The State of Paul: The Free Man

Tonight’s subject is on “The Free Man,” the man who is set free. Paul, if we take him as a person, and I do not, but we’ll take him as a person that you may understand the mystery. He was the first man in history to be set free, but Paul really represents all who are set free. The first book in the New Testament chronologically speaking is Paul’s letter to the Galatians. When you read it in scripture it is not the first, but that is only the canon of the fathers; they arranged all these in their own order. But all scholars are agreed that Galatians came first, and his thirteen letters form a quarter of the New Testament.748 ¶1

He begins it in this manner: “Paul an apostle—not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead.” If you understood that verse, it really tells the entire story…just that simple verse, the first verse of the first chapter of Galatians. An apostle is one who is sent on a mission. The mission in this case is to tell what he has experienced…to tell the story of salvation. So he tells you that he’s an apostle and he never saw any Jesus Christ after the flesh, never. But the mystery was revealed in him, and then he came out to tell it. He didn’t get it from a man or from any man in the world, any of them. He got it from Jesus Christ, having experienced who Jesus Christ really is and from God the Father who raised him from the dead.748 ¶2

Then he makes the statement in the same first chapter, “For I would have you know, brethren, that I did not receive this from man, but it came through a revelation of Jesus Christ”. He doesn’t deny that he heard the story from others, as you have heard it, as I have heard it. My mother taught me the story and she told it to me as secular history. She died believing that it took place in one little individual 2,000 years ago. That’s how she taught it to me, that’s how she was taught it by her mother, and throughout the ages men have been taught it in that manner. So, she heard it from others.748 ¶3

He couldn’t quite believe that that was what the prophets intended, because the only scripture was the Old Testament. So when he was told the story of Jesus Christ, of a peculiar, remarkable, miraculous birth, and a resurrection and an ascension, and a being who was man dared to claim that he was God, that he actually was God, God the Father, well, he rebelled against that until one day in this shocking suddenness it unfolded itself in him, and he realized the story of the mystery of Jesus Christ. So he did not deny he had heard it from others; what he insisted was defending his interpretation of that story having experienced it.748 ¶4

Now he said, “It pleased God to reveal his Son in me”, but “No one knows who the Son is except the Father.” He’s telling you right away who he is. “It pleased God to reveal his Son in me”…the preposition is “in”; it’s not “to” as some translations have it. It revealed itself in me. And “No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him”. So right in this revelation of his, when it pleases God to reveal his Son, he’s telling you exactly who he is…for only God the Father knows his Son. No one knows the Son but the Father, and no one knows the Father but the Son. “No one has ever seen God; but the only begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made him known”.748 ¶5

So Paul is revealing exactly who he is in that first statement, that “Paul an apostle, not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead.”748 ¶6

And we go on to read what Paul is saying to all of us…he tells you, “I am free.” He said, “Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord?”. Now, you can take that in two ways. He actually saw the risen Lord and became what he saw. He realized he was God the Father in seeing the risen Lord. The union took place. You can also take it, not only he became it in that way, but he understood the mystery. He said, “I will tell you a mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations, and the mystery is the mystery of Christ in you that is the hope of glory”. He tells you, “Christ is the image of the invisible God”…and yet Christ is in you.748 ¶7

Now, as I said, there was only one scripture and that was the Old Testament. There was no New when these words were written. We turn to the Old and we read the words, “Keep me as the apple of the eye. When I awake, I will be satisfied in beholding thy form”. He’s speaking now to the Lord and this is David speaking, the 17th Psalm: “Keep me as the apple of the eye. When I awake I will be satisfied in beholding thy form.” The phrase translated “the apple of the eye” literally means “the little man of the eye.”748 ¶8

Look into any man’s eye whether he be an evil man or a good man, and what do you see if you look right into the eye? For the apple of the eye is that which is hollowed out, that dark spot that is like a gate, and it is called “the gate.” Well, it’s called “the little man of the eye.” You look into anyone’s eye, you look right into the pupil, and you do not see the man, you see yourself. So, “Keep me, O Lord, as the apple of the eye.” So the Lord looks into my eye and sees his own reflection, and his reflection is Jesus Christ who is God himself. He’s not seeing another, he is seeing himself as he looks into my eye having hollowed it out and forming a pupil that could reflect. In the darkness of the pupil God sees only himself.748 ¶9

Now, be faithful, O Lord…and be faithful to the image, faithful to the vision that you’ve seen. He only saw himself. “Let us make man in our image”. He looks into my eye, into your eye, and he only sees himself; and he keeps the vision in time of trouble. As Paul said, “I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision. I kept it in time of trouble”. So God keeps his vision of himself no matter what you do, no matter what furnaces he puts you through. He’ll take you through all the fires of the world in order to bring out himself as a living being, as himself. So, “Keep me as the apple of the eye,” said David.748 ¶10

And Paul realized after the experience what scripture really meant: that God beholds himself, but not when he looks at you outwardly, for he sees not the outward man, he sees only the inner man. So he looks at you and he sees the same image that he saw when he looked at me, and he looked at the whole vast world whether you be black, yellow, pink, white, and looking into the eye he sees only himself. That’s all that he’s going to bring out; he is going to resurrect himself. He sees himself buried in man, and he will bring out of man the being that he is, endowed with all that he is, power, wisdom, and clothed in the body that God wears, which is infinite love.748 ¶11

So you may be a violent, horrible creature, but when that one is awakened within you and it comes out, it will be God wearing the form of God, and that form is infinite love. I know that from experience.748 ¶12

He doesn’t tell you that having had the experience that the remaining years will be pleasant. No, his story is one of horror. He was imprisoned, he was beaten, he was left for dead, and he was ship-wrecked. All the horrors that could take place in man took place. So that represents man. Don’t think because a man has experienced scripture that he is in any way set free from the horrors of the world, which is this world. He still goes through it until the very end, but knowing that at the very end when he takes off the garment that he’s been wearing, which is his cross, that he is set free and he is now radiating the glory of God and reflecting the glory of God and he is the express image of his person. So when you see him, you see God…can’t see another. You will see God—everyone individualized, no loss of individuality, and yet wearing the form of God and with the power of God, which is a protean being, able to assume any form, any shape in the world that suits your purpose when you are sent on a mission. You are sent on a mission, for you are now the apostle, the one who was called and sent.748 ¶13

So here, the story of Paul is the story of the free man in the world. Who is Paul? Who knows? His first name is Saul and Saul means “Ask Paul.” He is seeking. Paul means “the little one.” As we are told in scripture, “How can Jacob stand? He is so small!”. You look into the pupil of the eye of anyone and the little reflection of yourself is so little. But Jacob’s name is changed to Israel and the word Israel means “the man who rules as God.” Not like a God, as God. He only sees himself. And he changes the name Jacob, which means “the supplanter,” into Israel, “the man who rules as God.”748 ¶14

So nothing in this world can really fail in God’s purpose. As Paul made the statement, “He has made known unto me the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time”. So Paul discovered what man has yet to discover, that Jesus Christ is a plan, a plan set forth in man. It is called in scripture, Jesus Christ. But that is not a man outside of you; that is the plan in you. And when it unfolds, it is man, for you are man, and it unfolds in you in the most marvelous manner.748 ¶15

He described it the best he could and he told it to the best of his ability. If we have discovered all of Paul’s letters, no one knows. We only have thirteen. There might have been others…or he might have taken into his confidence those who did not record it…and maybe he didn’t write it. But I’m quite sure he would have written the identical story as I’ve told you concerning that plan as it unfolded itself in me. It’s the same story.748 ¶16

Two cannot have different plans; there’s only one plan. “He has made known unto me the mystery of his will, according to his purpose which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time”. When the time is fulfilled, it erupts within man and man discovers he is God, and he is the Lord Jehovah; for the plan simply unfolds in him as a seed would unfold if it is dropped into the earth.748 ¶17

So whoever Paul was…and he certainly is not named in any non-biblical source in the 1st Century. How could a man go through all those experiences as recorded in the Book of Acts and recorded in his letters, where he was imprisoned, he was charged, brought before the governor, brought before King Agrippa, and he said, “I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision”…and “why should any of you think it incredible that God should raise the dead”? “Why do you think it incredible when God promised our fathers that is what he would do? And now for the hope that is the hope of our fathers, which God revealed to them through prophets, I stand before you a slave, enchained.” So here, that is not recorded in anything outside of the Bible, and yet there were works of the 1st Century where if the man lived as an individual then certainly his imprisonment, his arrest, his ship-wreck, all these trials certainly would be recorded, for we have all the others recorded. So he is no more a person than Jesus Christ, or Abraham, or Isaac, or Jacob. These are eternal states.748 ¶18

When you reach the state of Paul then you are set free, for the mystery of Jesus Christ unfolds within you and you know who you are. Then you are that little one who was Jacob…and how can Jacob stand seeing that he is so small? But God will take his image as reflected in the pupil of your eye as he beholds himself. He is not beholding the thing beheld like your form—he sees not the outer man—he only sees the inner man, and the inner man is God himself. He is bringing forth from you himself and it is God that is born.748 ¶19

But you’re told in the story that Jesus Christ was born. “He was born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God”. And who was born? A Savior was born. Well, who is the Savior? The Lord God Jehovah: “I am the Lord your God…and besides me there is no Savior”. So if a Savior is born, it has to be the Lord God Jehovah, and what is his name? His name forever and forever is I AM. Well, who is having the experience?—I am. Well, that’s God.748 ¶20

And what was the experience? I felt myself waking from a sleep. You mean you were waking from a sleep? Yes, something unlike any other sleep I’ve ever had. I began to wake from a sleep, and to find myself in a holy sepulcher, and it was my skull. That was the place where I was born but buried, and that’s the place where I was born. I came out of it as I formerly came out of my mother’s womb, but this time it was different. I came out without loss of identity, knowing exactly who I am. Then the symbol of my birth presented itself before me, and then everything as recorded in scripture I have experienced.748 ¶21

Well now, go and tell it. Go and tell it to the world and encourage them to believe in the eternal story and to repudiate all authorities, all institutions, all customs, and all laws that interfere with the individual’s direct access to his God.748 ¶22

No one in this world has the authority to aid you towards that. That image is already in you, for God beheld himself in you. So you don’t need any authority, whether it be called by the name of a pope or some archbishop or some rabbi or priest or some institution. You need none! Therefore completely reject and repudiate all authorities, all institutions, all customs, all laws that would in any way interfere with the individual’s direct access to his God. He one day will awaken as God and not something other than God. There is only God in the world. Everyone in the world is going to have that experience, but everyone.748 ¶23

So I tell you from my own experience the story is the only true story in the world, for all the stories you read in the papers today about who made what and what they did and what they’re going to do and what they’re planning, all that will fade as though it never existed. But this eternal story which is planted in you will erupt, and when it erupts it interprets the Old Testament. The Old Testament contained it, but as an adumbration, as a foreshadowing, which could not be understood until it happened. When it happened in the individual then he understood the Old. Until it happened in one called Paul, he never understood the Old. He thought that you must abide by the laws, the external laws like the dietary laws, and all the ceremonies. We have kept these things through the centuries and none of these thing really matter. It doesn’t really matter if you never saw the inside of a church…never saw any so-called holy man. That doesn’t matter. Nothing must come between you and your God. When you find your God, you’ll find him in yourself as yourself.748 ¶24

And he does have a Son. His Son is called David, and David is simply the result of your journey through fire. You are the one who came through the fires of experience in the world of death. The result of all the experiences that man could ever pass through stands personified before the man who has passed through the fires; and that personification is an eternal youth, and his name is David. He’s not a David; he is the David of biblical fame. You’ll know how true the words were when he said, “I will tell of the decree of the Lord: he said unto me, ‘Thou art my son, today I have begotten thee’”. Well, here he stands before you and there’s no uncertainty as to the relationship and the identity of who he is, and who you are.748 ¶25

Then you will know the words, “When it pleased God to reveal his Son in me, I conferred not with flesh and blood”. To whom would I go in the world who has not had the experience and ask them for an interpretation of the experiences when there is no uncertainty in me as to what happened? How could I go? So he went into Arabia…no contact with anyone in the world…just went into himself to commune and ponder this fantastic thing that was so true and he didn’t know it. Here was the one who said, “I am of the seed of Abraham. I am of the tribe of Benjamin. I am a Pharisee of the Pharisees…keeping all the laws, and I did not know it until it pleased God to reveal his Son in me.”748 ¶26

And because no one knows the Son but the Father, when he revealed the Son then the one beholding the Son is his Father. And he knows it. It isn’t something that this must be so because…you just simply know it. You know it more surely than you know any physical child of yours as your own child. A father is told in this world that he sired this child and he believes his wife. He trusts his wife or the woman whether she’s his wife or not…and maybe it resembles him. It’s not a duplicate, but it resembles him, and so he’ll say “All right, it is my child.” But he has no certainty that it is really his child. The woman if she’s in some sleep when she delivers, she doesn’t know whether it’s her child that they give her when she leaves the hospital or another woman’s child. What assurance has she? But there is no uncertainty as to this relationship between you the Father who is God the Father, and the Son who bears witness to your Fatherhood.748 ¶27

So, it pleased God to reveal his Son in me and then I knew at that moment who I really am; prior to that I didn’t know. I thought I was a little man born of a certain woman, of a certain father in this world and that was it. I was taught to believe and taught first by my mother and then by my school and then by the traditions of the world as I went to church, that all this happened 2,000 years ago, and that it’s not related to this age. But the whole thing is contemporary, it is taking place. God came and comes into human history in the person of Jesus Christ…but Jesus Christ is the pattern of salvation. It is the pattern man that is buried in man. The moment God beheld himself in the eye and he called it the apple of his eye.748 ¶28

So we are told in Zechariah, which means “God remembers,” “He who touches you touches the apple of God’s eye”. To touch him, you’re touching the apple of God’s eye. Now, don’t interfere with him, leave him alone. He may be kind, he may be unkind…he’s going through the furnaces. And “How long, vast and severe the furnaces before they find their Father were long to tell”. How long will it take? Who knows? No one knows but the Father. In that moment when suddenly it appears, it’s the Son who appears to reveal the Father to himself and it is the Father who awoke. The Father’s memory returned and he awoke from a long wonderful dream, but a frightening dream, and the dream is this world.748 ¶29

This is the dream where God is dreaming everything in the world. “Rouse thyself! Why sleepest thou, O Lord? Wake! Do not cast us off forever”. These words are addressed to the dreamer and the dreamer is God. A man dreaming is caught up in a reality that is his own and entirely his own creation. Even though it’s his own creation and he is the sole author of everything that is happening, he may be frightened by what is happening, he may be startled, just as though these events that he is now observing and experiencing are outside himself and beyond his control, just as in waking hours.748 ¶30

And that is the dreamer in us. We are the dreamer and the dreamer is God. Everything in my world I am conjuring; and everything has some symbolic significance for me if I could interpret it. The story of the Bible it all begins “And this is the vision of Isaiah, the vision of Obadiah, the vision of Ezekiel”…and these are all the visions. And here, all the visions are spelling out one thing: how God became man that man may become God.748 ¶31

So everything in the world is the unfolding of God and he’s unfolding in you as you. You are not some little thing on the outside cast away; you are God himself…but dreaming. You are dreaming undoubtedly horrible dreams and some lovely dreams. But mostly…you read the morning’s paper and the daily press and listen to the radio and TV and they are horrible dreams. Yet in the end you will awaken from it all to find that you are God, clothed in an immortal form, and that form is love, “the human form divine.”748 ¶32

Yes you’re human and God is man…let no one tell you he is not man. Oh, they can tell you but don’t listen, don’t be persuaded. I tell you God is man. “Thou art a man, God is no more; thine own humanity learn to adore”. For, he actually became humanity and this is the cross that God wears. He never wore another cross. There was no cross of wood, no cross of a tree. The tree is in man. Let our scientists search through Nature to find the tree. May I tell you, they will search in vain, for there grows one in the human brain. That is where God is crucified, right in the skull of man. That’s where he’s buried and that’s where he will rise; and when he rises he rises in you, and you are God.748 ¶33

His only begotten Son will stand before you, and he doesn’t even have to speak, although he will, but he’ll stand before you and you’ll be so in love with your Son, this heavenly eternal youth that is David. He has no mother and you are his Father, regardless of your sex here. May I tell you, forget your sex here, for in the resurrection there is no Greek, no Jew, no bond, no free, no male, no female. You are above the organization of sex. You are not a male, you are Man. Capitalize it. It is Man, not a little male which is a divided image of male-female. And you will find yourself completely fulfilling scripture.748 ¶34

So the basis of Paul’s authority was experiencing scripture. Not a dead written code as you read a Bible. You take up the Bible and start to read it and you’ll say, “What does this mean? Isn’t this horrible! What on earth could this be?” You can’t understand it. But after the experience, it’s an open book and all the seals are broken and you see it clearly. Everything in the book Man is capable of doing; he has done, is doing, and will continue to do until he has awakened from the dream of life. One day he will awaken from it all and just as he awakens he awakens as God the Father. Yet he continues in his little garment of flesh and blood, in prison, in bondage.748 ¶35

And he too will cry out, “O King Agrippa, why should it be thought for one moment incredible that God raises the dead? Is this not the promise that God made to our fathers through the prophets? And now why am I standing before you chained as I am? Would that you are all as I am—minus the chains”. That’s what he said. So he did not get rid of the limitations of the flesh, the weaknesses of the flesh, while he wore the body on which he was still crucified. But he knew what he had experienced, and he knew that at the very moment that it was taken off it would be taken off for the last time, and he would come into his glory. The glory was simply the radiation of the glory of God. He would not only radiate it but reflect the glory of God, and he would be the express image of his person. He was a person: God was Man. So when you met him in the future, you met God. You didn’t meet a little being; you met God, clothed in his immortal garment which was infinite love.748 ¶36

So the Paul of scripture is like all the other characters of scripture, all are eternal states through which Man passes. He passes and the states remain…but the pilgrim passes on.748 ¶37

You started in the beginning with faith in the story that was told you…as Paul makes the statement that the story was revealed to Abraham. Can you imagine the gospel being told to Abraham when if you take it chronologically they are separated by thousands of years? It is said, “The scripture, foreseeing that God would save the Gentiles”—call the word heathen—“through faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham”.748 ¶38

Now he tells you that the story of Abraham is an allegory. Do you know what an allegory is? It’s a story told as if it were true leaving the one who hears it to discover the fictitious character and learn its lesson. One should apply the lesson after having learned it. So he tells you in Galatians that Abraham—speaking now of the character which he tells you is an allegory—had two sons, one born into slavery and one born into freedom. Then he makes the statement, a bold statement, “This is an allegory.”748 ¶39

Well now, if that is an allegory and the New Testament begins in the canonical order of the books with these words, “This is the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham”…if Abraham and his story is an allegory, then what is his offspring? So what is the genealogy? These are the states of consciousness through which the immortal you must pass. So I can’t begin with an allegory and arrive at something that is called reality.748 ¶40

All ends run true to origins, and if the origin is an allegory, then what is the end? “You see yonder fields? The sesamum was sesamum and the corn was corn; the silence and the darkness knew, and so is a man’s fate born”. So if this story is an allegory, then let me now sift it and separate the wheat from the chaff, and find out what it really means. Find out just what that story which is an allegory is trying to tell me.748 ¶41

There are two births. This one is born of a slave, it enslaves me as long as I wear it, and it was born from the womb of a woman, “my mother” I call her…a very wonderful lovely mother, my mother. But there’s another birth and that is born not from the womb, not of blood, not of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man but of God. And that is God himself—he begets himself. As these beget themselves, so God begets himself: one is born into slavery and one is born into freedom.748 ¶42

So the first man in history to be really set free is represented in scripture as Paul, and everyone who is set free by the identical experience is Paul. He is the free man, freed from this world of bondage and made in such a way as the son of God.748 ¶43

And he tells us in the 8th chapter of Romans that the whole creation is actually in turmoil and in slavery and in pain waiting for the liberation and the setting free of what?—of the sons of God. For, we’re all sons of God and it takes us all collectively to form one being, and that being is God the Father. No child is born in this world who is not a son of God. As told us, “He has set the bounds to the peoples of the earth according to the number of the sons of God.” Read it in the 32nd chapter of Deuteronomy. No child could be born who is not actually a garment worn by the son of God and it takes all the sons to form the Father.748 ¶44

The same word, may I tell you, the word is Elohim. It’s sometimes used in the singular and sometimes in the plural, but it’s the same word. Elohim is really a plural word as told us in that 82nd Psalm, “And God has taken his place in the divine circle, the divine assembly, and in the midst of the gods”—the same word now translated plural gods is the word translated God in the singular. And then he turns to the gods and he said, “I say you are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you; nevertheless, you will die like men, and fall as one man, O princes”.748 ¶45

So we are the gods who came down into the world in this fabulous biological experiment, the only spot in eternity that could really cradle this experiment. And the gods took upon themselves the limitations and the weaknesses of the flesh, and they were formed in this manner. Now he’s redeeming himself, for he and his sons are one. “I and my Father are one” we are told. So he is redeeming all of his sons, and when all are redeemed they form the Father. And there’s only one Father and there’s only then one Son. For you are the Father and the result of the experiment is personified as David the Son.748 ¶46

So, having had the experience I do not deny that the story was first told me by my mother and then I heard it when I went to school. I was beaten unmercifully for misquoting—which I did not misquote—but he was a sadist that I had as a master, and corporeal punishment was allowed where I was born, and he beat me until blood poured, for simply saying “Take up thy bed and walk.” When I could not produce my Bible, because his translation said, “Take up thy couch and walk.” To satisfy his own sexual pleasure, for he was a sadist, he simply went in and got a long cane that he could bend into a circle, made me lean over a chair, and beat me unmercifully. That was allowed.748 ¶47

And when my father that night saw what he had done, for my brother Victor told him what I looked like, when my father came in and saw the condition of my body, he started dressing. It took all the family to restrain him and the neighbors to restrain him, which was good because his intention was to kill him, and he would have. He could have…he was a big strapping strong man, my father, and in those days he was a very young man. But luckily they restrained him. One year later this man blew his brains out. Of course I was taken out of school that very day.748 ¶48

So, driven into my mind was the book of God…beaten unmercifully for quoting correctly, but it wasn’t quite what his Bible said. And maybe it didn’t say that, but he was looking for an opportunity, some excuse, to beat me.748 ¶49

So here, I tell you the book is the only true book in the world. All the others are theories. Today’s great theory of the moon, oh, they’ll change it…give them a few months and they’ll modify the age of the moon, raise it from four billion to maybe six billion or drop it down to two billion. Oh, they’ll throw it around and they will have all these theories. We’re always modifying our theories, for our men of science are constantly devising new hypotheses upon which to test and to experiment with their little concepts of life.748 ¶50

You and I have one and we need not change it. I call it God…and God is your own wonderful human Imagination that is God. Can you imagine? Well, that’s God, the only reality in the world. That’s the dreamer in man and the dreamer in man is God. That is called in scripture Jesus Christ. It contains a plan, a plan that was devised before that the world was to awaken all of his sons and bring them back from this world of death.748 ¶51

For we came into this experiment—and what a glorious experiment—but we were warned that we would die, we the immortal ones would experience death, and all of our friends would die, our loved ones would die. Yet we were told, “You will not surely die.” You will die but not surely die. And while it lasts, we have no assurance that that statement is true…we only see them die. We can’t touch the hand that we love, we can’t hear the voice that we love, and they disappear from our world. And we have to go along believing…is it really true? Is it really true that they didn’t die, the woman who bore me that I nursed, who loved me and protected me? My father who when he was about to depart this world that he would take all of his earthly goods and divide them among his children, and give them to his children, so that I came into an inheritance from him, and that he is no more…that I would never see him again? Well, I know that’s a lie, but my senses would go along with that and reason would confirm it. For how can you take a man and cremate it and turn it into dust before you and tell me something survived?748 ¶52

And yet I know that something survived in a world just like this and he continues in a world just like this, in a body that I recognize, only much, much younger, not an infant, a young man.748 ¶53

And he continues in a world, learning and experiencing all that he must until that moment in time when it is ripe. Then the pattern that was in him from the beginning of time, when God beheld in him his image and knew him as the apple of the eye, then in a moment when it is fully ripe it erupts, just like fruit coming out of a tree. What comes out? That pattern as described in the story of Jesus Christ: that miraculous birth, following on the heels of his resurrection. It comes first as a resurrection from the grave, coming out of the grave like a little sprig coming out of the earth. That coming out of the earth is his birth. He’s surrounded by the symbolism, as told us in the Book of Luke and Matthew: the little infant wrapped in swaddling clothes. Then he knows that this is the sign of his own birth and it’s the birth of God. And yet there’s no change of identity and no loss of identity.748 ¶54

Then comes the discovery of the Fatherhood of God and he is the Father. So in the end, he is not my father…he and I are brothers and we are the Father. We have the same Son and the Son is David. So here, my earthly father ceases to be my father…he becomes my brother.748 ¶55

Then we understand the words, “Now go unto my brothers and tell them I am ascending unto my Father and your Father, unto my God and to your God”. Here is the one who had the experience who is telling, “Here is the pattern and all are brothers regardless of the pigment of skin, regardless of your race, your nation, anything.” In the end we are all brothers and together, collectively, we form one Father, and we are the Father. The result of our pilgrimage in this world of horror and death is a Son called David, that eternal youth.748 ¶56

Now let us go into the Silence. * * *748 ¶57

Now are there any questions, please?748 ¶58

Now, just a couple of minutes left, any questions?748 ¶65

We’re here every Monday and Friday through into the early part of December. You’re all welcome. Every night is complete in itself. You don’t have to come night after night. Any night you feel like coming remember it is simply a complete evening in itself. We don’t try to tie into next time by leaving you in midair. That is not our purpose. I try to get everything together in the one evening. And if you feel so moved the next time, come every Monday, every Friday at eight. Thank you. Good night.748 ¶68