For man is like a pilgrim passing through states, as though I pass through the states of this country. If I pass through this night in Chicago, Chicago remains; but I, the pilgrim, pass on.

There are unnumbered states in the world, so I single out the state that I want to express in this world

You don’t pick out this woman or that woman. Pick out the state.

And there are infinite states from which the Lord may view the world to appease that hunger.

Then I return to where I left this . . “the outer man,” and once more fuse with it, and we become one, once again.

by moving this permanent “I” into the desired state and let it occupy that state long enough to make it natural

We distinguish between the individual identity and the state of consciousness that it occupies.

you are free to choose the state into which you will go. But most of us have chosen, but unwisely. Not a thing is wrong with the state

man is living in an infinite world of invisible states and an individual wisely or foolishly occupies a state

If I was incapable, actually incapable of assuming, say, an unlovely state, I could not be my Father’s son because my Father is infinite

Let no one tell you that you are better than the other. You may be in a more wonderful state than the other, but that is all. Good and evil belong to the tree of knowledge.

If I condemn a man, or a society, or a thing, and I do not understand that they are only states, I am condemning them. Only when I begin to distinguish between the state and the individual can I forgive.

If the judge only knew that this being before him is in a state, and that he could create a new state and bring that being into a new state

These people are only in states, and if you took them out of that state you might not care for them at all – the same being, but another state.

But it remains a state unless you yield to it.

So states remain and man passes through states, as though cities.

But if you remain in one state, you will forever have to suffer the consequences of not being in another state.

So you take everyone, for he has only fallen into a state

You do not condemn anyone but you lift him out of the state, and you do it by identifying the one you would save with the idea he wants to embody

So, no matter what anyone has done, it was only in a nightmare. I will represent each to myself as my Father saw him

All are in states, which the soul falls into in its dreams of good and evil.

I do not consider either the Just or the Wicked to be in a Supreme State, but to be every one of them States of the Sleep which the Soul may fall into in its deadly dreams of Good and Evil

you do not consider the wise or the foolish to be in supreme states, but you see them passing through these states into which we may all fall

So we deliver ourselves from states and at the same time deliver others from the same state. No matter what a man has done, he is only in a state and can be lifted out.

They are being built only to states, and the states are eternally dead until the Son of God gives them life. When you enter the state of contention it is then alive, but if you are not in the state of contention it is dead.

I have seen people in argument and over them you see figures in contention. They are only playing states and as they forgive and shake hands these would vanish.

The characters are the eternal states of the Soul, but we must learn to distinguish the man from the characters he is playing. The characters are real in eternity and we assume the character and play it on this sphere.

“I do not consider either the just or the wicked to be in a Supreme State, but to be every one of them States which the Soul may fall into in its deadly dreams of Good and Evil when it leaves Paradise following the Serpent.”

Simply a man unknowingly falls into a state; falling into a state, it could be a good state or an evil state, but he reaps the fruit of the state. But he is neither good or evil.

Satan is really the state. Satan is only the embodiment of unbelief.

But he is not the tree; he is the immortal soul falling into these states, one after the other.

he cannot conceive of feeling happy. And you tell him morning, noon, and night that these are states – that if you put yourself in a state of being wanted, you will be wanted.

I am seeing him as the state. He’s not the state. But I may fall into that little trap. We all do it every day and all day long.

There isn’t a state in this world that a man is in, whether he did it consciously or unconsciously fell into it—he either entered it knowingly or unknowingly—but he can leave it, as I would leave the city.

I may tire of it in a matter of moments or in a matter of thirty years or in a matter of some other length of time. It was neither good nor evil, simply a state.

all the characters of the Bible are not characters at all, but only states of consciousness. When we speak of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all these characters - they aren’t persons as we are; they are states of consciousness

everything is there and each state is personified. So you approach a state and the state is personified, and as you encounter the state you enter the state, and then you externalize it into your world

Now, the man wasn’t a thief. He may play the part of a thief for the rest of his days, but no one is a thief. He’s in the state.

The moment you detach your mind from that state – though at the moment of detachment it had some corresponding external witness – it will begin to fade.

Every man needs a state to express him. Moses is a state, Elijah is a state, but it can’t express itself, it needs an agent, and the agent is always man.

The second proposition is that man can select the state of consciousness with which he desires to be identified

If you will see all things are now, you don’t become, you simply select the state that you would occupy.

the “I” is not the state. The “I” believes itself to be the state when it enters and fuses with it

It fuses with state and believes itself to be the state with which it is fused, but at every moment of time it is free to choose the state with which it will be identified.

He knows now he is what he is by virtue of the state of consciousness with which he is identified

Man is freed or constrained by reason of the state of mind in which he persists.

You are an immortal being occupying a state. That state may be poverty, wealth, health, sickness; it may be to be known in this world or to be unknown - but they are only states.

There are infinite states and we must learn to distinguish between the state and the individual occupying the state.

Peter is not a man, but a state. You rise up to the crown of it all and that is Christ. States are permanent but I am not fixed; I am a living moving being.

they are the conditions which result from the exercise of your freedom of choice, your freedom to choose the ideas to which you will respond

So we must distinguish between the state and the individual occupying that state, to understand Blake.

So you meet a person, and things aren’t going well — all right, it doesn’t really matter, he’s only in a state.

he was teaching those that he met the difference between the individual and states

man imputes sin and righteousness to individuals, are not to states

If you know the difference between the individual in that state, and of all the state

when you are in a state, you partake of the nature of that state, and you animate it, and make it all alive

the states remain permanent, but we pass on, because we are moving from state to state to state

bear in mind the distinction between you, the immortal you, and the state you occupy