Edna Miriam Lister

June 21, 1960

Cleveland, Ohio

"God is everywhere evenly present and available in all His parts, potentialities and qualities" is a metaphysical statement of Faith in God’s Omnipresence. Do I believe that God is everywhere evenly present and available? Do I know this now? Am I sure? Can I leave anything, any part of God out of Faith?

No particle anywhere in the universe is lacking God, since He is present and available in all lifesparks of Substance, endowed from the Source, which fill the Emanations. Everything consists of lifesparks. The Mother of Love, Father of Wisdom and Son of Energy fill the universe, held within a magnetic wall that radiates from the Source.

God gives the Living Soul the power of conscious direction and control over Substance, the primordial essence of which God has made all things. God gives Substance the power to become.

"Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Faith is the unconscious lifesparks in inanimate objects. However, "faith without works is dead." Therefore, the Living Soul’s expression of Faith must be conscious.

Just to know about Faith is not enough. We must know what Faith is, how it works, where to find it, how to use it. What happens between asking and the fulfillment of prayer? Whatever we ask for, we must visualize, picturing Substance as a physical, emotional or mental possession.

We must have an image in mind before we can ask, which is visualizing. If we imagine in a fuzzy way, no Light exposes our brain cells’ "negative." When we ask "in my name believing," we have it. Like so many of the Master’s statements, those that seem so mystical are the most practical. The minute you picture it, it is in your possession.

People practice visualization in three ways. Some people build a mold, over-love it, then do not want it when they get it. Many build a mold of belief, fill it with doubt, and let it go before they get it. Successful people build their molds with Love and Wisdom, then hold in Faith until it comes.

Is Faith enough? Yes. Faith must be enough because it is all Wisdom, Love, Joy and Power. These are enough, but they cannot remain static as just "words" and do anything. We need action. Faith "with works" is Faith in action, in expression. Belief is passive, inadequate unless we actively express Faith. We must put Mind into action as our expression, and convert our beliefs into one bundle of Faith that we put into action. Mind must act upon Faith in a creative, all-inclusive way. When we use and put all Faith in action, it is enough.

Love the mold, or Faith, as you are using it, will not be enough. Faith will not work for you unless you know what it is and how it works. You have a "sometimes" Faith: "I don’t know what I’ve done wrong! It worked before, why doesn’t it work now?"

You must visualize it properly and love it enough. Faith builds the mold, Love sustains it and Praise keeps it in action. Love the people connected with your mold. Love it because you already have it spiritually, mentally and emotionally, or you starve it.

Faith is one name of Spiritual Substance, but it is not the Mind that creates and acts. Faith is Light in action as Spiritual Substance.

Light is One as the Emanations: Faith is Light in action as Spiritual Substance that becomes. Faith is the lifesparks, energized to become whatever you visualize, declare and ask for in love. Love is the adhesive, cohesive Power of the universe that brings together the lifesparks and inflates them to become solid, visible form. Love is in Faith, but the Living Soul, which has the power of conscious direction and control, must express Love. Nothing becomes visible without Love.

"The three falls into the four." Three (3) is the number of our perfected personal expression of all Law, the faculties and virtues. Four (4) is the number of service to man for God. From three, the four comes forth into expression.

One Light as The Word

	Joy
Surrender		Selflessness

The Word is the Emanation of the Logos as Joy, Surrender and Selflessness that take us to the Source.
Use the Word! Use Joy. Use Surrender. Use Selflessness.

One Light as the Emanations

	Father of Wisdom
Mother of Love		Son of Energy

We derive the Fundamental Principle of Light from the Emanations.
Light is the Three-as-One (Father of Wisdom, Mother of Love, Son of Energy)
expressing as Mind, Substance and Power, One Light.

Mysticism: The Fire Element

	One Light
Color		.Tone
Number		.Name (Form)

Philosophy: The Earth Element

	One Light
Soulual Body		.Mental Body
Emotional Body		.Physical Body

The second set of four, fire body, mental body, desire body and physical body, falls under the category of philosophy, related to the earth element, or God as Wisdom, and deals with the vehicles of the Descended Gods. The physical body, the outer sheath, reflects what goes on in the other bodies: emotional, mental and soulual. Our physical sheath is the sum of our thoughts, imaginings and desires of the past and of this incarnation.

Science: The Hub of the Wheel

	One Light
Electrons		.Atoms
Molecules		.Cells

The third set of four, electrons, atoms, molecules and cells, falls under the category of science, the Hub of the Wheel, and it includes all the different combinations of substance as lifesparks. Each level is a combination of lifesparks that express to manifest form.

Psychology: The Water Element

	One Light Seeing
Hearing		.Smell
Touch		.Taste

Metaphysics: The Air Element

	One Light
Fire		.Air
Water		.Earth

Earth is the material symbol of consciousness, and gives the nature solidity. It represents the individual’s sincerity and practicality, according to his present level of consciousness. Earth is the most condensed level of substance that we can form into solid objects. The influences of earth life can profoundly affect our material, mental and spiritual life. The effect can be negative if we induct from the "world," or from a low point of consciousness. We build earth’s life-lessons, the sources of our practical understanding, on all the knowledge we gain through many experiences, often bitter.

Spiritual Substance becomes symbolic "ashes" and the water element on the material plane. We produce fatigue, food and emotional ash, all carried in the bloodstream. Plenty of fruit juices and water, at least two quarts a day, counteracts these wastes. Herb teas cleanse the effects of atomic radiation, and peppermint tea works directly on the brain cells.

Spiritual Substance becomes "smoke" and vapor or mist on the mental plane. Evil ascends as smoke. Idle words, and all negative expressions create a heavy grey "smoke" that blots the aura. Positive expression forms a "mist" that waters the Garden of Eden. Spiritual Substance becomes "fire" and a gaseous essence on the spiritual plane. Moses and the burning bush perfectly illustrate this principle.

Fire is the material symbol of Spirit, thus we say, "Our God is a consuming fire." God is Spirit. God, as Spiritual Substance, must use and manifest in a physical medium or form. How do we apply this? When we are ready for Spiritual Substance to manifest, we say, "What I have now (my car, an apartment, home, etc.) is beautiful, but I am ready to be promoted. Let Spirit work through this physical medium (equipment, body, situations) for good."

Sometimes Spirit seems destructive. Can this really be? No. Only the appearance is destructive. When God moves as Spirit, He is saving something, for He moves only to be constructive. On a cold day, what gives warmth? We use electricity and burn fuel – gas, coal, or wood – to produce good. Yet, misuse of any of these could destroy our homes or bodies. Fire destroys old forms. It burns out old ideas. All travail of soul comes through "trials by fire," which is how we become the purified "gold of Spirit." All things "work together for good," if we mix the ingredients right, name it Good, and put it on a cloud of Light. "I AM loves you. I AM loves this and brings it to perfection now." Have you the nerve? Do you have what it takes?

We must coordinate our lives. Christ said, "I am the way, the truth and the life. I am the door. No man (material consciousness) comes to the Father (spiritual consciousness) except by me (soul consciousness)." Soul consciousness springs from an emanation of Light. It is a Spiritual Flame from the Source, and it becomes the individualized expression of God.

Air is the material symbol of the infinite Power, to which everything must respond. Fire, representing Spirit on earth, cannot function without air. Air is present in everything, earth, water and fire. Air is the symbol of the Absolute "All" from which we create all relative form.

The Law of Correspondence, "as above, so below," informs us that each thing, grade or vibration below holds all above within itself. Air, set in motion, becomes wind, a physical force of potentially great power. Air also symbolizes the power of Intuition over fire, which is Inspiration: Air whips fire into a consuming blaze. The power of Intuition from the Heart of Being ignites Inspiration and causes the mental faculties to "look up" in fervent enthusiasm and expectancy.

Water is the material symbol of Divine Mind, and man’s emotional life expressing in three phases, ice, water or vapor. Water may overpower fire, yet the emanation of fire, as heat, causes ice to melt into water again. The Fire of Spirit raises water’s vibration to untold heights, into vapor, into lifesparks. The interplay goes on forever. The water element has the widest possible range of obvious, visible activity of any of the elements.

Water represents Mind and Substance. Using the air of Mind, we fan water into Divine Activity as visions, creative ideas, and expression of soul qualities as Christed consciousness. In occult terms, water is a sign of "old age," or a reincarnated "old soul." When fanned by cold intellect, water becomes agnostic ice, crystallized into opinions, prejudices and silly, stupid notions. When we allow water to rule the lower emotional life, it wrecks our material-physical expressions and our creations.

	Light Seeing
Hearing ~ Electrons ~ Color Fire ~ Fire Body		.Tone ~ Atoms ~ Smelling .Air ~ Mental Body
.Feeling ~ Molecules ~ Number .Water ~ Desire Body		Form ~ Cells ~ Tasting Earth ~ Physical Body

Light: Seeing

	Apprehension
Comprehension		Vision

The One Light, the Three-as-One manifesting as lifesparks, forms all the Trinities. Light is the source of Apprehension, Comprehension and Vision, and we cannot see without Light. Seeing is God in action as us.

 

Color: Hearing

	Oversoul Superconscious Mind
Sun Centers		Electronic Fire Body

The Principle of Color, source of the sense of hearing, rules the electrons that compose the sun centers and the fire body, which encases the Oversoul or superconscious mind, the seat of soul-consciousness. We hear on an electronic vibration. Hearing colors life. One would think hearing should come under Tone, but because hearing is next to Light (seeing), it must be the highest vibration under the Three. We can raise the vibration of ice only by heating it. Thus, hearing comes under fire. We must burn away the dross of crystallization, which is why we are subject to so many "trials by fire."

 

Tone: Smell

	Egoic Soul Conscious Mind
Lotus Centers		Atomic Mental Body

The Principle of Tone, the source of the sense of smell, rules the lotus centers and the atomic mental body, which encases the egoic soul or conscious mind. The seat of Will is above the nose. The sense of smell is closely connected with seeing. We can sometimes see what we cannot smell, and smell what we cannot see. When the sense of smell fades, the atoms have collapsed. We use our sense of smell, but keep our nose out of other people’s business. Air carries Tone and it registers on the piano strips [organs of Corti] over the eustachian tubes of the ears. The nostrils are definitely connected to the piano strips where we register tone. We can raise the vibration of the eustachian tubes, set the electrons and protons dancing and the deaf will hear. Deep grief and wanting to escape life cause 90 percent of deafness, and these people will always have trouble hearing. Get out of the ice stage into the Light stage for healing. Love, acting through Faith, brings healing.

 

Number: Touch

	Subsoul Subconscious Mind
Chakra Centers		Molecular Desire Body

The Principle of Number, the source of the sense of feeling, rules the chakra centers and the molecular desire body, which encases the subsoul or subconscious mind. This is the seat of emotional "feeling" and physical sensation.

 

Name: Taste

	Aura
Glands & Nerve Plexuses		Cellular Physical Sheath

The Principle of Name, the spoken Word, rules the auric sheath of Mother Blue, which acts as a cushion to absorb shock to the cellular physical body. The Word becomes flesh as the physical sheath, which is a shell in form, a picturing of our emotions, imagination and thoughts. It is the seat of self-consciousness. We can neither repudiate the physical, nor should we give it too much negative power. Never say "my old body" or "my body is miserable." Never say "my" or "I am" to anything you don’t want in your life. The physical sheath protects the soul bodies. The whole point is to lift and ascend self-consciousness to soul-consciousness, and back to Light as God-consciousness.

 

The Four Q’s of Power

Quantity: Principle of Inaction or Inertia

	Abstraction
Perception		Memory

Quantity operates under the Principle of Inaction or Inertia. Quantity used in relation to the material, physical body governs the instinctive capacity in matter under the Principle of Form (conservation of energy). Quantity is the guiding principle of life of those who live from urge to urge. Quantity, applied to the mental life, refers to the capacities of Perception, Memory and Abstraction. An abstraction is an idea, stripped of Mind, and describes subtraction. Rationalization is the abstraction of thought. By rationalizing, we can strip the most beautiful idea given under soul vision until we have nothing left.

 

Quality: Principle of Action

	Judgment
Reason		Imagination

Quality operates under the Principle of Action. Quality determines the intellectual capacity of relative mind that governs the mental faculties of Imagination, Reason and Judgment, the quality of mind as used by soul. Quality is cumulative. Soul acts to develop these qualities in the mind.

 

Quickness: Principle of Reaction

God-consciousness
Thinking		Desire

Quickness operates under the Principle of Reaction. Quickness determines the inspirational capacity for illumination, which governs poised desire, inspired thinking and God-consciousness. Quickness is being mentally alive, alert and aware.

 

Quietness: Principle of Counteraction

Comprehension
Realization		Intuition

Quietness, which operates under the Principle of Counteraction, is the intuitive capacity that governs the faculties of Intuition, Realization and Comprehension. Instant lifting of darkness is the right use of the Principle of Counteraction. Counteraction is a response of Divine Mind ascending from darkness through Intuition. Quietness is Nirvana, a place of poise and calmness, the Center of All, of God, of Light.

 

Faith is the great coordinator of Ascension. All religions, from the lowest to the highest, are based on Inspiration, Aspiration, Devotion and Faith. Faith inspires us to look up. Faith causes us to aspire to something greater than self, and when we find this goal, we express faith in it and faith-full devotion to it.

Faith, the Principle of Omnipresence, is man’s expression of hope and aspiration on earth. Faith challenges the Living Soul to "believe to see." Faith, as the pioneering spirit, creates a bold, unwavering conqueror.

Faith carries us from God as Light into outer expression as form, and back to God. We can have faith in ourselves because we are the Faith of God. Now we can trust God, because we trust ourselves.

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