna Miriam Lister inspired countless students and followers, bringing them to the shining threshold of new spiritual comprehension. Edna Lister taught that Heaven is a place and a state of consciousness, open to all believers, with no artificial barriers of time, space, race or religion, and that the great unifier of humanity is Joy Consciousness. God has appointed every creed, denomination, religious dogma, teacher, minister, rabbi or priest to give some aspect of the Divine to the world. We may integrate the Truth in all these different ideas into a perfectly beautiful, working whole.

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