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Edna Miriam Lister June 7, 1960 Cleveland, Ohio You study and attend classes to comprehend the Laws you think you already know. Our work has primary, intermediate, occult, metaphysical and mystical levels. We cannot separate psychology and metaphysics from the other categories of expression, science, philosophy and mysticism. We apply these categories in all we do, consciously or unconsciously. Affirmations and declarations are metaphysical. "I AM" statements combine philosophy and mysticism. Each category has a subcategory related to the physical body. We can interpret every Bible verse on one of these five levels. Our mind functions in three phases, subconscious, conscious and superconscious. We have no permanent personal identity unless we consciously coordinate these phases. Dis-coordination leads to mental confusion and causes us nothing but trouble. A Living Soul is a subsoul, egoic soul and Oversoul dwelling in a body. "You are gods dwelling in the temple of the living God" is a purely mystical statement that describes God’s Personality as man. God fills our temple with lifesparks and it’s our job to purify them. "God, cleanse my subconscious" is offensive. To admit we are responsible for "human nature" may offend lukewarm subsoul, but it never offends God. Since psychology first taught us about the subconscious, humanity has used it as a scapegoat, a "whipping boy" and excuse to escape further personal responsibility. People prove this when they say: "Oh, that was a subconscious slip. I didn’t mean it. I’m only human." Popular psychology is anathema to the indifferent, lukewarm person who "feels" others cannot hold him responsible for all his subconscious mind does. Given sufficient identity and substance, subconscious little self easily becomes an imaginary rival of God, blithely laughing toward its next foolish action. "Human nature" keeps "little me" as a spoiled child in your house. When we talk to the little self, we give it identity, power and life. Ascend and talk to God, not your subconscious. Subconscious mind has no separate identity, only what we give it. When we use the subconscious as a scapegoat, we make it a false god that can stand as though it had power of itself. Subconscious mind is one-third of a descended Creator god’s mind, we have conscious and superconscious portions as well. Conscious mind enfolds our egoic identity and the world mind; it is our link to that "mind which is in Christ Jesus" as well. Egoic consciousness uses the mental faculties and is used by Oversoul’s superconscious mind. To overlook subsoul as unneeded in our calculations, to cast it off or consider it not responsible is like leaving any part of the body out of healing. "Someday my eyes will be healed and perfect" leaves your eyes out of the Kingdom of Perfection. You may as well say, "My heart is healed today. My eyes will be healed on the day I have time to bother." We are perfect and we let it manifest. "My eyes are already perfect. Let this perfection manifest." When we enter the house, we do not leave an arm or leg on the porch. Subsoul is an integral part of us, and regarding it as separate with a life of its own is foolish. We must decide where we want subsoul, in or out? To ignore it leaves us drawn and quartered because subsoul is always trying to be included. When you disregard subsoul, its only way of getting in is by becoming pestiferous and injecting nonsense into everything you do. It is your responsibility. If your hands were dirty, you wouldn’t ask God to make them clean, you’d wash them yourself. "I lift this subsoul to become perfection now. I AM now cleanses me as Light." The fact that we are fully responsible for little me’s subconscious actions instantly offends some people. It interferes with their expectation of riding into Heaven on Jesus’ coattails. Forgiveness of sins doesn’t mean God pays your debts. It means God extends you enough Love-Substance on credit to pay your gravity debts to Light. How can I apply Law to myself? I judge myself. I make each day a day of judgment. You are perfect all over. Let it manifest in the outer. Faith is precise Principle and operates under exact Law. Faith is exact Law in action. One can pray for help, have a miracle yet know nothing about Law. Later he may pray, have no miracle and blame God. He prayed fervently with faith and praise the first time, Power descended and God healed him. The second time he was just a "ceiling bumper." Great faith and fervor in prayer can bring a miracle, but you need more than just words. You must comply with fundamental Law and have faith in the Kingdom of God, not in what you are going to do. You must know Law and be Law to have a miracle every time. Full knowledge of Law empowers you to ascend. The first Law to apply is "Seek first the Kingdom." You must hold your mind on the Kingdom of Heaven to touch the hem of His garment. Your fervor touches the hem, not need but fervor. Include everything in your Kingdom of Perfection when you pray. Don’t anticipate what you’ll do after the miracle comes, for that diverts your intensity and no miracle results. We must know God and how He operates. Don’t waste time wishing you had studied or knew more about Law. Don’t waste time thinking about it, think about the Father. Lift it to the Father. "Father, move in and possess me now!" We can never be outside God’s Kingdom is the Law of Omnipresence, a primary Law based on fundamental Principle. Many are unaware of this Law and want to be "converted." We have no place else to go. Wherever we go, we are in the now. We can have no "inner" other than where we are right now. Don’t waste time thinking about being in the Kingdom. Where else could you go? "If I dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there shall thy hand lead me and thy right hand shall hold me." I know I am in the Kingdom of Heaven now. To doubt this is as if one were to feel foreign at home, a stranger, like standing in the living room and asking God "Where is my home? Please lead me home." You are never outside the Kingdom, no matter what you do. When you feel lost or alone, you are not holding to this first Law of Life. Our Father is just upstairs. We are now in the Kingdom of Heaven. "I am at home in the Kingdom, being and becoming now." This is the most important Law to know and to apply; it is always ready to work instantly when we are conscious of it. You must be conscious of Law and know you are in the Kingdom of Heaven. Common sense is most uncommon. Common sense is how you apply modified secondary Laws. Metaphysics enables you to apply Law to suit your particular needs. When you learn how to sense the application of Law in a particular way, you see how it applies generally. When you use common sense Laws, you can discern when your subconscious is talking negative nonsense. Allow no nonsense from negative subsoul. How do I cleanse subsoul? How do I apply Law to this? Seek first the Kingdom of Heaven and stand. Ascend in consciousness and declare: "I AM now cleanses me with Light. I AM now fills me with Light. I AM now makes me whole." "I’ll bite my tongue before I say that again" challenges subsoul, which bites off little chunks of you every time you dare look back and excuse self. People crystallize the subconscious and make subsoul the pacesetting dictator of their lives by Excusing "little me." Subsoul holds memory in subconscious mind and it loves to rule, holding you in bondage through confusion. Subsoul can provide remarkably plausible rationalizations. It can answer all your questions with "just once won’t matter." It does matter if you do it even once. Arise in the morning and say, "I AM in the Kingdom of Heaven now. Father, let Light move through me. I AM shall never miss a trick today." You have no excuse for muddling your mind; it must be clear. Seek first the kingdom. Keep your eyes on the Light. Don’t take time to ask why little me did this or that. Scrub subsoul’s face immediately. Just look up and say, "Here I am, Father, move over. I’m coming!" You can climb to any height without getting dizzy if you do not look behind. Once Light descends, you cannot look back or fall from the heights. The heights don’t make you dizzy, looking back does. Remember Lot’s wife. A backward glance turned her into a pillar of salt. When you look into the past at what is old, the vibration of your lifesparks lowers to the point of an unconscious "void," that place of hopeless apathy. It is consciousness lowered to "I don’t care. I’ll never trust God again. You’ll have to show me." If you forget Law and look back, don’t wallow in it. Repent as you go. Ascend and say, "I am rich in God" to reach that place of strength above the void. When you apply every Law you know, and still get nowhere, look around to see what you have missed. Don’t add difficulty after difficulty. You have only blessings or curses. "I don’t like" something is a curse. Bless everything with "This is good," and become the Law of "What is that to thee? Follow thou me." Apply the Law of God and call these negative things Holy Communion when they touch the body. "If I be lifted up from earth, I shall draw all men unto me" applies here. If you pour out Law or Principle too great to be received, you, the giver of the Law, are responsible, not the receiver. All progress comes under application of definite Laws to daily living. The following five Primary Laws will take you to your high point of contemplative receptivity, which is necessary for all progress. Here you stand, contemplate the Light and receive Power, which is an occult philosophical statement of Principle. These metaphysical Laws extend from "hearing about it" to becoming Law. The whole process of unfoldment is coordinating your life with these Principles, a bit at a time to expand into infinity, into cosmic consciousness. You must apply these Principles as both primary and secondary Laws: I hear under the great Law of Attraction. I receive under the great Law of Expansion. I accept under the great Law of Cohesion. I apply under the great Law of Contraction. I ascend under the great Law of Repulsion. Hearing, Receiving, Acceptance, Application and Ascension are secondary Laws, which represent the Energy and Power immediately available to us. These fundamental Principles act as five primary Laws of Nature. They are a Tree of Life, a coordination of categories of Law. How do I apply these Laws to my life? I flow with them, coordinate myself with them until I comprehend. "My own comes to me" under the Law of Attraction. We attract what we send out, our chickens come home to roost. We apply this Law by drawing our kingdom of earthly creations home to the Kingdom of Heaven through love. Once we hear a Law, we must apply it until we become that Law. To hear a Law, then ignore or forget it attracts every old vibration associated with that Law to come home to roost. When we finally become a Law, we no longer need to think about it. A negative application of Attraction is a sense of guilt that attracts all the guilt feelings in the neighborhood. Remember the parable of the man whose unclean spirit was cast out. He was lonely and attracted seven spirits more wicked than the first. Guilt is a subconscious demand for approval. A sense of guilt is pure self-indulgence, which others, especially children, reflect as disrespect for the one who feels guilty. Doubting that God can use us for perfection is unbecoming, which is why we say, no matter how ugly, "This is good." You receive to grow and learn under the Law of Expansion. You open, receive love and expand under the love of family and friends. Forgiveness is the greatest factor you can have under Expansion. The secondary Law of Forgiveness is to give for. You give to receive. Peter asked Jesus: "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him?" Jesus told him seventy times seven! Give love for. I must give to receive. After metaphysically scrubbing another, tell him how glorious he is. Light shines and he expands. Exaggeration and a wild, unruly imagination are negative expressions of Expansion. You can get in trouble with an enthusiasm that becomes forceful. Breaking Law is easier on an Expansion vibration because you tend to forget attention to details. People who downgrade themselves, or refuse to receive praise, have given themselves undeserved credits in the past, they unconsciously fear their self-praise will surface again. You grow selective under the Law of Cohesion or suction, accepting or drawing in only the good. Cohesion is Suction and without it we could not hold together. Cohesion draws the River of Life to us and draws us into it. You learn to apply Cohesion under the Initiation of the Hellespont at a river below the Hall of Olympus in the Mental Realm. We jump into the river’s churning waters, which flow both ways at once. If you fear, the Law of Suction causes you fall back into your body. If you jump in fervor, the Law of Cohesion carries you to the foot of Mount Olympus. On the negative side of Suction you meet down drafts of thoughts and emotions that may suck you in. Suction draws you into an argument or into situations in which you have no desire to participate. Vampires work on the Law of Suction. Fear or insecurity may draw one into a negative financial deal. We also call suction the Law of Clinging. Do not cling to the past. Cling to ideals, hold fast to God and the Kingdom of Heaven. You apply Law under the Law of Contraction. You coordinate and apply all the Laws you’ve learned to what you do, which is the great secondary Law of Agreeing and Adjusting. Agree with God that this is good and adjust to others without arguing. "What is that to you? Follow me"—I mind my own business. On the detrimental side, Contraction may freeze or paralyze action. You can erect the greatest of false gods under Contraction. Even the Virtue of Silence can become a false god if you say nothing when another needs help. Apply Law and stand on Principle always. Pay no attention to criticism or praise, whether others blame or butter you up with flattery. We grow wise in knowing what to reject as the not-good under the Law of Repulsion. A narrow line separates running from what you don’t like and avoiding the not-good. Repulsion challenges darkness. You cease to respond to earth gravity and ever seek the Light under the secondary Law of Ascension. You ascend higher into greater comprehension by saying, "Father, I thank You." If you apply Repulsion wrongly, you may "love too much," which covers a fear of losing, which paradoxically is rooted in taking what you haven’t earned. Repulsion can cause you to drive others away by saying, "I don’t like." Some cut out family and friends to be left alone so they can be "free," which breaks the Law of Personal Responsibility. When you cut off a person on the outer, you are twice as responsible for him on the inner. Put him on a cloud in God’s hands and apply "I am my brother’s keeper." You cannot see Law, but you can see the results of obedience and disobedience. Failure to receive miracles is due to the lost Word, "good." "This is good. I believe to see. Help mine unbelief. I am the truth. I am the living truth. I am building new eyes, ears," or whatever you need. Our bodies are now indestructible. Our lifesparks are immortal. It is our business to reorganize our lifesparks into our soul’s desires. Stand. "As oil mingles with oil, as water mingles with water, as air mingles with air, as light mingles with Light, so does my life mingle with the Life of God." |
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