Taints of self dilute the Power coming to use us. We must never excuse ourselves for dilatoriness, lukewarmness or forgetfulness of the high calling of the Christ! We never have any explanation for missing the mark, for we have the power of Discernment, all seeing of Discrimination, all feeling of and Discretion in applying the right.

We seek new ways to apply attention to detail with no excuse to the soul for failure. The expression of this right use must be from the physical to the spiritual, rigidly disciplining the subsoul to hold to the highest righteousness, which is right use of all Law now. Glory descends from the spiritual to the outer as Power and Life, but discipline must work from the other direction, from physical attention to detail through the emotional and the mental to remove blocks that hinder the Light from doing its perfect work through us.

Say before sleep at night, "Let the impression, which registers on my subconscious, be written in Light and Fire on my brain cells when I awaken in the morning."

An hour before dinner, scoop up with your hands and say, "Lift the dark clouds being released. Sufficient unto the day is the evil of its degree and kind."

You have no right to demand perfection of another, nor to force perfection on him. You have only the right to declare perfection, to see and recognize perfection and to follow the path of perfection yourself.

You have the opportunity to come up. Your answer, under all conditions, must be: I accept! There are no excuses. Lift! What is not good for the whole world to do, is not good for me to do once.

Attention to details: "How could I have been so silly?" Never let a detail slide. Help the other fellow! Watch your tone of voice.

In the face of an Initiation by Fire declare: "I accept. This is good. Let there be Light." Answer instantaneously and spontaneously, even when it is as black as coal! We can’t think negatively or have a bit of rejection or repudiation. Never ask why, or you receive no credits. Even under an accusation say, "This is good" spontaneously.

Lift the whole matter from earth, spread it out like a thin covering all over earth, and it comes back with accumulation. If you send out Light, Light comes back. If you send forth impatience, even a little, it collects all the karmic impatience from anywhere. It may come back with great enough accumulation to knock us down. Let Light go forth to pick up rebellion. God never blames you when you fail, but you must face each situation. "Nothing from the outside moves me. I become an untouchable one. I lift!" Go through the fire.

As a teacher, the Laws are more strict! This is in the Soul Inventory chart for teaching, go back over whole life. No blame! "This is good." Keep your eyes fixed on the Light. "This is good." Express only the Love of God in any outer condition.

I am part of God, His instrument. What goes forth from me, goes forth tainted or untainted to draw the action and reaction of Law.

When others speak of destructive prophecies, say, "Where did you read that? Was it your own Illumination? Where did you get it?"

Edna Miriam’s first memory of her Huguenot background was her Grandma’s hired girl singing "Praise God." Edna Miriam asked questions: What was the meaning of "Search with your soul," "hunger and thirst after righteousness?" Edna Miriam saw the Master at a distance, and knew God as personality.

The secret of Ascension is to take on responsibility for everything you contact, or that your name is associated with. Then release Power. When you go down, you do not shed your responsibility. You must always carry all lines with you.

First, you must lift. When you slip and forget, you have sloughed off the responsibility. The way to get seeing and hearing is to become the strongest one in the family, with not one thought of self. Secondly, you follow the straight narrow path of the Masters, on which there is no room for self. When you slip, you must climb back. You must learn the lesson or it returns repeatedly. We must return as Gods. It is not enough to pray, for you must add the declaration of "Let the Light do the work!"

Any pain, any evil practice contains self-pity. An ugly manifestation of pride is never taking the blame if you can put it on another!

If I am to keep my Vow, which is to take on responsibility for everything around me, no matter how outrageous, I must say, "I accept. Let there be Light. This is mine to lift, and I accept."

You have Law. The quicksands of earth are hard to climb out of. There are two ways to go: Ascension or Regression. Why not live all at one time? It is your inheritance. Your desire to ascend must be greater than your desire for ease of the moment. Ascension is Joy, a joy, in assuming life. Why not partake of it?

Healing treatment: "Light is moving down through Name’s body, melting, dissolving and absorbing every lifespark unlike God’s perfection. (Affected area) is being surrounded by Love-Life to absorb anything growing, no growth, no going farther! Only Light in every way!"

Paradise gravity draws us to the Source through the River of Life. Linear gravity draws us to earth.

Transfiguration requires greater desire, greater surrender and far greater awareness of how great is great, for you still allow yourselves to be tangled in a mesh of unawareness, allowing this high Comprehension to blank out in your use of brain cells.

There is no easy-going way of transmutation! It must be a constant, steadfast awareness of God, in unadulterated, undiluted awareness of your Source – to be in it, as in your contacts with the world.

Your measuring rod is the number of excuses made for the words and actions, godless, born of self, a paean of praise to the self of the lower regions of expression – and as long as you excuse and explain your negligences, so it is. You have not remembered except in part. You are still in the "I think." "I know" and "I do the work" stage.

You have the full equipment and free choice, not to be touched by outer men or things, vibrations or circumstances – and what you choose and declare from the High Source, shall stand. You suffer from your own adulterations, not from God. Where your mind is, where your heart is, you are! It is ever so.

When you really believe your spoken word and hold it in awareness timelessly, you will have Beauty, Glory, Light, agelessness, painlessness and full Powers to perform. The full Power and Glory are yours now to choose, but just a once-a-week-awareness or a part-time awareness of being timeless, spaceless, formless and Divine in twenty-four hours of time is not enough. Once you achieve this awareness of expansion, and the last of the self is absorbed, then you will have all things added, even as great as you envision.

God puts no time limit on you. To discipline children, use firmness without venom or revenge, and they come through. When you are too soft, children take you for a doormat. Softness is self-indulgence. Make your love firm and final. Love is firm, brisk, final, strong and just!

To know, say "This is good." This is knowing what to do! You do know what to do. This is your metaphysical declaration. When you delay, you must release enough to make up for the delay. Witness for God!

There is a Sphere of Light for each individual on earth. For those who have misused Power, the sphere gives them additional Substance with which they may express the evil remaining in them. This is the only way to bring the evil up and out so it may be lifted. Such people place themselves in their own spot. If one acts like an animal, place him mentally, in a zoo. Yet always see them in a sphere of Light above. They can come under their own steam only and this is how they finally learn.

The sphere around the evil ones gradually absorbs their evil and doesn’t allow it to move forth into outer action. As they grow and they restore brain cells, they can begin to pay their own debts. We declare, "Your debts are paid in the Book of Life!" We clean it up and declare them perfect. All must equally enjoy their Sphere of Light. This is the true meaning of "all are equal." They all have a right to a Sphere of Light.

The Councils decided that this was the only way to clean up the mess, to be objective in lifting all the children of earth. The "millions" felt cheated of their rights. Evil is now at a point where justice must reign! They can no longer say, "I was cheated." They must see their own soul records now. The Father can only rub their noses in it if they have all had their "rights." Those who still will not look at their records retrogress.

When these evil ones are placed in Light, according to their degree and kind, it means that we have released them from our forcing and our demands that they come up with us. It is our responsibility to lift them all on a cloud of golden Light, again recognizing that it must be according to degree and kind. You see them in a bubble of Light with a Shaft of Fire around them so you are free and they are released.

In prayer on this, call on the Master, the Emperor of Heaven and Earth, all the great Names of God. Ask them to send down fire and see all you have named purified in that fire. Stand on your point of Light and say, "I am this standpoint." Do all your praising, lift all into the Light and kiss your Begotten Father. Do all this while you are getting ready for bed, then lie in the golden Light and be filled.

You must enter the Golden Silence, praising God; you go through the silver fields and the rainbow fields of Light and on into the Golden Silence. You begin to be aware of these places by visualizing them, by using your imagination. This that you see is not just imagination: You really are there! The golden Light is the Light of your Begotten Father.

Say, "I will arise and go unto my Begotten Father’s house. I will share his Light that he shares with me from above. I will wait upon the God at all times. I know that while I work out my salvation on the outer, I may arise and go into the Golden Silence of my Father."

Edna Miriam’s Vow was to tie earth to heaven and she publicly promised to do this before the world. She could not understand why it was such a laborious process until she realized that after the desire body is indrawn, the chakra centers whirl like an unoiled machine. They must finally be absorbed by the lotus centers in the mental body and yet must still be as precise as a watch.

Treatment to transfigure the body: "Thou shalt rest and hold yourself high for the Power to melt, dissolve and absorb the soft spots." We are pulling in the lines of illness to erase earth pain. As we do this, our bodies shall become pain-proof and we will build a channel of Light through which the pain may be lifted. Still, if self is drawing us back down, there will be pain in the soft spots.

The weak spots in earth’s crust indicate the points where Light concentrates force for lifting. They are scattered all over the globe so that they equalize the lifting of evil influence. There is a black and festering core in each of these weak spots. God cleanses and lifts them through tornados, floods, earthquakes, etc. These evil spots are embedded in earth. There are inflamed areas about each of these points in the crust that symbolize the need for touching them with Light.

If one praises, there is no physical deterioration. Old age is the sign of using all one’s soul substance until nothing is left. One must choose between soul sovereignty and self sovereignty. Domination of another is the worst destroyer of soul substance.

When you stop someone from talking, you are responsible to lift his debts. His incessant talking keeps his karma away and when we stop the flow of words, all their karma comes to them. When it is necessary to do this, one places a seal of Light on his lips, but must lift the person’s debts.

A "task to be done" is a spiritual pressure. I AM waits upon the Lord to accomplish something.

We need tolerance, or we close off the Power for sublimation. Then the body sinks, for it cannot do without the rarified Substance from above. The heart, lungs and stomach are the last three organs to be sublimated. Self-criticism affects the lungs.

Fulfillment has been waiting a thousand times, then each has used idle words. To step from the Way of Life with a fleeting thought of God’s delinquencies, can cut the vibration so delicately formed and cause the travail of delays. Each of the descended Creator gods has spent at least one-third of his life cutting himself back and having to climb it again. Nothing is hidden to Light and the most fleeting of thoughts, emotions and vague pictures push one back, sometimes many steps.

For each, there is only one pathway, up one’s own Ladder of Light, and it must be climbed alone. It must be reclaimed if let go, over and over, until the conquering is complete. Strength is built up from each holding. Weakness fades away finally in the Glory of full knowing and a complete surrender. The full miracle cannot be accomplished until every cell of the consciousness is purified of self. And when it reaches that fine edge of consciousness, then shall the miracle be in your hands.

The Keynote is Loving – Praise through acceptance of Power to be held inviolate and untainted by self. Conquer the little self that blames, is critical and plucks not the beam from its own eye. Avoid this by praising enough and taking on purity of responsibility to become a Creator god.

This is Lent and we need more perfection, and less self. This is a day in which to rejoice and be glad and declare fulfillment! Take a lesson from the mundane world of music and dancing – become repetitious and use, "I am glad. I rejoice and am glad" for song after song the day through.

It is not enough to praise and say, "Thank You, Father." It is but a very weak opening, moves nothing much, and you receive nothing much. It must be that complete vibration for twenty-four hours that will burst the barriers and bring through the Power.

You are holding high pictures in imagination, but not enough Love of God is operating through the words. You are prone to take offense when none is meant.

Move up and do your glorious work as a gardener of God from above! Do not plant yourself with the roots of the plants!

Return to high Love and high Devotion. Earth children can take time out for disgruntlement, but delay is all that fills that order. You are serving the Almighty, and one does not cease to serve when delays are the order, to hold gains for a whole planet!

Each is used according to his desire and body, lifted in strength, but remember that the slightest taint of earth lowers the body vibration where it cannot release the highest of Power, lest the body reacts! God is releasing the Power now through each, according to his ability to receive in perfection without physical reaction. The Power is being released through those you have prayed for, spoken of and lifted, those not known as evil. The Power released through their minds restrains and holds them and turns them nearer to Light.

For an ascending one: You may have no expectations of any kind from anyone on the outside! You may never be "down" on any account, never disappointed, blame for or against, looking backward, self-pity or grief. Lift and declare it good instantly. There is no delay, only God’s right time!

To cover the need for anything outer to aid in relieving the body of inflammation or arthritis, ask, "Is there anything the Father wants done now for the next step of renewed body-building?" Use this statement: "Thank You, Father! Hosanna! Hallelujah! I have found me out substance!"

On arising in the morning, your words should be, "Are there any orders for this (situation)? Is there something You would advise at this time to make me a greater servant of the Power?" When you arise, you would find that the answer would be there. You can always check it!

Your subconscious is so steeped in "I" and what you have done to affect your healing, when despite no rest, despite all "outer," you continue, are strong and do a day’s work! You cancel all your prayers, Substance and release by your subconscious statements! Why? Despite all this, the Father is healing you!

Self showed when you expressed your thought that you are doing it, and it is still hidden in your subconscious mind. The slightest thought, the tiniest hint of self stops and nullifies what your osteopath is doing and he is a man of God! You keep canceling what the Fathers have done! You are healed, regardless of any physical.

When a physical test comes, do not deny it, but ignore it! Do not accept it emotionally or let your subconscious mind move in to take charge. Just do not give it room! Denial gives it substance for being. Ignoring it gives it no life, no substance.

Nothing is impossible to you under the spoken word. Yet it is not always instantaneous in its action. An undercurrent of faithful vibration must uphold the spoken word until it goes forth as the Power Supreme to build the object or desire into outer form.

You must remember, hour by hour, whom you are, to whom you belong and to whom your devotion ascends. Then you shall feel divine strength and hold yourself above self, the hindrance and limitation that keeps you in delay of fulfilled promises.

When your devotion has to expend itself in the payment of idle words and stupid self, nothing is left to pay promises. This is the delay.

Palm Sunday is never complete if you do not read Matthew 20, Matthew 24, Mark 11, and John 12.

As Christ was the application of Law as flesh, so the Christ Principle today is the application of all Law as taught by him while in the flesh, becoming Law as us, to live with him in that timeless, spaceless consciousness. This is essential!

To ever come closer to him, to be Law made manifest is the way! You apply this by becoming all Law, the commandments, old and new, the Sermon on the Mount, all Laws gained in classes and personal clinics.

The "page is wiped clean" by redeemed prayer Substance, but we must pay our debts. Keep on knowing. Don’t look for results. Just keep on keeping on!

When asked, "What do you teach?" Edna Miriam’s answer is, "I bring the Light." If you move into the Light, you bring the Light wherever you go. You can’t turn on the master switch in a room and have a dark spot in the center! You cannot be Light if dark spots are in your body. You are not Light enough. If so, the Light is turned off. You cannot carry full Light if you have any dark spots. The Shekinah Glory is from everlasting to everlasting. This is the Light to ascend to, to remain in.

You cannot be proud, but must have so much pride as a Son or Daughter of God that you let nothing lesser touch you. This is soul protection, not pride of self. So there is a pride that is soul protection from the outside world. You cannot do it and look down the end of your nose arrogantly, for this denies the Christ. Be perfect, as your Father in Heaven is perfect.

Apply a just appraisal to yourself. Are you doing this, acting as an ensample of Light before the world, which is soul pride, or as self-pride of achievement? Be happily proud of your accomplishment as a just appraisal, which is a form of joyous ecstasy of seeing the Light working things out here and now. Be the surrendered instrument, for this is pure joy.

When someone thanks you, look up and give it to the Father. Return it to them as their own soul substance. Don’t gobble it up, but return it! Universal objectivity is born of pure Compassion and you can "see through walls" on this. The difficulty is to bring that universal objectivity and compassion down to fit mundane activity. You cannot permit any subconscious reaction and accomplish it.

The attitude of a universal servant is to see everything around you objectively, not to bring self into it. Just apply universal understanding to the outer. You call down the Light, others stand in the Light, and the Father gives their answer. "I bring the Light." Do not inject self or "I" in the other person’s place or in the situation. Be in the Light. The instant that pure Light descends, darkness explodes and is no more!

Be universally objective, which is the source of all Illumination and Understanding. You can be universally objective and still not be able to apply it on the outer or to the other fellow. Edna Miriam always knew Law and where it led. This was always open to her.

Enter the Golden Silence on praise, praising God. (You go through the silver fields, rainbow fields and into Golden Light.)

Ascend. In the spirit of praise and exaltation, say, "I will arise and go into my Begotten Father’s house. I will stand under His Light, which He shares with me from above. I will wait upon the Great Voice and the Great Face always while I work out my salvation through outer attention to details."

Gather. Then reach with arms of Light and gather all scattered parts to be in one place. Say, "I ascend with my Oversoul, one to be absorbed into Light." See the Golden Light. You cannot follow the Oversoul unless you are the Golden Light.

Lift. In a constant spirit of praise, lift all on clouds in Golden Light, all worst favorites, too, to "cloud nine." Leave nothing and no one out; take all into the Light with you.

Declare. Then ask the Voice, the Face, the Master, Emperor of Heaven and Earth (say all the great Names of God, the Supreme) to send fire and see all you named up in fire clouds. Say, "Let all your Light and Power move through."

Ascend again. After all the "lets" are finished, just go up and follow the Golden Light to your Begotten Father. Tell him how much you love him. Be in ecstasy before the Thrones of Shekinah Glory. From this standpoint you are there. If the phone disturbs you while you are in the Silence, be happy and answer. Give good answers and stay over there.

To go out at night: Praise and finish all your "lets" while taking care of your "nightlies." Put everyone and everything up on clouds. Say, "Let the Power move down." Then, last of all before going to sleep, follow the Golden Light.

Attention to detail is the King of all Laws. Just to know Law is starvation unless applied to the point of becoming Law. Attention to detail includes idle words, the greatest detail – all our actions on the outer, every thought, idea, emotion and physical act. You can accept God, be aware of God and yet pay no attention to detail. This avails you nothing. Look about you and see this in others.

Your new Law is to stand in the Glory as the Glory, releasing the Glory. This is praying without ceasing, standing in the Light without ceasing. Having done all, stand.

To produce an "impossible" miracle, stand in silence and hold the goal before you. You must be only faith with no feeling of "must." Little by little, you add Substance to the goal. The first one through must go the last mile!

Be in harmony with the Holy Breath. Breathe deeply of the Power of the Holy Breath. Let it become your bedfellow, walk with you, uphold you and live with you and uphold your spoken word.

For those who misused Power, God periodically gives them additional soul substance with which they may express the evil still remaining within them. This is the only way to bring the evil out so that they may lift it. Such people put themselves in their own places.

If one acts like an animal, place him, mentally, in a zoo, meanwhile seeing him in a Sphere of Light above! They can only come up under their own steam, and this is how they finally learn. The Sphere of Light around the evil ones gradually absorbs their evil, and doesn’t allow it to move forth into outer action.

As they grow, and the brain cells are restored, they can begin to pay their own debts. We declare, "Your debts are paid in the Book of Life." We clean it up and declare them perfect. The process enables the Father to move the evil ones up and into sainthood. All must equally enjoy their own Sphere of Light. This is the true meaning of "all are equal." They all have a right to a Sphere of Light.

This is the only way to clean up the mess . . . to be objective in lifting all the children of earth. The "millions" felt cheated of their "rights." Evil is now at a point where Justice must reign. They can no longer say, "I was cheated." They must see their own soul records now. The Father can rub their noses in it only if they have had their "rights." Those who still won’t look at their records retrogress.

When these evil ones are placed in Light according to their degree and kind, it means that we have released them from our forcing and demands that they come up with us. It is our responsibility to lift them all to a cloud of golden Light, according to degree and kind. You see them in a Sphere of Light surrounded with a Shaft of Fire, so you are free and release them.

In prayer on this, call on all the great names of God. Ask God to send down fire and see all you’ve named purified in that fire. You stand on your point of Light and say, "I am this standpoint."

Praise, lift all up into the Light and kiss your Begotten Father while you are getting ready for bed, then lie in the Golden Light and be filled. You must go into the Golden Silence, praising God. You go through the fields of silver ripples, the rainbow fields of color, and on into the Golden Silence.

You begin to be aware of these places by visualizing them, by using your imagination. What you see in not just imagination . . . you really are there! (The Golden Light is the Light of your Begotten Father.) Say, "I will arise and go into my Begotten Father’s house. I will share his Light from above that he shares with me. I will wait upon Him always. I know that while I work out my salvation on the outer, I may arise and go unto the Golden Silence of my Father."

To go to the Source, you must be pure of heart, then you may go straight up. We often stop off at different points to complete work in temples.

Since the Cycle of Involution has been, and is, slowly being indrawn for this Day of Manifestation, only Evolution remains. This indrawing process will still take eons of time, but no lifesparks are involving now.

Edna Miriam’s vow was to tie earth to heaven, and she promised to do this publically before the world. Some of her desire body was left, but shaking and pains resulted, due to the indrawing process. She couldn’t understand why it was such a laborious process until she realized that after the desire body is indrawn, the chakra centers whirl like an unoiled machine. The lotus centers in the mental body must finally absorb them, yet must still be as precise as a watch.

Treatment: "Thou shalt rest and hold your self high for the Power to melt and dissolve and absorb the soft spots." We are pulling in the lines of illness to erase earth pain. As we do this, our bodies shall become pain-proof and we will build a channel of Light through which we may lift the pain. Still, if self is drawing us back down, there will be pain in the soft spots.

The weak spots embedded in the earth’s crust indicate the points where force is concentrated for lifting. They are scattered all over the globe so that they equalize the lifting of evil. A core, black and festering, in each of these weak spots, are nuclei of evil itself. They are cleansed and lifted through tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, etc. Inflamed areas around each of these points in the crust, symbolize the need for touching them with Light.

We don’t deny pain. We ignore, and we wear it out. Every bit of pain and our endurance of it is lifting every bit of evil and all things like it from earth.

To be enfolded in Light requires great strength of physical body, and a complete understanding of all things that come "nigh unto your dwelling." Where there is even slight repudiation or denial, it causes a great reaction in the physical body and greater pain to hang on. It grows easier to bear only with complete surrender of self and complete acceptance that physical pain is a necessity in the lifting of one’s share of world karma.

When one is being prepared for such enfolding, great pain can result, particularly as headaches. This is due, of course, to past misuse, which has hardened the lotus petals. Unfreezing them is painful. Every nerve must be healed to handle the Power, in some instances not only restored, but rebuilt. There is no way to rebuild the active brain cells within the golden bowl without intense and agonizing pain. Therefore, we are admonished to reach up with our breathing.

Three groups of 33 Degrees come under the twelve Labors of Hercules. The second group composes most of the stumbling-blocks in our path. We must to be more wary and increase our praise when we have conquered, for only praise will take us through these 33 Degrees. Praise is the only thing that starts faith, the fuel on which we run. Praise is our eye salve. Eye trouble is a lack of appreciation and gratitude.

With the mating of Poise and Power, the offspring are the twins, Peace and Patience. Patience represents the exhaustless eternities of God expressing and nobody can stop the Eternal from expressing.

You are chosen, gifted above the ordinary standards of earth, and your stand must be a supreme one, immovable. You are not to be moved by anything earth can do. You are endowed with powers of such Glory as to make you invulnerable to anything that words or actions can lay before you. It is the exercise of these supreme gifts that increases their efficacy and their Power to act at once miraculously.

You are considered dependable, trustworthy, stable, unwavering. When you allow yourself to be cast down because of hurts on earth, given to you for lifting, you are denying for one small fraction of time spent with self to deny, to flout or to mock God. You may not use these terms to designate your moments of self, but they are true, and you, endowed by God, chosen by God, held by God are finished with such matters. You have made high and rigid vows, and you must keep them inviolate and supreme. You shall hold.

When you gird up your loins and say, "Let this be so," it is so. When you allow your loins to become ungirded and say, "It is so," you go flat on your face. To gird up your loins, draw them in and stand tall as you speak the word. Let God do the lifting, for there can be no taint of self. You cannot gird your loins and think down. When the loins are ungirded, words carry taints of blame and resentment. It is only when the Elect unconsciously gird up their loins on one matter and speak in concert of mind that tornados are lifted, set aside and the Legions of the Gods move up drawing down their evil.

(Later, after I had said, "I am patient most of the time," Edna Miriam said, "If solar energy permeated earth only most of the time there would be no earth.")

Instructions on prayer and treating to a woman whose adult daughter was mean and cruel to her own children: Put her on a cloud between earth and the Desire Plane, above any physical clouds. I build this cloud. I put her on cloud of high Glory. See it as flames of purification coming up to consume the darkness, then call down a Shaft of Light over her, to move through her and out through the cloud into her daughter’s home, into every place where she has ever hurt anybody. This Light shall consume any hurt or grief or darkness created by her words and her voice.

Declare, "I am sitting you right in the middle of this consuming, purifying fire. Name, you are lifted and the spirit of the Christ possesses you at all times. You are held in the spirit of forgiveness always and all you pour out on your Mother is love and compassion. I share my strength of God with you."

Then pray, "Let the Power, oh God, go forth from the Sources Almighty to cover the whole of earth with Glory. Let the Glory of this highest Source cover every spot where love abounds. Let Glory cover every spot of darkness made by men in their hate. Let them be blanketed. Let buildings be coned. Especially let the sons of Ishmael be surrounded with such Glory that they become powerless to move, to act, but stand until the Power and the Glory of God cleanses them. Let hands of Light cover the lips of all who curse, and let their curses be changed into blessings. Open the eyes, oh God above, of everyone who prays, who seeks, who is in devotion to the Father."

"Father, let their eyes be opened to the vision of our Master, to be seen of men. Let this be the greatest Ascension Day since the first one when he brought earth through the Gates to be again joined with all heavenly beauty. Let the Voice of Praise resound through nations, opening doors and windows to the Power of Almighty God. Let evil be set aside and lifted until it becomes like unto smoke. Let it become as nothing. Let all evil be ascended immediately, even as it is being formed."

Begin your day in praise, before opening your eyes, in thanksgiving for one special thing. Dedicate praise to your "worst" favorite. No matter how far we have strayed from Him, God’s Love is the River of Life that flows through us to uphold us.

Everything our attention is fastened upon, our Power line fastens to, and we have a miracle, for tension increases and the Power pours forth. Expectancy follows attention.

Hold yourself above anything that can be considered negative. Go into the High Place and make ten statements of glory if you hear pessimists. You are on the Power side, God’s side. Your words will go forth with Power. God does not need the many, but the few on the Power side.

The measure of your Faith of God is your surrender to be the servant of all Power. You sublet your mind, when you descend in consciousness; the silver cord retracts to the body and rewinds. The subsoul is meant to take care of things out here. Egoic soul is to take over faculties and oversee subsoul. Oversoul remains above to o’ershadow. God cannot be insulted. Just look at the person, and see God’s eyes shine through.

It is time you enlarged your capacities of Discernment to see God as His unlimited capacities really are. You must differentiate between subsoul, to cover outer things, the egoic soul of outer faculties, and Oversoul worship of God – three distinct capacities to run your lives here and above. It is your choice. What do you want?

Circle each dive and hiding place of evil with Light. Surround them with Walls of Living Fire and Flame, with a Shaft of Light descending to bring them out. Love drives them forth for sacking in Light. We do not want it to burn out their hiding places, just to make it hot enough to bring them out. Get a map of the world in mind so you can speak of each place of darkness. See it nation by nation. Then give the Zodiacal signs for individuals. Take this upon yourselves to do this once a day.

The only way to make certain you make the right choice instantly is to go up on everything first.

You have earned your place again by travail of soul and by overcoming everything "personal" connected with your Ascension. It is only through blundering use of Law and Power, what they call "the hard way" upon earth, that we learn the lessons of the Supreme, to be irreproachable. There is no excuse for taking any personal credit in doing one’s duty. We understand that the climb must be steep and slippery, and filled with obstacles when it reaches a plateau level. It can never again be risked that anyone should have even a taint of ability to sink or tear down the whole to cause evil to abound.

Where great rulership is needed, great conquering precedes. No taints are acceptable. It is as well immediately to learn there can be no excuses. All your difficulties arise from seeking legitimate excuses for disobedience. It cannot be covered up from the universe or God’s higher Law. The quest is to hide it from the self.

No credits are given for doing your duty. The role in which we are cast gives no credits. It must be service beyond duty. We receive credits for praying, for holding, for loving enough, for obedience to all Laws that not one is broken.

"In the beginning was the word," which is put on tapes for our soul records, so it behooves us to clean up our words. They keep a copy for us to listen to and to show us what we have conquered and what taints we have uncovered.

The Holy Ghost is the White Light or Shekinah Glory. You can bargain with God only by agreeing and adjusting. You must pray, conscious or unconscious, and the unconscious prayer fills the bill. Faith and victory are synonymous. Faith is not victorious when we dilute it.

If you have no time to do a thing, don’t do it rather than taking it away from God. Don’t steal time and effort from yourself. You can’t pretend you have time when you look ahead and know there is no time. This is so when there is the slightest choice. Don’t scatter yourself.

Where you center your attention, the Power follows and creates a miracle, because Power is a miracle wherever it touches. It cannot be anything else. Power must be itself and must go forth. It increases whatever your computer commands tell it. Our likeness to a computer ends there. God’s Power creates the command we put into the computer.

When we are on the fate line, we tune in all the world’s disharmonies. When we move onto our Path of Destiny, which is truly moving onto our own particular vibration, we tune in on our own Tone, Chord and great Color. Where your desire is, center it. As you center it, Power follows, feeds it and creates.

Often one starts in to possess something and own it, then soon the thing possesses them and becomes an obsession. Many people lose their lives over such a matter.

There are no credits for doing your duty. The role in which we are cast gives no credits. It must be service beyond duty. The only way to make certain you make the right choice when it comes up is to go up on everything first.

Darkness will dissipate at your coming. Cast your net of Light over it, haul it in and have it moved up to be melted, dissolved and absorbed. The Glory of God is ours, as it ever has been, and ever shall be. We are held safe in the Light. This Light goes forth as our words and deeds before the puny minds of men.

Mentally, walk on grass in the morning declaring that the magnetic currents are consuming and burning out all dross in one’s understanding. What is understanding?

Don’t demote the other fellow. Treat him more wonderfully and politely. Keep your emotions out of it. Sacrifice your outer reaction. They do not call on us to like that which is unlike God but we must not judge it. Treat these confrontations as endurance tests to see if you are going to stay up in the Christ Light and lift them.

Breathe in deeply in the morning. Go to bed on a cloud of Light. Be sure to take at least ten minutes for absolute quiet before retiring. Thinking of anything except moving up to the Voice, the Face of the Paradise Twins or the Source is not necessary. Do not relax feeling the bed. Relax feeling the softness of a cloud. As one notices the Creative Fire awakening, know that it goes down the spine, touches the sacrum, and as it does, there is an explosion sometimes in the solar plexus, sometimes in the heart center, sometimes the head.

If you went into a ditch in the past, you put a bridge across it, and when you come around to that time, something of the same nature can push you right off the bridge into the same old ditch. So stand still when something hits you, look up and say, "God is the greatest."

When people follow you, it means a responsibility to become. You are an instrument of God for them to follow. If you say, "I don’t want credit," you are protesting too much, thinking of self. If you are the Light, you don’t have to protest about other things. It is God’s agent they follow, not you.

To be firm and final about Law with an adolescent, and still loving and compassionate, will lead him or her through these times. To let down discipline, but not below a certain level, for this incites the one being disciplined to take over. When disciplining, make sure it is for this thing or time, and doesn’t give license for all time.

You hold your own level of brooding, yearning, compassion of love that is firm, not soft, wobbly, or weak. Love must be brisk always, "this far and no farther." Once you learn that level of relaxing and hold it, your difficulties are over. Step up and express the great Love-Power.

We release a higher Power of Light for healing and transforming limitations not understood by doctors or specialists because they are in the desire body, uncounted by medical science. These limitations can only be reached from above. It shall come to pass as we speak, continuously, and the process shall become speedier for healing. Anything can come. Where the impossibles of man begin, the possibles of God take over!

The treatment for persons, groups, nations or races in conflict: "The Power is going through Name and Name alike, to melt, dissolve and absorb all darkness until only love is left and they mingle with each other as oil mingles with oil, as water mingles with water, as air mingles with air. So let the Name and Name mingle in love, in the spirit of the Christ. The Hand of God is bringing them together in unity and oneness."

There is no distance, in Mind.

Foolish people interpret what is said into what they want to hear. When you face a problem, and are afraid the other fellow will raise heck, he will. When you speak, do so matter-of-factly, stand firmly and finally, and believe that the Lord is working it out. Put it on the Altar and make your first stand: "It’s too bad, but that’s the way it’s going to be." You can’t hold a bit of a fear-idea. Cleanse it!

Stand on your Mount of Transfiguration, where all is perfect, and the world will follow. Your only need is to stand on your Mount of Transfiguration day and night. When a lesser thought comes in, conform to the outer world for phone calls and speaking, but never come down from the Mount of Transfiguration while you are working out the salvation of each problem. Stand there and serve "without shadow of turning."

Your difficulty, has been in not holding, slipping from your place and having to climb back again a thousand times, taking Transfiguration and losing it to hold again. This has not kept your spoken word from being truth, but has delayed the fulfillment of your desires. Each time you slip off this high pinnacle, it builds up a power within you of firmness and quality, and one day comes the time of holding. This is the place of Supreme Joy and Shekinah Glory. If you could but see your glory and radiance on the Mount of Transfiguration, you would never come down. Each one’s smallest holding in the Light pays tremendous dividends, and returns as all outer things.

When the fate line is finished, you step onto the Path of Destiny. The Initiations are Rebirth, Baptism by Water, Baptism by Fire, Transfiguration, Crucifixion, Death, and Ascension, which is crossing the Abyss to sacrifice the last of self. Every part of the physical must be in alignment.

Be compassionate, but not "touched" by sentimentality. Hold others in your arms "out there" and love them. Declare them healed and strong. Hold them up on a cloud and not inside your aura, which is the difference between love and sentiment. Compassion says, "I wish I could lift you out of this."

Be busy and serve to strengthen the next generation. Lift them on a cloud and recognize that it is good for them to live and learn. They need to learn what love is – it is love that suffers. Empathy is a combination of Imagination and the Love of God that gives complete understanding of what others are going through. Tell them that you comprehend and that the future is filled with glory.

You must entertain no negatives of any kind, conscious or unconscious. Give nothing power by letting in a bit’s worth of negativity. We dare not be negative! Positive always! Never get "down."

Never excuse or make an excuse! An excuse charges a debt of blame to yourself, another on the outer or to your Master on the inner. Never blame, criticize, judge or condemn self or another.

[Edna Miriam left Seattle the following day for a two-month lecture tour in Great Britain.]

Look up and accept. Say, "Let there be Light" to move up. You need nothing else. Stop seeking causes, which is the self-enjoyment of analysis. Say, "Let there be Light," and you will see glories greater than anything the world can produce. Analysis produces malnutrition, which obliterates your vision. Declare that it is good, and you will see the picture of your taints. Do this for a time.

One day you will become conscious, when you entertain only Light. There is nothing so heavy of dark that Light won’t lift it. The difference is that you let the carrying strap fray and it gives way, so the load falls on the ground beside you. Keep the lines of Light taut. Keep the burdens lifted and in Light. Bind them with cords of Light.

When we go into the Golden Silence, we close out our own mental propaganda against ourselves that we are unworthy or we haven’t earned it, or it isn’t the will of God to have it. The air is full of our own mental malpractice against ourselves.

Your endurance tests are definitely for Ascension. You can burn out the crystallized cells you built into nerve tissue only by intense activity. Nerves are the last of the outer to be refined. Since nerves are the seats of all sensation, pain, sorrow or joy, ability to stand great pain is involved. The entire process of lifting the bodies to dwell in the electronic fire body is painful, and a certain pulling-apart sensation, which is uncomfortable to bear. When nerves shake, it is above any ordinary earth pain. It is the only way you can accomplish refinement to purify the spiritual body.

I cannot say that it is finished. I hesitate to say you are about in the middle, but it shall diminish in intensity from this point and occur with longer intervals between. The Power and the Glory of the Ascension refinement of bodies are indescribable. We must witness it in person to know the meaning of ecstacy and rapture. For we cannot buy the rapture and ecstacy of the ascended body dwelling, nor can the Father bestow it.

The only vehicle to carry you from the outer coarseness of the physical is the ship of endurance, and the only invocation for release is "Let there be Light," and, "This is good." There is no turning back, nor has ever been. "Forward, onward march" is the watchword, with raptures between the endurance tests.

When will this Ascension be completed? When the endurance tests are no longer noticeable. Remember, for every pain you have suffered your Guards have lifted a hundred. You have the joy of knowing you have paid the debts of your family, friends and your share of world debts. Only by suffering and holding can you attain true joy. Any other way to joy can fail and fall until one has nothing left.

To seek the Kingdom just to "know more" does not open the Veils of Maya. The last, seventh Veil of Maya has to be torn asunder strand by strand, each strand representing a nerve. Retrogression can set in only when the egoic soul seeks to piece together the strands of last veil, to seek comfort. As each strand of the last veil is severed, it is rolled up and made into a brick in the egoic soul’s pathway going above.

When a strand is left hanging through retrogression, it becomes a lash of further suffering and grief, with the physical body hardening and becoming one mess of physical pain. For while the seat of sensation is in desire body, every physical cell becomes an entity of special pain and this pain is that pain which the doctors cannot touch and suffering is tremendous.

Earth is a great Tower of Babel, therefore it is going into confusion. Confusion will also touch families and organizations as well as governments. All we need do is to stand. We need more constancy than ever. When you bake a cake, the mixing of ingredients looks like confusion, but the cake comes out perfectly. (I mentioned, "I feel," and Edna Miriam said that when we say, "I feel," we have descended to "little me hunches," and sitting in judgment.) You can’t say, "I feel," when it is from a high Light or Joy vibration that is not sensation.

If you "smell" something, bring it to group for lifting. We have to touch and investigate all evil but only for lifting. A brotherhood of nations must emerge.

Every disease has its own vibration and film of substance (virus) floating, which is amenable only to the Spiritual Word spoken on its level. When you want eyes or ears healed, treat all eyes and ears and the 1000-petaled lotus simultaneously. When we go up on up on Intuition, one petal wiggles and says, "Help me," and you will suddenly realize you must treat a particular disease.

Every incapacitated soul on the inner must incarnate before 1978, and this will increase the numbers who have multiple sclerosis and such diseases, to finish the karma and to be lifted and cleansed. You can’t treat the effects of multiple sclerosis or muscular dystrophy, but you treat for the portion of the brain that controls muscles and nerve centers. Those patients are usually hopeful and cheerful. This has come from incarnations of happily taking.

God is using the curses of the good people to blast open crystallization. Where hate is using hate to cure hate, the only place hate can alight is upon hate. We should put shields of Light around our Vietnam soldiers to run evil back upon evil. Evil personalities must be taken. We cannot just say "Be gone!" They are intertwined.

Seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven (go to God and be a Son and Daughter of God, seek your identity). This is a complete surrender. God can use you as an instrument when you have surrendered the "I."

It is a delicate operation to cut out that which eats from that which feeds the soul. When you are irresponsible in any department, you fail in part.

In addition to asking for lines to be lifted, ask to have lines loosened around anyone we have inadvertently led into bondage. Everyone has to have his share of a miracle. Some people don’t want to let the line go. The invisible is 90 percent of the universes – only 10 percent is visible.

Doctors and scientists are miracles. Descended Gods, they are under spoken word of Divine Mind, Power, Substance. Under delay, the Father is taking all Power out of evil.

When we pray for those on our lines, also declare that our lines are loosened from around those we have passed on the street or out anywhere. Our lines now surround them as we move along then these people can have miracles when our lines have been loosed. Our lines reach all over earth. How great is your conception of God? How often do you magnify Him? "This starts my vibration boiling. Praise heats up my vibration and puts it on fire." If just walking around people puts up a line, think what criticism does.

Pray. Stand still where you are. Declare positively, such as "Everyone keeps their promises, pays their debts," etc. For all accidents, say, "Thank You, Father, that this much of the world debt is paid." Then there will be no destruction. When outer things are destroyed, the lifesparks are gathered up and used again to build something of new outer form.

When you reach a high point, be conscious of staying up in exaltation, to glorify God. Praise and don’t allow anything to bring you down in the mud.

It is time you stop closing out the person’s voice that disturbs. Instead of closing it out, bring it up from his lips in Ascension, on a line, sucking it forth to be ascended. Something must be done about it now. The Law in personal crediting or records, general and personal, is that you must have the clear record of absorbing and lifting everything about you, making it one with you, agreeing and adjusting.

The one who sows the seed is the one who gets the credits in Heaven. He has dividends deposited in the Bank of God. All depends on God’s Light, strength, and dependability. What is truth? Any scientific formula for action that will stand the test of time is truth. It depends upon facts established from both Principle and experience.

One is healed, another isn’t. A mathematical example: 2 + 2 = 4, yet first you must know how to add. When it is a gray day, is God wiped out?

Beauty is harmony, Harmony is beauty. Everything working together harmoniously builds up energy divine. You then generate atomic Power. This is the source of ghostly strength because it is untouchable, inexhaustible. The dependability of this strength is "of whom shall I be afraid?"

Evil must be kept on the run to be absorbed. Stand and declare God’s glory even when the world looks black. You must not listen to propaganda.

We need more teachers who talk about Ascension. Many teach Resurrection. Every time anyone tells you to be good and to lift self, it means Ascension. Our work is on Ascension of the soul and for the soul to run the life of the body.

When you meditate, don’t meditate on self. We need action in prayer. Release God’s Power and Substance, saying, "Let the Light go forth." Declare that which you want put into action. Visualize Light, which starts the vibration that renders evil helpless.

God will stop war when the peace in minds and hearts of men is great enough to do it. But this peace must be in the heart for thirty full days, not contaminated by what you read, hear, see, or experience. Make a declaration of dynamic Power.

Something, some distraction or annoyance, must show you when you are not at your high point of alertness. Everyone has passed this Initiation. If it is in your heart that another still has stray taints, lift everyone higher and pray harder for the world.

There is nothing much to be said except to gird up your loins to endure. For this Initiation is the grand-pappy to all Initiations and rolls up the along-the-way scattered unlearned lessons into one package. When this lesson has been well learned, any lessons to follow will be light by comparison. Hold yourself in a receptive mood, with the resilience to bounce back instantly from each small blow. Build up your work, one hour at a time, and one day at a time, until it reaches an apex with a newly blossomed flower upon it.

After the silver cord is burned away from the heart, and the golden cord attached, even a little crystallization or marring of vibration is too much. This is the real crystallization or retrogression, after one has achieved Ascension almost to the 1st Source. "I’m sorry" does not pay the debt, it only acknowledges the blame.

Arguing is a definite sign of an insecurity and inferiority complex that bolsters itself by fostering opinions and prejudices on the outside. Discussion is exchange of ideas, while one listens and seeks information from the other fellow, a listening attitude. Arguing is a dictatorial attitude.

The heat of anger welds the tape of soul records to cells of the physical body. Our treatment, for all of the like vibrations of earth, caused by strokes and hardened arteries, is that the soul records in the neurons shall be loosened from the outer physical where the ego, missing the mark, has welded them, and that the in-drawing to the medulla oblongata of the platelets. The majority of platelets have been frozen along arteries, and in some cases in varicose veins. Platelets clinging to arteries causes crystallized shrinking arteries and softening arteries.

A goal is not a door you batter down, it is something you work toward and through. A goal is an opening. Some people do not reach their goals because they lack a final kick. They get to the goal and wait for something to happen, when kicking something through this opening gives the reward.

So in writing it means that when you have gotten the ideas, you then back away. You tear it to pieces to find out if you are putting in bricks without straw, something you can’t prove to the world. To be a better writer means stringing together in a pattern the pearls that come from higher Illumination and Intuition. These must be continuously expressed with words in a new interpretation. You have not yet broken down the words to their final interpretation.

You must never make an offensive positive statement ("You are wrong"). You say, "It could be this" or "Let’s think about this." Do it inoffensively.

To set a goal is to set a place in time-space that you want to reach without being diverted by circumstances. It is a target in life. It has to be a broadened and expanded horizon. You know you have reached it when you feel squinched up. Then you enlarge your horizon. Double your efforts toward your goals. Without that extra effort, your horizons collapse.

Two sentences contain the Law: "This is good" and "Let there be Light!" These can be the idlest words a student uses when the heart is thinking of itself, which this is repudiation of whatever has happened or blame. However, to say them first gives God an opportunity to send His magnetism to hypnotize you out of self, and your first step upward in the Light from some sort of earth-blow needed for your salvation.

Your prayers are efficacious, well placed and well formed. Your prayers have a meaning beyond just the goal of added things or even healing. As your prayers increase in volume, your capacity increases for the return of Power over the lines established by the requests.

In what measure should all "added things" be given? In what quantity should it be poured out? Which should go before the other, and how fast should God condense Substance? The individual’s use of the many virtues determines the measure of these things. If the individual is an "up and down" sort of person, the results will be "up and downish." Part of the time there will be miracles of perfection, and part of the time malformed creations. You are a Creator and shall increase your capacity for searching out new goals by going to God, not intermittently but constantly.

There is no life in subjects that have no challenge, and a challenge in a goal means interest in that goal. Even adverse interest allows the individual to reach a goal. A goal idea that arouses controversy, spurs the originator of the goal to ever greater effort to break through the veil between himself and the outermost rim of the new horizon. If the challenge causes discouragement and weakness, it is well to have it happen at once.

To have a new idea for a goal is the first challenge. The second challenge comes from the outer adverse criticism and causes the pounding and the speculation which reaches out to the rim of the horizon for new backing of the original idea. It is only once in a while that a new goal tears down everything about itself.

Never let a goal slip by unchallenged or untried, no matter how silly or fantastic it may seem. Hidden within somewhere is the seed of life to bring forth a new idea. Carefully examine each without picking the seed apart before planting. To keep silence is good. Let each thing mature and sometimes two goals as an ideal will merge and become one flaming goal. Keep your mind open and your soul absorbing energy wherever you go.

Sometimes thou must write six phases of one idea before the seventh appears, which will unfold the other six. Sometimes a fantastic idea will unfold itself into the most plausible and the most wonderful of items.

No time is lost. This work can be done on redeemed time, and to redeem time means not to let the mind wander. Put unused time to use, to speculate, ponder, and digest what you hear. Every statement will be in line with what your wish is for your creations and all piecemeal, chewed up and warmed over statements are abolished.

You can’t have one thing fulfilled without involving many, which is why you ask and wait upon the Lord. Do not grow weary or question. Accept. If Light does not wipe something out of your mind in three days, go ahead, but never look back. Looking back causes tragedies.

Once Councils have allowed this, what are you going to use to pay the debt of blame charged to them? It involves everyone around you. Once you pray, declare it good and Councils allow you to ask and to have, do not go behind it. Declare it good, lest you charge an inadvertent debt of blame. Therefore, if you have questioned yourself as to being right or wrong, declare it changed into good for all misuse of Law.

Strive, without force, to release Power magnificent day and night and seek ways of enticing the weak, the wavering and the stubborn. You can never entice a stubborn one unless you hit his keynote of self interest and use flattery. The only psychology for him. He can swallow it. Flatter to a certain point, but not beyond, because he is not gullible. Bring him in to do magnificent work. A stubborn one is still stubborn, will convert and will stand and hold beyond any weak one. Those who are healed go forth and bring in more for the work.

Your enemies are your footstools. The more they express their hatred, the greater God can invoke the Laws of Protection.

To overlook is to look up over at Light. Overcome is to come up over and jump over the moon (emotion) into Light.

A point of the soul, rising above physical weariness and debility, upholds you until release comes. If you have not let the outer burdens of time, effort, fatigue and weariness to interfere with your Ascension, they shall interfere less and less.