The J, E, and P Manuscripts

I think you’ll find tonight very interesting. In the Book of Genesis which begins one of the manuscripts…there are three that we have, the J, the E and the P manuscripts. That’s all the authors that we know of, and no one knows who they are. Scholars claim all kinds of things for these initials, but regardless of that, tonight we will begin with the E, which begins with the 15th chapter of Genesis. It doesn’t mention the first fourteen. And here is the story, “As the sun was going down, Abram fell into a deep sleep; and a dread and great darkness fell upon him. The Lord said to him, ‘Know for a surety that your descendants will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and they will be slaves there, and they will be oppressed for four hundred years… and after that they will come out with great possessions’.”595 ¶1

Abram believed and it was accounted unto him as righteousness. Here, we see that it is not what man is but what man trusts God to do that saves him. Here, he believes that God the Father has prepared the way for his banished ones to return. He firmly believed that there was a way. He accepted the verdict that they would be enslaved for four hundred years.595 ¶2

Now when you read it you might think in terms of time as you and I think of time, but that is not part of the mystery. In the Hebrew alphabet each letter has a numerical value and a symbolic value. The last letter of the Hebrew alphabet, Toph, has the numerical value of 400, and the symbolic value of a cross. The cross is the body that you wear. It doesn’t mean 400 years, or 4000 years, or four of anything. It’s simply the numerical value of the cross which is the last letter.595 ¶3

When you reach the end of the journey then there is a way prepared to bring you out of this experience in the world of death. For here is a world of death: everything begins, it waxes, it wanes and it dies, but everything. The very stars are melting…everything is dying…but it must first reach its fullness and then it disappears. But he has prepared a way for his sons who were banished into the world of death to return to him, and when they return, they return with great possessions. Certainly not anything on earth, like homes, since everything here dissolves and disintegrates. And so, we must find what the possession is that comes out of this experience in the world of death.595 ¶4

Here, no matter what you have you are enslaved by it. You buy a home and you start paying insurance on it right away to protect it against all kinds of things. Here in the Western world, earthquakes; all over the world, fires; certain sections, hurricanes. But no matter what it is it’s against loss. You get a huge big diamond and you’re so proud of it, and you insure it against loss, and you pay on it for the rest of your days. Many a person owning a fortune in diamonds puts them in a vault and they never sees them and pays on them year after year…but they have the feeling of possession. All they do is pay the insurance on them, because they wouldn’t run the risk of wearing them in public. So they get duplicates made out of inferior material and wear that, while they know they actually own the original in the vault. Now that’s an actual fact and that’s all over the world. So here, it is not anything that you own in this world that you will take out and call it great possessions.595 ¶5

Tonight we will see what this great possession is that we actually take out after the journey of 400 years. The 400 years will be determined in a certain manner.595 ¶6

The Old Testament is a prophetic blueprint which is fulfilled in the New. It is not cut and dried so that you can actually see exactly what it is talking about. It’s a foreshadowing in a not altogether conclusive or immediately evident way. Then it happens and is recorded in the New, but even then it is not, I would say, conclusive and vivid so that man can see it. So we must search the scriptures to see just what you and I must experience in order to depart from this world of death and take with us this fantastic gift that we actually acquire by coming into the world of death.595 ¶7

You and I pre-existed. When we speak of God, there is only one God so he could send no one but himself…for the son and the Father are one. He sends his sons into the world, and it takes all the sons to make the Father. Here in this world there is only God the Father wearing these garments that are the crosses, these garments of flesh and blood. This is our cross and we bear it to the very end. When we come to the end then we are awakened, and when we awaken we discover who we are…that we are God the Father. In this world we do not know it. Here we don’t recognize each other, and yet we were loving brothers before we came down—intimate, loving, wonderful brothers, all loving each other in the most intimate wonderful manner. And then we put on the mask, the cross of flesh and blood, and we are so completely hidden from view we do not recognize each other and we fight each other, and we do everything in this world of horror. Then we are gathered one by one and brought back into that original state, but this time “with great possessions,” and the possession is something entirely different from anything that man has dreamt of. The possession is to have life in ourselves. Not simply to be an animated body as I am now and you are, but to actually have life in ourselves.595 ¶8

Now the Book of Zechariah…and the word Zechariah means “Jehovah remembers.” The awakening man remembers and that’s what the whole book is about: the awakening man remembers. When you begin to awaken, this whole thing will come back, the whole vast memory of what you were told before the venture will begin to return.595 ¶9

Now let me share with you an experience. It happens the very night that you are awakened from this world of dream. When the voice calls you from the tomb and you awaken within the holy sepulcher, which is your skull, to discover that you have actually been there for unnumbered centuries dreaming this dream of life. And the dream comes to an end on a certain note, and this is the very night you begin to remember who you really are, and the whole drama unfolds before you and within you. Then you know who you are.595 ¶10

Now, we’re told in Zechariah, the 8th chapter, “Thus, says the Lord, ‘I will return to Zion and I will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem will be called the faithful city, the mountain of the Lord of hosts, the holy mountain. And in the streets of the city shall be numberless boys and girls playing in its streets’.” Now you read that and you wonder what on earth does that mean in a book called a book towards the revelation of God and his plan for the salvation of humanity? What on earth would that be? Yet, may I tell you, the symbolism and the imagery is perfect.595 ¶11

One night, and I hope it’s not too far from now, but I do not know, no one knows when it comes to the individual, for we are gathered one by one. You’re so unique in the building of the restored temple that you aren’t drawn with another, you’re drawn singly. You are a unique being. Here, the prophet Zechariah, which simply means “Jehovah remembers,” here he describes in the most vivid imagery Jerusalem as it will be when city and temple are restored and the exiles have returned.595 ¶12

The image of this night that begins your awakening…I fell asleep in the normal, normal manner that I have done over the years, not expecting anything, and then came a dream. Here I am in the most glorious city. No building was higher than three or four stories…certainly not more than four…a walk-up, no need of any contraption to take me up. The sidewalks were wider than any streets we have in the city. There is no street, no boulevard as wide as the sidewalks. Just imagine how wide the streets! And they were filled with boys and girls…I mean young boys, young girls, not even quite teenagers, just lovely, laughing healthy boys and girls. There were concert grand pianos on the sidewalk at stated intervals so that one could not interfere with the other. Artists would come and play, and it was all just for the joy of those who were present. There was no charge, just they played. And they all had their following made up of boys and girls and they were their heroes.595 ¶13

I sat at one grand piano. There came this enormous crowd following their hero, a great artist. He came over and it was an unwritten code that no one could ask anyone seated to rise. He could be there always; no one would ask him to get up. But as he came over, I rose and gave him the bench. He thanked me and sat down to play, and as he played, his music formed geometrical patterns. The most glorious patterns came out, seemingly out of that instrument, all in color. But what beauty, what artistry, as it came out of what he played!595 ¶14

As I stood next to him I knew that if I could arrest within me a certain imaginal activity that what I saw, this beautiful thing coming out of the piano in all these forms, that I could arrest it. Then I arrested within me this activity and here the music was frozen. I looked at it and as I looked at it the tone that I arrested increased in volume within me like a sustained note, and that sustained note within me began to build up and it began to awaken me. I felt myself awakening from this dream. But instead of awakening as I would awake say this morning, I awoke in the holy sepulcher, my skull, to find I had been there in this strange, strange, wonderful, fantastic dream, a horrible dream, throughout the centuries. Then I knew innately what I must do to get out. And so knowing it I got out, and all the imagery of scripture concerning the birth of God surrounded me, and I knew at that moment who I was.595 ¶15

Months later came another unfolding, and then I knew beyond all doubt who I am. That the whole thing is only God playing all the parts in the world. That every being in the world though he thinks himself a little being, unknown, unwanted, and shunned by the world, he really is God wearing his cross, as he swore to himself that he would wear it for the 400 years…the 400 meaning only wearing a body of flesh and blood.595 ¶16

So the tone…as we are told in scripture, “Marvel not at this; those who are in the tombs will hear my voice and come forth.” Those who are in the tombs will hear his voice…and you think of a cemetery, you think of a graveyard, no, the tomb is your skull. You are actually buried in your skull, and the you that is buried are God and his name is I AM. That is God’s name forever and forever and there is no other name for him. Your own wonderful human Imagination is God, buried in your own wonderful skull, and that is the holy sepulcher. Don’t go to Egypt to find I; don’t go into the Near East in what is called the Holy Land. It is not there. You’ll not in eternity find it outside of yourself; you are buried in your own wonderful skull, and the being buried is God, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ.595 ¶17

Now, when do we awaken? That dream precedes it only by the night, and you can’t really know when it’s going to come. But I’ll tell you, the power in you is the gift that you bring back. You have then the power to stop the entire world, but the entire world, and have it stand still and examine it, and then start it at will. No matter how long you arrest it, it will have no knowledge of being arrested. It will continue from the moment of arrestment as though not a thing had happened, and that interval between arrestment and the release within you could be unnumbered centuries. But it would have no knowledge, for there could be no change without time. Space is a facility for experience, but time is a facility for changes in experience. When you arrest time, then there could be no change. If you arrested it now, at this moment, and then kept it so for a thousand years, nothing could age because nothing could change without time, and time is simply the facility for changes in experience.595 ¶18

So you simply have time within you, and you arrest it, as I did that night, and saw this most glorious thing coming out seemingly from what this artist produced on the keyboard of this concert grand.595 ¶19

As I held it and looked at it, I was holding a tone, for the tone sustained it. As I held the tone, that sustained tone…and the word translated “voice” in scripture if you look it up in your biblical concordance, it means “noise, sound, the sustained noise, the sustained sound.” It is really what is also called in scripture “the blowing of the trumpet.” The trumpet is simply a reverberation and that thing reverberates like a noise, a storm wind within you. As it continues in that sustained note, you awaken. You waken not like you’re ever awakened before; you waken from the dream of life. Morning after morning you awaken from the little dream of the night; this time you awaken from the dream of life. Because you see the whole vast world as it really is and not as you believe it to be through the senses as you read.595 ¶20

So he said, “Believe me, I and the Father are one.” I and the Father are one. Can I be one with my Father? If I am really one with him and if he’s a father then he has a son. And therefore I can’t then be his son if I am one with the Father. So then who is the son? I and my Father are one; I have become the Father. But he still is a father and therefore show me the son…and that comes five months after this experience. But I am one with the Father. Now how on earth can a man be his father? How on earth can he be not only his father, but his earthly father’s father? Doesn’t make sense, does it? But I tell you it’s true and all these things you are going to experience. Everything in scripture you will experience. All of these are adumbrations, foreshadowings, and you are going to experience them.595 ¶21

Now, in the world here you go through the oppressions as promised in the book, the 15th chapter of Genesis: “And they will be oppressed for four hundred years…they will be slaves.” What man in this world is not a slave of the body that he wears? No matter how rich you are, how powerful you are, can you command any servant of yours to eat your food for you, and assimilate it, and what he can’t assimilate eliminate? Is there any man on earth so powerful that he can command one of his slaves to eliminate what he can’t assimilate? Must not he perform all the normal functions of this cross of flesh and blood? Isn’t he a slave of it? He has to eat and drink, and he has to assimilate and eliminate. You need not be a wealthy man and live in a home. You can sleep on the outside, you can go in the nude, you don’t have to have shelter and raiment, but you do have to have food. Having food, you’ve got to eat it yourself. Eating it you have to assimilate it yourself, and assimilating it you’ve got to eliminate what you can’t assimilate. And that makes you a slave of the cross that you wear. No one in this world has ever been so wise or so powerful that he can forego these functions. The day he forgoes the functions they bury him, cremate him or put him in the grave.595 ¶22

But the real grave is your skull. That’s where the real you, your own wonderful human Imagination, is buried. There it remains until the end of the journey when you are awakened from the dream, and you come out as the dreamer, and the dreamer is God. He was always God. So you come out from the dream. He has prepared a way for his banished sons to return. And all the sons together, collectively, form the Father. But we are gathered one by one. You’re so unique you cannot be called in pairs or in groups; you are called one by one. I’ll tell you, the night you are called it begins with the dream that I’ve just mentioned in the 8th chapter of Zechariah…Jehovah remembers. So, “I will send the Holy Spirit and he will bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.”595 ¶23

So here we are told the story and the visible presence who tells it disappears. Well, where does he go? He sends the Holy Spirit who is the Spirit of Truth. But he proclaimed, “I am the truth,” so who can he send but himself. So “God himself enters death’s door with those who enter, and he lays down in the grave with man in visions of eternity until they awake and see the linen clothes lying there that the females had woven for them.” Yes, my mother wove this garment of flesh and blood, and I will come out of it one day (as I have) and I saw it. There was what my mother wove me. It’s called in scripture the linen garments.595 ¶24

And I, the invisible being, no one could see me, and I am feeling and hearing this power within me. It sounded like a storm wind, the noise spoken of when I heard the voice. But the voice was simply my own voice, because I arrested what I saw just through contemplating the beauty that came out of that music. As I arrested that one tone, the tone continued to support what I’m seeing. For the whole thing was supported and it was supported, it was conjured, by the tone and supported by the tone. If the tone stopped, it would vanish; but if I sustained the tone, the tone would continue. And the tone continued and in continuing it awoke me.595 ¶25

So there is a tone in man, it’s a unique tone, that one day you will arrest. When you arrest it, it will continue as a tone, and that sustained tone, as we are told, a sustained tone could break, if related to the tone, a glass. I am told that Caruso could take a glass and get its pitch, and then hit that note and sustain it and break the glass. Well, there’s a tone in man, and one day you will intuitively know that tone. It will come in the form of a pattern, a beautiful pattern, and you will arrest it…it’s a frozen tone. You will sustain it, and as you sustain the tone, it will crack the shell in which you have been completely sealed for unnumbered centuries.595 ¶26

Thousands of years you have been dreaming this dream. You didn’t begin in the womb and you do not end in the grave. You are an immortal being that came down into the world of death. Here you are in the world of death dreaming it, and one day you will see exactly what I saw in that 8th chapter. I fulfilled the 8th when I saw the boys and girls. They filled the streets. And they were so happy…nothing sad about them…just a happy wonderful crowd, each with their own individual hero who played these grand pianos. As he played and I saw the beauty that came out of the piano, within me I had the desire to arrest what I’m seeing, it’s so beautiful. I did, not by holding it with my hand, I arrested what I saw by stopping an activity within my own Imagination. That’s where the power was. As I arrested it, the note continued and it was a sustained note, and it woke me. I felt myself waking from a dream, only to discover I was not on my bed where I fell asleep; I was in the holy sepulcher, my own sealed skull. Then I knew intuitively how to get out, and that shell was cracked and out I came to be surrounded by all the imagery of the birth of God, as told us in the story of the birth of Jesus. For, Jesus simply means “Jehovah saves,” and the only savior is Jehovah. So when he is born, Jehovah is born; therefore, you come out from the shell into which you placed yourself.595 ¶27

How did you get into that shell? How on earth? We know of no way even today with all of our knowledge—we can go to the moon, we can do all kinds of things—and no biologist has discovered how an egg is fertilized. How on earth can the sperm penetrate that which is sealed? It is an egg and there is no hole into that egg. Yet unless it is fertilized it cannot bear the chicken, it cannot bear the child, it cannot bear the animal. Here is an egg completely sealed…but it must be fertilized. The sperm must penetrate the surface of that egg or it cannot become alive. So how on earth was this thing penetrated so that it was made alive, and then to come forward in the likeness of the one who penetrated it? For, all things bring forth after their kind.595 ¶28

Well, if God is bringing forth after his kind, it has to be God that is born. So the egg penetrated was the skull. It’s not simply with the eyes open and the nostrils and the mouth and the ears…it’s a sealed dome. You and I entered these domes, and God entered with us and actually became us. God became as I am that I may be as he is. And you awake to find that you are God the Father because his only begotten son calls you Father; and you have no doubt in your mind as to who he is when he calls you Father, and who you are. So only until this relationship of father-son is revealed to man is the journey over.595 ¶29

Last night as I retired I was thinking on this theme which I am trying to express tonight. Then I woke this morning about, I would say, 2:30…but I did retire quite early so I had a good solid sleep, seemingly dreamless sleep until the very end. At the very end, here I find myself in New York City in the Plaza Hotel. It was much bigger than the Plaza as I know it, much more roomy, but the same old-world harmony and graciousness that you find in the Plaza of today. I had just checked out and I looked up to see one checking in, and he’s my brother Fred, my sixth brother. I went over and I greeted him, and then I turned to my left and here is my nephew Philip who is his son. I didn’t know my brother was in New York City and I didn’t know that Philip was, so I brought Philip over and then the strangest thing happened. I turned to my brother Fred, who is the father of Philip, and I said to Fred, “Oh, I want you to meet my nephew.” They acted as though they didn’t know each other, that the father-son relationship was completely unknown. I said to my brother Fred, “This is my nephew Philip. You’ve met his father and his mother, haven’t you? Haven’t you met Flo and Fred?” I spoke to him as though he were another. He answered as though he knew the ones of whom I spoke…because he had no knowledge of being the father of Philip and Philip had no knowledge of being the son of the one that I‘m introducing him to.595 ¶30

Then you turn to scripture, “And Philip said unto him, ‘Show us the Father, and we will be satisfied,’ and he said to him, ‘Have I been so long with you and yet you do not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father?’” You see, everything in this world contains within itself the capacity for symbolic significance. Now here, my brother in the world of flesh and blood, my nephew in the world of flesh and blood, and yet in my dream they are only symbols; symbols that father and son do not know each other.595 ¶31

So I tell you that you are the father of God’s only begotten son who is named David, but you don’t know it. I tell you that David is your son and you do not know it. But I can assure you the day will come that you will stand in the presence of David and David will call you Father; and you will know you are his Father and you will know he is your son. This mutual understanding between father and son will be accomplished. Then the journey is over.595 ¶32

So here, in my dream my own brother and my nephew…and his name is Philip. I played the part of David bringing them together. Who is David? The word David is defined in the biblical concordance as “beloved” but also “the uncle, the father’s brother.” Read it in Strong’s Biblical Concordance, “the father’s brother is called David.” So I am David and yet I am the Father of David, so “I and my Father are one.” So, as David I make the announcement.595 ¶33

These are mysteries, and the mysteries of scripture are not things to be kept secret, but they are mysterious in nature. They confuse the rational mind because the mind wants to continue thinking on this level, the secular world, where you are a man and you have a child, therefore that’s a father and that’s a son, and that’s all there is to it. They can’t get beyond into the great mystery of scripture, and the Bible is not secular history, it is divine history. It’s something entirely different. They’re not writing history, those who wrote. All the names are significant, and they tell an entirely different story that unfolds in the soul of man, and that soul of man is God. You are God…when you say “I am” that’s he. There is no other God.595 ¶34

But you’re down in this world for the allotted time. You will bear the fardel for the allotted time. Then will come that moment in time that this tree that you are will be split from top to bottom, and the Spirit trapped set free. It will be set free and you will awaken to know who you really are…that you are God the Father. There is no other one.595 ¶35

In the meanwhile, dwell upon it, just dwell upon it. If you owned the earth tonight and death ended it all, what would it matter? Stalin thought he controlled the world and his little world, big as it was, it was little. So he could kill twenty million people and then vanish. But he hasn’t gone; he’s restored to life in an environment best suited for the work yet to be done in him. He knows he’s Stalin, which was an adopted name, he knows it, but he is not ruling Russia. Hitler isn’t ruling Germany. They are all restored to life in an environment best suited for the work that must be done in them, for in the end they too will be redeemed. Everyone will be redeemed, because everyone is aware that he is, and to be aware that he is, is saying “I am,” and that is the name of God. But while they played their parts here they were used, and although they didn’t know it, they were playing the part of God; and it was all moving towards an ultimate good, but they didn’t know it. They thought differently.595 ¶36

But forget the individual and come back to scripture, for here, I’m only here to fulfill scripture. Every night and night after night even though I have completed the entire story as told in the New Testament, I find myself re-enacting the play, the Old Testament. For in the days when the story was written, there was only the Old Testament, and it must all be fulfilled in me. Even to this morning…by simply dwelling the night before on the subject of tonight, wondering what could I add to it to make it more vivid to help everyone who is here. Then to come through the surface like coming from the depth of one’s sea, and as the waves begin to break in your own consciousness, you have this little drama unfold before you—your brother Fred, your nephew Philip, and they don’t know each other yet they’re father and son. It’s a perfect representation of the absence of consciousness or the lack of memory of the father-son relationship.595 ¶37

My brother Fred has said to me so often in the past, “Of my four children, the one I do not understand is Philip. He is the first and I never understood how he thinks. I’ve never understood what he does. He is completely strange to me, and all the time I do not know exactly what is going through his mind.” They are entirely opposite, yet they look like each other. Physically they are the spitting-image of each other, only my brother is 6’3” and Philip is about 5’8”. Philip is a captain in the Marines and for the last ten years he’s been in the Orient. He’s flown everything that we have manufactured from the super-sonic bombers to the super-sonic fighters, down to the helicopters. He’s flown every kind of mission in the Orient. My brother Fred, who is a business man, can’t quite understand that desire. They have not a thing in common on this level, but on the spiritual level father and son…but they do not know they are father and son.595 ¶38

So when I introduced my brother Fred to my nephew, I had to tell him, “Why, he is the son of Flo and Fred. You know my brother Fred and Flo.” He said yes, but never identified himself with it. And then I came through to this level.595 ¶39

So here, everything in the world contains within itself the capacity for symbolic significance, but everything. There isn’t a dream that is insignificant, but we are past masters of misinterpreting the dream. We can’t quite put our teeth into it and see the story behind the story.595 ¶40

But here, you’re here for one grand purpose: to awaken from the dream! When you awaken, you will have power in yourself. “As the Father has power in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have power in himself. Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming when those who are in the tombs will hear his voice and come forth.” And they come forth when the power is exercised.595 ¶41

There’s only one note that can awaken you. That note will come to you when the boys and girls are playing in the streets of Jerusalem, and Jerusalem is within you. Zion is within you; the Lord is within you. The whole drama unfolds within the Imagination of man. Don’t look for it in any part of the outer world. The whole thing takes place in man. One day you’ll be so completely carried away with the beauty of something produced by a note that you will arrest the thing by arresting the activity in you. To arrest it, you’ll have to sustain that note. That note being sustained will awaken you, and you will awaken from the dream of life to discover that you are the Christ of scripture and that you are the Jehovah of the Bible. There is no other God, no other God. When you say “I am” that’s he, but you don’t know it until these things happen within you.595 ¶42

There is a doubt, there is a question mark. I could tell you from now to the ends of time that you are, but not convincingly. You would remain unconvinced because you cannot be convinced until the father-son relationship becomes a reality. Not because you reasoned the whole thing out, but because you’ve experienced it. You must experience scripture to know how wonderful it is.595 ¶43

So I can talk about it. I can be the greatest scholar in the world. I could know Hebrew, Greek, English, all the tongues of earth and still not know anything about it. I could translate the words literally, do all these things.595 ¶44

In this morning’s paper the usual press agent for Billy Graham, and they said that he took to the platform last night a Hebrew Bible given to him by the present prime minister of Israel. So what? He can’t read Hebrew. So it’s a gift, a gift of a book that is completely sealed to him. And from what I’ve heard him say, although he speaks English, the English Bible is sealed to him…doesn’t understand it at all. It’s completely sealed. Now he goes beyond that into the Hebrew translation. And here he took to the platform.595 ¶45

If that is sacred…no, you are the sacred one. That is an external record of a drama that must unfold within you. That is the witness, the external witness. When it happens in you that is the internal witness and now you have the two witnesses.595 ¶46

But don’t bring me one and say scripture said so-and-so, because you don’t know what it’s talking about. Have you experienced it? Have you experienced that chapter and that verse? Well then, come, did it parallel it? Then you are now a witness to the truth of God’s word. But if it has not happened in you, you cannot be called as a witness…it’s only hearsay. That’s what you heard. That’s what you either read or that’s what someone said, but you don’t know it from experience. When you know something from experience then you know it.595 ¶47

Well now, is there another witness other than your own experience?—scripture. So you bring the written word and the internal experience, and the two stand together. You need no one in the outer world to verify it. First of all, they couldn’t, but you have in the depth of your own being a being who knows it, the being who experiences it. And you go blindly on, regardless of what the world thinks or does.595 ¶48

So here, you are the ones and into this world we came. We were told exactly what to expect, that we would be slaves, oppressed for 400 years, but then we would come out with great possessions and that possession is power. It’s not power with money in the bank; it’s power, creative power, that you can at will conjure anything and it stands as an objective fact before you. What do you need with anything in the world when you can at will create it because you have power in yourself as the Father has power in himself, and I and my Father are one! So I don’t need anything…take it all from me and I can re-create it. But if you can’t create it and now it’s taken from you, then you’ll have to have it insured in the event they take it from you. So if they take it from you, you’ve got to go and collect and try to find something similar to what was taken from you, but you can’t recreate it. But to have the power of creativity within you to create anything in this world, that is what you come out with when you come out of Egypt.595 ¶49

But you will come out, may I tell you, one by one. You are too wonderful, you’re unique, and you can’t be duplicated, so you can’t be called in pairs. You’re called one by one as you’re told in the 27th chapter of Isaiah, “And I will gather you one by one, O people of Israel.” Everyone comes out one by one.595 ¶50

And the time, when will it come? I’ll tell you the night that it will come when this dream of which I spoke tonight takes place is the night you begin to dream of the city where the streets are full of boys and girls, and they’re so happy playing in the streets. Then you hear music, and some part of that structure interests you to the point of wanting to arrest it for contemplation. You do arrest it by arresting in you an activity that seems to animate it, and as you arrest it the note is now frozen but sustained. The tone continues and increases in volume, and that volume awakens you. That’s the voice that you hear. He said, “They will hear my voice”…the noise, the storm wind…and when they hear it they will come out from the tombs, even though the world calls them dead.595 ¶51

Now let us go into the Silence.595 ¶52

* * * Now are there any questions, please?595 ¶53