Eternal Youth

By Edna Miriam Lister

Experience the life-changing power of Edna Miriam Lister with this unforgettable text.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Andura Publishing
• Release date: Aug 23, 2020
• ISBN: 9788835883746

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Eternal Youth

Edna Miriam Lister

Contents

1. Eternal Youth, a Choice and a Privilege

2. God-Consciousness From the Beginning

3. The Long Pilgrimage

4. You Live on Atomic Energy

5. You are an Instrument of the Creative Impulse

6. Your Creative Tools of Ascension

7. Desire, the Flame and Glory

8. Thinking, the Invincible Master-Planner

9. Imagination, the Kingly Faculty

10. How to Develop Your More and More Life Plan

Foreword

This book is dedicated to all who struggle to understand what life is all about, who desire to know from where they came, why they are here and where they are going. It is dedicated to their discovery of an answer that gives them what they truly seek — an identity with the Source of Power to which they may turn for comfort, and advice that will help them to bring forth all the potential powers they brought with them in the beginning and still waiting to be expressed.

This book is not about diets or exercise, except to outline the need for both if you are to have anything approximating health and freedom from pain and tears. The time and effort required in dieting and exercising appalls most people. Just the act of contemplation keeps them from starting either program.

Others are too busy pursuing the goddess of success most evenings, and are too tired in the mornings to go through the great ritual. Usually, you continue putting off dieting and exercise until something physical hits, and diet and exercise become critical and essential.

We include the reasons for dieting and some uncomplicated exercises as simple charts or schedules to follow. They are the minimum essentials if you are to have 100 percent efficient physical equipment for daily living.

Authors have written thousands of books on psychology and metaphysics, and countless others on diets and exercise. Each has something good to offer, and some are better than others. Still, the beginner may be greatly confused when dealing with them and deciding which to follow.

The only way to avoid confusion is to take the best from each. Work at it until you find the right combination of foods and exercises to suit your individual needs and schedule. Then hold to using that schedule, breaking the routine only often enough to make life just a bit more spicy. Nothing works unless you follow it continuously.

1. Eternal Youth, a Choice and a Privilege

Why are you writing another book? Well, we need to cover all the different phases of living and their impact on each another in one book. It seems people need more real effort to live life based on its interrelationships instead of by unrelated broken-off bits of this and that. Without integration, you cannot organize and fit all life’s phases together to form a smoothly working whole.

This book seeks first to give you an identity with your Source: Where did I come from? Next, it seeks to establish your contact with that Source: Why did God create me, then leave me out here all alone?

After establishing a perfect original, completely natural contact, you move on to answer the next question: How can I know that I am making this contact? Then the final question, When do I make this contact? The answer is now and it is always now. Now is an escalator in time and space carrying you away from eternity on one hand and into eternity on the other hand. It is always now.

You Are a Fourfold Being

This book attempts to explain man’s fourfold being — physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. You must obey laws on each of four levels to be strong, healthy and happy. If you omit one level, you are bound to be lopsided in your living and unbalanced in some way. All illness stems from an imbalance somewhere in your fourfold relation to life.

Laws govern you from the spiritual to the mental life, through the emotions and so on into the visible portion called the physical life of the body. The outer physical portion of your being is only a machine on which life registers itself for you to see through physical eyes.

A Textbook for Life

The universal basis for this book is found in the Bible, a book on life covering every phase of your expression. Stripped of all nonessential and controversial matters, it is just a textbook on how to live perfectly. Everyone can find a character in real life to fit the worst and the best of Bible characters. They were only people trying to get along under hard conditions in difficult situations.

The New Testament is the greatest book ever written on psychiatry. The great Teacher, Jesus the Christ, knew everything that is to be known about the silly weaknesses and failures of men.

Jesus trained twelve men the whole way in little more than three years. They were ordinary, almost uneducated men who hadn’t much to offer him but their love and loyalty.

Two thousand years ago, the twelve covered everything that needs digging out in man now.They knew what would cause dry rot of the mind and heart, and wrote about it. You can find every how-not-to-do-it for today in what they wrote then.

So, though you may reject the Bible in part or totally, though you may repudiate Jesus as a Messiah, you will find that you need to accept both as the way for perfect living. Beyond its beauty and poetry, the Bible is a practical textbook, when sought and used as such. It provides an easy way to learn how to live properly, without sagging at the seams or dragging your heels in the dust.

Think about living life in joy and being more alive every year. If these words should help give you a reason for accepting fourfold life as the whole of life, we will have accomplished its purpose. The world will be one step nearer to becoming the deathless, ageless, abiding life that is immortal and Eternal Youth right now.

2. God-Consciousness From the Beginning

Memories from childhood are still as clear in my mind as when they happened, even after eighty years of living and all manners of experience. They are the reason and basis for the material in this book.

With many old daily experiences faded or wiped out entirely, with all the people involved long since gone, these episodes have lived on. Each has a bearing on the direction of my search and how I found the material in this book. These episodes set the keynote of my life. They opened a door, swinging wide, which nothing that ever happened could close.

I have spent eighty wonderful years living the life more abundant, a life of asking, seeking, knocking and always finding