Edna Lister

July 5, 1960

Cleveland, Ohio

Praise is one of the greatest, most beautiful experiences that can happen to an individual. Praise is a great treatment for both giver and receiver.

Accept all praise gracefully, as if it came from God. Expand on praise and make it your next step up in Ascension. Bless anyone who praises you, for their kindness, thoughtfulness or concern. Praise the praise-giver for discernment beyond the appearance of things."You are seeing the Light."

Praise, even when offered sardonically, expands the giver, despite his motive. Return his praise brushed and polished for his unfoldment and discernment of Light. It is a precious commodity, his soul substance.

Feel grateful to God for using you to lead others to praise, which expands them. Inside, be thanking God in gratitude that His Light is breaking through.

Praise unfolds a glory called Humility, which is an aspect of Unconquerable Faith. It is a rock to which your loved ones may cling. It builds a Citadel of Glory and Tower of Strength before the world when accepted.

The Law of Praise challenges darkness. When we praise, we expand and ascend into greater comprehension of Law. Praise devours and consumes darkness instantly. We cannot see Law, but when we apply Law to all we see and do, we can see and feel its results. This leads us into Righteousness, which is the application of our highest Vision to everything we do.

While we cannot see Law, we do see its results as a miracle or defeat. Failure to have a miracle is due to the lost word, "good." We lose the word when we do not use it. Establish saying "This is good" as a habit. Say, "I AM good. This is good. I believe to see. Lord, help mine unbelief. I AM truth. I AM living truth. I AM building truth. I AM building new eyes, new ears, a new heart (or whatever you need) and I take you with me into the Kingdom of Heaven."

Our body is indivisible, indestructible Spiritual Substance, the One Substance, the lifesparks, immortal now. It is our business to reorganize, rearrange our lifesparks into the new pattern of our soul’s desires. Stand and say, "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."

Without praise, life has no activity. Without praise, we live on the fifth breath, in a trance-like state of suspended animation, a pulsing of lifesparks, each whirling at its proper rate, the same as we find in sand or stone. Some people daydream, and often slip from their bodies on the fifth breath, when the Light of the Oversoul Star descends.

The fifth breath is the rate of vibration used by fakirs, adepts and trance mediums for out-of-body experiences. To reach this level requires a slowing of atoms and becoming static, which is the beginning of death. The fifth breath operates on the Principle of Contraction, and is the opposite of Ascension. If we do not praise, we grow less, we contract.

Saturn represents the Principle of Contraction, which holds all within it, like a picture frame. We must obey Law and agree and adjust under a Saturn vibration, or we crystallize. We apply this Law to grow wise in right choice, and knowing what actions to repeat. We often "draw in our horns" and mind our own business under Contraction.

The Law of Repulsion operates under the Contraction Principle. The most extreme expression of Contraction is crystallization, and a physical example is evaporation of sea water, leaving salts, or Lot’s wife. Our consciousness crystallizes only when we use contraction to repudiate lessons, which cuts our vibration until we become "nothing." Repulsion, misused as repudiation, is the greatest of false gods.

Joy and praise are high, fast rates of vibration that operate and fill our molds with Substance under the Principle of Expansion. The planet Jupiter represents Expansion and Joy. Praise is the only activity that creates burning Desire to comprehend, to act, to conquer. Praise only can cause Desire to act as it builds a pipeline of determination from God’s storehouse of potential Power to transfer kinetic energy to fill our molds with Divine Substance. All Power is released under the Expansion Principle.

We tend under an expansive Power release to break Laws intended to help us maintain Equilibrium and Balance. However, if we over-apply the Law of Repulsion, we may lose too much, and close out our own good. We must reach balance under these Principles and Laws. If we fear to receive praise, we are not applying the Law of Progression under the Law of Ascension. The memory of having used self-praise is hidden in the subconscious as fear of receiving praise. Once burned, the individual fears self-praise will rear its head again. Carried too far, this fear-memory breeds repression under the Contraction Principle.

Studying Kabbalah opens the Mysteries of the Principles of Expansion, Contraction and Equilibrium. The foundation or primal book of Kabbalah is the Sepher Yetsirah, the Book of Formation or Creation. It is not an introduction to Kabbalah, but a key to the study of Kabbalah. Sepher means "to count or number, book or volume, border or frontier, sphere," and it is the Hebrew root of the English words, cipher and sapphire. From sepher is derived Sephard , originally the name used in the Bible for Spain. "Sephardim", is the sacred name of many high, Begotten Gods of the Crown; it describes a high, occult house that always studied the Wisdom of God and preserved Kabbalah.

The Sepher Yetsirah begins: "In thirty and two most mysterious (occult) and wonderful Paths of Wisdom did God, the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, the Living God, King of All, God Almighty, engrave his name." When we engrave our name on a thing, we become responsible for it. Engraving His name made God responsible for His Creation. He had a plan and a method. God lifts evil through the prayers of humanity, as His Creation, and prayer ascends evil as smoke to be absorbed.

Kabbalistic work has ten paths of numbers, called the Sephiroth, and twenty-two paths of letters, called the Sepharim. We must tie these to thirty-two Paths of Initiation, steps of the Via Christa Degrees given to Abraham by God. They relate to physical glands, nerve plexus centers and desire body chakras.

The text continues: "He inhabits eternity and Holy is His Name, which has created the universe by three Sepharim" ( spheres). By these three, all Creation came into being. These three words derive from the same Hebrew root () but are pronounced differently, according to vowel points. Sahfer, () that which is numbered, counted, weighed or measured, represents Substance in Form. Sayfer (), that which is written or symbolized, represents Wisdom in Action. Sapar (), that which is spoken or told, represents the Personality of God in humanity as Power.

The foundation of all things is contained within the ten numbers of the Sephiroth and in the twenty-two letters [autiot or signs] of the Sepharim. Of the twenty-two letters, three represent the Mother Principle as they flow from the Source, yet represent the Father as they return. Seven are double [pronounced two ways, hard or soft], representing the Father-Mother acting together. The remaining twelve are single, simple, neuter letters [pronounced only one way], representing the Son. Our numerical system is based on ten. With ten we begin a new Decan or cycle. Ten numbers are Divine Lights that release the absolute Essence of God on earth. For example, each of your fingers sends forth Light.

God gave Abraham these number symbols because we are meant to have them. In the following, straight lines are masculine and represent the Father; curved lines are feminine and represent the Mother.

1 [] Symbolizes the individual standing upright in the Garden of Eden, the Higher Creative Center. One is a circle made straight that represents Creative Fire ascending the Rod of Power in man, the spine. It is the number of the soul’s individuality.

2 [] Symbolizes the Mother, a feminine unit added to the masculine, the Father bent into the Mother. Two represents two seeds of life created in the solar plexus, which ripen once a lunar month. Sixty-nine (69) represents the seeds of life, the Father o’ershadowing the Mother. One seed (6 =) ascends to the Higher Creative Center and waters the Garden of Eden, the brain. The other seed (9 =) descends to the sacrum plexus Lower Creative Center to gestate and create form. Both seeds of life ascend to the Higher Creative Center to direct and control the outer, physical creative center under prayer and Ascension.

3 [] Another unit is added to form the Holy Trinity of perfected outer expression. The three is formed of two partial circles, not complete, but on the ascending side of life. Three represents the Mother of Love on the Rod of Power upholding, nurturing and sustaining Creation, the Father-Mother-Son holding together.

4 [] Four represents the feminine Intuition of the pituitary gland. Everyone born in this age, except the creatures, has eight petals of Intuition open on the Love side of the sixteen-petaled lotus. By age four the Wisdom petals on other side are open. As we ascend, we open the pineal gland and Illumination petals on the Wisdom side. In a developing child, as a Wisdom petal opens, an intuition petal closes, which protects the child who would otherwise "see" under intuition without Wisdom and could fall from balance. Light must ascend from the solar plexus to the pituitary to enable even a "hunch." Four symbolizes the pine tree representing the pineal and pituitary both open to Wisdom as Illumination, and Love as Intuition. Thus, the principle of four opens the pineal and pituitary by elevating Thinking and Imagination to Illumination and Intuition.
The four fully open at the top symbolizes the Gods’ joy, represented by Jupiter . A state of Joy invokes the Power that comes through Jupiter. Joy and praise open the pineal, pituitary and parathalamus glands to fill our Oversoul Star with Joy. The Jupiter symbol represents the tipped cross of ascended service and the exalted moon of Love and Compassion. The earth four is fully closed, representing a boxed-in consciousness that considers its work as labor without Joy. This is "learning it the hard way." Jupiter’s way is easy under Love and Compassion.

5 [] The number of soul expression. The symbol is the same as for Saturn , the soul standing on a three-quarters full moon with three-quarters of the pituitary open. Tilted to the right it represents the soft feminine aspect of gestation or holding. Five is Saturn gathering Power to strike with a bolt of lightning to make the Gold of Spirit soft and malleable for reforming. Five represents the soul’s ability to protect its creations and to grow through freedom. We must unfold the mystery of the 54 Companions of Perseus to understand the Greater Mysteries.

6 [] The double Trinity, six is ready to nourish and sustain all it touches. The seed of the Mother of Love is ready to create and is waiting for the Father of Wisdom. Six represents the gestating, mothering and nourishing of a child. The mystery of six is the Father hidden, while the mystery of nine is the Mother hidden. The loop of the six represents an uplifted arm; the circle below represents the protecting, encircling arms of the Mother.

7 [] The fully powerful Father as a Eunuch-Priest. Power descends directly from the protective Father to o’ershadow all His creations. The seven is a hook representing the Fathers holding and releasing Power.

8 [] Eight is masculine and feminine with both curved and straight lines: X, representing the Father-Mother and Heaven and earth. The upper crescent illustrates the O’ershadowing Wings of the Mother; the lower crescent illustrates the Everlasting Arms of the Father. This represents the mysteries of the Holy Ghost. X is the Son, the Holy Ghost crossing out darkness. Eight symbolizes the Three-as-One, the Power number, powerful protection.

9 [] Nine is the Father planning to descend, the number on the forehead of the perfect human in Revelation: 144,000 = 1 + 4 + 4 = 9. Nine is the Father, ready to enfold all Creation. Ninety-six (96)) is the Father and Mother facing outward, protecting and nurturing their Creation. When we enfold all, the nine again becomes a straight line and the ten.

Kabbalah says, "He, the Absolute, is not One; He is before One." God is always One expressing as "many," which is why the Bible says "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." The great Light, called Kethor the Crown, is not the Source of the Emanations, but that point where the Father-Mother of this universe said, "Let there be Light" to open the 12th Cosmic Magnitude.

"Let there be Light" was the first foundation of Divine Mind formed by the three Mother letters, Aleph (), Mem ( ) and Shin (), which are qualities and attributes representing God releasing Power.

Aleph: Air as rarified lifesparks concentrated in molds.

Mem: Air pushed forth Mem, the Waters.

Shin: The Waters contained Shin, the Fire.

These letters are all begotten of the Mother Principle (Love-Substance) with the Father Principle (Wisdom-Mind) underlying in the background. It took Air, Fire and Water to form the whirling ball of gas that was our solar system initially. Three planets are feminine: Pluto-Aleph, Venus-Mem and Terrah-Shin.

Seven double letters represent the chakras. We can use or pronounce these doubles two ways, hard or soft, positive or negative. This may be expressed as: 2 x 7 = 14. The 14th Path is Choice and Separation. Above the chakra centers are all choices and separations. We must choose the positive Virtues, or we go wrong.

The soul can enter the body only through the top of the head, yet a possessing entity enters only through the solar plexus. Each chakra is dual, Father-Mother as Wisdom-Love or Will-Desire in equal parts. The Father portion is crystallized in some, the Mother portion in others. God has method and process, with Logic and Reason underlying, in all His Creations.

* This is the appearance and value of the letter when it appears at the end of a word.

Twelve simple letters are called simple because they are pronounced only one way. Each represents a Cosmic Division. Read the symbolism in these charts. For instance, Capricorn executes on earth what the other signs begin. Capricorn is Yod, hand; a hand must hold the tool that molds form.

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