Color

Color is both a property and a quality; it is “a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect.” Objectively, “the particular color of a body depends on the molecular constitution of its surface, as determining the character and number of light-vibrations that it reflects.” Subjectively, color is the particular sensation produced by the stimulation of the optic nerve by light-vibrations. Further, we define color as a particular hue or tint, a constituent into which we may decompose white or “colorless” light in a series we call the spectrum.–Oxford English Dictionary.

“All things in heaven and on earth operate according to their lights and colors.”
–Edna Lister

  Color is the second abstract expression of the absolute trinity of Light, which reveals the primary rays of yellow, blue, and red, which become the full spectrum of Light-as-color. Color is a law of being, rooted in the principle of substance. Color is also a law of doing: whatever you choose to do colors your reality.

Edna Lister on Color

Love, colored by the world, is polluted, diluted, a tiny stream.–Edna Lister, Love: The Conqueror, April 12, 1934.

The art of living is the application of what you know to what you do. It defines your type of expression of life, how you color life, how you mix your colors, or ingredients, and how you apply them.–Edna Lister, The Theory of Being, November 18, 1935.

Number, color, tone and form reveal spiritual truth and divine realities to the searcher. The mystic symbolism behind numbers (revealed in vibrations), colors (as revealed in names), tones (musical), and forms (geometric) constitutes a divine language.–Edna Lister, Twelve Tribes of Israel: Divine Scale of Twelve, April 23, 1936.

As a radiant, spiritual being of Light, you operate under the same great creative principles that govern all phases of universal life: Light, number, color, tone, name and form. Light is the first Substance you see with physical eyes. Light contains all other principles. Light expresses reality, number expresses quantity, color expresses quality, and tone conveys quality and quantity. Imagination imparts quality and quantity to color and tone in everything you do. For example, your tone of voice has quality and quantity (it has Light and number as color) and your use of tone as spoken words employs number and name.
  You apply number, color, and tone to everything you do in all your everyday activity. Your thoughts, emotions, words and actions may seem common and ordinary, yet you use the same almighty foundation principles upon which God bases and establishes universes and under which they operate. You unconsciously live by these principles in the smallest and greatest moments of your lives. All principles are contained in the pure white Light of the Christ, which is why you must seek to live by the Light.–Edna Lister, A Design for Ascension, 1941.

The Holy Breath is pure Light, but if you color it with negativity, you receive no benefit as it flows through you. You send it forth as dark clouds, or as Light.–Edna Lister, Flaming Desire, May 26, 1941.

When your will and desires are pulling opposite directions, you are filled with conflicting emotions, thoughts, doubts and fears, which color the Holy Breath moving through you as the River of Life, creating clouds and leaving imperfections behind.–Edna Lister, The Teammates, Will and Desire, May 28, 1941.

Light encompasses four other principles: number, color, tone, and form, or name. When you interfere with Light’s operation, your self colors the emotions and thinking, your imagination will create the adulterated form.–Edna Lister, The Driver’s Seat, May 29, 1941.

To ascend, you must be Light, all weight and color blended into the Christ Light.–Edna Lister, And It Came to Pass, April 30, 1950.

Light, number, color and tone are the basis of all truth. Light became principle, then exploded in motion. Rays of colors and waves of tone flowed through the universe as a circular and cyclic spiral vibration.–Edna Lister, Be-Attitudes, July 24, 1951.

Faith, as white Light, contains all color rays. When faith operates as consuming fire to heal, it does so under the blue ray of Love. When faith operates as Power to energize, it does so under the red ray. When faith operates as knowing, it does so under the yellow ray of Wisdom.–Edna Lister, Do You Always Wear Your Armor? November 15, 1953.

Light is God expressing to the outmost parts of creation as the relative principles of number, color, tone and outer form. If you have no color in your tone of voice, your voice is monotonous. All colors radiate from within the form Light takes. All creation comes from the one Light, but is stepped down into form. Light becomes color and tone as you express it.
  Light as number becomes expression in form for everything. You see Light expressing as color. You hear Light expressing as tone. Tone colors your voice in many degrees, and you form words under tone. You can color whole lives if you live by Light. If a person devotes his life to self, his color is drab and gray.–Edna Lister, Jesus, the Descended God, December 12, 1954.

What you know, Light will do according to pure number. What you declare, will do: color it and it becomes tone, then form. When you say, “This is good!” you number and name “it,” and God’s pure color and tone makes it take form.–Edna Lister, Jesus, the Descended God, December 12, 1954.

All general action proceeds from Light to number to color to tone until it reaches form, which manifests on the spoken Word as you name it. Thus the spoken Word starts the personalized vibration of creation in manifestation. By the number, color and tone of your words, you either condemn or bear witness to Light. It shows where you walk, with self or with God. Your words can be gray or brilliantly hued, your tone concordant or discordant.–Edna Lister, Four Phases of the Word, February 1, 1955.

The first relative trinity is Light as the progenitor of number, color and tone. From this point, form begins to condense. All spoken words originate from this trinity of Light as number, color, and tone. Creation is called forth from Absolute Being into relative appearance. The Emanations form Creation as the Three-as-One—the myriad triunities (as triangles) that form the Sphere of Creation. The first trinity is absolute Wisdom, Love and the Logos; the second trinity is the Supreme Mind, Substance, and Power.
  The principle of Light-as-number governs seeing. All Ideas originate in emanations of Light—assigned their number, color, and tone by their Creator—before they become concepts in the minds of men. Thus we may say that Light as the relative principle of color governs hearing, as well as man’s access to his own Oversoul, his superconscious mind, and his electronic fire body. You grasp Ideas as color.–Edna Lister, Enfolding Back to the Source, July 22, 1955.

Light, number, color, and tone are inner vibrations. Number quantifies the qualities of color and tone that lend number to name and the form a creation takes as outer form. It takes the first three vibrations of Light-as-number, its color and tone to make relative number; it takes the first four to make name, and it takes all five to make form.–Edna Lister, Numbers and Names, July 10, 1956.

When you allow no thought of self to color your love for your neighbor, only harmony can reign.–Edna Lister, Keys to The Kingdom, February 27, 1957.

Everything in manifestation emanates color. Every word and every emotion reveals color.–Edna Lister, Come Ye Apart, April 20, 1958.

“As Jesus passed by, he saw a man who was blind from birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he we born blind? Jesus answered, Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God should be revealed in him; I must work the works of Him who sent me while it is day; the night is coming when no one can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”–John 9:1-5.
  Jesus saw the blind man’s aura, his field of colors, and knew he had been chosen for this special lesson. Jesus worked on the principle of color. You do too, whether you realize it or not. The mind’s eyes and ears recognize all the principles of expression, and when you are high in consciousness the Light tells you what to do. You just know.–Edna Lister, Visualization, May 17, 1959.

All interpretations of philosophy emerge from Light-as-number and color combining to give tone quality as well as quantity.–Edna Lister, What Is Symbolism? October 6, 1959.

All things in heaven and on earth operate according to their numbers, lights and colors.–Edna Lister, I am the Bread of Life, October 25, 1959.

Wear your rose-colored glasses, remain high in consciousness, and color things with Light.–Edna Lister, Invisible in a Mist, June 25, 1961.

Your words create powerful suggestions that color the emotional receptivity of your listener, who recreates what you said in an even stronger pattern.–Edna Lister, The Rebirth, June 9, 1963.

“Let there be Light!” was and is the first expression of principle in all creation. Light contains the three Emanations as The One. We worship God as the Light. The Triunity of Wisdom, Love and the Logos becomes the first absolute trinity of principles and each expression takes its name from an Emanation. From Light as these three principles, all other principles arise and flow forth: number, color, tone, and name, which describes the form. These principles are always the same, never changing.
  All possible number is inherent in the primordial Light. Following Light-as-number, the first degree of condensation of vibration forms the color principle; the second degree of condensation forms the tone principle; the third degree of condensation forms the name principle, which dictates the fourth degree of condensation into outer form.–Edna Lister, God as Principle Applied Under Logic and Reason, November 5, 1963.

Wherever you go, you make yourself a challenge to darkness. Say, “In the name of Jesus the Christ, show your colors! Let there be Light!”
  The spoken Word has become so powerful that the reaction of the law is higher and faster. If you send out the Light discolored by self, it will return to you in sevenfold confusion. You will then have to eat your words and apologize.–Edna Lister, Your Sacred Light, November 10, 1963.

Imagination may color all your spiritual hearing and seeing, and you induct that “coloring” from the world mind, the mental aggregate that surrounds us constantly. If you permit mere imagination to color your intuition and illumination faculties, they cannot function as faculties the Computer Mind of God within you, but as weak, limping extensions of imagination.–Edna Lister, Your Live Wire of Omnipotence, September 7, 1965.

Divine Mind directs and controls through the fundamental principles of Light, number, color, tone and form, by which Mind lowers the vibration of Light, condensing it into substance in successively denser stages until it reaches the point at which we may recognize it as form.
  Everything has color, and an aura of color. Every rainbow, whether in a sprinkler, oil slick, or the sky, comes in triplicate. You can see the colors in the atmosphere if you learn how to focus your vision properly using your eyes as binocular lenses. The Light of God goes before you, shining from the mystic third eye in your forehead, and illumines what you focus so that you may see this aura of color from the inner.
  You use your physical eyes to focus on the invisible, but your soul vision does the seeing. Your task is to align them as one, outer and inner as One. For example, when you focus your inner vision to see the colors of a person’s aura, do not focus on him, but the atmosphere around him instead.–Edna Lister, The Relationship Between Color and Number, February 19, 1970.

Chromatics, mathematics, music, and geometry must be closely associated with their principles of Light, number, color, tone, and form for perfect development as divine realities.–Edna Lister, June 2, 1970.

A Story That Illustrates Color

Spring Green: All that God has is ours to draw upon. “Ask in my name and ye shall receive.” Ask in color and you shall be answered in tone. One woman waited fifty years to see the leaves open in spring. She remembered, “Call upon Me and I will hear you.” She believed that she would have it. One day, as the leaves opened, she heard the symphony of the stars, the music of the spheres.–Edna Lister, Victory: Using Your Magic Wand, May 24, 1970.

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