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Edna Miriam Lister June 28, 1960 Cleveland, Ohio How do I wait upon the Lord? I ascend. I enter my room of Light, prepared for me in my Father’s House. I wait upon the Lord as I stand in the Light coming from above, while I work out my salvation here. The keynote of waiting is action. To "wait" means to be a waiter, to pay attention, to give courtesy and service with consideration. I make myself good and the other fellow happy. I give God the consideration of my love. I pay attention with my Oversoul, always consciously plugged in "up there." If we are going to stand in the House of the Lord, we must be concerned with our relationship to God. I compare myself with God. Standing in the Light, I see my taints and run from my room of light into darkness. When we turn our back on Light, all is darkness, so we must run back to the Light. God never said we cannot return ninety-nine times or as often as necessary. All we do is keep reaching for Light. Keep at it. Say, "Here I am! Let Light cleanse me, Father!" Don’t leave your room of light. Work from your room of light in the House of the Lord. History calls the period from 1309 to 1378 the Babylonian Captivity of the Roman Catholic Church. The Vatican was embroiled in political struggles. Edward I of England, author of the Magna Charta, and Philip IV of France, openly defied the Pope and undermined his temporal power. The French king dominated the papacy at Avignon. In 1378, Pope Gregory XI moved to Rome after he received prophetic admonition from St. Bridget of Sweden and St. Catherine of Siena. At Gregory’s death in 1378, the Great Schism began, which lasted until 1417. The papal court returned to Avignon, France under the anti-Pope Clement VII. The disgust of the Christian peoples was unanimous. The Order of Spiritual Franciscans revolted, demanding that the churches return to purity. The Lollards, renegade English priests headed by Thomas Wycliff, began preaching their "heresies." These are some events that gave birth to the Reformation. Two vital religious organizations arose. The Brethren of the Common Life in England, Holland and Germany, produced the volume, Imitation of Christ. The Friends of God became the anonymous authors of Theologia Germanica in about 1350. According to the teachings in Theologia Germanica, we emerge from sin to salvation by three Degrees, Purification, Enlightenment and Union, which form a spiritual ladder corresponding with nine of our mystical 33 Via Christa Degrees. In comparing these Degrees with our Via Christa Degrees, Purification corresponds to the Neophyte Rebirth Initiation, to be born again, awakening the pituitary gland. Purification has three steps, remorse for sin, confession of sin, and reconciliation of life. Sin is missing the mark. We must live up there and maintain our contact with God, otherwise we have remorse. Remorse for sin includes the use of the faculty of intuition. Repentance, contrition and acceptance are where we begin to "hear" about it. Then we accept responsibility to do something about it. Intuition awakens as we apply the mental faculties of logic, reason, discrimination, discretion and discernment. Turn quickly and take it into the House of the Lord. Ascend in consciousness and say, "I ascend. Father, hold me. Use me. I stand under the Light." Confession of sin is "forgetting those things which are behind" in the past and reaching forth to "press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." We do not waste time grieving, but lift as we ascend in consciousness. Reconciliation of life means to seek first the Kingdom of Heaven so all things may be added. We learn to love our enemies, we begin to agree and adjust, surrender self and eliminate inner conflicts. This includes the Disciple’s Initiation: Baptism by Water, which is the Spirit of God descending with a new robe for our soul. The Initiation is pureness and integrity of heart, mind and purpose. Integrity is a Virtue. A Virtue is or represents a primary Law. Integrity means "honor above all things," which involves crucifixion of self-will and self-choice for emotional desires, thinking and imagination. We can go wrong only on one of these three. The second Degree, Enlightenment, awakens the pineal gland. Illumination must shine through the pineal gland. Enlightenment includes avoidance of sin, living virtue and good works, and bearing trials and temptations. Avoidance of sin is to "abstain from all appearance of evil." The first thing to avoid is using idle words. Do this and illumination descends. Living virtue and good works means always keeping our eyes on the Light. We serve and obey all the Laws we know, especially the Law of Complete Surrender of self. The greatest virtue is to declare "This is good." Bearing trials and temptations means being steadfast and having the fortitude and courage to stand and hold. This includes the Adept’s Initiation: Baptism by Fire and the burning sands of the desert that each crosses alone. Here we experience real trials by fire for the soul’s purification. Quick, give it to the Father and it ascends and becomes Light. The third Degree, Union, is opening the parathalamus glands. Awakening the pituitary, pineal and parathalamus glands causes much difficulty in the golden bowl. It brings out memory poisons from past incarnations through sinus problems, headaches and so forth. Union includes integrity and purity of heart, love, and meditation on God. Integrity and purity of heart are living by the hallmark of Oversoul, "honor above all things." Here we face choice and separation of imagination, thinking and desire, and the crucifixion of self-will, which is the only place we can go wrong. Salute Christ in all things and be free. The second Initiation is Love, the "open sesame" that opens the spiritual world. People can bury a person under suspicion or resurrect him with love. This is Resurrection, the Priest’s Initiation, which is the union of personal I AM with God’s universal I AM that gives our Christed crowning. "I AM loves you" invokes the full Power of God. The White Wings of the Christ grow from the collarbone over the ears and curl in like fans. The third Initiation is meditation on God or ascended comprehension of the greater works, where we dwell in the House of the Lord forever. This is union with God, but we cannot hold union with God without meditation. Waiting upon the Lord is meditating upon God while we work out our outer personal plan of salvation. This is doing the "greater works." At night, we can ascend to a cloud, contemplate our higher body and we will be there. How do we wait upon the Lord? Our words condition our life. Life cannot condition our words. The Word conditions our life. Life cannot touch us! I AM cannot be conditioned by little self, imagination, desire or choice. I AM is! People can condition their bodies to pain if they choose. An escape artist can ache himself sick to avoid something. Or we can condition our bodies to health. What is our desire? How very easy it is to heal pain – stop enjoying it. How very difficult it is to heal the cause of pain. We constantly recondition ourselves either to pain or to Glory. We can condition mind with these statements: "I AM now fills me with Light. I AM now sees me whole. Here I AM Father, move in and possess me, cleanse me. I AM now at home. I AM now in the kingdom. I AM the Love of God, I AM. I AM the Wisdom of God, I AM. I AM loves you. I AM THAT I AM." |
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