July 29, 1938

Chicago, IL

Dear __ :

Have been awaiting Master’s Orders for the Temple ever since our moving May 1st. Couldn’t understand ‘why’ the delay until the past two weeks.

Remember me cautioning and urging surrender and Selflessness, particularly during May, June and July, telling everyone that November Initiations would be partially gained by the practical application of Laws gained throughout the winter months? It has ever been so, and now definite Orders are coming through, for those who cannot follow the few simple Rules I’ve laid down as their Teacher and Leader.

The Rule most often disobeyed by all during these three months has been: "What is that to thee? Follow THOU me!"

One general rule, "Eyes single on the Light!"

Each one had opportunity to advance years, literally years, above and ahead of where they were. Each one was lifted at Easter time very High. Some have gone even Higher through Sacrifice of Self. Some have held fast that bestowed, while a few others have slipped back into a place more comfortable for their watching of what everyone else is doing. So, these are to be considered as your Instructions in the following matter. Please read this full ‘Letter of Instructions’ and pass this letter around so there can be no further misunderstandings. Most of the ‘Orders’ which I herewith enclose, have been given by Word of Mouth many times. "He who hath eyes to see, let him see; he who hath ears to hear, let him hear."

It is only when some small traits of men enter in that confusion reigns. When each one lives by the Laws of the Christ, then all is well with all. When each one of our Beloved Temple Group will forgive all debtors first, then, indeed, will it rise into great prominence and Glory. As long as one refuses to ‘forgive debtors’ first, just so long will the whole earth have debts to pay.

Therefore, let each be the first to forgive all debts and first to release Light and the first to prepare the way for the coming of our visible Great Temple.

Let not desire for reward be the aim, but know that reward is yours for having no enemies within the Citadel of your own Soul or in your own Kingdom.

Build no barriers of over estimation of the little self between yourself and the world, but in all ways truly seek to be the Servant of all.

Hold fast all that which you have and in all ways make way in your hearts for more of Greatness.

From time to time there may be further ‘Orders’ added and given according to the needs and the growth of our Temple.

Knowing that this will cover all needed ground and tend to the clearing of any clouds of mist, and in deepest devotion and love, I sign myself

Edna Miriam

July 31, 1938

Chicago, IL

To my dearly loved Group:

The Glory of the Father be upon you, and to all of you Joy without end.

My Message to you this morning comes to you from above. There is much to tell you when I return. There are still higher and greater Responsibilities. Go forward then, strong, courageous and blessed forever.

My deepest love enfolds you, my fondest hopes lift you, and in all ways I declare you filled to overflowing with Light and Love, which draws all darkness upward, to be transformed into Light. I love you most dearly, and thank you for the Group Wire. It had tremendous uplifting Power.

Hold fast to our Father and His Power. Surrender in ever greater perfection. Let the Power lift and serve AS you.

Lovingly, Edna Miriam

August 7, 1938

Chicago, IL

Greetings to my own Beloved Group:

Remember my Joy in the fact that I have YOU! Remember how dear and precious you all are to me. Remember, I hold you high. I love you dearly and I love your letters and even the short notes you write me. I am interested in the slightest thing that interests any one of you. I love lifting and helping all the time.

The time of our separation is shortening. Soon I’ll stand with you face to face. Soon I shall see the smiles light your eyes and feel your love enfolding me.

Until then, hold fast to our Master’s hand. Hold fast to the Father’s Light. Hold fast to all that we have gained together during a year of steadfast standing.

My Service progresses, and the further I go and the nearer the heart I reach, the more I know that we have the full and only answer to the chaos of today.

Stand therefore, and help me Release enough Power to further our Service to the final, necessary Goal. Alone we can do nothing. Together we can do all things in deep perfection and understanding.

Remember, my love for you is an unwavering, loyal and permanent thing. No loss shall be to any of us for our complete and absolute giving up of the little self in surrender to the Heart of God, the Source of all Power.

I love all of you very dearly. Know this, and hold me in love as I hold you, unto the full Grace of the Stature of the Christ. "Beloved, now are ye the Sons and Daughters of God, and in His name do ye serve forever."

Your Leader, Edna Miriam

August 14, 1938

Chicago, IL

To my dearly loved Group:

The time grows short until my return to you. Many things have gone past which mean much experience for all of us, and we still stand one before the Father, one with the Master and one with each other.

"Love never faileth."

Shall we all decide now to use more of it, lest we do not appropriate enough for our needs and lest we do not collect our share?

Shall we now Declare a greater and greater abundance of love and praise for each hour?

Remember the one answer for all problems is: A little more Love. A little more Praise.

My love abides with you, surrounds you, fills you and works for you forever. I miss you more and need you more. Thank you for your continued prayers. They are "bringing to pass."

All promises shall be fulfilled after "their degree and kind." Choose well, therefore, and then stand and love. It will open to you, whatever the door or need.

Deep love and devotion, Edna Miriam

August 15, 1938

Chicago, IL

To my Beloved:

Greetings. The ways of the Righteous are not made too easy lest through satisfaction they forget God. The ways of the Righteous are planted in those desert places of earth to make them blossom into beauty through Creative processes within the Soul which the Soul calls forth upon need.

Be therefore glorious and free. Be Joyful and in a Prospering Consciousness. Hold your torches high, see well to the lifting of your own Path, and allow all others equal choice in their own direction.

Be, each one, a shining light for the world to see and follow. Fear not that which will pass away. Glorify that which is of God and lasting.

No harm shall come near you and no sorrow shall touch your hearts. The ways of God are for Joy at all times. When you have learned well that which must be learned, lessons of experience which you have come to gain, then shall your tears be wiped away and sorrow erased from your hearts. It is of earth only, and in no way of Heaven.

Hold each other’s hands and do your daily lifting and the Father declares food for your Soul, Peace to your Mind, Joy to your heart, Understanding to your little self and the White Light over all your doings.

Great rewards and have been your earnings. Fret not, complain not, destroy nothing of gain to you from your trials, tests, tribulations and temptations. Hold fast your gains in rewards and you shall remain under Law of Love.

Protection, Power and Life sustain you. Feed the Master’s hungry sheep from the fullness of your own store.

Your own, Edna Miriam

August 19, 1938

Chicago, IL

To my dearly beloved Group:

My love flows forth to you in a never-ceasing stream. Two weeks from today and I’ll be with you all "in person!" And I cannot tell you just how happy that will make me. My heart is singing with Joy today. Let your confidence in God’s Power be exalted. Let your Praise ring forth in Prayer and devotion of Love to God, Masters and each other and the whole world.

My words to you have been so simple and so oft-repeated: "A little more Love, a little more Praise." Yet they, with "It is now good," will bring to pass all your Desires of the Soul.

The Master’s idea, "Let us Love one another," still holds a key. May I say to you this day: "Let us understand one another, for of this is Wisdom born."

My heart is with you. My arms hold you high. My love enfolds you, and all is well, and all is good now.

Believe, ask, praise and thank, and the windows of Heaven shall open unto you.

My deep Love and Abiding Devotion forever, Edna Miriam

August 25, 1938

Washington, D.C.

My Beloved Group:

Today is especially a great day to agree and adjust in newness, to tie Heaven to Earth in Power, to Spiritualize our Individuality and Unite it with its Source, to start a Vibration of Success for our Earthly Temple, counterpart of the Heavenly one, to lift all for the new College year.

One week and I shall stand before you and in your midst with a consciousness of a great work well done, and an advance made which means the opening Vibration in our Theocracy.

Today marks the opening of a new Era or Epoch. Forget this not. Cease all vain babbling for and against. Open your hearts to the influx of Power from on high.

Every word of promise spoken shall be fulfilled in due season by those with the ability to make sacrifice of self entirely. To love one’s life means to gain it in the fullness of its beauty and power.

The coming week, to those who accept, will mean a coming forth of new ideas and ideals in all Creative work. Lay down all self, immolate it upon the Altar that your life may be renewed at this Source.

Once the snow and ice melts in the hills, there is no holding back the life-giving water. When it is directed into right channels by right thinking, it brings forth life abundant. When it is allowed to go its own way or is dammed up by darkness, it destroys all within its path. Watch the life within you. Let no darkness destroy that which you have been long in building.

My declaration for you is that all is good now, and all shall come to pass after the Desires of your Hearts that only Light moves through you into your Creations forever.

Love and Blessings from your Edna Miriam

September 8, 1938

Cleveland, OH

Beloved Ones of My Heart:

No group or idea was ever born on earth without much travail and pain. Be prepared, therefore, in minds and hearts to meet all tests with deep Devotion and Consecration unto the Father. Do this in remembrance of our Master.

Loyalty to God is our first Commandment. Live all it teaches: "To love Honor above all things." Drag no empty shell along, lest it retards your growth and hampers the expansion of your souls. Shed Light on all alike. Leave no one out. Your answer shall be "yea, yea" and "nay, nay," or perfect Silence under all things.

Our hidden purpose is to Lift, in the Master’s name, all darkness. Let nothing interfere. Hold a high Vibration that nothing of the outer may enter your lives. Lift in sacrifice before the Altar each outer vibration as it approaches.

Heed well all Foundation Principles. Light does overcome all darkness. Be sweet and firm and final. Stand steadfast under the true White Light of the Christ. Let your Light so shine. Be selfless, less and less of petty self. Each be strong for the other. Bring in darkness only to lift and not for gossip. Lift also your heart’s desires that they, too, may be fulfilled.

Desire shall exalt you and your purpose. Imagination shall make form for you from the void. The Spoken Word, "Let," shall open the Vibration to pour forth. Full Surrender of self to all the Power shall make you a perfect Instrument of Light. Full Devotion to the Father and the Master shall make for your Strength. Full Praise shall make you a Pillar in the Temple of Christ Anointed. Full use of the Master’s Joy shall be your complete Illumination forever and so, "loving one another," shall you be full fed and satisfied.

I love you. I love you so! I am still in a daze over being with you now. I’ve known it would come for three years! Am so happy. Love, Edna Miriam

September 14, 1938

Cleveland, OH

To My Beloved Group:

Your letters have reached me, and I’ve been that busy! Shall tell you about it next week.

Your week’s words are Faithfulness and Steadfastness under the Light, Loyalty to the Light, Surrender to the full Light to send it forth. Pay no attention to seeming foes. They have no power of any kind but run around in their conceits.

May the Love of God surround you, His arms lift you, His Voice be heard by you, His Peace possess you, His words move you to direct and sweet speech always. Be also firm in your stand at this time. So shall your reward be in Heaven. Edna Miriam

September 28, 1938

Cleveland, OH

Dearest folks in the world:

I love you! To know we are all back together again gives me tremendous joy. I’ll be with you!

Much work was necessary to build the right Vibration to gather you into one place for this very hour. Many lessons for experience had to be accomplished before this date.

Your great, strong desires for God have brought you where you stand now. Nothing except your own false desires for more of earth can move you thence. It is not knowledge of the intellect, vain knowing or reading that opens the Gates of Heaven. It is the depth of honest desire in the heart and mind that opens all doors within and without. Sacrifices made with the mind only involve you in much confusion and discussion. Sacrifices to stand and to hold place must be made from the heart, backed by the mind, which means that reason and judgment both rule and hold the heart’s vain emotions under control until they may be conquered. The difference between living by self-expression and soul-expression is to be clearly defined.

Hold fast to all gains. Pray much. Praise more. Love all people. Love God. Let no vain discussions enter this group. Hold all high in the Upper Chamber. Let your hearts be at ease and your minds at rest. Let no clouds of darkness or doubt steal your high Courage. Allow no vain repetitions of words from outside sources to set you aside from your chosen and well-directed Paths.

Pay no attention to aught of darkness. Be again these four: "Speak gently. Walk softly. Be cautious. Be silent." When Principle and God are to be defended, speak wisely, sweetly, firmly and finally. Hesitate not to withhold speech and hesitate not, at the right time, to speak.

Seek balance in all ways. Seek to increase the quality of your desire always. The fulfillment of your dreams, your Visions, the reaching of your Goal, the clear Path before you all depend upon the quality of your desire to sacrifice the little self to the growth of the Soul.

Peace to your Souls. Tranquility to your Spirits. Rest to your minds. Ease to your bodies.

I love you. I’ll see you next week. Devotion, Edna Miriam

October 1, 1938

Cleveland, OH

Beloved of the Father:

Each has faced problems seemingly insolvable. Each has also prevailed over the little self to the glorification of soul. Thank the Father for lifting you to such heights and pray for fortitude and endurance to continue in the Way of the Soul’s Ascent. There is only one Way: Sacrifice of the "little" of earth to gain the "much" of Heaven. You have gained. Be ever alert to gain more.

Your loyalty, discrimination and full desire for ultimate Truth has brought you through the Gates of Heaven. You are not found wanting, but have received your rewards. Hold fast your place. Allow no one of earth to disturb your long-sought gains, your hard earned Crowns. What you have earned, keep, hold, treasure and add to it. All promises shall be fulfilled as you express staunch faith of Law. It awaits you. Push it forth by and through love.

I stand beside you in this very hour. My love o’er-shadows you always. My love lifts you. Peace to you, Edna Miriam

October 12, 1938

Cleveland, OH

To my dearly loved Group and extra special friends:

One week is such a short time, and so long. I love you all so very dearly, and am SO happy to have you folded close in my heart once again. Also, to be securely folded in your hearts.

Search all secret places of your souls for hidden, menacing things of slow detriment. Lift up all vain emotions, opinions and prejudice that your hearts shall stand free in Joy for the greatness of your Service to be rendered unto your Father. Cleanse your imaginations of all vain images, all false gods. Pay no more tribute of fear, doubt or worry to false gods in the world. Arise, shine! You have been given much Light for use in dark places. Use it and be happy in Peace.

No one pushes another to the bottom. Each arrives there of his own soul’s consent and each has the privilege of climbing from the bottom. See to it that your souls consent not to any form of darkness. Leave all free to follow their choice of direction while your choice remains with the Light. Follow the Master, steadfastly overcoming. So shall all promises be fulfilled.

Remain in a prayerful state of full Grace, with your Lamps all trimmed and burning. Keep your eyes fixed on the Light. No darkness may penetrate the blinding Light of Glory surrounding you. Nothing of darkness shall hold back the full Ascension of your souls into full Communion with the Father. The time has come to lift all darkness from the face of the earth. No one shall remain in all its broad acres who has decided upon darkness as a Goal. Your Goal shall be Light and only Light.

Keep your Vows of Silence. Keep your hearts clean. Remain under the Light. Continue your lifting. No one shall be gathered in except under high Loyalty, Sincerity, Devotion and perfect Desire to be high in Selflessness and Sacrifice. Endure in Love and Sacrifice always. Stand ready to come higher.

Allow no personal idea of what God desires to enter this group. Keep minds clear and hearts clean of all self and of all personal opinions of right and wrong. All shall be good and very good.

My arms are about you and my prayers are enfolding you in Light. Our next meeting shall be one of great Illumination for all. It is a beginning on a much higher Vibration for all, so keep close to your Father and the Master. Stand close under the Light.

I love you and bless you in all ways, Edna Miriam

October 25, 1938

Milwaukee, WI

Dearest Friends, this note must do for all of you. I’ve been writing folks and in conference all afternoon and must mail this even if I do not get any dinner, for I have my first group meeting tonight.

Cannot tell yet exactly what we will strike out on but I am here and ready to shove off. Shall keep you posted on exactly how things go, what I am doing and where.

Lesson: Great is the Joy over the Redeemed. Great is the grief, also, over those who retrogress into loss of all Identity. Prayers for such send the lifesparks back into the Consuming Fire with greater Purity, although Identity cannot be held. Therefore, pray continuously for all such on earth today. There are many. The Progress of all on earth may no longer be held back by them.

The Finger of God has pointed, and no man may stay the results. Whether in high or low positions, they are removing themselves by their continued misuse of Light. The time is finished for using them as earth’s Initiators and Tempters. The Father does not make Tempters or Disintegrators of them. They chose so to do of themselves, vanity and greed for Power being the central motives sending them into unconscious-ness; vanity and greed consume them.

Steadfastness is the required virtue for all Christmas Initiations, also greater Surrender in Selfless Sacrificial Service. The key words for your full expression for these weeks shall be Harmony, Glory of Soul, Peace of Heart, Tranquility of Mind and Divine Energy quickening and vitalizing all your doings. These five shall be your freedom from self and your open door unto full Soul Expression.

Seek ever after more Light. Be fully assured of the protective care of the Father. Water your wishes with Spiritual Waters from on High. Nourish and sustain them with Love Divine. Give sweet rest to your souls with freedom from all vain darkness from the outside.

Allow only the good, the very good, only Light, the very Light in all your Kingdoms. Pronounce all things good and very good. Have no darkness at all in your Place. Neither be bound by the limitations of dark images of your past. Forward and Onward be your watchwords forever. All is surely and perfectly working toward perfection and the full dawn of the perfect day.

Set guards at the portals of your lips, tongue, heart and mind that when the Tempter comes, as he must for your strengthening, he may not find you in weakness but in the full Glory of your strength in the Stature of the Christ. Loved, protected, held, made alive and free are you. Peace to your Souls and Benediction to your Spirits. Make of yourselves pure and undefiled houses for the indwelling Glory of your Father.

I love all of you very dearly and remember that each of you has a wish on the Altar and if you hold it fast and nourish it, it shall come to pass.

My love enfolds all of you and our Light shall carry us through all darkness of the present world conditions.

Deep love and devotion, Edna Miriam

October 30, 1938

Milwaukee, WI

Beloved and Precious Ones:

Great is my Joy that all is being fulfilled according to promises given in the past.

Carry on with great faith. Hold high in courage and all shall come to pass as spoken.

My heart is with you, although I am away in body. Still shall I be with you.

Ponder at this hour: "Many are called, but few can be chosen." Ask yourself why so few hold aloft the Master’s Standard. Ask yourself again and yet again why there are so few workers in his vineyard. The answer will ever be the same. The Way of all Messiahs of all time in all ages has been too difficult to attain.

Would you care to allow yourself pleasures of the emotions of the moment rather than to hold fast all gained through travail and lash? Rather would you not prefer the continued hard way of advance, now that the top of the first height has been achieved?

Press on then in full valor and devotion. Much is awaiting your choice for a further climb. Much Joy the Father sends unto you. Much Substance waits for you to use. Much Power waits for you to send forth. Much Light is now ready for all dark places. What is your pleasure of these gifts? What is your Joy for this year? How wise in use are you and how much Glory shall you achieve?

The Master shares his Kingdom with you for the price of Love and Devotion in Wisdom and Compassion. "Enter thou into the Joy of thy Lord."

My love to all of you and my Life flowing about you to aid and help sustain your Creations. My life from our Father added to you and your life from the Father added to me.

Love and Devotion, Edna Miriam

October 31, 1938

Milwaukee, WI

Dear Friends and Group Chosen for great ventures:

Am so happy! Today have met bankers and college professors, business men and women and even politicians who want our country spiritualized and speak of God as freely as we do.

Tuesday evening I spoke before the Uptown businessmen and women. Thursday evening I’m speaker at the regular meeting here in hotel. Next week at some large hall, radio announcements, loud speakers on streets, etc., my first large meeting. They are giving me a real build up. I’m having a grand time, and have more ideas than I’ve had in ages. Brand new bunch for my speech tomorrow night. I know it is going over.

Your eyes have been opened. See to it that you keep them open. Let nothing of small moment close them, or let bewilderment or confusion fill them again with clouds. Your true gains are great and will be greater.

There are those who are blind for a season. There are those blinded by their own conceits for many ages to come, and there are also those who have chosen in great vanity and conceit of delusion their own devices, which lead them down into full retrogression. They, too shall meet with their own reward, for our Father is a jealous God, needing obedience when His children are of all knowledge.

Beware of lukewarmness. It will lure you with thoughts of needed rest, ideas of overwork, of burdens too great, of efforts too great to make needed sacrifices. Better if you lash yourself into action than wait to lose face or place or both, for your failure to act. Better to lash yourself into all surrender of self rather than leave it to the Father. One gives you demerits, the other many credits and indulgences.

Which is your choice? Make your choice and hold fast to your choice. Let no false Christ, no false prophecy, no discontented muttering lure you away from perfect fulfillment. Remember all our teachings and all our lessons and carry your torches reaching high, and full blazing with Glory. Be happy and stand steadfast in all ways. It’s best to be ready in advance of need for sacrifice. Don’t wait until compelled by need.

Glory shines upon you forever. Light lifts you into high places. Joy makes you love life and its living. Surrender bridges all abysses of darkness. Devotion makes your paths plain. Love heals all mortal ills. Wisdom leads you upward into the green pastures of the Kingdom. Faithfulness makes all possible.

Everything is going on as we desired. My deepest love, and my love enfolding all of you every hour. Love, Edna Miriam

November 6, 1938

Milwaukee, WI

Beloved friends and fellow travelers:

Our time has come. We are not "coming into," we stand within the great fold of Jesus the Christ. He speaks in ringing words and terms. He calls in no uncertain way for us to make a last stand against all darkness. But a little space and it will be over. Just a few more hours left in the long day of heat, toil and labor. We have stood through this heat, let us now hold high our standards of strength and courage and go on into an ever higher place of seeing and hearing.

Release much Power, Love and Joy. It shall come to pass as spoken! Never in all my life have I ever seen God fail, never. So be faithful and strong and all IS well.

I love you dearly and will be with you soon now. Deep love, Edna Miriam

November 6, 1938

Milwaukee, WI

Blessed Friends and Group:

This has been a very heavy week for all of us. Even if there are no heavy classes in which you must be examined, it is just as difficult to hold place after the Power is released.

"Be ye perfect as thy Father in Heaven is already perfect." Watch your step, your voice, your tone, your speech, your thoughts, your acts. Be urgent and zealous in well-doing. Seek all rewards for the price of using Light to make the world Light and a world of Joy and Beauty. Your reward shall be made manifest for love, compassion, loyalty and sacrifice. Continue and grow strong in stature and Grace. Abundant Light shine upon you to the perfection of your days. Abundant Grace o’ershadow you to the perfection of your living.

Please remember that I love you very dearly and I’m holding fast to you. Love and devotion to a wonderful group of friends, Edna Miriam

November 13, 1938

Milwaukee, WI

My beloved friends and Group of Light:

This is a Day of choosing the Light. This date is one of going higher into greater Glory. This Day is one to make your hearts sing for very love of Life and Joy in a Kingdom which is open to all believers.

Sing therefore and make your hearts glad. Rejoice in all your ways. Sing Psalms and Praises to God above for all that is to come. Behold! It comes quickly and not one shall but Rejoice over the escape from all Darkness into all Light. Not one but shall sing hymns of gladness that night is past.

The Elect all over the earth stand upon a Sea of Glory. The Elect all over the earth are born anew this Day.

Let us choose therefore that our Path from this time forth shall but make us to be lifted higher. That each footstep shall carry us closer to the Heart of an Infinite and Just God of all Fathers, Masters, Saints and Sons of God upon earth.

Peace to you. Joy to you. Love to you all this Day. The Christ walks close to you to bless, to lift, to make whole and perfect, and to make Powerful and strong.

My Love and Devotion, Edna Miriam

November 14, 1938

Milwaukee, WI

To my own Group:

"There is that which increaseth and that which takes away." Many have been the words of Wisdom given you, many more are waiting for you if you heed all Laws of Obedience and Devotion.

Why grow weary in well-doing? Why tire of Light? Shall some be cut off and retard all? Or, shall Light be released which agitates and confuses the lukewarm and indifferent, that those ready may move on? God wishes all to advance alike. He cannot withhold Light and Power for the few who cannot or do not hold high thoughts of Him continually.

There is no place along the Path to stop. All must advance or retreat. Choose, then each hour, and choose well whom you shall serve, God or self.

You have earned high place. Release, then, the Power commensurate with this high Place. Allow nothing to retard you for an hour, for you cannot recall lost time.

Joy in your present place and position shall emancipate you fully to greater place and position. Love sustains all your Creations. Praise brings your Creations into the visible Universe. Devotion holds you facing the Light. Understanding opens your eyes and ears. Watchfulness saves you much misspent time. Adoration gives you grace, and to abound in grace means much gain, both heavenly and earthly.

Mastery of self means emancipation of Soul to hold you a Supreme Creator.

To live by the Star of your Soul is to be Godlike in very truth, and to be Godlike in very Truth means to act as God in very Truth and in all responsibility. To be fully responsible means fully obedient to all Divine Laws.

Full Obedience will finally bring you to full expression of Godlike qualities, faculties and powers, and so lead to all "added things." And in these there is no lukewarmness or indifference.

All Blessings of Love enfold you. Edna Miriam

November 20, 1938

Milwaukee, WI

Dearest and most Beloved Group:

Great is the Joy of all Heaven. Let it be in your hearts also, for the releasing time has arrived. If now we just stand together and know, and push, and Praise enough, all things shall be added. The Stars have it so written.

All promises are being fulfilled. Make a stand this very hour. Go over your Declarations for needs and Joys, make definite and solid pictures of them and ask once more in the name of our Jesus that they may be added, and then keep on thanking the Father that you have all and more, both what you desire, and all that the Father can possibly see for you — added things, not subtracted!

I love you. I’ll soon be with you and so stand and Praise. Let’s push out!

Love to all, Edna Miriam

November 27, 1938

New York, NY

Beloved Folks:

A few days and I shall be with you. Much to tell you.

Today is a special Feast Day. Great things have come to pass. Those whose lamps have remained trimmed and burning, are about to partake of the Heavenly Feast.

See to it, therefore, that you are fully prepared. Leave no debt unforgiven. Leave the Gifts at the Altar and then forgive your brother his debts. Make full surrender to the Father. Give yourself unreservedly into the Father’s keeping. Know that the Everlasting Arms are about you. Know that the fullness of the Joy of Life is yours to express.

Feel that your Praise ascends in an ever-increasing abundance to the Throne of God, that He may hear your hearts’ thanksgiving and know the Purity of your love. Be obedient unto all sacrifice.

I love you dearly. So happy to be with you so soon.

Love and more love, Grace abounding be upon all of you. Edna Miriam

December 14, 1938

Milwaukee, WI

Dearest Ones:

Am up to my k-neck! Everything ready to go! We are reorganizing and should get real results soon.

Am sort of together again. Rested coming down and slept late this morning. Couldn’t get this off before, too much unfinished business.

I’ve made my reservation for the West. Have a little bit toward it and feel as if the rest would come. My heart is singing and I am so happy I feel as if I could stand strong enough to remove huge mountains! Stand with me now and all shall be well. Every promise shall come true.

Didn’t we have a glorious time? Never have I enjoyed anything as much as being with you. So you folks can be happy. You are so very close to me and so very chosen in the Kingdom. Sing now, be happy and so push the load over the top of the hill.

I love you very dearly. Give my deepest love to all the rest. I shall send each a Christmas Message.

Deep love, Edna Miriam

December 14, 1938

Milwaukee, WI

Chosen Ones of Light:

Great is your responsibility at this time. Much is required of you, since much has been revealed to you and much Power awaits your use. Use then this Magic Wand of Power extended unto you, the spoken Word: "LET." No misuse can occur when the "let" of the Father is used in Love and Joy.

Love and Joy must be a combination of Selflessness or the Power cannot move forth. Love opens all doors and Joy is the force to drive Substance through. More Power is released unto you at this Feast Season than any time except Easter. Greater delight in Law shall bring you greater results.

Stand still and know. Once you have spoken the Word of Clearance and Creation, then wait upon the Lord in great Praise given in full Joy-consciousness. Use your Father-Mother Virtues of Wisdom and Love and so shall your Son of Selflessness be born; then may you bear full seeing and hearing.

Peace and full Joy be with you. Be fully Happy and Feast in Delight at again being reborn higher. Blessings, Love and Joy be yours.

Your own, Edna Miriam

December 15, 1938

Milwaukee, WI

To My Beloved:

I love you all tenderly and dearly. Great is my Joy and Praise that we have come through deep waters in triumph. The future spreads out in service so great it is almost blinding to physical eyes.

Our Destiny goes on together as ONE. No thing can ever put us asunder, for we are joined by the Nameless One! When Golden Light holds us together, no one of earth may see it to tear apart. What cannot be seen cannot be touched. Golden Silence binds all together as one and we are in and of the Golden Silence.

The Master said, "Feed my sheep." Feed them of your Fount of Joy and Inner Gladness and so shall your lives be filled to overflowing. You are doing Master’s work on the invisible side, though you do not yet express this full Mastery in the outer.

Have much Faith and all Joy, which is needed for your Creations. Joy and Faith are the Substance needed for fulfilling the Law, your needs and heart’s desires. Use all that your needs and desires demand. Fill them full speedily. The Joy, Faith and Power await you. Speak the Word, Let. In no way allow self to creep in.

Thank the Father for all things now. Give vast and mighty Joyous Praise now. Speak and say, "Father, let Your Power move forth, let Your Faith and Joy fill full these forms now." This is enough, provided you continually send forth the prayer.

Be faithful and strong. Be in Joy, Love and Compassion. Be in Peace. Be in delight in all Law. All Law is the Law of full Light, in which is no darkness at all. Joy, Peace, Love, Strength, Devotion be gifts to you.

All is well. My heart is ever with you and my arms are ever ‘round you. Deepest love and devotion to each of you always. Edna Miriam, Servant of the Father’s Power

December 18, 1938

Milwaukee, WI

Dearly loved Group:

Our visit was glorious! I loved it and am ready for that which is to come. Watch and wait in great Joy, for all is about to be fulfilled. Dark places are being opened up to the Light of God’s Kingdom. Hidden things are being uncovered fast. Treat, Lift, Pray.

I am with you even as you read this. The Master stands with me and we are dedicating his picture [Jesus praying in the Garden of Gethsemane] to the Holy of Holies.

This picture is the Symbol of that wealth of the Temple which is to come forth from now on. There shall always be a Light upon it from on high. To sit and contemplate upon the Light, the Sacrifice he made will open blind eyes, deaf ears, or any manner of darkness of Mind, Heart, Body and Affairs shall be made whole.

It is a threefold symbol of the pact between ourselves and Jesus the Christ, between Jesus the Christ and all of us, and also between thee and me. To be forever bound in one Light, his Light. To be forever held together in Love and Tenderness. To be continually Steadfast unto all Perfection, Sacrifice, Devotion and Selflessness. That the exaltation of all is the business of all, and that we all lift one another at all times and see only Light upon each other.

So, when you gaze upon our Lord in the Garden, listen for your Father’s Voice, even as he was listening and hearing. Heed.

Abiding love enfold, lift, protect, guide, guard and make you all Joyous.

My love to you, Edna Miriam

December 20, 1938

Milwaukee, WI

Dearest Ones:

Your Gift ($) just arrived! I am still trembling. I’m altogether again, or so it seems. My heart is singing a song of Praise and Glory and Joy. And my Christmas Desire for you is so very great that it cannot be contained on earth or Heaven. It just spreads out into the whole Universe and fills it with Light.

I’ll write at length when I get home, I hope! I’m really leaving — haven’t enough yet, but I know I will.

Merry Christmas and Joy for your new Year beyond all Dreams of Earth is my deep wish for you.

I love you very dearly.

Merry Christmas and deep, deep Love and devotion, Edna Miriam

December 25, 1938

Tacoma, WA

My folks and friends:

Merry Christmas to YOU! This is a Beautiful Christmas Day and as you read this, I shall be with you. I shall be watching you and, most of all, I shall be loving you. You see, the difference in time is so much that it will be only 8:00 a.m. in the West. I’ll be entering Seattle when you open at 11:00 a.m. Reach Tacoma an my family when you are finishing at 9:30 a.m.

So, I can be with you duringyour Service.

I love you all so dearly, and I am so gloriously confident that we’re going places together. I have my lines out for the West. All is well.

Keep steadfast, stand and know. Pray harder than ever before, for only Prayer now will release what we need from the Inner Kingdom.

I can’t tell some of the secrets behind this, but Light from above will "bring to pass" now and clothe our Ideas.

Promises shall come true. Desires shall be satisfied, and all for the little standing we must do for a short time now.

Remember all Vows. Keep making your Sacrifices of self and so shall you all be rewarded.

May the week between Christmas and New Year’s be the most perfect one of all your lives. May Beauty and Joy, Twins of Perfection, be your companions for every hour.

I love you all so dearly, and I know that you are happy for me that I am with my family, even as you go to your Merry Christmas Feast. Love and devotion, Edna Miriam

December 26, 1938

Tacoma, WA

To my Group:

New Initiations open tonight. Remember that when we bring to the Father each night, an egoic soul that He may indulge, we have brought Him the greatest gift in our power to bring. In this way we cannot fail or be found wanting.

So, each night before sleep, go over each hour of the day, pouring out more Light and more love upon it and so making sure that the day has been fruitful of only perfection, making sure that no weeds have been planted among the flowers. To root up each day’s weeds will keep our Garden of God beautiful and glorious and out of debt!

Let’s decide this moment to "pay as we go," at least on the inside, even though we do not achieve it perfectly on the outside!

I love you. I am with you. Our prayers bind us fast together always, Edna Miriam

December 26, 1938

Tacoma, WA

Beloved Friends:

Reached home as scheduled. Thank you for the $5 check! I love you so dearly and you’ve been so very good to me. God will take care of me, for I surely am His and on His business.

Watch and wait through the first twelve days of our new cycle. Be guarded and fully aware of Power’s use of Law. Be open in Love and Devotion expressed through Praise. All good is yours. All right is yours. All justification is yours. All Power is yours to use in righteous ways. Be heedful in all ways and in all things do well in Law. Beloved of God, be still greater in all your creations. Not yet have you used your full measure of Light; use it in deeper and ever deeper Love. Love is Law’s fulfilling. Love is the all-compelling attraction of the universe. Only in Love may you open all doors or have all your "lost sheep" return.

Be in a State of Grace that the Power may not find you wanting when the fine balance of the Father’s Scales is adjusted to your life. Greater than you can receive shall come to you. Power, Life, Light, Love and Substance to be created into ever greater desires. Peace to your souls.

I love you so! Keep thinking of and loving our last dinner together. I’ll be with you, "invisible" to the world, on January 12. You’ll see great and mighty Wings of the Almighty and the Tongues of Flame!

My deep love and my greatest blessing always. Love, Happy New Year, Edna Miriam

December 31, 1938

Tacoma, WA

Dearest ones:

I miss you so! Am so happy that you had a lovely Christmas day and such a beautiful day with your families.

Today it is raining and I don’t mean maybe! Until now it has been lovely, just cold enough to enjoy. I am leaving this afternoon for Seattle to spend New Year’s with Ted [her youngest son]. He is taking me to dinner.

I shall unpack my four boxes of household goods and share them with him. If I should marry, it would have to be someone who had money enough to buy me new things! Am not caring much about old things. By myself, I need nothing and I am cleaning up on old memories!

I love you very, very dearly. I hold you in my arms. Love, Edna Miriam

January 1, 1939

Tacoma, WA

Beloved Group of Chosen Ones:

This opening of a new Cycle is pregnant with meaning. It starts off a Vibration of Devotion, which will set a pace for our Lifting for the whole year. It will set a keynote sublime for our Temple work. It will Radiate from the inmost Holy of Holies unto the Inner Court, the Outer Court and the Temple Porch and so to the whole world. It will set the full keynote of the fullness of the Release of Power, enough to open the Way for the great Theocracy now.

Be therefore faithful unto the greatest extent of present ability. Use then all the Faith at your command. Let "according to thy Faith" mean something much more than ever before. Let your own idea of God’s Power through you be greater from this Day of Days than ever in all your past experiences. Let your Praise accelerate its voicing. Let your lifting of Darkness be greater each new hour. Let each second see you with the Mystic 3rd Eye of Vision turned higher and ever higher into the Kingdom of God. Let all thoughts be of constructive nature, going more and more into the Light for their Source and Substance. Let your voices be raised in tenderness toward all.

Let us be ever in Selfless Sweetness. Let us ever be in Sacrificial Firmness. Let us ever be in Service founded in Finality, of and from the One Great Source, the Father.

The year IS and shall be the greatest year of your lives. This year IS the year of complete Fulfillment of all your Heart’s Desires, and may you let God add to your own desires ALL He can add of his abundance.

Lovingly and with great blessings, Edna Miriam

January 2, 1939

Tacoma, WA

Dearest Friends and Group:

The time seems long since our last Sunday together. But you are not far from me. You are so close in my heart that nothing of earth can ever separate us, not even for a moment.

September 16, 1936, the King’s Chamber was opened for the Ransomed of God, the Elect, to march into protection. These were all who believed on God as the only Power and in His Love now operating on earth. These who really entered the King’s Chamber, the Sanctuary, the High Place, the higher creative center, they were to have the vision of the third eye, the mystic eye opened, if they fulfilled all the Laws necessary for that purpose. They were to have their ears opened to hear God’s Voice speaking to them. However, only if they did all things in full obedience to Law.

This meant becoming like the Master, not only thinking about him or praying to him, but actually following him all the way. To take back all the darkness that has been sent forth by the little self, which we call the law of karma or the paying of past debts created by the little self. To assume all responsibility for all past actions. To know that the place we occupy at the present time is one that we, ourselves have chosen and so never blame anyone about it for anything that happens, always sending forth Light to lift and overcome all disharmony. Accepting our place as our own Kingdom and becoming fully responsible for its lifting. To follow Jesus, our Master, making a ladder of our cross, and ascending higher and higher while still on earth. Becoming once more as we were before our descent to earth, Sons and Daughters of High Gods!

Since this is the hardest thing to do on earth, not all who entered the King’s Chamber on September 16th have been able to continue doing it for any length of time. Each one has kept at it according to the neurons built into his brain equipment, or according to his past achievements on the path. So, only a few have been able to "Hold fast to all gains and keep their crowns."

I love you and am so happy, so happy. Wisdom and Unity bind you all together in Love and Devotion forever and ever. Blessings in amazing abundance be upon you all, Edna Miriam

January 8, 1939

Tacoma, WA

Beloved Group and dear friends:

Today is a day of Power, very great and glorious. It will leave all of us in a State of Grace greater than at any period of this old Terra’s History. Be cautious as to your use of it and send forth hour after hour all possible Power and Light, for only that which is used for others unselfishly will move through us as Individuals.

This Power will be almost too great to be borne. Watch therefore all Desires that they may be Selfless and for your own greatest good. Watch all pictures that only those of good to yourself and all others may be allowed within the fortress of your minds. Watch especially for all Idle Words. Let all answers be "yea, yea" and "nay, nay."

Let nothing "touch you", because Light surrounds and enfolds you. Let nothing move you from your attitude of Praise and "Let." Let Light shine forth.

Stand ready for the outpouring of Spirit the whole month of January.

May Love enfold, lift, bless and help sustain you forever. Edna Miriam

January 9, 1939

Tacoma, WA

Beloved Ones:

To you this night is a Sign given which shall be unfolded in due season. Great Power is among you.

Please remember how important it is that each one remains in as great a State of Perfection as is possible. Do not allow lesser things of earth nor lesser intelligences to disturb you — nothing of earth is worth a single instant’s loss of this Power. Stand strong and take it full. Do not make it necessary for the Masters to "cone" you because of anything from the outside disturbing you.

I love you more and more dearly. I am with you at all times.

Love, Edna Miriam

January 13, 1939

Tacoma, WA

Dearest Ones, close to my heart, Strong Ones in the Faith:

I love you. Let nothing of self creep in to cause you dismay, or concern among you. Pour out upon each other that Love which has pure understanding as its source and strength. Ask not for understanding. Let each one who follows the Christ with me give of such love to all others in the name of our one Master and Lord.

That which holds one back from Vision in some measure holds back all alike. Therefore, do one thing only. Lift any darkness instantly and lift it high. You all know darkness! It is anything which you would not be or have if you were standing in front of Master Jesus, and could see him fully and clearly. Why then, for you are standing beside him, allow anything of even small stature to enter into your minds, your houses, or our Temple.

Do any of you honestly think that the Father pours forth any darkness to you? Much depends upon each individual answer, to that Individual, for each one of us is a Law unto our self — and to no other at all. We can make any Law we wish and it will be so to us, but to no other.

Be faithful. Be strong. Be of Wisdom. It is much Wisdom to cast off all Ideas of darkness, at least while in the Temple Courts, lest there be a "coning" of you and you sit in darkness of your own Creating!

Our Temple is Light. The Father deals only in Light, and only Light can be sent forth by the Father. Where then does individual darkness come from? And from whom do you, each and every one, take your Power and your Light? Or what are you taking on? Heaven or Earth? Light of Heaven or dark of Earth?

Surround yourselves with the Power, the Light and the Life of God. Draw upon God’s limitless Power. Do not use any second hand Power or Light. Go to your own Source. You will dwell in weakness all your earth days if you have the Idea of drawing on the second hand Power which has dripped through another. Make your own Contacts. Keep your own contact. Plug in the socket. Keep your "spark plugs" clean and do not borrow from someone else who has not cleaned his for months! Go to your own Source of Light, which is your Father above — be a giver of Light, of Power to earth from Heaven, not a sponge sopping up the small overflow and drip from a neighbor. You are strong, Powerful, Divine and gods. Therefore, draw from your own Star the stored up energy waiting above, not on or near earth.

I love you all dearly, Edna Miriam

January 13, 1939

Tacoma, WA

To my Beloved Group:

Every effort I have made toward economic independence has finally come up to a barrier, where all I can do is Know, Pray, Praise and do everything my hand finds to do. I ‘see to believe’ as many times as I am allowed. Otherwise, I dare not ask ‘Why,’ but can only ‘believe to see.’

It has always been this way with me in the past. Nothing has ever come easy, or just through waiting or ‘decreeing.’ I Know. That is all I’ve ever had or needed.

Fortunately, my sister is happy to have me with her. I have a lovely room on the third floor where I am really alone.

I could still find it in my heart to wonder why? Only years of obedience and surrender have taught me to know all is well.

I fully expected to have plenty of funds before now. Every outside thing pointed to it. Yet, here I am. SO, until you hear that I’m moving, this will be my address. I find it queer to be in the Place of my Birth. There is something very great here for me and all of us. What it is I do not yet see. I would be with you, having enough to be able to carry on with personally.

I realize that all of you love me most dearly, and I dare not ask anything of you or anyone in the outer. You have all been most generous. You helped me here, and even though my expenses here would not have covered my expenses anywhere else for the same time, I am in a most peculiar position, waiting, watching, working and Knowing.

I DO KNOW! All is well. I have never been left alone. AM not alone. I’ve climbed from my 3rd floor study to Heights Above All Above! And I am content to stop awhile and rest. For that it what it is — a rest. The weather is still mild. I am too warm. Very little sunshine, some rain, some grey days, but no snow, wind or ice! I love it!

I am happy except that I do not have time for enough personal letters. I help with the housework and cooking, we have much company — relatives and my sister’s friends, and I cannot always leave them, since they call upon me! I am doing my best. Please bear with me, and love me much, even as I love you all close to the Soul of my Soul.

I shall be with you, this I know. How soon, I cannot tell you. (Walking takes too long! And my bags are heavy!)

I hold you high. I love you deeply and dearly and I shall ever stand close to you and know you and understand you.

I have a small Class next Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday, afternoons and evenings. No chance for a large one here without much advertising. Can’t do that. Anyway, I’m told to rest.

I love all of you dearly.

Deep love and devotion to you, my Stars of Light and only Light. Of very Light of Very Light and in whom can no darkness be found. Blessings forever, Edna Miriam

January 19, 1939

Tacoma, WA

Beloved Friends and Chosen Servants of all God’s Power:

You were created full Ambassadors of Light. Stand steadfast and in full Desire to remain with high contact with all the Power. "All the Power" is a rather large order, yet it must be released, and we, who know are the Ones who must do the work of standing steadfast under the Light and making of ourselves perfect and selfless instruments, allow ourselves to be used as full Servants of all Power, all Life, all Love and all Glory. This is not to make us proud or intolerant, since we are but servants, and even as a servant on earth who leaves a master partakes no longer of the master’s abundance, so also do we, when we lose our Heavenly contact with our Father by letting go of Soul expression to allow self control, lose partaking of and with our Father’s Life, Power and Substance.

We are gods. Let us be "Soul gods" and not "self gods!" Let us see only Light at all times in all ways.

Follow the footsteps of Jesus hour by hour and all shall come to pass as decreed and declared unto us by the Father.

I love you. My arms are about you. My Love enfolds and lifts you high forever. Love and Devotion, Blessings of Peace, Edna Miriam

January 19, 1939

Tacoma, WA

To my loyal friends and Group:

I love you. I would do all things for you if it were allowed unto me to do so.

When I came West, as far as I was concerned, I had arrangements made for a sure $200 in expenses for January and February, and especially to cover the western trip. If this had not been so, in my vain conceits, I would not have come, for after all, I have paid my own way half around the world and back, and for some 50 years I have taken care of myself! Therefore, it is rather queer to find myself in such a very peculiar situation. I have only "stood still" to see "the salvation of the Lord." I have done all I could find to do.

Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, I have had a tiny group of seven to eleven in afternoons and 15 to 23 on the three evenings, just those who can understand. The offerings are tiny, but they have given me $12, which I surely needed for expenses here. Of course, I have my room and food, but stamps have always been a larger item with me. Fifteen to twenty dollars a week is not enough money, yet a stamp is a stamp, and I sent out over 182 letters before Christmas. Our Christine B has solved this problem for me for some little time. Yet I shall use more than she sent for the one month alone.

The expected $200 was to come from the work in Milwaukee. Have had only one letter and no explanation of why the man has not sent it. I presume that something went wrong with his plans.

Meantime, I must have enough for my return ticket when I leave here on the 5th of February. I now have around $15 toward homeward-bound expenses! It was not my intention to ask for anything of anyone. No one desires economic independence with more greatness of desire. Can you imagine how it feels to know that every step you take and everything you do is open to criticism? I long for freedom, but I can also forget all desires and give the Service demanded of me under Law, even though the whole world misunderstood. And I love you, my Chosen and Beloved Disciples and my loyal friends, more deeply than at present you can guess.

Now, these are your watch words for the year.

Add them to your six others.

I love all of you most dearly, and I appreciate with all my heart your love and your help. Our Temple shall grow, and all promises shall be redeemed in due season. I am as sure and confident of this as that we know each other.

Please, I pray you, uphold each other, for only so can we have fulfillment. Seek ever to keep Light and Light only burning for everyone. Have our Temple a place of such love and harmony that if anyone from last year comes in, they will just have to stay and also be in love with God! And so, with all men, who are also gods, though tiny at times!

I love you! Your Edna Miriam

January 22, 1939

Tacoma, WA

Dearest ones:

Your lovely letters and information have all reached me. I’ve been so busy that I haven’t been able to do what I should.

Held three days’ meetings, afternoon and evening, last week. Will have three this week and next. Am not leaving here until February 5, staying for Ted’s birthday. Can’t leave because the man in Milwaukee who promised to see that I got $200 has never written a line in answer to my letter. Am doing my work now that I am here. Will have a group of around 9 to 12 when I leave. This is some advance and they really want it.

I’ve spent three weekends with Ted, and what with housework and the visiting friends and relatives, I’ve never had a moment to myself except on the 12th when I locked myself in at 4:00 p.m. West Coast time and stayed in until 4:00 p.m. the 13th! How I did enjoy it!

Please send any class money you have to me here. Can’t tell you how I’ll appreciate it. Need $50 besides what I have earned here. My little group here gave me $12 in offerings for three days. This week and next will give me expenses here.

Wouldn’t have come if I’d not thought I had everything in finances cared for before I left. What I had when I left would not have kept me this long, but I’m doing a special work here, which was needed. They were just letting go. No one here can lead them all the way into the full Light. It means the spreading out of our Temple. So I know I’ve been in the right place at the right time.

I shall be in Portland, Berkeley and Los Angeles for a few days and then home! Should see you all between February 20 to 25. Will let you know. Haven’t heard from Milwaukee or what they are doing, so don’t know if I shall return there. Anyway, it won’t be until after Easter, for my Orders are to give my Lenten work in Cleveland and Buffalo.

By all means get in touch with the woman who wants to start a group. Plan the Friday at her home if possible and begin to announce it for February 24. This is an opening into a larger outer Group. I’ll come directly to you from Los Angeles. Hurray for the sweepstakes! I know the money is coming from somewhere for us. If only my days were longer! Or I could do twice as much with my present equipment!

I love you very dearly. I am holding you so very high, you’d be surprised how high. All shall be well for you. Let us make this sacrifice a cleansing.

I love you dearly, Edna Miriam

Tacoma, WA

Beloved:

Am missing you so much. If only I could have my cake and eat it too! I was needed here by my whole family. All this besides 25 starved ones who love my work.

It’s been so worth it, yet I’m eager to return. Will be in Cleveland and Buffalo until after our Lenten work. I know something will break for all of us. That it has been delayed is good, I’m sure but I’m sort o’ pulling at the bit.

My sister wants me to stay here and start centers in Seattle and Tacoma, however, I cannot see this. I know my next step is East again to my own folks.

Am holding you high and fast, tight to my heart. I love you most dearly and all shall be well with thee and thine.

Deepest love, Edna Miriam

Tacoma, WA

Beloved Group:

Friends in understanding and Disciples following the Master into the Light of the Source, there is so much to be done. Each day must see us with a little more Love and a little more Praise moving forth into our creations.

The final three Words are for this coming year: Surrender, Obedience, Loyalty. Lenten work will be very heavy and these Words are preparations. Work with these in your daily lives from this point.

My love lifts and enfolds each of you. Power moves through you and makes your bodies, your relationships and your affairs perfect and complete. You shall BE all strength and all Love to all you meet. Your contacts shall be a Glory to the Father and give you all abundance of life and things now.

You are all stepping up! A little more Love, a little more Praise will do the work!

Lovingly yours, Edna Miriam

Tacoma, WA

Beloved friends and Temple Group:

The days roll by and we are each one in the right place, doing the right thing at the right time. For many reasons came I here!

Monday, an elderly woman, whom my sister has befriended for the last 15 years — a great believer in "it’s the will of God" to be ill — had a stroke! She’d been in bed, enjoying her "flu," and we’d waited on her for days. She fell when she was ready to get up and be well, was really passing out of her body. Stiff on left side, rigid and also in terrible pain on right side, with ice cold creeping up above her knees fast. My sister and I treated and did the necessary physical things, like hot water bottles, heat pads, etc. In an hour every sign of the stroke had passed completely, except weakness and desire to sleep.

She had been the type who wanted to die "so someone would be sorry" — "don’t send any flowers!" She’s all ready now to do a little living. Death doesn’t really appeal to her much!

Also, I’ve been asked to sing! Then is when I am completely alive as an individual. The rest of the time I’m only a "Servant of the Father." When I sing, I tingle and glow, and am just one sphere of Light, gloriously alive and happy. When in the East, I always miss this particular thing. Otherwise my heart is with the East, all that’s outside of Heaven!

Be filled with Joy, for all is well. Heaven has descended and is now part of earth. The Veil is lifted and there is no more separation to anyone who is ready to stand fully in the Light forever.

I love and Bless you deeply. You are dear to my heart.

Your own, Edna Miriam

Tacoma, WA

Beloved Group:

Your devotion is making you a truly shining group. The full Power you release shines out and the glow and Glory from it go forth in Rays that circle our earth. There is no place on earth where our Vibration does not penetrate. Here and there are a few spots and places where some darkness gathers in cowering and hiding, but even that shall be covered until it can no longer harm anyone of earth, nor touch any activity of earth to cause any more darkness to go forth to destroy anything good that is started.

When we are perfectly agreed at all times and perfectly adjusted until each one of the group sees Light and only Light in all the others, then you’ll see the "added things" begin to come tumbling into the whole Temple — crowds and things, desires come true, affairs successful. Stand with me in the Light. Look neither to the right nor to the left. See not the thousand on your right nor the ten thousand on your left, for in this lies destruction of your creations, regardless of how near they are to being visible.

God is all Power. How much are you using daily? In Light?

God is all Substance. Are you holding your hands high, and your arms, opening them wide? To fill them full of Light which is Substance, sure and ready? Are you holding your arms full of it while you see it take form as the things you need and desire? And how many hours a day are you pausing for an instant and either doing this holding with physical arms, or with mental arms if you are in a place where you cannot raise your arms?

You are a Creator! Every hour. Every moment. Create then, not only greater mansions for your soul, but better and greater living conditions right here and now on earth.

I love you, and I’ll soon be with you. And I shall look in your eyes and say, "Have you been a good Son or Daughter of the Most High?" — by thinking of yourself always as His Son or Daughter right now? By creating consciously with His Power, His Substance, His Light? Stand in the Light with me now.

My love and blessings. Your own, Edna Miriam

Tacoma, WA

Dearest ones:

Have had a glorious time visiting. Am getting caught up with my folks but will be so happy to return to my "home" ground. I never dreamed that I would feel this way about the East but I do.

Am getting my reservations in the morning and have my itinerary worked out. Will be with you in exactly three weeks and four days. So much news to tell everyone.

I love all of you very dearly and I’m so very grateful that you folks will help me come to you. I shall use what you send on a ticket from Chicago to Buffalo!

Love to you, loads and blessings to overflow, Edna Miriam

1-30 P.S. Didn’t get this off, interruptions! This morning the check came. Thanks so very much to all of you. I’m still shy about $20 to cover all expenses. Know it will come. Have three more meetings here. God is so good to me and I love you all so dearly.

Tacoma, WA

Dearest Ones:

Am in the midst of leaving. Shall be in Berkeley until February 14. Have my ticket to Chicago and almost enough to carry me to Buffalo. God is so good to me. Be ready. Shall open Ash Wednesday with you. These are your first Orders:

Understanding: Stand under the Higher Light now released. It blinds the eyes, but lifts another Veil of Maya.

Compassion: To express full compassion upon all alike. To spiritualize fully the Personality until all see the Christ in each face we present to the world. (Now we occasionally present dull faces without Light.)

Tenderness: To "tender" Love at all times. The expression benign of a god, which we really are now.

Service in Sweetness: All three to go forth as a Radiant Sweetness, which draws all good unto itself.

Freedom from all darkness: To lift all into the Light. To give up all burdens to be changed. To Love whatever service we have to give where we are, that we may be emancipated into God’s more perfect place for us.

These are your first week’s work. Copy before leaving. Read them many times a day. Ponder them for Meditation. The Rays released this week will aid you in being these qualities. You are Overcomers now.

Love and deep love, Edna Miriam

Tacoma, WA

My Beloved Ones:

When you read this, I shall have my face turned toward the East once more. My work finished here on the outer Planes.

It will be glorious to see you in the flesh once more, for I love you, and one others can take your place.

It is said that you are made in the Image and Likeness of God! Do you believe this? Here and now?

God can do no wrong. God’s Image and Likeness has the ability to do no wrong. God’s Image and Likeness does know how to release His Power. God’s Image and Likeness does know Light from darkness. Do you know that you are in His Image and Likeness? Do you know that there are some things God’s Image and Likeness dare not do?

And you are strong like your Father. You are strong in all Faith and Joy.

You are Wise with His Wisdom. You are Loving with His Love. You are Understanding with His Compassion. You are fully capacitated with every Power of your Father. Do you want to be convinced of this? Or do you know it NOW?

I shall convince you further when I speak to you on Sunday morning, February 28th. Be ready to know that you know this. You are made in His full, complete Radiant, Powerful Image and Likeness. Act it forth!

Love fulfils the whole Law. Love overcomes all Hate. Love overcomes all unkindness. Love burns away all self-erected barriers. Love burns out all self-created dross of illness, weakness, darkness and self-indulgence. Love manifests as Life to fill a weakened heart and a weakened intellect. Love creates Peace above all misunderstanding, even above all understanding also does it create the Peace of God.

Love is Substance to fashion into your own Creative Ideas and Desires. Love is Faith to go forth and lift all whom it touches. Love is Power to melt and dissolve all hardened hearts and all hardened bodies. Love is Light to burn and shine and to make all Paths plain and easy to follow. Love consumes all unlike unto itself.

Ye who have eyes to see, open and see. Ye who have ears to hear, open and hear. Which of these are ye? Open or closed? Willful or willing? Humble or proud? Blind or in Vision? Even now choose and stand.

Deepest love to each and all, Edna Miriam

Portland, OR

My very dear and Beloved Group:

With my face turned once more to you and the place which has become home to me. Our Lenten work begins to come through.

Please, each one, open an hour, a new one, for pre-Lenten devotion. Make this hour one of Exaltation of Soul, whether it is "uttered" or "unexpressed." Prayer is your highest Desire to know God. It is your greatest Idea of Success. To be kindly is the finest prayer you can make. To be sweet is prayer incense going up to the Father. To be Compassionate is the prayer of the Master. To be Just is the prayer of the Judge. To be tender is the Mother’s prayer. To be Understanding is the Prayer of the Father.

Every virtue we express is a fine prayer going forth to ascend our Souls into Heaven.

Every action in love is Prayer of Glory. Every movement of Joy sent forth is Prayer of the Realms of Light.

Let us then spend one more and shining, new hour a day in real Prayer as our Lenten Dedication for 1939. Anyone can smile an hour a day. Anyone can Praise an hour a day. Anyone can sing an hour a day. Or hum or whistle an hour a day. It does not have to be a continuous hour. It can be in spots, like sun breaking through the clouds.

Prayer is the expression of the Soul’s Delight in Obedience to Law, and it is the Soul’s Glory in its own High Estate, and knowing that its Source is forever drawing it home and into its own Light.

I love you all very dearly. Millions of blessings in appreciation of your loving assistance in my homecoming.

Deep love, Edna Miriam

Portland, OR

Beloved Ones:

There seems to be an opportunity to have a second Group in Buffalo. Please hold them high in the Light. Please hold up all my own personal activities. There is release in sight. A little more Love, a little more Praise and it will go over the top. When one door closes, a dozen new ones always open.

Today I rode up to the Council Crest where the Indians used to gather in Council. Two great valleys spread before me, fifty miles in length. I could see that far. They are much longer. Willamette and Tualatin. Hills several thousand feet high all around and Mt. St. Helen’s, Mt. Hood and Mt. Adams, glorious and Majestic in their grandeur. I confess that I tried to "inhale" enough "mountain" to carry me through my next lap in the East! And I’m bringing you some of it!

Get ready for your Lenten work! Much is to happen and quite soon. You are to copy these Statements and use them through the week as a pre-Lenten Vibration lifting for the Group and for the World.

1. My Yoke has become the Yoke of Light and Love and it leads me into rest and comfort of Soul.

2. My Peace has become that Peace which is from my Source, and it keeps me in Safety now from all disturbance and confusion of earth. I am become Peace and very Peace.

3. Behold, I am now become aware of my Source — Light. It shines through me upon my World. It overcomes all darkness found within and without. It is my ever-present help and my Servant.

4. I am now a perfect Servant of my Lord and Master. His Power moves through me and my Service Glorifies His Name.

5. I am standing before my Father in freedom of Soul from all darkness. Let Light shine in me forevermore unto the further glorifying of my Father.

6. My creations are all good and very good. I am now determined to make this all Truth in my expression of Life.

7. Standing before the Throne of all Light, hear my Vows, oh Father, and send thy Life forth as me. Praise and Love unto thee forevermore.

Remember who you are! Sons and Daughters of the Most High God, and it "doth begin to appear what ye shall BE and DO."

I love you and bless you and look forward to our Lenten work with great Joy. Spread the Word. Tuesday evening will be closed to advance unless they come in before the 22nd, Ash Wednesday. There will be special Services given for this night.

Deepest Love to all, Edna Miriam

Berkeley, CA

Dearly loved Group of Light:

I’ve just returned from a trip to San Francisco, across the high bridges, looking down upon Treasure Island and the "Tower of the Sun"! To me this feature of the San Francisco Fair is an omen, it is a proof from the outer world that we are Chosen!

I shall be with you. There is so much new to be given that I know not where to begin. Plan full attendance for Services throughout Lent.

I love you dearly and am very eager to be with you. However, get ready to really "work out our Salvation!" Make sacrifice all over again of old things which you still recall. You will no longer recall them when debts are fully covered with Light of Love. Then shall they be melted, dissolved and absorbed.

Deepest love and Blessings, Edna Miriam

Berkeley, CA

Beloved Ones:

There is so very much to be done for Lent that it is difficult to know where to open.

When you realize how much Power is to be released, you will also make a clean sacrifice of all and sundry "little-me’s."

Opening February 22, Ash Wednesday evening, is opportunity to uncover hidden limitations which keep you down and also to pay all karmic debts in 10 short days.

If you lift all veiled, hidden things of your life the first ten days, you will be ready to partake of the Power for the full opening during the second 10 days of Lent.

I love you dearly. Peace and Blessings, Edna Miriam

en route Los Angeles to Chicago, Central Colorado

Dear Friends and Beloved Group:

At midnight tonight, Ash Wednesday, February 22, we open a very important period in our world’s history and in the History of the Ascending Gods! The 7th Trumpet sounded January 12, 1937. This was the exact cusp between the Piscean and Aquarian Ages.

For the next 50 years we shall be standing on the Cusp of the Ages or until the year 1988, when we move off and fully into the Aquarian Age. The influence of the past sign will drag over for fully 500 years before the last of the darkness is overcome completely. We touched the cusp in 1886, stepped on it in 1887. We’ll step off in 1988, reaching the end in 1987.

While we stand on the cusp, there will still be darkness to overcome. Influences of the past are still working themselves out but they have no power. We are full two years past the exact center of the ‘Cusp of the Ages.’

All shall be light, and very Light.

‘Ye are gods’ ascending in Power. Speak the Word — "Let" — for all your Creations and nothing doubting, stand.

Neptune is unfolding the Mysteries for the next ten days. How close to God can YOU stand to receive? This ten days can be the most important of this earth life for you.

Surrender to be possessed of the Power. Let it move through you and your Creations fully, even now.

I am with you ever, in Love, Edna Miriam

Cleveland, OH

Beloved ones:

Your letters and all enclosed checks this morning. Millions of thanks for everything.

Am so happy that we’re winning through.

The time of waiting is almost over. Am so grateful that this is so. It has been a long, hard pull for all of us, but it is worth making.

Am up to my eyebrows, as usual, and everything will work out! You shall see the Glory and the Salvation of the Lord.

Remember, the ‘Right Side’ is the up side of the boat!

Deep love and appreciation, Edna Miriam

Cleveland, OH

My Dear Friends:

My Joy in being with you is too great to express in mere words. It seems a dream now, looking back upon our separation and, of course, we were not separated at all at night. Our months of new work together have been dreams fulfilled for some of us. Knowing and sure are the two answers to these last months of work.

Now, remember that you "see" and "hear" with the mind. You listen for the Voice of the Father or the Master with the brain cells themselves. You see with the Mystic Eye situated in the nerve ganglia in the center of the head, immediately above the midbrain. Both are instruments upon which Mind itself plays, upon which Soul registers thought, a Vibration of Mind.

Just as you can "see" with eyes open or closed, so, also, can you "hear" with ears open or closed. Both physical eyes and ears must be closed to earth objects and noises for seeing and hearing above.

I love you and we’re going to have a grand time together — you folks and these folks here.

All blessings and Abundance of Light and Joy be yours, Edna Miriam

Cleveland, OH

To my Beloved:

Much is to be said. Serious tests come upon all who ascend unto the Father through the 40 Days of Ascension. This must be so. An airplane is tested for spots too weak to bear strain. The Father tests ascending Souls for weaknesses, dry rot, soft spots in structure that they may be able to bear all strains put upon them in strength and in endurance. Then no lines will be lost and so credited to them, for the Ascending Elect are Leaders, Teachers, Ensamples of Life and Law. For such to fail takes many others to the bottom.

So, hold fast. Take each hour in Joy and live it in Love. Take each day in Joy and cause it to be to your credit. Ascend each night in humility and penitence for even seconds misspent upon earth and so shall your reward be great.

Your own, Edna Miriam

Cleveland, OH

Beloved Ones:

Next week I’ll be with you. Am so very happy that we have a Temple Room again. I’m sure we shall enjoy it, and I know we shall bring in many of those who have missed us.

If only I could be "quintuplets!" It is so hard to divide up in so many small pieces! However, the work will spread, and it will grow, and Teachers will arise who can and will carry on the Torch of Light.

I love all of you so very dearly and am looking forward to our dinner with anticipation, and am hoping everyone can be there.

My deepest love and devotion, Edna Miriam

Buffalo, NY

To my Beloved:

First of all, I love you, secondly and thirdly, I love you! Always remember that.

I gave your love to the Group here and they send theirs in return.

Please know how dear you are to me and how dear you are to the Father also. Anyway, I love you. I hold you high. I bless you in power, in Love, in Strength and in Joy.

May this coming week bring you great ‘results.’ Large Results! Complete Results in all ways.

Please lift this Group for Strength and Growth and to have all whom God hath touched to be drawn into it.

We here this week shall do that for you and the Temple there. We’re on our Way. Marching back to God!

Love, Edna Miriam

Cleveland, OH

Dear Friends and Glorious Ones:

The Group "here" greets the Group "there," and since "everywhere" is always "here," we are one!

Everything is going beautifully with things here. They are planning the Group picnic for Tuesday, May 30 and asked about Buffalo and who was coming?

I love each one of you very dearly. We are going high and we are going to draw unto us all we need for sustenance.

Blessings and my arms ever about you in deep love and understanding.

Edna Miriam

Cleveland, OH

Dear Ones:

Miss you so much. Have been using the "oil can" on several situations here.

Seeing my "regulars," who are beginning to "see" and "hear" and know when they go across. Everything is very beautiful and all’s well in God’s World.

I love you dearly. See you Saturday — I hope!

Love, Edna Miriam

Cleveland, OH

Dear Folks:

Be seeing you Saturday. Great events crowding closer. Remember to follow the four Words given for the summer: Harken, Heed, Obey, Follow. Each one to apply them according to present understanding of Law.

Keep high vibrations of love and thank the Father without ceasing.

Love to all, Edna Miriam

Washington, D.C.

Dearest Group:

Am at the Stratford Hotel. Went to Shrine as promised. Lighted the candles and had a wonderful time.

Have rested a bit, am writing, then some dinner and will do my planning for tomorrow.

Very hot. Very happy. In all my travels, not one going has been so sweet. My corsage is on ice, ready for tomorrow also.

It will be only a short time now until we’re all set. Keep happy.

I love you dearly. Deep love, Edna Miriam

Washington, D.C.

Dearest:

Am having to sit in my room waiting for a phone call. Hardest of all, however I’ve a real live line up now. One I am sure of from last year. Sold myself to this promoter but had no concrete idea as now. He’s still alive and doing business somewhere between here and Baltimore. Can only wait. Do not want to spoil my chances by a blunder.

Yesterday’s heat floored me at 2:30 p.m. Had to lie down for two hours, dizzy, etc., until I thought perhaps I’d done myself a touch of sun but I’m all fine again. Been up and out at 8:00 a.m., me! I’m am early little worm. I’ll surely be caught! I’m quite determined to put this over.

Waiting gets my "nanny." Wish I could get through and into action. I have three ideas, one will work I know.

I love all of you very tremendously and miss you all no end. If only we could have our cake and eat it too. I’ll let you know the instant I have any news. Meanwhile, let’s pray it forth and the money into our hands.

I love you all dearly. Edna Miriam

Washington, D.C.

Belovedest and Most Precious:

I am so very lonely for you all, and your letter on Sunday helped me so.

Two weeks ago was told I’d go to N.Y.C. And now they tell me they sent me here since I would not even consider NY — and also, to find my man, who is in N.Y.C. now.

I love you ‘best of all’, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

Beloved Group:

I wish to thank each one separately and together for all help. I am getting places.

Today’s long Conference means that I’ll meet the right man who’ll handle raising the money.

So, I know this is the time. One man will lead to another! And so God’s Laws be fulfilled! Hold fast, keep on praying and knowing and holding me up for Power to use.

My deepest of all love, and keep on sitting on our Volcano — when that white mass moves forth, it will melt all old conditions and robe all in white forever. When Lava cools, it is formed!

I love you all so dearly. I hold you high and still higher. Everything is going on as spoken.

Love and more love, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

Beloved Group:

As far as "our" Organization is concerned, my two men here are the ones!

Today I’ve been offered the Women’s end of their new organization, the American Foundation Principles, Inc. To carry on as I want it, using all my people, and they do the financing. Had no time for any details. If, when we have our next Conference, they will incorporate enough of the right ideas, all right. They do not want my Ideas for their Men’s Division. They know what they want to do.

So, one way or another, our work for our America opens soon.

Please hold me high for strength and the steadfastness to bring forth all we need from the Invisible. Our Agent is here in New York City. This is the one thing I’m positive about and also the Father’s Promise that I shall be led to him.

I love you all so dearly, and I am knowing much harder than ever before in all my earth experience. It Shall Come to Pass.

Love, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

Beloved Ones:

Our quest is almost over and soon we’ll have results. Our organization is going to be financed this fall. I shall stay here long enough to get it started, then I’ll be with you again.

My Love engulfs you and all the Father’s Light possesses you. Power and Dominion over all darkness has been given unto you. How are you using it? There is Light for all our needs, and Light used turns into added things. God’s gifts are sure, so are His promises. Rely on them, not just leaning on them but standing upright and strong, letting your declarations of Light’s Supremacy move forth to fulfill all the Law of Love.

You are God’s full servants. His Power possesses and uses you. So know and be faithful with the Faith of God. Let Power move through you into the whole world. Let God say yes to all your beautiful plans. They shall come to pass as spoken. "The Father always says yes." I love you all dearly and miss you tremendously. Peace and Love, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

To my dearly loved Group:

Your letters, your messages and your love are so very precious to me. I love all of you very, very dearly, and I thank you with all my heart. Your Gifts are helping me stay here until I finish what I came to do.

My really great news is this: The men I came here to see have offered me the full control of the Women’s Division, to put in my own people, to use my own Ideas, they to furnish the money for starting.

These two men have put over two very great Organizations in the past. They were the founders and original Idea back of what is now the Chamber of Commerce! Their names were not publicly known, but they raised the money, called the first meetings, etc. — their Idea, and you know how strong it now is, though owned by the "moneychangers" now.

The two of them made the Southern Commercial Congress. T’would take pages to tell you the Research work this has been responsible for in the South and elsewhere. They are here now, both of them, putting over this Congress September 11-15.

So, that they consider me great enough to handle the Women’s Division of "American Foundation Principles" does make me happy. And I’m very proud to tell you this. You have loved and backed me for so long without any outer sign.

Whether we go on with this or alone is a matter of choice, but I feel that to have the Responsibility would be a grand thing.

I feel that this is worth all our sacrifices, don’t you?

I may run home for a Sunday, and back again — would do it easily if I had ample funds.

I’m so lonely for all of you. I sit here waiting, two days now, for a Conference, and it means real Faith and Steadfastness to know that this is the Right Place, the Right Time and the Right Men, which I’m assured is our Truth.

Let Prayer be in your hearts and upon your lips forevermore. Rejoice and be exceeding glad, for the Law of Light hath come to stay on earth forever. No more sorrow or suffering. No more crying in tears. The Light shall now fulfill all Promises to all the Overcomers, and they shall partake of the fullness of the Life of the Lamb of God, here and now.

Be in Strength and in Assurance. Be at Peace and in great Power, for unto you, given in love only, has been placed Power and Dominion. Use both in great understanding, and only for yourself can you make Laws of living and use. Use it in selflessness for others, for the world, to overcome all darkness.

Stand therefore and watch with me in Love and great Praise.

My arms are enfolding you and lifting you high into the Light. Peace, Power and Plenty o’ershadow you forevermore.

Your own in love, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

To all my Dear Ones:

In my purse, this moment, invisible to the world, are six bundles of $100 bills, 100 to each bundle. It is there, plainer than anything I’ve ever had in all my life. This is unfailing. It is ours!

I’ve never asked "why" about anything, so I cannot say what the delay is, except that for me it has always been for several reasons, which I shall state here: To strengthen me in knowing. To show up my weak spots. To hold all Vibrations in balance. To give others a chance to pass their Initiations. To send me closer to God.

This one thing I NOW know: That this is our plan, given of the Father and to be added fully in the outer. We couldn’t possess it any harder than we do, even when we are using it visibly. It has been given to us. All we need now is the actual physical money. God could very easily give it right there. Open all doors. Declare them swinging wide. Let it come forth now.

I love you dearly and I’ve had a very difficult time overcoming my grief that it hasn’t come forth before this. I know this is also a handicap. Our Faith shall bring it to pass. My Love enfolding you, lifting you, filling you and the Love of the Father working as you always, in all places, in all ways.

Love and devotion, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

Beloved Group:

My arms of Love reach out to you and there is no sense of space or absence. However, I should love to "see" you with my physical eyes, as well as with my "eyes of spirit," for while I know I am with you, do you know I am with you?

Every desire of our hearts shall come true. Every dream shall come true. No one Vision we have had but shall come to pass. Once we have seen a picture of something of need, necessity or beauty, it must come forth into Manifestation. It is Law. Not Chance. It must be brought forth by the individual who does the "seeing," sometimes as far away as in the next lifetime. Therefore, it is well to make our stand now.

See that which we desire for the World, for our Nation, for our State, our City, our Temple, our friends, our loved ones, and then thank the Father that he fills the mold of our personal desires full with all this Substance when it returns unto us.

God is working now. Are we? God is loving now. Are we? God is sending Life, Light, Power, Love, Beautiful Substance to us now. Have we fully accepted this now?

I love you all, know all good for you, know all your desires fulfilled now. Peace and love lifting and filling you. Your Leader, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

Beloved Group:

Faith is the first greatest thing in our lives and includes all other action. Faith’s Action permeates darkness with a piercing Light and all doors open to us. How, then, can delay enter when we have put Faith into Action? Many Degrees of Faith are there, from cold to white heat. The most delaying degree is the one we call lukewarmness.

When we suffer from delay, we have not used enough Praise, Love and Steadfastness. Somewhere during the day we are allowing darkness, which dilutes our grand stream of Light, to possess us. This darkness may be a negative picture, thought or emotion about anything in the world. It may have nothing to do with the goal upon which our Faith is unfalteringly fixed.

Law is Light in which there is no darkness at all. Law is Love in which is not one lesser offspring of hate, which comprises all darkness. Law is Power, which is the very White Light of the Christ, undiluted by anything whatsoever of self (even thoughts of bodily weakness). Law is Substance moving out and into only those things that are of Light. Law is Life going forth as strength of mind, strength of heart, strength of body, strength of affairs.

That which we desire and once have envisioned must come forth. Though we might lose sight of it until another lifetime, still it must come forth. Let’s get together in a stronger bond of silent effort at the Degree White Hot.

My Love enfolds and uplifts you. Your own, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

Beloved Group:

How I love you. I can feel all the money we need, see it in my bag. It is close enough even now to touch. I love you all so very dearly and am putting all I have into this.

How to make this earth situation pay the most debt, how to move the right ones into place to receive their metes of debt is no small task. It must lift the rest of the world’s hate. How to cure Spain, Russia, Japan and Germany is now our task, with as little loss and waste as is possible.

Some on earth have willfully refused to heed heavenly suggestions, vibrations and commands. They have free will to choose. They have chosen death and the bottom of the ladder. So be it. It shall not hurt nor harm, except that which takes back national karma. Once again shall each nation be unto itself a law apart. The sheep shall be separated from goats, each to live with those of his choice.

We use this to lift, lift, lift all past darkness. Our aid is needed. Release Light for peace and more peace and ever more peace. Hold all high in the Father’s arms. The Father does work and work and work, doesn’t He?

All my love, my blessing, my Joy be with you always, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

To my loved friends:

All is well. The Lights have been constantly upon earth. The Councils have chosen, discarded, thought out and planned. They have worked to put those whose earth life is finished, who need credits, who deserve, whose removal will aid, together in the right places. The work is tremendous for all Heaven when someone does run away with Power here. When someone goes wild with Power.

And they depend upon us to hold everything so they can work good out on new lines forced on God from earth. "He does work everything we do together for good."

Stand and Praise and Love. Be more and more constant. All is well.

I’ll be with you when this is settled. Am held here for the protection of our country and the Release of Power to Balance the world. War could have unbalanced it at this time. I’ve known this ever since I left.

I love you all dearly. As you read this, I shall stand beside you, loving and blessing you all.

Love, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

Beloved Group of Light:

The Sun is Rising to be full forever. No darkness may exist where it shines. We are fully responsible for its moving forth to lift, to melt, to dissolve, to absorb now all darkness, which is coming forth as hate and war.

The Father, Himself, cannot interfere with darkness as long as the individual hides it within. But once it is sent afar as thought, word or action, through us He can lift it and change it into Light. All Councils sit and plan to make this give the greatest credits for everyone. To make it cover up past karma for all. To make it work together for good.

Release, then, Light, more and more. Cover battlefields with Glory. Surround each line with Light and Pillars of Fire. Each individual soldier. Cover all cities. The war-idea shall be melted and made Light forever. Our work is harder than ever before. We must see only perfection in all this. Make each glorious with Light and the Life of God. I love all of you very dearly. Will be with you as soon as is possible.

Blessings and great Joy by the Faith of God provided unto each of us, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

Beloved Group of Friends and to all Overcomers:

My heart is with you at all times. When I left, had no idea of being away more than two weeks. Didn’t know when I left that I’d be away at all, except for my week in Buffalo. However, it is a profitable time for all of us. You realize more and more that you can carry on in strength, also that there is no time or space. We are as close together as ever, even more so.

This lesson must be learned by all. So, make this outer separation in the physical pay great dividends for your future. Remember, I am with you always.

Place the Power of Love, which is Light, the White Light of the Christ, in front of every battle line. Surround each individual in all Armies with the Glory of the Father. Clouds of Glory over each City, over the land, especially bank Clouds of Glory and Fire between all battle lines.

This is the "working out" of the "War" Idea. It must be lifted from the minds and hearts of those who hate and are greedy. It cannot be touched until it is expressed in thoughts, words and actions. Then it can be melted and dissolved.

The last great World War, many wanted to want Peace. This will and IS sending a burning desire for to end it. So, it will be ended. It is one thing to "want to want" Peace. Another to know you want it and work for it. And not one thing shall be destroyed beyond that which shall cure the World of Hate.

Stand with me in love and devotions. Blessings of Glory, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

To my loved ones:

And you are loved and Chosen. You are the delight of the Father. I know Law IS. Love, praise, faithfulness, standing, knowing produce results. God cannot circumvent His own Laws. They must prevail. I know that disobedience, such as this war, anywhere, by anyone, disturbs all Vibrations everywhere. I also know time can be shortened.

Never in all Ages have groups stood together so. We are holding the balance for Terrah. The earth could have been destroyed at this time! Our work is greater than we know. So, if the Power we’ve released has held the earth instead of making money for us, then we should be grateful at being chosen and used for so great a work.

My Vibration is not to be disturbed from here. I cannot leave until the Father gives me leave. All I know is that it is the most important work of my whole life as far as uncovering darkness is concerned. I’d love to see you but God has His way to work. Be not disturbed.

Am so lonely for you all. I love you SO, Edna Miriam

September 15, 1939

New York, NY

My Beautiful Group,

Whom I love deeply, dearly, whom I count as friends, whom I know as Saints and Selfless Overcomers. May the glorious knowledge be yours this very instant in the NOW and Eternity that all is well, for it is.

We have weathered the main shock of the uncovering of darkness in the minds and hearts of men. We have held the world in a poise and balance never before remembered. Men and women alike speak of it. And, thanks be to the Father, we have been mainly instrumental in the release of the needed Power.

It seems I was sent here on this Mission partly to entice all of us into a greater cohesive release of Power. For we have stood together more solidly than ever before. We know how great a part we have had in this great work of keeping the earth from actual shocks (tidal waves, earthquakes, electrical storms), which might have destroyed the main civilization of earth. What has happened in Poland is nothing compared with this wholesale destruction.

Please stand together with greater ardor, greater zeal, greater fervency than ever during this coming week. It is a crisis for all of us in every way.

Remember, I love you with all my heart. I hold you all tenderly in my arms, as well as exalting you high in God’s heart. Deep love, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

Beloved Group:

Through this Southern Congress I’ve made many lasting, worthwhile contacts, one for luncheon to the City Business Women’s Luncheon Wednesday next. Judge Jean Norris, very fine woman, spoke at the Women’s Auxiliary yesterday afternoon. Met Clara Adams, flying passenger record-breaker in June! Will have my next conference on Tuesday a.m.

It is in the Father’s hands now. Only He can finish it. I’ve done everything under Orders. And God has the finish already planned. So, it shall come forth speedily.

Meantime, I love you more than ever. I hold you close to my own heart as well as close in the Father’s heart. Knowing that the Masters have all things once more in their hands and they will use all Power we release for our own perfection and advance.

The Powers, Britain and France, are marking time, for they have high hopes that Hitler will be dispossessed from the Reich. Soon. There is, in the Reich, a subtle Power and revolution going on, which cannot be stopped short of success. Hold it high. Lift all the Dictators, and everything connected with them, higher and higher into the Light. We are winning, the Elected, whom God is using to Release Light, over the Darkness now being spewed out and up for this lifting. Nothing of evil can remain buried.

Who knows, perhaps this is the very greatest of all the good coming from this present crisis. Not ours to know, only to stand under, know, love, praise and LIFT.

I love all of you, my most Precious Friends, deeply and dearly always.

Edna Miriam

New York, NY

To the Stars of Very Light of Very Light:

My very deepest and most abiding love for your beautiful and most glorious backing during these trying weeks for all the world.

To have Peace within the heart and mind, to know that God is holding all in His hands, isn’t this glorious? To know the Laws that will work when we do sacrifice the "little self" to be the great Star of Soul, think! God has given us this opportunity here and now. It is an inestimable privilege to so live.

All Law is inevitable in its action. What we bless, we increase. What we ask and "thank for," we have. What we love, we hold. Inevitably, what we truly desire shall come to pass.

This is Law. God’s Law. Nothing doubting. Stand in the Light. During the next few days, stand in an even greater point of White heat. We have come to the crisis and we must prevail.

This war has changed the minds of men. Everything is different since it opened. No one wants to finish anything, so only God can do it for us. Probably, outer things force us to a more fully sacrificing of self for greater power to be released through us. Let us therefore seek new ways in which to stand steadfast, Loving and Praising. Let our slogan be: "A little more Love. A little more Praise."

I love you all so very dearly. I thank all of you for sacrifices and backing and hold you tenderly in my own arms and heart, as well as holding you high and ever higher in the Light.

Lovingly yours, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

Beloved ones:

Forgive my long silence, but I’ve been about the Father’s business. After many delays, I am able to announce success so far — as yet unofficially but in! I am the head of the Women’s Division of the American Foundation Principles. Turned down twice, once on our original idea, second on fact war made it impossible to do anything at all about anything.

All of you stand and in prayer. Let’s increase our speed, intensity, fervor. You do know that if God can bring this to pass in the face of repeal, then He can bring all the rest to pass. We are making this war pay us dividends upon bringing women together in a Conference of Peace. Hold everything. All is well. All shall come to pass as the Father has promised. We are ready.

I am declaring that any investigation shall be to clear up, to establish us on a greater foundation of Light. We invite all investigation, don’t we? Yesterday heard a man on the street say, "Never mind. England always wins the last battle." So shall the Father, for us.

I love you, and I love you dearly. Everything shall be made perfect. You shall see the Salvation of the Gods. Even as the outer minds of these men have been changed as to their ability to float this Women’s Division of their organization. God is working. We work also in the outer and our main need is that steadfast standing under the whole Light. Can’t return until this is accomplished, although the Father told me I’d make a visit soon but must return to fulfill this.

Should have full expenses within two months. I’m declaring it now. I’m praying! In fact, I’m saying "Help!" I love you, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

To My Dear Ones:

Just back. Sat with four women for three hours talking over our work, etc. They want a group here. Also will work for peace, conference.

My dears, my very dears, how I love you. We’re going places as sure as surety.

Dearest love to all, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

To my dearly loved Group:

One week more and I’ll stand before you in person! Shall be with you from Sunday morning until Thursday morning.

All is well. There shall be no lasting war which is hard, except as all war is hard. It will be longer drawn out, but sure in its outcome. This is true and Godlike Peace which shall come from the very great sacrifices made. The "years the locusts have stolen" shall be returned.

All we need is our Declarations of Peace Releasing Light and Power to be used in skimming off all darkness as fast as it comes up to the surface.

Russia is on the move! She will move down and crush out Japan’s domination of China and then, spread and weakened, will again be turned upon by all small nations now absorbed, and by those of Russia who are not Communists. God is working out this problem we call earth. Leave the answer and outcome to him. He is very capable of settling it perfectly if we give him the right kind of help.

I love you and shall be very happy to be at home once more, even for a few days.

So, pray and love. Stand and praise with me. Blessings of deep Joy and Love. Your own, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

Beloved Ones:

Your Golden Silence is being rewarded. Your standing has brought about the right thing.

I am the Head of this Women’s Division. We are marking out our Plan now, which is a World Conference of the Women of all Nations — to be called as soon as possible, February. We seek a name, means of financing. So, this many details are to be marked out, the main fact is — the Father has given me my own Plan of start, at last.

I spoke a few moments at the Luncheon Wednesday for the City Business Women’s Club, and have an engagement to speak for the Luncheon of the largest private Charity Organization. So, I’m getting my start.

I’ve also met the painter of Liberty Bond Posters, seven of them. He is introducing me to the man who has just finished a portrait of Pershing. And the real artist, etc., of City. I’ve talked occult philosophy to him — and he’ll lead me to those who will want more. So my New York City classes are being born for "our" Third Temple Unit right here in this city of 7,500,000 people — all hungry. Not the old Metaphysical Groups — brand new ones who are starving.

I have to help Organize our Women into an Army for Peace. This Conference is to form a World Platform on Peace Principles for the women of every Nation to force into Clubs. Schools, Churches, etc.

Our work shall stand. I love you so dearly. And shall be so happy to be with you for even a few days. I’ve much to tell you all. Two Sunday Services, 11:00 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.

Remember, I love you. Your own, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

Beloved Group:

This is the very hour of fulfillment of all desires and declarations. God’s hour of fulfillment for YOU. Declare it. Stand and know it. Hold it. God cannot set aside His own Laws. When we know and stand, all things are possible. This is so.

I love you. I’ll be with you Friday evening, October 6. Remember, I’ll be with you. I’ll have news for you and new ideas and plans. All my plans are maturing. I have the nucleus of a group here in New York City. I have two speaking engagements now at clubs. We will have our fourth Temple unit here in New York. Stand and pray. Life is so good! Light is so beautiful. Power is so great. Love is so all-embracing. Joy is so lifting. Praise is so drawing. Use all freely.

My deep, deep love. Blessings of Joy and Powerful Peace. Your own, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

Belovedest All:

Am in! Final Conference on Friday to come to more definite decisions. Also Conference in Washington for October 15th certain, with Directors of Southern Commercial Congress, Women’s Auxiliary and others!

Should have salary and expenses by December! Anyway, am meeting those who can introduce me and sooner or later I’ll meet the Agent whom God hath sent.

I love you. Deepest love, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

My beloved Ones:

Great is my joy in your faithfulness and in your sacrifice of self for the common good, and for the lifting of all the children of men.

Because you lift all else, you, too, shall be lifted very high. That which you lift will be exalted, and that which you lift shall exalt you. Be sure you stand in the Light at all times. Wait upon the Light in all ways. Release Light at all times.

Understand — Stand Under the Glory.

Overcome — Look up over into the Face of your God and my God — see not the faces of others — hear not the darkness of others. SEE only God’s Face. HEAR only God’s Voice, and all shall be well. Is it cause to falter if another fails? Is it cause to come out from under the Light if another sees darkness somewhere, some place, or in someone?

Stand. And "nothing doubting, stand." I love you. I hold you. I cherish you and lift you. Be in Joy forevermore, of prayer, praise and singing.

Love and devotion, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

Beloved and Treasured Ones:

Your faithfulness under fire, your ability to carry on, your understanding of heart, the love you hold for the World and for each other and the release of that love upon the world, sets you apart as Chosen of God. My love returns to you, one and all in full measure, and overflows and again returns unto you.

You shall "see the salvation of the Lord." You shall see the confounding of all those who misrepresent in words, for they shall stand convicted of their own words. Love them more than ever. Lift them more than ever. Cover them in Light sent through you by love. So shall our Temple and those in it be exalted into the fullness of the Promises of the Father.

I am with you. I love you. I am confident in your ability to carry on God’s work under the Leadership of our Lord and Master, Jesus the Christ. We need no other Law than the "Spirit of Law in Christ Jesus" through us, as he would have it.

Peace and Love be upon you and with you always. Love and devotion. Your own, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

Dear Group:

Miss you so! Miss you so! And no news. It takes so long to find folks and run them to earth — then this getting past secretaries after they are found. Some business but I can do it and since my lines are laid this way, I shall fulfill my next step.

Always, we have to take something we do not like with that which we do like. This is my worst favorite — talking money, selling outer things, but our whole Civilization depends upon it.

Keep your Lights and Power moving forth. Keep them steadfast. We must win! We must. I must walk straight forward into the Door, which the Father has opened for me. Since this is the next step, I’m boldly taking it and the result is in God’s hands, not mine. All I know is that I’m sticking and doing until the next step is given me.

I love you all so dearly, and I hold you so high and so close. You just can’t know how high and close. Shall write individual letters as soon as my hours permit. My work is really physically tiring. I’m walking miles ‘n miles ‘n miles a day! I’m praying, standing, loving and knowing. All shall come to pass as spoken. "This one thing I do now, reaching forth, pressing ON!

All my love enfolds all of you most precious and beloved ones. Edna Miriam

New York, NY

Beloved Group of friends:

I am with you in deep delight at your ability to stand and under-stand. The Light shines forth and Light is both Time and Life. How are you using it? A day of a thousand years length is long to us here, isn’t it? Yet we must assume the attitude of timelessness in order not to tear our own Creations apart by our pulling ahead, thus tightening the lines around the lives of others whom we have contacted.

Let us then use each day, each hour, each moment, yes, each second as the most precious possession we have. Treasured, they will be filled with Life, Light and Joy.

I love you. Your own, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

My dearest Group, Friends and loved dearly:

I miss you tremendously, each day more. Time is an essence and a substance. Watch, therefore, how you use this precious, God-given essence. Even as the perfumer distills many tons of fragrant flowers to make his ounce of perfume, so does God distill into one second of time all the tons of His Power, Life, Love, Glory and Beauty for you to use.

Would you waste an ounce, a second of it in foolish endeavors or darkness? No. After paying the Pearl of Great Price, which is your effort of Devotion to the Father, you take time as your most valued possession and sip eagerly yet wisely of its nectar, then use time in wise ways and places. Heed your use of time.

The Plan of our Progress is not yet in form, still intangible. How the Father leads me to His Agent is his business. I am going and doing each thing next. Sometimes it does seem that days speed by and days as units of time are behind but what of it?

A day with God is a thousand of our years! We must reach this attitude of having all time now, making each step without pulling forward, lest we tighten the lines around someone’s throat or feet to trip or choke them, for our lines do wrap around those whom we contact. Let’s keep them loose and unbound.

I love you all so very dearly. Am holding each very high. Am lifting each with me, as I know you are lifting me. Pray, praise and sing! Let’s bring this perfect good to pass NOW and carry on with the idea that each renewing second of time is NOW. Time does renew itself continually and it is new time. Let’s use each second beautifully. I love you. All blessings be upon you, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

Beloved Ones:

I love you all most dearly. Hold everything. Something is breaking this week. Even I do not know what. All I know fully is my own readiness to move, even unto oblivion if necessary, under Orders from the greatest of all Glory, my love is so deep and great. My life would be absorbed in His and that is great enough.

I love you all. Hold you tenderly always, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

To my Dearest Friends of Light:

Time has been shortened amazingly. Am waiting for new Orders. They are not clear yet and cannot "see" what is ahead. I feel the step is close and I am all ready to take it. As far as the outer goes, I have not been successful. On the Inner I am fully, completely successful. Something is coming! All I know is that our efforts have been successful: There is no war. They can fuss around, talk and use words, yet there is no war!

For fighting, there must be raging hate in men’s hearts and there is no hate in men’s hearts today. That left in the very few who are back of war is too little to swing outer fighting. Also, those old hosts of darkness, called the Dark or Fallen Angels, have been surrounded with Light and are now rendered impotent. Terrah, our earth, is lifted. Prayers have been answered and we are free.

Whatever the next move, I am ready. Some way I feel it is not what I’m expecting. No one to look to except God, nothing on earth. The Father is doing the work this time. I’m standing and knowing that God is a success now and always.

Life and Light are Substance released in full Power and in full measure. Our prayers and Love are received and returned in greater measure. Nothing is given for no effort. Only true effort of Service and Praise brings forth those things we call "added."

Be ever more constant in burning desire. Keep the Fires of Desire going upward in flames of great Glory and Power. Whence shall come our help? From our Father who is ever ready with help, from the Heart of His desire to see us satisfied and filled full of all good gifts.

Does our Father desire us to be happy? To be filled? Of course. Does He desire our confusion? Never. He is ever ready to come forth in Glory to rescue us from any hurt, even of our own making.

We are ever borne up in Arms of Light to commune with our Father. Peace unto our Souls and Joy to sing in our Hearts is our special Gift this day. Be strong in accepting and in using what has been bestowed. Let it not fade from your sight, lest gifts once given return not for long cycles hence, after a hard climb up the Pathway of Desire.

More Prayer, more Praise, more singing and we shall have the Sons of God really Ruling earth in the Visible. My Love turns ever toward you all, lifting, upholding and enfolding you fast in the Heart of Light.

You are full Servants of all the great Power. Let every word be spoken in Peace and in Joy and in the sure knowledge that God’s Laws are inevitable in their ability to "bring to pass!"

Hold fast to your desires. Hold fast to your Love. Lift and lift all about you. So shall all good be added unto you.

My deepest love ever, your own, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

Dearest Group:

Only thing I know is this: I’m not retreating! I can only stick it out ‘n starve ‘n sleep in the park! So I’m sticking.

I must be great because all of ‘em sure had to do the same thing! Perhaps I’m better than I think, only that’s got to be something! Even fooling, there is truth behind it. I know the thing I must do is great, therefore, I cannot retreat. I must stand.

I must stay. I know I’m going to win. I know it.

It is a bit tough on everyone, but one of these days I’ll be on top and the things we will do! Pay up back rent and everything. I also must eat. I must get stamps, so I’ll not have much left for food, but God always has taken care of me, so he will this time, too.

All of you pray and please understand why I must stick it out. I can’t back down now just because our first way did not bring the quick results we expected. I have to stick it out and know it will break at the right moment.

All my deep love to all of you, devotion and kisses to YOU, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

Edna [Bender] Dearest:

When your letter came, my purse was flat empty. I had to send cards to Russell [her eldest son], who sails for the Philippines Saturday the 11th, from Vancouver on the Empress of Russia. One a Bon Voyage and a Birthday Card for November 26. Stamps, cards and breakfast took my last cent.

Madge called me to come out there for dinner and I told her I just couldn’t, didn’t even have two nickels for fare! Well, while wondering how God would fix it, around 3:30 p.m. there was a knock at my door. There stood Madge saying "I know why you can’t come. Here is $2 until yours comes." I’ll have to pay her back but I also have dinner tonight!

Love, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

My Beloved and most Precious Ones:

You know I am with you and you surely can feel me close. Ties of Spirit are stronger than any outer bonds can ever be. Yet I miss your physical presence, even as you, I hope, miss me.

You are Children of Light who serve in places sometimes of the dark, yet you shall make all places of Light. Your Heavenly Father has given you all Light to draw upon and to use. Why sit in darkness or become lukewarm? We are to be of the Light always. What value is it to love just friends? Love your enemies. This is sweet incense unto God. Let it burn night and day.

Remember who you are! Remember, you stand on sunny heights of Glory. They are of your own earning, your own gaining. Let nothing push you down from any height you have climbed. Hold it in both hands as your most Precious Possession. This Place of Glory is your only possession, and not even God can take it from you if you value it. Once you earn and He gives and your receive and accept, hold it fast. Keep your eyes upon it. Look UP always.

Love, and Praise. Give, give, give Love. It costs nothing.It is FREE NOW. Just use it in Joyous Praise. How much Praise can you give each hour of this week? How much? Make every hour count, more and more.

I love you. I hold you. I Praise with you NOW!

Love to all, deep love, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

Dearest ones:

Today something broke for me, which may be the first step into the very greatest of all!

Only owe $4.50 on back Hotel. Have eaten twice a day also. Have enough for "until" Sunday evening! How’s that for a Lecturer? Can’t do anything but pray.

Have given whole day to Service and Plans and they shall come to pass.

I love you most dearly, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

Beloved and extra special Friends:

At present, only prayer, praise and knowing is needed. The Father does work in wonderful, mysterious and marvelous ways his wonders to perform. He does fulfill his promises, soon, so soon it will be evident on the outside for all of us to see.

So, stand fervently with me in Desire, and vividly with me in Imagination, and with all with a Declaration backed up by all Faith.

Queer, how long it takes us to learn how to stand and know. To stand on our Declaration even when everything looks like failure on the outside. To know as a God, with the Faith of a God, when everything is black, when men fail, when all things are weak, when everything depended upon goes flat — that is all we need to do. And when we reach the point and the place where we know we will not be moved fro our Declaration of perfection, then the Power moves through us and release comes.

Just stand with me now on this one Statement: "Thank you Father, it is so now, we have all promises added and fulfilled." Say this thousands of times a day. Let’s watch for the result.

I love you with a great love. It shall be to you a rock and a fortress, a protection, a balance, and a lifting power-adder to your own. Devotion from your Edna Miriam

New York, NY

Beloved Friends:

Your Initiations were truly wonderful. And there is stretching before us a vast fertile mesa of flowers and Light. Many Paths there are going through, but the flowered Field of Ardath is large enough for all.

We meet at night. We plan. We talk and we play.

Let’s let go of earth’s woes and hold only earth’s Joys in our hands. The Joy of being in a body during this Age, to earn heavenly rewards they cannot earn from the other side.

The Joy of the Golden Silence. The Joy of the Light making Miracles for us. Our newspapers bear out that our spoken Word has Power.

They are all afraid to start a war. Because only one would survive — Russia! They know it before they start, Hitler is doomed. He knows that, too.

So, let’s love together — as ONE. Agreeing. Standing. Knowing. Loving. Praising.

I love you dearly. Your own Edna Miriam

New York, NY

Beloved and Cherished Ones:

This is God’s perfect Day of perfect fulfillment for you! Do you believe this? Do you know this? Do YOU know that YOU know this? Perhaps your whole future hinges upon this one thing. DO you truly KNOW who you are, where you are going, what your next step is to be, must be, and how to take that first step?

These sound like such silly questions, yet they mean so much to each one of us.

Stop! Look! Listen! Take stock of your life. Take stock of your "self," that little bit of a fellow who limits you so much. How great is this "little self?" How much of your life does this very tiny little self dictate? How many pictures of lack, darkness, disbelief, hurt, offenses has it presented to you this week for your inspection? And how many of these things have you believed true for you now?

Take stock. Give up in surrender every last and single thing which is not of the fullness of the Light of your true Glory. Keep on seeing your high place above in the Light. Keep on knowing your high and mighty heritage of Glory. Allow no thing of lesser intelligence or content to disturb your highest knowing of all Power and Light moving through you now into your own great Creations.

You are Creators! Of what? Let your thoughts and your emotions and the "picture molds" of your Imagination be pure, simple, yet high, very abundantly great and very noble. As great as you can Vision yourself Being for God, here and NOW.

My deepest, fondest love, my blessings and my mantle of Light on you. Your own Edna Miriam

New York, NY

Dearest:

This is a Day of Joy, a Day of Sacrifice upon which I write. To separate (14) oneself from all darkness, from all limitation forever with one sacrifice, one surrendering, this is Joy. Never to turn back. Never to "see" back. Never to "act" back. Never to "speak" back. Never to "think" back. This is true and real surrender.

This is the true crucifixion of self: To die daily. To rise again daily. To open our eyes each morning, lift ourselves again in deep surrender and like the prophet of old, say: "Here am I, Lord, send me" into the ways of Life, to Glorify Him as seeing only that which is invisible. To Crown Him with every breath, Holy Breath, we draw. To exalt Him with every Holy Breath we exhale. This is true sacrifice of self and true surrender of self. So shall we be, BE Soul.

I have three new lines to the consummation of our Ideals — our Goal. Any one of them will mean financial release and the first true outer fulfillment of all we need for completion.

I am under definite command of Silence. No disobeying this — not a suggestion, a Command. Hold. Stand. Pray in ever greater fervency and ardor, which is the outpouring of Love, coming from the full sacrifice of self, from the full surrender of self.

I love you so. I am stronger than ever in this expression on earth. Something has descended upon me like a garment. I know as I’ve never known before: It is finished and shall be in our hands, our lives in such a short time, only a few more breaths. Once it is in evidence — real, visible — the credit for "believing to see" will never be so great in this whole Age. They have credited us sevenfold for every new stand. After this fulfillment, we go back to "double credits" for earth and single credits for Heaven.

How hard can we work in the short time left to us for sevenfold credits? How great our gain in Heaven? I love you, love you, love you, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

My very Precious Group:

My desire to see you is very real. I am with you always but the physical, outer contact still means much to me and, I think, to you. Yet, we know there is no separation.

When we reach toward someone, despite the distance in miles, we touch that one at that moment. This carries with it a great responsibility. We must be certain that our reaching forth to touch them is in that perfect, selfless love and full compassion of the Master. We are apt, in our desire to help, to think in our own minds of some way we would like someone we love to act or something we would like them to do. This colors our love vibration as it goes forth, and if it is strong enough to change that other’s line of Destiny, we are guilty of breaking our new 10th Command — Thou shalt not desire another’s goods by look or by word or by action, such as: personal ideas, loves, friendships or the personal path each chooses to follow, for God will hold you responsible for their indirection from His directed path.

Therefore, in your desire to lift, be very sure that when you send out even love-thoughts they are pure White Light and not colored in any way by your desires for another. Let us have only one desire for all others: That they may be free to live out God’s Life through them perfectly, though it does not appeal to us as our way to have God make them live!

I love you all very dearly and am knowing the fullness of His divine and Glorious Power flowing freely through you to make you strong Sons and Daughters of the One God we all worship, adore, love and obey.

Deep love and devotion, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

Beloved Ones:

Great is my Joy this Day. Out in the World I find fear, doubt, delay, one waiting upon another, one falling down, and all the "waiters" falling flat on that weak one. The delay is heart-breaking to many, yes, all. They lose houses, chances, etc., because of delay and are full of grief.

Now, as Sons and Daughters of God, we stand in the Light. Our waiting is upon the Lord. We have such glorious compensations.

"Thy Joy, oh God, is my mainstay, my comfort and my delight." In this we have Faith and He, our Father, never fails, or falls upon us. He holds us in His arms and we have Peace.

We know how to pray. We know how to Praise. We know how to walk and Love and Stand. We may wait at times, but we know the time of fulfillment does come. We can use Joy, Faith Love, be happy, understand, and we know it is our own doubt and fear we are using, and not what God wants us to use, when we do fail a bit.

Let’s put on a whole week of Praise for these things. We are set apart. We have precious things of Joy untellable. We have God, our Fathers, our Masters who love us and hold us high.

I love you so very dearly, and I send my love by message and by arms of Light to lift you.

Love from your own, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

My Beloved Ones:

Am growing very eager to see you, which should be soon now, and I’ll do my coming suddenly, so be sure we do see each other! Couldn’t bear to have one of you missing at that time.

I love and treasure the letters I receive. Am hoping I do not have to spend my birthday here alone! I’m so happy when I’m with the ones I love so dearly.

God’s Time is always the right time, and His Way is the only way possible for any of us to choose or to use. Plans are maturing slowly but will be ready by the first of the year. Everyone is waiting for someone else for something. Really the queerest situation in the world and we, who are waiting upon God, are the only sure ones in the world. The others are filled with fears and doubts, live under delay in which there are no joys and no compensations at all.

The more I see, the better I feel over us (U.S.). We are protected, as we do not even now realize. While we "wait upon the Lord," we have all these unspeakable Joys to fill our minds and our hearts. Let us put on a week of Joy just because we know who we are, where we are going and how to pray and praise.

I love you all so very, very dearly. I’m holding you SO close.

Deepest love, your own, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

My Dearest Ones:

This is a "thank you" to each and all of you for all the gifts of prayer and money. I couldn’t have made it without it. And I am as sure as ever, more steadfastly sure than ever that "all is well." When our release comes, it will be so great, we will all help hold it, and yet it will run over the sides into the world!

I’ve one more problem to solve and then release! Pray with me, for me, hold me up as I hold you, and our boats will reach the shore together.

Remember how dearly I love you is more dear than you dream. And I’d like to surprise you one of these days with a visit. Think of me being down here all alone on a Birthday! That’s the day I like to be with those I love in the flesh body! Remember, I come to you each time on Monday evening.

I love you, hold you, exalt you and know all perfect things for you. Your own, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

My Very Dear Ones:

My cup of Joy is running over, for there is a chance that I may be with you "in person" next Sunday. I love you all so very dearly that I wish to see you, although I am with you and you are with me always.

Things are progressing nicely. All will be ready in the right time. I am very happy and my heart is singing Praises of Joyous Thanksgiving that the Father knows and can bring perfection out of chaos and darkness.

Always do the Wings of Mother Love o’ershadow you, though at times you know it not because you doubt and are not in the full Light as it descends upon you. The full Light moves down at that instant when you call.

How can you see or feel the Light when you stand idly calling, "Where is that promised Light," and have no eyes left to see it and no ears left to hear the Voice calling you? Be sure and stand and know, Love and Praise in depth of Joy.

I love you dearly and then a whole universe upon that which has just been given.

Your own, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

My Dear Ones:

Another week, and this time I am saying, ‘I may be with you on Tuesday Evening December 12th and for a Special Service on Thursday Evening, December 14th. Pray and Praise to release enough Light as Substance to make this possible.

Everything is truly wonderful. "All things else" are about to be "added" in the outer. It only needs a little ore love, a little more praise, a little more standing, a little more knowing, a little more overcoming, a little more overlooking, a little more sacrifice, a little more surrendering, a few more words of love, a few more gracious and kindly words. And who dares to say ‘I can’t’ grow a ‘little’ more everything?

We can all grow to a higher place of the White Light of the Christ and into a place of greater White heat. That is all it will take now and we can each one do our ‘better’ best this coming week, can’t we?

I love you and have such Glory for you when I come.

My deepest love to ALL. Your own, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

My sweetest ones:

Your letter just arrived with check. I put it on my hotel bill at once or instead of just keeping all my things, they might even have locked me in their basement! Still owe $25. It sounds terrible, but I’m going to Madge. So grateful she can take me in and that I really have a place to "lay my head." They are allowing me to take my bag, folio and dress on my back, that’s all.

It won’t take long to clean up the $25. Madge will let me charge $6 a week room and board. And it’s my birthday. Our family always made a great fuss over them, so here is where I learn to forget it! But just the same, I’m desolate at not being with you folks whom I love.

I’ve had a tough time. Several times I’ve been without meals, always had a cup of hot coffee though. I’m starting a new cycle "without purse, scrip or extra shoes." I know it is good. I need filing, polishing and whittling down or it wouldn’t happen.

I can tell you one thing, I’ve had my signs, INEVITABLE and I’m WINNING. God’s Power can’t fail and all I have is what he sends through. I need more love and more Praise, so here goes! Still too lukewarm!

I’ll write you when I can leave, if at all. Of course, I’m terribly sorry that I wrote I was coming, but I had Orders to do it and I’d carry them out no matter what!

Yet a miracle can happen, and I could leave for Thursday. Anyway, I love all of you SO. Love, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

To my dear Friends:

Do you know that this is the "Day the Lord hath made"? That it stands out from all other Days? That it is a "milestone" — if we so desire it? That Power almost too great to be borne can be released through us to go forth and overcome all darkness?

Power is the very Substance of all "things" for which we hope. As we release Power, it returns to us as "added things," visible to all the world. This Day of Days will net us the greatest Dividends of our whole Life of the Eternities, not only this short earth life, which is but a Cosmic Breath.

To each is given the Power of an upright Mind, an open Heart and a Joyous Spirit. Continue to use them as befits Sons and Daughters of true Golden Light. Much Power is given to each to send forth. See to it that it goes forth in wholeness and Love. Let nothing of darkness color any of your Creations or move you from high resolves.

Seek Light, Truth and Love always. Seek true Peace of Mind, which is always the Mind of the Christ Light. Seek Joy of Spirit, which is the Substance you send forth. Seek to bless. Seek all Graciousness. Seek all Selflessness. Seek all Understanding. So shall each day, each hour of earth life be blessed.

So, let us determine this very instant that only those things that are just, true, perfect and divine shall have any part of this day. Then let us decide that each day given to us, new and shiny, shall be a Day of Days, until a trail of blazing Light stretches behind us for others to follow. Before us into our own futures, stretches a Pathway of Light waiting for us to follow, and in it no darkness at all.

God does know best in every way. While my outer body is here, my Heavenly body moves easily and is with you in the real Soul, even as you read this. Know and Stand. Love and Praise. Be Joyful and Sing Psalms unto the Lord. We are all one always.

My deep, abiding love flows to you in a never-ending stream of Light. I feel you all close to me. Your own, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

Dearest Ones:

We have won so much during the past six months. We have once more shortened time tremendously. We have lifted the black clouds of karma, the exact equivalent of 20 whole years of work. Think! Isn’t that a wonderful thing? What has occurred is bad enough, yet with the knowledge that our Service since Easter, especially the past four months, has actually set aside that amount of darkness.

Personally, there is nothing of reward earth could have offered me, nor any place, nor any outer achievement to make me feel as this does. I knew that our work was important, but not how great a thing we were doing. It is not yet ended, but it will not be so bad as it might have been. I am content with all delays, since so great a thing has been done. To always have delay is a great test and trial. But when taken in Peace, with full content that Law is now acting, whether we can see it or not, makes for a strength great enough to stand throughout all Ages. And against anything of obstacle, hindrance, delay or apparent hurt that the world can manufacture against us.

Let us go on in such very sure knowledge that we have done our best, and that we are making a "better best" every day of our lives — that we face the world as One, against all comers who challenge our Faith and our Goal.

I love you all dearly, We have won! So happy.

Deepest love. Your own Edna Miriam

New York, NY

Dearest Ones:

I’ve been in deep Retreat, both soulually and physically! Left the hotel last Monday evening and sprained my ankle. Had to keep it higher than my head five days and two days off floor. Tonight I can stand my full weight and bend it slightly.

All is well. The things I’ve learned, the reasons, the needs, the whys. You’ll love it. Plus sacrificing all myself! Even plans to go out and just disappear! And I do not mean maybe! I was ready. AM.

My Orders came: Sing! I quit singing because no one wanted it anymore. Never asked. Looked peculiar when I sang. Now I find that I stopped my own vibration, also group vibration. When I stop singing, I stop "ticking" inside. Did not realize that even with singing I could not ask credits nor yet wait for applause. Funny, isn’t it? I never stopped until two or three looked nauseated. So, I am not supposed to see them look seasick when I sing. Poor folks from now on!

The doctor has just left; bandaged my ankle and told me that I can walk on it tomorrow, at my own risk. It certainly stopped me short! Couldn’t step on my one foot. D’ja ever try to hop on one foot? Found out I am not even a 32nd cousin to a toad! Can you folks see me going along stiff-legged? Must not move ankle for two more weeks. Now is your chance to lick me!

I have my house in order. I’m all caught up with sacrifices and surrender, plus taking back all leftover bits of old karma hanging around.

Each is to go over all past Vows of self, in Retreat, alone. Each is to remake Vows according to present capacities. Each is to make a full new surrender. Each is to decide what is worthwhile in his life and what is not. Each is to eliminate anchor, burden, bondage. Each is to make clear the way and open a place for new strength, new ideas, new design of life at the close of the Cycle of the Joy month, December 21, at midnight. A change of mind, heart and purpose. A body cleansing to make a fitting habitation for the Indwelling God. Carry torches high like banners. Let Joy sing Psalms in your Hearts. Praise for what you have of the Father. Praise for that to come.

Long ago we were sent forth with Light. We are Descended Gods. Ask, each, of self: How do I return this so very great Light? How do I return the Power of all Substance I have used as Light? How do I return time given unto me for my consumption and filling? As Light? Have I more of duty toward clearing of darkness the time I have filled, have squandered, have neglected to fill?

For every hour of squandered time shall there be an accounting in the Day of Judgment and the Day of Judgment no man knows. It comes upon you like a thief in the night. Yet, you may prepare for it by always being ready, by always standing in the Light, by always releasing Light as Very Light.

Use every moment of every hour in full surrender of self. Only so may you be certain of readiness when the call comes to reckon time.

I love all of you so dearly. Am so very close to you this very hour. So close. We are truly One as never before! Shall arrive Saturday morning. Shall write time of arrival later. So, I’ll see you soon after this arrives.

I love you all most dearly. Hold you all very high. Devotion. Yours, Edna Miriam

Buffalo, NY

My Cherished Group:

I love you! First, last and all the time, and I miss you so.

Everything goes on as we would have it here. I am to have my "Speaker’s Card" for New York State. Am dated up for several Lectures, and when the money is collected I’ll receive the compensation. My expenses are paid wherever I go. Have enough for a Charter now. Want a hundred to open and organize with. You see, my National Official recognition I have to earn. Clubs and members! With calls for Lectures — popularity. So far, I’m all right, now it is work.

I have to be here all this coming week, and am dated for Jamestown, N.Y. for 2:30 p.m. Sunday the 28th. First extra large call. Hope to get paid for that. Meantime, I am carrying on to my best and am gaining in those who come to the Temple. We’ve had to cancel two dates because of this storm, which certainly is bad today. Even business houses closed.

I’ll try to see you all for one week from Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, if possible. However, will let you know.

Am very happy. My heart is singing once more, and I know that all is well. For ALL.

My deepest love to all of you until I can see you in person once more.

Blessings and devotion, Edna Miriam

Buffalo, NY

To my very dearly loved Ones:

Am missing you all so much, but I’m about our Father’s business in a big way. Remember, steadfastness does bring its own reward with it in due season. And this is the season.

"More love," "more praise," that’s all it takes! God is so good to me. To us. Let’s go. Let’s lift UP — give UP — then COVER UP with the Light of Love all the transgressions of others. Even our "other" small self!!! Love does melt, dissolve and absorb. Power is working! Power is busy. Everyone reach UP for your share to use in strength of purpose, spreading love, and praising in gratitude.

All IS well. I love you, deeply, Edna Miriam

Buffalo, NY

My Most Precious Ones:

I am SO happy! My lectures and addresses are going over. I am being called upon more and more. I know I am getting closer to the Light at the Center. And the rest must come.

It seems, however, to be a waiting time, the trough between the waves. So, pray hard. Stand fast. Praise much. Increase your fervency in every way. We have the load nearly up the hill. Let’s hold on together and push it over together, and together reap the harvest of great rewards and then use them together in play and service.

I love you all so dearly. And hope to see you very soon.

All my deepest love, my most abundant blessings, enfolding and uplifting you at all times.

Remember, Prayer, Praise, Singing is our only possible approach to Success here and now.

I love you, Edna Miriam

Buffalo, NY

My extra dearly Beloved Ones:

So much is going on in the world. So much is coming to pass, have you seen? The time has arrived. Stand staunch and steadfast through anything which may seem to be or come on the outside, for we have won.

If only I could see you and talk to you! But for some reason, which I know can only be good and bring good, the funds do not come in to allow me to travel to you. It is my next step. This is all I need to know, but I would love to see you every other week. We must make it pay us great dividends. We must know love will burn all barriers, break all chains of bondage and free us at last to finish the work we have so well started. We shall so do — together as one!

I love you SO dearly. I am with you always. Deepest love, Edna Miriam

Cleveland, OH

Dearest Ones:

Shall be here every Thursday for noon meeting and a 1:30 Class in Healing whenever I am in the city, and by all counts it looks as if it would be for some time. Can’t see ahead. The vibration is greater than ever before. Things are ready to go pop! We must be steadfast at the heart of the "pop," so we can’t be affected by the whirling sparks on the outside. Stand back of me. Pray. Release Power. I feel something coming! Let’s be high in the Light, waiting.

What are your beliefs? What do you get from our work? Is it worth your effort? Time spent? Are you bored? Discouraged by delay? Do you think some unworthy? Are you the only chosen one? Do you hold yourself above others? Are you humble in your heart? Are you ready and willing to give outer place to all others? Do you think only upon things of good repute? Do you dwell upon others’ sins?

When the sins of others are pointed out to you it is for lifting so that special cloud of darkness may be lifted. How then, should God have all blackness lifted if He didn’t give us the places, people, things and conditions that are in present darkness? How could you know where to lift, whom to lift? See to it, therefore, that you lift continuously and in all ways to cover all manners of things.

Am very happy. Some darkness has been lifted while I have been writing this. Know not what. I love you all dearly, Edna Miriam

Buffalo, NY

My very Precious Ones:

It seems so long since I’ve been with you and so long since your dear smiles have greeted me, that I sort ‘o ache for you! It just can’t be much longer now. I know I shall see you very soon.

As far as the outer promises have been concerned, not one has materialized. The Plan, which I was told as present Truth, has not developed so far to cover the expenses and payments for Speakers. When I came here, it was after being told that I’d receive ‘so much’ a lecture for the work, after I made good! I’ve made good. Have plenty calls to speak! Which I do. Because I’m serving God. However, I haven’t covered my expenses yet, and nothing toward traveling back and forth. This is why I do not spend a few days with you. When I lived in Cleveland, Buffalo always paid my expenses here and back — no hotel bill, of course. So, please forgive this seeming neglect of you, whom I love so very dearly.

My work is loved here. Have many calls as a speaker. It has polished me considerably in every way. So, whatever the next step is — I am ready for it. They need me nationally, but whether they use me or not, only the Father knows, and at present, He ‘won’t tell!’

Meantime, I have several things almost ready to start out — writing, I mean. Please open prayers that the success of God shall follow whatever they send out through me.

Nothing opened up! Am now told to send what I have. So, I am using every moment possible at writing, knowing that it is already perfect and prepared for, and that our dreams shall come true. Unconsciously, I think I looked toward the outer for my sustenance! So easy to do that. Well, God rewards me as He always has.

Deepest love to all of you, Edna Miriam

Buffalo, NY

My precious ones:

There are fiery trials for each one of you during these next two weeks for Steadfastness and Devotion. To hold your contact unbroken for 7 Days is no simple task. It means good hard effort for everyone, but it can be done. The Masters stand ready to aid, although each one is supposed to know exactly how to hold up, look up, lift up, give up and cover up alone!

These are where your trials will be found. Seek there for any weakness, and overcome — come up over — it. Look up over it — overlook. All is well. Keep each hour at the white point of heat and allow no darkness in your Kingdom. They are full Kingdoms of perfect life and perfect light.

You live and move and have your being in God’s life!

I love you. I’m with you. I hold you and shall stand and bless you all at the final prayer! Watch and see!!! Deepest love, Edna Miriam

Buffalo, NY

Beloved Group of Friends:

My heart is with you and I stand beside you many times. Please remember that nothing earth can do or say shall ever stand between us in any way whatsoever.

This has been a much better week than any since my return — not that I haven’t been busy as busy could be — but outer results have shown more.

Pray much, love more and more. Praise more and more and release Holy Breath as pure Light. That is so simple to say and write, yet so hard in accomplishment, yet we can increase along "all fronts" in these things.

Please remember how dearly I love you and how close I’m holding you in my heart. The Laws we know and live cannot fail — "Love cannot fail."

So, with my arms around you and my most abundant blessings for you all, I stand before you now.

Deepest love and devotion, Edna Miriam

Buffalo, NY

Beloved and Treasured Ones:

All is well. I am writing this from my desk upon my return from Good Friday 3 hour Service, and it was a "Good" Friday. Our room was full.

Please know my arms are around you all and my "wish" at the Altar, for all of you, is Success! Both Inner advance and outer "added things." This is my desire and my prayer also.

The snow, new, covers everything. White falling the whole 3 hours both Thursday and Friday.

Let us look ever higher and make every effort to ascend until Earth does ring with Joy, all of Earth knowing: "It is finished. Light hath Risen and Glory enfolds all forever."

Always yours in deepest love, Edna Miriam

Buffalo, NY

My "extra-well" loved Group:

As I write this, I’m so Happy! All is well and very well. All is rapidly coming to pass as we have spoken the Words.

Yet a short time for the ripening and then the harvest. The reapers shall be to you a release. You have planted in the heat of the day. You have watered when faint and weary. You have had no help in upholding the Temple of Heaven on earth. You have shared when you had not.

Therefore, thus shall it come to pass: Those who scorned you in the past shall do your reaping for you and give you the fullness thereof. They shall have only what you share with them, for they have planted none of their own to reap. They shall follow you to fan the heated brow. Enemies shall make of themselves your footstools.

Because you have borne the burden, have shared, have held the pillars upright in the Temple, be watchful and in no wise misuse Power or fail by lukewarmness in sacrifice. Carry your loads full to the top of this Mountain of Desire and lay them not down when nearly over.

I’m holding you, lifting you, glorying in you. Soon the whole world will know why and how we’ve sacrificed and worked.

Deepest love, Edna Miriam

Buffalo, NY

Beloved and Precious Ones:

Everything is coming along beautifully. I’m kept so busy that I am not able to do all the things I should do, but I am building every step of the way toward "our" Goal. I can see that each new order is carrying all of us closer to the grand climax.

One visit’s not enough! I no sooner return than I wish to see you again. But I can also see that it was necessary to do these things here in N.Y. State before anything else was tackled.

The ice is gone at last. It seems funny to travel fast again. We’ve been crawling along at snail’s pace for all these weeks. Taking three hours for an hour’s trip!

Remember that we are working for one common end. The emancipation of the whole world. We must hold fast and pull together to get anyplace. Remember that our prayers, our Praise — so important — is the only thing that will bring release to countless millions who will otherwise, without the Elect, perish.

We are actually saving a whole civilization. Your devotion, your Temple work is surely building the Foundation that the New Heaven on Terra will be raised upon, or brought down to rest upon.

I love you dearly. All is well. Is it well with your soul? Is it well with your household? Is it well withy our Temple? Make it SO.

My love and devotion. Your own, Edna Miriam

Buffalo, NY

Beloved Ones:

There is so much to give you, time is too short, it will most of it have to wait until I can have a class. I’ve so much new, absolutely new to give you.

Please hold fast. We’re now almost at White Heat as a Group! Yet we have not reached the point of highest White Heat! Let’s Go! All we need now is more and more and MORE of the same things! Love and Praise! I’m winning! It’s a bit slow, but it is gaining in momentum. So hold on. Climb. Stand. BE YOURSELF! Who is your self? You, the Ascending Gods! Know = DO!

I love you most dearly, so dearly, and I am writing every spare second of my time! Changed my forms entirely but they should go now. Help me keep the world prayer UP!

Deepest love always, your own Edna Miriam

Buffalo, NY

My Beloved Ones:

As I sit writing this, I can look out over roofs and gardens into six inches of snow! My first experience of the kind. Unusual. Anything can happen! It must be so or this snow could not be here in April! Nothing is impossible! Anything can happen!

What is the impossible we have in our minds and hearts to bring forth? What is the thing we desire to have happen, which the world says cannot come? Let’s take these very "impossibles" and let the lights shine on them. Let’s take these things that can’t happen and hold them up higher and higher. Let’s bless them and praise them. Let’s thank God that he can do anything at any time, and that our impossible becomes his most possible and the easiest thing he can do — provided we say it is!

So, let’s say "Father, you can do anything at any time, therefore, You can do this for us now." "For us" because God wants us well and strong, so we can love and praise, so we can serve him, so we can make others realize how wonderful it is to be with God, to be like God as nearly as we can. Be happy and joyous for God. Sing for him. He must want us this way, therefore when we ask and stand and know, when we love and praise enough, He will aid us in building what we want! For him, too, not just us! To glorify Him! — not just for us!

I love you all so dearly and am so certain that "all is well." Am longing to see you. It shall be soon. Deepest love and devotion from your own Edna Miriam

Buffalo, NY

Dearest Ones:

So much is happening. The bloom is about to burst. Let’s stand together more solidly than ever before. Prayer, Praise! Anything can come instantly. If we’ve enough substance to make it! We can have it only by looking at the Light, by standing in the Light, and by thanking God we can see the Light. That is all we need to see. Until we see only the Light, we’ll never see anything!

Look at the Light. Stand in the Light. Live in the Light. Take everything into the Light with you. Give only light every second. And you won’t need to worry about seeing!

I love you all with a great undying love. I am with you always. Shall see you soon — in person! Devotion, your own, Edna Miriam

Buffalo, NY

Beloved Ones:

As days go on, I miss each and every one of you more and more. Distance does "make the heart grow fonder" in this case.

I am so busy, every moment things are happening, and there is promise of so much yet nothing comes to a head.

However, looking back, it is certain that each day has built something into our lives. New bricks in our new roadway to God.

Remember, they who praise shall reap all their desires. Praise is the key, the door, the substance and the form. Also, the Power to "bring to pass." It is the one thing or idea which will give all things to all people, and the only means of fulfilling our own lives. So, prayers of praise are our only true need.

My heart beats with yours. My love goes to you hour by hour and mile by mile! I’ve got you all folded up in my heart, and surely I will be seeing you soon.

Keep our Altar Fires burning brightly. And I am sending each one of you a nice pair of "rose-colored glasses!" To use. To watch everyone with — always wear them. Keep the dust off them so you can see truly through them!

I love you dearly. Your own, Edna Miriam

Buffalo, NY

Beloved Ones:

Greetings and blessings so great you have not room to receive them, love to fill you to overflowing, joy to shower upon the world, a song in your heart, a strength great enough to bear any possible burden, all these are my wishes for you in this hour.

Everything seems to be opening now. There is so much to tell you all, things which can only go from mouth to ear.

When we are together, we shall have the hours to get caught up again.

Heights above heights have opened. Be sure to look up. Be sure to keep for this week in a State of Grace.

Remember, I love you most dearly always, Edna Miriam

Buffalo, NY

Beloved Group of Light:

One week from today I shall be with you! We’ll have a feast of love and life. All is well. God’s ways are so mysterious and yet his wonders are performed. His miracles are brought to pass day after day.

At one of my Lectures over four weeks ago, a man came in before the meeting holding his right hand within the left one and looking ill and in pain. The hand was bandaged. I was waiting in the back where he walked up and down, so I got up, went to him and asked him what it was. He told me the day before his blowtorch had broken and in order not to burn the woman’s curtains or start a fire, he’d had to carry it out the front door, with the full flame on his right hand. A first degree burn down to the tendons, muscles and bone — all flesh gone from front and back across thumb and up wrist. The doctors told him he’d never use the hand again — it would shrink even if they didn’t have to amputate!

Meanwhile, I was giving him a treatment, taking all anger out of it by using our own Healing Methods. When he was finished, I told him what I was doing — using the example of a cut, when nature fills in the cell tissues and heals leaving only a scar! Told him how easy this was when left to the Father while praising. Before I finished, most of the pain was gone. By end of meeting practically gone. Afterwards I talked to him about how easy it was to trust God.

I saw him on last Saturday night. He came 40 miles to show me his hand! Well. A horrible red scar, huge all over hand and wrist. He shook hands, fingers all loose and working, muscles and tendons free! Healed. Perfectly. He was so happy. So was I. The most perfect healing the Father has ever done through me, I think. The impossible made easy. Use this phrase. The impossible made easy. Always. Shall tell you more of it. The man said "yes" to my words!

I love you most dearly. Your own, Edna Miriam

Cleveland, OH

Beloved Group:

"The end of the world hath come." The cycle closing out Darkness and the "end of the world" comes at midnight tonight, Tuesday, May 14, 1940 = 5 + 14 + 14 = 33! Much remains to be done before all Law is fulfilled, yet all is well. Surround each nation with a wall of fire. Keep declaring Light. Lift.

Concentration camps with walls of Light take care of all who now "come over" in hate, etc. Nazis who go out fighting like wild beasts claw and tear and bite each other but cannot die! When they fall exhausted, invisible ones take them out, bathe them, robe them and nurses tend them. Nearly all have no mind left. Ages before they’ll have identity again. So much work to be done. More when I come!

Deepest Love, your own, Edna Miriam

Buffalo, NY

To my Beloved Chosen Flock:

Peace flows like a river. Peace enfolds like a river. Peace gathers unto itself things of beauty and of love. Forever does Peace embody all delight. Peace always overcomes wrath of darkness. Peace enfolds hate like the downy blanket a mother uses to enfold the tiny newborn soul. Peace hovers even as a bird’s wings hover o’er tiny bursting eggs now hatching.

Peace is open to receive its own. Peace is ever ready to lift. Peace tends to its own furrow. Peace lays hold on a task unto the close. Peace consumes the fever of restlessness.

Peace flows like a river of Light throughout the world and earth is now Heaven-born.

Peace is plentiful. Use it. Peace is all powerful. Let it use you to all powerful overcoming.

My love abides in you always. Edna Miriam

Cleveland, OH

My Very Dear Ones:

Am so eager to see you and talk with you! So many new Revelations coming through again.

Law is Law. Light is Light. Law may not be set aside and Light may not be set aside. All Life is contained in Light. In it is no darkness. Truth lives in Light and lives forever. Be of the Law of Light. Praise that Light is the only Truth and all Truth is contained in Light.

Therefore, only Light, which is Truth and Truth, which is Light, shall endure. All else shall fall of its own weight. Light has no weight. Truth has no heaviness. Truth carries itself because Light can only lift. Light cannot fall, neither can it fail. Shall anything that is Truth fail? Nay, rather shall Truth know its own and so shall it create its own.

The Law of Light, therefore, is to know Light. Let Light place its seal upon you and so shall your creations stand established. Waver not, neither have any shadow of turning. Let Light lift and let Truth establish your Foundations. Hold fast all you have gained and reach to further and higher Heavenly gains, even unto the highest.

Shall be home late tomorrow night, so I’ll be with you as you read this and during the meeting. Deepest of love, Edna Miriam

Buffalo, NY

Beloved Ones:

I am so Happy! We are going to own this Unit [976 Delaware Ave, the address on her letter]. Pray for the way to open. It means running the whole house and we can make money besides paying for furniture. Everyone is enthusiastic and happy.

So far we’ve paid our room rent — my expenses and lady Clara May’s room and half her food. Paid an old obligation of $10 plus $10 on back rent for Old Arcade Room. And 27 cents in Treasury — rent paid until a week from Monday. Sunday morning offering 22-25 people $5. Classes well attended.

This has grown from White Point of Heat prayers of 12 Stars! Our dinner was a success. Promised 65 — attendance 48 PAID! Beautiful day. Garden a dream. I talked to them afterwards, standing in front of the church’s stained glass side windows, with the church’s hollyhocks 6 ft high behind me! They border our grounds, the walk is the dividing line for the two properties! The trees tower up into the sky.

We even have our next dinner planned. Chicken fricassee with gravy and biscuits, plus apple pie with cheese. Going to give a prize for best pie brought in and a Gate prize! We’ll have a hundred this time.

So much to tell you next week. Pray. Pray. Pray. What has been one time or in one place can be done another! Nothing impossible — nothing!

I love you most dearly always. And I’m lifting, holding and blessing each one.

Your own, Edna Miriam

Buffalo, NY

To my Dearest Friends:

My heart is with you and I miss you very deeply. Yet my work is still here at this time until business details are all settled. Everything is sort o’ suspended between "here and there," but I know it will be as promised.

Pray with us and know with us that release is ours now. That no ideas of men may clog the ways and work of God.

We stand in absolute confidence in the Faithfulness of God’s Power and Love to fulfill all his promises.

We wait upon the Lord in the High Place of Sanctuary and Poise while we work out his salvation below in our daily affairs.

These are our statements for the month. Continue "Miracle after Miracle." It shall be so, to all alike. The power moves forth and performs Miracles beyond man’s mind to conceive as a possibility.

In the deepest of love I bless you and hold you in the Light. Your own, Edna Miriam

Buffalo, NY

My Beloved Ones:

I miss you tremendously! We have Vespers opening September 1st, Sunday! We had a wonderful sermon. I used Shangri-la — will give it my first Sunday with you.

Pray — our work is slow and I must stay until all papers are signed. Woman came in and offered herself to help in any way we need her — and we’ll need plenty of help. I’m so happy!

I know Cleveland will soon blossom out! You’ll SEE! Just stick around long enough. I’m almost bursting with ideas again. And they are going this time. I’ve got a base from which to work at last. Now I know why the Father sent me here to build up a Vibration.

Let’s go! We’re ready, aren’t we? Ready to receive all our worked-for, longed-for "added things" — "Because I’m a millionaire. In my Father’s House, I’m a millionaire."

Wish you were here tonight. I’m personally serving supper-tea, coffee, too. Ginger cake, toasted cheese sandwiches — open, browned, plus the best cinnamon toast you ever ate! All my little self. I’m doing it! I’ll have helpers to serve, etc., of course.

I’ll see you SOON! I love you very dearly. Extra dearly! Edna Miriam

Buffalo, NY

My Best Beloved Ones:

There’s a chance that I shall be with you Monday, and for the Tuesday Class. I’ll stay until Friday morning.

Everything is progressing here toward our perfect Goal — slowly, but step by step. This is my Message to YOU!

"It is a marvelous thing to wait upon the Lord in the High Place, the City of Peace, the place of Poise and Power, the City of God, while we work out our own salvation where we are. This is the supreme test of our confidence in the faithfulness of God’s ability to fulfill His promises to us."

"We live and wait in that High Place of Absolute Trust. We walk and work with the candle of Joy burning in our hearts."

May it ever be so to you, one and all.

I love you. Your own, Edna Miriam

Buffalo, NY

To my Beloved Flock:

May the Spirit of Divine Love nestle close in your hearts this day.

May mercy temper all justice for you and through you.

May compassion be your treasured and greatly treasured possession, possessing which you sell all that you have and buy it with this so great sacrifice, for all you truly possess is "self," and in selling that, you replace it with immortality of Soul.

May understanding be a Light unto your feet.

May wisdom be your daily guide.

May power fill you to overflowing.

May Light be your burden and your companion forever.

Peace unto you and the everlasting arms uphold you in all your going in and your coming out.

May the heavenly tabernacle be your dwelling place and may your rest therein be sweet.

You are blessed and lifted and held in safety. Your Father neither slumbers nor sleeps.

Blessings, Edna Miriam

Springfield, MA

My dearly Beloved:

Am so happy! My Mission is successful this far. My work is good. Am going on to New York City, so that I may make my contacts.

Keep on praying and praising. A little more love and a little more praise, every single hour, will put over our Ideas now.

Thank you, Father, you always say "Yes!"

With all my love and devotion,

Your own, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

My Dearest Ones:

Here I am and there you are! Am trying to catch up on my mail. I could not write letters for months, going from one thing to another. Am seeking in every way to get my writing in shape for publishing. Can’t see anyone until I have something to show. What I did is no longer up to date. Has to be changed all along the line. A lot of good ideas, all in a mess.

Enough LOVE, a little MORE LOVE, a little more PRAISE and we’ll be over the top. This is the only way the Law knows how to work! Toward perfection. If each of us carries all the load and each of us is determined to do all the lifting on the inner, the burdens will be lighter on the outer. It works that way — each more than sharing his part.

I miss you! All of you all of the time."Watch and wait in the High Place" with me, while we all work out our Destiny. My love enfolds you, my love upholds you and my love protects you always. Miss hearing when you do not write me, like leaving the baby alone! Deep love and devotion, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

Beloved Ones of my Heart:

I miss you tremendously but also I know that each day cements us more solidly into one block of Light — the center of radiant Light shining out to lift all world darkness as fast as it arises.

The Master asks: Can ye still trust my word? Can ye still follow me all the way? Can ye still know all is well? Shall I then carry on our great salvation from darkness according to the knowledge held within the minds and hearts of ye, my Elect? Shall I run divine Law after thy degrees of perfection of seeing and hearing? Or, rather, shall it be after the fullness of the Father’s Commands? It shall be done unto each after the faith you are using now. Each shall be left where his faith takes him; he shall go no higher. God moves on. Come or stay. Stay or go. Choose, stand, then partake of the joys, delights and rewards of the righteous. These be strong words. Who then can bear them? Only those stout of heart, who truly believe to see the Glory of God manifest.

Reprimand? No. Counsel and Warning? Yes. Do according to the foolish little self or as to the Soul of Glory. Lend aid and be strong or slip into weakness and climb once more without a hand to uphold you. All Love, all Peace, all Wisdom, all Joy is ours and in His name, cast out all devils of self for all time.

God is working in mysterious ways His wonders to perform, even more than usual. Light is all there is. It is the Substance of your bodies, your affairs. It is the life that you are and are to become. Love is all-embracing in its Power to release you from every bondage of earth. Faith is your Rod of Power, your measuring rod, your staff to lean upon, your life itself.

Look up, lift up, give up, Praise UP! Unquenchable Love backed by Unconquerable Faith can melt, dissolve and absorb any bondage earth can create NOW!

Thank you, Father. You always say yes! Your own in love and more love, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

My extra precious Ones:

Three weeks can seem such a long time and yet is so short. Missing you folks makes hours longer than otherwise, but working hard makes them zip by! Especially when I want to accomplish so much.

I haven’t accomplished anything so far. I’d neglected all my personal work for months and it has taken me this past week just to find this and that. My notes get buried under clippings until I can’t remember who I am.

I know partially why I was sent here but not all. Of course, I thought it was only my writing but it was more than that. As far as I now know, I’ve no orders to leave New York now. My writing is not ready to present to an editor. Nothing I do pleases me, so far. I can touch it but the expression — clumsy. Am knowing success is ours. All we need to do is march steadily toward it.

My heart is with you, my arms are around you and my love enfolds you always. Always your own, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

My Beloved Ones:

My love reaches out its arms and enfolds you and my love lifts you all high into the Light. During the next ten days, we must release more Love and Light through Praise than ever before since we’ve been on earth. A culmination of hate is coming to the surface and it must be skimmed off as it rises or tragedy too great to speak of would result.

Every prayer of earth is needed. Yet, ordinary prayers are not enough for this. This must be as special as the work in making new jelly. We add that jelly-skimming to all other work we are doing. So, in this it must be special lifting and praising and holding high.

Let the Light shine forth now to lift all sudden darkness sent forth to relieve the minds and hearts of men. Let the Light of God shine forth absorbing all darkness, making earth shine with great Glory.

I love you all most dearly and I am holding you, lifting you, loving you more than ever. Always your own, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

My Beloved Group:

My heart is with you as well as my presence. Watch! Use these key words to raise your Vibration through the Season of Joy and the weeks of Rebirth. Take advantage of this Season’s release of Power. Resurrect all old darkness during these next two weeks, then prepare to Vitalize and Quicken all your affairs with Joy.

Walk softly before God. Speak gently before men. Keep Golden Silence of high things. Make wise speech under need to defend truth — not self. Hearken to God’s Orders, Voice or impressions. Heed all commands, Laws. Follow the Master under all circumstances. Obey all Wisdom-Love-Selflessness. Give Sacrificial Service. Be sweet in all Light. Be firm in all Principle. Be final in Lifting all darkness. These will fulfill the Law of Love in your lives.

My arms are about you in Love — my Life and my Light stand beside you always. I love you all fully and dearly. Your own, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

Beloved:

We must hold closer together than ever before. We must see only Light in the other one’s actions or words. Each must see only Light. Each must ask only for the exaltation of all the rest. Ask no rewards or recognition for self, lest even the group of Elect we have been, should, as often in the past, be sundered by petty squabbles, petty seeking after self-recognition, after consciousness of what the self has done or given or any thought of self in any way.

Stand and Hold. All is well. Not one inch of ground are we to give up — not one move, except to mind our own business and release Power and Love as never before. Let all petty things of self be lifted. The Law is "give and ye shall receive." When one asks for outer credits for giving, he or she is taking full payment for all giving. If one keeps this up long enough, there will be only outer things left.

God knows that I have done all I could do to outline the way of Selflessness. This means no thought of what another does or leaves undone and accepting each command as if you were the only one concerned with it, never allowing one thought of criticism to enter mind or heart, never looking to the right or left. It does apply to all alike.

Only God can judge as to merits or demerits. Only God can say, "They deserve. They do not deserve." To so say is taking credit as self-satisfaction. So, wise Silence. Golden Light is the only answer. Plenty of Golden Light and all darkness is overcome.

My deep love for all goes with this. Stand by. We’ve already won! The battle is the Lord’s NOW. Always your own, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

My Beloved Flock and my very dear Friends:

This week begins in earnest our work for the Joy Month. Every thought, desire and imagination should be lifted into that Place of the Most High where it can be censored and made perfect before it leaves "Home," your Home of Glory, your head.

Law is. We are. Law is created by the One God to move forth into expression on the outer. We were created to be used by that Law, which is perfect, whole and complete, here and now. Let us resolve this very moment to make ourselves perfect instruments upon which the Laws of God may play those perfect, harmonious Symphonies of the Almighty that will ring ‘round the earth.

We can plan to make the next few weeks the most beautiful we have ever lived. Love makes everything beautiful. It creates beauty whenever it has a free, clear passage through us. It moves forth to quicken our creations, to bring joy to everyone we touch. Let us now Vow to make each hour of the Rebirth Season greater than the whole of our past life. Let us determine to allow nothing to keep us from Love or Joy for a moment. Let us Surrender now to the full Power of God and as its Servant. Let us move forward on an ever-ascending
current of Joy until we truly shall have Miracle after Miracle.

I love you. I miss you. I fold every one of you close with the love of my heart. You are beauty and strength. You are grace and understanding. I am yours in love, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

Most Precious Friends,

This is to tell you of my appreciation and my gratitude for your ability to stand under the Light, without thought of credit or reward.

Prepare yourself by fasting and prayer for the next great Initiation. Nothing that the world can fashion against us shall prosper. All shall prosper in the Light under the Law of Love. My blessings flow to you this Day of Days. The Love of God is upholding you in strength to stand.

Our Visions shall grow and become outer form under God’s protection in His own time and way. I’m loving and lifting you high in the Light.

Ever in loving appreciation, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

My most precious Ones:

Your "composite" letter came this morning! Gee! It was good! They are the most I have had from the Group, and I always wait for my "love" letters hard.

Some day, you are all going to be proud of "us!" For if I am ever anything in outer affairs, it is as much yours as mine. Your precious love has taken me through these very trying years, and it has been years, hasn’t it?

And now, all our dreams are about to be fulfilled — I know it. My own heart misses you more than these words can ever convey to you. Sometimes I find myself feeling so very strange, just suddenly, on the street or in this little room, as if I’d been asleep and were just waking up, looking around for you, my sweet friends.

We can take it! We can hold together under any condition, any given set of circumstances and, what is more, we know we can. Anything under the sun, which we all, in one accord, make up our minds and hearts to do, that we can = CAN DO.

So, therefore, with one accord we now make up our minds to accomplish each thing we have envisioned as a Group, for the Group, as a Temple, for all our new Universal Temples, as a Group for every individual of our Group. We make up our hearts now to stand steadfast forevermore under the Light, to the Glory of God, praising every moment of every hour for all those things we have envisioned as perfection for each of us, leaving each of us alone on his or her own Divinely directed Path, as the Vision given on each one’s own Mount. Giving each other Individual Member of the whole Group, yes, the whole world freedom from domination of our little self. Ever seeking new ways of sacrifice unto the Master and the Father, knowing that this sacrifice can only be of the little self, until that little self becomes true subsoul, honoring the Master and the Father in true humility and devotion of effort of time, effort of strength, effort of love, effort of giving, effort of praise, effort of understanding — not people, friends, family or the world — but God’s Laws, effort of greater Service, rendered without thought of credit to self or rewards to self from the Father.

Finally, perfect Obedience to all Orders. If this seems to cut off something we ourselves have planned, then know that is best and call it by name, and its Name IS GOOD. This is the only name we really know.

Remember, I am with you Thanksgiving Day, closer than physical body can make it. I love you most dearly, always my love folds and lifts you.

Your own, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

To my Beloved Group, Greetings:

It is my deep belief that our Father wishes our Praise and our Gratefulness spread over two weeks instead of for just one day, usually a rather formal, indifferent day at that. So, the week’s keynote is still Praise.

Have you spent as many hours in grateful Praise this past week as you could? Have you been as close to that white point of heat as you feel you can get while on earth? Write these two questions on your hearts this very hour and then ask yourself every hour of every day this week the same two questions.

Has this past hour been one of complete Praise?

Has this past hour been at that white point of heat, which produces results, which "brings to pass," which fills all my molds full of love substance until they become fully visible?

Love + Love + Love = Praise + Praise + Praise

These are your only duties this week and they will bring you blessings greater than you have room to receive. Miracle after Miracle. All things impossible to man shall be made to you a Miracle and added unto you.

I love you with all my Soul, with all my heart, with all my mind. How do you love everyone?

My Blessings overflowing. Always your own, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

Beloved:

Your letters have come on time. I’ve tried to write everyone whom I’d neglected for a year, out West, etc. In ten days over 100,000 words in practice trash and 15,000. I’m coping with indifferent results. The copy, I mean. Can’t, just can’t do 100 words a minute! Anyway, I’m going to win. Some day I’ll be good and then!?

As far as Temple advance, we are winning, every day, every way, we’re winning. We had to dedicate a real Altar and establish it on the outer side. It had to be done, regardless of what folks said or what they thought. The Vibration was too high for most, that’s all. And yet, if we, everyone, had stood on inner Law, refusing to hear anything started by jealousy, it could have stood. The instant minds began to consider what was said, and some always wanted me to go back to "simple" stuff for a crowd. That is not my work, however, at present. The multitudes will come later. Meantime, all is well. I am going along as ever doing, knowing, building. And one day I’ll have the "added things." It finally became silly to sit and wait for something to happen. God has never worked through me that way. I waited, however, for Orders, before making any move.

The Temple work must remain in my hands, with only me as head. And, it cannot come without my financial independence. So, I’m digging away at it and shall do it.

Carry on, money must come in, would faster if everyone would stand and see, really see only Light. Remember, I love you, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

My Most Precious Ones:

It has been outer neglect but not inner nor yet of outer loving my most dear ones. All I can write is work. I’ve been out twice, once to Carnegie Hall for that Democratic Freedom on Wednesday after the election and once to Radio City with Madge.

Writing way over 100,000 words takes time! Letters, letters, letters, I’ve written and I’ve a grand story in my running rhythmic form of the Christ Child. It’s good. Have another in mind for Easter. More ideas than time. Do you gather that I am practicing? And one day soon I’ll be GOOD, extra good and then! It is too late for Messages tonight, it’s midnight and a half. But I can only run my machine until midnight.

This is hard work. I’ve been at my typewriter since 9:00 a.m. until exactly midnight. Stopped for a bite of lunch a half hour and three-quarters of an hour for dinner. Of course, I got drinks, etc., but no letting go. If anyone thinks it’s easy, let ‘em try. You know that it takes something that isn’t soft for making success this way. When I’m there, oh boy, won’t it be fun? Some day plans will come true.

I’ll be in Buffalo for three days as soon as I finish, around the 15th, I think. Meantime, keep going, seeing Light, praying, holding lifting, praising and loving. Must hold an even keel there in spite of all.

I love you, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

My beloved Ones:

At last I have definite Orders. I’ll be with you Sunday morning, December 15. So happy.

I’ve practiced and practiced over 100,000 words. Not much but two large novel’s worth and of it at least 10,000 good. I know I can write. It’s only a question of time until I have the income promised. Anyway, I’m digging and should know something definite before I see you in person.

I miss all of you SO! I’m extra happy, both my groups, Seattle and Tacoma, need me again. All my work seems coming to life. I’m ready to push when my money begins to roll in once more. Oh, am I happy?

How I love you all! Hold our healing work high. It shall come to pass. I know it hard enough for everybody.

Deepest love to all, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

Beloved Friends and Followers of the Christ:

My heart is filled with desire to be with you, to see you and to hear your dear voices. I shall be with you in person Sunday, December 15. I am so pleased I am coming to you. I’ll only be there with you for three days.

Our work is growing. I have more calls for myself as Leader and Lecturer and for help, than for two years past. This is our sign. A group in every city on earth, with trained Leaders and Ministers to take care of them. My dreams have been with me since my first conscious thoughts. I’ve never let go of them and they are coming to pass.

Nothing is impossible to our God. Nothing we cannot envision and have come to pass, nothing of good to lift and bring God closer to earth in the fullness of His Power that cannot be done.

God’s Power has not stopped — only men’s ideas of that Power stopping has held the world back. Why? Because of selfishness and greed. God’s love is still lifting. It is still Healing.

When our hearts are clear on the subject, when our minds are fully cleansed of silly opinions and worse prejudices, all will move forward under the Light. God and His Love, might, majesty and Glory are ours. He will use us to further the work of overcoming all darkness.

Therefore, I say to you now: All our Visions shall be established now, for God cannot fail and those of us with enough Faith Unconquerable shall win. My love, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

Dearest Ones:

Today this goes to YOU. I’m running away at 3:30 p.m., meeting Madge and go to a Friday Movie. My weekly dissipation. I’m doing 12 full hours a day of nothing but writing. When I get too cramped from typing six straight hours, I write letters and correct my typing. I’m just no good as a Stenographer. 100 words a minute just won’t spell right on my old machine!

Now: I’ll be in Cleveland in time for a 7:30 p.m. public meeting on Wednesday Evening, December 18th. Soon going to be there until midnight the 20th Friday Evening. Then, I’m leaving for the West. Sure must be something ‘taking’ of my stuff — ‘cause it’s a long, cold walk out unless I’ve sold enough to finance it. However, that’s the way I’m always sent. First orders, then acceptance, and then, after I hang by the eyebrows until I’m well toasted and browned, the money to go! SO, I’m mentally getting ready.

Give everyone my deep love. They are all so very precious to me. I love you all a million.

My love around you always, your Edna Miriam

[The following letter was personal, to an individual. When you have read it, you’ll know that it may well have been written to you!]

New York, NY

My Beloved ___ :

Got my ticket today. Again, thank you. Shall be there 7:20 a.m. on New York Central. Your last letter did me good. And I meant to write a wonderful letter for you, but had appointments in the City, which just made it impossible. Comfort is such a sweet thing and your letter to me was a comfort and a joy.

You shall succeed. You shall hold fast to your Vision of Fire and Flame. It must be so. You must prove yourself the one who stands and sees only the perfect and the Light. You saw one of your Initiations over there. You should have held to that point of consciousness where you heard and saw me! That’s the trick! To hold it.

You have a long trail before you and even as I have had it to do, much conquering of self. But one step at a time well taken will finally bring you to the high goal, which is ours. There are many to whom we cannot speak in terms of high vision. They count us daft or worse. So ever hold in mind your Golden Silence. A few times in my life my pen has been dipped in silver as I write. Shining, glowing silver of spirit, not quite purified yet into the high gold.

Stand firm on your Center of Light. You do not need to understand anyone else. Let God understand others. You aim always to understand Him and release Light over all. Calling all by its only name: GOOD. These few rules, followed forever, will take anyone to the Central Circle, when never again do we see any unlikeness to Light anywhere, anytime!

Remember, pure gold is yours to use from above. Your advance shall be as great as the sum total of your experience up till now. May your year bring success beyond your dream-visions and Love’s Glory to carry you on and through.

Love, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

My Beloved Ones:

All goes well. Have accomplished what I came to do: Found the woman to handle my stuff and coach me.

Will be with you in one week, telling you how I love you.

Be faithful, be steadfast, be loving and tender toward one another, be full of grace, be just with all mercy shown toward men.

I love you always. Yours, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

My most precious Ones:

Only a few hours, really and I’ll be seeing all of you again.

So much has happened since our last face-to-face talks that I doubt if all of it gets said.

However, if you have watched world news closely, you must have seen much to cause your faith to grow and expand. This is the difficulty, not allowing any darkness from any source to disturb your vision, your inner wisdom or shake your surety of faith. Not an easy task when all seems dark — to what?

Eyes! Ears! Feelings! These alone will play anyone false. So, I know how you have grown, because the whole world has grown — some more, some less but it has grown. Therefore, our duty is to grow! More! Never less!

How I love you! Deeply, dearly, sincerely, with all of me. May all love and peace abide with you every moment and forever. My deep love and lasting devotion.

Your own, Edna Miriam

New York, NY

Dear Ones:

Am leaving Saturday 4:00 p.m. for Seattle. I’m a miracle! Our new statement. Actually, everyone has given me money toward it. Didn’t know there were so many $5 bills! And, God will take care of me when I get there, so that’s that.

I love you, remember that.

Sincerely yours, Edna Miriam

Seattle, WA

Beloved Group of Friends:

Am so happy! Arrived on time Tuesday morning. Ted met me at the train and we came up here where I have a room near him. Had the most wonderful Christmas Eve and Christmas Day I’ve ever had with him. We’ve always been in the whole family with their "girls" and their "beaus," but this was Heavenly. I missed all of you more than I can say. Why can’t I have everyone I love at the same time?

I’ve a corner room, east-south. Two great windows. I can actually see without a light in daytime!

Pray, and praise hard for everything we love. My writing especially.

Unconquerable Faith, Unquenchable Love. These are active Principles and to the one who holds to them and Honors God above all things — and "Honor" the greatest of all — nothing is impossible. This is the Truth and cannot be gainsaid or set aside.

Let us, then, hold fast to this Truth and carry our Torches of Glory high above all that earth can produce of doubt, fear and subtle, insidious ideas of lack and limitation.

We’re on our way! Let’s go on in strength unfaltering. We shall win! Miracle after Miracle.
"I am now a miracle!" Deepest Love, Edna Miriam

Seattle, WA

My most Precious Ones and Beloved Friends:

There is no distance between us. I am standing with you, beside you, and my love reaches around you as easily as if I were beside you in the flesh. This is absolute Truth, but I miss the "in person!" Something to the handshake, the look from eye to eye means much. So, I miss standing beside you Sunday mornings and other times, yet, I am always with you.

Please remember that I’m loving you deeply and dearly and that I am knowing all good for all of us. Keep on praying for the success of the writing and I am praying and praising until all has been fulfilled for you, my most precious and dearly loved ones.

God is working in such perfect and beautiful ways His wonders to perform. God works when we obey and LET Him do it.

I love you. Your own, Edna Miriam

Seattle, WA

My own Beloved Ones:

I’m missing you all more and more, though I am digging in to make every hour count as never before.

Continue your prayers of love for all our financial release. It’s queer but always when my supply is apparently cut off, it means release in large ways for all my people. I know it means the great opening of greater doors. I know it means the opening, full, of the whole of the windows of Heaven to pour out upon you and my loved ones as well as for myself. It’s queer but always when my supply is apparently cut off, it means release in large ways for all my people.

I’m so happy that I know God and know you, my dearest and sweetest ones and your faithfulness. The Law is, Ask, believing, then Praise and act as if you have it. So, I’m getting ready to move into a tiny place somewhere. We’re watching all ads and looking, just as if we could move in with all our possessions tomorrow, thanking God we now have all we need.

I love you so dearly — please write me. I need all of you. Knowing that you are all back there waiting for me enables me to carry on here as I am. I love you all so dearly. Am seeing this bountiful supply for all of you! You should see my table! Some table and loaded. Each of you has your place with your desires heaped like a mountain in front of you. As fast as you take them away, it piles up again.

All my deepest, fondest love always. Your own, Edna Miriam

Seattle, WA

My dearest and most precious Friends:

I am SO HAPPY! Yet, I am SO lonely, too. Words will never express exactly what I feel about being way out here and you being "way back there." Seems sometimes as if I can’t stand being separated from you, but I also know this is my present work.

Remember how dearly I love you. Hold together. Allow nothing to break the solidarity and tear apart the points held. We are all going on from Glory unto Glory and win in the greatest, grandest way.

I’ll write personal letters from now on — my hours have been so broken until now — and the lessons will come. Shall I send you copies of my new-old lessons, which I am giving here and sending to Cleveland? Let me know — you can use them to tie up old and new work. Some, the base will be review but they always come up different, you know.

I love you my very dear ones. I hold you close and high in my heart. I love you dearly. Your own, Edna Miriam

Seattle, WA

Greetings of Love:

When you open this letter, a new Vibration opens. This new Vibration is on an ever more balanced and on an ever increasing higher balance than all previous Vibrations. The weeding-out process has gone on unto all fullness and unto all Glory. Those whose own lives mean more than surrender, those whose "self" must be made a high god to their glorifying of "self" — they now take a place fitting to their own ideas of Glory.

No one is forced to stay. No one can be compelled, for compulsion can come only from within, to follow the Light into high places. The Light travels high and ever higher. The self travels low and ever lower. The self and the Light cannot both go, only one may go. The Light cannot become the self. The self must become the Light. Only through surrender may the self become the Light. Only through Soul compulsion can surrender be fully made.

No one is lost. Each takes his own earned place. If no further Soul compulsion carries the self higher, he holds what is earned. If further heights are to be attained, the Soul must set the pace by compelling the self to give up and let Soul do all dictating and all compelling into all Light of all Glory.

Follow our Master. Let no thing of self cause you to falter by the wayside, lest even what you now have is lost.

Following this reading, read the 13th Chapter of I Corinthians — love does fulfill all laws.

I am your own, Edna Miriam

Seattle, WA

Beloved and Treasured friends:

My heart yearns over all of you. My mind is with you so much of my time that I haven’t done my full duty here in writing. You have grown so close in my heart that your every need pulls my heart-strings and I long to be with you "in person."

I know it is well for you to be left alone for a while. I know you must all grow strong and dependent only upon God. But my heart-strings don’t know it yet!

I have a new Game! I call it "My Creations." Ted and I are building a home. We have even named it! And because we both have sort of crazy ideas of what we like, unusual, we’re calling it a potpourri — it is to be built on the Lake! [Lake Washington]

We have a scrapbook. Ted is doing the lettering with the name on the cover. Some of the things we’ll draw — the rest will be cut out from here and there and pasted into the book — a large one to hold all be both think we want.

If you want to see my private bathroom, look the inside the February Companion cover page. They certainly got my picture, for I’ve seen that for four years, colors and all. An Architect will have nightmares when we turn it over to him, but we’ll have what we like to live "in and among."

I’m opening another one of my "Goal Creation." In it will be views of the "city of my dreams," things about my work, even horseback riders in the park!

Thick hair? Cut out all the heads of beautiful hair you can find. Fill your mind’s eye so full you can’t SEE anything thin!

Vacation trip? Pages for new luggage, new clothes, all you’d love, even if you couldn’t possibly wear as many as you paste! You’ll think and feel NEW! Scenes of train, auto, city, lake or whatever you want.

Business success? Cut out Ideas of success. Ads for writers, engineers, etc. Office furniture.

Start your "Book of Creations" NOW! Then show them to each other. Save bits for each other. Go to giving away success, homes, positions.

Health? Cut out perfect bodies and paste them in a five-cent notebook. It is the cutting and pasting and filling a book that changes the subconscious mind from failure, delay, lack to success and fulfillment NOW.

If you can draw, do that, but this is the first step in building your outer form or mold. Whenever you feel "low," cut and paste!

And may God’s infinite mercy and love, His compassion and His strength of Joy abide within you and surround you forever and forever.

Remember how dearly I love you. I hold you lose in my heart.

Love and devotion always from your own, Edna Miriam

Seattle, WA

Dearest:

Thank you for your letter telling me that you still love me! I needed that. My heart is filled to overflowing with happiness because I’m with Ted, but, my heart is also empty when I am away from all of you.

I’m so certain that all is well. That we are all winning. It is taking me a bit longer, but I’m going to win, and every dream we have shall come true. You know how our plans will some day mature, all we need is to hold fast the vision. And how we can do that!

Please write me soon again. I miss you more than I can say. Always in the Master’s Service and with love, Edna Miriam

Seattle, WA

My Beloved Ones:

Days do not make it any better. I miss you just as much as ever. You are all a part and a very great part of me and I need you close and ever closer to me. Nothing can ever alter this. We are going on throughout all eternities together.

We are, at midnight Monday, January 20, opening the New Cycle of pre-Lenten 40 Days of Retreat from all Darkness. These Vows of Sacrifice of Self are personal, not general. No one is forced or even asked to make them. It is the fact, as stated and may be followed or not, as one chooses. Yet only by sacrifice of self, more and more, can the world’s darkness can be lifted. Further surrender of self to be used by Light, further giving up of emotional shadows to allow more love and more praise to move forth, these constitute the kind of personal sacrifice we should make to have our own creations made perfect.

A little more love. A little more praise. No one ever uses enough at the greatest of use. Let us Vow today that we shall use more and ever more each hour. Let more Light move forth over all battle grounds. Let more love lift all who have ever misused or may misuse the Law. Let more Joy move forth from your hearts in Song.

I know these are old ideas. They may bore you, but they are the very simple Laws of the full, rich Christ-life. They are the most fundamental of all Laws and will build anything for you. While without them, life fails to become complete, creations are not always perfect. There are blank spots where nothing happens. Enough love, enough praise, enough joy and all life responds.

I love you all deeply and dearly. Always your own, Edna Miriam

Seattle, WA

Beloved o’ my Heart:

My arms are about you so close. I’m loving you SO hard and I AM SO HAPPY! I need to do sky-writing to give you an idea of what I feel!

I’ve completed my first new lesson in Foundation Principles. Will be our textbook when published [published in 1990 as A Perfect Design for Ascension]. When I get it copied, I’ll send you your copy. I know you’ll love it. Prepare for it next week Thursday. They are partly review but are coming in a new way, so I’m very thrilled besides being SO happy!

Miss you ALL more and more. You are a part of my very Soul Essence you know.

Deepest of love always, from your own, Edna Miriam

Seattle, WA

My Beloved Friends:

I am with you in love, in understanding, in knowing the Truth. Two things only are needed to make the greatest success the world has ever seen: Unconquerable Faith and Unquenchable Love. These are the greatest of all. They will conquer anything of darkness the world can produce. They will part the Red Sea and overcome the little self. They will uncover the hidden treasures. They will turn any darkness of failure into the fullness of success. They will close the mouths of lions and render impotent any illness. All we need to do is exercise our Unconquerable Faith and Unquenchable Love instead of the limitations.

We are Creators. What are we creating? We are Conquerors. Are we conquering our own weaknesses? We are strong in the Power of God. Do we know this in all moments of doubt? Instantly? We are gods. Are we expressing our God-like qualities? Are we an ensample of God’s Majesty to the world?

Do we "stand under" when our brother falters? Do we magnify and exalt the Christ in our brother? Or do we magnify and exalt the things about our brother that we do not like, thus giving them life and making it harder for our brother? Do we gather ‘round our brother when he is in fault to lift him and strengthen him? Or do we gather our skirts aside lest we become contaminated by the weakness we use our God-eyes to see and our God-ears to hear and our God-tongue and lips to speak about?

These are daily, yea, hourly questions for the Initiate of the Christ-Life to ponder. These are the weaknesses that hold us back in our climb upward as Creators. Only Unconquerable Faith and Unquenchable Love shall carry us over the bridge across the great Abyss.

My arms enfold you close. My love lifts and exalts you all high. Joy is your heritage forever. Always your own, Edna Miriam

Seattle, WA

My beloved and "special" dear Friends:

Am more happy than I can write. When I left you at Christmas, I could not see any outer way at all. It has always grieved me when I was sent from you, more so this time than ever before, because I knew the waters were being stirred from the bottom by some unseen force and that there was a current, swift and strong, which might sweep much before it unless we stood in strength, mighty and powerful. I also knew that there would be some blow that would seemingly further tear down any outer building we had done. In spite of anything, we stand together as one.

We have won through whatever it is and again "all is well." Our roots are deeper than ever and they go through the earth for foundation. Our vine twines into the hearts of everyone on earth and our branches give them shade. Our vines are now branching into Heavenly Roots in the Heart of God. So what can harm us?

I am sending a copy of my new lessons. This is my Textbook for Teachers and my present Correspondence Course. Anyway, despite what it looks or seems like, our work is growing. Outer separation may seem hard and I love you enough to make it so, yet you are growing in strength and beauty because of it. Your places on the inner are unassailable and grow greater every day.

Thanks with all my heart for your check. I do appreciate it more than words express. I may have an opportunity to work one day a week in the Center here in Seattle. If I can, this will aid me to do some things I must do. And I am doing my best to bring to pass all that everyone wants me to be and do. Meantime, strange as it might seem, I please the Father. We’ll all joke and laugh over these times, even as we already have, some day soon. So, I do thank you and love you tremendously for your love and your help. I know it means sacrifice but rewards for you on earth, too. We’re going to win this glorious battle with darkness, whose life is over on the whole of earth.

I am with you always in love, in joy, in light. You are free and you are glorious. You are life, light and the expression of all Law.

My arms around you and my Love enfolding you always, your own, Edna Miriam

Seattle, WA

Beloved Friends and most Faithful and Precious Group:

I love you. I miss you more and more. My work progresses, not too fast but with a steady growth. All promises shall fulfill themselves as spoken.

Kingdoms and Principalities may pass and those who head them, but Truth shall stand forever. Truth is a living monument which nothing of earth may ever disturb. Those foolish enough to use not-Truth for any reason whatsoever shall find themselves with no proper footing over some quicksand or abyss, in due season. The world forever tries to make Truth a liar; it forever seeks to destroy Truth. All the world may do is build a garment of darkness around Truth for a time. Then the gales and storms of the world cut down the covering and Truth stands revealed once more in the Light.

What IS Truth? Your Truth must be an individual Truth. Once admitted, there is the solemn obligation to live Truth, not to talk it but to live it. Truth is one’s highest present concept in Mind of Action. It is a standard of thinking, feeling, picturing, speaking and acting at this moment. It must be an ever-ascending concept or retrogression will set in on the day when a bulwark of Truth is the greatest need. Truth is your ideal of the Christ-like thing to BE, to DO, to SAY. Let us make our Ideal of Truth a concept so great that we shall be living, growing, climbing ensamples of the Christ-life.

My mind includes you in its action. My heart enfolds you in its warmth of love. My arms lift you to the heights. I love you deeply, dearly and forever. That means always. Your own, Edna Miriam

Seattle, WA

Beloved Friends:

My work has settled into a somewhat humdrum routine at last. I’ve nothing fit to send an Editor yet! I am going to be better satisfied myself before I send anything. However, I’m more confident than ever. After all, three months, two in New York City, is not much to learn to write and that’s what I’m doing.

Am glad you like the Lessons — one leaving today with this. Only a little revising and my First Set of Correspondence Lessons is ready! At least, don’t know yet if it’s to be a book or a correspondence set. I send my deepest love to All. Your own, Edna Miriam

Seattle, WA

My most Precious Friends:

Remember how very dearly I love you all and keep love moving forth in wave after wave for the complete healing of the nations. Waves of Love, Compassion, Understanding, Praise, Gratitude are moving out for healing. We must send them. Otherwise, they are lazy in their creating and work too slowly to accomplish anything in time to do any saving from darkness.

Never has my Vision been so clear. Never has my love enfolded you so closely. I do love and appreciate you more and more.

Tiny leaves are out an eighth of an inch on some hardy shrubs. Pussy willows breaking through. Heather blooming in the yards. Crocuses already blooming. Bulbs, flags, etc., already up three and four inches. Golfers are golfing! I love the winters here and this year we haven’t an over-amount of snow. I do not even mind that!

Use this statement with me this week, please: "Let Love move forth to fill my desire-molds full to overflowing. Let Love the Creator now bring forth Miracle after Miracle, Miracle upon Miracle until all my Creations are visible. Thank you, Father. You always said yes. You will always say yes and you are NOW saying yes. I NOW pronounce all my Creations GOOD."

With all my deep and abiding Love to all of you, I am your own, Edna Miriam

Seattle, WA

Beloved Ones:

My heart is overflowing with Joy sublime. Joy is the only Power to use for our next steps.

Faith IS Unconquerable. Love IS Unquenchable. Joy IS Invincible. Nothing on earth can stand up to it and live except it is Truth. Joy uncovers all secret, hidden things of dark intent and brings into the Light all clouds of darkness to be melted and remade.

Joy is Invincible. The use of the Joy Vibration in Praise will open all doors, cut down all barriers between you and any goal of good for you.

Praise, Praise, Praise. It will build our lives. We are God’s Servants. How, then, can anything fail? Let us carry our banner of Joy on our faces for the whole world to see. If they see something attractive, they will seek to get closer to it. Joy is the expression of Faith and Love. Always.

Unconquerable Faith, Unquenchable Love, Invincible Joy: These three only. They are free. Do not cost anything except the small sacrifice of self. What is self to anyone? Does it pay dividends? Does it draw toward or force away?

Joy attracts. It draws to you your own. Seek, then, to use the Joy Vibration. All shall come to pass!

My heart enfolds you all high. My love enfolds and surrounds you always. I love you deeply, dearly, sincerely. Always yours in Joy, Edna Miriam

Seattle, WA

My Beloved Ones:

The weeks fly by. Forsythia is blooming and all pussy willows with yellow pollen and such sun as we have in summer. The cold wind off Siberia reminds me at night that it is still winter.

I am taking it for granted that you like the new-old lessons. Everyone in Cleveland has written me how they like them. I would never have done this except that I was forced West. So, we plan, then the Father steps in and simply shows the whole way ahead, lighted. All my writing, except this correspondence course, has been stopped for now! Queer, isn’t it? I wanted to sing! So, I lectured! I wanted a PAID column! So, I’m forced into doing God’s writing for His chilluns! I’ve decided all over again to do the other — both of ‘em, too, if it takes me until I am 1,000 years of age!

Meantime, I’m happier than anyone can ever imagine, though I miss your loving eyes and glances so hard at times that I can scarcely stand it. Won’t we talk when I do get back?

I’ve so many new ideas that it will take me years to get them all down on paper. I’m more alive than ever before in all my life. So, therefore!

Remember how I love you and miss you and we’ve got so many places to go that it is wonderful. All my love, my dears, Edna Miriam

Seattle, WA

My Most Precious and Beloved Friends:

My heart is singing so hard I think you should hear it with your physical ears. I know you can feel it this very moment.

Do you really know how great God is? Do you feel the tenderness, the protection, the compassion in His care? The Wisdom of His great mercy when He sometimes withholds things from us, which we waste precious moments crying about, when simple Praise, Joy going forth, would attract His own for us, to us at once?

Let this sink into your Heart. When we ask for anything in Faith, anything, though it is not the thing we should have, it unlocks the Door of Life to the thing we should have, the thing waiting for us from the hour of our birth. Asking wrongly, amiss, does unlock this Door of Life to our very own, and our own is always plus. It is always better than what we can see here on earth.

God never takes from us our very own. He does withhold that which is not ours and would involve us with others to our undoing.

Our very own is waiting for us! NOW! Let us determine to Praise it into visible form NOW.

All my deepest love and devotion to you, whom I hold high in the Light. Always yours, Edna Miriam

Seattle, WA

My most dear Ones:

Such good news! Keep it in the Golden Silence, however — no unwise announcements of the growth of our work. It shall speak for itself after it is so very firmly founded that nothing of earth may stop it, delay it or tear down one brick. Golden Silence!

Today I received a letter asking again for a formal opening of the work in Great Falls, Butte and Helena, Montana. Have the Tacoma group coming together nicely, and this means "six," the creative number.

Didn’t I tell you SO? Give ‘em time. We’ll keep our shirts tucked in, our slip straps short, so no one can see what’s at the bottom of our silence, and our noses clean! One day we’ll have the income to go after exactly what we want. SO, hang together by the cord of and under the White Light of the Christ and God will win. Can He fail?

I’ve told you so often that I have more foundation work than you could dream of, all waiting for the superstructure. It must grow as we keep on toward our goal. Not one thing of earth can withhold it from us once we have earned it.

My writing, my letters, my Lessons, my housekeeping, my Tacoma Group, and my dressmaking — I’m making over all my old clothes until I’ll look like $10 million walking in on them! They are eye-minded and impressed by things. So once more I’ll give it to them. I can do it for myself, but I’ve not been able to buy. We’re going places! Get ready! Do all you can with what you now have and God will take care of the rest of the increase.

My heart’s deep love to you, all my very dears. Your own, Edna Miriam

Seattle, WA

My dearest Ones:

I miss you tremendously, but I am now planning my trip back. Also planning our work while I am there. Shall plan to stay two whole weeks the first time.

The work is growing. Am building upon an already well and strongly laid Foundation. One day the tree will reach the sky and spread over the whole earth, as a wonder tree in South Africa sometimes covers more than an acre of ground.

How is your joy-maker today? What have you now that you could use to make fun, happiness, a better life? Haven’t you something you could use that is now lying idle? Something that wouldn’t cost you anything except the effort of Being and Doing.

Look around and make another try to express more Joy, more Love, more Praise. Give someone an added understanding, a bit more of compassion, a bit more graciousness of Light. Life is so cheap and life is so rich. Cheap in that it is free and we may use all we like of it. Rich in what it brings to us of loving friends, new Vision, new Faith in God.

I love you! I miss you! But I also know how strong you are growing, both to will and to DO. When mother always holds your hand, you never grow UP!

Let’s go! Let’s resolve to DO something special this week about Joy from Substance, Joy all shiny and new, never been used before.

Miracle after Miracle! Miracle upon Miracle! Tune in on Station Miracle for what you need and desire.

My deep love always. Your own, Edna Miriam

Seattle, WA

My most Beloved Group, who are very dear and sweet, loyal friends:

These lessons grow and grow and now I am revising to send out further afield. Soon have them in permanent print, I know. Let’s pray for that. Have a new idea for writing. Shall tell you "when." Just keep on a-praying!

Have no news except the same, sweet old story of God’s goodness to me and of the old story, sweet to me: How dearly I love you.

My deepest love always, Edna Miriam

Seattle, WA

My most Precious Friends:

How happy are you today? You are happy in direct proportion to your efforts expended in trying to make others happy and yourself good! How good have you been this past week? How good are you going to be this coming week?

To be good is only God on earth, for are we not in His Image and Likeness? When we act AS He acts, then we are good. So, when we aim to be as perfect as possible always, we are good. Then others are happy because we allow them to do all the talking and we never contradict them. We stay busy under the White Light doing all we must under Divine Principle, a balance of Love and Wisdom, and free everyone else to do their "musts" their way. We need not say, "I’ll do it your way." Just let them talk and smile. Then, when we must "do" differently, they are happily moving about their business with all their little feathers as smooth as velvet, because they think we are doing their way, when we are only agreeing with them that it is their good way.

Let’s set a new high this week. Let’s speed up on everything in every way and put more zeal into our Praise. Let’s put more Praise into each hour.

Miracle after Miracle! Miracle upon Miracle! I’ve spent a goodly portion of the years of my life with you. You mean so much to me. We shall do ever greater things in ever greater ways but only if we DO in ever more fervor every breath we draw and improve day by day in every way!

I stand with you in blessings for the world and Praise for the great Goodness of our Father, who bestows all Power, all Substance to use in creating, all access to His Mind for new ideas. Let’s be ever more alert and aware of what this means. When we fully grasp this, there shall be no more limitations in the whole world. For a "little leaven leavens the whole loaf." Darkness is not when Light comes.

Remember who I am, please, and how dear you are to me. Deep love from your own, Edna Miriam

Seattle, WA

My Beloved:

God’s Plan is greater than any of us and we can only "see" when we have life as a "past" to look back upon. Now the trick of joyous, glorious living is not to wait until it is past to call it good but to call it good here and now while it is the beautiful present.

Our hearts should be constantly singing Psalms of Praise for all we are given to know. We are so privileged for "trying to be." So very little is our "trying" in comparison with what we are given as a reward. Think, then, how very great would be the rewards and gifts IF we actually lived at top Heavenly speed every hour of our lives.

The Creator-servant’s stance is like a baseball player on third base, ready to go forward, backward or around under our next Orders. Ready to accept as our very own each new thing as it came into our lives. This is all we are asked to DO.

We’ve actually paid 20 years of karmic debt, not only for each of us, but for the whole world. Could anything be more wonderful than to be found worthy to do this great thing? Let us be in Joy over it. Let us Sing. Let our voices soar UP to the vaults of Heaven. Let us Pray without ceasing. Let us Praise without one moment’s loss of time. These three back up our Joy and they are free NOW"!

I love you SO. I’m thinking of you always. I’m knowing that any step taken now is a sign of old karma finished and our new vibration is building strong and true on honor and loyalty. In due season on the outer, a world success. I am going on. I know success for us, who stand under the Light, under the Law of Honor above ALL things! Every step we take now is into greater freedom. Those who can’t stand the tests fall away, thank God. Dry rot is exposed! And on we go, UP.

I love you with all my heart, my very dears. Your own, Edna Miriam

Seattle, WA

My Beloved Ones:

Am with you SO solidly and so longingly that you must feel my presence.

Please remember, we are living as if Honor were the only thing in Heaven or on earth right now. All else shall follow. Nothing can be lost, unless one declares it so. When we build a new vibration, though outer things enter to make a plan impossible to follow through as we planned it, we only need to know that it is still a good plan. Every prayer, every effort that anyone puts into its unfolding is still building into outer form that original plan. Nothing is ever lost. It is in God’s hands and He can’t lose. Even when we are foolish enough to declare a loss, our Father still says, "I am holding safely all your substance and form as far as you have gone with it until you are once more ready to work at it. Perhaps the next time you will be able to finish what you have started." So we carry on in love, praising God for His tender Mercy, knowing the only loss is our own loss of confidence in His ability to "work all things together for good." We do know we love God, so that promise shall come to pass.

I have not left you, though I may not return just when I expected. God’s work here is also important to Him. We are building. A great deal more love, a great deal more Praise and all our dreams shall come true. Carry on in "Honor above all things" and Loyalty as the greatest of virtues earth can have. Be steadfast in faithfulness to our Father.

Events are building toward our Society that may not be spoken or written but one day shall blossom. Watch and pray. We are higher, stronger, more loving and the Joy Magnet is pulling toward us our very own. Let’s keep our arms open wide to receive it. Love deep and strong, from your own, Edna Miriam

Seattle, WA

My Beloved Ones:

All the Foundation is in place, strong and true. The golden steel framework of selfless Spirit is also erected. If you could only see it as I see it, you would stand ready to do it all over, even harder, to accomplish as we have such an edifice of Glory. It shall be copied in the outer one day! Think of it!

Meanwhile, the building of an unbroken wave of life and light must be kept hour after hour — nothing but spotless golden substance. This can be done since we now all know on the outer just how great or how little a burden of responsibility each can carry. Each is great enough to carry according to his desire to be selfless in God’s service. Everyone is important to some degree and from now on we shall depend upon each only to their saturation point. I’ve been waiting a long time for this TIME that now IS.

With all my love, my very dears, always. We’re ready to GO UP. Edna Miriam

Seattle, WA

My Most Wonderful Ones:

It will not be too long now until I am with you again, I am sure.

I know that you are stronger in Unconquerable Faith and Unquenchable Love than ever before. I know you can stand any further tests and trials. You are born from above of pure Golden Light.

Only Love can work our Miracles. Only love can fulfill our needs and Laws of perfection. Have you tuned in all week on Station Miracle? Miracle after Miracle! Miracle upon Miracle! This is yours to use. Let Love possess you now. Let Love work through you for you.

I love you. I hold you. I am with you in the strength of the Almighty Father above. All my deepest devotion and my arms around you, now and always. Your own, Edna Miriam

Seattle, WA

My Most Precious Group:

I am SO happy! There is so much to be happy over. Everything we have ever been promised, everything we could possibly desire or dream of is going to come to pass. All things are now working together toward a common good. We are part of that good. So is the whole world. We’ve been privileged, we’ve been allowed to do a great share in releasing the Love-Substance that has gone forth to make a great perfection for the world. The whole world is lifted from the depths of despair and blackness into the splendid Light of a greater day. The world may not yet know this but it is so!

So, be ready. Open wide your arms for all good now ready to descend upon us. Pray now for the fulfillment of the rest of our desires, in every way. God has done some. He is more than capable and ready to do all. Let us be more than ready to receive.

This is our Day of Days for our Miracle of all Miracles. Miracle upon Miracle. Wonder upon Wonder! The years the locusts have stolen are all restored forever.

God be with you in all your ways. All the love and devotion of your own, Edna Miriam

Seattle, WA

My most dearly loved Ones:

If only I could see you and speak with you this moment, or be with you when you read this! Seems a million years since I saw you all, and then some. However, it can’t be too long now, I’m just sure, although I do not "see" my way ahead clearly, only in a general way. I’m told to be ready for anything at any time.

I do love you folks so much, and will have much to tell you when I see you.

With all my love and I’m sending you a breath of this balmy, sunny weather. It is glorious! All my love to you all, Edna Miriam

Seattle, WA

My Beloved Ones:

At last we’re having some rain after three wonderful months. However, I happen to love the rain. There are so many letters to write!

Initiations are going on. All who are initiated must descend into a pool of fire-water! And does it look hot! You’d be surprised how few from earth will enter. They will take all they can get by going around it on soul-flights. But when it comes to the point of entering to "see" or "hear" anymore or to go higher, they prefer to settle back to the City of Preparation, rather than take a chance at losing all desire of self, which is what bathing in it will do. Lukewarmness is the first sign of one who has run from it. Full indifference is the second, even forgetting the real Mysteries.

After knowing, one can consciously desire to be taken there to go in at any time for a fire-water bath! It rids the soul of desire of self in any form. It wipes out all desire of profit by the little me or self! When one of earth still wants profit by self — rewards, recognition, credit — they just won’t go in, that’s all.

We are in attendance to aid others of the Kingdom to go through. We are personal conductors through the fire-water lake, which is more difficult than fire alone.

My arms are about you, my love enfolding and lifting you. In love and devotion, Edna Miriam

Seattle, WA

My Dearest Group:

As the planets, suns, stars and heavens remain above us, so does the Glory of our God abide as our Glory. His mercy is from Everlasting unto all Everlasting and it may not be put aside by what man may say or do. This Holy Week must mean greater dividends to us! It must mean greater Life and Glory shining forth AS US.

I am convinced that our greatest point of high Exaltation, our greatest moment of joyous Praise, our utmost melting-ness of Unquenchable Love, our strongest point of Unconquerable Faith has but touched an outer fringe of the fullness of these things awaiting our use. It is but a lukewarm, indifferent use of what the Eternal Father of All Glory has in store for us to call upon, to draw from right now.

Let us make this Holy Week one of the greatest surrender of which we are now capable. Nay, let it be beyond our present dreams of our own capacity to surrender "self-me" to become the Creator-Servant of ALL Power. Let us resolve to release enough Power in Joyous Praise to cover earth anew. The Elect are only those who have Chosen responsibility rather than ease and the comfort the world gives for a time then takes away. And by releasing redoubled Power of Unquenchable Love through Unconquerable Faith, we shall be finely-tuned, willing, ready, surrendered instruments through which His Harmony, Love, Life, Light and Power may pour to the complete uncovering and mopping up of all that yet remains in men’s hearts to do against Light.

By letting enough Love go forth to finish the melting, dissolving and absorbing of all darkness, we shall become living ensamples of the Glory of God, shining through and showing a weary world how God really wants His children to live here on earth.

This is my desire for our Holy Week together, for there is no separation between us. We are God’s Creator-Servants and we must BE, DO, ACT as God-Creator-Servants.

Forever, in deep love, your own, Edna Miriam

Seattle, WA

My dearly beloved Ones:

Seems sort o’ heartbreaking that I am not with you in the flesh for our Easter. Truly. However, I am with you at every meeting and loads of times in between.

My whole message is: "All is well." When we insist upon declaring only that "All is well," we have some vibration. It is the keynote for the next 40 Days of Ascension, which we open at noon Easter, although we truly set the vibration from this meeting.

So, all is well with my body, with my mind (which is already perfect, since I let God’s Mind use me), with my heart, with my soul — All Is Well.

"Is it well with thee?" asks our Master. Let us answer as One Voice, "It is well, Master." Let us continue this until every debt is paid, both as individuals and as a group. Let us declare it after "Miracle after Miracle, Miracle upon Miracle," then, "All is well."

This is the Pure White Light of the Christ. This is the perfect Substance we are releasing. How can we allow anything else to touch us, hinder us or delay us?

God has a million ways for us to earn money, a million ways for us to give Truth while many millions, await the substance of the Truth we have to give and have to give. "Have" in the sense of its coming through us every second in our fully surrendered estate and "have" in the sense of being under a compulsion of desire to release and keep all channels open. We must ascend together. I cannot leave one behind any more than the Master could.

Do you realize how dearly I love you ALL? DO you? My love surrounds you. Never can you avoid or evade it. Never. It is as sure as the Heavens and our Father’s care. May all blessings abound. May Miracle after Miracle and Miracle upon Miracle cover this whole earth and give us the Grace to say under all situations, "All is well."

With all my heart’s deep love and devotion, your own, Edna Miriam

Seattle, WA

My Beloved Group of All Light and Glory:

Easter greetings and love. Unquenchable Love to overcome any and all darkness. Unconquerable Faith to lead you on and on from Glory unto great Glory after His own Image and Likeness. Joy to fill your Soul so full that in spite of anything earth may send or do, it will spill over into your hearts and minds, recreating your body temple, fulfilling all your desires.

At noon we open 40 Days of Ascension. Do stand steadfast, walking valiantly into the Light each hour until all things seem radiant to you and you cannot see any darkness anywhere, even in war.

This is our Ascension motto: All is well. Look into defeat and then face the Light and say, "All is well," and the Light shall instantly turn anything into itself. Please believe this. Consciously know that you know this.

So, today on an ever Ascending Vibration, I say unto you, my loved friends, all is well with us, with our souls, with our bodies, with our Creations. "All is well. Miracle after Miracle. Miracle upon Miracle."

Tune in Station Miracle and never tune out!

Forever and ever yours. Happy Easter to YOU! In love and devotion, your own, Edna Miriam