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The Pioneering Mystics:
Essays, Lectures and Sermons
Lectures, 1982: The Effect of Drugs and Alcohol on Consciousness and Spiritual Vehicles
Lectures, 1982: In the Garden of Eden
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The High Territory of Ascension
The mystics pioneering in the high territory of ascension were and are life-long students of the work and teachings of Edna Miriam Lister as revealed to her through her daily communion with Jesus the Christ in prayer and contemplation in the Golden Silence. Here we share ideas and insights into what she taught about Life on the Via Christa, God’s original Magna Carta, the Way of Ascension that Jesus taught, the Plan of Salvation, universal and personal, and how to conquer self to become what God intended us to be and do.
As Pioneering Mystics, we prefer an exact and “to the point” approach to our prized goal of soul ascension. As mystics, we believe in the possibility of direct communion with the Divine, and practice several of Edna Lister’s safe and simple techniques in prayer and contemplation to achieve a mystical state. The papers collected here are a distillation of the experiences of five generations of Pioneering Mystics, circa late-1880s to the present. Those who led the way blazed new trails through previously uncharted territories. We have collected here descriptions of their personal journeys transmitted orally and from their written correspondence and journals.
As participants in Edna Lister’s Society of the Universal Living Christ, we are part of her legacy, her life, and her spiritual teachings. We have each learned and practiced the soul conquering and self-disciplines she prescribed as an optimal way to walk the Via Christa, the Path of Ascension. We have experienced such positive results using her methods that we have spent decades teaching and disseminating her life’s work. We are glad to share the results of her efforts and ours with you.